Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don't Call Me a Demon!

Three days later.

The Xinzheng City Flower Festival arrived as scheduled.

Xinzheng City is a sacred place for flower planting, and it produces a large quantity of flowers for the market every year.

Just in Xinzheng City alone, the output of flowers accounts for 15% of the local GDP.

Therefore, to attract investors, tourists, and purchasers, a grand celebration is held at the festival every year.

On the bustling streets, stalls were stacked with various vibrant flowers, and residents and tourists were coming and going, participating in this annual festival.

In the central square of Xinzheng City, there was an even larger gathering of people.

On the south side of the square, a huge screen was set up for promotional purposes by the festival organizers, displaying various promotional videos.

"Huh, why has the screen changed?"

A tourist looked at the screen, where the content suddenly changed to a video clearly shot in an automated breeding farm.

At first, the video appeared normal, but soon enough, the pigs in the breeding farm began to convulse violently, fall to the ground, and develop worm-like veins protruding from their skin.

It seemed as if they had contracted some terrible disease and struggled briefly before dying.

More and more tourists and citizens on the square turned their heads and noticed the change in the screen content.

Out of curiosity, and as the video continued, some locals recognized that the breeding farm shown was owned by Yikang Company.

When that video ended, a new segment appeared.

Yu Duanchong, the CEO of Yikang Company, along with a group of senior executives were gathered, secretly planning their strategy.

"Completely block the news about swine fever…"

"Go to your brother-in-law, get a certificate of animal health…"

"Have the slaughterhouse process the infected pigs 24 hours a day, and sell them off at low prices as quickly as possible,"

In the video, orders issued by Yu Duanchong were being listened to and watched by the crowd on the square.

When the crowd heard Yu Duanchong personally order the sale of four million infected pigs to the market, the square instantly burst into uproar.

"Damn it, is Yikang Company even human, to actually sell millions of diseased pigs to the market?"

"Ugh, I just bought pork from the market today, almost all of our local pork comes from Yikang Company. I wondered why the price of pork had dropped so much today; it turns out to be because of the diseased pigs."

"This boss, I remember his name is Yu Duanchong, he was even once nominated as one of the top ten outstanding entrepreneurs in the province. I can't believe he's such a rotten scoundrel, stopping at nothing to make money."

Curses rose all around the square, particularly from the locals of Xinzheng City. Hearing that diseased pigs had entered the market, they were infuriated and wished they could grab Yu Duanchong and beat him up, since the pork they were eating might well be from diseased pigs.

"What exactly is going on with the screen? Go fix it now."

The organizers of the flower festival on the square realized something was wrong and hurried backstage, only to find it locked by someone unknown, leaving them no choice but to turn off the power.

But by that time, it was already too late. As the staff turned off the screen, the content of the video had already been recorded by the tourists and citizens with their phones, and sent online, where the related videos were quickly spreading across the internet.

The era of self-media is now. As soon as the public hears about major news, with the help of the internet, it can quickly spread far and wide.

And seeing the trending news, the media, carrying cameras and other equipment, raced to Pugang Farm, eager to gather firsthand news.

...

"What are you doing? What do you want? This is our breeding base, unrelated personnel should leave immediately."

At the entrance of Pugang Farm, security guards were sweating buckets, desperately trying to stop journalists from entering.

"Is it true that your farm has had an outbreak of swine fever and you are letting infected pork enter the market?"

"We have press freedom, if you're not guilty, why won't you let us in?"

"Where is Yu Duanchong? Ask him to come out and say a few words."

The journalists were not easy to deal with, absolutely refusing to leave the entrance.

Some tried to forcefully break in, others sneakily climbed over walls, and some used their connections to attempt contacting employees working at Pugang Farm, employing various methods to get direct evidence.

The farm was pushed to the brink, with security guards continually blocking them.

Xie Yulei from Phoenix City TV Station was pushing and trying to break through the security defense.

Just then, a phone call suddenly came in.

"I have whistleblower material regarding Yikang Company selling infected pork. If you're interested, walk twenty meters to the left. There's a recessed crack in the wall there with something you want?"

A harsh, unpleasant voice came from the other end of the phone before hanging up.

Xie Yulei held her phone, a glint of joy flashing in her eyes as she quickly walked to the indicated spot and indeed found a USB drive in the crack of the wall.

"I have the material you need, just under the flower bed on your right hand side."

"Video revealing the insider dealings at Pugang Farm, the location is..."

At the entrance of Pugang Farm, several journalists received similar mysterious calls.

The person on the phone hung up immediately after stating the location.

The journalists who obtained critical material rushed back to their companies, and news was being broadcast overnight.

In front of the TV, when viewers saw the automated slaughterhouse cutting and dissecting swine that had been dead for a long time and were clearly infected, the scene was disgustingly horrific.

As well as the bulldozer pushing the corpses into a freezer, stacking them up like a mountain, the public's emotions exploded.

"Shock! Yikang Company allows 4 million infected pigs to flood the market, ignoring public safety for profit."

"Massive outbreak of swine fever at Yikang Pugang Farm. 4 million pigs died overnight and yet they chose to do this..."

"Selling sick and infected pigs, money versus safe meat, Yikang Company chose the former, making the public pay for the company's losses with their health."

"A den of iniquity, not only neglecting to dispose of infected pigs but also colluding internally and externally, fabricating fake inspection certificates. Such vile behavior must be sternly punished, and Yikang Company's top executives and responsible personnel arrested."

"Raising pigs has dulled their senses, do they really think we are pigs too? Let this trash company be ousted from the market."

One eye-catching headline after another appeared online, drawing an immense amount of attention and dominating the top of the trending searches.

Overnight, Yikang Company was being denounced across the entire network.

Yikang Company's stock price plummeted repeatedly, and angry locals smashed the windows of Yikang Company's building.

Banks and suppliers joined together demanding immediate debt repayment from Yikang Company.

Batch after batch of people brought pork that had come from Yikang Company for testing, and substantial amounts of abnormal data confirmed the reality of infected pigs.

The controversy intensified, but Yikang Company had yet to make any response, because by this point, the scandal of selling infected pigs was irrefutable.