Volume 1: Spring in Wulong Town Chapter 190: Strange Night
The group rushed to the woodshed, and before they entered, they heard weak and painful groans coming from the woodshed.
Everyone pushed the door open with confusion, and the faint moonlight came in from the window. Manager Li was huddled in the corner of the woodshed. He was like an earthworm sprinkled with salt, twitching and rolling on the ground covered with dust and debris.
The shadow in the corner covered his face, and no one could see his expression at the moment.
But from his creepy moans and painful struggles, everyone could feel how much pain he was in.
"What's wrong with him?"
"Could it be possible that some plague has been brought to our Tangjiabao?"
Several managers of Tangjiabao standing behind Tang Zheng felt a little uneasy when they saw Manager Li's creepy reaction, and made hesitant guesses.
Tang Zheng did not answer, but crossed his arms and observed.
Before everyone could finish their words, Manager Li suddenly jumped up from the ground in an extremely twisted posture, like a puppet with his hands and feet tied behind his back. His stiff body was pulled into a recurved bow that could break completely at any time.
At the same time, the stars behind him also brightened.
"The moon is like a hook?"
"How could his horoscope be the Lan family's direct descendant horoscope, the crescent moon?"
The crescent moon, which was supposed to emit a cool silver glow, was now slowly stained with a strange blood color.
Under the illumination of the blood-red light, Manager Li's originally extremely pale face was also stained with a layer of strange blood.
But what made people's backs shiver the most was that his eyes were already bloodshot, and those bloodshot veins were like some kind of living insects, twisting and turning in his eyes...
Getting denser and bigger.
In the end, his entire eyes were covered, without a trace of black or white!
The strange blood-red color on Manager Li's moon-like hook constellation also began to wriggle and slowly stretch out, like a greedily growing poisonous snake, slowly entangled on Manager Li's constellation, and gradually swallowed the moon-like hook into its blood-red belly.
A little bit, a little bit...
As Manager Li's body shook violently like a sieve, the entire crescent-shaped star image behind him was swallowed up by the bloody poisonous snake.
The two bright and clear stars that were originally twinkling in the constellation suddenly went out with a hiss, like a candle that was blown out with great force.
Only one star was left, hanging alone above the already dimmed constellations.
Not only that, Manager Li's appearance was aging rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, just like the dimming stars!
First, the hair changed from its original shiny black color to gray, then white, and finally became completely dry.
Then there is the skin, which originally had a few wrinkles, then became covered with wrinkles, and finally became spotted and extremely dry.
Finally, it was the skeleton. Although originally skinny, but not small in stature, Manager Li, with bursts of crackling sounds, became completely emaciated as if all the energy had been drained out. He curled up in a corner, hunched over like a sack that had been trampled...
In just less than a quarter of an hour, Manager Li aged from a middle-aged man who looked to be around forty years old to an old man in his eighties!
Even ordinary people cannot age so quickly.
What's more, Manager Li is a mid-level two-star warrior with considerable strength!
No, it's already one star...
In just a short moment, Manager Li's strength dropped dramatically and his appearance aged in the blink of an eye in front of everyone!
Besides, no one had even approached him before.
All this happened without any warning or reason!
Even though all the members of the Tang family hated Manager Li to the core, they were still shocked to see a warrior being tortured and corroded by the power of ghosts and gods in front of them.
Almost everyone felt a chill rising from the soles of their feet and their scalp numbed!
At this time, Manager Li, who had been suffering from the shivering, finally fell straight to the ground. The stars suddenly went out, and he lay on the ground motionless, with no one knowing whether he was dead or alive.
Only the quiet moonlight still shines into the small woodshed, adding a quiet atmosphere to this eerie night.
Everyone looked at the unconscious Manager Li, and everyone couldn't help but silently take a small step back, wanting to stay a little further away from Manager Li who seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit in the corner.
Just as the woodshed fell into an awkward silence, Tang Zheng suddenly took a big step forward, walked directly in front of Manager Li, and squatted down.
"Tang Zheng, be careful." Tang Boyuan reached out and pulled, but failed to hold Tang Zheng.
Tang Zheng picked up a piece of firewood and poked Manager Li, who had collapsed in the corner and was motionless: "Hey, hey, get up, stop pretending to be dead!"
The faces of several managers of Tangjiabao suddenly changed - the strange atmosphere that had just filled the woodshed was instantly driven away by Tang Zheng.
The coldness in their bodies was mostly dissipated because of Tang Zheng's call.
"Better be careful." Tang Boyuan raised the star image, illuminating the entire woodshed with incomparable brightness.
"Yeah." Tang Zheng responded, turned around and made an OK gesture, and continued to poked Manager Li.
Tang Boyuan and the others were watching from the side, and they thought that Manager Li had died. However, they didn't expect that when Tang Zheng poked him with a piece of firewood, Manager Li suddenly shuddered and sat up suddenly!
