Chapter 60: Arriving to Arrest Su Man

Yunzhi had also guessed that her maternal grandmother probably only recognized her not long ago. Over the past couple of days, she had left her grandmother at the Lu residence without making a single phone call, sending a single message, or explaining the situation at all, causing the elderly woman to worry and throw a small temper tantrum.

However, Dou Wanqin did not have any urgent matters, and fearing that if she initiated contact and her message happened to arrive while Yunzhi was in the middle of some crucial task, it might distract her, she simply did not dare to reach out.

Previously, Yunzhi had been busy executing tasks, and given that the situation was unclear at the time, she herself had no certainty.

Telling her grandmother would have only added one more person to the worry.

So she decided to simply wait until she finished and the matter was completely resolved before talking.

This was called reporting only the good news and leaving out the bad.

Yunzhi amusedly thought, "Grandmother must miss me, she just doesn't say it out loud. I'll hurry up and wrap up the troublesome business here and head back to Haicheng as soon as possible!"

She opened the chat group and found that Bai Miao had replied to her.

After Bai Miao finished reading how Yunzhi brutally beat up Su Man, tracked Su Man to her Third Master's lair, followed Liu Yuxuan's trail to unearth the Second and Fourth Elders step by step...

In the end, she even borrowed heavenly lightning to blast the leader of the evil sect into charcoal!

Out of Su Man's bunch of senior brothers and sisters, only one remained at large, and before long, that person would also be brought to justice. A cybersecurity expert employed by the Dragon Squad's Extraordinary Management Bureau would definitely not have inferior technical skills compared to Su Man's Fourth Senior Brother.

As for Yunzhi's previous rescue of Dou Wanqin, because that was her own biological grandmother, Yunzhi hadn't posted a video and only briefly mentioned the matter concerning Dou Wanqin.

Bai Miao's emotions could only be described as a rollercoaster!

After watching the videos, she replied with a string of ellipses with a very complicated mood: ……

Followed by: "Sister is awesome!"

[Cat shocked.gif]

It wasn't an internet meme; Bai Miao had used her spiritual power to manipulate the chat group's camera function, taking a live animated GIF of her own cat face in shock.

Seeing this, Yunzhi thought Bai Miao's kitty form was so gorgeous and cute, and decisively saved the meme.

Bai Miao: "How should I put it, this series of operations of yours completely shocked me for a whole year!"

"The 'never expected this' series!"

"Actually, I only hoped to let everyone see Su Man's true face so that no more innocent people would be fooled and victimized in the future. If there were others behind her, finding one or two of them, gathering evidence, and calling the police would have been enough."

"As a result, you, Yunzhi, captured three of the four major giants of the evil organization alive, and the one who refused to be captured was directly wiped out of existence!"

"I only spent a little over ten thousand energy stones, but you gave me a result where even a hundred million energy stones wouldn't be enough to express my gratitude!"

"As for Su Man, just list out what she has done, report it to the X City Extraordinary Management Bureau, and send her in. We'll see how the official authorities judge her afterward, I have no objections."

"As for the Su family... no matter how poorly my biological parents treated me, they still gave me life and raised me until I was three."

"When I was just recognized back into the Su family, the medical expenses for my adoptive grandfather who was seriously ill were also paid by them."

"They were never good to me, but apart from putting in the effort to prepare some gifts for them right after I returned to the Su family and cooking a meal for them once, I never repaid them for raising me either."

"Before, when Su Man plotted for me to block a fatal tribulation for her, they inadvertently acted as accomplices."

"This time, asking you, Yunzhi, to help investigate Su Man can be considered as preventing Tong Qiu from being killed by Su Man seizing her fortune, and preventing the rest of the Su family from ending up ruined and broken after having their fortunes stolen. This is my way of repaying the debt of being raised by them."

"From now on, the Su family and I are completely even, with no further ties."

"I will live a good life in this interstellar world."

"In short, thank you so much, Sister Yunzhi!"

"There's no point in saying too many polite words. I'm going to go harass—ah no, win over my cheap sugar daddy, acting cute, coquettish, and shameless by all means necessary, bound to make him admire me and willingly provide me with energy stones!"

"Sister, wait for me! I'll scam my cheap sugar daddy's energy stones to raise you!"

