What do you mean by saying that the corpses I sew are all ominous creatures?

Li Qing became more and more excited as she spoke, and stood up and paced back and forth in the room.

"I know you're short on money and want to improve your skills, but we don't need to risk our lives for money."

We have enough money now to live a carefree life for several years.

If all else fails, we'll find an excuse to slip away first thing tomorrow morning. We've already made three million from him, that's enough to break even.

I sat on the edge of the bed and quietly watched Li Qing vent his anger.

I understand his concerns.

Although Li Qing usually appears carefree, he is an extremely cautious person at heart.

The Feng Shui lineage emphasizes seeking good fortune and avoiding misfortune. Faced with such an obvious ominous sign, their instinctive reaction is to flee.

I waited until he calmed down a bit before I slowly spoke.

"Li Qing, you also feel that this matter is becoming increasingly complicated, don't you?"

"nonsense!"

Li Qing rolled her eyes.

"Even a fool can see how complicated this is! First it was a grave where no one was born, then it was a body being pieced together, and now it's murder to cover it up."

This is a complex, interconnected system, clearly part of a larger scheme.

"Then don't you feel...?"

I looked up at Li Qing with a deep gaze, and said in a very soft voice, "Zhao Jianguo's reaction was a bit strange?"

"eccentric?"

Li Qing paused for a moment, then frowned and recalled, "You mean his grief was too short? That's understandable, after all, he's a business tycoon who doesn't show his emotions."

Besides, his nephew was going to harm him anyway. So what if he died? The pain will pass quickly.

"No, not sadness. It's fear."

"Fear?" Li Qing was completely bewildered.

"Yes, fear."

I stood up, walked to the window, looked at the dark night outside, and slowly said, "Li Qing, try to put yourself in my shoes."

For us, whether Zhao Tianhao lives or dies is completely irrelevant.

If he died, it was because he was blinded by greed and brought disaster upon his own ancestors; he deserved it.

So even if we sensed in advance that something might happen to him, we wouldn't bother to save him.

Perhaps we can even glean something from his death.

"But," I changed the subject.

"If you were Zhao Jianguo, as an ordinary person..."

You witnessed your nephew's heart explode instantly right before your eyes by some unseen and intangible means, his death a gruesome sight.

What would you think?

Li Qing thought for a moment, then his expression changed: "I wonder... will I be next? Since that person could kill Zhao Tianhao, can he kill me at any time?"

"That's right."

I turned around and stared into Li Qing's eyes.

"This is human instinct. Faced with such an unknown and cruel supernatural force, the first reaction of ordinary people is definitely fear and worry about their own safety."

He should beg us to protect him, or move out immediately, or even be driven insane by fear.

"But Zhao Jianguo didn't."

My voice turned somewhat cold.

"Aside from the initial few seconds of shock and grief, he showed no concern for his own safety whatsoever throughout the entire process."

They even dared to raise the price at this point, asking us to track down the murderer.

"Why did Zhao Tianhao die so easily, yet Zhao Jianguo showed no fear whatsoever?"

Li Qing's pupils contracted sharply, and he froze on the spot.

After a long pause, Li Qing swallowed hard. "You mean... he knows he's safe?"

Hearing this, I nodded: "That's why I had you set up an early warning array instead of a protective one. Zhao Jianguo's reaction was quite interesting."

"Currently, there seem to be two possibilities."

I held up two fingers.

"First, he knew the bottom line of the mastermind, or rather, there was some kind of tacit understanding between him and the mastermind."

"Secondly, he has a trump card. A trump card that allows him to disregard this threat of death."

"So, Li Qing."

I walked back to the bedside and patted Li Qing on the shoulder.

"This is no longer a question of whether we want to withdraw or not."

Either of these scenarios indicates that Zhao Jianguo is not a simple "employer".

Perhaps, from the moment we broke that feng shui arrangement, stepped into the Zhao family's gate, and arrested Zhao Tianhao, we were already caught in the trap.

"Instead of passively waiting for people to come knocking on our door, we might as well take advantage of Zhao Jianguo's influence to stir up trouble and see what kind of monsters and demons are lurking underneath."

Li Qing looked at me, her eyes shifting unpredictably.

After a long while, he sighed deeply and slumped onto the sofa, as if he had resigned himself to his fate.

"Alright, alright, I'm on this sinking ship. You're crazy, nothing good ever comes of being with you."

Li Qing grumbled and cursed for a while, but in the end, he collapsed onto the sofa like a deflated balloon and stopped talking.

"Alright, stop looking so gloomy."

I got up and poured him a glass of water, speaking gently.

"Since we've decided to play along, let's rest tonight and get our energy back. Tomorrow, we'll find Zhao Jianguo's father's body."

Although Zhao Tianhao's trail has ended, the body will not simply disappear into thin air.

As long as it's within the Five Elements, I don't believe your compass can't be positioned correctly.

Li Qing took the water glass I handed her and nodded slowly.

The next day, early in the morning.

The Zhao family's breakfast was astonishingly lavish, with a long, rectangular Western-style table laden with all sorts of breakfast items.

But Zhao Jianguo, sitting in the main seat, clearly had little appetite; the dark circles under his eyes were even more pronounced than yesterday.

"bite--"

"bite--"

Two crisp text message notification sounds rang out almost simultaneously, breaking the dull chewing sounds in the restaurant.

I took out my phone and looked at it.

【您尾号5678的储蓄卡帐户于01月17日08:02入帐人民币2，500，000.00元。】

Li Qing's side was obviously the same.

The deposit of five million was paid in full, and it was credited directly to my account through an expedited channel.

Zhao Jianguo's influence in Jiangcheng is indeed not to be underestimated.

Upon seeing this long string of zeros, Li Qing's sleepy eyes instantly lit up.

He shoved his phone into his pocket, grabbed a fried dough stick from the table, took a big bite, and mumbled, "Boss Zhao is indeed a man of taste."

Now that the money's in place, let's not waste any more time. Eat and drink our fill, and let's get started.

Zhao Jianguo put down the half-cup of milk in his hand, wiped his mouth with a napkin, and said in a hoarse voice, "Then I'll leave it to you two."

"Every minute my father's remains lie exposed outside, my heart feels like it's being fried in oil."

After dinner, our group went to the villa's back garden.

The terrain here is open and faces the direction of the ancestral grave that was previously dug up, so the energy field is relatively open and suitable for setting up an altar for rituals.

Li Qing held a compass in his hand and paced solemnly across the grass, searching for the best direction.

After walking around for a while, he took out a piece of yellow paper from his canvas bag and spread it on the grass.

He then took out a vermilion pen and, with swift, flowing strokes, drew an extremely complex talisman.

"Boss Zhao."

After Li Qing finished drawing the talisman, he straightened up and looked at Zhao Jianguo, who was standing anxiously waiting to the side.

"What do you need me to do?" Zhao Jianguo asked without hesitation.

"I need to borrow some blood from your fingertip."

Li Qing didn't stand on ceremony. He grabbed Zhao Jianguo's left hand, and a silver needle appeared in his hand without him noticing. He swiftly and accurately pierced the tip of Zhao Jianguo's middle finger.

Crimson blood gushed out instantly.

Li Qing quickly squeezed the drop of blood into the Heavenly Pool in the center of the compass, then lit the drawn yellow paper and sprinkled the ashes on the blood.