Chapter 38: There's a Big Scandal!

"Their families are quite impoverished, as you well know, Brother Wen. After awakening as Divine Pact Bearers, their demand for resources multiplies. Even their basic appetite and nutritional needs have increased to a terrifying degree."

Nangong Zhiwen frowned slightly and said in a low voice, "I know all that, but doesn't the state provide special care for Divine Pact Bearers? They..."

"Brother Wen," Bao Long sneered, "children from such impoverished backgrounds might not even know how to report their status as Divine Pact Bearers. They probably don't even realize that their sudden surge in appetite and nutritional requirements is because they have awakened a Divine Realm."

Bao Long's words made Nangong Zhiwen pause slightly.

In truth, this kind of situation happened frequently in countries all over the world.

The poorer the nation, the more common the phenomenon.

"If even the state couldn't find them, how did you find them?" Nangong Zhiwen asked in a low voice.

Bao Long shook his head and looked at Nangong Zhiwen, saying, "I didn't find these girls."

"Then who did?" Nangong Zhiwen frowned slightly.

Bao Long took a deep breath, pointed at a blister pack of pills inside the suitcase, and said, "Him."

Nangong Zhiwen's expression turned slightly doubtful. He picked up the pack of pills and looked at Bao Long. "The person who supplied you with this medicine?"

"Yes..." Bao Long nodded, saying, "This person... I don't even know his real name. He calls himself Dr. K, and he's a foreigner."

"A foreigner?" Nangong Zhiwen's brows furrowed again.

Bao Long nodded once more. "Yes, he regularly supplies me with this medicine so I can make money. He doesn't take a single cent of the money I make from these pills, but I am responsible for housing and feeding the girls he sends over..."

"All of these girls are Divine Pact Bearers, and without exception, they are extremely obedient. Whatever they are told to do, they do without ever refusing."

"Since I was housing them anyway with nothing else to do, I just..."

"What is the purpose of keeping them?" Nangong Zhiwen asked again.

Bao Long took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "Dr. K never told me, but I've more or less figured it out..."

With that, Bao Long walked toward one of the girls and abruptly tore away the meager piece of clothing covering her upper body.

The young girl's expression was numb, entirely devoid of the shame a normal girl should possess. She simply stood there without the slightest intention of resisting.

Nangong Zhiwen instinctively wanted to cover his eyes, but when he saw the Y-shaped surgical scar on the girl's chest, his eyes widened instantly.

"This is... organ trafficking?!" Nangong Zhiwen abruptly stood up, glaring at Bao Long as he roared, "Bao Long, you've got some nerve! You actually dare to run this kind of business?!"

"You're finished!"

"Brother Wen!" Bao Long suddenly dropped to his knees before Nangong Zhiwen.

Seeing Bao Long's behavior, Nangong Zhiwen showed no trace of softness. He said coldly, "Don't try that crap with me. You've done something like this, and there's no saving you! Prepare to face the judgment of the law!"

Yet Bao Long shook his head, looking up at Nangong Zhiwen. "Brother Wen, this is far more serious than organ trafficking..."

"That's why I didn't dare let you find out. If you knew, even ten thousand heads wouldn't be enough for me to lose..."

"M-more serious than organ trafficking?!" Nangong Zhiwen looked at Bao Long in shock, a terrifying possibility flashing through his mind instantly. "Could it be... could it be the transplantation of Divine Realms?!"

Bao Long immediately nodded. "That's right, it's the transplantation of Divine Realms..."

At this point, sorrow finally appeared on the faces of those girls, and tears began to stream down the cheeks of a few.

"What on earth is going on! Tell me everything, detail by detail!" Nangong Zhiwen suppressed his burning anger and said in a deep voice.

It turned out that this foreigner named Dr. K had been hiding among the civilians of the Dragon Country, searching for undetected Divine Pact Bearers—especially young girls. He would trap them using predatory loans, and when they failed to repay the debt, they would be reduced to incubation vessels for Dr. K's Divine Realm experiments.

Dr. K would cut an opening in their chests to periodically monitor the growth of their Divine Realms. When the time was right, he would surgically harvest their Divine Realms alive and sell them to ordinary people who lacked Divine Realms but desperately wanted to become Divine Pact Bearers.

He had been running this malicious, black-market industrial chain for more than a decade, right here within the Dragon Country.

Divine Realms that grew to a certain degree would be extracted and sold for transplantation, while those that failed to grow properly would be forced into contracts with garbage foreign deities, all to plunder the national fortune of the Dragon Country.

As for the lives of these girls, in Dr. K's eyes, they were utterly worthless.

Nangong Zhiwen's chest heaved violently, his anger clearly reaching its breaking point. He turned his gaze back to Bao Long and said coldly, "Bao Long... I truly never imagined you would dare to do something like this!"

Kneeling at Nangong Zhiwen's feet, Bao Long suddenly broke down, wailing miserably, "Brother Wen! Brother Wen, I had no choice!"

"My mother was kidnapped by Dr. K! If I didn't do this, my old mom would lose her life!"

"He even resorts to kidnapping?!" Nangong Zhiwen said coldly, "Why didn't you tell me sooner?!"

At a loss for how to reply, Bao Long could only shake his head. "Brother Wen, this Dr. K is terrifying. I... I didn't dare resist..."

"I—I can redeem myself through meritorious service! I have a massive secret! If I spill this, I am guaranteed to make a monumental contribution!!!"

"Brother Wen, I'm begging you, please help me! I don't want to die! I was being threatened too!"

Hearing about the massive secret Bao Long claimed to possess, Nangong Zhiwen's interest was suddenly piqued. He immediately said, "Fine then, let's hear this massive secret of yours."

"The Ji family!" Bao Long blurted out immediately.

At the mention of the "Ji family," Nangong Zhiwen's eyes widened instantly.

The Ji family was precisely what Nangong Lingyue had asked him to investigate.

He had originally thought that coming here today was simply to retrieve medicine for Xie Baorong, a witness who could prove that Ji Yun intended to assassinate Ji Ling.

Never had he imagined that, through a twist of fate, he would uncover other clues directly related to the Ji family!

"Go on!" Nangong Zhiwen's breathing suddenly turned ragged.

"The transplantation of the Divine Realm between the Ji family brothers was performed by Dr. K!" Bao Long said hurriedly. "I went there to assist at the time! I saw it with my own eyes!"

"Ji Ling, the eldest son of the Ji family who was brought back, had his Divine Realm cut out by Dr. K and transplanted into the younger son, Ji Yun!"

"This is 100% true! I swear it on my life!"

"Dr. K trusts you that much? He even let you know about something like this?" Nangong Zhiwen narrowed his eyes slightly, staring down at Bao Long.