"From now on, as long as the upper limit of the energy stones you need doesn't exceed one hundred million, I'll cover all of them as long as I have them! (=^w^=)"

[Cat making a fist.gif]

Another custom meme made by Bai Miao.

All of these messages had been sent by Bai Miao earlier that morning.

Yunzhi asked the chat group system: since Bai Miao was quite satisfied with the outcome of the commissioned task, why hadn't it been settled yet?

The chat group system replied, "It has to wait until you report Su Man's affairs and she is arrested by the Extraordinary Management Bureau before the settlement can take place."

Yunzhi nodded; that was only right.

She would get this matter sorted out today!

The information previously transferred to Ming Su was mainly what Little Wine had uncovered through hacking techniques concerning the evil organization.

Only by promptly arresting all the core and peripheral subordinates developed by these individuals could more people be prevented from becoming victims.

Although the core subordinates were not cultivators, they possessed at least one or two magical artifacts carrying evil, baleful Qi, just like Su Man's koi jade pendant.

Su Man was able to be accepted as an exception because she lived in a wealthy family, allowing her to contact fortune-plundering targets of exceptionally high quality.

As for the peripheral subordinates, they only took money to do things and helped commit numerous evil deeds, including but not limited to human trafficking, monitoring others' whereabouts, murder for hire, and so on.

Not only the personnel from the Extraordinary Management Bureau, but even the police officers from the police department had been fully mobilized.

Inside the X City Extraordinary Management Bureau, apart from Old Liu, the head of the security department who had always stayed behind, a healer, Old Zhang and Little Li who were recovering from injuries, and two prison guards, no one else could be found!

Whenever someone asked, the answer was that everyone else had gone out on missions to make arrests.

If she relied on the people from the X City Extraordinary Management Bureau to free up their hands to arrest Su Man, she would probably have to wait another day or two.

Yunzhi couldn't wait that long. Wasn't she also a member of the Extraordinary Management Bureau?

Therefore, Yunzhi asked Uncle Old Liu, who held multiple posts, to help issue an arrest warrant, along with a universal pass issued by the police department, a fraternal department. She borrowed a vehicle from the Extraordinary Management Bureau and headed straight for the Su residence.

For this trip, Yunzhi still maintained a disguised appearance because she still had ordinary parents and a maternal grandmother, and she didn't want to implicate her family because she had offended people.

This time, she could be said to have wiped out the X City fortune-plundering evil organization in one sweep, and there was no telling how many people she had incurred hatred from.

With so many people involved, it was inevitable that one or two fish would slip through the net during the arrests.

It was impossible for all arrested individuals to be sentenced to death. What if one of them was released after serving their sentence or broke out of prison later and insisted on taking revenge on her?

For the safety of her parents and grandmother, Yunzhi never intended to leak her identity from beginning to end.

Only Ming Su knew her true identity, and the people at the X City Extraordinary Management Bureau only knew her by the code name "Yun".

It wasn't that Yunzhi didn't trust them, but rather that cultivators and supernaturals possessed too many methods, such as forcing people to tell the truth or prying into others' memories, emerging endlessly.

Ming Su's real name wasn't even Ming Su; that was just her code name. Information related to her family couldn't be found on the surface either, and anyone who accidentally found out in the past had the relevant memories erased.

To ensure the safety of his own father, the director of the X City Extraordinary Management Bureau had even found a way to have Uncle Old Liu take an supernatural awakening potion developed by Dragon Squad researchers.

This supernatural awakening potion was rather unstable; although Uncle Old Liu awakened an ability, the drawback was that he would never be able to upgrade in the future. Still, it was better than nothing and provided a slight bit of self-preservation capability.

To return to the present matter, Yunzhi drove the vehicle of the Extraordinary Management Bureau directly to the villa area where the Su family resided.

Before making a move, she habitually parked the car on the roadside, projected her spiritual power, and checked the current situation of the Su family.

As it turned out, the day before, relying on the fortune transferred by Liu Yuxuan, Su Man had restored her youth and beauty, and the injuries on her face had also diminished significantly. However, except for Su Yuan, the rest of the Su family members had seen her previous aged and ugly appearance vividly, leaving a memory deep enough that they couldn't forget even if they wanted to.

