Chapter 90
The system prompts Chu Hua: [What kind of missing person is least likely to attract attention?]
Chu Huan thought about it briefly and a host of scenarios came to mind: [Single, living in a remote area, without family, poor relationships with neighbors, bad personalities and behavior, disappearance or death is actually a great relief.]
"But didn't you say Wang Lin targeted those who were alone or came home late? This should be random, right?"
System: [Wang Lin is a gambler. He'll take risks for the money, but if possible, he'll always try to extricate himself. So, he's already selected his target, waiting until they're alone or coming home late when no one's looking.]
Chu Huan: “…”
She suspected that the system had deliberately misled her before, and she had evidence.
However, this minor detail is harmless, so there's no need to pursue it further: [So, there are more than one or two perpetrators in this serial murder case.]
Su Shou gouged out eyes for experiments, resulting in multiple deaths. Wang Lin abducted civilians, dug pits to bury bodies, and concealed evidence. Yang Si dug pits to bury bodies, decapitated the deceased, and dumped the bodies in the street, causing panic. The facts of these three people's crimes are undisputed.
[Xu San...if he hadn't intended to replace Xu Tao's eyes, there wouldn't have been a subsequent serial killing. However, he only played a causal role in this incident and didn't kill anyone, so the laws of Dasheng cannot punish him.]
The same goes for Su Shou. He stole the old doctor's notes and medical diary, which indirectly led to the old doctor's death from anger. However, there was no evidence, so at most, Su Shou could only be condemned on a moral level.
The system's melons cannot be used as a basis for the Jinyiwei and Shuntianfu to arrest people. Without sufficient witnesses and physical evidence, the person will change his or her confession in court during the arrest and cannot be dealt with according to the law.
Everyone felt it was a pity, but there was nothing they could do.
Intellectually, we know that Xu San just wants Xu Tao to see the light again, and it can be said that he is a loyal guard, but the origin of this serial murder case lies with Xu San.
Over the past four months, there have been at least dozens of victims, including the headless corpse thrown out by Yang Si and the beggars buried in the mass grave. Their sins are so serious that it is emotionally difficult to forgive them.
The fifth prince took two bites of the cake angrily. He had to find a chance to ask the Minister of Justice or the Governor of Shuntian Prefecture. If the whole world was full of criminals who committed crimes unintentionally or were cunning criminals, the people would be in constant fear and the Great Sheng would never have peace!
Just as everyone was still struggling between reason and emotion, Chu Hua suddenly said, "Xu San, is there anything else?"
System: [Hmm?]
Everyone looked up: Huh?
Chu Hua: [If he has committed other crimes, we can use the corresponding reasons to arrest him and let him face legal trial.]
What is a blind spot? This is it!
There is no need to convict Xu San on this unfounded charge.
Many people's minds have become more active. Yes, we should not be so rigid and should be flexible.
The system suddenly became excited: [Wait a moment, I'll take a look.]
During this period, Chu Huan went to the toilet to eat the melon and satisfy her physiological needs.
As soon as she moved, the others followed her to the bathroom to eat and drink. They didn't know how much melons there would be tonight, and they couldn't bear it if they could only go in and not out.
When the system checked the message and came back, it saw people in the yard rushing back and forth. Some of them even ran to the fifth prince's yard next door to use the toilet because they didn't want to queue.
A little further away, Chu Ping and the Embroidered Uniform Guards were also busy in the same way.
system:【……】
You guys are really working hard to eat melons, making this great melon-eating system feel ashamed.
Now that it has come to this, it would be a bad idea to start rashly and ruin everyone's efforts.
The system switched to a private chat channel: [Sister Huan, you humans really love to eat melons.]
Chu Huan:?
I don't agree with what you said.
[You are called the melon-eating system. Shouldn't you be the one who loves eating melons the most? ]
system:【……】
Chu Huan fired back: "If we don't like eating melons and don't produce melons, where will your melons come from? You must turn off your phone the moment you land in Dasheng."
system:【! ! ! 】
It really likes to follow Chu Huan around, eating melons, doing exercises, and calculating other people's lives, but it doesn't want to shut down and hibernate due to lack of melons. That would be so much less fun!
The system took a step back: [Yes, I don't produce melons, I'm just a melon carrier. Thank you to the humans who diligently produce melons, adding countless fun to my spare time!]
Xiao Shatong has a strong desire to survive.
Chu Huan smiled secretly, seeing that the time was almost right: [Let's begin.]
The system quickly switched to group chat mode: [Sister Huan, I'm back!]
They were either tidying their clothes or holding teacups, looking very leisurely, and it was impossible to tell their true identities hidden under their gorgeous clothes - badger in the melon field.
Chu Hua: [Looks like there's something fishy going on.]
