We finally found Lu Dayong.
However, his hands had turned into a mass of twisted minced meat.
The words that came out of his mouth almost made me flee in panic!
He said that someone from the Du family in northern Henan had come to arrest him!
In an instant, I knew it couldn't be my grandfather, Du Wenzhong, who had tipped them off! We were also on the run from the Du family's pursuit...
Du Yang Town in northern Henan was the hometown of my grandfather Du Wenzhong and me. Most of the people in the town were surnamed Du, and if you traced back a few generations, they were all related in some way.
Du Wenzhong had done too many shady and fraudulent deals, and it was inevitable that he would show his true colors. Once, he even deceived the most powerful person in the town, the mayor Du Peiyun. As a result, he had to take me and run away overnight.
The Du Peiyun family had great influence, with connections in both the white and black markets. Moreover, their family seemed to have a background in metaphysics. It was said that they were the secular support family of a certain Taoist ancestral court.
I didn't know how Du Wenzhong had offended the mayor, but it seemed that the mayor hated our grandfather - grandson duo to the core.
In order to catch us, the mayor even mobilized the entire family's power...
Although my grandfather Du Wenzhong didn't have any Taoist skills, he was a very shrewd man. He always had an extremely accurate premonition of the Du family's tricks and was able to escape at the last moment. There were even a few times when he counter - killed those who wanted to kill us.
As a result, the feud between our grandfather - grandson duo and the Du family became even deeper.
I never thought that after hiding in the capital for two years, we were still discovered by the Du family!
After a moment's thought, I roughly understood where the mistake had occurred!
It was probably because of the Dinglan ruler we had sent for repair. Not only did it expose our whereabouts, but it also harmed Lu Dayong!
That ruler was an antique that Du Wenzhong often used to deceive people.
After Lu Dayong repaired it, he casually put it on the stall under the big willow tree. It was discovered by Ye Xiaofei and her fourth uncle who were visiting the capital!
So, Ye Xiaofei and the others didn't discover me by accident. They had planned it all along!
Then, was the stall owner who had given us directions in the ghost market under the big willow tree also instructed by the Du family to lead us astray?
A chill ran up my back, and I reached out to push Si Jiangchen, wanting him to go back the way we came!
This was a secluded cave in the mountains. If the Du family blocked the entrance above, we would all be trapped like turtles in a jar in this basement!
No, maybe only I would die!
The two of them were zombies, immortal and indestructible... They would always wait until they saw the light of day again!
"Relax," Si Jiangchen unexpectedly patted me gently on the back. "I've taken care of those troublesome rats. The whole Lu Village is safe. You can take this guy out and see how he can fix his hands first."
I was skeptical of Si Jiangchen's words. I didn't believe that anyone could predict things so accurately. Even my divination could only detect the general trend of an event and then make a judgment.
Could Si Jiangchen really foresee things and solve potential dangers in advance?!
Then... he was more powerful than both me and my grandfather Du Wenzhong combined!
"Lu Dayong, does this lead to your cave?" Si Jiangchen ignored my suspicious look and just looked at Lu Dayong, who was squatting on the ground in the dark. "You can go and take a look. Your grain cellar should already be full."
"Impossible!" Lu Dayong was even more surprised than me.
This secluded basement was a hiding place that he and the villagers had spent decades building bit by bit. Now, only a few old people knew about its existence.
Si Jiangchen should be here for the first time. How could he know all of Lu Dayong's secrets?
"My cellar has been empty for a long time!" Lu Dayong reached out and licked the blood beads constantly oozing from the back of his hand.
He was a hopping corpse, and his craving for human blood was stronger than that of white and black zombies! However, he was smart enough to know the principle of not harming those close to him.
Now, there was no longer any reserve food in the cellar. Although he was seriously injured and urgently needed fresh flesh and blood to replenish and recuperate, he didn't dare to touch the living things in the village!
The Lu Village and he had coexisted for decades. He provided them with wealth, and they provided him with blood food!
So, he was lured out by the wild chicken injured by Si Jiangchen. His hands were already useless, and he couldn't even catch the mice underground...
"Lead the way!" Si Jiangchen's voice echoed heavily in the narrow underground space, sounding more like a law from the netherworld that was impossible to refuse.
Lu Dayong stared at us with his green - glowing eyes for a long time. He really didn't understand how the man behind me had managed to push him flying so far with just one move!
He had pounced on us with the determination to fight to the death.
With the strength of a hopping corpse he had cultivated for decades, he couldn't even match a mortal?!
The underground corridor was simple. It only went down and then turned a corner, and then they saw an old door panel.
With the light of the mobile phone, they could see that there were countless deep and shallow scratch marks on the yellowed door panel.
Before opening the door panel, I could faintly hear someone moaning from behind the door.
Lu Dayong was also stunned for a moment, and then he pulled out the bolt and carefully pushed open the wooden door.
It was still pitch - black behind the wooden door, but the space was larger. There were several dark shadows huddled on the ground. When they saw the light of my mobile phone, they immediately let out a shrill scream.
"......Ah!! Help! Help!!"
Along with the cries for help, a strong smell of blood rushed towards them.
Under the light of the mobile phone, one of the people lying on the ground had a familiar face!
The stall owner who had given me information in the ghost market was lying on his side on the ground at this moment. His hands and feet were twisted in a strange position beside his body. When he saw me shining the light on him, he immediately let out another shrill scream: "Help!! I didn't mean to frame the girl! I was forced!"
"Who forced you?"
Sure enough, all my doubts were confirmed. The light of the mobile phone shone on the other people.
Behind the stall owner, there were two more people lying there, both of them young and strong men.
Without exception, their hands and feet were all broken, and pools of blood seeped out through the white bone fragments and spread on the ground.
"They! They gave me money! They told me to say those words. Anyway, Lu Dayong lives in Lu Village. I didn't lie!"
The stall owner's face had turned deathly pale from fear and pain. He was just a small businessman selling second - hand goods at a stall. Someone had given him a thousand yuan to pass on a message. How could he have known that before he even had time to pack up his stall, his hands and feet would be broken and he would be thrown into this cellar?
"You've been a dead man since the moment you took the money," Si Jiangchen said with a faint smile. "Don't you even think about it. Is your words worth a thousand yuan?"
After saying that, he glanced at Lu Dayong and said, "You can have a bite of this one..."