Chapter 57
Seeing that Gu Yunshuang remained silent, Jiang Honghui thought that he was frightened and was unwilling to take the risk of his life.
Jiang Honghui secretly sneered in his heart, that's right, they are just adoptive parents, and two poor guys at that, who raised a rich young man into a poor boy, and now he is a drag. No matter how much affection they had in the past, it will slowly fade after he knows his life experience.
However, Jiang Honghui cannot let Gu Yunshuang really retreat, otherwise his plan will not be implemented.
So he deliberately said, "What? Are you scared? That's right, there are still considerable risks in doing this. If anything goes wrong, you'll truly be taken away by the evil god. Although your adoptive parents have raised you for so many years, they are not your biological child after all. You've given so much to them in the past three years, and this is more than enough to repay their kindness in raising you."
Gu Yunshuang suddenly looked up, glaring at him, her voice icy, "They are the only parents I recognize. They are not my biological parents, but they are as good as my own. How can the relationship between us be measured by money? Please don't use your dirty thoughts to desecrate our family relationship!"
Jiang Honghui's face changed, and he laughed in anger, "Okay, okay, your family of three has a sincere relationship, and I am the villain. So, I ask you, filial son, do you want to take the risk and save your beloved parents?"
Gu Yunshuang fell silent again.
Jiang Honghui no longer hid the sarcasm on his face. "You must make a decision quickly. After all, your beloved parents are still in the hospital. You know, when a person is seriously injured or seriously ill, their Yang Fire is at its weakest. Who knows if the evil god has truly left? Will it take advantage of the opportunity to attack again? If it attacks again, it might really take their lives immediately."
Gu Yunshuang's face tightened. At this time, Gu Yunshuang's cell phone rang again. It was the nurse again, calling to give him a notice of critical illness.
Gu Yunshuang finally lost his composure and wanted to agree, but still had a final hesitation.
Jiang Honghui smiled bitterly and said, "It's already this time, and you still won't let go. You don't believe me! You can rest assured. I tell you all this for my own selfish reasons. First of all, I really want to help you. Regardless of whether you recognize me as your father or not, it is a fact that you are my only biological son. Blood ties cannot be denied and will not change. I hope you can accept Qingya and me as your biological parents.
"Secondly, I'm doing this for Mingshuang, your mother, and me. I thought that after Mingshuang's identity was exposed, I could sever ties with him and get him out of the Jiang family, and I would be able to get rid of the evil god. I didn't expect the evil god to be furious after learning the truth and refuse to let him go. Now that he no longer has Xue Tinghe's protection, I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to escape the evil god's wrath this time. After him, it will be Qingya, me, and the masters' turn. The evil god will never let go of anyone who dares to fool him.
"If you want to survive, you can only offer it the sacrifice it has always desired to appease its anger. Don't doubt it, we are on the same side. You are my biological son. Even if you have grievances against us and don't want to recognize us, it doesn't matter. I will never harm you. Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs!"
Gu Yunshuang seemed to be really moved by his sincerity and finally nodded in agreement.
In fact, it seemed to Jiang Honghui that Gu Yunshuang was hesitating just now, but the truth was that Gu Yunshuang was listening to the people from the Special Management Bureau telling him information about the evil god.
Everyone in the Special Management Bureau quickly and carefully studied Jiang Honghui's information again and found that his experience did seem a little strange.
The Jiang family passed to Jiang Honghui 19 years ago. It turns out that the old man had always favored Jiang Honghui as his successor, but one day, he suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. Upon waking, the first thing he did was to find a lawyer to revise his will.
A few days later, Mr. Jiang died of a sudden heart attack. Strangely, when the lawyer took out Mr. Jiang's will, he was surprised to find that the contents of the second version of the will were exactly the same as the first version.
Their memories gradually became blurred and they were unable to determine what the content of Mr. Jiang's last revision of his will was.
It was around this time that the cousin of Jiang Honghui, another heir of the Jiang family, died in a car accident. This meant there was no need to hesitate about the contents of the will.
After that, the Jiang family prospered under Jiang Honghui's leadership. Jiang Honghui did not do anything openly to those who were against the Jiang family, and he got along with them very tolerantly and harmoniously.
