44: If left unchecked, she will have her limbs severed and be assaulted!

Bai Wanqing's delicate body shuddered violently, and the teacup in her hand nearly slipped from her grasp.

Her gentle eyes were instantly filled with horror.

What Ye Chen had just said...

Not a single word was wrong!

Her father-in-law had passed away from a sudden heart attack in his study during the autumn of the second year after they moved into the new residence.

Her mother-in-law had been found floating face down in their own landscape pond during the summer of the third year, beyond any hope of salvation.

And she had indeed been pregnant last year, but lost the fetus after falling down the stairs.

Ever since then...

Her husband had been devastated ever since, and their marriage had become a mere shell of its former self.

Until this year, when her husband traveled abroad to negotiate business, only to encounter an unknown attack and die in a foreign land...

She had once thought this string of misfortunes was merely the ruthless teasing of fate, a coincidence of bad luck.

She had never imagined...

That it could actually be closely related to the feng shui of the mansion!

What shocked her even more was that her original intention in inviting Ye Chen today was just to test him.

Who would have thought that this test would reveal such a horrifying truth.

"How... how do you know this so clearly?"

Bai Wanqing's voice trembled. "Even Shanshan might not know all the details of these matters..."

Ye Chen shook his head. "How I know is not important. What is important, Madam Bai, is that the feng shui of your mansion is not a common problem; it has been afflicted with an 'Extinction Curse'."

"Extinction Curse?" Bai Wanqing's face changed abruptly. Just hearing the name made her heart run cold.

"Yes." Ye Chen nodded and continued. "This formation is extremely sinister. The one who set it up first used false prosperity to deceive the eyes of ordinary feng shui masters, making people mistakenly believe this place is blessed."

"Once you move in, the malevolent energy will quietly erode the family's fortune and damage health, eventually... leading to the end of the family line and the destruction of the household."

He paused and looked at Bai Wanqing. "Your husband was supposed to have a tribulation last year; fortunately, your unborn child temporarily blocked the malevolent energy, but unfortunately, he could not escape his deadly fate in the end. If you continue to live here and do nothing, the next person to meet with disaster will definitely be you."

A chill shot from the soles of Bai Wanqing's feet straight to the top of her head.

"Mr. Ye!" She said urgently. "Since you can see through this formation at a glance, you must have a way to break it, right?"

"Breaking it is naturally possible." Ye Chen did not beat around the bush. "But this formation has been rooted for several years, and the malevolent energy is profound. Before breaking the formation, we need to confirm some key points and find the location of the 'formation eye'."

"How do you need me to cooperate?" Bai Wanqing asked without hesitation.

Ye Chen pondered for a moment before saying, "Make a call immediately and summon a few reliable Bodyguards here. It would be best... to invite Officer Bai to be present as well."

"Shanshan?" Bai Wanqing was startled. Wait... this involves feng shui issues, why is a police officer needed?

Ye Chen explained, "I suspect that what is buried beneath the formation eye of this malevolent formation is likely not an ordinary feng shui object. It would be safer if your sister is present."

Bai Wanqing was a smart person and immediately grasped Ye Chen's implication... There was likely more to this than just a feng shui problem; it might even be hiding a human conspiracy!

She no longer hesitated and immediately picked up her phone, dialing the numbers of the Bodyguard captain and Shanshan in succession.

Before long, four burly Bodyguards arrived first. Soon after, Shanshan, dressed in casual clothes, also stepped into the living room with hurried steps.

"Sis, you called me over so urgently, what happened?"

Shanshan saw Ye Chen at a glance and saw her sister's pale face, knowing that something major must have happened. Indeed, Bai Wanqing suppressed her palpitations and briefly recounted Ye Chen's findings.

Shanshan's brows furrowed tightly, her gaze falling on Ye Chen. "Are you sure? This is not something to joke about!"

"Whether it is true or false, we will know once we dig." Ye Chen's expression was calm. "I ask Officer Bai to be a witness here."

Shanshan took a deep breath and waved her hand at the Bodyguards. "Follow his instructions, dig!"

"Yes, Officer Bai!" The Bodyguard captain replied and immediately led his men to fetch tools.

Ye Chen stopped wasting time and walked straight to the center of the courtyard. He first pointed to a lush Buddhist pine in the southeast corner. "Dig down from here, three feet deep."

The Bodyguards immediately started, shovels flying, and soil splattering everywhere. Only a few minutes later. "Clang!" A crisp sound of metal hitting a hard object came.

"We dug something up!" One of the Bodyguards shouted.

Several people quickly gathered, carefully clearing the loose soil around it. A human skeleton lying face up was gradually exposed to the air. The skeleton was extremely strange; many bones, especially the ones underneath, were covered in spiderweb-like cracks!

"The bones are shattered to this extent..." Shanshan squatted down, put on the gloves she carried with her, and carefully examined it, her face becoming increasingly grave. "This was caused by falling from a high place and landing on the back!"

Everyone's hearts sank. Ye Chen's expression remained unchanged as he moved to the side of the rockery pond in the southwest and pointed to the bottom of the pond. "Drain the pond water, and dig five feet deep in the center of the pond bottom."

The water pump roared, and the pond water quickly reached the bottom. The Bodyguards jumped to the bottom of the pond and dug vigorously. This time, they dug deeper, and a skeleton with only half a skull left was lifted up. In the center of the skeleton's forehead, a circular hole was shocking to behold!

