Chapter 483: The Horror of the Blood Curse, Searching the Soul of Long Hao!
"Shen Anyu, you, what are you doing?"
Long Hao looked in horror at the strange blood-red flames before him, which reflected the phantom images of his father Dragon Qing, his eldest brother Long Jie, his second brother Long Jun, and other close blood relatives. He trembled all over, filled with a terrible premonition, and questioned repeatedly.
"Please watch the VCR!"
Shen Anyu smiled slightly and snapped his fingers. The sound echoed with unnatural clarity in the sterile confines of the basement. In an instant, the bare concrete wall opposite Long Hao shimmered and dissolved, replaced by a massive, silent projection screen. The light it cast was cold and clinical, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the still air. The screen flickered to life, dividing itself into a grid of dozens of smaller windows, each a live feed, a stolen glimpse into the lives of Long Hao's family. Each screen showed the monitored figures of his relatives, going about their day, completely oblivious to the unseen predator watching them from afar.
Under Long Hao's horrified gaze, Shen Anyu casually pointed a single, elegant finger. The gesture was languid, almost lazy, yet it commanded the very light in the room. One of the small screens instantly expanded, filling the main display, the audio feed activating with a faint hiss. It revealed the figures of Long Hao's eldest brother, Long Jie, and his second brother, Long Jun, conversing in the brightly lit, opulent living room of their family villa in Sichuan.
At this moment, Long Jie and Long Jun were seated on a plush leather sofa, an expensive mahogany tea table between them.
"Big Brother, Third Brother must have been greatly affected by Su Hongmian breaking off the engagement this time. He still hasn't returned from Magic City, and I'm very worried about him."
A burly, square-faced young man spoke, his voice a low, concerned rumble. He was Long Hao's second brother, Long Jun, his brow furrowed as he addressed his older sibling.
A few days ago, their father, Dragon Qing, had taken Long Hao to Magic City to finalize the engagement details, only for Su Hongmian to publicly humiliate them by breaking it off, revealing she already had a boyfriend. After Dragon Qing returned, he had grimly reported that Long Hao's state was unstable, his spirit crushed.
Now, days had passed with no word. Long Hao remained in Magic City, a silence that deeply unsettled both Long Jie and Long Jun.
BANG!
Long Jie slammed his palm onto the tea table. The solid wood, thick as a man's wrist, exploded into a shower of splinters and jagged fragments. The delicate porcelain teacups on top flew into the air, shattering against the floor. His face was a mask of cold fury.
"No, we must get justice for Third Brother," he snarled, his voice laced with killing intent. "Su Hongmian, and that boyfriend of hers, both of them must be tied up and forced to kneel and apologize to Third Brother! How can our Long Family suffer such an insult? A broken engagement? Unthinkable!"
His eyes burned with rage. "Especially that adulterer of Su Hongmian's. She is our Long Family's future daughter-in-law, the engagement was set! For her to have a boyfriend… this is utterly outrageous! That hussy Su Hongmian needs to be dealt with, and that adulterer even more so!"
Long Jun's face hardened in complete agreement, his own voice booming with shared fury.
"Big Brother, you're right. Especially that Shen adulterer, he absolutely cannot be let go. We'll go to Magic City right now. We have to break that kid's three legs and castrate him! Let's see who dares to disrespect the Long Family then!"
Watching the scene unfold on the screen, a flicker of warmth, a bittersweet memory, rose in Long Hao's heart. It was the same in his previous life. Back then, before his rebirth, before he had received the Investment Return System, Su Hongmian's public rejection had shattered him. He had returned to the Long Family and secluded himself in his room, a broken man.
And just like now, his eldest brother Long Jie and second brother Long Jun had been filled with righteous indignation, burning with the desire to avenge his honor.
However, in that timeline, they were later intercepted and stopped by powerful experts hired by the Su Family. This time, he thought, things would be different. But he never imagined they would be different in this way.
"Tsk, truly deep brotherly affection, and brotherly respect."
Shen Anyu's voice, soft as silk, cut through Long Hao's thoughts. He smiled, a gentle, almost appreciative expression on his face that sent a wave of pure terror through Long Hao's veins.
"You want to get revenge on Hongmian and me?" Shen Anyu continued, his tone conversational. "You want to break my three legs, and castrate me? A declaration like that… then you cannot be allowed to live."
As his voice fell, the words hanging in the chilling silence, Shen Anyu reached out. He plucked one of the crimson flames that danced before him from the air. It pulsed softly between his fingers, a miniature, baleful star. Inside its bloody light, the ghostly phantom of his eldest brother, Long Jie, could be seen, frozen in his moment of righteous anger.
Under Long Hao's bewildered and horrified gaze, Shen Anyu gently, almost tenderly, crushed the blood-red flame. It didn't pop or hiss. It simply vanished, snuffed out of existence between his thumb and forefinger.
The next moment, something happened that made his eyes split with rage.
On the large screen, Long Jie, his eldest brother, miles away in the Long Family's Sichuan Villa, suddenly underwent a drastic, horrifying change.
A strangled scream tore from his throat. He clutched at his heart, his powerful martial artist's body folding in on itself as he collapsed onto the sofa. His face contorted into a mask of unimaginable agony. Sweat poured down his temples, and thick veins bulged on his neck and forehead, writhing like snakes under his skin.
"Big Brother!" Long Jun, seeing this, was utterly shocked, his face a canvas of confusion and alarm. He had no idea what was happening. Their Long Family was a martial arts family, and Long Jie, the eldest, was a master of the Innate Realm. How could he suddenly collapse like a common mortal having a heart attack?
Before Long Jun could even react, blood-red flames, saturated with an extremely ominous and malevolent aura, suddenly erupted from inside Long Jie's chest. They didn't burn him from the outside; they consumed him from within. The flames burst through his skin and clothes, wrapping around him in a horrific shroud, as if his entire body were being drenched in liquid fire that was once his own blood.
Long Jie was completely engulfed. His screams were choked off, replaced by the sickening, silent roar of the crimson fire. In a mere few seconds, his powerful body, his very existence, was rendered into nothing. He dissolved into wisps of oily, black smoke that dissipated into the air, leaving no ashes, no bones, not even a scorch mark on the expensive sofa. He had simply vanished from the world.
"Big Brother!!!"
A synchronized roar of absolute agony and despair echoed. One from Long Jun, who watched his brother disintegrate before his eyes in their family home. The other from Long Hao, chained and helpless in the secret chamber of Jiangjing Manor. Their hearts were torn asunder, filled with splitting rage and overwhelming grief.
"If brotherly affection runs so deep, then you can die together." Shen Anyu's eyes were as cold and calm as a frozen lake. He had no pity, no remorse. There was only the chilling logic of a predator.
If you don't remove the root, the spring breeze will blow and it will grow again. In the original novel, it was Ye Yan, that remnant of the Ye Family, who had brought about the downfall of both the Shen and An families in Yanxia. Shen Anyu had learned that lesson well.
Only dead people will not seek revenge.
And to prevent them from clawing their way out of their coffins, he would directly pulverize them into nothingness.
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