Chapter 2357 - 2260: Bewildering and Unfathomable
Chapter 2357: Chapter 2260: Bewildering and Unfathomable
The world is never short of fake Sherlock Holmes types who fancy themselves clever. After the Okinawa 0288 incident started fermenting, more and more logical reasoning enthusiasts came up with analyses and speculations they believed to be reasonable.
And as more details of the suspicious points concerning the Okinawa 0288 fishing boat were released, the case became increasingly enigmatic, with no one able to unravel the full situation of the case.
Regarding the development of this incident, Huo Sining, Gu Xu, and others were also caught off guard, while Su Qingqing and the others couldn’t help but feel a mix of frustration and amusement.
They were already prepared to respond to criticism from the Dongyang side, and if Dongyang’s attitude became firm, Huo Sining was ready to release a previously recorded video, sending it to the East Ocean Police Bureau while simultaneously uploading it online, allowing people worldwide to judge how this incident should be resolved.
After all, it was these Dongyang people who initiated the ship collision and mistreatment first. If they hadn’t provoked, they wouldn’t have ended up in this situation. Huo Sining had no psychological burden, believing that what happened afterward was a case of them being caught in their own trap.
Despite their thorough preparations, the situation unfolded in an unexpected direction, with notions of ghosts, aliens, and wormholes coming to the forefront, analyzed by those reasoning enthusiasts with impeccable logic, enough to earn a perfect score. Yet, Huo Sining and her companions were left speechless, unsure of how to respond.
However, this turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Huo Sining and the others, saving them a lot of trouble. Dongyang didn’t create issues for the Hua Country government, so Huo Sining didn’t need to explain the incident’s background to Chief Lu or worry about uploading any video, thus saving her trouble.
Anyway, she still kept the video. Should Dongyang eventually unearth something and target Hua Country citizens, she could release it then without haste.
After returning to S City that night, Huo Sining sent the Oil Rat and his partner to the hospital but also notified Fu Yuanshan to send someone to watch over them.
Although Huo Sining had saved them, giving them a second chance at life, these two had already committed the crime of tomb robbery, thus violating the law. Huo Sining might spare the Oil Rat once, but a second chance was out of the question, and he had to face punishment with no escape.
Fu Yuanshan took swift action, and since Huo Sining’s spiritual energy had already treated the Oil Rat, his injuries were no longer severe. Therefore, after undergoing hospital checks, he was directly taken to the police station. As for his partner, still comatose in the hospital, he hadn’t entered the ancient tomb but participated in the subsequent artifact trafficking, so he didn’t need to be investigated temporarily.
After handling the Oil Rat’s affairs, it was time to deal with the issue of the dozen Hua Country fishermen.
These fishermen were ordinary people, and although they escaped death, they were profoundly shocked by the incident, struggling to quickly return to normal life. Moreover, with their ship sunk, they lost their pillars of support, making life difficult.
Since Huo Sining required them to keep the incident under wraps and not report it to the Maritime Bureau, she needed to properly handle the subsequent matters.
Since she had profited significantly from the Okinawa 0288 incident, Huo Sining didn’t hesitate to leave over six hundred pounds of Bluefin Tuna and over a ton of fresh seafood for these fishermen to handle on their own.
These fishermen were knowledgeable, and she believed they knew how to manage these resources, as selling just that Bluefin Tuna could reclaim the losses of their sunken ship and even provide extra funds to sustain their livelihoods, serving as compensation from Huo Sining.
As for the Medicine King Cauldron, when Huo Sining got her hands on it, she planned to notify Zhou Shitao immediately, but upon seeing the peculiar script engraved on the cauldron after taking it out of her storage ring, she was stunned.
Previously, on that Dongyang fishing vessel, she had been busy gathering Bluefin Tuna and seafood from the cargo hold and hadn’t taken a detailed look at the Medicine King Cauldron, tossing it into her storage ring without further thought.
Now examining it, Huo Sining instantly understood why the Oil Rat’s mention of selling the cauldron had attracted Fujiwara Seiho’s attention, prompting him to set up a maritime transaction to lure the Oil Rat into a trap.
The reason lay within the cauldron.
On this Medicine King Cauldron were peculiar runes, which astonishingly shared the same system as those on the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Nautical Chart.
This revelation left Huo Sining deeply shocked. She knew Fujiwara Seiho was looking for something related to these fonts and the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The Nautical Chart belonged to Shen Wansan, whereas the Medicine King Cauldron was used by Ge Hong, spanning from the Eastern Jin to the Ming Dynasty. This considerable time gap was astounding, yet the fonts appeared on relics from two completely different eras, which left much to ponder.
Huo Sining couldn’t help but frown, wondering why Fujiwara Seiho was so eager to extract the Luofu Mountain Ancient Tomb’s entrance from the Oil Rat, and what exactly he hoped to find inside.
Huo Sining felt that perhaps to unravel this mystery, she needed to find time to visit Luofu Mountain herself.
This Medicine King Cauldron was surely to be handed over, as Fu Yuanshan would require it as evidence to convict the Oil Rat. Huo Sining wanted to keep it, but she understood such action was against protocol.
The Medicine King Cauldron couldn’t be retained, but Huo Sining decided to copy the text on it.
Despite not knowing if the fonts on the artifact would be of use to her, this action couldn’t go wrong, so she meticulously copied every symbol, even those in the corners of the Medicine King Cauldron.
After completing these tasks, Huo Sining phoned Zhou Shitao to report the Oil Rat’s affairs to her mentor.
Indeed, upon hearing Huo Sining’s words, Zhou Shitao jumped up in fury, exclaiming:
"What, Luofu Mountain has been pillaged? Damn, these parasites want to ruin every ancestral relic before they’re satisfied! Wait for me in S City; I’ll come with people to find you!"
Huo Sining wanted to persuade him further, considering Zhou Shitao’s age, and the physical ordeal of traveling such a long distance would be considerable. She thought she might as well bring the Medicine King Cauldron back to the Imperial Capital. But Zhou Shitao wasn’t interested in discussing further, and he hung up directly, giving Huo Sining no opportunity to speak.