[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-214":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","No Money, What Cultivation?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},164083,323,"Chapter 214: Interrogating Zhang Yu, Deities Clear the Scene","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-214",214,"\u003Cp>Watching Yue Jincheng leave, just as Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were feeling puzzled, the office door opened, and Gong Zhe walked in with another patrol team member.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, Gong Zhe's face had lost all trace of a smile as he said coldly, \"Regarding today's mutual assault case, I'm here to take your statements.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mutual assault?\" Zhang Yu said in response. \"How is it mutual assault? I told you he tried to steal my phone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gong Zhe said flatly, \"Isn't your phone in your own hand? I saw you use it to pay.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu said, \"That's because I stopped him before he could steal it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gong Zhe said coldly, \"Then how can you prove he was trying to steal your phone?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"According to the testimony of another passerby at the scene, you attacked him first, and he was forced to defend himself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu was momentarily taken aback. \"I attacked him?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well, check the surveillance footage. He reached into my pocket from behind first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gong Zhe flipped through the documents in his hand and said lightly, \"The surveillance camera at the scene was broken; it didn't capture that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Zhang Yu silent, Gong Zhe continued, \"So you have no evidence that he tried to steal something from you, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Have you been short on money lately?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Has your monthly exam score at school been slipping?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you feel like you've been unstable mentally recently?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing one highly suggestive question after another from Gong Zhe, Bai Zhenzhen couldn't help but say, \"What are you implying? That Zhang Yu struck first?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gong Zhe frowned and said, \"These are all normal routine inquiries.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As for whether you struck first or he struck first, it's not up to you to decide, and it's not up to him to decide. Everything is based on evidence and investigation results.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen said angrily, \"Then why did he get to leave while we're still stuck here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gong Zhe said matter-of-factly, \"He could afford bail and applied for a postponed review. Everything was legal and reasonable, so of course he could leave first. After we finish questioning you, you can leave too once you pay the bail.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen grew even angrier. \"We're the ones who reported the case. We still have to pay bail to get out?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gong Zhe said flatly, \"Reporting a case doesn't mean you haven't committed a crime.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen before him, Gong Zhe knew in his heart that this matter was far from just about bail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because soon after they had interrogated Yue Jincheng, the power of Wanxing Group had been unleashed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a wealthy and influential corporation that maintained an entire legal services team, its power far exceeded ordinary imagination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when that power was wielded against these two poor students, although Gong Zhe didn't know why the company was doing this, he could already see the outcome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially after he sensed that his superiors, subtly and not so subtly, had also expressed favor toward Wanxing Group, Gong Zhe completely changed his attitude, as if he had never spoken kindly to Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen just moments ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing both their statements, Gong Zhe left, leaving Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen alone in the office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen rubbed her stomach, growing angrier by the moment, and banged on the door, shouting, \"I need to use the bathroom!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no one paid any attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, Zhang Yu's phone vibrated. It turned out to be a message from Zhou Chechen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Chechen: The school is very dissatisfied with your involvement in a fight off campus. It has been decided to give you and Bai Zhenzhen a disciplinary punishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Chechen: Remember to apologize properly to the other party from now on, and don't bring shame to Songyang High School.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu read Zhou Chechen's message and narrowed his eyes. \"What does he mean?\" he thought to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A provocation?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, Yun Ni sent another message: What's going on? The higher-ups say you were in a fight and want to revoke your divine assistant status.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Zhenzhen read the messages on Zhang Yu's phone one by one and felt waves of pressure crashing down on her, like an invisible giant hand slowly closing in on them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, watching it all unfold, Fuji laughed heartily. \"Looks like the Zhou family made their move. This is good news.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They've twisted this into a mutual assault and are applying pressure everywhere, obviously trying to use this chance to mess with you—either to extort some money from you, or to get you detained so you can't go to school.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh heh, but no matter what, they don't know that you've added Deng Bingding as a friend, and they don't know that Deng Bingding has already started investigating the Zhou family.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The deeper the Zhou family gets involved in this affair, the greater the price they'll have to pay to extricate themselves.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were waiting patiently in the office of the Inspection Bureau.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yue Jincheng had already returned to the Security Department of Wanxing Group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Entering the director’s office, Yue Jincheng saw that besides the director, Si Zhouyu and another lawyer were also present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Security Director looked at him and said coldly, “Who told you to act on your own?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yue Jincheng: “I…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slap!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Security Director slapped Yue Jincheng across the face and said coldly, “If the company didn’t still need you right now, you would have been fired long ago.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The handprint on Yue Jincheng’s face burned with pain, but he didn’t dare touch his face. He could only bow and say, “I’m sorry, Director. Everything is my fault.” The Security Director said, “Give me your phone.