Chapter 83 Worse than Pigs and Dogs

The old man's name is Xu Guoan, he is nearly ninety years old. He lost his father at a young age and his widowed mother worked hard to raise him. Because his father was an only child and he had no uncles or aunts to help him, the neighbors and relatives bullied them, an orphan and a widow.

He finally grew up and started a family, but his mother died of illness from overwork. He then became obsessed with the idea that having many children and grandchildren was a blessing. So he and his wife had eight children in a row: five sons and three daughters.

The couple raised them with great difficulty by growing and selling watermelons. During the famine, they even insisted on giving the last food in their home to their children when they were almost starving. They managed to raise all eight children.

Now all eight children have their own careers and families, and some have even become grandparents. Even the least promising children have their own children who have made considerable achievements in their careers, and it is no problem for them to raise their own children while also providing for their parents in their old age.

With so many children and grandchildren, it's time for the old couple to enjoy their lives.

But with such a large family with four generations living under one roof, everyone should envy them for their prosperity, but no one is willing to provide for the elderly Xu Guoan and his wife in their old age.

At the beginning, although the children had their own little thoughts, the grandchildren had received a good education and were quite filial. However, as they each started their own families, they regarded the two old people who were too old to grow watermelons to make money, had no pension, and whose ideas were still stuck in the poor times as a burden.

At first, they were kicked around like balls. Later, everyone got tired of them and sent them to nursing homes for no reason, saying that they had no time to take care of them.

But after a while, they had to take the two elderly people back home. Because they chose the cheapest private nursing home, and no one was willing to take time to visit them, the nursing home caregivers were very snobbish and often scolded the two elderly people. Their faces were swollen. They called and begged their children and grandchildren to take them back, but no one listened.

In the end, the old man had no choice but to cooperate with the old lady, find an opportunity to sneak out, and ran to the workplace of his grandson who was a civil servant to make trouble. Only then did they have no choice but to take the two old people out.

Then, it was like a ball being kicked back and forth again. They had completely stopped trying to hide their annoyance towards the old man, and several times the two old men heard them cursing the old man behind his back.

The old lady was depressed, and coupled with the damage done to her body by years of hard work, she soon passed away. The old lady was left alone to continue to toss and turn between her children and grandchildren, being tossed around like a ball by them.

Later, the old man finally got fed up and insisted on going back to live in the dilapidated house in his hometown. His children and grandchildren were finally happy and went back to repair his dilapidated house. It was a happy time for the whole family, and there was no quarrel or fight over the support of the old man.

But this cannot last long, because as long as the elderly are alive, they need to pay a certain amount of support every month.

Looking at the blood they had to pay every month, even though it was very little after being divided equally among the eight families, it was still their hard-earned money. Moreover, the elderly were old and often had to be hospitalized and take medicine, which was the biggest expense.

After the old man was hospitalized again and admitted to the ICU, family conflicts broke out again. Several of his children were in their sixties and seventies, but they still fought in the hospital over who would pay for the medical bills and pulled each other's hair. It was very ugly.

After that incident, they completely stopped pretending and never treated the old man kindly. They would yell at him loudly if they were not satisfied. The grandchildren and great-grandchildren followed suit, pointing at the old man's nose and cursing, "Old man, why haven't you died yet? Just die soon!"

The Special Management Bureau was able to find out so much because everyone in the village knew that the family had completely made no secret of it and left the old man alone in his hometown. No one came back to see him for years. The old man was sick and couldn't get out of bed, and it was the neighbors who found him and called an ambulance. They came to the hospital cursing and didn't want to pay the medical expenses. They wanted to blackmail the neighbors who helped send the old man to the hospital. If the old man hadn't been clear-headed and didn't help them blackmail people, I'm afraid the neighbors would have had no way to explain themselves.

Who wouldn’t be angry after seeing this?

But just a month ago, members of this family began to disappear one after another. Before they disappeared, the grandchildren and great-grandchildren took leave from their work and schools, saying they were going on a trip.

Therefore, no one noticed anything wrong in a short period of time.

It was not until the Special Management Bureau investigated that they discovered something was wrong. The families of the eight children had all taken leave to travel and then disappeared.

They immediately rushed to the home of the eight children, and found the same headless skeleton as the three students from the Xuanshu Academy, and the whole family neatly placed in the living room.

Eight families, more than fifty people, including newborn babies, did not escape the disaster. It is really shocking.

The person in charge of searching for the old man's whereabouts checked the surveillance footage for an entire night and finally found the old man. He rode the tricycle full of watermelons back to the dilapidated house in his hometown.

The people from the Special Management Bureau did not dare to alert the enemy, so they quickly notified Qi Yue to go and surround the old man together.

The old man was not surprised at all to see them. He was still eating watermelon slowly. The ground was covered with watermelon peels. The air was filled with the sweet and tempting smell of watermelon, which made people salivate. They also wanted to taste the sweetness of the watermelon in this hot summer. Just one bite would surely drive away the heat and fatigue.

But everyone immediately realized what the watermelon might have been, and their faces turned pale, almost retching. Then, remembering how they'd just had a hankering to try it, their faces turned even uglier. Some people covered their mouths and began to dry heave. They felt like they might never want to eat watermelon again.

The old man laughed, a mixture of red and white liquid flowing from the corners of his mouth. "Watermelon is such a good thing, it's best to eat it now, how can you dislike it? Come and try it, I still have a lot here, if you don't finish it, it will soon go bad."

Everyone immediately became bewildered. They looked at the watermelon again. It was clearly a real watermelon, big and round, and looked sweet and delicious. How could it be a human head? The old man was right. Now was the season for eating watermelon. How could they not eat watermelon? Why not go over and try it?

Then someone walked towards the old man in a trance.

