Chapter 55: The Crisis of the Meng Family
On the erection day, just in the early morning, a member of the Meng family got up early and walked to the lobby, because his job was to clean the lobby every day.
At this time, there was almost nothing intact in the lobby, all the seats and tables were shattered, and the floor was full of cracks and potholes.
The housekeeper had just stepped into the lobby with a broom, and when he saw the messy scene, his pupils suddenly shrank.
"This..."
Finding a person lying not far away, Jia Ding swallowed his saliva and slowly approached driven by curiosity.
After taking a closer look, he found that this person turned out to be the head of the family, Meng Yuan, and his body was rotten and stinky, and the family screamed, and he was so frightened that he sat on the ground, his eyes full of fear.
Coming back to his senses, the family hurriedly got up and ran to the courtyard where the Great Elder lived.
Coming to the door of the Great Elder's room, the family hesitated for a moment, but still knocked on the door in front of him, and shouted with an anxious face:
"Knock knock... Great Elder, the villain has something urgent to report!"
After the Great Elder opened the door, he saw a family member outside the door, and his face full of majesty suddenly flashed with a trace of warm anger, "What's the matter, panic, what kind of system!"
No one has dared to knock on his door without telling him, and the noise is so loud, it is really unusual.
"To the Great Elder... The head of the house... He's dead. Looking at the majestic Great Elder Meng Tuo, the family member trembled, and immediately knelt down, stammering, and the fear in his eyes did not fade.
"What!"
Hearing this, Meng Tuo couldn't hide his gaffe, and his body took half a step backwards unnaturally, and his heart was shocked.
Meng Yuan is a three-star martial artist, except for Lin Fan in Nanbai City, even Ye Zhan can't kill him, how can he die easily.
After coming back to his senses, Meng Tuo said slowly, "... How did you die?"
"I don't know, as soon as the villain entered the lobby, he saw the head of the house lying on the ground, and there were blackened blood stains all around. Jia Ding said cautiously, not daring to look up, for fear of angering the Great Elder Meng Tuo again.
Hearing this, Meng Tuo was only shocked in his heart, but not sad, and the corners of his mouth drew an arc that no one noticed.
After a deep sigh, Meng Tuo pretended to be sad and said, "... Take me to see it. ”
Meng Yuan has no heirs, once he dies, a council of elders is held, and Meng Tuo can smoothly inherit the position of the head of the family, of course, he secretly rejoices in his heart, but he can't show his face.
Jia Ding nodded hurriedly, stood up, and led the Great Elder to the lobby.
As soon as Meng Tuo walked into the lobby, he smelled a strong stench and couldn't help frowning.
Looking at Meng Yuan, who was already rotting on the ground, and the black blood spreading around, Meng Tuo said secretly: "Could it be poisoned?"
How can a normal corpse decompose overnight, and the blackening of the blood is generally a sign of poisoning.
"No... He was supposed to have died after the battle. Capturing a green-black wound on Meng Yuan's chest, Meng Tuo said in his heart.
"From the traces around this big pit, it can be seen that it should be the martial arts used by Meng Yuan... Shouldn't it be? I didn't feel such a fierce battle?"
Looking at the big pit on the ground and the current situation of the surrounding seats, Meng Tuo muttered, he is a two-star martial artist, even if he does not have extraordinary perception, but at least he still has ear power, as long as he is not deaf, he will definitely be able to hear the sound, and he can't help but feel strange in his heart.
"I have to go find Wang Meng, he is a nine-star peak martial artist, it is impossible that even he doesn't know that there has been a big war here!"
Nodding secretly, Meng Tuo asked his subordinates to inform the other elders, and then went to the courtyard where Wang Meng lived.
As soon as he arrived at the gate of the courtyard, Meng Tuo saw the mess in the courtyard, and his face suddenly changed drastically, he didn't expect that overnight, there were two fierce battles in the Meng family's mansion, and he didn't feel it at all.
Seeing those broken doors and windows and open-air roofs, Meng Tuo also knew that Wang Meng and the others must have been killed, otherwise, he would definitely notify himself and other Meng family elders as soon as possible.
Walking into all the rooms in the courtyard in turn, he didn't see any corpses, Meng Yuan sighed:
"Alas, the Meng family... It's over."
The moment he walked out of the courtyard, the wrinkles on Meng Tuo's face increased a lot, and he suddenly aged many years, and shook bitterly, with an indescribable taste in his heart.
"Great Elder, all the elders are already in the lobby. ”
The family just now trotted over from a distance, and said to Meng Tuoyan, looking at the scene in the courtyard, his heart also chuckled.
"Got it..."Meng Tuo waved his hand weakly, and after retiring from the house, he walked towards the lobby again.
At this time, in the lobby, there were already several people standing in the costumes of elders, and these people were naturally the elders of the Meng family.
"Great Elder... What the hell is going on?"
The second elder saw Meng Tuo walking into the lobby, walked forward and asked with a solemn face, Meng Yuan was the strongest person except for those two worshippers, how could he die in the hall without any warning.
"Wang Meng and Wang Quan's courtyard seems to have experienced a battle, and it is very likely that they also died, but no bodies were found. Meng Tuo told the current situation of Wang Meng's courtyard and some of his own conjectures.
"How is this possible!"
All the elders were shocked, Wang Meng was the pinnacle of the nine-star martial arts, the absolute overlord, even he could be killed, how strong should the person who made the move.
"In my guess, the person who shot ... It should be the mysterious alchemist, Liu Lao. ”
The Meng family has only one hostile family in Nanbaicheng, which is the Ye family, but with the strength of the Ye family, it is naturally impossible to do it, and the rest is the mysterious Liu Lao.
Because Liu Lao accepted Ye Tian as an apprentice, if he did something to the Meng family out of love for his apprentice, it would be explained.
"Well, only that old Liu has this kind of strength. All the elders nodded slightly.
"We shouldn't listen to Meng Yuan's words, what bullshit cares about face... How could the alchemist's temper be easily guessed. The second elder also had some anger on his face, he was really careless, he lost everything, and he regretted agreeing to Meng Yuan's proposal to suppress the Ye family.
“... Alas, Great Elder, what shall we do now?"
The Meng family has been in too much trouble with the Ye family recently, and there is no room for relaxation, if the Ye family chooses to go to war, with the current strength of the Meng family, it will be completely impossible to resist, and the second elder has not thought of a good solution, so he can only listen to Meng Tuo's suggestion.
"Get rid of the family just now, block the news, and let the eyeliner buried in the Ye family be the most clever point, if you find that the Ye family has signs of preparing for war... The Meng family could only be dissolved. ”
Meng Tuo did not propose to elect a new head of the family, because the current Meng family is very dangerous, if he becomes the head of the family, it is very likely that he will not live for a few days, although he is old, but who wants to die.
"That's all there is to it..."
The elders looked at each other and could only sigh.
The poor family didn't know his life and death at all, and he had been sentenced by Meng Tuo and others.