Chapter 268: Worried The Old Daoist Priest Can’t Find It? Zhu You Technique For Sores!
Li Rui and the others watched the video feed from Cao Xin’s side and felt their scalps tingle.
They prided themselves on having handled many cases and having taken part in major joint operations organized by the city and the province, so they considered themselves well experienced.
They had seen every kind of bloody scene.
But compared to what was in front of them now, all of that was child’s play.
What appeared in the video was something they had believed they would never encounter in their entire lives.
It was completely like a bloody battlefield, like an asura hell.
They all knew that the Chen Clan’s Daoist priest had slipped over there without a sound, definitely to carry out retaliation, and his methods were that brutal.
The key point was, all those people were armed with powerful weapons, yet that Old Daoist Priest had wiped them all out.
That killing intent was terrifying.
They all swallowed subconsciously and thought of the two teams that had previously been dragged out by that Old Daoist Priest.
Those people were really lucky; if it had not been in Linhe County…
The more they thought about it, the more fearful they felt.
If at that time that Old Daoist Priest had not restrained his killing intent, they really did not dare imagine the consequences.
They more or less understood that since the Chen Clan was in Linhe County, he would at least somewhat mind the impact.
Once abroad, he really had no scruples.
And once he had no scruples, that was truly terrifying.
In the video from Cao Xin’s side, the higher they went in the building, the more corpses of the bandits there were, and the blood flowing across the floors grew more horrifying, until they reached a hall filled with rows of computers.
“Captain Li, leader, it seems all members of the gang here have been dealt with, and everyone who was tricked into coming here has run away.” Cao Xin’s voice was already trembling.
Anyone in such an asura hell would find it hard to stay calm.
Li Rui still kept his wits and immediately ordered, “Cao Xin, quickly check the surveillance, and also their data storage and those computers. See if there is anything useful.”
That Old Daoist Priest had turned this place into an asura hell. With everyone dead, this was absolutely the best chance to collect evidence.
“Right, right, that is the most important.” The leader recovered his focus too.
Cao Xin of course knew how important this was.
If they could find useful evidence, even just to figure out how many peripheral members they had in the Qingmin Region, that would be earning massive merit.
These peripheral members were impossible to completely eradicate. Catch a batch, another batch would appear. As long as even one slipped through, they could quickly gather a whole group.
Mainly there were too many idle people in society, especially those who left high school or vocational school and did not continue studying. Many of them had no work, thought that mixing in the underworld was chic and awesome, and so got pulled in.
Some who had done time sewing inside before and had once earned quick dirty money would immediately return to old ways and start again.
Because they did not know what else to do; they still had to make money to live.
It was impossible to get them to take jobs that paid only a few thousand a month, and they would not go do exhausting labor at construction sites either.
So no matter how you crack down, you never finish.
Unless you could give these people heavy sentences in one sweep, get them back on the sewing machines for a very long time and create a gap in time, only then could things quiet down for quite a while.
But getting the evidence for such heavy sentences had to be done overseas, which was extremely difficult. So most of the time it just repeated in cycles.
But wasn’t this an opportunity now?
There had to be evidence here tying in those people who recruited for them, enough to take down a large batch.
That Old Daoist Priest from the Chen Clan had already cleared out one wave here, which itself created a gap. Even if new ones appeared, for them to grow again and build up a complete line would not happen in a short time.
If they could then get heavy sentences on another wave and send them in, that would form another gap, and public security in the Qingmin Region would be stabilized for a very long time.
That would be a great achievement for them.
Cao Xin did not hesitate. He quickly found the surveillance room and used his mobile phone to connect to the surveillance equipment.
But after searching through it for a long time, he said in astonishment, “Li Rui, leader, there is nothing at all in this storage disk for the surveillance footage.”
Li Rui froze, then quickly said, “How is it possible there’s nothing? A place like this must have strict surveillance to prevent escapes. There is no way there is nothing. Check if it was deleted.”
With a frown, Cao Xin said, “Captain, it is not deleted. There are not even traces in this storage disk. If it had been deleted, with my phone software hooked up, I would definitely find fragment traces.”
“Go check the others.” Li Rui felt something was wrong and hurriedly instructed.
Cao Xin nodded and quickly continued searching. He then discovered there was no information at all, and was even stunned to find that those cameras and even those mobile phones had all exploded and been destroyed.
Only the computers still contained the fraud evidence: chat logs, recruitment of members, traffic funneling, and other related proof, all very complete.
But they all noticed one thing: there was not a single trace about that Old Daoist Priest. There was no image or video proving that what happened here was done by the Chen Clan’s Old Daoist Priest.
