pertwk Chapter 57 Your feng shui is fine, but your fate is problematic.
Chapter 57 Your feng shui is fine, but your fate is problematic.
All the lights in the banquet hall were turned off.
Only the screens glowed with a ghostly blue light, like giant, open eyes looking down upon the ants in the darkness.
The badge, composed of a gavel and scales, carried an otherworldly majesty, weighing heavily on everyone's heart.
"Security guards, where have all the security guards gone?"
Zhou Fusheng was the first to react on stage, his voice trembling with shock and anger.
"Throw these two troublemakers out of here, now."
A commotion broke out in the darkness as several security guards, wielding their cell phone flashlights, boldly approached Chu Jiang and V at the entrance.
"Mr. Zhou, please calm down."
A steady voice rang out from beside Zhou Fusheng.
An elderly man dressed in a custom-made Tang suit and holding a string of sandalwood prayer beads slowly stepped forward.
He was none other than Chen Banxian, the feng shui master whom Zhou Fusheng had hired from Hong Kong Island at great expense, known as "Iron-Mouthed Master".
Chen Banxian squinted, sizing up Chu Jiang, who stood calmly at the door, while his fingers flew across the room, calculating rapidly.
"Mr. Zhou, there's no need to panic."
His voice wasn't loud, but it carried clearly throughout the quiet banquet hall.
"They were just two ignorant and arrogant youngsters who offended the aura of this place."
He took two steps forward, his sharp gaze fixed on Chu Jiang.
"Young man, I see a dark aura around your face, and an unyielding, malevolent energy surrounds you. What unclean place did you come from?"
"Tonight, this place is filled with distinguished guests, and its auspicious energy is strong. You've brought in this bad luck; are you trying to harm yourself and others?"
His words were so powerful that the surrounding guests changed their gaze towards Chu Jiang and instinctively stepped back.
Lin Fan stood behind Chu Jiang, his face turning pale with fright.
He tugged at Chu Jiang's sleeve, his voice trembling.
"Chu Jiang, why don't we leave first? There are too many of them."
Chu Jiang patted his hand to reassure him.
He didn't even glance at the approaching security guards, but instead observed Chen Banxian with great interest.
"The master is quite professional."
Chu Jiang took a sip of the milk tea in his hand and slowly spoke.
"How many years have you practiced this sales pitch?"
Chen Banxian's face darkened.
"Insolence! I saw your life was nearing its end and kindly offered you a word of guidance, yet you dare to spout such arrogant words!"
"Give me pointers?"
Chu Jiang smiled.
He shook the milk tea cup in his hand.
"Then let me give you some pointers."
"The insole you're wearing on your left foot, you bought it on Pinduoduo's 10 Billion Subsidy program the night before last, right? The logistics information shows it was made in Yiwu, and it has a rating of 4.3."
"The agarwood prayer beads in your hand are actually made of compressed wood chips soaked in chemical fragrance. The formaldehyde content is seriously excessive. Wearing them for a long time can easily cause dizziness and hair loss."
"And the divination software you used for your finger calculations just now—I just glanced at the backend data, and it's just a random number generator."
With each word Chu Jiang spoke, Chen Banxian's face paled a little more.
By the end, cold sweat had broken out on Chen Banxian's forehead, and he could barely hold onto the prayer beads in his hands.
The surrounding guests were in an uproar.
"Master, is this... real?"
"He spoke as if it were the truth; I also smelled that fragrance was a bit overpowering just now."
Chen Banxian was both surprised and furious.
These are his most private matters. How could this young man know them all so clearly?
"Spreading rumors and misleading the public!"
Enraged, Chen Banxian pulled out a yellow talisman paper with cinnabar runes drawn on it from his pocket.
"Boy, since you've chosen your own death, don't blame me for acting on behalf of Heaven!"
He tossed the talisman into the air while chanting incantations.
"Heavenly thunder and fire, accompanied by earthly fiery forces, by imperial decree!"
The talisman instantly burst into a blinding burst of fire, transforming into a fire serpent as thick as a forearm, roaring as it lunged towards Chu Jiang with a scorching wave of heat.
"what!"
Lin Fan was so frightened that he closed his eyes.
V silently raised the tablet in his hand, preparing to activate the "physical persuasion" mode.
Chu Jiang didn't even change his posture.
He merely raised his eyelids, looked at the rapidly approaching fire serpent, and coldly uttered two words.
"Violation of regulations".
The moment the words fell.
The menacing fire serpent seemed to have been paused, frozen in mid-air.
Then, like a light bulb that had lost power, the flame went out with a "poof".
The ashes of the talisman paper floated lightly to the ground.
The entire room fell silent.
Master Chen's mouth gaped open wide enough to fit an egg, and his expression froze.
His unique secret technique, the "Fire Serpent Talisman," just like that... disappeared?
Didn't you hear a sound at all?
Open flames are prohibited in public places.
Chu Jiang's voice rang out again, calm yet carrying an unquestionable command.
