The Haunted House

"The upper half of this guardian beast's body really did turn into stone and sand. Th-this, this..."

Half the body of the guardian that protected the house was gone, and a crowd quickly gathered around.

The owner of the house, Great Benefactor Wang, also came out to take a look.

He fixed his eyes on the stone lion, and his face changed color.

As a wealthy man, Great Benefactor Wang had seen the world. Even if a technique had affected the stone lion, it was a top-tier technique, and the person responsible was someone he could not afford to offend.

If the other party had merely passed by, that would have been one thing. But with the rumors circulating through Chang'an City over the past ten days or so, Great Benefactor Wang sensed an ill omen.

"Wang Fu, hurry and tell my wife! We're moving!"

Great Benefactor Wang made his decision very quickly.

As a wealthy merchant, he had no shortage of assets or houses, much less places to stay temporarily.

If an ominous calamity lurked here, the best thing to do was simply to get far away.

If the warning of this strange occurrence still came knocking after he had left the house, that would mean someone in his Lineage had stirred up trouble, and only then would he seek another way to solve the problem.

"Moving? Wang Fugui, you stir up trouble and then move away? Don't let those evil spirits drag us into it!"

Some of the neighbors were unhappy that Great Benefactor Wang was moving away just like that.

"Shouldn't we report it to the authorities first and see what they say when they get here?"

"That's right. This is very strange. We need the authorities to put our minds at ease!"

"Don't go, Fugui!"

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