Chapter 270: The Perplexed Wu Tai Sect Elder!
Barto had not thought much when he previously saw this old man in the video; on his territory, whatever old man showed up had only one way out, which was death.
Now, seeing the other appear in front of him, he felt it was utterly absurd.
In his mind, this kind of thing was impossible. His camp was right next door, and Im had led an army to encircle and annihilate the man.
How could the other leave there, and even wipe out Im and his men?
Was this still the real world?
More importantly, how had the other found this place so quickly?
Yet as he saw the man walk in and saw his men lying in a pool of blood at the door, he knew something was very wrong, and instinctively reached for his gun.
The next moment, blood spurted from his neck as a penetrating, torn wound appeared, and he collapsed with a face full of disbelief.
Chen Han did not waste words with this guy. Killing this Wu Tai Sect elder Barto completed the Green Snail Valley task. For this kind of damned man, every extra second alive, every extra breath of air, was a waste.
However, at the moment Barto fell, that cluster of dispersing White Light still pleased him.
He had over a dozen clusters of White Light now.
A real big drop, worthy of the Green Snail Valley demon extermination map’s big boss.
Around Barto, several men were clearly his subordinates. They had obviously intended to act just now, but when they saw Barto die without a sound, they were so terrified that they dared not move.
When they saw Chen Han look over, they clutched their heads in fear, trying to squat and surrender, but unfortunately, with a wave of Chen Han’s hand, they all lay down completely.
As the people at Barto’s side, they deserved death even more.
Chen Han then looked toward the several doctors already shivering, completely terrified, some even starting to kowtow.
He snorted coldly and did not spare them. Anyone who could work under Barto and even help him with this kind of business was clearly in the know and likely had not done this sort of surgery for the first time.
So they were red dots too.
What Chen Han had not expected was that they also dropped a cluster of White Light, another fragmentary page, which he suspected was again Zhu You Technique.
Finally, Chen Han looked at the woman waiting on the hospital bed, about eighteen or nineteen, clearly in pain, unconscious, her brows still furrowed.
But Chen Han merely waved his hand, and his flying sword shot out a steel needle.
Because she was also a red dot.
There was a saying: those who share in ill-gotten gains share the guilt.
A tycoon with a trail of blood on his hands, and his son, knowing his parents’ viciousness, still enjoying the wealth, luxury houses, luxury cars, and beauties they brought. Even if he did not participate, he would be defined as an accomplice or as sheltering them and face legal punishment.
Let alone in a case like General Barto’s. The source of all evil was this woman. If Chen Han had not entered the Green Snail Valley demon extermination instance, that little girl would probably already be buried somewhere on that mountain by now.
While this woman would be back to enjoying a beautiful life.
Only then did Chen Han store all the clusters of White Light into the game warehouse.
As expected, those doctors had indeed dropped another fragmentary page of Zhu You Technique.
【Zhu You Technique（Hot Flashes）: This is a fragmentary page from a Left Path Zhu You medical book. It records the talisman art in Zhu You Technique for treating convulsions and hot flashes. Convulsions and hot flashes treatment +
Symptoms: yin deficiency, damp heat.
Conditions: Use Water from Heaven to draw the talisman. Daoist Hall special prayer altar. One must pray to the deity and offer wish power in exchange for divine blessing so that the talisman has healing power.】
Chen Han felt emotion; this Zhu You Technique really had effects, with talismans for practically every symptom.
Some people might not understand what hot flashes means. Roughly, with yin deficiency, one may see menstrual disorders, excessive or scanty flow, and heat in the five centers.
Damp heat can be accompanied by heavy menstrual flow, irregular cycles, plus heat in the five centers, constipation, and other symptoms.
Anyway, a woman in her thirties, a few years before menopause, with the symptoms above and a bad temper, that is basically hot flashes.
Women in this state will, in most cases, end up in divorce.
With heat agitating the five centers, their temper flares every day; they pick fights with outsiders, make trouble without reason, pick on their husband, and even which foot he uses to step in the door is wrong.
In this state, a husband can endure for a while, but over time, who would keep putting up with it? He will eventually blow up.