Su Man had merely paid a visit to "Master Liu" and returned almost completely restored... This made the few members of the Su family who still had brains feel somewhat creeped out inside.

To put it nicely, this Master Liu's methods were miraculous; to put it bluntly, they were demonic.

Wasn't the ability to instantly restore youth even harder to achieve than sorcery that instantly aged or uglified someone?

Destruction was always easier than construction.

Except for the rather foolish Su Zigang, and Tong Qiu—who was spoiled rotten into a naive, sweet simpleton by her husband and son, with her mind similarly affected by the baleful Qi many times over, remaining utterly devoted to Su Man—the rest of the Su family members all felt a strong sense of discomfort in their hearts.

This was because after Liu Yuxuan transferred his fortune to Su Man, he was angry about his own aging appearance and failed to remember to restore the baleful Qi lost from Su Man's white koi jade pendant or strengthen the shielding array upon it.

The effect of the koi jade pendant had been greatly weakened.

With their brains rebooted, Su Zimo, Su Zifeng, and Su Yuan realized for the first time that for the past dozen or so years, they had been blinded by Su Man's mediocre acting skills.

Yet the sunk cost was too high; for the sake of Su Man, they had even indirectly caused the death of their own daughter/sister...

Nowadays, the "ghost" of Su Bai Miao still had to rely on Su Man's interpersonal connections to invite that truly capable Master Liu to "exorcise evil spirits." They didn't dare to abruptly reverse their attitude toward Su Man and could only hide their displeasure in their hearts.

Su Man made the excuse that Master Liu had been busy the last few days and wouldn't be able to come over to help with the "exorcism" for some time.

The real reason was that she hadn't even had time to bring up the matter before she was frightened away by Liu Yuxuan.

Furthermore, Su Man had her own selfish motives. She wanted to use the pretext of Bai Miao's ghost in the Su family to borrow even more fortune from her parents and several brothers.

When the time came, she would pin all the blame on the deceased Bai Miao!

If the entire Su family encountered bad luck, what did that have to do with her? It was Su Bai Miao causing harm!

She herself would also become one of the victims, perfectly clearing her name of any suspicion.

Although Liu Yuxuan had repeatedly warned Su Man not to deal a fatal blow to Tong Qiu for the time being, as long as it wasn't a fatal blow, wouldn't there be no problem?

As for the mysterious woman who could turn invisible, she should have left.

Presumably, the masters had started making their moves.

Consequently, over the past two days, Su Man had been frantically harvesting the fortune of the Su family members.

Liu Yuxuan had been stingy when he made his move, restoring her appearance only to around twenty-three or twenty-four, still a few years older than her actual age.

Moreover, the energy of the koi jade pendant also required a supply of fortune...

During the time Yunzhi was busy dealing with Su Man's masters and senior martial siblings, the Su family had experienced quite a chaotic commotion.

As soon as Su Yuan returned home, the Tibetan Mastiff that had been raised in the family for seven or eight years suddenly went crazy and charged at him. Su Yuan was bitten by the dog, his calf covered in blood, and a chunk of flesh was literally torn right off.

That mastiff, naturally, had been driven out of control by Su Man using baleful Qi.

Now, Su Yuan was also bedridden and wheelchair-bound.

The only uninjured one, Su Zimo, also encountered a tire blowout while driving to work. After switching cars, he got into another car accident. Although the drivers of both collided cars only suffered minor injuries, Su Zimo merely gained a few bandages on his face and had his left hand stitched up with a few stitches, the fault lay with him, and he had to pay compensation to the other party.

As for Tong Qiu, while washing her hair in a daze, she accidentally mistook hair removal cream for shampoo, and at that moment, she had become as bald as a polished billiard ball.

This caused her, already aged by several years due to illness and hospitalization, to look several years older still.

The physical damage wasn't huge, but the psychological damage was extreme.

When Yunzhi arrived, Su Man was putting a wig on Tong Qiu, and the two of them were cursing the "culprit" Bai Miao together.

Su Man hypocritically comforted Tong Qiu, saying that Master Liu would have free time in a couple of days, or if Master Liu was busy, he would send his disciples over to help "exorcise the ghost"!

By then, the family could return to the happy and peaceful state from before Bai Miao was recognized and brought back!