System: [Yes, it's a much bigger melon than you can imagine.]
[At first, I thought the idea of replacing eyes was just something Xu San came up with on the spur of the moment, since the system can't detect other people's thoughts. The melon mentioned earlier was just a passing mention. But when I actually looked into Xu San, I discovered he was actually from the Southern Barbarians.]
Everyone: ???
Everyone:!!!
What do you call this? I thought I had caught a little ghost, but I didn’t expect to catch the ghost king by following the clues.
The system angrily rebuked: "Bah, what a profiteer, the system! He insisted on selling the melons separately. If they had been mixed together, how could I have misunderstood? This profiteer is just trying to deduct my melon energy by any means possible!"
Everyone felt a little guilty, as they knew too well why the system's melons were spent so quickly - the amount of melons spent would be different if the melons were shared with one person and a group of people.
The overall system took the blame for them, cough cough.
The system's anger comes and goes quickly, mainly because no matter how unscrupulous the main system is, it can't do anything about it. At most, it can vent a little.
Why did Xu San think of replacing his eyes? Because a witch doctor in the Nanman area had successfully replaced someone's eyes.
Chu Huan was stunned and stammered: [T-This is even possible?] She was so shocked that her voice almost broke.
If she hadn't bitten her tongue in time, she would have blurted out, "Could this witch doctor be a modern doctor who came here with a hospital or some golden finger?"
In ancient times, an eye replacement surgery was performed successfully, which completely exceeded her common sense.
How is this any different from the stormy night when someone performed a cesarean section on a pregnant woman in a dilapidated temple using only a dagger and needle and thread, and ultimately the mother and child were safe and well? That's bullshit!
The others were so stunned they couldn't control their facial expressions, all contorted in shock. It actually worked? Wasn't that just a fantasy?
If this technology could be promoted to the military, how many casualties could be reduced? The Fifth Prince was excited.
System: [Xu San's information was rather partial. He had only heard of someone successfully undergoing an eye transplant, but he didn't know that this surgery actually had many limitations.]
First of all, you have to find a reliable doctor! At least one who has studied this field for decades. You can't find someone like Su Shou who has only studied for a few years and just uses other people's medical diaries and notes to practice medicine.
As soon as this prerequisite came out, everyone knew that the southern barbarian witch doctor was really capable and particularly stubborn.
Life is short, so why would most people be willing to spend decades delving into a tangible dead end? Aren't they afraid of dying without finding any results?
System: [A capable doctor can really save a lot of trouble. Xu Tao met Su Shou, but there has been no progress in half a year, and treatment has not yet begun.]
[That person met a witch doctor. Although the treatment was a bit scary, using a lot of southern barbarian poison, his eyes were healed after the treatment, but he was also left with insect phobia and trypophobia.]
Chu Huan: “…”
Everyone: “…”
For a moment, I didn’t know who was worse off.
Chu Huan was still more concerned about how eye transplants were done in ancient times: [I can't imagine using Gu to treat eyes, Tong'er, please tell me more.]
System: [The eyes are close to the brain and have many nerves, so surgery must be performed with extreme caution. In ancient times, there were no sophisticated equipment, so the Nanman people used many tiny Gu instead.]
[Gu is very obedient and will do whatever you tell them to do. Its tiny size allows it to penetrate very fine nerves, giving it advantages over human eyes and hands.]
[The Nanman people are very good at raising Gu, and have developed all sorts of strange and bizarre Gu. This is the Gu that witch doctors cultivate specifically to cure illnesses and save lives, and it can penetrate tiny nerves and connect them.]
Chu Huan:!!!
In her previous understanding, the essence of Gu was insects, which had some toxins or medicinal value.
When I first heard that Chongzi could do many things that only top doctors could do, I was so shocked that my three views were shaken.
Chu Hua: [...I know everything has two sides, and Gu can be good or bad, but this is the first time I've heard of a Gu with this kind of effect.]
If it can be cultivated in large quantities and used in a standardized manner, it may be possible to bridge the medical gap between Dasheng and modern times and treat many diseases that cannot be treated under current conditions.
Of course, the premise is that it is used properly and not abused wantonly.
Chu Hua: [Tong'er, do you think this Gu looks like a nanorobot used in medical surgery?]
After being reminded by her, the system also connected the Gu and the nanorobots together, and its excitement was beyond words.
System: [Nanobots are still in the conceptual and experimental stages and haven't really been put into use. Modern people haven't used them yet. I never thought that Gu-style nanobots existed in ancient times.]
Everyone was filled with questions.
Medical treatment, surgery, robots, concepts, experiments... those words that were unfamiliar and difficult to understand to them did not cause any communication barriers between Chu Huan and the system.
They really want to understand those words, whether it is to eat melons better or to bring those good things to Dasheng.
