Chapter 272: Aftermath Of The Green Snail Valley Dungeon! Teaching Aunt-grandmother The Zhu You Technique!
Huang Xin suddenly did not dare to breathe loudly. Although this old daoist priest had done nothing, he felt himself already shrouded by the man’s aura.
In his mind appeared the scene of soldiers all over the ground, an Asura hell.
At that time, this man should have been treading on a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, right?
When he saw the man turn and look at him, he subconsciously swallowed.
Chen Han naturally noticed Huang Xin’s abnormal reaction and could see that the other party deeply revered his identity as an old daoist priest. This attitude was completely different from how he treated the Chen family head.
This was exactly the result he wanted.
The Chen family head was the public identity, the facade. He needed to be kind with others so people felt that the Chen clan was easy to talk to.
The old daoist priest was a sword, someone who could stand upon a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, someone meant to intimidate, to make people understand that the Chen clan was not necessarily so easy to deal with.
Having a sword in hand and not having one were two completely different things.
Chen Han also took out three items from the game warehouse. With a wave of his hand, the three items floated in front of Huang Xin.
Huang Xin was stunned. He did not even react before three things were floating in front of him: one storage disk and two USB drives.
Seeing these three items, his heartbeat inexplicably sped up. He recalled Cao Xin’s report that all the information, materials, and evidence over there had disappeared.
At the time, they suspected this old daoist priest had taken them, and they had not dared to have any expectations. They certainly had not hoped that he would bring those things back to them.
But now, this old daoist priest had delivered the items over.
Huang Xin seemed to understand the meaning of the old daoist priest, and he subconsciously grabbed the three items. Then he realized that the old daoist priest’s figure was no longer before his eyes.
This made him swallow again. He truly came and went without a trace.
After that, heart pounding, he looked at the USB drives and storage disk in his hands, hurriedly turned on the computer, and connected one USB drive.
When he opened it and saw the densely packed names and information inside, not only did his heartbeat accelerate, it almost leapt out of his chest.
He quickly switched to another USB drive. After he skimmed through the contents of the three items, he did not dare to hesitate. He immediately put them away and hurried out of the rest stop.
After getting in the car, he stepped on the gas and headed toward the county, and at the same time did not forget to call Li Rui, the captain of the criminal unit, as well as the relevant leader.
These things were burning hot in his hands; it was better to hand them over to professionals. At that time, he would just earn a share of the merit like before.
After all, he had already decided on his path: once the Chen clan’s tourism here developed and the county set up a tourist station, he would be recommended as the person in charge.
With two such contributions, his position would be secure. After all, he was still young; his seniority was what it was, and no matter how much merit he earned, he could not be promoted too fast.
As for the tourist station later on, with the Chen clan there, would he still fear lacking achievements?
Maybe he would pick up several more at any time.
So he did not care much about this. Instead, it was Li Rui for whom this achievement, added to the previous ones, would be extremely important, and the same for the responsible leader.
Once these materials were submitted, the leaders above might not even be able to digest such massive merit alone and would have to look upward for someone higher to carry this heavy burden.
And no one in those higher positions would let this kind of merit slip away.
At the very least, only the relevant leaders at the city level could carry such a load.
This was all a chain of personal favors.
County level.
Li Rui and the responsible leader were very puzzled about why Huang Xin had called so anxiously. He only said there was a major matter and then hung up.
But since the other party sounded so serious, they did not dare be careless and went to a meeting room to wait for him.
Soon, Huang Xin hurried into the office, panting. He said nothing, directly taking out two USB drives and the storage disk.
“What are these?” Li Rui looked at the three items in confusion.
“They are from the old daoist priest of the Chen clan,” Huang Xin said directly.
“What?” Li Rui and the leader exclaimed in disbelief almost at the same time.
They knew that man was supposed to be over in Myanmar slaughtering people.
He had actually returned to the Chen clan?
What terrifying means allowed him to travel back and forth between the two places so quickly?
This must truly be some immortal-level method.
The leader murmured, “No wonder we could not find any trace of him going out, not even any record from people of the Chen clan.”