"Furthermore, your actions just now are suspected of endangering public safety."
He raised his hand and gently shook hands with Chen Banxian.
"According to Article 12 of Chapter 3 of the 'Regulations on the Management of Public Order in the Underworld,' the tools used in the crime shall be confiscated and the offender shall be detained."
Suddenly, Chen Banxian felt an irresistible force squeezing in from all directions.
He was horrified to discover that the magical power within his body was as if it were being tightly gripped by an invisible hand, and he couldn't use even a fraction of it.
"Who...who exactly are you...?"
Before he could finish speaking, his expensive custom-made Tang suit suddenly shattered into pieces with a "rip".
The jade pendant he was wearing around his neck shattered instantly.
Immediately afterwards, he was hit as if by a speeding truck, his feet left the ground, and he flew backward.
"Bang!"
A loud bang.
Chen Banxian was slammed against the wall of the banquet hall, leaving a clear human-shaped dent.
He hung there like a three-dimensional painting, his limbs twitching, foaming at the mouth, and he completely fainted.
The security guards who were about to step forward collapsed to the ground when they saw this.
The entire banquet hall fell silent, not even the sound of breathing could be heard.
Everyone stared at the young man who was still leisurely drinking his milk tea as if he were a monster.
Chu Jiang ignored these stares.
He strode through the terrified crowd and walked straight to the head table in the banquet hall.
On the stage, Zhou Fusheng's face had completely lost all color.
He looked at the human-shaped pit on the wall, then at Chu Jiang who was approaching step by step, and his legs began to tremble uncontrollably.
"You...you stay away!"
Zhou Fusheng roared, his voice sharp but his tone weak.
"I'm warning you, this is a society governed by the rule of law. If you dare to act recklessly, I... I'll call the police."
"Call the police?"
Chu Jiang stopped, looked up at him, and smiled.
"Mr. Zhou, it seems you've made a mistake."
"Now, I am the law."
He snapped his fingers.
"V, here's the job."
From the shadows behind him, V responded excitedly.
"Roger that, boss!"
The images on all the screens in the banquet hall switched again.
[Recorded in the Clouds of the Underworld]
[Data extraction in progress... Target person: Zhou Fusheng]
[Causal chain tracing complete... Encrypted image unlocked.]
The next second, a high-definition surveillance video appeared on the screen.
The video was filmed in the office of a company's project department.
In the video, a young man named Zhou Fusheng is furtively replacing a project code with a version that contains a fatal vulnerability.
Then, he placed the problematic code on a workstation.
The nameplate at each workstation clearly displays two characters.
——Chu Jiang.
The screen then changes.
It is the company's senior management meeting room.
Zhou Fusheng was pointing at a young man with tears streaming down his face, making a heart-wrenching accusation.
"Chairman, it's him! Chu Jiang, in his rush to meet deadlines, used faulty code, causing our entire project to crash and resulting in huge losses for the company!"
The young man being pointed at in the video was speechless and his face turned pale.
That face bore a striking resemblance to Chu Jiang's current one, yet it was filled with the weariness and confusion of a typical office worker.
Lin Fan stared at the screen, his fists clenched instantly, and his eyes turned red.
He was all too familiar with this footage.
Back then, because of this incident, Chu Jiang was fired from the company, burdened with huge compensation, and his life plummeted to rock bottom.
However, Zhou Fusheng, the instigator, rose through the ranks by stepping on Chu Jiang.
On stage, Zhou Fusheng looked at himself on the screen, his mind went blank with a "buzz".
How...how is this possible?
This is surveillance footage from over ten years ago; he destroyed it long ago. How could it be...?
"Don't rush, Mr. Zhou, this is just the beginning."
Chu Jiang's voice echoed softly.
"You have many more glorious deeds to your name."
The image on the screen changed again.
This time, it was the finance office.
The young Zhou Fusheng is using his position to transfer funds belonging to employees' housing provident funds and pensions to an anonymous overseas account.
Every transfer record, including the amount, time, and account number, is clearly displayed on the screen, with the corresponding employee's name marked in red next to it.
One of the names was none other than Lin Fan.
The guests in the audience were in an uproar.
"Holy crap! Isn't this embezzlement?"
"That's not all! They've swallowed up their employees' retirement savings! It's outrageous!"
"Zhou Fusheng, you beast!"
As Zhou Fusheng listened to the curses from the audience and looked at the irrefutable evidence on the screen, he felt dizzy and disoriented.
He's finished.
Everything he had painstakingly built collapsed at that moment.
"Are you moved, Mr. Zhou?"
Chu Jiang whispered in his ear.
"I specifically turned on Blu-ray high definition so you could see it clearly."
Oh, right, I forgot to tell you.
Chu Jiang took out his Soul-Nourishing Wood phone and waved it at the screen.
"Your glorious deeds are now being broadcast live simultaneously across all platforms of the 'Three Paths Fast Crossing' app."
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