An idea came to the Fifth Prince's mind: Should he have a frank talk with Chu Huan?
Chu Huan was still immersed in the many benefits this discovery would bring to the people: [Developing nanorobots is impossible, but the Nanman have experience in raising Gu and replacing eyes. If the two sides can cooperate, they will definitely be able to save many people.]
Cooperation is beneficial to the people of both Dasheng and Nanman. Nanman is a small vassal state of Dasheng, so it is unlikely that they will refuse.
Chu Huan's enthusiasm for this idea was ignited, but at the critical moment, the system poured cold water on her: [When the witch doctor transplanted the eyes of a pair of twins, the surgery was probably so successful because the twins' blood types, compatibility, and other aspects were all suitable.]
The witch doctor had replaced arms and legs for other people, with some successes and some failures. The twins incident was also a very accidental event.
"Although this may not be very kind, didn't Su Shou also manage to replace a rabbit's legs by accident? I think it's best not to get your hopes up too high, to avoid disappointment later."
The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
Chu Huan wasn't disappointed: "Being able to successfully transplant an eye under such simple conditions is already quite remarkable. Failure is the norm. If he succeeded every time, I'd actually think he was..."
It could be a case of transporting an entire hospital to Nanman, or a modern doctor with a medical system plug-in.
Chu Huan didn't say the rest of the words. The system automatically filled in the blanks in her mind, while the others imagined that they would find him scary instead.
That’s enough digression.
Chu Huan had already decided what she would discuss with the Second Prince and the Imperial Hospital Director in the next couple of days, and she was in a very good mood: "Go on with Xu San's gossip."
[Oh.] The system continued, [Xu San was born in the Southern Barbarians. Due to his family's poverty, he was sold. He wasn't bought as a servant, but as a Gu child.]
The word "Gu boy" made everyone's hair stand on end, and they subconsciously thought that Xu San was bought to feed the Gu.
The system probably knew they would have wild thoughts, so it quickly said, "Don't let your imagination run wild. What a medicine boy is, that's what a Gu boy is."
Chu Huan sighed softly: [That's good.]
Upon hearing this, the hairs on the other people's backs all fell down. Fortunately, he was not so cruel.
System: [Xu San was taught a lot about raising Gu, but he didn't enjoy it. He always forced himself to feed the Gu, suppressing his fear. He also heard about the eye transplant from his master.]
The master was the witch doctor's sworn enemy. Upon learning that his enemy had successfully replaced a person's eyes with a Gu he'd cultivated, he frequently glared at Xu San with a creepy gaze and urged him to feed the Gu with his blood. Fearing that this would continue, Xu San would eventually be dragged away to have his eyes gouged out, he acted preemptively, killing his master while he was drunk, taking all his money and fleeing.
He was a half-grown boy who wandered around with money, suffering a lot along the way. He stole, killed, and begged, and he was responsible for several deaths.
[Once when he was seriously injured, he met Xu Tao. Seeing how badly injured Xu San was, Xu Tao kindly sent him to see a doctor and helped pay for the medicine. Xu San fell in love with Xu Tao and after he recovered, he applied for a job as the Xu family's guard to protect her.]
After briefly listening to the dispute between Xu San and Xu Tao, several women immediately had tears in their eyes. They had no resistance to stories that involved elements such as "life-saving grace" and "redemption".
Chu Huan remained unmoved. Was it touching? Not really.
Xu Tao was indeed grateful to Xu San for saving his life, and it's no mistake that he chose to repay the favor. But should his Gu-raising master die? The Gu-raising master taught and raised him, and he owed him a debt of gratitude.
[It's not like Xu San killed his master out of suspicion and worry because he didn't like raising Gu worms, and because Xu Tao was pretty and her eyesight wasn't very clear, so she wasn't a threat, so he chose to protect her and repay her kindness, right? That's too far off.]
The tears of many women were wiped away.
Before Chu Huan's analysis, they thought that the mutual redemption between Xu San and Xu Tao was quite interesting. But after this analysis... Xu San's behavior was indeed inappropriate.
Nangong Ling snorted coldly: What an ungrateful person.
Chu Huan asked again: [Does that Gu-raising master really want to dig out Xu San's eyes?]
The system sighed: [No, he just had a sinister face. No one wanted to get close to him. He was taciturn and spent all day with poisonous insects, which made him look quite scary. He was staring at Xu San because he noticed that Xu San seemed to hate poisonous insects, and he was confirming his suspicions.]
After observing for a long time, he realized that Xu San really hated the Gu worm. He wanted to let Xu San go, but he couldn't bear to part with his apprentice, whom he had raised for several years. He didn't know what to do, so he drank to drown his sorrows.
Everyone silently continued: Who knew that he would be killed by his reluctant disciple after getting drunk.
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