Chapter 229: The Old Daoist Priest Starts Fighting At The Slightest Disagreement!
Huang Xin did not know whether he was overthinking it, and immediately replied to his subordinate’s message: “Wherever the old daoist priest wants to go in the county, send him there. Try to follow along and see what is going on.”
In the police car, the police officer who received the message calmly asked, “Old daoist priest, may I ask where you are going once we reach the county?”
“Central Commercial Plaza!” Chen Han answered briefly. On the task prompt map given by the game, there were two locations, both in the vicinity of the Central Commercial Plaza.
One was in the mall tower, and one was in a nearby residential area. At each of the two places, every red dot represented no fewer than ten people.
Although he did not know exactly what the people of the Wu Tai Sect were doing, the earlier game system prompts had mentioned missing kidneys, hearts, and so on, so he could make some guesses.
After all, in the past two years, more than a dozen groups had already been arrested in the Qingmin Region. Many of them were wanted and had no way to return from over there.
If his guess was right, even the outer members more or less had something to do with this kind of matter.
In a small county town there were actually two such groups, each with more than a dozen people. It showed just how rampant those people were.
This was probably also why the authorities had been constantly promoting the anti-fraud app. Although many incidents took place overseas, their peripheral members were spread all over the country and might be right beside you.
This was something you could never fully guard against.
When Deng Shuang heard “Central Commercial Plaza,” he nodded and drove carefully, but he could not help wondering in his mind why this old daoist priest was going there.
Moreover, this old daoist priest seemed very familiar with Linhe County and even knew about Central Commercial Plaza.
But thinking about it, even if the other party really was close to 200 years old, he was no fool, and he had lived in Linhe County far longer than they had. Why could he not be very familiar with Linhe County?
It was not strange even if he knew it better than they did.
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The sun had already begun to set. At Linhe County Central Commercial Plaza, this was also the liveliest time, with many people getting off work or heading to the market to buy groceries…
The sudden arrival of a police car attracted a lot of attention. After all, most of the time ordinary people rarely saw a police car.
The police drove straight into the underground parking lot of the plaza. After the car was parked, Chen Han got out and walked directly toward one of the elevators.
He had been surprised to find that, on the task indicator map in his mind, there were two red dots right at the elevator entrance.
After Deng Shuang and the other two got out of the car, they followed with puzzled expressions.
Since this old daoist priest had specifically gotten off at this mall, did they really have to follow?
Maybe he was just here to buy something; following to watch him shop would be a bit improper, right?
It made them seem a bit too idle.
But since the captain had sent instructions, they could only obey.
When Chen Han reached the elevator, he saw two men carrying large bags of daily supplies, waiting for the elevator.
The appearance of this old daoist priest drew the two men’s attention. Daoist priests were rarely seen, and they had never seen such an old daoist priest.
But suddenly their eyes went wide in horror as the old daoist priest, in the blink of an eye, moved from two meters away to right in front of them.
“I am here to collect you.”
They heard the old daoist priest say this sentence, and then felt a sharp pain as everything went black. They spat blood and fell unconscious on the spot.
Just as Chen Han finished dealing with the two, the elevator arrived.
Ding!
The elevator doors opened. There were several people inside, clearly on their way down to get their cars. When they saw two people lying outside, vomiting blood, they were visibly startled.
What surprised them even more was the old daoist priest standing there.
After a moment, the people inside came to their senses, carefully stepped out of the elevator, and then hurried away. Only when they saw three police officers approaching did they relax a little and stop to check what was happening.
Watching excitement was in people’s nature.
Someone suddenly whispered, “That old daoist priest looks familiar. I think I’ve seen him on Douyin.”
This reminded the others.
Another person reacted and could not help speaking up: “Chen Clan!”
The sudden realization sparked everyone else’s reaction. They all took out their mobile phones to start filming. No matter how you looked at it, something big was happening.
When Deng Shuang and the other two came close and saw the two unconscious, blood-spitting men, they were clearly stunned.
How had this old daoist priest already made a move?
But Chen Han had already entered the elevator and pressed for a floor. The Wu Tai Sect outer disciples inside Central Commercial Plaza were on the top floor.
Watching the elevator doors close and begin to rise, and then glancing back at the two unconscious men on the ground, Deng Shuang hurriedly took out his mobile phone and called his captain.
