Chapter 48: 48 Chapters and 4 videos, the UP has sent someone to jail again【6 updates】
Zheng Liang and the others, after dragging back the Ancient Wood in the afternoon, directly headed to Jin City’s most authoritative appraisal institution and paid 2,000 yuan to determine its value. Just then, Shen Dao arrived, and all six of them were captured by the police. They didn’t struggle in the slightest. Thanks to them, Shen Dao and his team’s workload was greatly reduced. This eliminated the "stolen property" appraisal phase.
「Two hours later.」
Qin Mu stretched lazily and uploaded the edited video material. Being too exhausted, he went straight to bed, planning to check his fan growth the next day.
「Meanwhile.」
「Zizhou.」
In a high-end residential complex, Qing Lan, wearing a light blue nightgown, was sitting cross-legged on a gaming chair, live-streaming her gameplay.
"Brothers, with this god-tier gear, I can land a headshot from eight kilometers away! Watch this!"
Qing Lan watched the game screen intently, preparing to search the map for enemies.
Suddenly, she noticed the barrage of messages in her live stream room had significantly increased, and the atmosphere was clearly different from her usual game streams.
Normally, someone would definitely mock her "eight-kilometer headshot" claim. But now, the entire barrage was filled with calls to "stop playing the game."
"What’s going on?"
Qing Lan was startled for a moment and switched to her computer’s backend to take a look. The barrage was more than triple its usual volume, with everyone fervently mentioning an "UP update."
"The UP has updated, Sister Lan! Hurry up and watch it! Keep up with the latest events!"
"Finally, the UP has posted a video! If he doesn’t send someone to jail every day, I feel uneasy."
"Shh! The UP hasn’t been active for four days, and you guys have gotten complacent. Hurry up and watch the video, and remember to like it! I was late liking it last time, and a lawyer’s letter arrived at my doorstep the next day."
"Good heavens, it’s only been half an hour, and the likes have already broken through thirty thousand?"
"..."
Qing Lan looked at these comments, her curiosity piqued. For the past four days, whenever she had free time, she would check Qin Mu’s homepage for updates. Strictly speaking, she was one of the many fans eagerly awaiting new content. Yet, she hadn’t expected the UP to sneakily post an update in the middle of the night.
Driven by curiosity, she decided to go AFK in her game and clicked on Qin Mu’s homepage.
There, she saw a video posted half an hour ago, which had already reached two hundred thousand views. The number of likes was also over thirty thousand, and both counts were still rising wildly every moment.
The video’s title was also explosive: "Fishing Gone Wrong: A Word of Advice to Those Who Like to Take Small Advantages—Not Everything is Up for Grabs."
Did this UP get his fish stolen? Qing Lan blinked, wondering.
Subsequently, she patiently watched on and gradually understood the whole situation.
Fishing... and he actually fished up a piece of wood worth two million?
Seeing the photo of the pitch-black wood in the video, Qing Lan swallowed hard.
That’s even more profitable than her live streaming!
However, as the video progressed, these "helpful" fishing buddies, after lending a hand, stubbornly refused to leave. They insisted on continuing to help clear the wood, supposedly so it wouldn’t obstruct elderly fishers.
From her omniscient viewer’s perspective, she immediately saw that they had recognized the value of the Ancient Wood and wanted to profit from the situation.
This sort of behavior... is actually exploiting legal loopholes.
For instance, in the antiques world, if you recognize an antique that the seller is unaware of, you can buy it at a low price. If the seller learns the truth later, they can only accept their misfortune and can’t do anything about it.
Because at that time, the transaction was consensual.
However, for the original owner, it’s undoubtedly a huge loss.
Just like in this case, Zheng Liang and the others discovered the Ancient Wood but chose to conceal its value, attempting to take it away. This approach is somewhat unethical.
And Qin Mu’s subsequent actions... made her pause.
Qin Mu repeatedly emphasized that he didn’t need Zheng Liang and his group’s help, yet he then took his foot off the Ancient Wood, creating space for the six men to move it.
Is that... step back actually deliberate?
Her lips twitched slightly.
At that moment, the video’s comment section was flooded with question marks—no other words.
Finally, Qin Mu watched them stride away and then promptly headed to the police station to report the crime. He even showed the police report receipt and the notice of case acceptance.
