Chapter 248 Risk Transfer
"remains?"
Hearing these two words, the couple shuddered all over, as if every breath they exhaled was filled with pain.
"That's right. I just said that a baby over five months old is already formed, and raising a little ghost usually requires..."
Duanrao stopped at the point, but everyone present understood what she meant.
Ms. Qi's face turned pale and she almost fainted again, but her concern for her child and her hatred for her enemy kept her going at this critical moment.
"Find him. You must find him. I, as a mother, was too careless. If I had been more careful, even if he had no fate with us, I would have brought him home and buried him properly. This wouldn't have happened."
"No, it's not your fault, it's my fault. If I hadn't been afraid that you would wake up and ask about the child, and that the child would be sad and hurt, and I had urged the nurse to handle it as soon as possible, maybe they wouldn't have taken advantage of me."
"Now is not the time to pursue who is right or wrong, but to solve the problem." Ms. Qiu is very disappointed with the couple. Although they are not very smart on weekdays, at least they are steady, reliable and capable of taking on responsibilities. But now they are completely confused.
But it is understandable. If she were faced with such a thing, she probably wouldn't be able to remain calm.
"An An, can you help them find that child...?"
Duan Rao pondered for a moment and said, "Generally speaking, the body of the little ghost cannot be separated from its owner for a long time, so it is likely to be in a place you pass by or come into contact with every day."
Ms. Qiu, her son, and Xi Jingyue all shuddered at the same time. Anyone who suddenly realizes that they come into close contact with something unclean every day will feel a chill down their spine and their whole body go numb.
Mr. Liu and his friend did not think so. No one would be afraid of their own children, even if they were no longer alive.
“A place we pass by every day? How could it be so close to us? I didn’t even know about it all these years.”
Ms. Qi wanted to cry again as she spoke. Mr. Liu was shocked, but his mind started working quickly, trying to recall places that might meet Duanrao's conditions.
"We now live in an apartment in the north city. There are four apartments on the first floor, and two apartments share one elevator. The apartment next to ours is my brother's home."
Qiu Jichen shuddered again when he heard this, and asked tentatively: "Do you suspect that thing is in the elevator?"
As soon as the voice fell, Ms. Qiu rolled her eyes at him. Does this stupid son know how to speak? What is that thing? He said it so harshly, and he was not afraid of provoking others and getting beaten.
Mr. Liu looked embarrassed. "According to Master Du, the elevator is undoubtedly the place that best meets this condition, but my brother's house is also possible. Strictly speaking, our two houses are actually only separated by a wall."
"If it really was at your brother's house, I'm afraid you two would have to find a way to get in and steal it out."
After Ms. Qiu finished speaking, she turned to look at Duanrao again, seeming to want to say something but stopped herself.
Duan Rao glanced at her doubtfully: "Aunt Qiu, do you have any questions?"
"I'm just a little confused. If they raised this little ghost to take away his fate, then the owner who is involved with it should be their eldest son. But from your description just now, An An, why does this little ghost seem to be raised for the two of them?"
Duanrao was stunned for a moment before realizing that he had not explained the matter clearly just now.
"Aunt Qiu, you understood correctly. This kid is indeed raised by them on behalf of Mr. Liu and Aunt Qi."
"This...what's going on?"
"The best way to raise this thing is to raise blood relatives with it. Although Mr. Liu's brother took away Mr. Liu's fate, he could not inherit his blood relationship with the child. In order to maximize the benefits, they raised this little ghost for Mr. Liu and his wife, hoping that the two of them could get rich as soon as possible and provide them with blood for them to suck."
Mr. Liu's eyes flickered slightly. Thinking of the money, shares and treasures that his brother had taken from him over the years, he felt more and more like a cash machine.
"Of course, the most important reason is risk transfer."
“Risk shifting?”
"That's right. Although it hurts you two a little, this thing is an evil creature once it is raised. If you are not careful, it will backfire. I think their original purpose of raising it was probably just to make money, but people's appetites are gradually raised, especially when they find that they can get things all the time without paying anything."
Du Anrao narrowed his eyes and fixed his gaze on Mr. Liu and the other man again: "When I first looked at you two just now, I found that you two were full of resentment and your foreheads were dark. If I don't intervene, disaster will soon befall you."
Mr. Liu and the other man's expressions changed slightly: "This..."
"This shows that the backlash has already begun. If I'm not mistaken, your brother's attitude towards this little ghost has changed from seeking wealth at first to using it to harm people. The more people they use it to harm, the more karma will backfire on you, and the more resentful the little ghost will be. Once its resentment accumulates to a critical point, it will... devour its master."
"Master Devourer?" Ms. Qiu and the others were shocked. "That means it will attack them in return."
"Yeah." Du Anrao nodded solemnly. When he first discovered that these two people had signs of raising ghosts, Du Anrao was a little prejudiced against them.
Before she could express it, she realized something was wrong. It turned out that this kid was not raised by them voluntarily, but was forced upon them by someone else. This was quite interesting.
"Remember the question I asked you at the beginning?"
Mr. and Mrs. Liu looked at each other and quickly remembered what Duanrao had asked them before.
"Are you asking if we plan to adopt my brother's child?"
"That's right. When did you come up with the idea of adopting a child? Is this really your idea?"
Duanrao's reminder was like a bolt of lightning to the two. Ms. Qi even trembled unconsciously: "No, this is not our idea. We have always wanted to adopt a child ourselves, right..."
Ms. Qi paused, then turned to look at her husband. "My sister-in-law suddenly mentioned it to me a while ago. My husband and I are getting old, and if we really like children, we can adopt her son."
From the current situation of Mr. Liu and his wife, it can be seen that his younger brother's family was originally destined to have no children, and it was because of their fate that they were given a pair of children. It is strange that they suddenly want to adopt their only son to their eldest brother, not to mention that their eldest son is already more than ten years old.
Ms. Qi was already upset about her child at the time, and when she heard her talk about this, she was unprepared and blurted out her inner thoughts.
Now when I think back carefully, when I said I wanted to adopt another younger child, my sister-in-law's face seemed to suddenly turn gloomy, and even her face looked ferocious for a moment!
(End of this chapter)
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