The only ones who could testify might be those members of the organization who escaped and those victims; they must know what happened here.
And they also knew that Old Daoist Priest from the Chen Clan had gone there to take revenge on these people.
The key was that one-sided confessions sometimes could not prove anything.
Especially when you were trying to prove that someone with no identity records, someone said to be over two hundred years old, had pulled off this big operation.
More importantly, why did they need to prove it?
Why do such a thankless thing?
Were the hideous wounds on those necks not obvious enough?
Or were they afraid that Old Daoist Priest of the Chen Clan was not sharp enough, and would not be able to find where they lived?
He had gone abroad and still located this organization’s site with pinpoint precision.
Would going to their homes be anything but easy?
Even if he did not go to their homes, did they not walk on the street?
The key was, if they wanted to find this Old Daoist Priest of the Chen Clan, they probably could not. He was like a dragon whose head you might glimpse but never its tail.
So the leader immediately said, “Cao Xin, film more video. Later you will take the footage back with you under the identity of an undercover agent. Remember, this was a clash between two organizations, a fight broke out, and it has nothing to do with anything else.”
These words made Li Rui beside him pause, but he quickly caught on. “Cao Xin, exactly. There was a fight here, and you, the undercover agent, escaped by luck and brought the video back.”
“These videos are also educational. They can show everyone how cruel things are out there and warn them never to believe those so-called high-salary overseas job offers that are actually fraud schemes.”
“Huh?” Cao Xin was stunned.
But he was quick-witted. He immediately reacted, and even went downstairs, pointed at the bodies all over the stairway and said, “See this? This was two groups fighting over territory. One group stormed in and ran into the other, they shot at each other, and the carnage was horrific…”
Li Rui and the leader were truly gratified to hear this; they felt the kid was teachable.
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A car sped toward a factory.
Looking at the task indicator map, Chen Han really had not expected the second major base to be a factory, or rather, a slaughterhouse.
And the environment was extremely poor.
But it was not strange. After all, the Wu Tai Sect’s evil cultivation technique required human body parts to cultivate the All-Heavenly Fiend Gods.
So they only needed body parts. As long as the parts cut off could be used for cultivation, whether the person lived or died afterward did not matter, or rather, they were doomed to die.
This further proved the evil of this second Wu Tai Sect branch.
As he got closer, he could see there were not many red dots here. Far fewer than at the first branch, so it was very weakly defended.
He more or less understood why. This kind of business did not have an endless stream of clients.
Not every client could find such a supply source or afford such a price.
So there would not be many orders.
The quantity to be harvested here would not be large either. A few people staying behind were enough to make sure the pigs they brought in could not escape and to handle transportation of goods.
As for the rest, there should only be some guards here, plus a few professional Wu Tai Sect technicians who could do the cutting.
Most of their manpower was scattered elsewhere gathering targets or leading peripheral members.
From far away he saw guards standing just behind the slaughterhouse gates, all armed.
When they saw him drive up, they actually opened the gate, clearly intending to let him in.
He understood at once. These people recognized the car, or this car had delivered goods for them before.
The two Wu Tai Sect branches should know each other.
Just like that previous Heavenly Prodigy knew the other Heavenly Prodigy here was called Red Tiger.
Seeing the gate open, he did not hesitate and drove straight in.
The two big men at the gate who opened up were about to step forward to greet him when two steel needles shot out and took them down.
What surprised him was that both of them burst into a cluster of white light.
The drop rate was decent.
“Damn it, enemy attack.” A guard spotted this and shouted, igniting the entire factory.
On the task indicator map, Chen Han saw one red dot after another rushing out, including the larger red dot that marked the Wu Tai Sect Heavenly Prodigy.
That was exactly what he wanted.
Since there were so few red dots here, he would just have them come to him and die.
So he quickly killed the shouting guard, then went forward and picked up the white light cluster, storing it in the game warehouse.
【Magic Blood Stone: This is a special healing item. It is said that when the Wu Tai Sect Elder obtained the All-Heavenly Twelve Fiend Gods evil technique, he acquired this from that region. It has special healing effects. After use, it consumes the blood patterns on the Magic Blood Stone to rapidly restore injuries.】
Chen Han had not expected it to be this thing again.
The Magic Blood Stone was undoubtedly good. In the Shu Shan Swordsman Game, it was a kind of healing potion. You could buy it in the shop, and bosses would also drop it.
So it was not strange for it to drop in a dungeon.
And with this branch’s slaughtering purpose and their cultivation of the All-Heavenly Twelve Fiend Gods technique, it was even less surprising that monsters here would drop this item.
