Chapter 44: The Soul Eater
The general guard glanced at Liu Banxian, shook his head slightly, and replied lightly: "It's okay." β
Hou Jiahao led the general and Liu Banxian to sit down at a long dining table, and then ordered the servant to pour two cups of tea.
The general looked left and right at Hou Jiahao's villa, which was slightly smaller than Liujia No. 1 villa, and in the living room at this time, pale yellow rune paper was pasted on the roof and walls.
On the rune paper are symbols or words that the general does not recognize.
In the center of the living room, there is also a table for the practice, on which some tributes are also placed.
will guard the secret road, these are estimated to be what Li Xiaoru said, and Hou Jiahao invited the master to arrange them.
Liu Banxian took a sip of tea, settled down, and went straight to the point: "Mr. Hou, we are also acquaintances, let's go straight to the point, where is the daughter, I'll take a look." β
Hou Jiahao looked at Liu Banxian, then at the general, nodded, and said, "Then I'm welcome, she's on the second floor, go, I'll take you now." β
Under the guidance of Hou Jiahao, Jiang Shou and Liu Banxian walked towards the second floor.
In front of the door of the easternmost room on the second floor, Hou Jiahao stopped and gently pushed open the door with both hands, only to see two nurses in white coats sitting on the edge of the bed, and on the bed, a teenage girl was lying quietly on the bed with her eyes closed.
When Hou Jiahao saw the little girl on the bed, a trace of grief flashed in his eyes, and his tone became a little choked, and he said, "It's hard Master Liu!"
Looking at Hou Jiahao's somewhat reddened eyes, Liu Banxian sighed in his heart, nodded, strode to the little girl lying on the bed, and began to do the examination.
Hou Jiahao is one of the top ten richest people in Huagang City, with a strong temperament, boldness, righteousness, decency, and uninhibitedness.
Even if it is such a person, at this moment, it is difficult to hide the fragility in his heart.
For every parent, children are always the softest meat in their hearts, which cannot be touched or touched by others.
The examination was still ongoing, Liu Banxian's brows gradually wrinkled, and his face began to become solemn.
After half a ring, Liu Banxian turned around, walked in front of Hou Jiahao, and said in a somewhat heavy tone: "Let's go downstairs and talk." β
Hou Jiahao looked at Liu Banxian's face with a solemn face, originally because Liu Banxian came, his relaxed heart was instantly lifted again.
Returning to the dining table, Hou Jiahao looked at Liu Banxian nervously.
Liu Banxian didn't hurry to speak, slowly picked up the tea cup in front of the table, took a sip of tea, and said solemnly: "Mr. Hou, your daughter, I'm afraid that what she has is not sick, but someone who has detained her soul." β
"What!" Hou Jiahao stood up excitedly, the stool behind him was knocked to the ground by the suddenly straightened legs, and he looked at Liu Banxian in disbelief.
If he didn't know Liu Banxian, Hou Jiahao would even think that the person in front of him was a god stick, a charlatan!
Hou Jiahao, who eased his emotions, sat back on the stool raised by the servant, looked directly at Liu Banxian with his eyes, and said in a somewhat unnatural tone: "Soul... What does it mean to be detained?"
Liu Banxian glanced at Hou Jiahao, who had recovered his mood, and said secretly in his heart, it was really a character, and he regained his calm so quickly, and continued: "People actually really have souls, and there is nothing wrong with your daughter's body, I suspect that someone has taken away your daughter's soul." β
Hou Jiahao only felt a "buzz" in his head.
After half a ring, Hou Jiahao slowly spoke: "Master Liu, what should I do? You want to save my daughter! I am such a daughter!"
At the end, the tone gradually became pleading.
Liu Banxian looked at the general beside him, and seeing that he had no other opinions, his eyes looked at Hou Jiahao again, and said: "On the way here, I listened to your assistant Xiao Li, probably talked about the recent deaths in your villa, I think your daughter's matter may be related to this matter, you can talk about the recent events in the villa." β
Hou Jiahao sighed, looked at the yellow rune paper covered in the living room, and said in a somewhat depressed tone: "A month ago, my bodyguard died inexplicably in the warehouse, and within a few days, my other bodyguard died in my garden again, I didn't dare to stay at home that night, and went to the hotel with my daughter." Then every few days, there will be a person who dies around my villa, these dead people have two common characteristics, that is, they are all men, and all of them died with excited smiles, very bizarre, I invited the police to see, but there is no trace of his killing and fighting, the autopsy report can not find any signs of external injuries, internal injuries or poisoning, just three days ago, I asked a very famous mage to practice, but soon after, my daughter was in class, suddenly fainted, sent to the hospital, the doctor also said, all the examinations are normal, but I have been unconscious, I have no choice, so I asked Master Liu to take actionγ β
Jiang Shou looked at Hou Jiahao, who was sad and excited, and he couldn't bear it in his heart.
At this time, Liu Banxian suddenly spoke: "It happened a month ago?
Hou Jiahao nodded.
