Chapter 299: Ye Zhiyu Never Disappoints

Indeed, no politeness about it.

The three of them — Yu Dazhang included — even felt like they'd been chased out.

Just before stepping out, Yu Dazhang deliberately glanced at Ru Yao and Shu Rujia on the hospital bed.

He noticed both girls were staring at the photo on the wooden board, their expressions complicated — a mix of admiration, awe, and a touch of bewilderment.

They stepped out into the corridor.

Yu Dazhang stood before the door, held his breath and focused, listening carefully for any movement inside the ward.

"Fang Peng has been caught." That was the first thing Ye Zhiyu said to the girls.

Not a question — a statement of fact, delivered with certainty.

This time, none of them spoke.

"From now on you'll never see him again, so since there's no other way, I could only bring in a photo of him."

After saying that, Ye Zhiyu paused, as if observing the two girls' reactions.

A moment later, he continued:

"He was never your support, never your emotional anchor — he's a criminal, a criminal who imprisoned and hurt you!"

Ye Zhiyu's voice gradually lowered:

"But it doesn't matter, all of that is in the past now. You've broken free of him. You're free now."

"Jingle~" The sound of a bell rang out.

"Starting now, you must live for yourselves…"

The moment the bell rang, even Yu Dazhang standing outside the door felt a momentary daze.

Some things brook no questioning — hypnosis, for instance.

Do you think hypnosis has a certain deceptive quality to it?

That's right — it does.

Many people believe they won't be taken in, believe they're clever enough; the more they think so, the easier they fall for it.

In his previous life, Yu Dazhang once heard a senior from within the system say: scamming is the easiest thing of all — you don't need any Gao Zhishang at all.

Just strap your conscience to your waistband, and you're a qualified scammer.

You've heard the saying "a desperate patient grabs at any doctor," right?

Just those five characters — every year, countless people fall for it, and among them are no shortage of Gao Zhishang types.

Let me give the simplest example.

Nowadays, many oncologists post videos of themselves meeting with patients online.

Some doctors even post popular-science videos on how to prevent cancer.

It's in the comment sections of exactly these kinds of videos that copy always appears trying to steer people toward traditional Chinese medicine.

For example…

【My grandma had late-stage lung cancer, the hospital gave up on her, it was traditional Chinese medicine that gave her a second life】

【My second uncle had late-stage liver cancer, the doctor said he only had two months to live, but later we found an old TCM doctor who prescribed him a few doses of Chinese herbs — after drinking them, the tumor miraculously disappeared】

There's too much copy like this — if you're interested, go check the comment sections of the relevant videos yourself.

Under these kinds of comments, there's always someone asking: could you introduce that TCM doctor to me?

That's a shill.

The moment you ask along with them, someone will DM you, and kindly tell you where to go spend your money.

This is a bloodsucking business — in the Northeast they call it "leading the donkey."

Rest assured, people definitely fall for it, and not a few of them.

On top of that, deep in people's subconscious there's already that侥幸 mentality of "folk remedies cure serious illness," so many simply can't control themselves.

It's undeniable that there are definitely good TCM practitioners.

But a good TCM doctor would never go to short-video platforms to "lead the donkey."

The police have caught plenty of these scammers too, but they can't hand down heavy sentences.

First, the Chinese herbs they brew for patients neither cure nor harm — they fall squarely into the completely useless category.

So they can only be convicted of fraud, but not of causing harm.

Second, very few people actively report it.

Out of a thousand people scammed, it's good if one or two file a report.

Because cancer patients and their families approach treatment with the mindset of "treating a dead horse as if it were alive" to begin with, so even when it doesn't work, they don't blame anyone.

Low risk, high profit, and even if caught, no heavy sentence.

The only downside is that competition in this line of work is getting fiercer — more and more people are doing it, and there are even同行 reporting each other.

Think phone scams are particularly stupid too?

So do you know how much money gets lost to phone scams every year?

You can tell from the intensity of the anti-fraud crackdown… an astronomical figure.

Twenty minutes later.

As the bell rang again, crying suddenly broke out inside the room.

At first only one girl was crying, but before ten seconds had passed, the other started crying too — and the sobs only grew louder.

Yu Dazhang pushed the door open and went in.

He saw Ye Zhiyu standing by the hospital bed, one hand steadying that meter-tall photo, facing Ru Yao and Shu Rujia.

The two girls on the bed had curled themselves up, not daring to look at that photo.

The earlier admiration and awe had vanished — their only reaction now was fear.

Yu Dazhang nodded in satisfaction.

That's the right reaction.

At least it shows they've walked out of that ridiculous faith.

"I've done my best." Ye Zhiyu looked a little weary:

"A full recovery isn't possible in the short term — they'll still need long-term psychological treatment."

"If conditions allow, contact their families as soon as possible. With family by their side, they'll recover faster too."

The detachment contacted their families yesterday.

Since both of them are from out of town, and their families aren't well off, their relatives still haven't made it to the hospital.

"Can they communicate normally now?" What Yu Dazhang was more concerned about at the moment was this question.

For now, only by getting the victims' statements can this case be thoroughly pinned down.

"Not today." Ye Zhiyu shook her head:

"My opinion is to let them take it slow. Look at their state right now — they don't even dare look at Fang Peng's photo. We should at least wait until their mental state stabilizes before conducting the interrogation."

It really was a bit too hasty… Yu Dazhang felt Ye Zhiyu was absolutely right.

Even if they forced the questioning now, they wouldn't get anything out of them.

Yu Dazhang glanced again at the photo Ye Zhiyu was holding and noticed several footprints on it.

"What are you doing?" he asked, pointing at the photo.

"This, ah…" Ye Zhiyu smiled:

"Since we're going to destroy the god in their hearts, naturally we have to do some things that desecrate the divine."

"I put Fang Peng's photo on the ground and stomped on it a few times in front of them. I had originally planned to tear it up at the end, but now it looks like that won't be necessary."

You really aren't afraid of someone suing you for infringing portrait rights, huh… Yu Dazhang looked at him and shook his head helplessly.

The next day.

Ru Yao and Shu Rujia's mental states had eased considerably.

Their families arrived in Songhai last night, and Yu Dazhang drove to pick them up and take them to the hospital.

The interrogation was still carried out by Liu Miao. Although they were still afraid whenever Fang Peng was mentioned, they were far better than yesterday.

Faced with Liu Miao's questions, the two of them could also answer in an orderly fashion.

The interrogation lasted from 9 a. m. until 11 a. m.

Throughout the full two hours of conversation, Ru Yao and Shu Rujia only mentioned Fang Peng and Zhang Xinyue.

From this alone, one could tell Fang Peng had no accomplice — everything was done by him alone.

Something's off…

Yu Dazhang always felt this case wasn't that simple.

Starting from the excavation of the basement, he'd felt something wasn't quite right about the whole thing.

Fang Peng was a bit too professional.

(End of chapter)