Huang Xin received the call while he was with Li Rui. Both of them were in a good mood. In the Liangmei Case, there had been a major breakthrough in the interrogation on that side. Once the two sides compared notes, the evidence would be solid.
His mobile phone rang.
Seeing the number, he immediately answered. It should be his subordinate reporting news about the old daoist priest.
As soon as the call connected, an urgent report came through: “Captain, something’s wrong. That old daoist priest from the Chen Clan has beaten two people until they spat blood and fell unconscious. He is now taking the elevator up in the mall.”
Huang Xin was stunned when he heard this. That old daoist priest from the Chen Clan had always been elusive. Now he had suddenly appeared, and for no obvious reason he had attacked people?
He thought of one possibility and immediately reminded him, “Restrain those two, and hurry to check which floor the old daoist priest went to.”
For some reason, he suddenly had a feeling he was about to earn merit. Hanging up, he immediately turned to Li Rui and asked, “Captain Li, how many people do you still have free on your side, or how many can you deploy to cooperate?”
He was only a tourism police captain, and his authority could not compare to Li Rui, who was the captain of the criminal investigation team. More importantly, he had no free personnel at hand and did not know the situation over there.
“What is it?” Li Rui asked in confusion.
Huang Xin did not hide anything and explained, “That old daoist priest from the Chen Clan is now over at Central Commercial Plaza, and he has knocked two people unconscious. I think it is definitely not something simple.”
“It is definitely not simple. It might be related to today’s kidnapping case,” Li Rui blurted out. He immediately told Huang Xin to get in the car and also started making calls to arrange things.
Although today’s kidnapping case already had solid evidence, there were still many follow-up matters to investigate, such as the gun made in that private workshop.
According to Sun Hai’s account, it came through a middleman, via channels here in the Qingmin Region. But that middleman could no longer be reached. He had been using an anonymous phone card that could be tossed at any time, making it very difficult to track him down.
After getting in the car, Li Rui slammed on the accelerator and headed for Central Commercial Plaza.
Huang Xin immediately took out his mobile phone and checked the online news about the Chen Clan. He had been too busy today to follow the internet and wanted to see if he could find some clues.
Suddenly he saw a video from Ming Di and froze.
“I heard that there is a group of… Now the real worry is that this behavior might anger the Chen Clan and cause them to launch a demon eradication operation, so…”
Of course he knew about this Ming Di. In news related to the Chen Clan he appeared constantly, and several cases had been solved because of him.
In this Liangmei Group case, he had also helped a lot. If Chen Xiang had not gone to him and been seen through by him, that USB drive of evidence would never have reached them.
What Ming Di was saying this time was filmed in an abstract form, but they could not treat it as mere abstraction. After all, those people who had been caught before were also labeled demonic cult rogues in Ming Di’s words.
“That old daoist priest must be here because of this,” Li Rui could not help saying, stepping on the accelerator with excitement.
If this old daoist priest had really come out to subdue demons, was there any need to question the identities of the people he disciplined?
The two captains’ faces both lit up with excitement.
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At the underground elevator entrance of Central Commercial Plaza, after receiving instructions from his captain, Deng Shuang quickly had his two colleagues restrain the unconscious, blood-spitting men. He then immediately turned to look at the elevator’s floor display.
The elevator soon stopped at the top floor. He knew that the top floor of this mall was an office floor, divided into various offices of different sizes, some even just a single separate office.
These office spaces were for rent. Because they were on the top floor, with a full view of Central Commercial Plaza, many companies chose to rent there.
After all, in a small county town, most companies were not large. A company with fifteen or twenty office staff already counted as big.
Stepping out of the elevator, Chen Han first checked the task indicator map and saw where the Wu Tai Sect’s outer members were located: in an office at the end of the corridor.
He headed straight over there and found that the offices on both sides really were all sorts of companies, including even live-stream sales companies.
In one small office, goods were set out, a female streamer was live in front of a mobile phone, and an assistant beside her handed her products.
In the corner, a man who was probably the boss was watching the backstage data.
The female streamer was vigorously promoting products to the camera, but among the few more than thirty viewers online, no one was placing orders.
This left her a bit dejected, since this was tied to her salary and performance.
Suddenly she froze, staring in surprise at the figure of the old daoist priest walking by outside, even forgetting to introduce the product handed over by the assistant.