At that point, the patient flares up even more, believes her husband has changed, and makes an even bigger fuss.
In fact, he has changed. Her youth is gone, and she still makes a huge unreasonable fuss every day. Who can stand it? The husband is only too eager to divorce.
So hot flashes cause huge damage to life, but many people do not pay attention to this. Hospitals and doctors may not even think of it, while traditional Chinese medicine actually talks about it more.
And for this, traditional Chinese medicine does have plenty of herbal decoctions and herbal tea that can help.
It is just a pity…
If it were only unknown symptoms it would still be okay, but many patients watch certain videos on a certain red app and instead conclude that they are imbalanced, upset, and misunderstood by their husband, who talks back to them, and decide a husband like that is not worth keeping and the next one will certainly be better.
Now, with this Zhu You Technique（Hot Flashes）, a single talisman can treat it.
However, this thing is really useless to him. Better to let aunt-grandmother play with it.
Although for this kind of symptom, believers who offer incense and pray over the long term and provide wish power can also be blessed and healed, not every believer can come long term.
So this can instead be a supplement.
As for Barto, this Wu Tai Sect elite elder had indeed dropped quite a lot, mostly spirit stones, a full ten primary spirit stones.
This instantly brought the number of primary spirit stones in his game warehouse to over sixty. A real fat haul.
There were also three intermediate spirit stones.
Adding in the one from before, that made four. With the two meridians fully opened, breaking through the breaking meridians realm should not be a problem.
The magic blood stone had also dropped again, now up to ten pieces.
These were not of much use to him. It seemed that as long as he did not look for death, nothing could really hurt him now. At least domestically, no one would use something that could hurt him against him, since he stayed in the most crowded places.
But these stones should be able to cure all diseases.
After all, any illness can be seen as injury, as damage to body tissue. Thinking of it that way, the magic blood stone was actually an extremely practical medical tool.
【Special meteorite x2: This is a special kind of meteorite that seems to be usable in an artifact refining furnace to refine special artifact refining metal.】
This was what he cared about most.
Including the one from before, this made four.
The main thing was a magical artifact. For flying sword travel, he still needed a flying sword.
Although he had not even entered the breaking meridians realm yet, and the liquid condensation stage required for flying sword travel was still a long way off, he had realized something: refining a flying sword required quite a lot of materials.
Do not be fooled by how, in Shu Shan Swordsman, the protagonists received flying swords from their sect as soon as they reached the proper realm. That was because the Emei Sect was rich and powerful. Many rogue cultivators reached the realm yet still could not collect the materials to refine a flying sword artifact.
This was one of the reasons rogue cultivators were weak.
Even refining the flying sword embryo alone was extremely difficult. To refine a good flying sword embryo, you needed materials like Taiyi refined gold, Taiyi true gold, and so on.
Where were rogue cultivators supposed to find such things easily?
The key was that the sword embryo was the most critical foundation of the flying sword, the base form upon which the flying sword was built. Only with a sword embryo could you refine a complete flying sword.
The sword embryo was also the carrier of spells and power. During refinement, various runes would be embedded into it, and the sword embryo was the key link between the cultivator and the sword.
This was why, in Shu Shan Swordsman, you often saw some cultivator’s flying sword struck until it turned dim or cracked, and it needed to be reforged.
In fact, that was mainly because the sword embryo had not been destroyed. Even if the sword body was shattered, it could be refined anew.
But to refine the sword embryo into a flying sword, you needed all kinds of precious metal.
For example, these four special meteorites that could be used in artifact refining were advance-prepared materials, even though he did not yet have a sword embryo or a method to refine one.
He believed he would get them later, and then these materials would be useful.
The final reward was a USB drive, once again containing evidence and information about the crimes committed by General Barto.
At this moment, a game prompt appeared:
【The Green Snail Valley demon extermination quest instance has been completed. You can now exit the quest instance map. Do you want to exit Green Snail Valley now?】
Seeing this prompt, Chen Han instead looked at the laptop still open in the ward. Judging from the information and interface on the screen, it should have been used by General Barto for office work here.
This showed that the general did care about his daughter.