Li Rui did not hesitate. He immediately connected one USB drive to the multimedia computer. Moments later, the information inside the USB drive appeared on the multimedia projector screen.
Inside turned out to be connection data related to the scam organizations over there: domestic help information, trafficking, and even information selling, with full materials and evidence.
“Damn it. How do these companies dare sell such information to these people?” Li Rui’s expression was a bit dark. However, he also saw the information on the sellers. They were not the company heads but important management-level staff below.
For example, this Li Mingwei was a senior executive at a very important domestic information communications company. Because he owed gambling debts, he eventually went down the crooked path of selling information.
But as they looked further, Li Rui and the other two were shocked.
Although Li Mingwei committed crimes, he had not acted of his own initiative. He had been seduced by a woman and lured into gambling.
The woman had a very good figure and very high appearance, far more alluring than his wife at home. Clearly, Li Mingwei had failed to control himself.
Most crucially, this woman was one of the help information personnel of the scam ring. It was her superior who designed the trap for Li Mingwei, leading him onto the path of a gambling addict and then into secretly selling information.
The three of them stared, dumbfounded.
Could such detailed information really be something those people over there themselves would record?
There was even a detailed description of the entire criminal process. Were their capabilities over there really that extensive?
But if it was not recorded by those people, it could not possibly have been fabricated by the old daoist priest, right?
If he could bring these things out, then the contents, events, and evidence existed beforehand. There was no way for him to conjure them out of thin air.
So it must have been that the organization over there kept these records in order to better control the people here. Their methods were truly high-level.
If the people here refused to obey, once these things were revealed, those disobedient ones would be scared into kneeling and admitting fault.
The methods of evildoers were getting deeper and deeper.
Obviously, they had no idea that this had all dropped from a boss in a game dungeon, nothing more than loot from a game instance.
When they finished watching all three items, aside from the surveillance video material from the scam organization’s scenes, the other two USB drives implicated far too much.
The personnel involved were all over the country. The Qingmin region only accounted for less than 15 percent. Linhe County’s implicated people at most accounted for about 5 percent.
Yet handling just that 5 percent would already be an enormous achievement for them, enough for them collectively to secure a round of promotions, seniority aside.
So, like Huang Xin, they realized the problem: the merit was too great for them to carry.
“Let’s go find County Magistrate Chu,” the leader said directly.
He naturally knew that County Magistrate Chu was aligned with that big shot of the Zheng family in the city and also concurrently held positions in their system. In the end, this matter would probably fall into that man’s hands.
So it was better to privately report up first and discuss.
After that, it would be easier to decide to ignore the matter of the Chen clan’s old daoist priest.
After all, Old Master Zheng was also with the Chen clan.
Moreover, with the nationwide implications, they could not handle it. The higher-ups would also need to divide the cake, and they had no qualification to share it.
They needed that Zheng big shot.
Chu Ping was extremely satisfied with the recent tourism development in Linhe County.
The ancient city area had fully taken off, especially that section of ancient city wall. The story of the Chen clan ancestor leading the militia to help defend the city and resist the rebel soldiers intrigued many tourists, who all went to check in at the relic.
When he saw Li Rui and the other two walk in, he was very surprised. Only when they took out two USB drives and the storage disk and he saw the contents did he become shocked.
“They are from the old daoist priest of the Chen clan,” Li Rui added. “There may soon be major war-related news over there. Some forces are claiming to have wiped out more than one thousand people under a warlord named Barto and killed Barto himself.”
Chu Ping was not stupid. He understood at once that this was the work of that old daoist priest. Now these USB drives and the storage disk here were the evidence.
“The specific situation?” Chu Ping immediately inquired. After listening to their detailed report, he was stunned. He knew the Chen clan was powerful and had mysterious inheritance.
Now he felt like he was listening to an immortal hero story.
It was as if their world had turned into a novel world, with such immortal-like figures existing.
But he also knew the three would not dare fabricate such matters. These materials were solid evidence.
“This matter has nothing to do with the Chen clan’s old daoist priest. It was a war over there, and your undercover agent seized the opportunity to steal this out. His contribution this time is sky-high,” Chu Ping immediately instructed, then took out his mobile phone to contact the city.
