Running A Cemetery in North America-Chapter 380 - 256: The Five-Member Squad Reunites

"William! William! Who on earth did this to you?"

Outside the ICU ward, a noblewoman rushed in.

Looking at her son lying unconscious on the hospital bed, her expression was both pained and angry.

A middle-aged man in a suit immediately comforted her, "Madam, the young master is now out of the critical phase and under observation, but the situation isn’t very promising. The doctor just advised us not to make a fuss."

"What exactly happened? Why is my son like this? Who hurt him?" The noblewoman grabbed the middle-aged man’s collar, gritting her teeth in anger.

"I just had a video call with Mr. Chen. He said Young Master William previously asked him for help to put a black magic spell on Miss Nie so she would fall in love with him. It seems now that the spell on Miss Nie has been broken by someone, causing it to backfire on the young master. This situation cannot be treated with modern medicine alone and requires Mr. Chen to come back from the South Seas."

"Useless, you’re all a bunch of useless people."

The noblewoman stared at William on the bed, speaking with heartache, "Go, investigate who broke the spell, find them, whoever harmed my child, I want them sunk in the Pacific Ocean!"

"Yes." The middle-aged man nodded in agreement immediately. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

...

Following the address given by Zhou Mangmang, Sun Yan arrived at a fast-food restaurant named ’Tian Tian Chinese Restaurant’ near the target area.

Walking through the door, Sun Yan immediately spotted Zhou Mangmang at a table.

"You’ve got a good appetite, huh?" Sun Yan sat down with a smile.

On the table were dishes that couldn’t be found outside of Chinese restaurants abroad: a plate of pickled fish, a plate of fish-flavored pork, and a plate of baby cabbage.

"Usually, dinner is my lunch, and also my first meal of the day. It would be strange if I didn’t order more."

Zhou Mangmang pointed to the dishes on the table and asked, "Want some? If there’s anything you want, you can order it; this meal is on me."

"No need, I had airplane food on the flight."

Sun Yan curiously asked, "Judging by what you said, your daily routine seems different from normal people."

"Of course, because I work at night. After work, I go home to sleep, and when I wake up, it’s already evening with the sun setting."

Zhou Mangmang mumbled, then began to devour the rice in her bowl.

Sun Yan watched her eat quietly, waiting for the arrival of the other three Tomb Guardians for this mission.

"By the way, have you informed your family that you’re safe?" Zhou Mangmang looked up, cheeks puffed, and asked.

"Informed?" Sun Yan was puzzled, not understanding what she meant.

"Come on, we’re undertaking a Five Stars mission this time. It’s possible that people will die, and your family might have no idea how you died,

so it’s best to inform them and hand over your bank card and password. That way, even if we die during the mission, your family can have financial security for the rest of their lives.

Those in our line of work often have their lives hanging by a thread, uncontrollably." Zhou Mangmang shook her head.

Hearing her words, Sun Yan suddenly realized that since he inherited the graveyard, no matter how dangerous the task, he had never told his family about these things.

He couldn’t help but smile and say, "Don’t worry, with me here, it’ll be fine."

"Bro, do you think you’re the protagonist? Just saying it’s fine makes it fine. The Five Stars mission is currently the highest difficulty that has appeared in the Grand Sacrificial Society. Every time, several Tomb Guardians permanently disappear. This is no joke; it’s far more troublesome than anything you’ve encountered before. It’s best to inform your family so that if something really happens, your parents will have a clear answer."

Zhou Mangmang said seriously.

Sun Yan leaned back on the chair, smiling, "Since you know it’s this dangerous, why do you still want to undertake this task? Isn’t living well enough?"

"Once a task appears, it needs to be completed. This is our Tomb Guardian’s compulsion; don’t tell me you don’t have it. As for danger..."

Zhou Mangmang chewed on the baby cabbage, "That’s because high risk comes with high reward. The rewards for this Five Stars mission are so rich that if we succeed, it can significantly boost our strength. There’s no reason to give up. If you’re afraid of death, even becoming a Tomb Guardian won’t lead to much success in this life."

"Makes sense." Sun Yan nodded.

"The other three team members told me they’ll all arrive tonight, but the time they reach Wenyang City varies. So, we’ll meet and gather at the building with the elevator button later."

"Alright, you’re the mission initiator, everything up to you."

...

PM at night.

Wenyang City, Golden Mountain Building.

As an old building of the old district, the Golden Mountain Building was particularly famous in Wenyang City at the end of the last century for being over twenty stories high.

Regarded as a landmark building of Wenyang City.

But now with the developments, skyscrapers of over fifty, even a hundred stories, are everywhere.

The Golden Mountain Building has directly become an artifact of a bygone era, an old thing of the past in the old district.

And in recent years, many strange things have occurred in this building.

Especially known for people mysteriously disappearing, residents nearby often vanish within the building, and even when officers come to investigate, nothing concrete comes to light.

The cases just end up unresolved, casting a mysterious veil over the Golden Mountain Building.

Standing by the street, looking up at the flickering red sign of the Golden Mountain Building, due to years of disrepair, the character for "mountain" had long lost its ability to light up.

The rooftop was shrouded in nighttime black mist, looking particularly eerie.

"Why haven’t they arrived yet? It’s been over ten minutes." Zhou Mangmang muttered, looking at her phone.

Just then, an old-fashioned taxi passed by, stopping not far away.

Two middle-aged men in jackets speckled with paint got out of the car, their faces honest, their frames stout.

They looked like workers just off a shift at the construction site.

"Sorry we’re late."

These two walked up to Zhou Mangmang, saying, "Li Bo, Li Lang, we took your task."

"So it’s you guys, what’s with the attire?" Zhou Mangmang hesitatedly asked.

"We just finished a job relocating an old tomb, that’s why we’re late." Li Bo explained.

"Is there still one more person who hasn’t arrived? I thought we were the slowest." Li Lang glanced at Sun Yan, seeing the incomplete group, and couldn’t help but laugh at himself.

Zhou Mangmang explained, "He said he drove all the way from Sichuan and has now reached Wenyang City. He’s on his way to Golden Mountain Building, might take a while."

Just as the words fell, an old BYD Tang drove up from the end of the street, stopping in front of Sun Yan and the group.

"Sorry, sorry, I hurried south as fast as I could, didn’t even stop at service station restrooms, made you wait."

A fat man got out of the car, adorned in all kinds of Bodhi strings and a Celestial Pearl Necklace, his appearance extremely flamboyant.

The thing that immediately caught Sun Yan’s attention was him reaching into the passenger seat to pull out a gourd half the height of a person.

The gourd was polished to a glossy shine, its surface bright and colorful, very beautiful.

If it were at an antique market, Sun Yan would think it was an old object.

But appearing in the hands of a Tomb Guardian, it was likely more than just a magical treasure.