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Yue Jincheng’s face twitched, a trace of fear flashing in his eyes, but in the end he handed over his phone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Security Director skillfully opened the company’s employee financial platform and said, “The bail this time was advanced by the company. Now use your own reserve funds to reimburse the company quickly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hurry up.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yue Jincheng gritted his teeth and, under the Security Director’s intimidating gaze, could only obediently follow the instructions and operate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Security Director then said, “Next, you will insist that Zhang Yu attacked you first, and then the two of you engaged in a mutual fight.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The company lawyer will guide you on the specific steps.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Remember, if you act on your own again, you won’t be able to find a job in Songyang City.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lawyer nearby said, “The specific method is very simple. When you get to the Inspection Bureau, just say this…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yue Jincheng listened to the other’s words and frowned, saying, “Just keep mediating with him? Keep entangling? Keep harassing him?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said in confusion, “Isn’t this clearly a good chance to mess with him? With the company’s power, making him unable to attend school from now on would be no problem.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No mistake, one head, one hair, one inside, one appearance, one at, one look!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We could completely threaten him to get the information the leadership wants…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Yue Jincheng had finished speaking, the Security Director kicked him in the stomach again. He let out a muffled groan and bent over like a boiled shrimp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Security Director said coldly, “Didn’t I just tell you? Don’t act on your own. Whatever the leadership tells you to do, do it. Whether you understand or not, you must carry it out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The company doesn’t need people like you at the execution level to have their own thoughts.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you understand?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yue Jincheng struggled to stand up, nodded, and said, “I understand.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Yue Jincheng was still full of confusion. He didn’t understand why, when dealing with poor high school students like Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, the company could clearly crush them with one foot, yet always insisted on letting them off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen are just two ants.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s certainly easy to step on and kill them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But to step on them while grinding back and forth without crushing them to death, forcing them to seek help from the ant nest—that takes real skill and control.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the hospital room on the 333rd floor of the Central Building, Zhou Yang looked at the cityscape outside and sighed inwardly, “The new employees nowadays are getting more and more impatient.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Zhou Yang wasn’t flustered. Having weathered many storms over the years, he had encountered subordinates making mistakes and errors far too many times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wouldn’t dwell on this mistake and complain about fate; he would only strive to adjust after the mistake and look for new opportunities within the given situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So after learning that Yue Jincheng had attacked Zhang Yu and was caught on the spot by the patrol team, Zhou Yang immediately acted, mobilizing his influence to start taking control of the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We can’t pretend nothing happened; that would certainly alert the evil god behind him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But we can’t just kill Zhang Yu outright and cut off the lead to the evil god.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yang thought to himself, “We still need to use Zhou Chechen’s name as a cover to handle things.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Disguise the whole matter as Zhou Chechen hiring people to set a trap against Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen out of revenge…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“At least on the level of Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, in their eyes, the whole incident should be controlled to the extent of Zhou Chechen carrying out bullying.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While thinking, he made phone calls. Relying on the Zhou family's foundation and the influence of the Wanxing Group, he quickly achieved his goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After doing all this, Zhou Yang let out a light breath and thought to himself, \"Next is to increase manpower and continue monitoring Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen through multiple channels.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No matter if they seek help from the evil god or sense something wrong and try to flee, we should be able to gain something.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But before that...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yang thought to himself, \"Since I've already done it, why not just have them detained for a few days, and arrange for people to teach them a lesson inside? Perhaps that will make them reveal more flaws?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if they are students taking the foundation-building exam, everything is reasonable and lawful. They can't blame me for that, can they?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Zhou Yang was weighing the extent of the matter, his phone suddenly vibrated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came wave after wave of frantic vibrations, message after message flooding the phone screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Divine Department has arrived! They are searching the group building!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chairman Zhou! The security department has been sealed and investigated by the righteous gods, and everyone has lost contact!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zhou Yang, what the hell is going on? Why is a sixth-rank righteous god coming to investigate you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uncle, a righteous god has descended on the mansion...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chairman Zhou, our funds have been frozen?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at these messages one after another, Zhou Yang was initially a bit dazed: \"Sixth-rank... righteous god? Coming to investigate me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But soon, seeing more and more messages surfacing, he felt as if layers of heavenly nets were descending upon him from all sides, tightening more and more, strangling his breath.\u003C\u002Fp>",1877,"2026-05-29T04:54:42.391Z","2026-06-01T04:29:12.818Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","0c7287f4e636e1cfea4d39d53516b54ab5cafd8346ff7454bf0be991000eafec","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-215","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-213",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]