RNP Chapter 668 One person is missing!
Chapter 668 One person is missing!
"Damn it!" Chu Yuan punched the pillar hard, causing dust to fall.
"These ghosts are really difficult to deal with."
"Tsk, there's nothing I can do!" Lu Jing leaned against the railing of the pavilion, throwing an apple in his hand that he had picked up from somewhere.
Bai Yang looked familiar, as if it was... the one on the altar in the ancestral hall???
Lu Jing: "Who made us live on someone else's territory? When you're under someone else's roof, you have to bow your head!"
On the other side, Zhan Wenchen pushed his glasses and was counting the number of people with a serious expression: "One, two... seven, eight... nine, ten?" His voice suddenly became hushed.
"No, one is missing."
"Ok?"
Everyone's heart skipped a beat and they quickly looked around - Xiao Jin, Wen Baiqiu, Chu Yuan, Lu Jing, Zhan Wenchen, Liu Man, Lin Xia, Bai Yang, the young couple... As expected, one person was missing!
The bald man with the thick gold chain is missing!
"It's Hu Junyuan!" Lin Xia suddenly clenched her hand: "I remember now, he didn't even go back to the bridal chamber just now, so he didn't go to the ancestral hall with us."
An extremely ominous premonition appeared in everyone's mind at the same time!
Zhan Wenchen frowned slightly. The bald man was reckless and impulsive, and had been extremely dissatisfied with being a son-in-law.
Now that he has disappeared for such a long time, could it be that...
"boom--!!!"
As if to confirm this worst-case scenario, a dull but extremely penetrating explosion suddenly came from the direction of the front yard of the ancient house.
Then, there was the crackling sound of the wood burning violently!
Everyone’s expressions changed drastically!
"Fuck! That idiot!" Chu Yuan cursed loudly, but caught a glimpse of a dark shadow from the corner of his eye.
Xiao Jin was the first to rush out, and the others quickly followed!
Rushing towards the moon-shaped gate leading to the central courtyard of the West Garden, I saw flames rising into the sky from the direction of the front courtyard from afar.
Thick smoke billowed up into the sky, turning the already dark sky even darker.
Hu Junyuan was not too stupid. The fire was mainly concentrated in the main hall used for worship. The raging flames greedily devoured the ancient beams, pillars, doors and windows, turning half the sky red.
The scorching air mixed with the smell of burning wood and some indescribable burnt stench hit me in the face.
At least when Xiao Jin smelled this scent, he suddenly stopped.
A flash of inspiration quickly passed through her mind, but it disappeared in a flash, and when she wanted to look for it again, she could no longer find it!
However, just as the players were about to rush out of Xiyuan—
The butler's stiff figure, as if emerging from the ground, once again blocked the entrance to the moon cave without any warning!
The dark blue gown he wore remained motionless in the hot wind, and the strange smile that had always remained on his white-washed face disappeared, replaced by an extreme coldness and resentment.
God... When they all saw the butler in the ancestral hall, he didn't act like this.
The butler's mouth corners were turned downwards, and his cloudy eyes were fixed on the people rushing towards him, with sticky, substantial black resentment surging in them!
"Dear guest..." The dry voice sounded in everyone's ears. It was no longer flat, but full of a biting chill and some kind of scalp-tingling... excitement?
"Due to a fire in the front hall... the wedding ceremony will be postponed..."
Postponed? Everyone just felt a bit ridiculous - they didn't expect it to happen.
The butler's voice suddenly rose, becoming shrill and harsh: "But my lord is very angry, and the arsonist must pay the price!!!"
Following this resentful scream, the butler suddenly turned his body to the side, revealing the scene outside the moon cave door, near the edge of the fire in the front yard -
A dark wooden stick, as thick as an adult's arm and sharpened at the tip, was deeply embedded in the charred earth. On the tip of the stick, something was prominently hanging!
Looking closely, it was a piece of... human skin that was still dripping with dark red sticky liquid, with charred and curled edges, and the outlines of the facial features could be vaguely recognized!
"Ah!" Wang Yuqing trembled with fear. Lu Yiming quickly hugged his girlfriend to his chest, and his face turned pale.
The face on the human skin was the bald man's!
Twisted, frozen in extreme fear and pain, his eye sockets had become two black holes, his mouth was wide open, as if he was still howling silently before death.
Under the wooden stick, there was a large pool of dark red and black blood that had not yet completely solidified. In the light of the fire, it reflected a strange luster.
The strong smell of blood mixed with the stench of burnt flesh was like a huge hammer, hitting everyone's olfactory nerves hard!
Lin Xia's reaction was even more dramatic; he instantly doubled over and vomited. Bai Yang and Liu Man's faces turned pale as paper, their mouths tightly covered, their bodies shaking like leaves in the autumn wind.
Chu Yuan's pupils constricted, his facial muscles tensed. Wen Baiqiu's brow furrowed, and Zhan Wenchen's hand, pushing up his glasses, paused mid-air, his eyes icy cold behind the lenses.
However, Lu Jing seemed a little disdainful of the housekeeper's rough methods.
Only Xiao Jin.
She stood at the junction of firelight and darkness, her dazzling red robe illuminated by the heat waves and firelight as if bathed in blood.
In the shadows, the pair of eyes like deep pools stared at the wooden stick that was picking up the human skin and the glaring pool of blood on the ground. They were cold, sharp, and without the slightest fluctuation.
Then she turned around and met the butler's resentful face. In the dancing flames, he looked like a devil from hell.
………………
Outside the wing room, the courtyard was as silent as a tomb.
The firelight from the front hall shone through the window lattices, casting twisted and jumping dark red light and shadows on the walls in the distance, like the gasps of a dying beast.
Even from a distance, everyone could still smell the pungent smell of burning wood lingering in the air.
But even stronger was the lingering stench of burnt flesh and bloody human skin at the tip of his nose.
The housekeeper's resentful word "price" was like an icicle, piercing deep into everyone's bones.
"Fuck it..." Chu Yuan cursed in a low voice and punched the cold wall hard, leaving a shallow dent and falling dust.
He angrily tugged at the collar of his dazzling red robe, as if trying to break free from invisible shackles. "That idiot! If you want to die, don't drag us down with you!"
Liu Man curled up on a chair in the corner, her face still pale, her hands nervously twisting the corners of her clothes, her eyes staring blankly at the ground, as if the dark red pool of blood was still swaying before her eyes.
Lin Xia and the young couple slumped on the ground on the other side, their bodies still shaking slightly uncontrollably, their eyes vacant.
"Stupid?" Lu Jing's voice was filled with lazy malice. He had slipped back to his room without knowing when. His voice floated out through the door curtain, with a cold and indifferent tone as if it had nothing to do with him.
“It’s a bit stupid, but at least… it saves us some trouble, doesn’t it?
The auspicious time has been postponed, but that old ghost said so himself. Weren't you guys thinking about how to 'create an accident' before? Look, there's a ready-made 'accident'." He yawned, and the faint sound of the bone whip rubbing against each other could be heard.
"Save your energy and go to sleep first. This damn place probably only gets lively at night."