Qin Manjiang felt his phone vibrate and immediately freed a hand to pick it up and check the message.
It was from Nie Yunzhen.
She had found Shen Hong's body. Liu Junyan had hidden her inside the trunk of the Old Locust Tree.
Qin Manjiang immediately pieced it all together. Perhaps Mr. Yan had told Liu Junyan that doing this would let Shen Hong absorb life force and return to life.
The lives in question belonged to those buried beneath the Old Locust Trees, the people who had died because of the wedding dress.
But in truth, both those Old Locust Trees and Shen Hong were merely parts of the ritual.
The message also mentioned that she would sever the red tendrils embedded in Shen Hong's corpse.
Presumably, the sudden change happening now had been caused by Nie Yunzhen interrupting the ritual.
With its "sustenance" cut off, the wedding dress had immediately turned on the "host" it was parasitizing.
Well done... Nie Yunzhen.
Before leaving this hellish place, Qin Manjiang glanced back.
The wedding dress, with its flesh-and-blood texture, had completely enveloped Mr. Yan.
He gave off a thick aura of death, like an old man on the verge of dying. Patches of age spots had even appeared on his exposed skin.
Mr. Yan was suffering a backlash!
His situation was perilous. If he could not satisfy the Flesh-and-Blood Wedding Dress's craving for "offerings," it seemed the dress would devour him instead!
But the best offering available was propped over Qin Manjiang's shoulder. Mr. Yan wanted to rush over and seize Yu Qinghuan to temporarily "feed" the Flesh-and-Blood Wedding Dress, but the dress would not let him move an inch. This bizarre situation left him both furious and afraid.
He was furious because the dress was nothing but a mindless