dognovel Chapter 84 The shocking giant melon
Chapter 84 The shocking giant melon
Lin Fan looked at Doctor Lei, who was half-dead with fright, with surprise. "Doctor, you're the one who gave me the Invisibility Cloth. Why are you so surprised?"
"What do you mean 'given to you'? This is a loan."
Lin Fan smiled and stuffed the invisibility cloth into his pocket. He really didn't want to return something so useful.
Dr. Lei didn't seem to mind. "My dear brother," he said, "you know how easily people can be frightened when they are extremely tired and feel guilty."
Lin Fan sat down and poured himself a cup of tea. "Doctor, what are you feeling guilty about?"
The two of them took turns telling each other what they had seen, and then they realized that what they knew together was a huge bombshell.
"So you mean the second concubine is pregnant with Niu Dadan's child. Wait, isn't it the third concubine?" Lin Fan quickly took a sip of tea to calm his nerves.
Dr. Lei, no longer sleepy, continued, "This second concubine isn't stupid. Calling herself a doctor would arouse suspicion, wouldn't it? And you know what? If the husband is impotent, the wives and concubines will get along. It's not that the wealthy man Lin is impotent, he's just not interested in women. But it's the same, so the concubines naturally stick together. The third concubine covered for her."
Lin Fan was still a bit confused. After all, his experience in this kind of thing was far inferior to that of a doctor. "This doesn't necessarily mean the child is Niu Dadan. Doctor, can you do DNA testing just by taking his pulse?"
"Why would we need a DNA test? Second Concubine not only asked me to check if she was pregnant, but also asked me to prepare abortifacients for her. It's said that Master Lin never sleeps with his concubines, so there's no way this child could be his. He's not interested in women, and he's not a fool willing to be cuckolded. This Niu Dadan (Brave Bull) really lived up to his name; he's got real guts. Master Lin is not someone to mess with. If he finds out, Niu Dadan will be in big trouble."
The two sighed and lamented for a while before Lin Fan remembered the important matter, "But this matter doesn't seem to have anything to do with finding the entrance."
Although the melon was sweet, it didn't fill you up. Niu Dadan's affair with his second wife had absolutely nothing to do with finding a way to enter the body.
Dr. Lei nodded, his expression becoming serious. "Compared to this matter, we should actually pay more attention to that 'lights-out factory' you mentioned. This doesn't seem like something that Daqian should have."
Lin Fan wasn't surprised that anything could happen in this godforsaken place, Daqian, but since the locals all said so, he had no choice but to agree. "What does the doctor think?"
"I just have a guess, maybe this is some kind of modern technology. Niu Dadan has access to a portal and brought modern technology here. He partnered with Lin the Rich to set up an unmanned weaving factory here. Lin the Rich's family started out raising silkworms and weaving cloth, and when they heard that they didn't need to hire workers, they agreed. This had to be done secretly, so Lin the Rich built the weaving factory in his old family home and even sent his second concubine to supervise the construction. As a result, the supervisor developed feelings for him, and Niu Dadan and the second concubine started an affair. The second concubine initially refused..."
"Stop, stop." Lin Fan quickly called out, "Doctor, there's no need to continue with the speculation. Let's not go back to that."
Lin Fan stroked his chin. What Dr. Lei said seemed to make sense, but he still felt it was unreliable, and it was all speculation, lacking enough evidence. However, there were no other leads at the moment, so no matter what the probability was, it was always better to investigate like this.
"Doctor, there's no need to guess. We'll just find an opportunity to ask Niu Dadan directly. We were afraid he wouldn't talk before, so why should we be afraid he won't talk now?" Lin Fan's lips curled into a sinister smile.
Dr. Lei suddenly realized, "That's right! We have so much dirt on Niu Dadan. If he doesn't cooperate with us, we can just go and complain to Lin the Rich, and he'll be finished. Haha, hahaha."
Seeing that dawn was approaching, Dr. Lei decided not to sleep and continued chatting with Lin Fan. "Oh, right, my dear brother, I found out about what you asked me about the other day. Ah, that Liu Feng is really something else. The search and arrest operation a few days ago was also targeting him. I don't remember the exact wording of the manifesto, but I'll give you a rough outline."
It is said that Liu Feng was from Nanyue, and that he cursed and killed 131 members of the Ma family, as well as the Taoist priest Wanshou who tried to stop him. Disguised as a prison guard, he killed 96 members of the Feng family in jail, along with seven prison guards and five constables. As he escaped, he continued to curse, accusing the Feng and Ma families of buying low and selling high, hoarding goods, and selling him a pancake for ten times the market price. He killed them as a warning to others.
Dr. Lei finished speaking in one breath, picked up the teapot, and took a sip.
Lin Fan clenched his fists. Not only had he pinned all the blame on himself, but he had also avoided pointing out the real crimes of the Feng and Ma families, portraying himself as a petty and calculating person. How could they possibly come up with a reason to kill someone over a pancake?
Doctor Lei continued, "Afterwards, in order to escape capture, Liu Feng killed four yamen runners, two monks from Tanjie Temple, and even beheaded the registrar of Baishi County who advised him to repent. He also cut the nun from Linglong Temple who came to seek justice for her master in two with a single, vertical cut, as if a demon had descended to earth. Dean Duanmu of Shenmu Academy was killed because he was resented for not reminding him when he bought pancakes. Thus, this man not only killed indiscriminately, but also slaughtered everyone in the court and even members of the three religions. The county government said he was the most notorious bloodthirsty butcher since the founding of the Great Qian Dynasty."
Lin Fan was stunned for a moment, "He really killed so many people?"
Doctor Lei nodded. "It's probably true that all these people are dead. Otherwise, if the county government says they're dead now, and then they reappear in a few days, wouldn't that be a ghost story? Especially that Taoist nun, she died right in front of the county government office, her body split vertically in two. Many people saw it."
Lin Fan clenched his fist silently, realizing he had been deceived after all.
Dr. Lei didn't notice anything wrong with Lin Fan. "Adding the thirteen people he killed on the road, that makes a total of two hundred and sixty-two. It's said that he has surpassed the infamous 'killing genius' Tang Boqian. He's sure to be infamous for eternity."
Lin Fan trembled slightly, his voice shaking as he said, "Alright, I was just asking who the government is looking for. It's none of my business. Let's go, we should focus on finding the entrance."
Lin Fan now felt a desire to escape. He didn't want to think about what had happened before; he just wanted to find the 'entrance' to quickly return to the present world and forget everything here.
Doctor Lei, thinking Lin Fan was afraid, comforted him, "Hey, my good brother, you don't need to worry. I think most of this story is made up. There's no such thing as a vicious person in the world. The official document from the government office is very detailed, but it can't be trusted. Just take this story of a pancake killing hundreds of people with a grain of salt."
"Oh." Lin Fan's eyes were bloodshot as he gritted his teeth to calm himself. "Does the doctor think that since it's fake, is there any possibility of Liu Feng being exonerated?"
Doctor Lei shook his head. "How could that be? The imperial court has already issued a proclamation. It's impossible for them to admit they made a mistake. This has never happened before since the founding of the Great Qian Dynasty."
Lin Fan didn't use the Soul-Suppressing Pearl; he calmed himself down on his own. Just as he was about to go out, someone rushed in from outside.
"Dr. Lei, I've made an important discovery. That Niu Dadan is a very suspicious person. He might be the one who hid the elixir you're looking for, which is why we haven't been able to find it."