After Fan Wei finished telling them about this bizarre incident, the constables behind him looked shocked.
“What, they disappeared?”
“Old Fan, are you sure this is real?”
“Which reckless fool dares to lay a hand on us, the prefectural office?”
“Boss, so us coming to the Wu Family Residence, does it have something to do with them?”
Fan Wei gently raised his right hand, signaling everyone to be quiet.
“Alright, stop arguing. Once we enter the Wu Family Residence, split into teams of three and search every suspicious place.”
“Remember, don’t miss a single corner!”
“The Prefect has ordered us to find our four missing men and Wu Wei’s body within three days.”
Fan Wei didn’t have time to explain things to them right now. He quickened his pace again.
In front of the Wu Family Residence gate stood two thin, gaunt-looking house servants. When they saw the official uniforms on Fan Wei and his group, they quickly hurried over.
“Greetings, officers!”
The two Wu family servants put on fawning, humble expressions, bowing to Fan Wei and his group.
“Cut the nonsense. I am Chief Constable Fan Wei of the prefectural office.”
“You two lead the way immediately. I’m going to search the entire Wu residence.”
Fan Wei ignored the two servants’ attempts to curry favor and directly gestured for the constables behind him.
This time, the men Fan Wei brought were all skilled hands from the prefectural office.
There were four constables at the Marrow Refining realm, and the rest were martial artists at the Flesh Refining realm.
Each Marrow Refining realm martial artist would take two Flesh Refining realm constables and be responsible for searching one area.
Hearing the name “Prefectural Chief Constable,” the two Wu family servants were deeply shocked.
Why would such an important person suddenly come to search the entire Wu residence? Could it be related to the master’s death?
But they didn’t dare be the least bit negligent, not showing any sign of refusal whatsoever.
“Yes, sir. This way, please!”
After entering the Wu Family Residence, the four constables each took two men and split up to search.
Fan Wei, meanwhile, took two men and headed straight for the main hall.
At the main hall, two large white lanterns hung in front of the gate.
On the walls beneath the white lanterns were pasted two white elegiac couplets, written as eulogies for Wu Wei.
Inside the main hall stood several figures.
In front of them was a coffin, and in front of the coffin was the spirit tablet of Wu Wei, the head of the Wu family.
Just then, an elderly-looking house servant came running in on hurried feet, all the way into the main hall.
Then, this old servant quickly spoke to the few people in front.
“Young master, second young master, third young master, the Chief Constable from the prefectural office has arrived!”
Hearing that the Prefectural Chief Constable had arrived, the three men, forgetting their grief for a moment, quickly turned to look at the old servant.
The man standing in the middle was the eldest young master of the Wu family. He quickly hurried over and gripped the old servant’s shoulders tightly with both hands.
“Uncle Wu, are you sure it’s the Prefectural Chief Constable?”
“Didn’t those government people take our father’s body to the yamen just this morning?”
“Why are they back again?”
“And the Chief Constable himself?”
“Could it be they’ve already figured out the cause of father’s death?”
Before Uncle Wu could say anything, Fan Wei had already arrived outside the main hall with his two men.
When Wu Wei’s three sons saw the official uniforms on Fan Wei and his men, they quickly walked out of the hall.
The three Wu family young masters were intimidated by Fan Wei’s imposing, authoritative presence and didn’t dare have any doubts.
“This humble one greets the officers.”
Seeing the mourning clothes they wore, Fan Wei guessed their identities.
“Are you three Wu Wei’s sons?”
“Yes, sir.”
Getting his answer, Fan Wei didn’t beat around the bush. He directly gestured for the two men behind him to enter the main hall and start searching.
Seeing this, Wu Wei’s sons looked confused.
“Sir, what are you doing?”
“Early this morning, the four officers I sent to the Wu residence, along with Wu Wei’s body, both vanished without a trace at Shuimen Lane.”
“So, the Prefect has ordered us to search the entire Shuimen Lane area, including the Wu residence!”
After he finished speaking, ignoring the pale and distressed expressions on the faces of Wu Wei’s sons, Fan Wei also walked into the main hall.
Fan Wei surveyed the layout around him, then slowly walked to the very front, where the spirit tablet and coffin were placed.
“How strange?”
Ever since entering this place, Fan Wei had an inexplicable feeling.
But the vital energy and blood in his body hadn’t detected anything abnormal.
Suddenly, Fan Wei sensed a trace of coldness. It came from the empty coffin beside him.
“This feeling… not good!”
Yin energy!
It was the yin energy of those ghostly things!
Thanks to decades of experience in the martial world, Fan Wei didn’t hesitate for a moment.
The vital energy and blood throughout his body erupted the next instant, and his body shot out like an arrow leaving a bowstring, heading straight for the door.
After escaping out the main hall door, Fan Wei fled desperately into the distance without looking back.
Because, as he was escaping, Fan Wei had noticed the abnormal change in that coffin.
Blood!
The entire surface of the coffin was constantly seeping blood.
“This!”
“Big brother, look at that coffin!”
“Father!”
“It’s father!”
“Run!”
“Father is getting his revenge on us!”
Within seconds of Fan Wei’s disappearance, everyone in the Wu residence noticed the change in that coffin.
Especially Wu Wei’s three sons – terror was written all over their faces.
However, when everyone tried to move their legs, they found their legs seemed frozen solid, completely unable to budge.
Inside the main hall, the large amount of blood seeping from the coffin’s surface had already begun to spread.
Wu Wei’s three sons watched as the blood on the floor touched one living person after another.
Each person seemed to be devoured, gradually rotting and decaying, collapsing into a skeleton scattered on the ground.
Seeing this horrifying scene, Wu Wei’s three sons began weeping and wailing, screaming in terror!
“Father, I was wrong! It was big brother’s idea! The rest of us had nothing to do with it!”
“Yeah, Father! It had nothing to do with me or third brother! Big brother killed you!”
“Father, have mercy!”
But their pleas got no response whatsoever.
“It’s all that wretched woman’s fault!”
“Father, that wretched woman betrayed you, yet you still wanted to go against the Tianhai Gang for her!”
“If I hadn’t killed you, our Wu family would have been destroyed!”
“I…”
In an instant, the entire Wu residence was enveloped in a terrifying yin energy, and everyone was reduced to bleached bones in a single moment!
“Wretched woman?”
“Yurong, that wretched woman!”
A twisted, horrifying face appeared above the Wu residence, then vanished just as quickly!
As for Fan Wei, from the moment Wu Wei appeared, his entire body’s vital energy and blood had been bursting forth desperately, as if his life depended on it.
Just as Wu Wei’s anomaly zone was about to envelop the Wu residence, one of Fan Wei’s legs accidentally got left behind inside the Wu family’s area.
Enduring the excruciating pain, Fan Wei quickly drew the broadsword from his waist and chopped at his own left leg.
For a Blood Refining realm martial artist, even with only one leg left, Fan Wei could still burst forth with terrifying speed.
Such terrifying yin energy!
And an anomaly zone of legend, no less!
He hadn’t expected his guess to be right.
A Calamity-class entity!
Run!
The wound on Fan Wei’s left leg was sealed by the power of his vital energy and blood, so no blood sprayed out.