Tong Qiu looked relieved: "It's still you who is considerate, Mianmian. After I turned into this state, the way your dad and your brothers look at me is so weird. They must think I've become ugly, wuwuwu. A bunch of ungrateful wretches!"

Yunzhi: "..."
Is there any chance they simply think you're too stupid? In this entire family, only you and Su Zigang believe whatever Su Man says and hold not a single shred of suspicion toward her.

At the same time, Yunzhi overheard the conversation upstairs between Su Yuan, Su Zimo, and Su Zifeng.

Su Yuan said, "Coming home this time, I finally realized that there are many things about Su Man that... aren't right. I feel that our family constantly running into bad luck lately might not be Bai Miao's fault. Anyway, the two of you who have brains, find a reasonable excuse and stay away from home for a while starting now."

Su Zimo: "Dad, what about you?"

Su Zifeng also said, "And Fourth. Should we send him to the hospital too?"

Su Yuan shook his head, his expression heavy as he said, "If that guess of mine is true, and both you and your younger brother leave, your mother—being the most foolish one—might not survive another few days."

Having broken free from the influence of the evil artifact and lost that filter of fondness and trust toward Su Man, the three Su father and sons discovered numerous problems.

Su Zimo still had some affection for his biological mother: "What, could she actually... Then how about we send her away? Or take Mom and Fourth out with us together."

Su Yuan: "No, that Master Liu behind her can make people revert to youth in just an hour or two. Someone has to stay behind to keep her steady first, sigh. It's all my fault, my fault for being blind back then... Bai Miao, I've wronged you..."

At this point, Su Yuan could no longer continue.

Without the influence of the koi jade pendant, he now desperately wanted to go back in time and beat himself up. For the sake of an adoptive daughter full of wickedness, he had caused the death of his biological daughter, and now the Su family had turned into such a mess.

Su Yuan used to dote a lot on this daughter Bai Miao; she had been his most cherished little princess.

With a single wrong thought, he had given this doting affection to someone else who had no blood relation to them at all.

And turned the Su family into what it was now.

Regret was hitting Su Yuan hard!

Neither Su Zimo nor Su Zifeng had much affection for Bai Miao; their memories of getting along during those three-plus years in their youth had long since blurred.

They certainly had affection after getting along with Su Man for over a decade, but they were both more focused on interests. Only when they discovered that Su Man no longer brought them good luck but instead began encroaching upon their interests did their attitudes completely change.

To put it bluntly, only when the knife finally started cutting into their own flesh did they begin to feel the pain.

Downstairs, while fixing the styling of Tong Qiu's wig, Su Man took advantage of the physical contact to directly channel a strand of baleful Qi into Tong Qiu's brain.

Tong Qiu suddenly felt as if her head weighed a thousand pounds. Her vision went dark, and the glass of water she was holding slipped from her hand, crashing heavily onto the ground.

Glass shattered all over the floor.

After regaining her sobriety, in her panic, Tong Qiu accidentally kicked off her slippers and stepped barefoot onto the shattered glass.

"Ahhhhh—"

A heart-wrenching scream echoed throughout the Su family villa.

The Su family father and sons talking upstairs exchanged glances...

In the end, it was Su Zimo, who retained his mobility, who rushed downstairs first.

Seeing the blood gushing from the soles of Tong Qiu's feet, for some reason, he felt a creeping dread, wishing he could bolt out the door right then and leave the Su residence far behind.

Yunzhi didn't continue to watch from the sidelines.

Although she was more than happy to see the Su family members suffer a bit more bitterness—only after they were harmed severely enough by Su Man, regained their clarity, and learned the truth would they regret even more the true face of the "good daughter, good sister, good older sister" they had once doted on—she missed her grandmother.

She also wanted to go back and see her parents; their private-kitchen restaurant was about to open.

So, let's end it here!

Yunzhi drove straight into the villa complex where the Su family lived.

Producing the police pass, the security guard immediately let her through.

The car parked right in front of the Su family villa's entrance.

Inside the house, a family doctor was cleaning the wounds on the soles of Tong Qiu's feet.

Because Su Zigang was too worried about his mother and sister, even though his lumbar spine was injured and he was paralyzed in bed, he refused to stay still and insisted on having two nurses carry him over to take a look.