Li Rui and the other two exchanged looks. So it was like that.
After Chu Ping hung up, he personally made arrangements and led the three to the city to report the situation. They did not return to Linhe County until the next day.
Huang Xin went straight back to the Chen clan to start his post. This matter no longer concerned him, and his share of the merit was secure.
Li Rui and the responsible leader immediately convened people for a meeting.
That Zheng big shot was unsettled after receiving the materials. Clearly, this was also shocking for him. From the fact that he reported upward at the first opportunity, it could be seen.
Obviously, for the nationwide materials and evidence, he was not eager to voluntarily divide this cake, intending instead to use it to gain favor with those above.
However, the nature of the case had now become a major city-led operation: an undercover agent, after great hardship, had obtained this monumental pile of evidence.
There was not a trace of anything related to the Chen clan’s old daoist priest.
Just as they had expected.
Now what they needed to do was to thoroughly deal with the 5 percent related to Linhe County and then compile it and hand it to the city.
Linhe County was thrown into near-instant chaos.
Previously, when they investigated these help information scammers, the targets hid in remote corners, even in the mountains, making investigation difficult. Now the names, information, ID card numbers, phone numbers, and their associated cases were all perfectly clear.
It was like they were arresting people armed with their ID numbers.
On the streets of Shuidong, in a tea leaf shop, several idle social types were brewing tea in a private room. Sometimes making tea was the cheapest form of socializing.
Lin Dongdong and his group had come to drink tea after finishing a job, but each of them was rather distressed. Their main problem was that the contact line they had previously connected with had suddenly gone cold.
So the “material” they held could not be moved.
The material was the Weixin accounts they had scammed.
They used lucky draw as a pretext to chat with some “lucky” people. For example, they targeted people on certain websites with prize draws.
They pretended to be the internet celebrities’ customer service staff and chatted with these people, claiming there was an issue with the backstage and they needed to log in to their Weixin for verification.
They also reminded the victims not to change their password or account information for the time being, otherwise it would affect prize distribution.
In fact, during this process they were already logging into the victims’ Weixin accounts on some unknown secondhand iPad.
As long as the victims did not change their passwords, the iPad would not be kicked offline. Before the victims realized they were being scammed, the accounts could be used to do many things.
These Weixin accounts bound to the iPad were their “material.” How their superiors who bought this material would operate was none of their business.
This operation contained no technical difficulty at all. Everything relied on pre-designed, copy-paste scripts. Yet there were so many fools in this world who, for a few hundred yuan in prize money, completely dropped their guard, serving themselves up for scammers.
“Brother Dong, what is going on over there?”
“Yeah, I wanted to hit the bar tonight. We are just waiting for them to collect the material.”
“No idea what is happening. They told us to wait,” Lin Dongdong was also speechless, not knowing what had gone wrong.
While they were chatting, the private room door suddenly opened. A group of officers surged in and, before they could react, had them all pinned down.
As Lin Dongdong and the others were taken out of the tea shop, they were still utterly confused, not knowing how they had been exposed.
Scenes like this unfolded all across Linhe County.
If the previous cleanup of two teams by the old daoist priest had drawn attention, this time the officers were conducting a full-scale purge, hauling people back in batches.
At the gate of a sewing machine factory, Chu Lin had just come out after three months inside. Those three months had been miserable.
With his girlfriend pregnant, he had decided to turn over a new leaf. His girlfriend had given him an ultimatum: if he kept messing around, she would break up and abort the child.
Chu Lin was thinking this when he suddenly saw several officers walk toward him and press him down.
Because the case involved the scam organization, he was arrested again. After this, he might have to stay in the sewing machine factory another three years. If the information he provided involved victims, it would be even worse.
Before he was taken into the car, Chu Lin saw his girlfriend, who had come to pick him up, and he saw her turning to leave.
“No… I am wronged… I already finished my time at the sewing machine…” Chu Lin shouted loudly.
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Chen Han paid no attention to these turbulent events. These were merely the aftershocks of the Green Snail Valley demon extermination instance.