Zheng Qian's face turned pale again: "Alive...alive?"
"Who is alive? Why are you looking at me like that?" Manager Li seemed to be unaware of what had just happened . He stood up and looked around blankly. When he saw Zheng Qian and the others, they were looking at him as if he were a monster.
"Well... generally speaking, you are now as miserable as if you had just been anally raped a hundred times. Your strength has been greatly reduced and you are old and weak!" Tang Zheng answered very honestly.
"Strength has dropped significantly? Too old..." Manager Li repeated Tang Zheng's words dully, raised his hands, stared blankly at his hands that were extremely withered and shaped like sticks, for a long time, and then suddenly laughed crazily as if he had gone mad.
Manager Li's sudden madness intensified the weird atmosphere that had just been dispersed by Tang Zhengge with great difficulty.
If he wasn't possessed by an evil spirit, who would feel happy about his own greatly reduced strength and aging?
But Manager Li smiled as if he was in his wedding night or as happy as when he got his name on the list of successful candidates!
Bang, bang!
Tang Zheng suddenly raised his hands, slapped Manager Li twice, "Stop, stop, stop, don't be so happy yet. If you have something to be happy about, why don't you say it out loud? Let us be happy together."
Tang Zheng's two slaps really made Manager Li behave much more normally.
He covered his bulging cheeks, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and glanced at everyone present with a mocking look on his face. There was still madness in his eyes. He said with satisfaction, "Happy? Of course I'm happy, but you may not be happy! Hahahahahaha... Because the decline I just experienced shows that the blood sacrifice of my Lan family's ancestor has entered the final stage, and it is only one step away from success. When he comes out of seclusion, it will be the time to bloodbath your Tang Family Castle!"
"When the time comes, all the male members of the Tang family will be turned into human pigs, and the female members will be demoted to slaves. When my Lan family gets tired of playing with them, they will be sold to brothels!"
“As for you—” Manager Li finally looked at Tang Zheng beside him and lowered his voice, as if he was sharing an interesting secret with a friend, “The ancestor will first let you see the tragic situation of Tang Family Fort, and then he will personally destroy your star power, and then cut you alive, one knife at a time, to comfort the spirit of the young master in heaven!”
"How about it? Are you all happy to hear this news? Haha, haha!" After Manager Li said this, he burst into laughter wildly again.
Upon hearing Manager Li's extremely vicious declaration, Tang Boyuan and the others all showed anger on their faces.
But Tang Zheng just patted Manager Li's shoulder lightly, and put on a nonchalant smile: "Since the blood sacrifice has just entered the final stage, how long will it take for your ancestor to come out of seclusion?"
When Manager Li heard Tang Zheng's question, he spat a mouthful of bloody phlegm on the ground and said viciously: "Why should I tell you?!"
"Haha, it seems that you want Xu Qingyan to ask your concubine and son to have a chat?" Tang Zheng said in a tone as if the "big bad wolf" was coming.
When Manager Li heard Xu Qingyan's name, his face quickly turned pale, but he soon put on a vicious smile again: "Seven days, you can only live for seven days at most, whether it's you or Xu Qingyan, run, run quickly!"
“Hahaha, no matter how fast you run, a five-star warrior can catch you in a minute and crush you to death like an ant!”
"You are the illegitimate son of the Lan family, right?" Tang Zheng suddenly asked, ignoring Manager Li's crazy ridicule.
"That's right, so what?" Manager Li paused, not knowing how Tang Zheng knew this secret hidden deep in his heart, nor did he understand the significance of Tang Zheng's irrelevant question. He narrowed his eyes and asked vigilantly.
"As an illegitimate child who cannot be seen in public and an outsider in the eyes of others, you have successfully taken the high position of the steward of the Lan family. The ancestor of the Lan family must have taken good care of you, and you must be very grateful to him, right?" Tang Zheng looked at Steward Li's face and continued.
Once again, Tang Zheng spoke of his innermost secrets, and Manager Li subconsciously wanted to deny it.
Tang Zheng smiled and suddenly stood up, patted the dust off his body, and said with a smile: "Well, your expression has given me a positive answer. Don't worry, I just want to confirm that in seven days, when I throw the head of the ancestor of the Lan family in front of you, will you smile as happily as you did today."
After saying that, Tang Zheng stayed and turned to leave.
Manager Li, with a look of astonishment on his face, sat dejectedly in the corner, muttering to himself: "Am I crazy or is he crazy? He must be crazy, haha, how is it possible to kill the ancestor? Impossible... He is crazy, crazy..."
However, no matter how he confirmed the strength of the ancestor, no matter how he laughed at Tang Zheng's absurdity, Tang Zheng's weird smile, intertwined with the blood moon on the night when Lan Shaoze died, was like an lingering nightmare, with boundless panic and fear, devouring his heart bit by bit...
"Impossible...Impossible...Impossible..." There was only an old man left in the woodshed, mumbling in his dying words over and over again.