Then, one of the nurse's arms suddenly lost strength, and his upper body was heavily slammed onto the floor...

Su Zigang: ……

A "thud" sounded in his head, leaving him seeing stars.

For a split second, he felt like he had just met his great-grandmother!

A bloody hole had appeared on the back of his head.

Su Man stepped forward to show concern: "Brother, how are you? Are you alright?"

Su Zigang desperately wanted to say, how could I possibly be alright? Didn't you see that when I reached up to touch the back of my head, my hand came away covered in blood?

And his back hurt intensely; his spinal injury had worsened.

Yet he still forced a smile at Su Man and said, "I, I'm, I'm fine, Sister, don't worry."

One doctor simply couldn't handle everything, so she had to let a nurse take over for Tong Qiu to continue picking out the glass shards, while the doctor went over to treat the wound on the back of Su Zigang's head.

Su Zifeng, who had pushed his own wheelchair down the elevator and arrived at the doorway of the first-floor medical room: ……

Without a moment of hesitation, he spun his wheelchair around and began desperately wheeling himself away toward the exit of the Su family villa.

He had to escape! Damn it, why didn't he grow a pair of wings!

Then, because he pushed the wheelchair too hard in his panic, he tumbled right out of it...

A searing, excruciating pain shot up his left leg, which had almost healed.

Su Zifeng drew in a sharp breath: ……Hissss!

Before he knew it, Su Man was standing behind him, and her concerned voice rang out: "Second Brother, how could you be so clumsy? Let me help you up!"

Su Zifeng looked terrified: "No, don't come over!"

Su Man's footsteps paused.

She confirmed it. The Su family members—to be precise, those three: Su Yuan, Su Zimo, and Su Zifeng—had changed their attitude toward her.

The heartfelt doting and fondness from before were gone.

Should she...

Su Man thought about simply making a decisive move and harvesting all of the Su family members at once, but she couldn't make such a decision on her own; she would have to wait until she could contact her masters and senior brother again.

For some unknown reason, from yesterday morning until now, she had been completely unable to get in touch with them.

Perhaps they were dealing with that mysterious woman?

When Yunzhi walked through the front doors of the Su family living room, what she saw was Su Zifeng sprawling pathetically on the floor, shouting "Don't come over," alongside a gloomy-looking Su Man.

Yunzhi cheerfully chimed in, "Oh, it looks like I came at just the right time. Your family is certainly lively!"

Su Zifeng and Su Man finally noticed that there was an extra person in the living room.

Both of them turned their heads simultaneously to look at Yunzhi, who was currently wearing a disguised, pedestrian face.

How did this woman get in? The iron outer gates hadn't been opened for her by anyone!

Wait, the point was that they didn't recognize this woman at all!

Su Man said defensively, "Who are you? You're trespassing on private property, that's illegal!"

Yunzhi pulled out the arrest warrant issued by the Extraordinary Management Bureau: "The Extraordinary Management Bureau is handling a case. Su Man, you are suspected of repeatedly using evil artifacts to plunder ordinary people's fortune and committing murder for wealth. Right now, I am placing you under arrest!"

Su Man said in terror: "It's you! You're that invisible woman who beat me up! Shouldn't you have been dealt with by my masters..."

Realizing what she was saying, Su Man instinctively covered her mouth and glanced at Su Zifeng.

And, at Su Zimo, who had appeared behind her at some point.

And Su Yuan, who had instructed the butler to push his wheelchair downstairs.

An unprecedented panic gripped Su Man's heart. It was over, everything was over!

She instinctively turned around to run, but the next moment, Yunzhi rapidly stepped forward, pressed her acupoints, and immobilized her on the spot.

Su Zimo asked in a cold voice, "Mianmian, didn't you tell me that the person who beat you up was Su Bai Miao?"

Seeing that she could no longer keep up the act, Su Man simply stopped caring.

She dropped the facade; she wasn't pretending anymore!

Su Man laughed mockingly, "You believed it just because I casually made things up? Hahahaha, why are you all so stupid!"

With a pale face, Su Yuan asked with a trembling voice the question he cared about the most: "Back then, was Bai Miao's death something you deliberately plotted?"