The old man lost half his life going in, but the soul-killing butterfly was still dancing above the building, its thin wings emitting colorful light, which looked very beautiful, but also terrifying. The old man stared at the colorful butterfly anxiously, and seeing that it had no intention of attacking him and was just continuously devouring the wealth of the skyscraper, he climbed up with difficulty and prepared to leave.
Glancing at the black-robed man lying on the ground, gasping for breath, he couldn't help but think of the secret method of refining "Bodhisattva's Blood". He immediately picked up the man and disappeared behind the door.
Chen Li and Liu Liang collapsed on the ground, looking at the colorful butterfly in horror, not daring to move.
"We have to escape!" Liu Liang said tremblingly, "You, quickly, think of a way."
"What can I do?" Chen Li was already crying with fear, but when she saw the phone fall out of her bag, her eyes immediately lit up. She called the person who helped her post on the dark web again and asked him to send someone to rescue her as soon as possible.
"I, I'll give you 50 million. You guys come quickly and take us downstairs. You don't have to do anything else, just take us downstairs." Chen Li sniffed while speaking, and her voice sounded miserable.
The other end seemed a little stunned, and said in a deep voice: "Someone has already accepted your mission. They are the old monster in black robe, the immortal Chen Liu, and the old demon Qing Peng. Why are they not here?"
Chen Li remained silent, not daring to say that one of the three people had died, one was seriously injured, and the other was in critical condition. If they did, who would be willing to rescue them?
The other end seemed to have guessed something, and his voice was very sharp: "Could they all be in trouble? Tell the truth, who did you offend? You should know that the black-robed old monster and his friends are all top-notch masters of the Xuanmen. They have been active in China for more than a hundred years and have never met an opponent. The person who can deal with all three of them at once is definitely not an ordinary person."
At this point, he seemed to have thought of something, and his voice suddenly rose: "Girl, 19 years old, playing with Gu, you didn't offend Lin Dan, did you?"
With just three simple conditions, the other party guessed Lin Dan's name, which shows what kind of existence Lin Dan is in Xuanmen. Chen Li's heart tightened, and she asked in a bitter voice, "Is Lin Dan famous?"
“Heh…” The other end suddenly laughed and mocked, “It really is Lin Dan? You are amazing. You could have offended anyone else, but you chose to offend her. You want to buy her life with 100 million. Even a desperate person like me admires your courage. Do you know who Lin Dan is?”
"Who exactly is Lin Dan?" Chen Li tried to maintain a calm tone.
“Let me tell you this. Even if you raise the reward to 10 billion, no one in Xuanmen would dare to take on this mission as long as they know that the target is Lin Dan. Three years ago, a large-scale epidemic suddenly broke out in Haicheng, and the government evacuated millions of people overnight. Do you remember such a big event?”
Chen Li nodded with a pale face: "Remember, what does this have to do with Lin Dan?"
"This has a lot to do with Lin Dan. That's not an epidemic, it's a drought demon buried in a mass grave that has come out, driving the corpses to prepare to massacre Haicheng. Do you know what a drought demon is? It's a big monster transformed from zombies, infinitely close to a god. Have you seen "Resident Evil"? Have you seen "The Walking Dead"? As long as the drought demon comes out of the mass grave, Haicheng, and even the entire China, will become a doomsday purgatory. All the masters of the Xuanmen are no match for that drought demon. But do you know that Lin Dan only took half an hour to solve it, and ate tens of thousands of zombies on Qingyuan Mountain until only bones were left. She has a corpse-eating Gu King in her hand, which can destroy a city overnight. What is your Chen family? What is the Liu family? Who gave you the courage to touch her?"
As the man spoke, his tone turned into admiration, and he continued, "Do you still remember the Linzhou smog incident two years ago?"
Chen Li's heart was numb with fear and she could only respond in a lost voice.
Liu Liang could hear the voices on the phone, but he felt a chill crawling up from the soles of his feet to his scalp, making him shiver.
"Linzhou was surrounded by smog for three days and three nights due to severe environmental pollution. Even the monitoring satellites could not find its location. It was as if this huge city disappeared from the land of China overnight. But in fact, it did disappear. What surrounded it was not smog, but countless evil spirits and yin energy. I don't know what attracted them, causing them to surge up from the ground and pull Linzhou City into the underworld. If Linzhou City cannot be pulled back, more and more cities will be swallowed by ghost energy, and the whole of China may fall into hell. This is not an exaggerated rhetoric, but the literal meaning. Can you imagine that scene?"
Chen Li's hand holding the phone was shaking. She would rather never know these horrific things.