“What is it?” the boss could not help asking.
The female streamer subconsciously asked, “An old daoist priest just walked past!”
“What old daoist priest? How could there be a daoist priest here?” the boss frowned.
The female streamer seemed to recall something and added, “He looked like that old daoist priest from the Chen Clan.”
Anyone in Linhe County doing live streaming naturally knew which internet celebrities were in Linhe County and closely followed related videos.
And whenever they browsed Linhe County videos, the first things that popped up were always Chen Clan videos.
The Chen Clan was too popular. They had more than one account with over five million fans. Quite a few Chen Clan members who put in the effort and made good videos could casually get thirty or forty thousand fans.
There was even a Chen Clan guide girl who filmed her daily scenes receiving tourists and had a hundred thousand followers, and her live online viewer count was higher than that of other streamers in Linhe County.
So many people had seen videos of that old daoist priest from the Chen Clan and found them amazing.
Now the female streamer was sure that the person who had just passed by looked very much like that old daoist priest.
The boss had just opened his mouth when he saw the live-stream chat suddenly start to surge, all talking about that old daoist priest from the Chen Clan.
“Holy crap, are you serious? The old daoist priest from the Chen Clan?”
“That old daoist priest from the Chen Clan would appear in your stream? You’re kidding, right?”
“Streamer, don’t use this kind of trick to attract views. We won’t buy.”
“……”
Even the number of online viewers was going up.
The boss immediately realized they had triggered traffic. Without hesitation, he told the female streamer, “Take the streaming phone and go have a look.”
He then promptly changed the live-stream title to “Spotted the old daoist priest of the Chen Clan.”
Chen Han had already reached the office at the end and knocked on the door.
The sudden knocking clearly startled the people inside. The office was not large, yet more than ten people were squeezed in.
At the moment, they were all nervously staring at the door. Some had just been fiddling with rows of mobile phones in front of them.
In front of them was a large wooden board rack with all kinds of mobile phones displayed. It was clear they were old second-hand phones, many of them very outdated models.
Moreover, these phones were connected by data cables to a special instrument. Lights on the instrument were flashing, and the screens of those phones were automatically jumping, showing chat windows popping up and one friend request after another.
“Handsome, can I add your Weixin?”
“Beautiful, can I add your Weixin?”
…
“Handsome, you are so fit. Training those muscles must have been tough. Not everyone can handle that. I really admire people like you.”
“Beautiful, your hairstyle looks great, and your hair color is stylish. The key is you are pretty enough to pull off anything.”
“……”
At that speed, each phone could send many friend requests and start chatting with many people in a short time. It could also be seen that the special instrument was transmitting data outward through a computer.
The knock on the door made everyone tense and stare at it in alarm.
A crew-cut man, clearly the leader, went to the door to look. Through the peephole he saw an old daoist priest standing outside.
He let out a sigh of relief and even cursed, “Crap, it’s just an old daoist priest. Gave me a scare. Must have gone to the wrong place.”
Everyone inside relaxed.
As long as it was not the police. But an old daoist priest knocking on their door was still pretty unlucky.
“Brother Dao, hurry up and get rid of him!”
“Yeah, if you’re not happy, just scare him a bit!”
“Haha, with Brother Dao’s tiger-head tattoo, he’ll scare the life out of him!”
“……”
Buoyed by their flattery, Brother Dao with the crew cut started to feel cocky, and also a bit annoyed.
He opened the door and stepped out. Seeing the old daoist priest outside, he put on a fierce face and strode up, cursing, “Holy crap, you old daoist priest can’t find your way home and came here looking to get beat up or—”
Before he could finish, his words jammed in his throat. At the same time, a big hand was clamped around his neck. He suddenly could not breathe and was horrified to find his feet no longer touching the ground.
Everyone inside was stunned. They saw their boss being grabbed by the throat by the old daoist priest at the door and lifted like a chick.
Then one of them suddenly turned pale. “I’ve seen his videos. He’s that old daoist from the Chen Clan.”
Outside, the female streamer had followed with her streaming phone as instructed by the boss. She widened her eyes as she saw the old daoist priest lifting a man into the air.
Instinctively, she aimed the lens at the scene.
There were already more than two hundred people in the live stream. When they saw this, the chat exploded.
“Holy crap, what am I seeing?”
“Oh my god, the streamer was telling the truth…”