The game system’s design here was quite intentional.
It was just that for now he did not really need it. Unlike in the game where fighting mobs would make your character lose health and you had to use potions.
In that brief moment, a crowd came charging out from inside, aggressive, each holding a weapon and pointing their gun muzzles at Chen Han.
Chen Han looked at the burly man with a face full of flesh at the front and said calmly, “Red Tiger, your time is up. Our Chen Clan has come to collect you.”
That man was the Heavenly Prodigy of this Wu Tai Sect branch.
Red Tiger froze when he heard his name, especially when he heard the words “Chen Clan”; he was surprised.
He had an impression of the Chen Clan.
People from that country’s side had contacted him, saying the Chen Clan was not simple, and if they could control it, it would be very helpful in finding supply sources.
He had not paid much attention to the supply market in that country before, because that country was growing stronger and stronger.
It was only after Amin joined that he realized it was actually easier to find supply there.
If they went to other countries and found possible “goods,” he had to send people to handle it, get the target, and extract the parts they needed. It was time-consuming and laborious.
Like that previous big order.
The supply source in Malai Country met their criteria, but he had to send people in advance to study the person’s habits, learn that they liked to play by the riverside, then throw them in the river, leave them half-dead and unconscious, not kill them outright.
Then they had to bribe the hospital to declare death, have the doctors tamper so the target did not wake up, and make sure they had connections with the medical examiner.
Fortunately the client for that big order was a big shot in Malai Country who smoothed things out.
But that eastern country was different. Trying to go in and pull those moves there had a much lower success rate.
If they really got caught with evidence, they would be hit hard and be done for.
When Amin came, he brought a completely different approach. He was from that country and knew it very well.
For the first time, Red Tiger learned they could easily obtain information through the internet, and some information could even be bought from hospitals.
He was genuinely shocked to find that some hospitals there were even darker than theirs.
What he remembered most clearly was that they had bought a massive amount of data from a senior manager at Liangmei Medical, and that manager had abandoned his conscience just over gambling debts.
They had filled over thirty orders using information bought from Liangmei.
For those, he did not need to send his own people. Amin used his own team to send out offers of high salaries, lottery wins, international tourism, and so on, and actually lured the “goods” right to their door.
Only then did Red Tiger realize it could be so easy and the success rate so high.
So he turned his attention there.
Honestly, no one in their Myanmar region would fall for such a scam.
How could anyone be so stupid as to believe a three-hundred-thousand international travel package would fall on someone with no connections whatsoever?
Why did they never think that if there were such benefits, the insiders would already have taken all the slots; it would not reach outsiders.
The key point was that those “goods” not only believed it, they dressed up gorgeously and were more eager than the traffickers.
His side had not even finished arranging hunting and transport, and the marks were calling to urge them, even threatening to report them for fraud if it was delayed.
Ridiculous, was it not?
Precisely because of that, he had agreed to the plan of controlling the Chen Clan.
But he had never expected people from the Chen Clan to come knocking on his door, which meant those people had fallen.
It seemed these Chen Clan people were truly capable.
“Kill him.” Red Tiger did not hesitate and opened fire.
So what if the Chen Clan people were capable? This was his territory. Now that so many weapons were pointed at the old man, they would just kill him.
Besides, it was just an old man.
Ratatatat!
As the gunfire thundered, Red Tiger’s eyes instantly showed disbelief. The old man vanished from in front of him.
“Where is he?” Red Tiger shouted, then was stunned to see his men around him drop in unison, their necks torn through with gaping bloody holes.
Blood gushed from the wounds like springs, an intensely horrifying sight.
In that instant, Red Tiger felt his body go ice cold and completely rigid. He was not under any control; it was purely fear.
No matter how vicious he was, he had never encountered anything like this.
The next moment, a steel needle pierced his neck, and he fell with despair. A cluster of light then rose from his body.
Seeing this, Chen Han could not help thinking that the Green Snail Valley demon-subjugation map had a really good drop rate.
Another big drop.
He did not hesitate and collected the white light clusters into the game warehouse: five spirit stones again, all primary spirit stones.
There were also two more Magic Blood Stones.
Finally, there was a USB drive.
【Wu Tai Sect special contact directory: This records all related personnel for this Wu Tai Sect branch, including scum hidden among the righteous path or ordinary people.】
Reading this remark information, Chen Han knew it was the same type as the previous drop. After going back, he would go through it carefully and would not mind giving Captain Huang and Captain Li another stroke of great luck.
Thinking this, Chen Han walked into the slaughterhouse, puzzled why killing the two Wu Tai Sect Heavenly Prodigies still had not triggered the follow-up task.
