Chapter 216: Ming Di: I’m The Scapegoat God? Xiao Mi: I’m So Jealous
Although Ke Yan was completely confused, he still subconsciously clicked on this trending topic and saw a video with 39 million likes.
Video title: 《Another idiot fellow practitioner has infiltrated. This is a gift delivered to my door!》
“Someone spent 2,000 spirit stones just to see me once. This feels wrong…”
“Mr. Chen, you spent 2,000…”
“How can there be such a stupid guy in the demonic path? I will use you to gain further trust from the Chen Family Head.”
After watching this video, Ke Yan was even more confused than before.
What the hell kind of video is this?
Is this some kind of abstract trolling?
But even if it is abstract, it is inexplicably abstract. At least make it so people can understand it.
The key question is, how can such a trashy video get more than two million likes, when his carefully made, solid, scientific knowledge videos have only a bit over 1,200 likes?
Most importantly, yesterday the Chen Clan video was so hot, so when he criticized the Chen Clan, that should have gone viral as well. Why was the Chen Clan’s popularity suppressed, and the heat given to this kind of garbage video?
Ke Yan opened the comment section, intending to curse the video a few times, but when he saw the comments, he was suddenly a bit dumbfounded.
“Holy crap, I am shocked. I first saw Ming Di’s video. When I saw Police Uncle putting someone in cuffs, I thought he had caught another criminal. It was not until I read the announcement from over in Linhe County.”
“Ming Di, honestly, when I saw the police announcement about Liangmei, this time I wanted to treat you as a god. In my heart, you are a god.”
“Ming Di, why don’t you directly join the Chen Family Head? There is nothing good about being in the demonic path. I like the way you betray fellow practitioners for justice.”
“Goodness, I can only call you good. Before, you were taking out demonic path cultivators one by one. This time, you wiped out a major demonic sect in one go.”
“A divine figure. After I understood the whole story, I went straight to my knees. My girlfriend asked what I was doing, and I said I was worshipping a god.”
“…”
Ke Yan was not a fool. From these comments, he could tell that this video was not simple and was not what he had assumed.
He saw that people in the upper part of the comment section were all searching: 《Why do they say Ming Di has become a god?》. He subconsciously clicked in.
He saw another commentator blogger’s video, which already had more than 500,000 likes.
“Many people are very familiar with the blogger Ming Di. Everyone first got to know him when he went to the Chen Clan to latch onto the Chen Family Head’s popularity, and his egg got bitten by the lion head goose. At that time, everyone only knew the Chen Family Head was powerful, had many Chen Clan Inheritance techniques, but they did not know that Ming Di was also a divine figure…”
“What really made Ming Di go viral should be when he invested in Shangyuan Village and then discovered a drug-selling organization. He directly reported it to Police Uncle and took down the whole organization in one go.”
“And previously, in the Premium Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea fraud incident, the people behind it thought they were smart and even infiltrated Ming Di’s side, but were directly discovered by Ming Di and reported to Police Uncle.”
“There was even a saying going around: over at the Chen Clan, punishing evil within the Chen Clan is under the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation. Outside the Chen Clan, in Shangyuan Village, punishing evil is run by Ming Di, and Police Uncle only needs to show up to collect the merit.”
“At first I thought this was a bit exaggerated, but when I saw the news released by Linhe County about Liangmei Group, and that it was again caused by Ming Di, I suddenly felt this statement made sense and had very high gold content.”
At this point, Ke Yan roughly understood that the earlier video by Ming Di should be related to some Case, and that it was connected to Liangmei Group.
He immediately swiped to the next video, and what this video explained really left him stunned.
“I first saw the announcement that Liangmei’s senior executives were arrested in Linhe County and that key evidence had fallen into Police Uncle’s hands. I originally thought it was an ordinary Case, but when I came across Ming Di’s video, I realized things were not that simple.”
“It turns out this Liangmei Case was also reported by Ming Di. Let me lay it out for everyone. First, why would Liangmei’s senior executives go to the Chen Clan? That has to do with the Chen Clan’s Scar Removal Cream, which Ming Di already clearly explained in his video.”
“Before this, the Chen Family Head’s alchemy video was also very popular, so Liangmei definitely noticed and set their sights on it.”
“Next, let’s talk about Liangmei Medical, this group company. It is the largest private medical beauty group in the country, and many beauty products used by women are from their company.”
“Of course, their main business is still cosmetic surgery. But because of the cosmetic surgery business, there have been many negative news reports. At one point, they were involved in negative incidents where, in cooperation with nightclubs in various places, they induced girls to take out loans for cosmetic surgery and then controlled and exploited them.”
“They used high-paying positions in performance, customer service and other roles at nightclubs to trick girls into applying. After they signed contracts, they used pyramid scheme-like brainwashing to coax them, saying they needed slight facial adjustments for better job prospects. If they had no money, it was fine; they could first take out a loan, and with their salary they could quickly pay it back.”
“For the high-paying jobs （ which were in fact fake jobs, later they would use reasons like losing out in job competition to inform them they were not selected ）. Many girls would then take out loans to get procedures.”
