696: The Lan Family's Past (Part 1)

When that figure appeared, the entire banquet strangely fell silent.

People's attention was unconsciously drawn to him, as if pulled by an inexplicable force.

Under the bright lights of the Ning family.

The figure at the entrance slowly raised his face.

Intertwining muscles covered his cheeks.

His originally normal face, covered by these gaunt facial muscles, had grown into another face entirely different from Qiong Juanshu!

And this... was the demon's original appearance!

The previous Qiong Juanshu had been completely devoured!

Within the Ning family, the people at the banquet didn't know the person before them was a demon, but just seeing his terrifying appearance sent a chill down their spines.

Innumerable people in Five Directions City watching this scene through the live stream also had strong emotional fluctuations.

"This guy looks so eerie, his face is like it was burned by a big fire."

"Yeah, looking at him, he should be a beggar. Let's give him some money. I wonder if he has a QR code for payment."

Lines of bullet comments appeared in the live stream.

At the same time.

At the Ning family's banquet, Bao Xingchao, the County Magistrate, wearing a brand new official robe and one of the most important guests of the night.

After seeing the face of the person at the entrance, his heart skipped a beat.

This face... he was not unfamiliar with it!

...

Three years ago.

Within Five Directions City, a large Family named Lan family was engulfed in raging flames.

Amidst the towering firelight, all the constables and relevant personnel from the County Office in Five Directions City rushed to fetch water to extinguish the fire.

By dawn.

The entire Lan family Family was a scene of charred black.

Every single corpse was unrecognizable!

And in this great fire, which showed no signs of life, a Child survived.

The Child was covered in burns, his face full of scars.

After the County Office personnel took him to the physician for treatment, Bao Xingchao, due to the extremely serious nature of the matter, went to visit the surviving Child.

"I killed everyone in the Lan family Family, and I set the fire."

The Child lay on the hospital bed, his face wrapped in cloth. The words he spoke made the Bao Xingchao of that time frown, then sigh.

Regarding the deaths of the Lan family Family members, the examination showed that each one had committed suicide!

Although there were many peculiarities, no matter what, a Child could not do such a thing!

No one can make others commit suicide.

Only oneself can commit suicide.

Furthermore, this Child himself was a Lan family Family member, with absolutely no motive for the crime.

And regarding the Lan family Family's extermination by fire incident, the final conclusion given by Bao Xingchao was that it was an accidental fire.

Because the fire was too big, the Lan family Family members couldn't get out, felt despair, and chose to commit suicide to end the pain of being burned to death.

There were certainly many unclear points.

But in order to close the case quickly and get promoted and make money, Bao Xingchao had no intention of wasting time.

And in the past two days, the consecutive tragic cases of Family extermination made Bao Xingchao's impression of this Child from three years ago deepen somewhat.

Bao Xingchao had a deep impression of one question the Child asked.

"You say, what is the meaning of a Family's existence?"

When the Child asked this question at that time, Bao Xingchao vaguely saw countless grievances wandering around the Child.

That terrifying aura, invisibly, made him smell the scent of death!

However, nothing happened in the end at that time. After that, Bao Xingchao only felt that he hadn't rested well, which was why he had the illusion of fear towards a Child.

Thinking about it recently, the more he thought, the more something felt wrong.

Now, at this banquet in the Ning family, seeing that face burned by fierce fire again, Bao Xingchao's unease was intense!

Three years ago, this guy was clearly only a Child of eight or nine years old.

How could three years have passed in the blink of an eye, and this guy had become like this, looking like he was thirty or forty?

"Hey, hurry up, hurry up, don't stand at the entrance, the Ning family is having a banquet!" Among so many people, the first to react and respond were some servants nearby.

Holding a bowl of meat, they handed it to the slovenly guy at the entrance while urging him to leave quickly.

Hearing the words of the servant beside him, the Man at the entrance shifted his gaze.

"You have a good heart." The disheveled Man looked at the bowl of meat in the servant's hand, his voice serious.

Then he asked, "But why do you want to be a member of a Family?"

"That will breed hatred, a lot of hatred!"

The Man's words made the servant's expression turn strange: "Are you okay?"

Thinking about it, it made sense. Many of these beggars who beg on the streets do have problems with their heads.

And the guy in front of him was clearly one of them!

"Don't you hate it? You're from the same Family, so why are you a servant serving others?"

"Your entire life can only serve others, and your Child will find it difficult to escape your fate. And even if your Bloodline serves this Family, no one will ever remember you. Does the meaning of Family to you just mean working hard your whole life and ultimately dying unnoticed?"

"You should be angry, you should hate, you should resist!"

"Or... suicide is also a good option."

In front of the servant.

As this Man with a scarred face spoke, a patch of pitch black seemed to spread from his eyes!

This patch of black slowly expanded, covering the surrounding lanterns, all the light.

And the blackness, like some extreme negative emotion, began to take root and grow in the hearts of the people around him!

Standing in front of the beggar.

The servant felt as if he was in another World.

That wasn't his memory, but it felt like his own life, and the painful memory information within it was directly magnified more than ten times, affecting his mind!

"Your Father is a servant, and you are also a servant. What I say goes, do you understand?!"

Two boys of the same age, one wearing silk brocade clothes, the other wearing patched cotton clothes.

The boy in brocade clothes was fiercely pressing the thin boy in cotton clothes to the ground, his words full of harshness.

"Why? You can't beat me in the first place, and you're cheating! The rules don't allow weapons, but you're using a stick!" The boy pressed to the ground looked unconvinced, his nimble face also showing a Child's defiance.

"You lowly servant!" In the Lan family Family, the boy in brocade clothes always got what he wanted.

Even his Father, the Lan family Family Head, didn't dare not listen to him.

Now a servant in the Family actually dared to talk back, which made him feel a surge of anger: "I say you can use a stick, so you can. You are a servant, you should admit defeat!"

"I didn't lose!"

The two began to argue.

However, not long after, a Man in his thirties rushed over in a hurry.

The Man's clothes were also tattered, just like an enlarged version of the patched cotton clothes worn by the Child among the two boys.