Chapter 48: Is it this chaotic? Doesn't anyone care?

  Sorry for the late update, things are like this: I've been updating two books continuously for a month, and yesterday I just finished an old book. As a result, I slept until 6 pm today, haha, got up too late...

  "You bunch of bastards, what have we done to offend you? You went to Tingting's company and caused trouble, got her fired by the boss, and even beat Pengfei so badly that he had to be hospitalized. I'm going to fight it out with you..."

  "What's wrong with this old guy?"

  "Let it go, it's for the elderly."

  "Get out! Stop nagging, just because you're older doesn't mean I won't hit you back. Let's go!"

  …………

  Night fell again, and the streets of Qingyuan City were illuminated by brilliant lights that shone over most of the city. The dark night sky was dotted with countless splendors. However, in a certain old-style residential area in Qingyuan City, a crowd had gathered in front of a residential building, peeking inside from the corridor and whispering to each other.

  While in the corridor inside, there were people crying and scolding on the second floor, and some people kicked the door in anger.

  A moment later, three or four burly figures quickly walked out of the corridor. As soon as they appeared, they saw the crowd gathered outside the corridor. The leader's ferocity was suddenly revealed, and he viciously scanned the surroundings, causing the onlookers to be frightened and stunned.

  "What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen someone doing business? Are you trying to test us?" The fierce and menacing person cursed again, and the onlookers retreated in a hurry, dodging and hiding. The three or four figures then swaggered away, cursing loudly.

  As those people walked away, the cries from deep within the building grew louder and louder.

  Many onlookers who were in tears couldn't help but shake their heads and sigh.

  "What's going on with Old Zhang's family lately? I heard his daughter and son-in-law have been having trouble with someone."

  "Yes, his daughter used to work in a big company as the head of a department, and his son-in-law was even a civil servant. What an enviable family! But now, it's all gone wrong. His daughter lost her job because someone kept causing trouble at the company, and later his son-in-law stood up for himself but got beaten so badly that he ended up in hospital."

  "Do civil servants dare to fight?"

  "Those people are crazy, they beat up Old Zhang's son-in-law and were caught early on, but after catching a batch, new ones emerge. They're not afraid of being caught at all. Today, they came to Old Zhang's house again to rummage through things, and even forced their way in when someone was home."

  "What's going on here?"

  "Haven't you heard? The young master of the wealthy He family in Qingyuan was murdered, and the patriarch has put out a reward: 50 million yuan to whoever catches the killer. If you're lucky, you'll be promoted to deputy director level; if not, you can still become an underground boss. With such a huge temptation, those thugs who are anxious for a few hundred yuan every day, who can resist? If there's really a chance to find the real culprit and get the He family's reward, many people would be willing to go to prison for it. After serving a few years in prison, you'll come out with a net worth of tens of millions, and still be able to be a big shot, calling the shots in the city - who wouldn't want that?"

  "Isn't that an exaggeration? 500 million, I've never seen that much money in my life. But what does this have to do with Old Zhang's family?"

  "Hey, you don't know this, but that young master from the He family is a scoundrel. I heard he was killed in a revenge killing. It's said that he had committed too many evil deeds and had too many enemies. Now our Qingyuan has several dozen households, every day we're being harassed by a group of thugs."

  "So many? Such chaos? No one in charge?"

  "You're kidding, right? How many people are in Qingyuan? Over a million, and only a few dozen households have had trouble, is that a big deal? And besides, when there was trouble, they even let you catch the perpetrators, letting the police station solve the case..."

  ………

  Cries and murmurs, under the dim streetlights, drifted into a figure hiding in the shadows at the edge of the crowd. The figure silently smoked a cigarette, and only after finishing it did they quietly slip away.

  "I don't consider myself a good person, but one should take responsibility for their own actions and not implicate so many innocent people. These people were originally victims of He Mingguang's wrongdoing, and after many years, they had finally healed from their wounds. Now, the wounds are reopened, they lose their jobs, their homes are smashed, and their loved ones are beaten. The He family is truly shameless."

  As he walked, his figure's pace was initially somewhat slow, but after walking a few steps, it became firm and powerful. The eyes that were half-hidden in the night also emitted a layer of cold light.

  Yes, Guo Zhengyang asked himself that whether it was in his past life or this life, he had differed from the definition of a good person by ten million eight thousand miles.

  But he is also a man of integrity, who walks the straight and narrow path. In his two lifetimes, no matter how many people he has killed, he has never felt guilty. Now, it's not right that he should let innocent old men, women and children help him resist isn't it?

  If it wasn't for the accidental encounter with Old Zhao being beaten in the afternoon, he really wouldn't have known how crazy He's family was, and since they couldn't find him, they resorted to harming so many innocent elderly women and children!

  Although these thugs were not sent by the He family, but rather some crazy rascals who were stimulated by the He family's reward, how could the He family not know about their actions? Not to mention that those who were affected now were originally people who had been bullied by the He family in the past.

  In the afternoon, Guo Zhengyang took a taxi to Qingyuan after watching a scene in a small district of Yanhe County. Although he was completely lost when he arrived at Qingyuan and didn't know where to go to investigate what he wanted to see, this problem was quickly solved by his keen sense of hearing and eavesdropping on passersby.

  At this moment, Qingyuan is filled with people searching for clues on every street and alley. More than half of them are not good people. As long as Guo Zhengyang is tens of meters away, listening to their conversations, he can roughly know where these people have been or where they plan to go.

  He then followed a few thugs at will and saw that all he saw were scenes of the Ge family's former victims being oppressed and bullied again.

  For example, this family, that Tingting or whatever her name is, was a high school classmate of He Mingguang's. In high school, she was forcibly humiliated by He Mingguang, and her family didn't accept it and reported him, but later they were forced to withdraw the case due to various pressures. Now, more than ten years have passed, that Tingting has also started her own family, but because of her past grudge with He Mingguang, her husband is a civil servant with some status, so people keep going to her workplace to cause trouble, and then her husband comes out to defend his wife and gets beaten up and hospitalized.

  The people who beat others were quickly caught, but new troublemakers kept emerging one after another.

  And Tingting, is just one of the targets being bullied by those thugs who are stimulated by He's family reward, besides her, in the whole Qingyuan city, there are dozens of such people or families.

  Although such a disturbance seems to make the whole city somewhat chaotic, there is a saying that goes like this: With a population of over 1 million people and dozens of families being targeted by the disturbance, in the entire city it's just a small ripple in the ocean, completely insignificant. Moreover, those who cause trouble are constantly being caught.

  So even if things are a bit messy now, they haven't reached the point of public outrage and can still be easily settled by the He family.

  Guo Zhengyang followed for several hours, heard too many discussions and gossip from the neighbors around the scene, also heard too much conversation between the troublemakers.

  At first, this kind of thing made him feel strange, but now it makes him kill with all his might.

  He is not a good person, but he has not fallen to the point where he lets a group of old, weak women and children help him pay off his debts.

  "Originally, killing He Mingguang alone would have been enough, but now it seems that a bigger bloodbath is needed to calm this chaotic situation." It was his responsibility, and Guo Zhengyang had never retreated or shirked from it.

  With steady steps, his mind was more determined than ever before.