"Gunshot wound to the head!" Shanshan's pupils constricted. "Close-range shooting, killed with a single shot!"

The atmosphere at the scene was almost suffocating. With two bodies in miserable states dug out of her own yard in succession, Bai Wanqing was already tottering, only able to stand firm by holding onto a servant. However, the nightmare had only just begun.

At the front gate, they dug up a curled-up skeleton with its hands tightly clutching its chest. In the sewer at the bottom of the backyard swimming pool, they discovered a skeleton in a strange posture, lying prone on an iron pipe like a drowning victim floating to the surface... One skeleton after another was dug out, and everyone in the villa fell into a deathly silence of fear.

Ye Chen finally walked to a flower bed in the backyard, paused, and said in a deep voice, "Here, the deepest, seven feet."

The Bodyguards executed the order almost numbly, digging vigorously downwards. As the pit grew deeper, a scent of decay permeated the air. When the object at the bottom of the pit appeared, even the well-informed Bodyguards couldn't help but gasp, nearly vomiting!

At the bottom of the pit were two skeletons intertwined together! The one on top had a large frame, clearly male. And the skeleton underneath was eerily hair-raising... The limb bones were severed at the roots and scattered on the ground, the torso was pressed tightly by the skeleton above, and the two skulls were pressed closely together. That posture... it was as if they had been violated after having their limbs severed while alive!

"This..." Shanshan stood up suddenly, her chest heaving violently, anger spewing from her eyes. "Six bodies?! Who is so devoid of conscience?!"

Ye Chen narrowed his eyes. "Don't be in such a hurry to get angry. Haven't you noticed that the forms of these corpses are very similar to certain experiences...?"

Everyone was stunned. Bai Wanqing's delicate body trembled violently, her face pale as paper, and a terrifying thought exploded in her mind. That skeleton with a bullet in the forehead... wasn't it exactly like the appearance of her husband being shot abroad? That one with hands tightly clutching its chest... wasn't it exactly like her father-in-law's posture when he had a sudden heart attack? That one with completely shattered back bones, facing the sky... didn't it correspond to her own situation when she fell down the stairs and had a miscarriage? That one lying prone on the pool drain... wasn't it exactly the same as her mother-in-law's posture when she drowned face down?!

Thrilling! Terrifying! It made one's heart and soul crack! How could this be just a feng shui malevolent formation? This was clearly...

"Filling the formation with lives, responding to the tribulation with forms." Ye Chen said calmly, revealing the mystery. "Someone used the corpses of these victims, buried in corresponding positions according to specific methods of death, to forcibly bind and resonate their death energy with the life energy of your husband's family."

"So the last one, that corpse with limbs severed and violated... corresponds to you, Madam Bai. If this formation is not broken, your final end will be no different from hers."

Bai Wanqing's legs went weak, and she fell backward.

"Sis!" Shanshan quickly supported her, and at the same time, she looked up at Ye Chen fiercely. "How do we break it? Tell me, how should we break this damned formation???"

She originally did not want to believe in these supernatural tales, but the ironclad evidence was like a mountain...

Ye Chen said calmly. "Break the formation? It's very simple, we just need to wait."

"Wait?" Shanshan was stunned. "Wait for what? Wait for that unscrupulous bastard to throw himself into the net? How is that possible!"

Ye Chen did not explain further, just directing the shaken Bodyguards. "Dig all these skeletons up. Then, rebury them according to the new positions and postures I tell you."

Seeing Bai Wanqing nod, the Bodyguards followed his instructions. Ye Chen pointed out one by one, placing the four skeletons into the intersecting pits in different postures. Only for that female skeleton with severed limbs and violated, he did it himself.

Ye Chen moved the male skeleton above away, retrieved the scattered limb bones, carefully pieced them together, and finally let her lie flat in a peaceful posture. After placing it properly, he took out the walnut he had obtained from the fox immortal statue from his bosom and placed it solemnly on its chest.

After finishing all this, Ye Chen patted the dust off his hands and said to the Bai sisters.

"This formation is called the 'Extinction Curse', but more accurately, it is a 'Fate-Transferring and Fortune-Stealing Curse'."

"The purpose of the person who set up the formation is not just as simple as making your family line end. He wants to take your three generations of immense fortune, using the resentment of your tragically deceased relatives as a bridge, to slowly extract it and transfer it to himself."

"Every time someone in your husband's family dies, or encounters a corresponding major tribulation, the fortune he gains will increase by one point."

Hearing this, everyone showed expressions of shock. This statement was already beyond their scope of understanding. What fortune, it was too mystical!

Ye Chen ignored their reactions and his gaze fell on Bai Wanqing.

"Madam Bai, your husband was assassinated abroad, less than a month ago. This means that the one who set up the formation has just had a full meal and is currently in the period of digesting the results, with his fortune at its peak. But at the same time, this is also his weakest moment."

Ye Chen paused and said something startling. "Therefore, I have slightly modified these formation eyes to trigger a backlash. For a thief who relies on plundering others' fortune, there is nothing more terrifying to him than a backlash. So, he will definitely come."

"How long do we have to wait?" Shanshan asked urgently.

"Ugh!" Ye Chen suddenly frowned and covered his chest. "The backlash has begun. No need to wait. He is here, coming very fast, very urgently. He is nearby, and may even have been... monitoring this place all along!"