Chapter 344
Chapter 344
Early the next morning, the director sent someone to drive us away from the hotel.
The night before, Sun Yuan had given me the contact information for both the investor and Lu Yihao.
But after thinking it over repeatedly, I decided that both men behaved as though they were above everyone else. I could not bring myself to approach rich people with a flattering smile. I would rather go without the money.
Just when I assumed the matter had nothing more to do with me, Sun Yuan called about two days later.
He told me the investor had visited the production and terminated his partnership with the director. The director returned the money that needed to be refunded. Before leaving, the investor asked the director for my contact information.
Naturally, he wanted my information so he could contact me. But why? Did he want me to expel the Ghost for Lu Yihao?
I could not understand it. That night, the director had arranged for an actress to seduce Lu Yihao and must have sent the secretly recorded footage to the investor.
The investor was Lu Yihao’s father-in-law and famously doted on his daughter. Surely he would throw Lu Yihao out.
Why ask for my contact information now? Could he really want me to save the man?
Something must have happened to Lu Yihao.
That night at the hotel, I had seen a female Ghost who closely resembled Su Yi. She was his younger sister, Su Lan.
Su Lan wore white, probably the same clothes she had worn before she died. But several red, bloodlike stains marked the fabric.
They had not appeared before her death. They emerged afterward.
When she learned she could not enter reincarnation and began accumulating resentment, spot-shaped bloodstains appeared on her clothing.
As her resentment deepened, the stains continued spreading. This phenomenon was called Red Garb After Death.
Not long after Sun Yuan ended the call, the investor called me as expected.
He addressed me as Master Chen with every sentence, his attitude completely different from before.
“Master Chen, I didn’t understand your abilities before. If I offended you, please don’t lower yourself to the level of a vulgar man like me.”
“Something has happened here, and I’d like to ask for your help. I promise you won’t make the trip for nothing. Tell me where you are, and I’ll send someone to pick you up immediately.”
I was not willing to flatter him, but since he had approached me on his own, I naturally went along with the course of events and agreed.
Less than an hour later, a Bentley Continental worth over three million stopped outside our storefront.
I brought Anning with me, and we climbed inside.
The investor himself had not come to collect us. The driver was probably his personal chauffeur.
I asked whether something had happened in his employer’s home.
But even the driver knew nothing. It was probably a family scandal they did not want outsiders to hear.
Before long, Anning and I arrived at the investor’s home.
He and his daughter were already waiting for us at the entrance.
The investor’s name was Wang Jiangguo. He specialized in film investments. According to Sun Yuan, Boss Wang had financed many highly successful theatrical films. A magnate at his level normally had no interest in investing in online movies.
He had only partnered with the production for his daughter’s sake, using his money to force Lu Yihao into the spotlight.
Wang Jiangguo’s daughter was named Wang Xiaoxiao. She was beautiful and clearly a pampered young heiress.
Both father and daughter looked extremely anxious when they saw us.
“Master Chen, thank you for making this trip. The truth is…”
“Did something happen to Lu Yihao?”
I cut straight to the point before Wang Jiangguo could finish.
Wang Xiaoxiao quickly nodded. Her eyes were swollen and red, clearly from crying. “Master Chen, I don’t know what illness my husband has, but it’s terrifying. He looks as if he’s about to die. Please, save him.”
Seeing her both worried and terrified, I wondered what kind of retribution Lu Yihao had suffered to frighten his wife so badly.
“Take me inside first.”
“When did his symptoms begin?”
Wang Xiaoxiao said it started the day before yesterday. Lu Yihao had felt unwell after returning home. When he woke yesterday, his condition had become abnormal, and today it had worsened again.
His symptoms were extremely unusual and looked nothing like an ordinary illness, so they did not dare take him to the hospital.
The day before yesterday…
Anning and I had returned from the film studio complex that morning.
And the night before that was when I saw Su Lan at the hotel.
It seemed Su Lan had finally acted against the faithless Lu Yihao.
Wang Jiangguo and Wang Xiaoxiao led us into the house and to an enormous bedroom.
There was no time to admire its luxury. Anning and I immediately saw Lu Yihao lying beneath a thin blanket on the bed.
When we approached, both of us jumped in fright.
We barely recognized him.
He resembled a dried corpse. That might have sounded like an exaggeration, but he truly looked like a completely different person from the Lu Yihao we had seen before.
His face was deathly pale, and its skin had begun sinking inward without any flesh beneath to support it.
He was barely conscious. His eyes remained tightly closed, and painful groans escaped his mouth from time to time.
I would have believed anyone who told me he was dying.
These were symptoms of excessive depletion of vital essence and blood.
But his symptoms were far more severe than anything seen in an ordinary person.
When a normal person’s vital essence and blood were depleted, the outward signs usually included worsening bags beneath the eyes, dark circles, dull yellow or pale skin, dry and damaged hair, and a thick, greasy white tongue coating with scalloped edges.
People who indulged excessively in sex often displayed such symptoms.
But Lu Yihao looked as though the Old Demon of Black Mountain had just drained him dry.
I turned to Wang Jiangguo and Wang Xiaoxiao. “Something is consuming his yang energy, vital essence, and blood.”
Father and daughter exchanged a look. Wang Xiaoxiao suddenly began backing away until she reached the doorway. She seemed to know what was about to happen and was terrified of seeing it.
Wang Jiangguo approached the bed, his expression strange. “You two should prepare yourselves.”
With that, he tore the blanket away from Lu Yihao.
Anning and I stared, then went completely numb.
The sensation ran from my scalp to my toes as goosebumps rose across my entire body.
Lu Yihao lay on the bed wearing nothing but briefs. Every part of his body below his neck was covered in wet hair. It resembled the fine lanugo on a newborn baby. The glistening fluid coating it looked like amniotic fluid from inside a womb.
Anning could not bear the sight. She hurried to the window and turned her back. She looked as if she wanted to vomit but could not, and kept rubbing the goosebumps on her arms.
I was not much better. I nearly turned around and walked out.
Not because I was afraid, but because the scene was truly fucking disgusting!
Beneath the covering of lanugo, I noticed many slits around two or three centimeters long. They resembled closed eyelids.
I counted carefully. There were approximately sixteen slits. If eyes lay beneath them, that would make exactly eight pairs…