novelraw Chapter 255: Ran into Evil!
Chapter 255: Ran into Evil!
Li Dahe led a group of people to the cars waiting outside the village and immediately ordered to drive frantically toward the county town. Luckily, the driver hadn’t left, otherwise there would be no one to drive now.
The demolition crew, seeing the car had started, could no longer hold back.
"It hurts so much!"
"It ****ing hurts!"
"What the hell is going on!"
"My shoulder is swollen like this!"
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As the car started moving, a bunch of people inside started cursing and shouting because it really hurt too much. They had just endured the pain to run to the car to escape; now, if they didn’t vent out, they felt they would go insane from the pain. They couldn’t understand what had happened tonight. It was supposed to be a covert arson, but no one expected it to turn out like this. Their luck today was just too bad. To run into such bizarre mishaps during a late-night arson—not only did they fail to set the fire, but they also ended up injuring their own arms!
It hurts! It ****ing hurts so much!
What the hell is wrong with my arm, why does it hurt this much, and how did it swell up so quickly? It’s already more than twice its original size. This is unbearable!
Unbeknownst to them, the demolition crew’s clothes were soaked through with sweat, drenched and shivering in the car, not forgetting to swear loudly, venting their inner rage.
We’ve demolished so many houses in the county town before, and every demolition was smooth sailing. How come today in Lin Family Village we’re actually encountering ghosts? This **** is just sheer bad luck!
Li Dahe also couldn’t bear the pain, trembling as he lit a cigarette for himself and then took a couple of deep drags. He tried to calm his nerves despite the severe pain and dialed Bi Huihuang’s number. Although it was the middle of the night, the current freakish situation gave them no choice but to inform the chairman. The situation had spiraled beyond what was expected, and the injuries of his brothers had to be dealt with.
"Li Dahe, why are you calling only now, is Lin Family Village gone?" Bi Huihuang, who was lying on the big office chair alone in his office, answered the call as soon as he saw it was from Li Dahe. After leaving the meeting room, he had returned to his office to lie on his chair, waiting for a call from Li Dahe while planning the next steps. Unintentionally, it had already become late at night, so when he saw Li Dahe’s call, he thought the job was done and his mood improved, uncharacteristically not swearing the moment he started speaking.
"Huh? Li Dahe, why is it so noisy over there, what are they screaming about?" All of a sudden, Bi Huihuang heard a lot of people shouting in pain over the phone and found it very strange. They were supposed to go set a fire, so why would they be screaming in pain?
"Chairman, the fire... the fire wasn’t lit, and the brothers’ shoulders are so injured and painful, they can’t stand it." Li Dahe himself couldn’t stand the pain and, gritting his teeth, reported the situation to Bi Huihuang. Things were very bad; not only had the fire not been set, but also all his brothers got injured. Although the chairman would be furious, there was no helping it. At worst, he would take all the blame himself, but no matter what, his brothers needed medical treatment!
"What, the fire wasn’t lit? What are you people good for if you can’t even manage such a trifle? What the **** can you do? You still have the nerve to call me? Why don’t you find a place to jump into a river and drown yourselves? Tell me, what else can you do? A blasted village has been giving you trouble so many times, did the dogs eat your skills?" The moment he heard the fire hadn’t been set, Bi Huihuang erupted in thunderous fury. There were only two days left before the deadline set by Young Master Wang, and they had only started demolishing a few houses in Lin Family Village. How could this pace work? In no more than two days, Young Master Wang would definitely confront him, and if Lin Family Village hadn’t been demolished successfully, needless to say, Young Master Wang would skin him alive!
How did I end up with such useless people? They managed to break the machinery during the day, and when I sent them to set a fire in Lin Family Village at night, if the village were burned down, we could consider the demolition complete. But now, not even a fire was set, what use are these people? They only know how to come to me for money to wine and dine every day. But when they’re needed, they are worthless. Do they really think Bi Huihuang is so easy to fool?
However, after cursing instinctively, Bi Huihuang realized something was not right. Li Dahe’s voice had turned hoarse, and from the side came other people’s shouts of pain and swearing. It reminded him that Li Dahe had mentioned the men’s arms were injured. It seemed real. Weren’t they just supposed to go to Lin Family Village to set a fire? How did they end up injuring their arms? What actually happened?
"Li Dahe, you just said your brothers’ arms are injured, what’s the situation?" Bi Huihuang suppressed his anger to inquire about the condition of the demolition crew. He had to care; he would rely on them for demolitions in the future. If they were all laid up, who would demolish buildings then? He certainly couldn’t go and do it himself!