"During that time, what did you confiscate at home?" Liu Banxian continued to ask.
Hou Jiahao thought for a while and said: "I usually like to collect antiques, and a few months ago, there was a world collector's auction, and I auctioned a few things at that time. β
Hearing this, the general guard glanced at Liu Banxian and understood what he meant.
Liu Banxian's eyes rolled and continued: "Mr. Hou will take us to have a look." β
Hou Jiahao nodded, then stood up and walked to the third floor with Jiang Shou and Liu Banxian.
The group stopped in front of an iron gate on the third floor, Hou Jiahao stretched out his thumb and pressed a thumb-sized button on the right side of the iron door.
The originally dark collection room was lit up with the incandescent light of the room as the iron door opened.
Hou Jiahao made a gesture of invitation to Jiang Shou and Liu Banxian, leading the two to walk inside.
When the general walked into Hou Jiahao's collection room, he saw an open rectangle in the collection room, and the windows were covered by thick red curtains.
In front of each wall there is a Bogu shelf, and in the middle of the collection room, there are dozens of treasure shelves of different sizes, and in the lattice of each Bogu shelf and on the treasure shelf, there are all kinds of rare treasures, such as ivory, strange stones, bronzes, porcelain vases, and so on.
The general slowly walked to the middle of the collection room and did not move, closed his eyes, released his sense, and began to survey one item at a time.
After a while, the shogun frowned slightly, and walked towards a long knife in the middle.
The general looked at this long knife, very similar to the katana in the movie, the scabbard is made of large-leaf red sandalwood, you can smell the unique fragrance of large-leaf red sandalwood, because of the age, some blackened scabbards, the appearance is smooth, and it can even be reversed.
Looking at this long knife, Jiang Shou's eyes gradually narrowed, and he asked Hou Jiahao, "What is the origin of this knife?"
Liu Banxian was also attracted by the question, walked to the side of the general, and looked at the long knife curiously.
Liu Banxian, who has had a special sensitivity to aura since he was a child, couldn't see anything special about this long knife, and he couldn't feel it at all.
Hou Jiahao walked to the side of the general, looked at the long knife in front of him, and said: "This is one of the collections I bid for at the international collectors' auction not long ago, it is a saber from the ancient Warring States period of a foreign country, called the Soul Eater Knife. At that time, I still remember that the auctioneer once introduced that this long knife was very precious and old, and the general who owned it was very famous, and used this knife to make countless military achievements, and it was famous for a while. But for some reason, when the general was at the height of his prestige, he suddenly disappeared inexplicably, and even his family disappeared without a trace, which was very mysterious. At that time, after the auctioneer told the story, many people thought it was too unbelievable, and there was no historical basis, and they thought it was a story deliberately made up by the auction house, but I thought it was very true, so I bought it at the reserve price at that time. β
Hearing Hou Jiahao's story, Jiang Shou nodded and said lightly: "I think, I know what the problem is." β
The Shogun suddenly ran the Primordial True Qi in his body, and he stretched out his hand to grab the hilt of the Soul Eater Knife.
Just as the hand of the general was about to touch the Soul Eater Knife, the blade of the knife actually trembled on its own without external contact.
Hou Jiahao, who was guarding the general, looked at the trembling Soul Eater Knife with a frightened expression, and his feet stepped back unnaturally.
Standing behind the general guard, he was a little relieved, but he still didn't dare to breathe, and his eyes stared at the still trembling Soul Eater Knife without blinking.
With the trembling of the blade, the treasure shelf under the knife also made a "gurgling" sound.
Liu Banxian's originally curious eyes were also wide open at this time, and he looked at the Soul Devouring Knife that was constantly trembling in front of him with a surprised expression.
At this moment, he felt the Soul Eater Knife in front of him, exuding a cold chill.
After feeling the strangeness of the Soul Devouring Knife, a tyrannical killing momentum and unrivaled battle intent erupted from the whole body of the Shogun, and the right hand that had been stretched out was immediately enveloped by the black murderous aura.
With a "bell", the sound of metal vibrating, and the right hand, shrouded in black murderous aura, firmly grasped the handle of the Soul Eater Knife, and the saber instantly stopped trembling.
The right hand holding the hilt of the knife paused for a few seconds, then suddenly pulled it out with force, and the blade was unsheathed!
I saw that the silver-white blade was shining with a cold light under the light.
Holding the Soul Eater Knife horizontally in front of his chest, he saw that the body of the Soul Eater Knife was tattooed with ten wavy patterns, and on the pattern, a young and beautiful woman in a kimono was imprinted.
Liu Banxian and Hou Jiahao looked at the Soul Devouring Knife in the hands of the general with a shocked expression, and Hou Jiahao actually muttered to himself: "Still... And the pattern and the woman..."
Hearing Hou Jiahao's words, he will guard the secret road, it seems that Hou Jiahao has also pulled out this knife before, but there is no kimono woman on these ten wave patterns and patterns.
It seems that the problems in Hou Jiahao's family all stem from this knife.