He took the computer out of the ward and went straight to the rooftop of the hospital. Someone would arrive soon about what had happened here. He did not want to be disturbed for what came next.
On the rooftop, after using the Heart Light Escape Technique twice, he appeared on top of another building.
Soon after, he took out a storage disk.
It was the surveillance data from that scam group. When connected to the computer, it showed only three days of stored footage, which was normal.
Domestically, the requirement was at least seven days or half a month to preserve evidence and facilitate investigation.
For example, if a thief stole from some place and was discovered, then within half a month, you could track their movements through various surveillance cameras.
Or in a hit-and-run accident, the next day you could quickly investigate the fleeing vehicle’s route through recorded surveillance.
That was the power of the sky-eye system.
But the scam group mainly used surveillance to see whether the pigs were acting up or trying to escape. Naturally, they did not need long-term storage.
Also, each camera feed had labels, such as information department, card dealing department, live stream department…
You could even see that some pigs, though not flagged as red dots by the system, were still very active. For example, several women doing live streams took the initiative a lot and had probably really made some money.
These people, with the videos given to uncle officers, would certainly face legal punishment.
He saw that both the information department and card dealing department had such people. He just did not know how many were flagged as red dots and how many were not.
These could be handed to Captain Li and Captain Huang as a fortune gift package.
Naturally, any parts about the old Daoist priest going on a killing spree had to be cut and deleted.
After storing the disk in the game warehouse, he took out three USB drives. Each of the three Green Snail Valley bosses had dropped one, all recording information about various crimes.
He first checked the scam group’s. It was filled with standard fraud-related information and help personnel data.
The numbers ran down in endless rows.
Earlier he had thought the Qingmin Region had the most such people. To his surprise, it accounted for less than 10%. The three districts of He, Hu, and Guang were the hardest hit.
Even the least of them had over 20%.
With so many, he could not tell whether it was all information the scam group itself had collected or whether the game system had helped.
This USB drive could also be given to Captain Li and Captain Huang as a fortune gift package.
After all, those two truly understood the situation and, at least for some matters, had not bothered the Chen Clan.
In human dealings, courtesy demands reciprocity. One must understand that.
Next, he checked the USB drive dropped by Red Tiger, and this data was more serious. Not only accomplices, but also those selling personal information to Red Tiger’s side were implicated.
It even included accomplice details, operating methods, how information was sold, how payments were made, and where the money flowed.
Seeing this, Chen Han knew this absolutely did not come from Red Tiger’s own records. It was too detailed. It had to be the result of the game system’s great power.
The information involved both domestic and foreign entities.
Among the domestic ones, he even saw the name of Liangmei Aesthetic Medical Company.
No wonder they were demonic path. Their own mess was not over yet, and the main perpetrators were still in interrogation, yet another major issue had surfaced.
But was it strange that demonic forces colluded with forces like the Wu Tai Sect?
Not strange at all.
However, this could not be treated as a fortune gift package.
Being tied to Liangmei was one thing, but there were also two other hospitals involved and other entanglements…
Handing this over as a fortune gift package would only harm people.
So he chose the best option: publish it online and spread it across various countries’ networks, using international public opinion to settle the matter.
Whether it would be suppressed or not was beyond him. If the game system did not issue a task, he would not worry about it, and he had no spare energy to care.
If investigations led somewhere and they came to trouble him, triggering a game system task, then with demonic path coming, he could only exterminate demons.
Were the dropped spirit stones not fragrant? Were the other drops not fragrant?
But with conclusive evidence, in most cases they would abandon the rook to save the king. Someone would have to pay the price.
Conveniently, this laptop belonged to Barto. He did not even need to bypass any firewalls to access foreign networks. It turned out these people could monitor their own online situation in real time.
Thinking of it, in the domestic online world, where things were often stirred up by a so-called 500,000-strong instigation, many people argued endlessly, while the orchestrators were probably lying comfortably on foreign beaches watching the show.
Chen Han logged onto various countries’ networks and directly uploaded the data, also sending it to media outlets big and small worldwide.
There was a lot of data, so it would take some time.
After that, he took out the USB drive dropped by the Wu Tai Sect elder. Opening it, he found it truly shocking. It contained not only victim information but also beneficiary information.