"Chairman, I don’t know what’s happened to the brothers’ arms, but they’ve all swollen up huge and they’re all in so much pain." Hearing that the chairman didn’t lose his temper and even inquired about the brothers’ arms, Li Dahe felt a warmth in his heart.
"What? The arms have all swollen? Weren’t you just setting a fire in Lin Family Village? How could you have injured your arms, and all together at that? What on earth happened?" Bi Huihuang was even more confused upon hearing Li Dahe. Setting a fire and then dislocating your arms was simply impossible; they must have encountered something, otherwise, how could over twenty people all suffer dislocations!
"Tonight, we encountered something evil in Lin Family Village, and suddenly, everyone’s arms became like this..." Now Li Dahe himself was in so much pain he felt like going mad, but he had to suppress the pain to talk to the chairman and answer his questions; since the chairman asked, he could only tell the truth.
"Fuck! What do you mean you encountered something evil? A whole bunch of you mysteriously hurt your arms, and you expect me to believe such bullshit!" Bi Huihuang, hearing Li Dahe say the groups’ injuries stemmed from encountering something evil in Lin Family Village, felt his suppressed fury reignite. You say you were injured by evil spirits, but who the hell would believe that, and every single one of you injured like this? It’s just not possible, these are ghost stories, and if I really believed what you said, I’d be a fool!
"Chairman, it’s true. We were all together, and not a single one of us saw what happened. All of a sudden, everyone’s arms started swelling and hurting—it didn’t take even half a minute!" Li Dahe responded with great grievance upon hearing Bi Huihuang blame him. Honestly, he hadn’t expected to encounter something so bizarre tonight; if he hadn’t also suffered an inexplicable injury to his arm, he wouldn’t have believed any of what happened either.
Today’s luck has been truly terrible. Everything went wrong, machines bursting tires or breaking down, left unusable. And later at night, a visit to Lin Family Village led to an encounter with a ghost, leaving everyone’s arms injured like this, which is incredibly frustrating! Never before have they encountered such vexing events as being struck by evil spirits; today has really been a streak of the worst luck!
"What! How is that even possible!" Now listening to Li Dahe, Bi Huihuang simply couldn’t believe his words were true. A group of people, with none witnessing what happened, all got their arms injured without realizing it? That person could not be human, as no human could possibly achieve such speed. Could it be that Li Dahe and the others really encountered something evil, really met with some unclean entity? Otherwise, how could he come up with such nonsensical talk?
A group of people got cleaned up without knowing anything, and nobody would believe it if it were told. Li Dahe and his team had helped with the demolition at so many sites without any issues, and fights were an everyday occurrence. If it were done by a person, it’s impossible not one of them realized what happened! This could mean they really encountered a ghost in Lin Family Village!
"Get to the county central hospital quickly, I’ll be there soon too. Treating the injuries is most important right now." Never mind, there’s no point in thinking too much for now. The urgent task was to get to the hospital. He’d just heard their cries of pain. Frustrated, Bi Huihuang threw the phone onto his desk and then bowed his head to ponder the day’s events.
After sitting for a long time without coming up with any solution, Bi Huihuang got up, drove to the hospital, and upon arrival, found that Li Dahe and the others had not yet reached. He settled into a random chair and began to think about what to do next.
Li Dahe and his men, hurrying along, finally arrived at the hospital more than an hour later. Over twenty people instantly crammed the emergency department full, filling the entire space with shouting and swearing.
"God damn it, can’t you be gentler?"
"It’s killing me!"
"It really fucking hurts!"
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The raucous voice of the crowd in the emergency room was deafening; the whole building was awakened by these people. The doctors and nurses wanted to stop them from shouting, but they didn’t dare to intervene, seeing that these men looked like toughs who spewed profanities, who could handle these people? They could only let them shout in there.
Following the noise, Bi Huihuang quickly found Li Dahe and the others. Seeing the miserable state of everyone in the room, he couldn’t help but be moved. The injuries were too severe; everyone’s right shoulder had swollen, and at a glance, it looked as though small heads were growing there—the swelling was ridiculously exaggerated. The entire demolition crew, including Li Dahe, was not spared; all were in the same state!
At that moment, Bi Huihuang finally believed Li Dahe’s words. They had indeed encountered someone formidable, or perhaps they really had met with some ghost; otherwise, it’s impossible for everyone to end up like this, the swelling was just too incredible. Even after being beaten to near-death before, he had never seen anyone swell like this. How could they have gotten injured like this!
If it’s really as Li Dahe said, that they had seen a ghost, it seemed quite possible now. He had braved life and death many times, yet never seen such injuries. These wounds couldn’t be from a fracture or anything of the sort; the swelling was indeed too severe and gave off an eerie feeling.