Scumbag Chapter 183 The Real Young Master Doesn’t Care For The Crematorium Trope (5)

By the time the police arrived at Sunjia Village, it was already evening. Since the tipster had provided precise information, they headed st

By the time the police arrived at Sunjia Village, it was already evening.

Since the tipster had provided precise information, they headed straight for the location.

Seeing the courtyard full of people, with some raving mad, others foaming at the mouth, and a few already lying stiff, Team Leader Qian immediately called for an ambulance.

Upon discovering over a dozen children locked inside the house, Qian realized the gravity of the situation, ‘They had kidnapped this many kids?!’

Since he didn’t bring enough police cars to handle the situation, Qian called for backup.

"Team Leader Qian, listen…"

An officer pressed play on the tape recorder, and a sweet, girlish voice sang:

"Red umbrellas, white stem, eat together and lie on the board..."

The song is surprisingly catchy, with a strong rhythm… it was downright infectious. After listening just once, the cops on the scene were already humming along.

When the lyrics reached, ‘Eat, eat, there are umbrellas, the whole village lies on the board together’, Team Leader Qian’s brow furrowed deeply.

He is a serious man in his forties, and because of frowning all year round, there is a deep vertical wrinkle between his eyebrows. Some of those who were poisoned by eating mushrooms were on the verge of shock, and it was unclear when the ambulance would arrive.

The impact of this incident was too severe. People from the TV station had also arrived, taking numerous photos, with the cameraman even recording footage.

This kind of large-scale, organized crime, where an entire village was engaged in child trafficking, was unprecedented.

Team Leader Qian could already foresee the public panic that would erupt once this incident was exposed.

Especially that mysterious girl who had reported the crime, who is she? What was the purpose of leaving this song on the recorder?

One mystery after another plagued Qian’s thoughts.

The situation was too big, so Qian called the director to report the details.

When the director heard it, he was shocked, ‘This is a large-scale crime!’

The scale of this child trafficking case was unprecedented, with an unusually high number of children involved.

What’s more, the entire village was complicit in the crime, and now the criminals had been mysteriously left half-dead...

The director felt a headache coming on. Not daring to delay for even a moment, he immediately called his superior to report the situation.

By midnight, over a dozen children had been sent to the hospital for medical examinations, while more than forty people who had eaten poisonous mushrooms were also undergoing emergency treatment.

The gastroenterology department of the city’s central hospital was surrounded by police, with both the municipal leaders and the police chief personally arriving at the scene.

Of course, none of this had anything to do with Mingting.

That night, he found a spot to tie his donkey and retreated into his spatial courtyard to sleep.

The next morning, after washing up, brushing his teeth, and eating breakfast, he mounted his donkey again and continued his journey south.

In the original timeline, after the Supporting Male Character had his tongue cut out by the traffickers, he developed a high fever.

The traffickers did not dare to send him to the hospital, so they tried treating him with folk remedies, applying some herbal poultices.

But instead of improving, the original onwer’s condition worsened… his temperature rose even higher, and his body began convulsing uncontrollably.

In such a state, death was a real possibility.

Seeing that Lu Mingting was beyond saving, the traffickers abandoned him on a rural roadside, leaving him to his fate.

Fortunately, an elderly couple in their sixties, who were on their way to visit a mountain temple, found him.

They sought help from the temple’s abbot, who managed to save Lu Mingting’s life. The couple raised him for over a decade, and before they passed away, they even gifted him their house in the county town.

In the original timeline, the elderly couple had no children of their own.

After rescuing Lu Mingting, they treated him as their own grandson, showering him with love. Sadly, they were already advanced in age and didn’t live long enough to enjoy the fruits of their kindness.

Mingting had no intention of returning to the Lu Family. Instead, he wanted to seek out this elderly couple and become their grandson.

It just so happened that the ‘Guiyi Temple’ was not far from the county. The abbot of the temple is the one who had saved the Supporting Male Character, so Mingting planned to become a monk at Guiyi Temple.

Even though Mingting tried to stick to mountain paths while riding his donkey, he still had to pass through some villages and small towns along the way.

While passing through one such town, he encountered human traffickers again.

This time, it was a kindly-looking young auntie. The moment Mingting saw her fake smile, he knew she was a bad guy.

But he was not afraid and followed the aunt ‘foolishly’, even complimenting her with phrases like, ‘Auntie, you’re so pretty!’ and ‘Auntie, you smell so nice’, which made the other party happy.

When they reached their destination, Mingting’s eyes lit up.

It was another group of human traffickers.

‘Well, since they’d brought this upon themselves, I should generously treat them to a meal of red umbrella.’

After effortlessly incapacitating ten adults, Mingting repeated his usual routine. First, he found a telephone booth, dialed the emergency number, and then hitched a ride by climbing onto the roof of a public bus.

Just as the news about the trafficking village in Sunjia Village was making headlines, another incident involving human traffickers accidentally consuming poisonous mushrooms occurred in Huixi Town.

Team Leader Qian, upon hearing the news, rushed to the neighboring town.

Since the incident happened near the rural outskirts of the town, the traffickers were sent to the hospital for stomach pumping in time and no one is dead.

The only issue was that they seemed to have lost chunks of their memories… likely a side effect of the poisonous mushrooms.

At the scene of the crime, Team Leader Qian noticed red ink drawings of red-capped mushrooms on the wall… a row of bright red little mushrooms, with the lead mushroom having a smiling face.

Perhaps because there was no tape recorder here, the mysterious girl had left this reminder for the police.

After analyzing the emergency call and the recording from Sunjia Village, Team Leader Qian dubbed the mysterious caller the ‘Mushroom Girl’.

Now, seeing the similarities between the Huixi Town case and Sunjia Village, Team Leader Qian was certain it was the work of the same person.

He believed this individual harbored a deep hatred for human traffickers and chose this method to exact revenge.

Team Leader Qian reported his findings to the director, and the two cases were merged. While the police worked tirelessly to track down and arrest traffickers, they also secretly investigated the Mushroom Girl.

When Mingting heard from Fengtian that he’d been officially dubbed the ‘Mushroom Girl’ by the police, he complained that the name wasn’t intimidating enough.

‘How is this my fault? I was acting in self-defense! If they hadn’t tried to kidnap me because I’m so adorable, why would I have bothered feeding them red umbrellas?’

Mingting was utterly unrepentant.

[Boss, I can’t help but feel like this is entrapment.]

Fengtian scratched its head with its tiny hands.

‘I'm not, I didn't, don't talk nonsense.’ Mingting shook his head vigorously.

Just then, he noticed someone approaching him and grinned.

‘See? I didn’t do anything. They came to me on their own initiative. It's just that I'm smart. If other kids encountered this kind of thing, they would’ve been sold off by now.’