The game system was impressive, directly marking both victims and beneficiaries, clearly listing which body parts and the prices.
The key thing was that these beneficiaries all had status and position.
Even domestically, there were three, all with full names, all tycoons with strong backgrounds, and their offered prices were not small.
Most critically, the route went through an international charity organization. All procedures were complete on the Stars and Stripes side, and the organs ended up at the same hospital domestically.
Now this was interesting.
So the online accusations against that hospital had not been wrong.
It seemed this could not be used as a fortune gift package either. Given the status, position, and backgrounds of those three tycoons, he could not risk harming the two captains.
He still chose to upload and expose it. Abroad he did not know, but back home, as long as the evidence was solid and public opinion surged, no matter how rich or well-connected the three tycoons were, they would have to pay a price.
No one could cover for them, since the whole world would be reporting it.
Besides, they cared about saving face.
No one would dare protect them and would instead rush to distance themselves. Otherwise, if they were even slightly implicated, they would be under siege.
Every radish has its own hole; those who understand, understand.
He clicked upload himself.
This was all he could do for now. Whether any demon extermination task would be triggered later was up to fate.
…
Kotolra City Hospital was already in chaos. Barto’s status was special, and now he had actually been killed in the hospital, and along with him, his men, doctors, and daughter were also dead.
The police had long since surrounded the place.
But the officer in charge did not immediately start the case. He first made several calls, partly to report, partly to protect himself.
He knew very well that whoever dared kill Barto was either not afraid of death or was here to kill, and might be the next ruler of this city.
If he did not report in now and waited until that person came in, he might be done for.
So, while Chen Han was uploading data, some big shots nearby got the news at once and immediately sent people to check Barto’s camp.
After all, with boss Barto dead, the camp would definitely be in chaos and could already be in the midst of a power struggle.
But what they learned was that the thousand men Barto had sent out had all been wiped out, and his remaining subordinates were terrified and had no idea which side had done it.
But that did not matter. Soon after, a nearby powerful figure quickly announced that he was the one who had killed Barto, claiming Barto’s organization had been caught by others, and disaster was imminent, so he cleaned Barto up first to avoid dragging everyone down.
In truth, he had coveted Barto’s business for a long time. He had been doing similar things himself but not as well, and his location was not as good.
Now the opportunity had delivered itself.
Soon, a bus carrying a group of people met several cars from the embassy. In the cars were Cao Xin and the people who had been saved along with him by that old Daoist priest.
In his arms was the little girl, silent as he held her. He had told her he was a police uncle, and she trusted him.
He tentatively probed the little girl, using a few techniques, and learned some shocking things. Roughly, someone had cut open her chest, she had been in great pain, and then a white-bearded immortal had saved her.
He could basically guess what the little girl had gone through, but when he saw her, she had no visible injuries, though there was still blood on her body. That meant her wounds had likely been healed by the old Daoist priest.
What kind of method could heal like this without leaving a trace?
It had to be an immortal’s method.
The more he knew, the more terrifying that old Daoist priest seemed.
A soldier team leader hurried to Cao Xin and reminded him, “We must return to the city as soon as possible and arrange for your departure. There is going to be a battle here soon. Another faction killed Barto and has already announced they wiped out Barto’s thousand-man unit nearby.”
“What?” Cao Xin froze.
The place being nearby… could it be those people? Wasn’t that done by the old Daoist priest?
He was no fool. It was likely Barto had been killed by the old Daoist priest, and another faction had picked up the credit.
This really saved him and Captain Li the trouble of making up a cover story for the old Daoist priest. Someone had voluntarily picked up the blame.
He did not hesitate and started the bus to follow them.
In Linhe County, after learning that Cao Xin was safe, Li Rui and the others finally let out a long sigh of relief. When Cao Xin returned, the videos he had recorded alone would count as a major achievement.
It was just a pity the physical evidence was gone. Otherwise…
But they had no idea that this matter was far from over.
Because a piece of news that shook the entire internet exploded with unbelievable speed, leaving everyone stunned.
Could a person really obtain such evidence?
