Chapter 255: Jiang Family Members Are Still Somewhat Useful
As soon as the telephone hung up, Nan Yuanman couldn’t sit still. She jumped down from Feng Yuli’s arms with a whoosh, ran out anxiously, muttering curses under her breath: “Bastard, scoundrel, shameless!”
He actually used her mother’s grave and Batang Village’s villagers to threaten her! Shameless! Too shameless!
Feng Yuli hurriedly grabbed the little dumpling’s collar: “Perfection, wait.”
“Big brother, I can’t wait!” Nan Yuanman anxiously twisted his hand into a braid: “I’m afraid if I go even a little late, Mother’s grave will be desecrated! And Batang Village’s uncles and aunts…”
“Big brother, let me go!”
Feng Yuli found it funny and annoying at the same time: “Big brother isn’t stopping you from going, but you can’t go to S City alone.”
“She just deliberately used Auntie’s grave and the innocent lives in Batang Village to threaten you, making you panic and go alone. As soon as you go, you’ll fall into the trap.”
Feng Yuli said: “You need to find help.”
“Doesn’t Bureau 908 specialize in handling these things? Have them send someone to go with you.”
To avoid falling into a trap later, where Nan Yuanman alone wouldn’t be able to escape.
Feng Yuli earnestly taught her: “Perfection, you need to learn to seek help from adults, to utilize every resource available.”
The Feng family has unmatched power and status in Shangjing, but they are ultimately ordinary people, and their help to Nan Yuanman in these supernatural events is always limited.
Bureau 908 is a perfect helper.
Even if Perfection doesn’t plan to join Bureau 908, they still need to maintain good relations with Bureau 908.
Nan Yuanman suddenly understood completely: “I get it, I’ll message Sister Xueliu right now!”
Feng Yuli: “You can make the situation sound more serious to get Bureau 908’s attention.”
Nan Yuanman nodded vigorously, opened the chat with Zhong Xueliu, held down the voice message, and started with a bombshell: “Sister Xueliu, bad news! There’s an evil ghost in S City about to massacre a village!”
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On the other side, in S City, hospital room.
Ge Peiyao lay on the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling, showing no reaction to Jiang Hengzhi and Jiang Lixuan entering through the door.
To her, everything that had happened these days felt like a dream.
In just a short month, the Jiang family had fallen apart, her once-loving husband had cheated with the foster daughter and even had a daughter with her behind her back.
And she, kept in the dark like a fool, had carefully cared for that illegitimate daughter for years, even wanting to take the life of her real, biological granddaughter for her sake.
And for that bed-climbing foster daughter, she had forced her own biological daughter to death.
Ge Peiyao hated Jiang Tianzong, but hated herself even more.
She hated how she had been blinded by lard, why back then when Bai Wenyin and Jiang Yueyao had a conflict, she didn’t investigate the truth and rashly convicted Bai Wenyin.
Full of anger and hatred led Ge Peiyao to vent on Jiang Tianzong; she had even prepared herself to entangle with him for life.
But… how did he just die?
How did Jiang Tianzong just die?
With the culprit dead, Ge Peiyao suddenly didn’t know who to hate.
She wanted to find Nan Yuanman and repair their relationship, but she had no face to do so.
Her daughter was dead, her husband was dead, her granddaughter hated her.
Ge Peiyao’s eyes were vacant, her heart felt like it had sunk into water, suffocating her so she couldn’t breathe. She even couldn’t help thinking, if… if from the beginning, she hadn’t brought Jiang Yueyao home to raise.
If from the beginning when Bai Wenyin was found, she had treated her well, would all those things not have happened?
Ge Peiyao had always thought herself someone who never regretted her moves, but now, she truly felt regret.
She couldn’t restrain herself from clutching her chest, gasping for air in big mouthfuls, tears falling uncontrollably. She wanted to cry, to scream, but her throat felt stuffed with cotton, unable to make a sound.
“Tsk tsk tsk, such hypocritical tears.” A shrill child’s voice suddenly rang out. Ge Peiyao shuddered in fright, turned her teary eyes, and saw Jiang Hengzhi sitting on the attendant bed, looking at her playfully, and Jiang Lixuan standing expressionlessly beside him.
At first she thought she’d misheard, her voice hoarse as she asked him: “Hengzhi, was that you just now?”
‘Jiang Hengzhi’ snorted with laughter, ignoring her question, leaning close to the bedside and looking down at her scrutinizingly.
Ge Peiyao felt extremely uncomfortable under his inspecting-goods gaze, frowned, and said: “What are you doing? Why are you looking at Mom like that—!”
Before she finished speaking, her chin was pinched hard by ‘Jiang Hengzhi’, who twisted her face left and right forcefully: “This face should be enough to fool that little bitch.”
The shrill child’s voice made Ge Peiyao’s eyes widen instantly, horror appearing on her face: “You’re not Hengzhi! Who are you?!”
‘Jiang Hengzhi’ still ignored her, placing his hand on her face, muttering to himself: “I originally thought the Jiang family were all trash, but now it seems not entirely. This face of yours should give me great help…”
As he spoke, red mist surged from his palm, quickly covering Ge Peiyao’s face.
Tooth-grinding chewing sounds accompanied by Ge Peiyao’s screams echoed in the hospital room.
Jiang Lixuan, standing behind ‘Jiang Hengzhi’, showed a flicker of struggle and pain on his originally expressionless face, his eyes flashing on and off. He stared deadly at Ge Peiyao writhing in agony on the hospital bed, a guttural roar unlike a human’s coming from his throat.
The next second, Jiang Lixuan slammed hard into ‘Jiang Hengzhi”s back, knocking him heavily to the other side, hugging his waist tightly, face flushed red, forehead veins bulging, gritting his teeth: “Quick, run!”
Ge Peiyao clutched her face, fell off the hospital bed, and crawled and rolled stumbling toward the outside.
“Damn it!”
‘Jiang Hengzhi”s face was frighteningly grim, and he slapped hard on Jiang Lixuan’s back. Jiang Lixuan spat out a mouthful of blood and collapsed limply to the ground.
‘Jiang Hengzhi’ didn’t chase out. He raised his hand, looking at the mass of blood mist in his palm, examining it closely: “No problem, half is enough.”
“It’s you.”
‘Jiang Hengzhi’ dragged Jiang Lixuan toward the restroom: “You ruined my plan. The other half, I’ll make up with your face.”
At the same time, the fleeing Ge Peiyao caught the attention of the on-duty nurse. Seeing the large patches of blood on her hospital gown, the nurse screamed and hurried over: “Ma’am, are you okay?”
Ge Peiyao trembled all over in pain. She slowly removed her hand covering her face, revealing a face left with only a layer of skin: “Hospital… room…”
She only managed these few words before passing out from the pain.
The unprepared nurse was startled by her face and, seeing her in a coma, hurried to call the doctor.
The quiet ward area instantly became noisy.
‘Jiang Hengzhi’ took advantage of the chaos to leave the hospital with Jiang Lixuan and headed by car to Batang Village.
At the same time, Nan Yuanman and the Bureau 908 team members sent to help her also boarded the plane to S City.
