A luxury hotel.
"President Liu, what are you doing? Let me go!"
A young woman in her early twenties was being pinned down on the bed by a bald man in his fifties.
The company asked her to deliver documents to the boss. She had just graduated from university and had little life experience. She arrived at the hotel happily, but the boss took a liking to her and wanted to force himself on her.
"Stop pretending. I've had plenty of guys like you when it comes to college students."
"Hey! If you touch me again, I'll call the police!"
"Hehe, the last one who called the police has already been eaten by the supernatural. You'd better behave yourself. I can not only make you a full-fledged employee, but also promote you. If you serve me well, I might even help you become a monster hunter."
While threatening the girl, the bald man also groped her clothes.
The girl was also fierce; she struggled desperately, scratching and clawing, until she broke the bald man's oily old face.
Enraged, the man slapped the girl hard across the face, making her see stars and feel dizzy.
Just as she was about to shout, she suddenly heard a strange noise, followed by a wet, hot liquid splashed onto her face and body, carrying a strong smell of blood.
"ah!"
When she regained her sight and saw the scene before her, she immediately let out a piercing scream.
The boss who had bullied her earlier, except for his head, had all his other body parts turned into pieces of flesh. His bones and internal organs were placed aside, just like when slaughtering pigs or cows, the offal is taken out and piled up separately.
The girl saw that there was another person in the room, attacking the two eerie creatures that were floating out of President Liu's body.
But in the blink of an eye, the two strange occurrences were resolved.
The man glanced back at the girl, then smashed through the window, flew into the night sky, and disappeared.
A dozen minutes later, a team of police officers and several ghost hunters arrived at the scene.
After an investigation, the girl was taken back to the police station to give a statement and have a sketch of the perpetrator made.
More than half an hour later, the murderer's portrait appeared at the Liu family's house.
"Isn't this Mo Ji? How could he be the murderer?"
“Mo Ji is the younger brother of the Mo family patriarch and holds real power in the family. He has no reason to kill members of our Liu family. Even if he wanted to, he wouldn’t need to do it himself!”
"That's right. Other families must have known that we were going to form a marriage alliance with the Mo family and deliberately framed the Mo family. Otherwise, they wouldn't have left any survivors."
"But in just two days, five members of our Liu family have been inexplicably killed. Who is targeting our Liu family?"
The core members of the Liu family gathered together, all deeply troubled by recent events.
Ever since the news broke that the red-clad courtesan of the Liu family had gone missing, various families have been secretly inquiring and probing, and some have even deliberately caused trouble and created friction.
The Liu family responded quickly, immediately announcing their intention to form a marriage alliance with the Mo family. Although no agreement had been reached yet, the news had already spread, and the other families indeed chose to wait and see.
Unexpectedly, before things had even calmed down for two days, members of the Liu family were killed one after another.
Some appear to be accidental deaths, while others are clearly premeditated murders.
Liu Zhentian's face was full of wrinkles, but his eyes were bright and piercing. He scanned the Liu family members and said in a deep voice, "Don't panic. My Liu family has been passed down for thousands of years. What kind of storms haven't we weathered?"
"It must be other families putting pressure on us, seeing if we dare to fight back. If we show any weakness, they will pounce and tear my Liu family to shreds."
Someone asked, "Then what should we do? Should we assassinate the other families' members and retaliate?"
Liu Zhentian shook his head. "No, we can't make enemies of all the families, or we'll die even faster. We can assassinate the Bai family. Anyway, the Bai family has always been our mortal enemy. Whether it was the Bai family who did it or not, we'll pin it on them."
However, we can only kill the less important people on the periphery; we can't completely enrage the Bai family yet. Our goal is to show the other families that the Liu family is not a coward.
Furthermore, we should finalize the marriage alliance with the Mohist school as soon as possible. We can offer some of our assets as dowry to ensure that the Mohist school agrees to the marriage and publicly expresses their support for the Liu family.
These words finally calmed the panicked hearts of the Liu family members.
Liu Zhentian is the pillar of the Liu family, capable of handling anything with composure.
Suddenly, a middle-aged man had an idea, "Could it be that Xia Tianqiong is taking revenge on our Liu family?"
A graceful woman standing nearby said, "Isn't he hunting monsters all over the country? I saw his videos online this morning."
Liu Zhentian thought for a moment and shook his head, saying, "If he really has the ability to deal with Li Gui, he is very likely to come directly to our door. After all, he is young and impetuous and cannot endure indefinitely."
I think it's unlikely to be him, but we still need to keep a close eye on his movements; he might come to the capital to take revenge on us at any time.
Little did he know that Xia Tianqiong had already arrived in the capital, and that those people were killed by Xia Tianqiong.
Around midnight, the night was thick.
Strange occurrences were happening all over the capital, but they were quickly apprehended by official ghost hunters and did not cause much of an impact.
Most people were already asleep, but the tenth basement level of a certain building was still bustling with noise and unusual activity.
This is the "strange arena" that was very famous in the previous life.
Some call it the "Rule of Life and Death Arena" because it has two modes: one is a direct battle between humans and the supernatural, which is simple and bloody; the other is to break the supernatural rules of death, which is a contest of intelligence and luck.
In her previous life, Xia Tianqiong had only heard of this place but had never been there.
Because he was too poor, he wasn't qualified to come.
He did come this time, but he didn't buy a ticket; he just teleported in.
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