The man laughed for a while and said eagerly, "Just when Xuanmen was about to abandon Linzhou and seal all its borders, it appeared again. Countless soul-killing butterflies were flying above it, swallowing up all the ghost energy, and the people in the city fell into a deep sleep, not knowing what had happened in the past three days. When they woke up, the sky of Linzhou was still as blue as before, as if nothing had happened. The people of Xuanmen ran into the city to check and found that all the soul-killing butterflies had drilled into Lin Dan's body. She was in Linzhou, so even if she was pulled into the underworld, she could pull the entire city back. Do you know what this ability is? Turning your hand to make clouds and turning your hand to make rain is not enough to describe it. It is the power to turn the world upside down and reverse yin and yang. It is a forbidden place that mortals like you cannot touch. I am very curious now, what caused her to fight against you ants? I thought that ants shaking trees was just an idiom, but I didn't expect that there are really such idiots in reality, hahahaha..."
The man laughed endlessly, his voice filled with endless malice.
Chen Li couldn't listen any more. When she learned that Lin Dan was so powerful, she suddenly felt how pathetic and ridiculous she was. If she hadn't spoiled her daughter and allowed her to act recklessly, the Chen and Liu families would never have offended the evil spirit Lin Dan. She reads her books and they live their lives. How nice it would be if they had nothing to do with each other?
Liu Liang's regret will only be greater than Chen Li's. Lin Dan is her daughter! Dear child! If he treated her a little better, with Lin Dan's strength and her relationship with the Chinese government, how much benefit could he get? Not to mention making the company a leader in the financial industry, even if it goes overseas, it will be invincible!
Can Liu Ruoyun's life and death be compared with Lin Dan's? If he had known this, even if Liu Ruoyun died a hundred times, he would never agree to Chen Li's plan to exchange her life!
Liu Liang's eyes turned red, and he gritted his teeth and said, "This is all caused by you, a bitch! You..."
His words were interrupted by the man on the phone: "Stop arguing, turn on the camera and let me see Lin Dan's Soul-Killing Butterfly."
Chen Li gritted her teeth and prepared to hang up the phone. She could tell from what she heard that the other party had no intention of helping them, and instead seemed to be trying to take advantage of their misfortune. But she was horrified to find that her body did not obey her brain's will and moved on its own. She picked up the camera and aimed it at the colorful butterflies flying in the air. Finding that the distance was a bit far, she stood up and took two steps closer.
Chen Li was so scared that her face was covered with tears, but her steps were steady. This body no longer obeys her commands.
"Yes, come closer, come closer, okay, stand here and don't move. Adjust the focus." The man gave a command and Chen Li made a movement, like a puppet. She was so scared that she kept sobbing, and only then did she realize what a terrifying place Xuanmen was. The people there cannot be judged by common sense, and one cannot negotiate with them easily, otherwise one will die unclearly. If this man asked her to jump off the roof immediately, she would not even have the chance to resist.
But the other party was obviously not interested in her life. She just stared at the colorful butterfly and exclaimed: "How beautiful! It is worthy of being the first of the ten most dangerous Gu! Only someone like Lin Dan can cultivate such a Gu, right? You should feel honored to die in her hands, hahahaha..."
The call was hung up amid a series of gloomy laughter. Chen Li regained control of her body, immediately threw away the phone and ran away. When Liu Liang saw that the butterfly did not chase her after she ran away, he also staggered away.
The two drove back home one after another, not caring about their relatives who were still in the hospital, nor caring about the two companies that were in jeopardy. They slumped on the sofa, covering their faces and shaking violently. After a while, the hospital called and asked them to go there immediately. They said that Chen Qiu and Chen Chu had died, and Liu Ruoyun was in the emergency room again. It was still unknown whether she could come out alive.
Chen Li couldn't bear the blow and fainted. Liu Liang was not willing to help her up. Instead, he kicked her hard several times with a resentful expression. If this woman hadn't insisted on using Lin Dan to exchange for her daughter's life, he wouldn't have fallen into this situation!
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Liu's Finance, which had been thriving both at home and abroad, declared bankruptcy overnight. Liu Liang stood on the rooftop for a long time, so long that his employees thought he was going to jump off the building. However, he left in good health, and his expression seemed somewhat excited.
The next day, he showed up at Tsinghua University and found out about Lin Dan's class.
"Come with me." Lin Dan was not surprised to see him. He just took him to a secluded place and stood face to face with him.
Liu Liang was silently brewing some sentimental words and was about to speak when he saw a familiar colorful butterfly circling and fluttering over from a distance, casting countless spots of light.
A smile spread across Lin Dan's indifferent face and he stretched out his right hand to greet him. The colorful butterfly fell into her palm and merged into her body in an instant. In the blink of an eye, her face became rosy, like a pearl wiped off the dust, shining in the darkness.
Liu Liang looked at her in shock, "Is this butterfly the one on the rooftop of my company?"
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