He had already resumed his identity as the Chen family head and went to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall, planning to hand two Zhu You technique talismans to aunt-grandmother.
When he arrived at the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall, he did not see aunt-grandmother. Instead, a hall warden, who had just finished guiding some tourists, saw him and greeted him: “Family head!”
“Where is aunt-grandmother?” Chen Han asked.
“The elder is in the guest hall at the back, consoling a believer,” the hall warden replied immediately.
“Okay.” Chen Han nodded and walked toward another door to the side hall.
The guest hall was a common functional space in daoist sects, used to counsel believers and receive visitors.
The Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall originally had a guest hall, but it had rarely been used. There had been almost no believers coming specifically to seek guidance, and no special visitors needing aunt-grandmother’s personal reception.
In fact, hardly anyone even came to offer incense all year round.
Now, things were obviously different.
There were more believers. The Chen clan’s reputation had grown. The news of answered prayers at the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall had spread.
Daoist guidance for believers was essentially providing spiritual direction, emotional comfort, and cognitive adjustment to help them ease confusion and calm their mentality.
The doctrine sounded a bit profound, but most of the time it was simply listening to believers talk, complain, or chat about everyday family matters.
In many cases, believers came because they could not handle some conflicts in daily life and needed a place to pour out their hearts.
So anyone doing this work as a daoist priest needed a calm mindset and patience.
When Chen Han reached the guest hall, he heard aunt-grandmother telling a believer, “Devotee, you should not take these things to heart. Children have their own blessings. Your son being able to carve out his own path, start his own company, and not ask you for money for a bride price or a house is already something many people envy. As for your daughter-in-law, what matters most is that your son likes her. As long as he is still filial to you, should you not be happy?”
When Chen Han heard aunt-grandmother’s words, he roughly understood what was going on. It was probably another mother-in-law issue. Many parents had no real ability of their own, but their children were successful and no longer took their parents’ opinions too seriously.
After all, in their eyes, their parents’ vision and pattern were limited.
Of course, that was the reality. Many parents did not earn even a few thousand yuan a month yet tried to control sons who could earn more than one hundred thousand in salary. They did not realize the gap in vision and pattern was enormous.
Yet such parents lacked self-awareness and wanted to control every aspect of their son’s life, especially when it came to daughters-in-law. They did not understand that different circumstances and classes meant different choices.
So conflicts arose. In the end, such parents would raise the banner of filial piety and lash out in impotent rage.
They did not realize that this only damaged family feelings, and that this was why many promising children from poor families were reluctant to talk to their parents.
Chen Han stood to the side listening to aunt-grandmother talk with the believer. The more he listened, the more he felt the believer was just creating trouble for herself.
The cause was simple: the son’s girlfriend dressed very sexy and looked “seductive,” and when she visited their hometown once, some young villagers gossiped.
They had said that dressing like that, she looked promiscuous, looked like she was selling herself, and so on. The old lady became fired up, formed a negative opinion of the son’s girlfriend, and wanted to push her son to break up and introduce a friend’s daughter instead.
This kind of old lady was narrow-minded and ignorant. She could not hear that those villagers were simply envious and jealous of her son.
This was also the mentality of many lower-class men. When facing women they knew they could never attain, they habitually spat venomous words to make themselves feel better.
If Chen Han had to counsel such an old lady who made trouble out of nothing, he really would not know how. He would be completely helpless. But aunt-grandmother was able to patiently and calmly guide her, correct her mindset, and send her off full of gratitude.
That was impressive.
He could also see that aunt-grandmother was very passionate about this work, which confirmed that giving her these two Zhu You technique talismans was absolutely appropriate.
The Chen clan needed a highly respected elder with profound daoist skills.
Once aunt-grandmother performed the Zhu You technique a few times, her prestige among believers would soar, making it easier to organize believers to come offer incense and increasing wish power.
“Family head.” After sending off the believer, aunt-grandmother saw Chen Han come in and greeted him with a warm smile.
“Aunt-grandmother, I found two pages of special Zhu You technique runes in the books and wanted to study them with you,” Chen Han said with a bright smile as he walked over to the table with her.
He had already taken out the two fragmentary pages of the Zhu You technique.