After all, there was still a Wu Tai Sect elite elder in this dungeon controlling these two branches.
It seemed he had to thoroughly wipe out this branch.
When Chen Han got inside, he found the place was quite something. The floor, walls, and various areas were covered with special plastic sheeting, and there were multiple operating tables.
It really did resemble scenes from certain directors’ films. It seemed those directors were not just making things up.
The only difference was that in one corner of this surgical area there was some modern high technology, such as LCD computer screens and special live stream and video equipment.
He had no idea what this Wu Tai Sect branch was doing with that.
“Ah… ah…” A weak, painful wail came from inside.
Chen Han headed toward it. There were several red dots there, and some Wu Tai Sect members still alive.
When he arrived, he saw a little girl in her early teens tied up, the cries coming from her. There was a large gash on her chest, blood pouring out madly.
He understood he had arrived at an opportune moment. They had clearly started the slaughter and were halfway through.
A few people in white coats were squatting nearby, trembling.
Murderous intent appeared on Chen Han’s face. Seeing the little girl’s pain, it was clear they had not even bothered with general anesthesia and were cutting her alive.
And she was so young, yet they could still do it.
This was utterly cruel and damnable.
With a wave of his hand, under the sword control technique, one steel needle after another pierced those people in white coats. But something unexpected happened: they also burst into clusters of white light.
He went over and stored the white light in the game warehouse, and what dropped surprised him: pages from a book that looked very old.
【Special Zhu You Technique（Sores）: This is a fragmentary page from a left path Zhu You medical book. It records talisman art within the Zhu You Technique for treating sores. Sores treatment +1
Sores: Caused by external six-excess pathogenic toxins, contact with special poisons, external injuries, emotional injury, improper diet, sexual depletion, and so on.
Symptoms: local swelling and pain, ulceration and suppuration, accompanied by fever, constipation, and in severe cases nausea and vomiting, agitation, coughing, and blood in phlegm.
Conditions: Use Water from Heaven to paint talismans. Special Prayer Altar in the Daoist Hall. You must pray to the deity and offer wish power in exchange for divine blessing, so the talisman has healing power.】
Chen Han was amazed that good things could drop from them too.
The Zhu You Technique had been passed down in the Daoist sect for a long time, but it had long been deemed pseudoscience, an unverifiable medical art.
He had not expected those people in white coats to drop such a thing.
Though it was only one fragmentary page, it was enough to surprise him. It meant the Chen Clan could truly develop medical arts under the name of Zhu You Technique, even if not for outsiders, at least for believers.
He immediately thought of his aunt-grandmother.
As the abbot of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall, right now she only drew calming talismans, and those were only available to believers.
Now giving aunt-grandmother an additional sores Zhu You Technique was good. The key was that this effect was only +1 and only usable in the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.
After all, the special prayer altar existed only for the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation, and it had been gained last time as an upgrade reward together with the calming talisman. Also, wish power had to be offered to make the talisman effective, so it could only be used in the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.
For now it was only for sores, but more would surely follow.
After all, if it could drop once, it could drop a second time.
Many might not understand sores, but folliculitis, skin ulcers, and local necrosis from poor blood flow in long-term bedridden patients all counted as sores.
So there were many sufferers. If aunt-grandmother used this to treat some believers, it would enhance her reputation as an elder of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.
“Sob… mom, mom…” The little girl’s weak voice sounded again.
Hearing the familiar language, Chen Han instinctively looked at her.
But her eyes were already unfocused as she slipped into unconsciousness.
He could not help but sigh. If it had been an adult on that table, he might not have intervened. Most who were tricked here had only themselves to blame.
But a little girl was different. She was likely brought by ignorant parents; there was no way to get her here silently otherwise.
“Ah.” Chen Han sighed, took out a Magic Blood Stone, pressed it to the girl’s wound, and activated it. As the light from the Magic Blood Stone spread, her wound visibly healed at an incredible speed.
In a short while, she had recovered completely, while only a thin blood pattern on the Magic Blood Stone was consumed.
The little girl, however, remained unconscious. That was due to mental exhaustion and the torment she had suffered; she would not wake just because her body had healed.
Chen Han checked and confirmed she had no major problems, and in his mind came the prompt that this Wu Tai Sect branch had been cleared.
But his brows furrowed, because there was still no follow-up triggered, and the elite elder was still unaccounted for.
That Wu Tai Sect elder was the one controlling the two branches.
Now that the branches were cleared yet the follow-up dungeon plot had not triggered, something was off.
As Chen Han was thinking this, he suddenly heard movement behind him and instinctively turned around…
