Chapter 138 - 138 137 Mutation

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138: Chapter 137: Mutation 138: Chapter 137: Mutation From the first day Lin Fugui had done wrong, he had been slapped in the face until now; there was really no way anyone could do anything to Liu Hun, let alone Xie Heguo who Liu Hun was preparing to deal with, who was at most just a lame old man with a rolling pin, and could only chase ducks but could never really hurt a soul. Liu Hun followed Zhao Mingjie to the police station in Taiping Town. As soon as they entered the interrogation room, Xie Heguo’s face sank as if he had lost a dear father, pointing at Liu Hun and said, “Liu Hun, confess honestly, what have you done! Why did you do this!” Liu Hun wasn’t in any hurry, calmly sitting across from Xie Heguo as if he was in a tea house, and said, “Mayor Xie, I’ll tell you clearly now. The workshop set up by Huang Xiaofeng in the small village ahead causes deaths! I’ve smashed the small workshop there, and moved away everything that could be carried. As for why I did this, maybe you don’t know, or maybe you’re pretending not to know. But he surely knows!” After speaking, he pointed his finger at Lin Fugui. Lin Fugui was instantly panicked and shouted loudly, “Last name Guan, you’ve already entered the police station and still won’t behave! What do you mean I surely know, what do I know?! I know you gather crowds to make trouble, smashing and looting, that’s simply illegal!” Liu Hun smirked coldly, then told Xie Heguo, “Mayor Xie, you’d better get Lin Fugui to hand over the patients he’s hiding and perhaps even the bodies he’s hiding. Otherwise, the things happening in the front village will kill even more people!” Hearing this, Xie Heguo’s eyes flashed with panic, an expression that Liu Hun naturally didn’t miss. Now he could definitely confirm that Xie Heguo was pretending not to know. Since Xie Heguo understood the seriousness of the situation and still shielded Lin Fugui’s reckless behavior, this was no longer a matter of inaction, but indeed deserving of death! At that moment, a hurried knocking came from outside the interrogation room. “Who?! What’s the rush?” Lin Fugui yelled towards the door. “It’s me, Yu Weihong. Something major happened to Director Lin!” The voice of Yu Weihong, the village chief of the front village, sounded very anxious. Yu Weihong’s voice surprised everyone in the room, especially Liu Hun, who had almost turned the entire front village upside down and had not seen this village chief. Why had he suddenly appeared here? Upon hearing this, Xie Heguo immediately nodded at Lin Fugui, signaling him to open the door. As soon as Lin Fugui opened the door, Yu Weihong was grabbing onto Lin Fugui’s hand tightly, his nails digging into Lin Fugui’s flesh, and with a voice as if he had seen ghosts, he cried, “Dead... dead people! There are dead people!” “Yu... Village Chief Yu, what nonsenical things are you saying? Are you drunk in broad daylight?” Lin Fugui quickly made eye signals to Yu Weihong, hinting him to stop talking. Yu Weihong’s mind was full of the eerie images of the dead villagers, hardly noticing Lin Fugui’s cues as he was too agitated and continued to shout, “Director Lin! I’m not drunk! I’m telling the truth! Really, there are dead people! Dozens of them, all in a cave!” “Slap!” Lin Fugui was about to speak when his face was suddenly met with a loud, resounding slap, sending him crashing to the ground, dazed. To his horror, it was Liu Hun! He had struck Lin Fugui right in front of Xie Heguo! Even when hitting a dog, one should look at the owner, and Liu Hun dared to strike his own man. Holding his face, Lin Fugui pointed at Liu Hun and said, “You... you dare hit someone!” “Trash! Get out of the way!” Liu Hun kicked Lin Fugui aside and leapt towards Yu Weihong, grabbing him harshly and demanded, “Where is this cave where you hide people?!” “In... behind the memorial hall mid-mountain,” Yu Weihong stammered in his reply, terrified. “Officer Zhao, go get a stretcher from the clinic! I’m heading to the front village!” Liu Hun dropped the words and immediately dashed out. “Hey!” Zhao Mingjie glanced at the still-dazed Xie Heguo, didn’t bother with anything else, and followed out. “Dozens... dozens... How can I still keep my position?” Xie Heguo muttered bewilderingly, collapsing into the chair as if he had lost his soul. Lin Fugui, rubbing his swollen face, stood up and harshly kicked Yu Weihong while cursing, “Idiot! Who told you to come at this time?” Lin Fugui’s curse seemed to wake Xie Heguo up, who slapped the table hard and scolded, “You’re the idiot! Lin Fugui, Lin Fugui, I trusted you so much, entrusted you with such a major project. And what have you done?!” “Mayor... you... listen to me,” Lin Fugui immediately changed his demeanor and begged with a pleading smile to Xie Heguo. “You hear yourself talk nonsense! What did you assure me before, huh? Absolutely safe, definitely nothing wrong, guaranteed no one would die! Did all those words just vanish into thin air?!” Xie Heguo became more furious as he spoke, poking Lin Fugui hard on his forehead. “These were all... possible emergencies... You knew that too,” Lin Fugui stammered out his last sentence, clearly feeling that Xie Heguo was playing the saint and the sinner, now denying everything. “Forget it! Lin Fugui! Don’t