Chapter 59: Chapter 59: The Viral Ballpoint Pen

[AHHHH! I’m so pissed! Death by a thousand cuts wouldn’t even be enough for those people!]

[It’s not that old people have gone bad! It’s that bad people have gotten old! When will all the human traffickers finally die off!]

[There are so many cases like this. Why doesn’t heaven just strike down those scumbags who are rotten to the core!]

Zhao Yu watched the live stream with a heavy heart, then finally spoke up. "I should call the police first. If it really is that case, the impact will be huge."

Zhao Yu dialed the police directly from the live stream, and officers arrived shortly after.

Some of their people had also been following Wen Ying, so they naturally knew about the live stream.

This had been a major case back then. The officer looked at Wen Ying, momentarily conflicted. ’Should I take her in for questioning, or should I wait?’

’A live stream like this won’t be over for a few hours, right?’

’Maybe I should just take her with me. But this streamer seems a bit different. A few days ago, a colleague came here to buy a talisman... oh, no, medicine!’

Because of that medicine, his colleagues had managed to avoid injury while apprehending a criminal who was wielding a dangerous knife. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Even though they were police from a small town and weren’t famous, everyone at the station knew she had helped them.

It was just that confidentiality protocols had kept the story from getting out.

[I think this young officer wants to question Doctor Wen, right? Look at that poor, conflicted expression~]

[Isn’t that obvious? It just means we’ll probably have to wait for Doctor Wen to finish assisting with the investigation again!]

[Go ahead, Doctor Wen, I support you! As a member of this stream, I feel proud that I can cooperate with the police by supporting Doctor Wen! I’m so proud! Now I can go around telling people I’m a fan who’s done their patriotic duty!]

[The person above is something else! But I support it too! I love my country and I’m proud!]

"Alright then, I’ll start the stream again at one this afternoon. Since I’ve made everyone wait so long, I’ll do a little prize drawing for you all this afternoon!"

After ending the stream, Wen Ying and Zhao Yu cooperated with the police. But how should the case report be written?

After all, Wen Ying knew about this case through a deduction made during a psychological consultation...

...although it was a deduction made through a third party...

But since she was someone who had helped them before, someone who had demonstrated her... ’unconventional’ abilities, the station quickly dispatched officers to search the base of the cliff after she reported it.

Wen Ying and Zhao Yu politely declined the officers’ invitation to treat them to a meal.

"Doctor Wen, I think the reward money should belong to you," Zhao Yu said. "The platform found out what I did here and will be rewarding me as well. This incident will probably be reported, which is a win-win for both me and the platform. So I hope you can accept this money."

Wen Ying didn’t refuse.

The search would take two days. Normally, the subsequent procedures would be complicated without any evidence, but this time, there happened to be something that could prove the person’s identity. As long as it was found, the case could be closed quickly.

The station had also moved to arrest the criminal Wen Ying had identified.

Wen Ying was only at the police station for two hours, but in that time, three topics had quietly climbed to the top of the hot search rankings.

#ThreeYearOldMissingPersonCaseSolvedOnLiveStream#

#DoctorWensBallpointPenInHerHair#

#OMG!StunninglyBeautiful#

[Two hours have passed, Doctor Wen should be back by now, right? I’m dying to know what the prizes are~~]

[The prize is one call with the person above! Happy now, hahahahaha!]

[The hot search is insane! I’ve discovered Doctor Wen is an absolute hot search magnet! Three trending topics!]

[Let’s wait for the official announcement on the case! As for the master who drew Doctor Wen, I just want to say: You’re a god! I bow to you!]

[I’m curious what brand of ballpoint pen Doctor Wen uses?]

[Dying laughing! This is a ballpoint pen that went viral! The king of ballpoint pens!]

[I just checked, and sales for similar ballpoint pens on a certain platform have skyrocketed!]

[Doctor Wen single-handedly boosted the sales of ballpoint pens on a certain platform! They should give Doctor Wen an endorsement fee!]

After learning about the follow-up on Miao Miao’s situation from Wen Ying, Zhao Yu was relieved. He didn’t follow Wen Ying back to the clinic.

Instead, he returned to his hotel alone. He wanted to tell Miao Miao what had happened.

Zhao Yu received a message from a colleague. He opened Weibo and even showed the comments about the incident from the hot search to Miao Miao, though he didn’t know if she could see them.

But at least, he did it.

On her way back to the clinic, Wen Ying bought a stir-fried pork over rice.

While eating, she felt it was rather boring without the system, so Wen Ying opened Weibo.

When she saw the trending topics, Wen Ying glanced at her follower count. Her Weibo account already had 1.8 million followers!

’My reputation value must be pretty high too, but I can’t see it now. I’ll have to wait for the system upgrade to finish.’

Wen Ying felt a faint sense of anticipation.

She briefly scanned the comments on the first trending topic. Most of them were positive. The occasional hater would pop up, but they were quickly shut down.

But she never expected that the ballpoint pen she always used had actually gone viral.

’This was truly beyond my expectations.’

The comment section was buzzing with activity. Wen Ying picked a few to reply to.

[I really want to ask the streamer, does this ballpoint pen have some kind of special power? Like, can it tell fortunes, like a pen spirit?]

Reply: It’s cheap! Bought it for fifty cents. Everyone must believe in science! Let the light of science shine upon the land!

[Streamer, which store did you buy this ballpoint pen from? Is it available online? Link please!]

Reply: At one of those little supermarkets on the side of the road in town. Fifty cents for one, or you can get three for a dollar. Don’t go for looks, practicality is king!

[Doctor Wen, is sticking a ballpoint pen in your hair a new fashion trend?]

Reply: It’s convenient. It doesn’t take up pocket space, and you can also use it to tie up your hair. It’s so multi-functional.

[Doctor Wen, how are you so beautiful! Did you get plastic surgery?]

Reply: Natural-born beauty is a burden, alas. Too poor~ No money for plastic surgery.

After replying to a dozen or so comments, Wen Ying found the blogger who had drawn her portrait, gave it a "like," and then followed them!

’This must be fate.’

The painting didn’t depict her in today’s clothes, but rather from the day she went to the Ancient Street. She was holding an oil-paper umbrella, her hair tied up with the ballpoint pen. The figure in the painting captured about eighty percent of her essence, and that ballpoint pen in particular, combined with the trending topic, had truly gone viral!

Wen Ying couldn’t help but take the ballpoint pen out of her hair and examine it seriously. It was already a little worn from use.

’I was about to throw this away after a little more use, but why do I suddenly feel like its value has skyrocketed?’

It really was just a very ordinary ballpoint pen from a supermarket. But after seeing the trending topics, it somehow looked a bit more pleasing to the eye.

’If I were to auction this off, could it sell for a few hundred bucks?’

She hadn’t even finished her meal yet, but Wen Ying was already lost in a daydream about those few hundred dollars.

CLATTER!

Carelessly, she dropped the ballpoint pen. It slipped through her fingers and fell to the floor, and a crack appeared on its body.

’In the end, it couldn’t bear the weight of all that karma after all.’