Chapter 257: Hu Chenge’s Fury
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
A video clip was spreading like wildfire on the web. Within a few hours, the views hit counter exceeded the one million mark. At this momentum, it would not be long before the figure broke through the ten million mark.
In the video clip, the view was showing the interior of a room that was under surveillance inside the Southern Seas Hotel. Although the face of the person being monitored was blurred out and his facial features could not be seen clearly, it was still enough to shock every cultivator.
Immediately after that, the view seamlessly cut to another scene. It showed the Shadow Guards charging out to kill the person being monitored. Although the voices had been edited out and could no longer be heard, the cultivators watching the video could still feel the kind of danger the person being monitored in the video was facing.
After the video clip ended, a short silence followed. Then there was a complete uproar!
“This is fake, right? How can the Southern Seas Hotel do such a thing? This is the most luxurious hotel in the capital, with the highest level of privacy protection!”
Anyone could see that this was a video clip showing the Southern Seas Hotel monitoring their guests. After being discovered by the guests, not only did they not apologize, but they also sent out assassins to silence the guests. This filled many upright people with furious, righteous indignation.
However, when people who were accustomed to a particular persona discovered that reality contradicted this portrayal, they would invariably feel that they had been cheated.
What was worse, when the hotel’s scheme was exposed, they still tried to silence their guests. While this made many fans of the Southern Seas Hotel absolutely furious, it also made their hairs stand on ends.
“Liars! They are all liars! How could this Southern Seas Hotel do this kind of thing behind people’s backs? To think that I used to frequent that place…” At the thought of his privacy being captured on surveillance camera, or possibly even being sold off, this cultivator with a fairly exalted status felt a chill down his spine. With gritted teeth, he growled, “No! I must go and demand justice!”
In front of the Southern Seas Hotel, many furious cultivators had gathered with banners, demanding an explanation. The Southern Seas Hotel, which was still leisurely watching the show, became dumbfounded all of a sudden, wondering how did they turn from spectators to main actors?
“The video clips spreading on the web are all false. Someone with ulterior motives is trying to slander us and tarnish our reputation. Currently, our company has sent out the most professional investigation team and a team of lawyers to deal with this.”
“As for the specifics, we can’t comment as the matter is still under investigation. ”
The assistant manager of the hotel braced himself to face the crowd of people demanding an explanation and gave an interview. He flatly denied the hotel had leaked the privacy of their guests and sent killers after their guests.
Soon, a group of cultivators who purportedly believed in the Southern Seas Hotel and many families came forward to take a stand. They believed that someone was deliberately smearing the Southern Seas Hotel, and then they tried to steer public opinion towards something more favorable to the Southern Seas Hotel.
However, many people refused to bite. Many professionals working in the media industry analyzed the footage and confirmed that the video clip could not have been faked.
The Southern Seas Hotel was immediately caught up in a raging storm and found it difficult to extricate themselves. And many powerful families also knew full well inwardly after viewing the video clip, and they collectively maintained their silence.
As far as they were concerned, the matter of the Southern Seas Hotel leaking the privacy of its guests and grooming an assassins organization in secret was nothing new to them. The power and authority enjoyed by the privileged class was the greatest in any era. This had always been an immutable truth.
However, this matter also revealed something unusual that made the heads of the more influential families shudder.
The Hu family behind the Southern Seas Hotel was a long-time family friend of one of the four great families, the Nie family, through generations of marriage. If one offended the Hu family, it was equivalent to offending the two great families.
Therefore, for many years, many families simply turned a blind eye to the misdemeanors that the Southern Seas Hotel carried out secretly. Moreover, a top-tier family like the Hu family had unparalleled ability in controlling public opinion.
Despite this, this video clip managed to slip out right under their nose and was circulated unblocked. This indicated that the mastermind who was going against the Hu family was someone with a remarkable background.
All these families were trying to guess who was responsible. They began running through all those families who bore grudges against the Hu family over the years.
“The Mu family and Wang family had just been embroiled in a scandal. Not long after that, this incident about the Southern Seas Hotel exploded. Could it be that these two families did this to divert some of the attention away from themselves?” Some people felt that the timing was too coincidental and expressed their views.
“In that case, these two families won’t be able to see the sun the next day. They are not that stupid.” Someone else immediately refuted this hypothesis. “I think someone deliberately tossed out the Southern Seas Hotel scandal at this point in order to make the news confusing and make the situation more chaotic so that he can hide more deeply.”
And at this moment, Ying Chao also had this speculation that someone had taken advantage of the scandal about the Mu family and Wang family which Ying Chao had leaked out to disguise himself and then launched an attack on the Southern Seas Hotel.
Furthermore, when he released the scandalous news about the Mu family and the Wang family, only he and a few direct descendants in his family knew about the timing. This meant that… there was a mole hiding in the Ying family!
“Ying Tianlai, investigate all the Ying family members thoroughly immediately, regardless of the costs. Don’t let go of any suspicious character.” Ying Chao summoned Ying Tianlai, who was in charge of intelligence gathering, to conduct an internal investigation of the Ying family.
For a while, people within the Ying Family were on edge. Meanwhile, in the
Zheng family, Zheng Dayou, who was discussing with Zheng Dalong Lu Yu’s proposal to form an alliance with the Zheng family, fell silent briefly after viewing this particular video clip. His expression gradually turned unpleasant.
“Is this guy crazy? How can he do something like that?” Zheng Dalong’s eyes widened in astonishment, his eyes full of disbelief.
From what Zheng Xiaochuan said, he knew that the Southern Seas Hotel attacked Lu Yu. The moment he saw this video clip, he was sure that Lu Yu was behind this.
Zheng Dayou spoke up, “A gentleman exercises prudence in private life. I don’t think there is any need to collaborate with someone as arrogant and reckless as this guy. Tell Xiaochuan to stay away from him in the future, so as not to get implicated by this guy.”
Geniuses might be rare, but they still existed. Over the years, Zheng Dayou got to know many geniuses who had risen rapidly, but most of them had perished halfway.
This was especially pertinent to such arrogant and reckless geniuses like Lu Yu, who formed the majority. A dead genius was useless no matter how talented.
As the various powerful families were engaged in their internal ruminations, over at the Hu family, the head of the family Hu Chenge was yelling and shouting in fury, smashing several valuable decorative pieces in the process.
Over the years, this was not the first time the Southern Seas Hotel had done something like this. However, this was the first time it got exposed.
After some investigation, not surprisingly he discovered that Lu Yu was behind all this. However, this was not the critical point as he was merely someone with a little fame. What infuriated him was Lu Yu had people helping him behind the scene.
Otherwise, how could a person who had no roots in the capital have the guts to go up against the Hu family?
“Patriarch, there are many people outside demanding an explanation from you.” Just then, a member of the Hu family approached him and reported apprehensively.
“Explanation? What kind of explanation do they want?” Hu Chenge roared angrily. “Why don’t you go out and explain on my behalf?”
That family member was so frightened that all color drained from his face.
What authority did he have to give an explanation on Hu Chenge’s behalf? He would most likely turn into a corpse the minute he stepped through the front door..
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