The reason for the report... was that he had been robbed!
This UP... he’s really something else, full of tricks.
She couldn’t help but let out a wry laugh.
This move was something she had never expected.
At the same time, the chat in her live stream was exploding.
"Sister Lan, take notes! If you learned even one move from this UP, you wouldn’t get flamed by teammates when you play badly!"
"Exactly! Why don’t you ask the UP to be your mentor? Then see who dares to trash-talk you in the game!"
"The UP’s move is so slick! ’On the surface, I can’t beat you, but then I’ll send you to jail with a backhand move’?"
"These six people are really blind, daring to take the UP’s stuff. I remember in the last video, that guy who went to the nursing home for money didn’t even dare to touch the UP’s bank card!"
"..."
Qing Lan looked at the barrage of comments in her live stream room, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. Actually, she somewhat admired the courage of these six people. Of all people to offend, they had to choose Qin Mu.
The actions of the six indeed constituted robbery, even if they didn’t realize it. Otherwise, the police station wouldn’t have accepted the case.
Sure enough, the end of the video showed Qin Mu disclosing the latest progress in the case.
"Just now, the UP received news from the police that the six individuals involved have been arrested and are currently in custody."
"They will soon be prosecuted by the public prosecutor’s office. The ringleader will likely be sentenced to ten years, and the accomplices to around six years."
The "robbery" that took place in the afternoon saw the six suspects arrested by that same evening. The Ancient Wood hadn’t even warmed their hands before they were locked up. They even ended up paying an extra 2,000 yuan for appraisal fees.
At the same time, this broke the record for the highest sentence among his four videos.
"Dude! The UP is fierce! The number of people he sends away keeps increasing. This time it was six at once!"
"The sentence record is broken—ten years! In the short term, nobody is likely to break that record!"
"These guys are so done for! Looking forward to the next ’victim’!"
"’Victim’? Watch your words! Don’t think you’re safe from a lawyer’s letter just because this is Sister Lan’s live stream room. They’re clearly the ’lucky ones’!"
"Right, Sister Lan, for your and your family’s safety, remember to like the video!"
"..."
Qing Lan glanced at her live stream room and shook her head helplessly. Ever since Qin Mu’s account appeared, she found that the audience in her live stream room had been heading in an increasingly comical direction.
After that, she liked the video, contributed coins, and performed the "one-click triple," then turned her attention to the video’s comment section.
Just like his previous comment sections, this one... was impeccably clean. There were no swear words or negative sentiments. All were positive comments like, "The weather is nice," "I had a fever of 38 degrees today," or "How is everyone feeling?" Not a single comment was related to the video’s content.
It seemed to have become an unwritten rule, as if commenting there... could carry a great risk.
「At the same time.」
「Qianzhou.」
In an ordinary residential complex, Ma Ming sat in front of his computer, looking at the comment section of one of his exposé videos. He felt enormous pressure.
This video, his latest release, revealed another identity of the UP. As a result, it had attracted a like from that very UP, scaring Ma Ming into several sleepless nights. Later, when it seemed like nothing would happen, he gradually calmed down. After all, he was just exposing facts and hadn’t infringed on anyone’s reputation rights or anything similar.
But... in the middle of the night, that UP released a new video. And then, all those "homeless" netizens with "nowhere to vent" flocked to the comment section of *his* video, commenting incessantly. This made the cumulative comment count on his video break ten thousand!
"Did you guys see it? The UP released a new video! I didn’t dare say too much under the original video; I just commented that the weather was nice."
"I saw it too. I also didn’t dare speak recklessly. This time the UP sent six more people in—what a big move!"
"To be honest, those fishermen deserved it, thinking they could get away with two million yuan worth of Ancient Wood!"
"If it were me, I might have revealed the truth on the spot and sent them away. I didn’t expect the UP to be even more cunning, feigning weakness only to send them to jail with a backhand move."
"The UP is petty; good thing I liked the original video..."
"..."
Ma Ming watched as the "dangerous" comments kept refreshing in his backend. He couldn’t help but swallow hard.
These netizens had already turned this place into their secret base, thinking the UP didn’t know about it, so they spoke very freely. But little did they know... that UP had already discovered his account!