“And the online loans for these were run behind the scenes by Liangmei. Once the girls started the surgery, they would use all kinds of reasons to scare them, saying due to such-and-such reasons, they needed certain drugs, or due to physical issues, they had to add another procedure and another loan.”
“At that point, the knife was already in play, and the girls had no way out and could only continue. In the end they would owe huge loans and have no choice but to go work in those nightclubs and fall into degradation.”
“Although this reflects the girls’ lack of self-awareness, just like those tricked to Myanmar by high salaries, it is enough to show how notorious Liangmei is.”
“It is just that when the negative impact surfaced before, no formal Investigation was filed. The Matter quietly faded away, which was frustrating.”
“This time is different. Liangmei’s senior executives went to Shangyuan Village, and Ming Di immediately noticed they were not good people. More critically, for some unknown reason, they were carrying a USB drive that happened to contain evidence of Liangmei Medical’s crimes.”
“Who is Ming Di? He calls himself a demonic cult rogue. For the sake of saving the Dog Demon King Brothers, any fellow practitioner who appears around him will be sold out by him to the Chen Family Head in exchange for trust.”
“These Liangmei executives were no exception, which led to the Linhai County Investigation and the filing of the Case. Now that an announcement has been released, it is obvious the Case details are already clear.”
“According to the latest news, Liangmei’s headquarters has been temporarily sealed for Investigation, and Liangmei’s hospitals across the country have been notified to cooperate as well.”
“You could say that this time, Ming Di truly played a divine move.”
After watching this video, Ke Yan was completely shocked, just like the people in the comment section.
This kind of thing really does not seem like something an ordinary person could pull off.
Especially after reading Linhe County’s notice on the Liangmei Case, it was likely that Liangmei Group had never imagined they would fall in the hands of an unrelated abstract internet celebrity thousands of miles away.
The key point, as was apparent from Ming Di’s video, was that it was Liangmei’s people who sought out Ming Di. People had seen those who sought death, but never those who carried their own and their family’s criminal evidence along when they went looking for it.
It was as if they were in a hurry to die and had a deep grudge against their own family, wanting to drag the whole family down with them.
Faced with this level of popularity, the involved parties on both sides were all sleepless and did not rest all night.
Last night, Chen Hong had already hidden away in a secluded resort villa. This was a secret Chen Clan location and was not listed under Liangmei Medical Group.
The situation was more serious than his father had expected. With headquarters sealed and senior executives under interrogation, he was worried he would be taken in too, so he went into hiding first.
He himself was not clean.
Under these circumstances, he had to temporarily put aside the matter of finding the mole.
Especially after the Matter was made public online last night, he became even more nervous and spent a sleepless night restlessly scrolling through videos.
But that “Ming Di becomes a god” video lingered in his mind and would not go away. What stuck even more was that everywhere he scrolled, people were praising Ming Di and calling him truly divine.
“Bastard, stepping on our Liangmei to make a name.” Chen Hong’s face was full of anger. Although Liangmei’s situation was caused by an internal mole, since when was it a small internet celebrity’s turn to feast on Liangmei’s misfortune like this?
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He directly dialed a Telephone number, and two cold-faced men immediately came in.
These two had been left for him by his father as trump cards to deal with traitors. Once the mole was found, they would handle it. They were also two blades, essentially death warriors of the Chen Clan.
With Liangmei being so big, they inevitably ran into all kinds of messy situations, and those two were the ones who handled them.
Now that the mole could not be found for the moment, sending these two to teach that Ming Di guy a lesson was no problem.
On the other side, Ming Di also did not sleep all night. With heavy dark circles, he was half excited and half terrified.
He was excited because of this heaven-sent popularity boost. In one night, his Fans had increased by nearly two million. At this rate, his Fans might catch up to the Chen Family Head’s.
He was terrified because the heat was too much. At first he thought that idiot named Chen Xiang was just a fool, but who knew it would escalate to such a huge disaster.
He looked into Liangmei Medical and was stunned. Two hundred and thirty billion in Assets, plus so many negative news stories that had ended with no consequences. There had to be some kind of connections.
Key point: a family like that definitely had a lot of power in the shadows. With how unlucky they were this time, and him, a small internet celebrity, devouring all the Traffic, if they wanted to vent their anger on a small internet celebrity like him, would that not be effortless?
Good grief.
For the first time, Ming Di felt that Traffic was not so easy to enjoy. With this on his mind, he quickly ran into his cousin Xu Bin’s Room.
Xu Bin was sleeping soundly. Woken up, he stared at Ming Di in confusion. “Lin Ming, what are you doing so early in the morning, disturbing my sleep?”
“Cousin, this time you have to save me.” Ming Di pulled a long face and handed over the videos about Liangmei that had exploded overnight.
After watching a few, Xu Bin stared at Ming Di in shock.
What earth-shattering thing had this quiet cousin gone and done?
He knew of Chen Xiang, but he had never expected that guy’s arrest would trigger something this cataclysmic.
