Chapter Seventy: Beating a Dog When It's Drowning

"How do you know the treasure map is on Gu Zuozuo, the daughter of the Gu family?"

Gu Shang laughed out loud, his toothless mouth spitting saliva everywhere as he spoke, making Gu Zuozuo so disgusted that she took several steps back, afraid that she would be sprayed all over her face.

"I don't know, I'm just guessing. The Gu family dotes on this daughter. Even before Gu Tingye disappeared, they didn't forget to make arrangements for their daughter."

"But what he didn't expect was that both the people he entrusted and the people arranged by higher-ups were people who had been watching the Gu family all along! Apart from the Meng and Liu families, no one was protecting her!"

"And the Gu family only has this one daughter in this generation. All the adults in the Gu family have passed away, leaving her all alone!"

"So she definitely knew the clue to the hidden treasure! I just didn't expect the clue to be a treasure map, and she stupidly put it in the box! Just like her father, so stupid it's laughable!"

Gu Zuozuo's face darkened, and she almost lashed out with another vine.

You're the stupid one! Your whole family is stupid!

"What about the other branches of the Gu family?"

As far as she knew, her great-grandfather had two brothers from the same mother, and her grandfather also had a brother.

By her father's generation, only he and his uncle were missing. Oh, it's said that her father is dead, and he has his martyr's certificate in his own hands. So, only her uncle is missing.

The man lying on the ground in front of her was the son of her grandfather's brother, and she had to call him her cousin.

Pah!

A greedy and shameless person who is ignorant and arrogant, with ambitions far exceeding his abilities, would never be allowed to call her "uncle," not even if he were reincarnated!

Gu Shang chuckled smugly, his face, swollen from being whipped by vines, radiating the arrogance of a petty person who had achieved his goal.

"The Gu family can only be mine! They all deserve to die!"

Gu Zuozuo fell silent, understanding his meaning. It seemed the remaining branches of the family hadn't met a good end; this man was truly ruthless.

"You have collaborations with the Japanese? Who is their leader? Do you know who their downlines are?"

Upon hearing this, a sliver of clarity returned to Gu Shang's eyes. He struggled for a moment, his eyes flickering several times before falling silent again. True to Gu Zuozuo's expectations, he uttered a string of names, including several people she recognized.

Although the Gu family did not live in the government compound, their courtyard was right next to it. Because of Meng Tian and Qi Meng, she often went to the neighboring compound to play, and naturally got to know many people there.

Clutching the long list in his hand, Gu Zuozuo's eyes were deep and intense, burning with a fierce, scorching heat.

[Host, why do they want to become spies and traitors despised by everyone? Don't they know that once they are discovered and exposed, their descendants will be shamed and unable to hold their heads high?]

It's a system; it knows to cherish its own star field and protect the life within it. Why don't the humans here know that?

"Ha, of course they know, they're just taking a chance, thinking that as long as they hide well, no one will find out."

"It's only been a few years since the war, and these people are already living off the public purse while acting like traitors. They always act so high and mighty, but it turns out they're all capable of this. I really didn't know."

Everyone who betrays their country and nation has their own reasons.

Many are motivated by personal gain—money or power; some by ideals; others by revenge; and still others by their inability to resist the temptations right before their eyes.

The system crashed for a moment, and then an alarm sounded.

[Host! Run! Xie Jinyu, the manure collector, is surrounding us with his soldiers!]

Gu Zuozuo wasn't in a hurry; she immediately started punching and kicking Gu Shang on the ground.

Snap... My arm broke.

Snap... My leg broke.

Thump... My coccyx is fractured.

With a final tap of his toes, Gu Shang, who had already fainted, let out a muffled groan, his legs clenched in cold sweat as he cried out in pain.

"Oops, I kicked the wrong spot."

He apologized, but didn't hesitate at all, crippling his hands and feet.

[Host, hurry! They've discovered the people you tied up and hung up.]