Chapter 21: Beast!

Ye Chen thought to himself and looked at Lin Ruoxi.

"Mom, I want to play with the tablet."

Lin Ruoxi, after hearing Ye Chen's words, lightly nodded and said, "Go ahead, don't play once we start eating; eating is important."

"Yeah, okay!"

Ye Chen said that, then took the tablet from beside him and went back to his room.

After returning to his room, he searched in the search box for "drunk man beats his biological daughter to death".

Instantly after the search finished, hundreds of incidents appeared on the screen.

Ye Chen looked at these incidents, eliminating them one by one.

"I remember Bai Lingling saying that her mother once brought her to flee that home, but it failed; moreover, it was to protect her mother that her biological father beat her to death. If that's the case, we need to add more detail."

So Ye Chen changed the search to "little girl beaten to death by her drunk father while protecting her mother."

After Ye Chen changed the search query, the results became much fewer, and many of them were about that incident from years ago.

Ye Chen clicked the first search result; upon opening it, an image appeared, though it was censored, but this didn't stump Ye Chen—he snapped his fingers lightly and the picture restored to its original state.

The photo was shocking: a girl lay atop a female corpse, the girl's body covered in bruises, and the corpse wasn't in good shape either.

Her body not only had bruises but also many depressions; from the outside it looked like many bones were broken.

Seeing this, Ye Chen couldn't help but curse loudly.

"Holy shit, this is basically a beast!"

After cursing, Ye Chen forcibly suppressed his anger and continued reading.

Three minutes later, Ye Chen also roughly understood the whole course of events.

In short, Bai Lingling's father was addicted to alcohol and gambling, had squandered the family fortune, and after losing heavily that day, he drank with a few drinking buddies; his anger and frustration had nowhere to go, so when he returned home and found Bai Lingling and her mother absent, he became even more furious.

So he went out to look for their whereabouts; after finding them, he used the pretext of a family dispute to drive away the kind people nearby who were helping Bai Lingling and her mother.

Bai Lingling and her mother were forcibly taken home by him; after returning home, Bai Lingling's father—Bai Chi—began to beat them both.

Because Bai Chi had been drinking, he struck without restraint, and no one knew exactly when he killed Bai Lingling's mother.

Seeing her mother being beaten, Bai Lingling rushed forward and threw herself onto her mother; Bai Chi had already been drinking and was already worked up, so when Bai Lingling lunged at her mother, he hesitated not and smashed his fist down.

Bai Lingling was just a six‑year‑old child; how could she withstand a grown man's punch? After Bai Chi's fist struck, she also died on the spot.

After the fact, Bai Chi sobered up from fright, ignored everything, and fled the scene; when their corpses were discovered, they had already begun to rot and stink.

"Good, damn good! Even King Yama won't take you—I will!"

After finishing reading, Ye Chen felt his chest about to explode with rage.

Scum exists everywhere, but this kind of beast truly doesn't deserve to live.

Ye Chen also learned from this report that Bai Chi had not died.

Because Bai Chi had obtained a "mental illness certificate" for himself, he escaped the death penalty.

He needed Bai Chi's information and his current residence, but he had none of that.

"Learn hacking skills!"

This might require a lot of time and effort, but for him it's no problem.

He couldn't just directly ask where Bai Chi is now, because for ordinary people that's confidential information.

"Say it, do it!"

Just as Ye Chen was preparing to start learning from scratch, Lin Ruoxi's voice suddenly came from outside the door.

"Xiao Chen, come out to eat."

Ye Chen, upon hearing Lin Ruoxi's words, hurriedly replied, "Okay, Mom knows."

He said that and walked out of the room.

Ye Chen ate dinner quickly, then took the tablet back to his room after finishing.

He had previously wanted to go to the place where Bai Lingling died to seek the karma thread, but given his current strength, tracing the karma thread would be too much for him; moreover, the place where Bai Lingling had her accident is far from here, so all things considered, that idea is unrealistic.

After returning to his room, Ye Chen began self‑studying hacking techniques.

First step: open the all‑purpose little broken site and start from the most basic.

For beginners the hardest part is merely remembering the relevant material, but for Ye Chen, who possesses divine sense, it's no trouble at all.

In just half an hour he had the relevant basics down pat.

"It's now six thirty; I plan to sleep at nine, learn as much as I can."

Thinking of this, Ye Chen felt quite helpless.

Being a child makes things very inconvenient for him; if he were an adult, it wouldn't be so troublesome—he could just ask directly.

But helpless as he is, he still must continue learning; he has promised Bai Lingling, and he is not someone who goes back on his word—following through is his principle.

Thus he threw himself into a new round of study.

Such intense study lasted until nine o'clock, and during that period Lin Ruoxi and Ye Nan did not disturb him; according to them, even a child should have his own private space.

At nine, Ye Chen voluntarily returned the tablet, then washed up and went back to his room to sleep.

After returning to his room, Ye Chen wore a listless expression.

"A master leads you to the door, but cultivation depends on the individual; I don't even have a master, so learning bit by bit drains my mental energy, yet the gains are also huge."

Ye Chen thought to himself.

Although it's now bedtime, for Ye Chen sleeping is impossible; since he embarked on the path of cultivation, sleep is just a waste of time.

After a night of cultivation, Ye Chen's strength improved a bit more.

At dawn, Ye Chen opened his eyes and slowly exhaled a mouthful of impure air.

"In another two or three days, I should be able to break through again."

He thought that as he left the room, quickly washed up and ate.

Regarding this, Lin Ruoxi and Ye Nan were very reassured about Ye Chen, because Ye Chen was very sensible; eating and washing up basically didn't require them to worry.

While other children still needed their parents' help to wash up, Ye Chen could already do these things by himself.

"Old man, why are you eating slower than me? Hurry up, I still need to go buy a lollipop."

"Right away, right away."

Ye Nan was eating a steamed bun, speaking indistinctly.

But after Ye Chen finished speaking, his speed indeed increased considerably.

In the end, he still had an unfinished steamed bun in his mouth, pulling Ye Chen downstairs.

On the way, he asked Ye Chen what he was buying the lollipop for.

Ye Chen answered truthfully, it was to buy an apology gift for An Yu.