“Cousin, you are truly godlike this time.” After a long pause, Xu Bin suddenly spoke.
Ming Di still looked miserable. “Cousin, this is not about being godlike. Do you think Liangmei will take their anger out on me? Them getting taken down is not that related to me.”
Xu Bin reminded him, “Without you, Chen Xiang would not have been caught, and that USB drive would not have ended up with Police Uncle. You have to carry at least part of this blame.”
Hearing this, Ming Di felt his heart sink. His back felt several times heavier. Even if he only bore a small part, the burden was massive.
They say he has been enshrined as a god. Is he the god of taking the blame?
Seeing him like this, Xu Bin said irritably, “Look at you, such a coward. With Liangmei in this state, they definitely cannot Retaliate against you through proper channels. If they want to play dirty in the shadows, your cousin here, even if I am retired and got one-shotted by the Chen Family Head, am not some pushover.”
“Cousin, you have to protect me.” Still miserable, Ming Di felt insecure and said, “Let’s go and book a Room inside the Chen Clan for a month.”
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In the Room, Chen Han did not care about the online storm. He sat cross-legged cultivating all night and only opened his eyes when the Alarm Clock rang, then put away the Spirit Stone in his hand.
After washing up, he picked up his Mobile Phone and took a look, discovering a huge number of mentions.
He figured it must be because the Old Daoist Priest video had exploded in popularity. But when he clicked into several mentions, he realized he was wrong.
This morning’s trending list was all about Liangmei Group and Ming Di.
The downfall of Liangmei Group did not surprise him. After all, the game system had already prompted that the Task was completed. But that Ming Di had been dragged into it and triggered such huge popularity was something he had not expected.
If he did not know Liangmei’s misfortune was related to the game system, he would have suspected that Ming Di also had some kind of Punishment-related system.
He had to admit, this guy really had luck for getting famous. Bringing down Liangmei had given him a huge wave of Traffic.
With that in mind, Chen Han went downstairs. After collecting two grains of Moon Gazing Sand, he rode You Fu to the Special Spiritual Aperture.
As soon as he reached the Three Old Elm Trees, he saw his dejected junior sister and the three uncles.
From that alone it was clear that they had not gained anything from sensing Spiritual Energy all night and were in a terrible mood.
Chen Han entered the pavilion. Seeing his junior sister and the three of them like this, he could not help but smile. “What is it? Still not sensing any Spiritual Energy?”
Xiao Yu nodded. “Senior brother, I tried sensing all night, look at my dark circles, and I still did not sense anything.”
Chen Lin, Chen Shuisheng, and Chen Dagou all nodded in agreement. After learning the 《Chen Clan Qi Cultivation Method》, they had been very excited. But after trying to sense Spiritual Energy with no effect at all, their excitement felt like it had been doused with a bucket of cold water.
Only Xiao Mi watched this scene from the side with some envy. She already knew last night that Xiao Yu had learned a 《Chen Clan Qi Cultivation Method》, and that only those from the Chen Clan’s main lineage could cultivate this Method.
At this point, Chen Han reminded them, “Could it be there is simply no Spiritual Energy outside? Why not try the energy overflowing from the Feng Shui Array?”
As he spoke, he was already seated cross-legged, waiting for the Spiritual Energy rinse.
Hearing this, Xiao Yu looked at her senior brother with doubt. Why did it feel like he had known this all along?
Chen Lin, Chen Dagou, and Chen Shuisheng felt it too.
But they had no time to think about it. According to the timing, the energy from the Feng Shui Array was about to overflow.
They quickly sat cross-legged as instructed in the 《Chen Clan Qi Cultivation Method》. After a moment, they could feel the energy of the Feng Shui Array overflowing.
This time, they immediately used the sensing Method from the 《Chen Clan Qi Cultivation Method》. Since they had already practiced the sensing part yesterday, it came easily.
And sure enough, they sensed Spiritual Energy. The energy overflowing from the Feng Shui Array was actually Spiritual Energy. But this was not so strange; Spiritual Energy was a type of Energy, and who said the Energy from a Feng Shui Array could not be Spiritual Energy?
What mattered now was the next step: operating the 《Chen Clan Qi Cultivation Method》 to absorb Spiritual Energy into their bodies for cultivation. But they and Xiao Yu were all novices, unfamiliar with this part. The Spiritual Energy they absorbed was not much, and their Refinement speed was slow, but they enjoyed it.
Because this proved that the 《Chen Clan Qi Cultivation Method》 really could be used for cultivation. They themselves were amazed by their Family’s Foundation.
Finally, the Spiritual Energy rinse from the Special Spiritual Aperture ended.
This time, only Xiao Mi stood up and discovered that Xiao Yu and the three uncles were all still sitting cross-legged, clearly cultivating the Chen Clan’s Cultivation Method.
She grew even more envious. Unfortunately, she was not part of the Chen Clan and could only sigh, walk out of the pavilion alone, and return to the Chen Clan.
As she walked out, she could not help turning back to glance at the pavilion after only a few steps.
