Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

Chapter 397 Videotape

Yu Ru and Yun Jixing were both injured, and they had a legitimate reason to rest. Yu Ru stopped taking on business orders, and Yun Jixing took his annual leave to stay by her side.

However, being unable to work and staying at home all the time was getting boring, so after resting at home for a few days, they went to check out the Xiantao Club. The Xiantao Club was Lan Youde's private club that had been blown up by the robot Manman. Yu Ru had wanted to visit it for a long time, but many urgent and important matters had piled up, forcing her to postpone it. To her surprise, even after several months, the club was still not completely cleaned up and there was still something to see.

Yu Ru had serious doubts about the staff's competence. "It's been so long and it's still not cleaned up. Are those people just dawdling?"

“Aru, there’s a formation here, resentment, and vengeful ghosts. It’s too evil. Several people died during the cleanup, which delayed the work for a while.” Yun Jixing pointed to a big tree. “There, a worker hanged himself. He died in the early morning. The next day, when he was seen, he terrified the workers. They were all in a daze, so we gave them a day off to rest, which delayed the work.”

Yu Rushun looked in the direction he pointed, "Have you invited a master?"

"Yes, the expert spent almost two months barely managing to suppress the rampant evil spirits before he could resume work."

"Oh, is there any trace of Manman?"

“Aru, we found some of Manman’s remains. Since you weren’t here, I took it upon myself to bury her. After testing, there couldn’t have been any chip residue at the scene, so Manman has completely disappeared.”

Yu Ru paused, "That's fine, she also wants to leave." With that, she lifted her foot and continued walking forward.

The two entered the club and headed straight for a private room, followed by several bodyguards they had brought with them.

Upon entering the secret room, Yu Ru took off the sunglasses that Yun Jixing had given her beforehand. However, the moment she took them off, her eyes were stung by countless rays of light, forcing her to put the sunglasses back on.

"Aru, don't take off your sunglasses. They're studded with lots of gems, and the fire is too dazzling."

Yu Ru nodded, then looked up and was immediately drawn to the twelve jade zodiac animal statues standing in the center. "Aren't those leaders tempted by these twelve zodiac animals? Why didn't they move them? Are they a magic array?"

“By the way,” Yun Jixing smiled, “Aru is so smart. The twelve zodiac animals are the key to the formation. You may be able to take them, but you may not be able to spend them. The experts dare not touch them.”

Lan Youde and Jiang Jianming were the masterminds behind the scenes, but now they're half-dead and unable to cause any real trouble. Yu Ru no longer cares about targeting or bringing down anyone. She came here simply to take a look, to casually search for traces of the Spider Cult. The illegal factory she used to work for had performed rituals by members of the Spider Cult; perhaps some traces of a transaction were left behind. She wanted to follow these traces to find the head of the illegal factory and take revenge!

She used to think the hope was slim and never considered it, but after coming into contact with the Spider Cult, she felt there was still hope.

As for why she thought she could find it in this club, it's because perverts like to relive the scene of their prey being tortured over and over again, which just happened to provide her with an opportunity to find clues. She remembered that someone was recording the deathmatch, and perhaps it was just a coincidence that Lan Youde had been to the black factory to watch the deathmatch, and that the recording happened to be stored in this club?

With video recording, we can do a lot of things.

The Xiantao Club was established sixteen years ago. At that time, the illegal factory was still operating. It's possible that Lan Youde visited the place, recorded the footage, and stored it at the Xiantao Club. Since the Xiantao Club was a hub for illicit transactions, it's plausible that Lan Youde would secretly record videos there to gather evidence against people. Therefore, it's not impossible that he would ask others to help him protect the Xiantao Club.

In this way, the Xiantao Club became the safest place. Otherwise, for more than ten years, if Manman hadn't blown it up, this den of iniquity, which combined prostitution, gambling, and drugs, would have remained completely undetected.

Yu Ru walked around the secret room and learned some secrets from the letters and items inside, but they were of little use to her.

Seeing that she had finished shopping, Yun Jixing said, "Aru, I'll take you to see something."

He led Yu Ru to a wall with a painting hanging on it, one meter wide and two meters long, depicting a demon assassinating an angel. The demon was in a superior position, displaying an air of victory, while the angel was below, dressed in rags and with his chest exposed, making the viewer feel physically uncomfortable.

"Long-legged Calf, move this painting away," Yunjixing ordered.

After the painting was removed, a door resembling a safe appeared. Yun Jixing looked at it and said, "Aru, this is a password door. Can you decipher it?"

Yu Ru stepped forward and carefully examined the structure of the keypad door. Yun Jixing was still explaining the situation. "The person in charge of the site brought in experts to crack the keypad door, but they failed. They initially considered forcibly cutting it open, but after assessing the situation, they realized that forcibly cutting it open might cause the area to collapse, so they didn't use any forceful methods to open it. I heard that they brought in someone else to crack the keypad door last week, but they still failed."

This password door is unusual, unlike the usual safe or furniture doors. It has a screen embedded in it, like a computer, and looking down, there's an even longer keyboard-like piece embedded about three hand-widths away from this "computer screen".

She's good with computers.

The fact that it resembled a computer meant she could write her commands, and sure enough, after half an hour of research, she succeeded. However, this was only the first step; there were still many layers of encryption protection that needed to be cracked to penetrate the internal program. She didn't intend to crack the password; she planned to write commands to make the door open automatically.

After all, it was a door that had stumped even the experts. It took Yu Ru three hours to crack it. As she entered the last character, the password door clicked open. Yun Jixing looked at Yu Ru with surprise.

The door opened, revealing a space of about three square meters, with cabinets built into three sides, filled with CDs and videotapes. Without a second thought, Yu Ru immediately instructed her bodyguard to pack up the videotapes.

……

Upon returning to Yu Gui Garden, Yu Ru carefully examined the videotape she had brought back. It had a label on it, with someone's name and the date marked on it.

She chose to play an episode marked with the same date as the year she was abducted.

The screen initially displayed static, then froze for over ten seconds before playing. In the video, a group of dirty children were huddled together around a fighting ring. Yu Ru's eyes widened slightly. This was it! This was the place she would never forget. It really was footage from that shady factory, and it concerned those life-or-death battles!

Yu Ru stared intently at the screen and soon saw herself. A man in a suit called out her number and asked her to come on stage.

The thought of Yun Jixing beside her filled her with embarrassment. She turned her head to look, only to see that Yun Jixing had closed his eyes.