But for unknown reasons, these people later went bankrupt or died due to various accidents. The police once suspected Jiang Honghui, but a closer investigation revealed that none of these people's accidents had anything to do with Jiang Honghui.
If Jiang Honghui is related to the evil god, they have reason to suspect that Jiang Honghui is using the evil god to eliminate all his opponents.
As for the expert Jiang Honghui mentioned, they speculated that such a person might really exist. This so-called expert was most likely a wicked person serving the evil god. In order to prevent these two people from continuing to harm innocent people, they had to find a way to expose the so-called expert.
So Gu Yunshuang finally agreed to Jiang Honghui's proposal.
Jiang Honghui was delighted, without a single doubt. "Great! There's no time to lose. For the sake of your adoptive parents, the sooner this matter is resolved, the better. To be honest, a master has already set up a formation in the basement of this teahouse. All they need is you, the key figure, to arrive so we can proceed with the ceremony."
Gu Yunshuang still had some concerns: "You've said so much, but you haven't told me who that expert is. Will he be there too?"
Jiang Honghui: "You don't need to know this. He will only be controlling the formation remotely and won't be present. But don't worry, the master is very powerful, no less than your childhood sweetheart. Even if he is controlling the formation remotely, he can ensure that it is foolproof."
Gu Yunshuang refused to do so, insisting that he would not feel safe unless he met the expert. He would not cooperate until the expert was present.
Jiang Honghui had originally prepared to suppress the situation by force, but when he thought about the row of people guarding outside who looked like soldiers and might even have bodyguards with weapons, he didn't dare to act rashly. He could only suppress his anger and persuade them patiently.
Gu Yunshuang, however, refused to budge at this point and stated directly: Even if his parents were dead, he would not give in. Anyway, his parents loved him so much that if they knew, they would strongly disapprove of him taking such a risk with little guarantee.
Jiang Honghui was choked and had no choice but to call the expert.
The Special Management Bureau immediately checked the signal connected to his number. Unfortunately, Jiang Honghui was very cautious and used a phone number that was not in his name, so the Special Management Bureau had no way to check it for a while.
Soon, Zhang Honghui persuaded the master to come in person, and they could wait in the basement first.
Jiang Honghui also asked Gu Yunshuang to send away all the bodyguards guarding outside.
Gu Yunshuang agreed, allowing them to disperse and investigate the entire teahouse.
While they were waiting for the arrival of the expert, people from the Special Management Bureau had already gone to the basement to check.
Gu Yunshuang heard their report in the headphones. A strange formation had indeed been set up in the basement in advance, and there was also an exquisite paper man, which was made very finely and looked like the real thing, except that the appearance was based on Jiang Mingshuang's.
After hearing this, they became even more certain that Jiang Honghui had concealed a lot of things.
Finally, Jiang Honghui received a call from the expert saying that he was about to arrive at the teahouse and they could go to the basement to wait first.
Jiang Honghui was about to take Gu Yunshuang to the basement. The moment they pushed open the door, the teahouse, which had previously been filled with voices, suddenly became quiet, even to a terrifying degree.
The black cat that had been staying obediently in Gu Yunshuang's arms to block the doll and let him rub and stroke it suddenly stood up, its fur standing on end, and it breathed loudly towards the front.
Gu Yunshuang instantly became alert and quickly distanced herself from Jiang Honghui, looking at him warily: "I've already agreed to cooperate with you, what else do you want? Or do you have some other conspiracy?"
Jiang Honghui was confused by the question, "What? What did I do to make you so wary and suspicious? Shuangshuang, can't you give Dad a little more trust?"
Seeing that he seemed genuinely unaware, Gu Yunshuang began to wonder if he was being overly suspicious. "It's really not like you guys did something again, but why did this place suddenly become so strange?"
After hearing his reminder, Jiang Honghui also realized that something was wrong. It was abnormally quiet here.
This teahouse belongs to the Jiang family, and he often comes here to drink tea.