"Wake up!" A cold shout suddenly rang out, and everyone came back to their senses immediately. Thinking of what they were trying to do just now, they immediately broke out in a cold sweat and became more vigilant against the old man.

It was their fault for underestimating the enemy. Thinking that Qi Yue was there to support them, they couldn't help but look down on the old man in their hearts, giving him an opportunity to take advantage. Fortunately, Qi Yue woke them up in time, otherwise, if they took a bite of the watermelon, it would have been the most terrifying nightmare for the rest of their lives.

The old man looked at Qi Yue helplessly, "Young man, there's no need to be so nervous. I'm just an old man who suddenly gained a little bit of power. I'm nothing compared to you experienced ghost hunters. You can crush me to death with just a flick of your fingers. You've surrounded this place so tightly that not even a fly can fly out. I can't escape even if I want to, let alone I don't want to escape at all. So, relax, sit down and listen to my story. Don't you police officers also need the murderer's confession? I want to say it now. After now, maybe I won't say anything more."

Ling Yifei, the captain of the Special Management Bureau's combat department, said coldly, "If you want to say anything, come to the bureau first. When we get to the interrogation room, we'll naturally make you want to talk."

The old man was very sad. "Don't be like this. We are not human beings either. How can your attitude towards Qi Yue and me be so different?"

Everyone in the Special Management Bureau had different expressions. Some were so surprised that they couldn't help but want to look at Qi Yue, a Taoist priest who had just joined the Bureau. Some were angry and sarcastic, old employees of the Bureau who had heard some rumors a long time ago.

Ling Yifei taunted, "How can a man-eating monster like you compare to Qi Yue? No matter what Qi Yue is like, he is a hero of our human race. Who the hell are you?"

The old man seemed very sad about their double standards: "Then come and catch me! Everyone despises me and wishes I were dead. What's the point of me living?"

But no one dared to act rashly, because any Taoist priest with the ability to see the ghosts would see a neat row of ghosts kneeling at the old man's feet. They were all his descendants. They struggled and cried, begging the Special Management Bureau to save them and quickly kill the man-eating monster before them.

A black string formed from ghost energy tightly bound the limbs and necks of all the ghosts. As long as the old man had a thought, these ghosts would be immediately torn apart by the black string. This would cause great damage to the souls and might even cause the ghosts to die.

No matter how many mistakes one makes in life, they are all matters of this life. The affairs of this life are over in this life, and the soul will be judged by heaven before it is reincarnated. As long as it does not cause the destruction of other souls and there is no chance of reincarnation, no one has the right to destroy a soul under the guise of punishing evil and promoting good. Because destruction is more terrifying than death.

The old man was pleased to see that they did not dare to act rashly.

A young man wearing glasses and looking very gentle gently advised, "Old man, please talk things over nicely. After all, they are your children and grandchildren, your blood relatives. Even if they made mistakes in their lives, they are now dead and have watched you eat their corpses. This punishment is enough. There is no need to let their ghosts continue to suffer. Why not, for the sake of our family ties in this life, spare them and let them reincarnate!"

"Blood relatives? When did they ever consider me their blood relatives? Every day they wish I would die quickly so that they can get rid of this burden of me! You probably don't know, right? Others think my wife died of illness, but in fact she was very likely to be saved. It's just that none of them are willing to pay. They dragged their feet and refused to send my wife to the hospital. They also didn't allow me to call an ambulance. I even knelt on the ground and begged them, but none of them even looked at us. They were just arguing about who should pay for the medical expenses this time. They also pushed me aside because I was noisy and in the way.

"I could only watch helplessly as she cried and begged in agony. Her voice gradually grew fainter and fainter until it died away. Only then did they realize they were scared. Worried that it would be unlucky for someone to die in the house, they quickly called an ambulance and rushed her to the hospital. But it was too late. She was dead on the way! Tell me, are they still human? I must have done something wicked in my previous life to give birth to such a bunch of people who are worse than pigs and dogs!"

The old man burst into tears as he spoke.

Everyone in the Special Management Bureau looked grim. This was simply not something a human could do! They couldn't help but feel sympathy for the old man, but he was just a pitiful man. Although he had killed many people, he had only killed the unfilial descendants who had killed his wife, and had not harmed anyone else. They treated him so rudely, treating him with the same attitude as they would a vicious serial killer. It was like rubbing salt into the heart of this poor old man. It was really wrong.

Qi Yue suddenly said something that made everyone think deeply and terrified: "No matter how pitiful it is, these are all what happened to Xu Guoan. Are you Xu Guoan?"

Who else could it be but Xu Guoan?

Everyone was horrified when they thought about it, especially the old people in the Special Management Bureau like Ling Yifei, who suddenly came to their senses. They had handled many cases and had seen all kinds of pitiful people. How could they think that the old man felt sorry for the people who were killed and that they should not treat him so harshly just because he said a few pitiful words?

This old man ate a human head like a watermelon and even killed three freshmen from the Xuanshu Academy. And they actually felt sorry for him and thought he wouldn't harm anyone else? Is he mentally ill?

Qi Yue simply threw out a piece of talisman paper, and the illusion was immediately broken, revealing the true appearance of the watermelons.

year! Many people finally couldn't help but vomit.

The old man wanted to tighten the black strings wrapped around the ghosts, but Qi Yue didn't waste so much time listening to his nonsense because he was too idle. The black shadow clone had already quietly sneaked into the old man's shadow, and instantly cut the black strings that bound the ghosts, dragging them all into the shadow.

The old man's expression finally changed, and he quickly jumped away from where he was standing. His body stretched out like a snake, wrapping around the beams of the house. His neck was stretched out long, and he glared at Qi Yue with vicious and resentful eyes: "Qi Yue, do you really want to continue helping these despicable humans? You should be on our side."