Chapter 178 Childbirth
A scarlet light shot out from the jade bottle in the hand of the Goddess of Mercy who grants children, piercing Bai Li's round belly like a sharp arrow.
She arched her back in pain, gripping the prayer mat tightly with both hands, her knuckles turning white from the force.
Under the horrified gazes of the crowd, Bai Li's stomach suddenly began to writhe strangely, and a beam of blood shot out of her body and plunged straight into Luo Yinglang's abdomen.
"ah--!!"
Luo Yinglang screamed as he tore open his custom-made suit, buttons flying everywhere.
His abdomen swelled up at a visible rate, his skin stretched to the point of being almost transparent, and his bluish-purple veins were clearly visible.
Even more frightening is that the raised area is wriggling rhythmically, and you can even see tiny handprints pushing out from the inside.
"Get out! Take this monstrosity out of here!"
He frantically pounded his stomach, only to be met with even more intense fetal movements.
The expensive trousers ripped open with a "rip," revealing a belly covered in stretch marks.
Master Huiming staggered back several steps, his withered fingers trembling as he pointed at the statue: "Demon, how dare you desecrate the statue of Guanyin..."
The Guanyin statue tilted its head slightly, a look of confusion appearing on its compassionate face: "Amitabha, old monk, what makes you say such a thing?"
The Guanyin statue gently raised her jade-like finger, and a faint glow appeared at the fingertip: "The Luo family makes devout offerings, and all they ask for is for the incense to continue forever."
She suddenly chuckled softly, a laugh as clear as a spring striking a stone, yet it sent chills down the spines of everyone present. "Now that the legitimate son is pregnant with the legitimate grandson, the bloodline is pure. Doesn't this perfectly align with the ancestral precept of 'the legitimate line'?"
Bai Li slumped weakly to the ground, gently stroking her flat stomach. Listening to the absurd debate between Guanyin and the old monk, she couldn't help but laugh.
Her silvery laughter mingled with Luo Yinglang's roars, creating an eerie atmosphere in the Buddhist hall.
Outside the Buddhist hall, the servants who rushed over upon hearing the commotion were horrified to see...
Luo Yinglang's belly was swollen like that of a pregnant woman about to give birth, and the white jade Guanyin statue that had been enshrined for ten years suddenly shattered in full view of everyone, with flying jade fragments falling like snowflakes.
Luo Yinglang, his veins bulging, gripped Master Huiming's robe tightly: "Master, save me!"
The old monk's prayer beads were scattered all over the ground. He stared at the Guanyin statue, now reduced to dust, his Adam's apple bobbing several times. Finally, he gritted his teeth and pulled out a yellowed talisman to ward off evil.
The moment the talisman was applied to Luo Yinglang's belly, the bulging skin suddenly emitted a "sizzling" burning sound.
"This...this is the work of a vengeful spirit!" Huiming's monk's robe was soaked with cold sweat. "You must sincerely repent—"
"Stop talking nonsense!" Luo Yinglang's face was contorted as he frantically pounded his swollen belly with his hands. "I want this thing to get out of my body! Ah—!"
Click—
His screams stopped abruptly as a cracking sound, like bones dislocating, came from his abdomen.
The sound of sirens grew louder as they approached.
The door to the Buddhist temple was kicked open, and several armed police officers rushed in.
They saw Luo Yinglang lying face up amidst the shattered jade, a gruesome bloody hole torn open in his abdomen.
A sticky baby crawled out of the hole.
The body camera of the officer in charge flashed red, faithfully recording this horrifying scene.
The emergency call clearly stated "illegal surrogacy," but the scene before me...
"What...what is this?" the young officer asked, his voice trembling. "Male...male childbirth?"
Bai Li huddled in a corner of the Buddhist hall, her pajamas soaked with cold sweat, her whole body trembling uncontrollably.
A policewoman knelt down and gently draped her police jacket over her shoulders.
"Don't be afraid, we are police officers. What happened here?" The policewoman's voice was professionally calm.
Bai Li lowered her head blankly, her fingers trembling as she stroked her flat stomach.
There once was a life that was born there, but now it is empty.
She opened her mouth, but no sound came out.