Although the customers here are generally upper-class people who love tea, they usually don't make noise here for the sake of their upbringing and face, but when standing in the corridor, you can still hear some footsteps, low conversations, and piano sounds coming from other private rooms.
Now, those sounds were completely gone. He hadn't cleared the area in advance to avoid suspicion. How could it suddenly become so quiet?
Gu Yunshuang had another idea. Could it be that those "bodyguards" had cleared out the teahouse? He quickly rejected this idea.
No, the Special Management Bureau will not alert the enemy before the expert arrives.
And seeing the Black Cat Xiaomei's reaction as if facing a great enemy, you know that something is definitely wrong.
Most importantly, the headset was silent. His question wasn't just testing Jiang Honghui's reaction; it was also a subtle inquiry into whether there were any emergencies at the Special Management Bureau. But Assistant Fang and the others' voices remained silent.
Gu Yunshuang tapped the earring on his ear again inconspicuously, but there was still no response. His heart sank immediately.
At this time, a waitress wearing a cheongsam walked slowly towards us with her head lowered.
Jiang Honghui stopped her and asked, "Why is it so quiet here all of a sudden?"
The waiter slowly raised his head, revealing a deadly gray face, and chuckled: "This is hell, of course it's quiet."
"ah!"
Jiang Honghui was so frightened that he took several steps back, shouting angrily, "What the hell? Stop playing tricks here! Do you know who I am? Where's your manager? Tell him to come out and see me!"
The waiter tilted his head. "Isn't he right behind you?"
Jiang Honghui turned around and saw the manager of the teahouse slowly walking towards them from the other side of the corridor. When Jiang Honghui turned to look at him, he slowly raised his hand and waved at him. Then, his head fell off and rolled all the way to Jiang Honghui's feet. He smiled at Jiang Honghui with his white teeth showing: "I'm coming~"
The commotion here attracted more waiters, who gathered here with dark faces and weird smiles on their lips.
“…”
Jiang Honghui's mind went blank, and fear exploded in his heart. Although he knew that ghosts and gods existed in the world and even worshipped evil gods, he had never faced a ghost so directly. He was immediately scared out of his wits and turned around and ran away. It was rare that he remembered to pull Gu Yunshuang with him.
"Ghost! Let's go to the basement! There's a formation left by a master in the basement, and the aura of the evil god, it will definitely protect us!"
This is to ask for help from the evil god, and not forget to bring him as a sacrifice.
At the same time, the Special Management Bureau was also frightened by this sudden abnormal situation.
The "bodyguards" apparently obeyed Gu Yunshuang's orders to withdraw, but in fact they quickly changed their clothes and came back to explore the teahouse. A few of them did not leave, hiding in the dark and silently guarding Gu Yunshuang.
But just as Gu Yunshuang and Jiang Honghui pushed open the door of the box and walked out, they were horrified to see that the two men disappeared from their sight the moment they stepped out of the door.
No matter how hard they searched, they couldn't find any trace. Gu Yunshuang's headphones and camera also lost signal. Meanwhile, Zhou Sheng's instrument, which measured the concentration of Yin Qi, went straight to its maximum.
Everyone's face turned pale, which meant that a huge ghost, most likely at the level of a ghost king, had come into the teahouse.
Assistant Fang panicked. While contacting Director Lin, he quickly had people surround the teahouse, evacuate unnecessary personnel, and then use more sophisticated equipment to investigate.
Sure enough, they got the result they least wanted to see: the teahouse and the Ghost King's ghost domain overlapped. Now there were two spaces here. They were still in reality, but Gu Yunshuang and Jiang Honghui were pulled into the ghost domain.
What was going on? Why had a Ghost King suddenly appeared? Could the Ghost King be the evil deity Jiang Honghui worshipped? Regardless, they had to break through the ghost realm and rescue Gu Yunshuang.
Fortunately, after so many years of research, the Special Management Bureau has many weapons at its disposal, so it's not completely helpless. The only concern is that Qi Yue might sense something.
***
In the ghost gate, Qi Yue scared away the evil spirit with just a few words. He raised his head and looked at the stunned Xu Jizong and others with raised eyebrows, as if to tell them to use any tricks they have.
