Chapter 20 part 1
“The camera’s zooming out. Is the livestream about to end?”
“Nooo! This country bumpkin still wants to watch! The Tang family released the news overnight and the whole family drove out early the next morning to pick her up. They must really love their little princess and prepared lots of surprises for her!”
“Me too! I want to see the princess’s castle and the dreamy bedroom that’s supposedly bigger than my three-bedroom apartment!”
“I want to see the banquet the Tang family prepared for the real heiress! Beautiful clothes, shadows of guests, clinking glasses… Papa Tang holding his daughter’s hand, walking down the magnificent staircase, announcing to the high society of Chunshan present that the Tang family’s accidentally lost little princess has returned!”
The bullet comments in the livestream room were flying by so fast that the content was almost unreadable.
Seeing the livestream coming to an end, countless people wailed for it not to stop.
No one expected an accident to happen so suddenly.
Under the gaze of countless eyes, the rope binding the cargo on the truck in front of the Tang family’s convoy suddenly snapped. The truck driver, completely unaware, continued driving forward.
The rusty steel pipes on the truck, freed from their constraints, instantly scattered, rolling and falling rapidly.
The drivers of the two cars at the front of the convoy reacted with incredible speed. The moment they realized something was wrong, they jerked their steering wheels to change direction, then slammed on the accelerator, increasing speed to forcibly overtake the truck ahead.
During this process, they frantically honked their horns to alert the truck driver of the accident.
The vehicles at the rear of the convoy, seeing the anomaly ahead, also slowed down to observe the situation.
Only the stretch limo in the middle of the convoy, carrying the family of four, had nowhere to escape.
The driver watched helplessly as countless rusty steel pipes hurtled toward the windshield. In a panic, he slammed on the brakes.
The next second, this stretch limo, which countless netizens had talked about with envy and drooled over, was turned into a pincushion by the rusty steel pipes.
Densely packed, crisscrossing, it looked like a piece of postmodern art.
The bullet comments in the livestream room paused for two seconds.
Then came an even more violent outburst.
“Holy sh*t!!!”
“A car accident on livestream???”
“…If I’m not mistaken, there were six cars in the convoy. The others are fine, only the stretch limo carrying the Tang family got hit?”
“Such a coincidence, we generally call it… karma!”
“I also think this is a bit ominous! It’s normal for a truck’s cargo to have problems, but with so many cars, those steel pipes went straight for that one car as if they had eyes…”
“Are there any local brothers from Chunshan here to say what the Tang family’s reputation is like over there?”
“Tang Mingquan, that dog, dying like this would be letting him off too easy!”
The bullet comments flooded the screen.
At a time like this, the livestream should have been cut off immediately, but for some reason, it continued.
The professional cameraman on the helicopter, whether oblivious or intentional, zoomed in from the originally wide high-angle shot, clearly displaying the stretch limo that had been turned into a pincushion.
Thus, the audience originally in the livestream room and those who flooded in afterward saw through the shattered car windows. The driver in the driver’s seat was trapped between countless intersecting rusty steel pipes, his expression full of terror, mouthing words, seemingly shouting for help.
Clearly, the person was still alive and didn’t look injured.
“Holy crap, he’s fine even after that?!”
“This big brother must have saved the galaxy in his past life!!”
“Give the cameraman a raise! Look at the Tang family! Quick!”
As if sensing the eager anticipation of the gossiping netizens through the screen, the oblivious professional cameraman moved the camera backward.
Soon, a bloody scene entered the frame.
Before the gossiping netizens could see clearly, the livestream suddenly went black.
“??”
“???? What are you doing?”
“Did anyone see clearly?”
“I think I saw the real heiress. Wasn’t she wearing a white dress? Then it was dyed with that stuff, so it was very obvious. If I’m not mistaken, a steel pipe seemed to have gone into her stomach… No! I can’t say anymore, I’m going to have nightmares tonight, woo woo woo!”
“Brothers, I took a screenshot. I’ll report back after I check it!”
“Good lord, did the head of the Tang family do something that angered both gods and men? So many steel pipes, and one went straight through his neck!”
Seeing that the black screen chat of these lingering netizens was getting more and more out of hand, the platform administrator directly banned the livestream room.
Chat wherever you want, just don’t implicate my platform!
Luo Wenshu put away her phone when the livestream cut off.
Beside her, Mr. Fu’s face was already as white as paper, the color on his lips extremely faint. His originally upright posture, like a pine or cypress, seemed bent under an invisible weight.
He had transformed from an otherworldly expert into an ordinary elderly man, his figure stooped, his face bleak, looking as if he didn’t have long to live.
“Just kidding, you won’t die that quickly.” Luo Wenshu smiled, but her words were chilling.
“In these twenty years, how many unconscionable things has Tang Mingquan done under the cover of the blessings and fortune stolen from Tang Yue without being discovered?”
“How many human lives have stained his pampered hands?”
“If he just died like this, it would be letting him off too easy!”
Luo Wenshu gradually stopped smiling and looked at Mr. Fu. “You know better than anyone about the things Tang Mingquan did, one by one, don’t you?”
“Because the person who used methods to deceive the heavens, steal fortune, and later kept escorting the Tang family and handling various thorny issues—was you!”
“What, now you know fear?”
“You are a cultivator; you should know the rules of the human world. For some mistakes, the karma begins calculating from the moment you commit them.”
“They say the Heavenly Dao is ruthless, but sometimes, its emotions are much more intense than humans’.”
“Like now.”
“Tell me, Tang Mingquan’s retribution came so quickly. What will happen to you, the one sitting in the back guarding him?”
As Luo Wenshu spoke, she moved her gaze away from Mr. Fu and looked to the side.
This was a high point near the Yu family’s home, the roof of an abandoned house.
Looking forward, the terrain was extremely high, with undulating buildings beneath their feet.
But the back of the house was against a mountain wall. A thin stream of mountain spring water flowed down, accumulating water in a corner of the roof, where moss grew.
A four or five-year-old boy stepped in the water, bent over staring at his feet, and suddenly reached into the water.
When he pulled his hand back, he held a small fish.
A bright smile appeared on his face as he turned and shouted toward them, “Grandpa, look, a small fish!”
As he shouted, he walked over.
Beneath his feet was years of moss. Not far ahead, at the edge of the accumulated water, a section of rusty rebar protruded, its tip sharp.
Mr. Fu seemed to foresee something, his eyes filled with unprecedented terror, his face pale and frightening.
He instinctively wanted to rush over to stop him but found his body firmly bound by invisible shackles; he couldn’t even move a finger.
“Watch closely.” Luo Wenshu’s voice sounded cold.
“No! Huzi—” Tears flowed from Mr. Fu’s eyes as he shouted hoarsely.
The approaching child heard his voice and raised his hand higher in response.
Because of this, his body, which was relatively stable, swayed slightly, and the foot stepping in the accumulated water slipped.
“Grandp— Ah!”
The child screamed as his body fell forward, his chest directly facing the sharp section of rusty rebar at the edge of the water.
The wind was strong up high, and there were various sounds around.
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