give me all that useless talk! Right now, in one sentence, what should we do!” Xie Heguo glared at Lin Fugui, asking him, indeed aware of the consequences but still clinging to a hope for luck. Lin Fugui’s eyes shifty, he touched his chin and thought for a moment; he suddenly had a plan and quickly said to Xie Heguo, “Mayor, first of all, we need to respond with full force, comfort the family of the deceased, give them some money, make promises to stabilize them, and have them stand with us. Then, we have to cover this thing up tight. As long as it doesn’t get out to the county, this acre is still under your control.” “What about Liu Hun and his gang?” Xie Heguo asked Lin Fugui with a grim face. “Without Liu Hun, that gang is nothing. We slap a charge of causing public disturbance on Liu Hun—with witnesses and physical evidence, just lock him up! But now we can’t arrest him.” “Why not?” Xie Heguo was a bit confused at that moment. “Mayor, he’s helping us clean up the mess! I heard from the village chief that many people hurt by the chemical agents in the front village were saved by him at the clinic. We need to use him well. Once he cleans up the mess for us, then we can deal with him, no rush,” Lin Fugui grinned at Xie Heguo, his mind clinking like counting beads. Xie Heguo thought for a while, nodded his head, and then suddenly asked, “If we don’t catch him now, and he stirs up some trouble, what should we do?” Hearing this, Lin Fugui said even more contemptuously, “He’s just a bit tougher with his fists and rough around the edges, what else can he do? Just a poor farmer, never left the village in his life; even if he stirs up trouble, it will just be here for a bit. This is your turf! Even if the Monkey King has great abilities, can he escape from The Buddha’s palm?” The more Xie Heguo savored these words, the more he felt they had a point. He quickly said to Lin Fugui, “Immediately get those rascals you’ve gathered organized for me. We must extinguish this news. Anyone in Taiping Town who dares mention it, we find trouble with them! The police officers are now under my direct command. Once Liu Hun has sorted this out for us, I’ll arrest him immediately!” “Brilliant! Brilliant indeed!” Lin Fugui clapped a few flatters and was just about to leave when suddenly Xie Heguo called him back. “Wait a minute!” Xie Heguo thought for a moment and stopped Lin Fugui, saying, “Liu Hun and his people are just bumpkins; they can’t reach higher up, we just need to keep them down. The key is the others! Let Liu Hun help us clean up first. We’ll meet at the Township Government immediately. We need to have a meeting to unify our thoughts and work! Blocking the way up is crucial!” Old foxes fry the best fritters, and this truly applied to Xie Heguo! He keenly grasped the key point of this issue, which was to block the channels going upward; thus, immediately he rushed to the Township Government with Lin Fugui. The pair ran in such a hurry that they completely forgot about Yu Weihong, who was still lying on the ground gasping for air. Yu Weihong saw that they didn’t regard him at all, and just as he was about to follow them, suddenly a bright idea struck him. The deaths were a major issue! If he went along, he would either become a scapegoat or carry the blame. He needed to find another way! That’s it! Yu Weihong’s mind flashed, and he immediately thought of a person and left the police station. Just as Liu Hun arrived at the front village, and saw a crowd at the entrance to the village, he inwardly exclaimed trouble. Now alone, not even a tough guy could handle so many people, let alone he wasn’t one. Saving people was crucial! Liu Hun braced himself and walked towards the crowd, already prepared to use his mouth first before his fists. “Dear fellow villagers of the front village,” Liu Hun bowed to the crowd. “Whoosh!” Just as these words landed, Liu Hun watched, wide-eyed, as thousands of villagers from the front village knelt before him all at once, led by none other than Geng Erzhu! “Brother Geng! Great Lord Geng! Please, save our front village. I, Erzhu, am a fool! Truly a damn fool! Just a dumb clod. I failed to recognize a gem and mistook a hero for a brute. My mother...” Geng Erzhu, while speaking, ended up kneeling in front of Liu Hun and started to cry. This was stranger than any street performance; just a few hours ago, he had led people here to smash things up, encountering quite a few obstacles, and now they were kneeling here, with Geng Erzhu crying like a woman. Saving lives was urgent! Liu Hun muttered to himself internally and quickly pulled Geng Erzhu up, then said, “Don’t cry like a woman. Spit it out, what happened?” “Village chief... Bah! That old dog Yu Weihong, he deceived all of us! Many people in our village were sick or injured, they used to be treated at the clinic. Later, they couldn’t even leave the village before... before they died. But he just insisted that those people were only unconscious, not dead, claiming a Spirit Vein in the mountain could cure them! So he encouraged everyone to move the sick into the caves. He even took my mother there,” Geng Erzhu cried like a child, unstoppable. Liu Hun fiercely patted Geng Erzhu’s shoulder and said, “Stop crying! Speak up, what’s the situation now?”

Chapter 138 - 138 137 Mutation

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