Chapter 044
Cheng Hui's straightforward statement choked Meng Lang.
As a demon born from a dream and who can only cultivate by going deep into the human world, Meng Lang is very familiar with the ways of the world.
According to his thinking, shouldn't he calm him down with kind words and get him to explain the situation?
If he could just buy some time, he might be able to find a way to escape.
But Cheng Hui didn't play by the rules and didn't give him any chance to delay.
Meng Lang laughed angrily, "If that's the case, then why should I tell you the truth?"
Cheng Hui pretended to think for a moment, then smiled and said, "Can it make your death more comfortable?"
He deliberately asked Ye Qi: "Brother Ye Qi, you must know a lot of ways to torture demons, right?"
Ye Qi smiled upon hearing this, revealing his white teeth. "Of course, in the hands of my demon-suppressing division, there's no mouth I can't pry open. Although I'm not an expert in these techniques, I've learned a few from my friends."
Menglang:......
Cheng Hui continued, "The most important thing is... we don't really care what happened here. All three members of the Xie family are dead anyway, so whatever happened here in the past is over. Therefore, you're not as important as you think."
As soon as Cheng Hui said this, Meng Lang knew that he was finished.
In the final analysis, rhetoric is only icing on the cake. Only when one's strength reaches a certain level and can pose a threat to the other side, will there be room for negotiation.
But if the other party has already got you, then no amount of delay will be of any use.
"Okay, I'll tell you what you want to know."
Meng Lang's sudden and straightforward answer made Cheng Hui stunned.
He thought the other party would bite to death and say nothing.
"Are you wondering why I suddenly changed my mind?" Meng Lang asked with a smile.
"That's right. I thought you would fight to the end." Cheng Hui said honestly.
Meng Lang smiled. "If I had the chance to escape, I would certainly fight back, but you... obviously won't let me go. Since I can't survive, I certainly don't want my good friends to live either. When it comes to going to hell, it's always better to find someone to go with you."
"What do you mean?" Ye Qi frowned.
Meng Lang suddenly burst into laughter. "Don't you find it strange that I'm so weak? If I could still maintain my peak form, not to mention just a few of you, even if there were more people, it wouldn't be that easy to defeat me."
"I admit this." Ye Qi had seen the file with his own eyes. The county magistrate in the file also spent a lot of effort to deal with the Dacheng Menglang.
In comparison, the one in front of me is simply a piece of trash.
"There's nothing I can do. It's just my bad luck. I was about to succeed, but someone intercepted me halfway." Meng Lang sighed.
Thinking back to the mess he had just made, he couldn't help but grit his teeth. "Everyone says we demons are cruel, but I think you humans are no less. Killing and devouring souls is my nature. From the moment I was born, I could only feed on humans. If I didn't eat them, I would die. But you humans can kill for all kinds of strange reasons. If you really count them, the three people from the Xie family have killed more people than I have eaten."
Cheng Hui and others remained silent. From their experience in the manor, they could tell that the three members of the Xie family were not good people. Therefore, they could not blame Meng Lang for what he said.
"People are different. Some people really don't deserve to be called human beings." Cheng Hui said. Seeing Meng Lang's smug expression, he immediately changed the subject. "But that doesn't mean you are a good person."
Meng Lang choked and said, "I was born to eat humans. I never understand people who don't belong to my category of food."
"Come on, just because you want to eat people means we're destined to be on opposite sides. What? Just because you ate fewer people, we should forgive you? Let you go? You're dreaming!"
"I only eat humans, not peaches. Your human food has no taste to me." Meng Lang explained seriously.
The corners of Cheng Hui's mouth twitched. Tsk, this lonely feeling of no one picking up the joke.
"Okay, stop talking nonsense and continue."
Meng Lang then continued to explain, and they finally figured out what had happened in the manor.
In the final analysis, it was just three selfish people with insatiable desires who happened to meet a foreign dream lover. The two sides were originally hostile to each other, but for some special reason they had to be trapped here together, which led to the strange things in this manor.
At first, Painter Xie was extremely famous in the capital, relying on his superb portraits. At first, Painter Xie enjoyed the popularity, but as time went by, he found that in a place like the capital, more outstanding painters appeared every moment.
Having enjoyed the days of being sought after by countless people, he could no longer concentrate on honing his painting skills. Instead, he wanted to take a shortcut. It was at that time that the book recording the sorcery came into his hands after many twists and turns.
At the beginning, Painter Xie was very timid and did not dare to use human internal organs to make pigments. However, as more and more outstanding painters emerged, fewer and fewer people invited him to paint their portraits. His friends in the past gradually changed their attitude and began to step on him to please others.
Painter Xie's mentality suddenly collapsed. One time, on the way to the temple to worship Buddha, he was driving a carriage and saw a beggar passing by. Suddenly, an evil thought came to his mind.
