Chapter 50: The Trouble Mentioned by the Founder

Li Chengfeng and Wang Bin stood not far away, watching everything happening at the entrance of the Shenghai Jewelry Store. One of the bodyguards had already climbed onto the terrace using a ladder.

Li Chengfeng felt a wave of panic, realizing that his use of the folk forbidden technique, the Three Corpses Wealth-Blocking Curse, to bring harm and exact retribution was likely about to be exposed.

Recalling the warning his grandmaster had given him last night—that more trouble was yet to come—he understood that this must be the very trouble his master had spoken of.

If these people were to find out who had set up the folk forbidden technique of the Three Corpses Wealth-Blocking Curse at the entrance of the Shenghai Jewelry Store, causing the store to shut down and its employees to suffer bloody disasters, leaving some injured and others crippled, the person responsible for using such a malevolent folk art would undoubtedly die a most miserable death.

One of them was the president of the Qingzhou Occult Association, and the other was the chairman of the Shenghai Group; both were influential figures that ordinary people could not afford to provoke.

At this thought, cold sweat broke out on Li Chengfeng's forehead. He was in deep trouble now. If he were caught by them, he would surely be torn to pieces.

Li Chengfeng had no idea that another massive trouble was already closing in: Sato Kenichi had also arrived in Qingzhou and was currently staring at Sato Kenji's corpse, his face brimming with murderous intent.

Wang Bin paid no attention to the changes in Li Chengfeng's expression, keeping his eyes fixed entirely on the bodyguard climbing onto the terrace.

Upon reaching the terrace, the bodyguard saw the corpses of a sickly cat, a crow, and a bat, all bound tightly with hemp rope. The three animal carcasses had already dried up into mummies, looking extremely eerie.

The tiny eyes of all three corpses were wide open, and they were all facing the bodyguard, as if staring directly at him.

The bodyguard felt his scalp tingle and his entire body grow intensely uncomfortable. With a trembling voice, he called down to the people below, "Chairman, there's a cat up here, along with a crow and a bat. They're all dead, tied with hemp rope to the iron frame behind the signboard."

"It's too bizarre... I, I feel like they're still alive and staring right at me."

Hearing this, Hu Tianzheng guessed that the current state of the Shenghai Jewelry Store was definitely connected to the corpses hanging above the door.

Without seeing the three carcasses with his own eyes, he could not determine what kind of sorcery this was. He turned to Deng Sihai beside him and said, "Mr. Deng, can we take this signboard down? I want to take a look at what's up there."

"Alright!"

Deng Sihai motioned for three other bodyguards to climb onto the terrace and directly smash the LED illuminated signboard. Shards of glass rained down onto the ground with a loud clatter.

In no time, the ground in front of the entrance was covered in shattered glass, sparkling brightly under the sunlight.

When the signboard of the Shenghai Jewelry Store was completely smashed apart, the objects exposed to everyone's view were indeed the corpses of the sickly cat, the crow, and the bat, all bound with hemp rope.

Everyone present was filled with shock. Although they did not understand the significance of hanging corpses above a doorway, it still sent a chill down their spines, exuding an eerie and ominous aura.

Many privately wondered whether the recent bizarre events at the Shenghai Jewelry Store were related to these three animal carcasses.

When Han Lili caught sight of the corpse of the sickly cat, her eyes revealed boundless terror, and her body trembled uncontrollably.

Recalling the wild cat that had leaped onto her steering wheel that night, both its coloring and size were an exact match for the cat carcass hanging above the door.

She raised a finger to point at the cat hanging over the door and said in a trembling voice, "It's... it's this cat! It jumped onto my steering wheel!"

The other store clerks standing nearby wore expressions of identical terror. They raised their fingers to point at the crow and the bat hanging above the door, their voices shaking as they spoke.

"That... that hairless crow is the exact one that burrowed into my stomach!"

"That bat... I, I've seen it too!"

Hearing this, Hu Tianzheng furrowed his brow tightly, realizing the severity of the problem. The corpses hanging above the door seemed to have already developed nascent spirits.

Deng Sihai's face also carried a hint of shock as he turned to look at Hu Tianzheng. "President Hu, what... what is going on here?"

"I don't know!" Hu Tianzheng replied casually. He took a few steps forward, observed the corpses hanging above the door carefully, and muttered to himself, "A hairless crow, a starved bat... judging by its build, that cat must have died of illness!"

"These are all items of extreme ominous decay. Hanging them above a door is definitely the work of heterodox, evil sorcery."

Although he recognized that this was a heterodox craft, he could not pinpoint which specific branch of sorcery it belonged to. With folk forbidden techniques, witchcraft, evil arts, and Lu Ban arts existing in vast and varied categories, it was entirely normal for him not to recognize it.

Staring at the carcass of the sickly cat, Hu Tianzheng said with a puzzled expression, "What kind of formation is this? Why have I never seen it before?"

He sighed. Having lived for decades, serving as a veteran of the orthodox occult world and the president of the Qingzhou Occult Association, he considered himself quite knowledgeable and experienced, yet he could not discern what kind of formation had been laid out here.

Hu Yansong looked at the corpses above and asked with a puzzled expression, "Second Uncle, what does it mean to hang the corpses of three animals above a door?"

Hu Tianzheng shook his head helplessly, then said with a solemn expression, "Take a few photos and send them to your Third Uncle. He should be able to recognize what formation this is."

"Alright!"

Hu Yansong hurriedly pulled out his phone, aimed it at the animal corpses hanging above the door, snapped several photos in succession, and sent them to his Third Uncle, Hu Tiangang.

Hu Tiangang, who had just returned to the capital from the Kunlun Mountains, heard the notification chime of his message alert and immediately unlocked his phone.

Seeing the photos sent by his nephew Hu Yansong, he was greatly startled. He immediately dialed a phone call to inquire about the situation.

Hu Yansong gave a brief account of the events. After listening, Hu Tiangang said in a solemn voice, "Pass the phone to your Second Uncle."

"Oh."

Hu Yansong hurriedly handed the phone over. Hu Tianzheng took the receiver and heard the voice of his third younger brother, Hu Tiangang.

"Second Brother, calculate the directions and see if the corpses of those three animals are hanging precisely on the three major wealth positions!"

"Alright!"

Hu Tianzheng took out his Sanyuan Luopan compass and began calculating the three wealth positions in front of the entrance of the Shenghai Jewelry Store.

Feng Shui compasses are generally divided into three types: the Sanyuan compass, the Sanhe compass, and the Sanyuan-Sanhe combined compass.

While Li Chengfeng used a Sanhe compass, Hu Tianzheng used a Sanyuan compass.

After about twenty minutes, Hu Tianzheng finally located the three wealth positions, and his face instantly turned one of utter astonishment. The locations where the three animal corpses were suspended were precisely the three major wealth positions: the overt wealth position, the covert wealth position, and the annual traveling wealth position.

He hurriedly made a phone call to report this discovery to his third younger brother, Hu Tiangang.