Chapter 1748: Many Avengers
It happened to be three times returning to the city, and what was even more coincidental was that the time of Xaxi Duolaiti's disappearance happened to be right after the blind old lady's two sons.
Although he had paid some attention to the old lady's past when he was in Dingding Flower Town, he hadn't checked as thoroughly as he had investigated Master Solan's information to see if she had left the town during that period. Now it seemed she had indeed left.
"She went to the Tiantianle Group to demand an explanation. What was the specific reason?" Xu Huo asked again.
The technician was stunned for a moment, then somewhat understood his question. "The old lady's children and grandchildren all had incidents because of the Tiantianle Group. Isn't it only natural that she would resent the Tiantianle Group?"
Xu Huo's fingertip moved, and a Space Blade cut through the technician's neck. The slimy sensation of blood flowing, accompanied by the sharp pain, made the man cry out in surprise while also feeling terrified. He poured out everything he knew like beans from a container.
"I'll talk! I'll talk! I'll tell you everything! Actually, the old lady's two sons didn't die in an accident. I heard that the Tiantianle Group's mine had illegal operations, and the two of them discovered the problem. They demanded an immediate halt to the work, but they were stopped. The young master of Tiantianle was afraid they would let the secret slip, so he staged an accident and killed them both!"
"Someone leaked this information to the old lady. She was originally planning to bring her family to seek justice, but she didn't expect the young master to be so ruthless as to sabotage both aircraft... I swear, I only modified two pieces of data according to his instructions. I never imagined there would be such serious consequences. I regretted it deeply afterward. The reason I know all this is because I secretly investigated and asked around afterward..."
"I didn't dare to speak out. I didn't dare tell anyone. I was afraid that if I did, I would end up like the old lady—only one person in the family survived..."
"...I don't know why the young master was willing to let the old lady go. Later, she followed other victims' families to the Tiantianle building many times, and no one made things difficult for her. The government even arranged a comfortable place for her to live. But it probably also meant surveillance. Aside from visiting her descendants' graves, she mostly couldn't leave the retirement town..."
The story was reasonable. The only unreasonable part was that the young master of Tiantianle had caused an aircraft crash to stop the old lady from revealing the truth. Given the context of the time, some people should have figured out the truth. The reason it hadn't blown up was that the district government and the mining group had joined forces to suppress it. Destroying two aircraft just to deal with the old lady's family was completely unnecessary—staging an accident would have been much simpler. So the most likely scenario was that there were too many people in the know. Since someone had told the old lady about this, perhaps someone had also told others.
Of course, most of these people had died. The truth was hard to uncover. The few survivors were in the same situation as the old lady—let alone seeking revenge, even bringing up the truth again was extremely difficult.
If these people further learned about the collaboration between the government and the mining group, it would be only natural for them to try every means to vent their grievances.
"What happened to these people later?" Xu Huo asked about the other survivors.
"Some died of illness, some are still alive but have moved to very distant places. They're taken care of by the government, and they don't necessarily come back for tomb-sweeping." The technician pointed out a few who had already passed away, then added, "Many of them are disabled. Some need wheelchairs just to get around."
Xu Huo's expression paused slightly, and he pressed further with a few more questions on the details.
"Are you planning to avenge those people?" the technician asked nervously, swallowing his saliva. "The young master is now one of the main leaders of the Tiantianle Group. It's hard for ordinary players to get close to him. He rarely even appears in public anymore..."
Seeing that Xu Huo didn't respond, he continued, "Over the years, I've actually been tormented by my conscience, but an arm can't twist a thigh. Tiantianle and the government are in cahoots. How could they allow the truth of what happened back then to come to light? If they found out I leaked information, they probably wouldn't let me live either..."
The technician grew increasingly desperate as he spoke. "I can't survive this... I always thought that one day this matter would cost me my life. I've been worried about it since I was young, and now that day has finally come..."
Xu Huo ignored him and made a sound to get the attention of the young woman ahead.
The woman was still leaning against the door. She turned back and asked, "Are you done?"
Xu Huo nodded. Then the woman happily ran over, giving the kneeling technician a kick before leaning close to his ear and saying, "Actually, I'm not mentally ill. I'm here undercover. This hospital secretly digs out patients' organs to sell."
This statement shocked even the technician, who had just been lamenting his own fate, into looking up in astonishment.
"I'm only telling you this secret. Don't tell anyone else. It's not time to close the net yet." The woman mysteriously showed him the wristband marked with numbers on her arm. "See, they're going to operate on me tomorrow. When I get to the operating room, someone will burst in and catch them red-handed."
"This is indeed a very big secret. I'll help you keep it." Xu Huo said solemnly.
The young woman smiled in satisfaction.
"But I think you're taking a big risk alone," Xu Huo pointed at her wristband. "Why not let someone else go in your place, and you be the hero who makes the arrest?"
The young woman hesitated for a moment, then said, "Unfortunately, I don't have any companions who came in with me."
Xu Huo pointed at the technician on the ground. "He's someone I know. He can take your place."
The technician had no idea what he was planning. Even if he wanted to take her place, the staff at the psychiatric hospital weren't fools—how could they not notice there were two people in the room? Besides, Xu Huo couldn't just stay here forever, could he?
Once he left, the situation in the room would definitely be exposed to the medical staff outside.
"He's a man, and an old one at that," the woman said. "The hospital only wants young organs."
"That's fine. I can make him look young." Xu Huo applied a disguise mask to the technician but didn't modify his physical features.
After thinking it over, the young woman nodded in agreement and pointed under the bed. "When they come to pick me up tomorrow morning, I'll hide down there."
Xu Huo then turned to the technician and said, "Stay here for a couple more days. If you leave, you might not survive."
The technician understood the logic and breathed a sigh of relief, but then immediately grew worried again. "This hospital digs out people's organs!"
After saying that, he fell silent again. Xu Huo hadn't killed him on the spot, which was already letting him off easy. How could he expect to be saved?
But Xu Huo really didn't intend to let him die just yet. He said, "I'll go take a look," and left the room.
He first checked the preparations for tomorrow's surgery, then visited the doctors involved in the operation. After confirming there were no issues, he made a small modification to the hospital's equipment to ensure that tomorrow's surgery couldn't proceed.
(End of Chapter)