Click.
Just when everyone present was focused and watching the video in surprise, the big screen suddenly went black.
Right after that, the audience saw an elderly man turn off the power.
Seeing this, the crowd imdiately beca chaotic.
"What's going on? Is the descendant of He's Bone Setting challenging Shen Qiang to a bone setting under the instructions of Life-extending Hall?"
"Damn! No wonder Shen Qiang specifically targeted Life-extending Hall's signboard!"
"I knew it! Soone with such superb acupuncture skills, how could he want to smash Life-extending Hall's signboard for no reason?"
In the noisy commotion of the crowd.
Xu Nan, with her eyebrows tightly furrowed, took a step forward and said sternly, "This matter isn't clear, don't think that just cutting off the power will end it. Now I ask you, will you reconnect the power or not? You from the Life-extending Hall said before, that everything should be reasoned."
"A vengeance for killing a son, no one else can intervene."
"Now that you from the Life-extending Hall have cut the power, does it an you admit that this matter was indeed done by you? If so, as Shen Qiang's good friend, I must seek justice for Shen Qiang."
Hearing this, the eyes of those in the audience looking at the Hall Master of Life-extending Hall also turned a bit hostile.
"Hall Master Qi, if Life-extending Hall is really above board, what do you have to hide?"
"Exactly, the words of a dead man, let us see what harm can there be?"
Seeing the persistent pressure from the crowd.
After a mont of silence, the Hall Master of Life-extending Hall gritted his teeth and said, "Reconnect the power, let them watch."
With the power restored.
The screen reappeared, and the video's mory function connected exactly to the previous segnt.
In the video, He Fatty, with a sowhat bitter smile, then said, "Shen Qiang is sowhat arrogant, a bit crazy, but I can tell, he is not a bad person. If I end up dead, and he survives, you don't need to seek revenge on him."
"Because it is now I who will harm him."
He Fatty sighed and then said, "Because I have already accepted benefits from Life-extending Hall, a retail space at the edge of Second Ring worth about ten million, plus three million in cash. Moreover, if everything goes smoothly, Life-extending Hall promised to persuade at least eight or more dical families to agree to let He's Bone Setting co here."
"This is a temptation I cannot refuse."
"You always say, be generous, do not take advantage of anyone, because greed for petty gains leads to great losses."
"Ever since I can rember, you have always told that I must shoulder the responsibility to revitalize He's Bone Setting. At that ti, I also believed that was what I should do and that I could indeed achieve it through hard work."
"But the reality has changed."
"There are many orthopedic hospitals, and Pang's Bone Setting has monopolized over eighty percent of orthopedic patients. You always said it's because Pang's techniques are better than ours, and as long as I properly cultivate and accumulate enough experience, we could win back."
"But the reality is, Pang's Bone Setting has kept up with the tis; they have the most advanced equipnt, recruited a lot of outstanding orthopedic surgeons, and they operate whenever possible, creating conditions to operate when not."
"Because that's how they make money!"
"No matter the ailnt, first administer ten shots of immunoglobulin. That itself is 5,500 yuan. Surgery, hospital stays, dicine...for a series of treatnts, which patient wouldn't end up spending thirty or forty thousand?"
"But you?"
"Still upholding the Family's tradition, absolutely not performing surgery unless it's absolutely necessary, absolutely not taking risks with conservative treatnt. For fractures, in Pong's, they'd operate, insert steel plates, then operate again to remove the plates—proper surgeries, all set. With you, a squeeze, a splint, so plaster, and then ho to rest, maybe add so anti-inflammatories, a few hundred yuan and done."
"You think you're saving patients a lot of money, reducing a lot of unnecessary pain, but actually, you're wrong. People nowadays are so delicate. They don't approve of your treatnts; they think surgery should be the treatnt. Your treatnt thod is just perfunctory, a disrespect to them!"
"So give it up. You think you're holding onto tradition, the Family's glory, but this era doesn't need it."
Hearing these words, Shen Qiang sighed.
anwhile, in the video, He Fatso said solemnly, "I know, hearing say this, you must want to curse , but this is the reality. Our clinic is outdated. Today this breaks, tomorrow that breaks, and there's no money to upgrade."
"To maintain the normal operation of the clinic, you even sold Grandpa's house."
"You always tell , we are a Family, we are Cultivators, we have heavy responsibilities, we mustn't commit injustices, we mustn't engage in unscrupulous practices."
"How ridiculous."
"If Power can't be used to help oneself achieve a better life, then what good is having that Power?"
"See? Life-extending Hall, a well-known clinic feeling threatened, imdiately thinks of hiring soone to kill the competition. What moral integrity? In the face of interests, it's just a pile of crap!"
"Survival of the fittest!"
"This is the real way of survival in the Cultivation World!"
In the video, He Fatso said, "Dad, do you know? In order to revive He's Bone Setting, I made a lot of effort and made many friends from dical Families. I realized they are completely different from us. When I had a birthday as a kid, you'd spend a few yuan on a small cake, boil a couple of eggs."
"But them? They'd charter a plane, fly to an island for a vacation, on a whim call over a dozen beauties, just play around, splurging wherever they go."
"In college, you taught to study hard and live frugally. But them? They couldn't understand why waste ti working part-ti, why not spend it doing sothing they're interested in."
"You'd definitely say I'm unfilial, degenerate, restless, vain." Glaring into the cara, He Fatso said, "But why can they pursue their dreams, and I can't?"
"Because we don't have money!"
With a stern face, He Fatso continued, "I don't want to continue this way anymore. Around ten million for storefronts, three million in cash, convincing eight dical Families to allow He's Bone Setting to co here."
"This is the price set by the Life-extending Hall, and I accepted it because, according to the life plan you set for , I wouldn't earn this money even if I never ate or drank for fifty years."
"I've already entrusted the sale of the storefront to a lawyer, as soon as sothing happens to , it'll go directly to you and Mom."
"That three million in cash, go and buy back Grandpa's house with it."
Glancing at his watch, He Fatso said, "It's about ti now, so that's it. I'm going to act now, if all goes well, Shen Qiang is sure to die. But given that people from Life-extending Hall could use this thod, targeting Shen Qiang, killing to cover up isn't out of the question."
"So, if I don't co back, this video will be sent to you in twenty-four hours. If I do make it back alive, then no one will ever know about this."
"Although you're stubborn, rigid, utterly inflexible, like a tyrant at ho, I want to say, if there is a next life, I'd still want to be your son."
Click!
The video went black.
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