Max-Level Metaphysician: A Debt Repayment Journey-Chapter 89 - : The Ancestor Said This Is to Establish a Foothold
Chapter 89: Chapter 89: The Ancestor Said This Is to Establish a Foothold
Song Taishan looked at the security guard, his face dark and grim, “You’re still not planning to talk?”
The guard’s face turned pale, and he turned to run.
But the police officer beside him, as if he had anticipated this move, immediately pounced on him, pinning him to the ground.
“I’ll speak, I’ll tell you everything!”
Pressed to the ground and realizing there was no escape, the security guard hastily began to shout.
“Yes, it’s true, it’s the ritual of ‘live staking’!”
Xu Yang was stunned, “Live staking?”
Xia Xin’s heart clenched tightly as his eyes widened, “Live staking…”
Even though his talent was not great, he had heard the old Taoist speak of what this was.
Legend has it that when some roads, bridges, or buildings cannot be erected, and the foundations cannot be laid, it’s because something beneath them disagrees with the construction.
Therefore, some boys and girls are required as offerings, buried under the foundations.
Because when they are thrown down, the children are still alive.
So, it came to be called ‘live staking.’
This practice is terribly cruel, and it began to fall out of use hundreds of years ago.
Unbelievably, even in these times, someone still resorted to ‘live staking’!
Xia Xin’s heart pounded furiously as he caught a glimpse of the composed Jiangli beside him, and he asked in shock, “Elder Ancestor, did you, did you know it was ‘live staking’ all along?”
Jiangli glanced at him and hummed softly in response.
Upon entering, she noticed that the terrain and the energy were not right. Once she confirmed the children were below, she guessed what was happening.
“You maniacs! Maniacs!”
Hearing Xia Xin’s explanation, Xu Yang understood what ‘live staking’ meant. He screamed in despair, struggling to push past the police officers, trying to rush forward.
He wanted the life of the security guard!
The ones responsible for the death of his child had to die!
The police officers beside him, fearing he would harm himself, held him down tightly and stopped him from charging.
Xu Yang continued to scream and cry in his breakdown.
Liu Rongrong simply fainted on the spot.
Chaos instantly erupted at the scene.
With the security guard’s testimony, Song Taishan immediately directed his colleagues to contact Mutian Group and the person in charge of the construction site.
He also called for some excavators and blasting tools to dismantle the building.
By evening, eight skeletons were dug out from below, four boys and four girls, placed under the foundations, at various orientations.
The bodies had not completely decomposed, allowing faces to still be recognizable.
Moreover, each skeleton had a very ferocious expression…
One could imagine how much they had suffered at the time of their death.
Seeing this, Xu Yang knelt on the ground and cried until his voice was hoarse and he could cry no more.
The police officers by his side also had tears in their eyes.
Xia Xin sobbed as he choked out, “How can people be so cruel…”
Jiangli said nothing.
At that moment, the site manager and foreman were brought over.
Shuaishuai recognized the foreman at a glance, “Uncle!”
Hearing his voice, Xia Xin immediately turned to look, his anger boiling as he bit down on his teeth, “You’re the bastard who took Shuaishuai away?”
The foreman, not knowing how he had been pinpointed, stood with his head bowed, not daring to speak.
Jiangli glanced at Shuaishuai and asked, “How were you taken away by him?”
“He was with a little sister, a friend!” Shuaishuai crisply replied.
Jiangli paused.
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Xia Xin was also stunned.
So, the man had already deceived a little girl and used her to lower Shuaishuai’s guard before taking him away?
Shuaishuai was just a child after all; a little kindness shown by the other party could easily coax him away.
Jiangli asked further, “Do you know that little sister?”
Shuaishuai nodded, “Yes! Home, neighbor, little sister, I like her.”
Upon hearing this, Jiangli walked over to Xu Yang and asked softly, “Is there a neighbor’s child from your community who also went missing?”
Xu Yang, consumed by his sobs, could barely speak at this point.
His swollen eyes aimlessly met Jiangli’s, seemingly clueless as to why she was asking that question.
But the next second, his eyes widened in shock, “…. Yes, there seems to be such a little girl, called Lanlan, who would play with our Shuaishuai…”
He looked at Jiangli with almost suffocating disbelief and asked.
“Abbot, is she…”
“Hmm, call her family. The child might be here as well,” Jiangli spoke calmly.
Xu Yang instantly turned to look at the covered bodies.
Because they had been covered with white cloths as soon as they were unearthed, aside from his own child, he had not noticed the others.
With Jiangli’s words, a fresh wave of rage surged in his heart, pierced by a bone-chilling cold.
He shakily took out his phone to contact Lanlan’s father.
Since the two children often played together and lived in the same community, the two families had a way to reach each other.
