booktalesy Chapter 969 - 353: A Grievance as Deep as the Sky, Shattered State of Mind (5k)
Chapter 969 - 353: A Grievance as Deep as the Sky, Shattered State of Mind (5k)
Wen Yan had a sudden inspiration, and the sinister method he devised to break the impasse worked even better than he had anticipated.
In fact, it worked so well that it first affected his allies.
It forced Chen Tao to quickly pick a new name for Ren Yubao, whose fate had been altered, to distinguish him from the usual Ren Yubao.
Wen Yan didn’t go home today; he stayed in Guanzhong County, fearing that something unexpected might happen again.
As long as he ensured that Ren Yubao was fine, he just needed to wait.
Wen Yan really couldn’t believe it; he had already unleashed the Big Killer, sacrificing nearly eighteen percent of his own power while taking down a thousand enemies, so how could there be no change at all?
Honestly, if he had known the power of the Big Killer was this immense, he would have considered other methods.
Wen Yan squatted nearby for a whole day, waiting quietly for news, but he didn’t sense any change.
He felt something was off; Ren Yubao had been squatting there for a whole day, how could there be no reaction at all?
Just as he was perplexed, Lord Zhu called him.
"There’s something I need to tell you."
"What is it?"
"A Ghost delivered something; there are lots of data inside, explicitly stating it’s for you."
"Alright, I’ll come over right away."
Wen Yan went to Lord Zhu’s place, opened a computer, and Lord Zhu inserted a USB drive, revealing a lot of data, seemingly made by someone who often creates presentations.
It detailed the background of the Ghost of Wealth with an Offensive Smell, and mentioned some possible trump cards possessed by this ghost.
It also pinned the disappearance of hundreds of ghosts in the past six months in Guanzhong County on this Ghost of Wealth with an Offensive Smell.
To make it appear credible and well-founded, it specifically listed over twenty traceable cases.
Of course, the examples given were all ghosts that could provoke hatred.
For example, a relative of one of Lord Zhu’s subordinates.
The other party seemed to think the hatred wasn’t enough and listed a few cases of sudden deaths among the living.
One of the cases involved a jewelry workshop.
Lastly, it listed several weaknesses of the Ghost of Wealth with an Offensive Smell...
After reading the data, Wen Yan was completely bewildered.
"How did these materials come about?"
"One of our ghosts here received it from an online friend out of province, who specifically mentioned passing it to you."
Lord Zhu had done his homework and didn’t need Wen Yan to ask further; he had someone list it out on the computer.
The online friend’s username was ’I Am In Incompatible with Evil,’ and the phone number came from a classic eighty-year-old granny, who had been deceased for more than a year.
Wen Yan took out his phone, checked it, and frowned as he noted the social account hadn’t been used for over a year and required identity verification.
He looked at the records; the other party used facial recognition for identity verification. It was unbelievable.
Who knows how these guys got an elderly lady who passed away over a year ago to do facial recognition?
First, the elderly lady had to become a ghost, then needed a phone capable of capturing ghosts.
Just this one point revealed a lot of information.
Wen Yan used his authority to have the Black Box check it out; the other party logged in from Binhai County, and it wasn’t particularly far from Fuyu Mountain, less than three hundred kilometers away.
Looking at those materials again, Wen Yan now understood why there hadn’t been any movement for a whole day.
It turned out a big move was brewing, one that self-destructed in a big way.
Just one glance told him it couldn’t have been someone from the circle who gathered such detailed information.
This was more detailed than what Men Xinsheng knew!
Wen Yan scratched his head but couldn’t figure out what on earth the Ghost of Wealth at the village entrance had done to offend his peers to such an extent.
Clearly, they were willing to expose some intelligence just to take down the Ghost of Wealth at the village entrance.
The weaknesses marked here were obviously ones that other Ghosts of Wealth might also have.
He planned to confirm it with Men Xinsheng later and give him a warning that he wasn’t the only one eager to make a mark.
Their side had directly sent the information to him and had specifically picked cases related to the living, just to provoke him into action.
His act of smashing a small shrine in the small town north of the County Town had become quite well-known.
Wen Yan recorded the information clues, taking a look.
One of the cases was one Men Xinsheng might not have known about.
A young man with a gravely ill child and high medical expenses borrowed money from everywhere but eventually heard about the Ghost of Wealth and went there to seek fortune.
Unfortunately, he didn’t know that there, loans required repayment with life souls if unpaid.
He eventually borrowed a large sum and died suddenly, with his life soul taken away.
His child at home also couldn’t be saved, and even on the verge of dying, he said not to seek treatment as it was too costly.
He died still worrying about the family’s debt, his obsession too deep, transforming into a ghost, and was also deceived by accomplices of the Ghost of Wealth, ending up there.
That damn Ghost of Wealth even tricked small children, lending them money to repay family debts.
In the end, the child turned ghost disappeared as well.
The whole family was ruined by that Ghost of Wealth, unable to even become ghosts.
Wen Yan felt his blood pressure rise as he read, his temple throbbing.
Who could know these details? Besides the Ghost of Wealth involved, no one would know everything.
How did others find out?
It surely was that damned scoundrel himself who disclosed it.