Chapter 418: The Five Immortals Conundrum

Chapter 418: The Five Immortals (5 updates)

Five Immortals?

Xiao Yu, with a conflicted expression, recalled the task assigned by the system.

Cracking the Five Immortals case… so they were waiting for me here?

The system sure knows how to mess with you.

And clearly, the dismemberment case wasn’t the key issue.

The real crux was these Five Immortals… five divine beings?

So, does that mean that Lu Juan represents the Yellow Immortal?

At that moment, Xiao Yu felt both a sudden clarity and a bizarre sense of his intelligence being trampled by the system.

Glancing at the ‘manual’ in his hand, Xiao Yu allowed a slight smirk to form.

As long as I boast big enough, nothing in this world is beyond my reach, right?

But you have to admit.

This ‘manual’ isn’t just for boasting.

Under the psychological suggestion of techniques like Hypnosis and Brainwashing…

an ordinary person might easily fall for it!

The interrogation continued…

“Five years ago, my junior came to see me. I didn’t even recognize him at first.”

“It wasn’t until he mentioned our high school days that I realized he was indeed my junior.”

“But what I never expected was that he wasn’t here just to reminisce—he actually wanted me to help con someone… Gan Xinlei!”

“He said Gan Xinlei would come looking for me and that I should assist him in deceiving the man. At first, I refused. After all, we hadn’t seen each other in years. Why should I help this junior pull off a scam?”

“In the end, he offered me 100,000 yuan, promising an extra 200,000 once the con succeeded.”

“I was tempted, so I agreed to help him pull off the scam.”

“But I never expected to wait for Gan Xinlei for two years—three years ago, he finally showed up.”

“When Gan Xinlei arrived, he was accompanied by his wife.”

“Strangely, I didn’t recognize his wife at all.”

“After Gan Xinlei and his wife left, my junior came by again. This time, he even threatened me, ordering me to seduce Gan Xinlei.”

“He warned that if I refused, he’d expose our scam to the police. Since we were from the same sect and knew each other well, involving the police would have ruined me!”

“So I agreed to my junior’s plan and seduced Gan Xinlei. But I never imagined that Gan would be so loyal to his wife. If I hadn’t feigned performing a ritual to get him drunk, there’d have been no way we’d end up together.”

“It was that very incident that led his wife to discover the affair. She started a commotion, and Gan, perhaps feeling guilty, let her vent. From then on, whatever his wife said, he obeyed without question.”

“What I couldn’t comprehend was that his wife continued to steer Gan toward me… even accepting me as her sister. She chose to turn a blind eye to our affair.”

“Later, Gan and I maintained a relationship akin to that of lovers, and his wife treated me moderately well. Yet my junior still pressed me to continue the scam…”

“I could sense my junior was scheming something. I even felt that he intended to do something to Gan Xinlei.”

“They say that couples share endless intimacy after just one night together. I discreetly warned Gan… but then, something strange happened.”

“One day, Gan Xinlei’s wife—my so-called ‘cheap elder sister’—came to warn me, ‘Don’t meddle too much!'”

“I was stunned. It wasn’t until then that I realized Gan Xinlei’s wife was actually one of my junior’s men!”

“After that, I dared not say another word—not until a few months ago, maybe three or five, I can’t quite recall.”

“Gan Xinlei and his wife then vanished without a trace.”

“Yet, deep inside, I sensed something was about to happen. I even wondered if Gan Xinlei might be in trouble.”

“Then, about a month ago, my junior reappeared, handing me 200,000 yuan and warning me once again to forget everything about Gan Xinlei and his wife. Even if the police came investigating, I must say nothing.”

“Otherwise… he’d come to kill me!”

At this point, Lu Juan’s voice trembled as if her spirit had been shaken.

She knew that once these events were revealed…

her future freedom would be lost.

But for some reason…

after speaking out, an unexpected lightness filled her heart.

The constant, crushing anxiety that had plagued her every day finally lifted.

It all just vanished.

Watching as Lu Juan was cuffed, Xiao Yu remained oddly calm.

The 500,000 yuan in cash added up.

300,000 of it was provided by that ‘junior.’

The rest came from the victim Gan Xinlei and money Lu Juan had managed to save.

Another suspect emerged.

Lai Jun, male, 34, a native of Bincheng… and Lu Juan’s junior.

The so-called con artist master had once taught him the technique of

Liu Xian… Snake!

Snake—a creature of ancient, cold-blooded nature.

Folk legends say the snake epitomizes cold-blooded inhumanity and ingratitude.

One of the well-known fables is ‘The Farmer and the Snake.’

In local rumors about the Five Immortals, Fuxi and Nuwa are depicted as snake-bodied, human-faced monsters.

Some even claim the snake’s magical power surpasses that of the fox.

It even wields a unique skill—the Thousand-Mile Object Grabbing technique—unlike the other Four Immortals.

Thousand-Mile Object Grabbing… Xiao Yu scoffed coldly.

By ‘object grabbing,’ you mean deceiving people and taking what isn’t yours, right?

According to Lu Juan’s account,

suspect Lai Jun began scheming against the victim Gan Xinlei five years ago.

Even Gan Xinlei’s wife—suspect Shi Wangmei in this case—seemed to have colluded with him.

Xiao Yu carefully mulled over Lu Juan’s testimony,

letting his mind analyze every possibility.

He pieced together and deduced the entire sequence of events.

Could it be that

the victim Gan Xinlei was killed—and dismembered—by both Lai Jun and Shi Wangmei?

The thought filled Xiao Yu with doubt.

But something didn’t add up.

At the crime scene, only traces belonging to Shi Wangmei were found.

There was no evidence of anyone else entering the scene.

But could Shi Wangmei have single-handedly murdered and dismembered someone?

And cut the body into fifty-seven pieces?

Among them, twenty pieces averaged five jin each, and thirty pieces averaged one jin each?

Finally, she reassembled the pieces into a bizarre ‘human structure’?

Xiao Yu never underestimated a woman.

But… could Shi Wangmei really have done it?

Shaking his head, Xiao Yu looked at Guo Qiang standing nearby and coldly commanded, “Notify the Criminal Investigation Team and City Bureau—arrest suspect Lai Jun!”

“Yes!”

Guo Qiang pulled out his phone and called the Criminal Investigation Team and City Bureau, relaying Xiao Yu’s order.

The arrest operation begins!