When he came to his senses, the beggar had been hit to death by him on the roadside.
Fortunately, this road was relatively remote and no one showed up for a while. He became daring and dragged the beggar's body into the woods beside the road, then dug out his internal organs and made them into paint.
With the help of this pigment, he repainted the portraits of the nobles in the capital. The portraits painted with this pigment seemed to have charm, which won countless applause, and Painter Xie became famous again.
From then on, Painter Xie had to kill people again and again to get their organs to make that kind of pigment so that he could continue to paint portraits for dignitaries.
If it weren't for what happened later, perhaps Painter Xie would have remained hidden. But when he found out that the first few people from wealthy families whose portraits he painted fell ill and died not long after, he realized that something was wrong.
The book once recorded that the pigment had magical effects. After he used it, he found that every time he used this pigment, he would become more energetic, and even his weak body became much stronger.
But as those people gradually began to die of illness, he came to his senses. He was not afraid of just a few small wealthy people, but later on he painted portraits for many officials in the court.
By the time they realize there is a problem, they will be doomed.
So Painter Xie fled and came here, but he didn't expect that using paint could be addictive.
At first, he had considered hiding his identity and not painting anymore, but there were always people who could find him. He had no choice but to return to his old job. Moreover, if he stopped using that kind of pigment, his body would become as weak as before. After enjoying the feeling of health, he could not accept being in a state where he had to gasp for breath after walking a few steps.
So, servants began to be purchased secretly in the manor. Fortunately, Painter Xie remembered to keep a low profile and did not make large purchases. Otherwise, he would have been discovered long ago.
However, Painter Xie did not expect that in addition to himself, his wife also took part in the disappearance of these servants.
If it is said that Painter Xie just accidentally came into contact with the evil arts and was seduced by it and fell into depravity, then Mrs. Xie can be said to have inherited the evil arts from her family.
Mrs. Xie's family is relatively low-key. They know that the protruding rafters will rot first, so they usually hide it very deeply. After discovering her husband's secret, Mrs. Xie was not frightened, but felt that her opportunity had come.
Yes, with her husband standing in front, who would have thought that poor Mrs. Xie, who often suffered miscarriages, also had countless blood on her hands?
Painter Xie killed for vanity, while Mrs. Xie killed for her beauty.
Using the skin of young girls to make ointment, applying it on the face can maintain youthful beauty. Mrs. Xie has always been very proud of her appearance and can't stand the fact that she is getting old.
Seeing the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes in the mirror, Mrs. Xie wanted to smash everything. How could a woman like this who had mastered the secret of eternal youth never use it?
So naturally, when Painter Xie was killing people for paint, Mrs. Xie hid in his shadow and made several boxes full of ointment for herself.
As for how many lives were lost in refining those ointments? Does it matter?
Anyway, it’s not important to Mrs. Xie.
What kind of child will a couple who are so selfish and don’t take human life seriously give birth to?
Miss Xie appeared to be cowardly and inferior, and even before she got married, she asked her mother for a maid in order to please her husband.
But no one expected that this pitiful-looking little girl was the one hidden the deepest in the Xie family.
Miss Xie hated her dwarf body immensely. She hated God for not giving her a normal body, and she also hated her parents for being incompetent and unable to find a way to cure her.
Miss Xie was very smart. She had found the books recording witchcraft from her mother's dowry a long time ago.
Compared to her mother who used sorcery to make ointment, Miss Xie was more ruthless. She wanted to directly turn herself into an evil god.
God should be omnipotent. Even if he is just an evil god, it is enough for her to change the body she hates the most.
Miss Xie secretly learned various evil arts. Her parents' neglect gave her enough freedom, allowing her to be exposed to many things that her age was not exposed to.
The only thing that bothered her was that she lacked a sufficient opportunity, an opportunity that would allow her to transform from an ordinary person into an evil creature.
So, when Meng Lang appeared, Miss Xie knew that her opportunity had come.
She allowed Meng Lang to have affairs with other women in the manor, and secretly persuaded her parents to increase their purchase of slaves.
My father needs someone, my mother needs someone, and Miss Xie needs someone several times more than the former two.
Her father and mother were bewitched by her and secretly bought a large number of slaves.
All these slaves were killed by Miss Xie and sacrificed to the evil god.
When Miss Xie and Meng Lang got married, Meng Lang wanted to kill her on their wedding night, but was stopped by Miss Xie who was well prepared.
She drained most of his energy and threw the half-dead Meng Lang to his mother.
Miss Xie used what she had learned to successfully lure out the evil god and took over his divinity.
Unfortunately, this evil god still lacks many things, so she wants to use four people with special destinies to activate her talents.
Unfortunately, she ultimately lost her life for it.
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