Where should I begin?
Surrogacy contract, operating room, months of imprisonment, fetus suddenly transferred to a man's body, and that Guanyin statue that sheds tears...
All of this was as absurd as a nightmare, yet it was indeed the reality she experienced.
"Karma...hehe...it's all karma..."
Zhou Yanzhi clung to the door frame, grinning foolishly, her silver-white hair disheveled like withered grass.
"Old lady?" the policewoman tried to approach.
Zhou Yanzhi suddenly widened her eyes, pointed at Bai Li's belly and sneered: "Look! Her belly has moved onto Yinglang's body!"
She rushed to Luo Yinglang's side, whose fate was unknown, and picked up the baby.
"The eldest son of the family... Hahaha... The Luo family finally has a legitimate grandson!"
As Bai Li was helped out of the Buddhist hall, she heard Zhou Yanzhi humming an off-key lullaby behind her.
She was startled, but the policewoman gently pressed her shoulder: "It's alright, it's all over."
...
The case of Rogowski's death was closed as a "paranormal event".
The police file was marked in red with "A wronged soul seeking revenge, no case to be filed".
On the day the case was closed, the police officers involved in the investigation went to a temple to offer incense.
In the hospital ward, Bai Li finally met her rescued mother.
When she saw the bruises on her mother's wrists from being tied up, she cried until she almost fainted.
The mother's trembling hand stroked her daughter's flat stomach, tears soaking her hospital gown: "It's all my fault for dragging you down..."
Although Luo Yinglang survived, his abdominal organs were severely damaged, he always had two fecal bags hanging from his waist, and his body reeked of decay.
The court sentenced him to seven years in prison for illegal surrogacy and illegal detention, fined him RMB 8 million, and deprived him of his political rights for two years.
However, due to his complete physical collapse, the court ultimately ruled that his release from prison be handled outside of jail.
He lived a precarious existence in a dilapidated apartment on the outskirts of Beijing, shackled by electronic chains, and was roused every night by nightmares of his stomach bursting open.
As the joint decision-makers in the illegal surrogacy, Ruan's parents were sentenced to three years in prison with a five-year suspended sentence and fined RMB 2 million.
The once illustrious Ruan family has now become a laughing stock in high society.
Ruan's father went around trying to use his old connections to exonerate himself.
However, everyone who agreed to help experienced terrifying dreams that night.
Wow—wow—
The piercing cries of a newborn baby rang out precisely at midnight.
They dreamt that they were being ridden on the chest by a blood-soaked infant, whose bluish-purple little hands were tightly gripping their throats.
Within three days, no one dared to answer the Ruan family's calls anymore.
Ruan's parents, who had enjoyed a life of glory, lost their honor in their later years and were imprisoned.
While they were in prison, babies would ride on their shoulders, grab their hair, and giggle.
The Luo and Ruan families both fell into the abyss.
This marriage ultimately turned into an irreconcilable feud.
The "grandson" who crawled out of Luo Yinglang's belly, although he stole Ruan Yanya's frozen eggs when she was young, did not sign the surrogacy contract.
Ruan Yanya took off her sunglasses in court and looked coldly at the crying baby. "This monster has nothing to do with me."
Grandma Luo, Zhou Yanzhi, was willing to raise him, after all, he was her beloved grandson.
Unfortunately, she was mentally unstable and was soon sent to a mental hospital, while the child was eventually taken away by an orphanage.
As for the Scarface and others who kidnapped Bai Li's mother, the gang had long operated a black industrial chain of "debt collection-coercion-surrogacy brokerage," coercing a total of 11 women to participate in illegal surrogacy.
The police had been pursuing the ringleader, Scarface Zhang Tiezhu, and his accomplices, including Li Laosan, but when they finally found them, they were already several cold corpses.
The surrogate girls they were holding were all empty-bellied; the fetuses had all been transferred into their wombs.
The main culprit, Zhang Tiezhu, lay in a pool of blood, a gruesome hole ripped open in his abdomen.
His signature scarred face was contorted into an inhuman arc, his hands still in the gesture of tearing at his stomach.
Inside the ruptured abdominal cavity, three fully formed fetuses were curled up.
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