The old psychic and the others were all pale and looked desperate. All their plans against Qi Yue were based on the premise that Qi Yue still had some humanity and still wanted to protect the seal.
Now Qi Yue is no longer a human being. Not only does he not care about the lives of millions of people in the world, he even cruelly hopes that the world will become a ghost realm. No matter what they say, it will be useless.
Why were they still struggling? Being caught and awaiting trial was a good outcome for them now. They were afraid that Qi Yue, who had already lost his humanity, would brutally kill them all here.
Thinking of this, more and more people gave up struggling in despair. Xu Jizong, however, suddenly felt a surge of regret and said sadly, "This is all our fault. Our selfishness and ruthlessness have brought such great disaster upon the world!"
Qi Yue raised an eyebrow and was about to sarcastically say, "I didn't expect President Xu to actually regret admitting his mistake," when he heard the old man grit his teeth and say with a heroic look, "I can't make the same mistake again. Even if I die, I will let them know your true face!"
As he said this, he actually used all his magic power to attack the loophole in the Ghost Gate seal. He actually wanted to make a bigger noise by attacking the Ghost Gate seal to alert the Special Management Bureau guarding outside.
Qi Yue cursed inwardly, "You lunatic! What kind of bullshit logic is this?" Then, as fast as the wind, he threw one and kicked one, and in a few seconds, he got everyone away from the Ghost Gate seal. When he raised his hand to repair the hole in the seal, he was suddenly shocked to find that he could not move!
When he looked down, he saw a strange formation that he had never seen before on the ground, but he recognized the energy flowing in the formation. It was actually pure soul power!
While the others were still in a daze, Xu Jizong was the first to laugh out loud, "Hahaha, I almost got tricked by you! As long as you still care about the Ghost Gate Seal, you will definitely step into the formation!"
The others also realized that their plan had succeeded and were immediately ecstatic.
Qi Yue was finally irritated and laughed, "You really think that's fine. You always think that those who are not of my kind must have different hearts, but now you so-called people have ignored the lives of thousands of people in the human world and are willing to break the seal just to get rid of me, an alien. Are you still human?"
The joy on the faces of these elders froze, and some of them even had flickering eyes and didn't dare to look at Qi Yue.
Xu Jizong, however, had no guilt at all. He argued confidently, "No, you're wrong. How could we truly destroy the seal and endanger countless people? We did this because we were sure the seal was strong. This minor damage wouldn't completely destroy it. On the contrary, you're the biggest threat. It's worth using a minor damage to the seal to eliminate you, the biggest hidden danger."
Qi Yue's eyes were icy cold. "You've trapped me so close to the seal. Aren't you afraid that I'll get so angry I'll lose my mind and actually break the seal? Don't forget that I set this seal. I naturally know how to easily break it."
When he said this, the elders panicked, fearing that Qi Yue would really get angry and take out his anger on the seal.
Xu Jizong remained calm, saying with absolute certainty, "No, you won't. The fact that you stopped me from breaking the seal shows that you still have some humanity in you. You still have people you care about, and for them, you're the one who least wants the seal to be broken."
“…”
Qi Yue looked at these familiar faces and once again felt deeply that they had long been corrupted by power, beyond recognition. Beneath those human skins lay demons who could easily risk the safety of all humanity.
Mr. Qi is right. If a person loses his humanity, he is a demon in human skin. If monsters and demons still have humanity, they are also humans in monster skins.
Seeing that he was silent, Xu Jizong sighed and said, "Qi Yue, you shouldn't have come back. Yes, we took your credit, but we have also made the greatest compensation to you. Isn't that enough?"
Qi Yue said sarcastically, "What compensation? Your compensation is to embezzle my huge pension, ignore my will, and watch coldly as the Gu family suffers one disaster after another. Are both of my family members being bullied to death? I actually saw that, so I was so angry that I flipped over the coffin and came back to fight."
Xu Jizong didn't feel the slightest bit guilty. Instead, he frowned and said with strong disapproval, "I know you've never seen any relatives besides your grandfather since you were little. That's why you treat Gu Yunshuang, who grew up with you, as your younger brother, and you value the Gu family so much. But outsiders are still outsiders after all. No matter how close they are, they can't compare to blood ties. Especially direct blood relatives."
Qi Yue was about to scold him directly, saying that he didn't have any direct blood relatives, but the words suddenly choked on his lips. He had a bad premonition, "You are talking about..."
Xu Jizong: "That's right, Xue Tinghe is your half-brother. Isn't he closer to me than Gu Yunshuang? Do you know? Before I discovered Xue Tinghe, he was just an ordinary person who had never even come into contact with metaphysics. I personally taught him step by step and brought him to the threshold of the Heavenly Master. His talent was not the best, and he entered the door late, so he had no chance to fight for the opportunity to receive the inheritance talisman. It was only because we overcame all objections that he successfully received the inheritance talisman and became the heir of the Qi family.
"Do you know how much effort we put into ensuring he grows up quickly and takes on the responsibility of inheriting the Qi family? We did this to make it up to you! In our eyes, he's your biological brother. There's no one in the world more suitable to carry on your legacy and carry on the Qi family."
The others also nodded and their opinions were basically the same as Xu's.
"Even from a legal perspective, the first heir to your estate should be your biological father, Xue Zhao. He has no talent and is not a Heavenly Master, so it is only natural that the inheritance rights should be passed on to your younger brother."
"Qi Yue, you may not know what happened back then. We've investigated everything. Xue Zhao and Wang Yao were childhood sweethearts and had already been engaged, waiting to get married after they both graduated from university. It was your mother who took advantage of their separation for university and seduced Xue Zhao. She even persuaded him to give up his inheritance rights to the Xue family and elope with her."
"However, Xue Zhao quickly came to his senses and felt extremely regretful. He wanted to divorce her and return to Wang Yao, whom he truly loved. But your mother refused to let go and even threatened to commit suicide. Unexpectedly, this backfired and she actually died. And it also caused you to become a half-ghost."
"Old man Qi is really something. He didn't care about right or wrong in order to vent his anger for his beloved daughter. Not only did he hide your existence, but he also spread rumors to suppress Xue Zhao and Wang Yao. Xue Zhao had sincerely repented and turned over a new leaf, returning to the Xue family to live a good life with Wang Yao. Old Master Xue had already forgiven him and allowed him to become the heir of the Xue family again. But after Old Man Qi's threat, the Xue family had to expel Xue Zhao from the Xue family to protect themselves, and even the Wang family was forced to sever ties with Wang Yao. A beautiful and promising couple was tormented by your grandfather and mother, father and daughter, and fell into the dust. As a result, Ting He has experienced the warmth and coldness of human nature at such a young age. Don't you think it's miserable?"
"Qi Yue, we are supporting Ting He and the Xue family to atone for the sins of your mother and grandfather. You don't know how happy your father was when Ting He became the heir of the Qi family. He can finally return to the Xue family and take back what belongs to him. This is all karma!"
The elders continued to talk about the so-called cycle of cause and effect, blood ties, and how much they had sacrificed to help Mr. and Mrs. Qi make amends for their mistakes. Was this enough to compensate Qi Yue? Qi Yue should be able to let go of all his resentment and rest in peace.
Not only could Qi Yue not let go, but his expression was extremely ugly, even more disgusting than if he had eaten dog shit.
He knew his grandfather well. He was definitely not the kind of person who was biased and did not distinguish between right and wrong. On the contrary, he was very clear about gratitude and resentment.
Putting aside whether his mother was at fault, just look at how Grandpa Qi treated Xue Zhao and Wang Yao, and how he never mentioned them to him. He even forbade him to mention his father since he was a child, wanting him to have nothing to do with these two people in the future. This shows that Xue Zhao and Wang Yao must have been at fault as well.
At least Mr. Qi couldn't let go of the grudge.
Xu Jizong and his gang actually handed over the Qi family's belongings to the Xue family under the banner of blood ties? If Mr. Qi knew about this, there would be another Qi family member who would angrily open his coffin and pretend to be dead.
Qi Yue was furious and didn't want to be disgusted by them anymore, so he directly used the golden light of merit to attack the formation that trapped him under his feet.
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