Chapter 239: Mysterious Disappearance
The weather in N City in December was cold and dry, and the winds that blew were blisteringly cold.
Gu Xiqiao looked at these familiar streets, and for a moment it was as if she was dreaming.
The road to Shanhe Manor Area was still quite devoid of any pa.s.sersby except for the occasional luxury car that drove by, bringing along with them several withered leaves.
The gates to Gu Estate had been refurbished after they were struck by lightning, but it didn’t look as nice as before, instead giving someone a sense of bleakness.
“Beauty Qiao, let me do it for you.” The system spirit made its way over to the gates before ringing the doorbell.
Someone came to the gates quickly, and Gu Xiqiao recognized him as the butler that always followed behind Master Gu.
The old butler seemed to be hard of vision and not in the best spirits either, and when he opened the door, it took quite a while to recognize who it was, and he exclaimed in a trembling tone, “S-Second Miss!”
At first, when she was brought here, the butler and the rest of the staff didn’t care much about her and even had a slight dislike towards her.
After everything Gu Xijin did had been revealed, however, they came to the late realization that Gu Xiqiao was the one that was the victim in that scenario and that they were the ones in the wrong. It was true, what she said—If someone had the choice, who would be willing to be an illegitimate daughter?
In the end, the Gu family was the one that had given her hope, then nipped all of it in the bud.
It was only an inevitability that Gu Enterprise would be acquired by Nine Heavens, and another inevitability that it would be in such a situation when it lost its most suitable heir, but at least the members of the Gu family didn’t have to sleep on the streets.
The old butler rubbed his eyes before he spoke in an anxious tone, “Second Miss, please leave! Don’t come back here again, okay?”
“I already told you people that I didn’t belong to the Gu family anymore after that day. You can just call me Miss Gu.” Upon saying this, Gu Xiqiao walked into Gu Manor. “What happened?”
“You can’t come in here, Second Miss!” Upon seeing her come in, the butler was greatly horrified. “Quick, leave before they come here! Please, Second Miss!”
As he said so, he tried to tug Gu Xiqiao out of the property.
The gates weren’t far away from the manor, and it was quite easy to hear the commotion from inside the manor. With a walking stick in hand, Master Gu made his way out with some difficulty. “Butler, what happened?”
In a mere few months, Master Gu’s physical and mental state seemed to have deteriorated greatly, to the point where he couldn’t even walk properly with a walking stick, his limbs trembling weakly.
“Master, Second Miss is back! I warned her not to come in but she didn’t listen to me!” The butler replied in dismay.
“You…What are you doing here? Leave, leave while you can!” Master Gu’s expression turned into one of horror, his eyes bulging as he held his chest.
Gu Xiqiao tugged on her jacket before looking at Master Gu with a calm expression as she ordered daintily and walked into the manor, “Butler, please help Master Gu into the manor.”
Upon seeing her actually enter the building both Master Gu and the butler reacted as if their very souls were sucked out of their bodies.
“You…Foolis.h.!.+” The butler took out some pills and fed them to Master Gu, and the latter could finally breathe properly after that, but he only knocked his walking stick on the lacquered floor as tears flowed out of his eyes. “The butler told you to stay away, why did you still come in here?! You have always been stubborn, but stepping in here spells your doom!”
“What happened?” Gu Xiqiao acted as if she didn’t hear any of that as she asked the butler, finding it better than looking at Master Gu.
The butler replied with an expression of grief, “Second Miss, a few days ago the Fu family sent some people here and threatened to not leave any of us alive. Now, no one can go out of the manor once they walk in!”
“Why didn’t you call the police?” Gu Xiqiao furrowed her brows. She knew that Fu Wei would attack the Gu family some way or another, and she was here in N City in part to resolve this. The reason she did so was not only because of the mission that the system issued her but also because she was the only one that could bully the Gu family! Who were the Fu family to do this?
In any case, the Gu family was her gift to Luo Wenlin, and she wouldn’t let it be destroyed just like that.
She hadn’t expected Fu Wei to be so ruthless, to say that he won’t leave a single person alive? The Gu family had fallen, but it was still a family with a lot of members and staff, and the total count would come up to hundreds of people!
It was too ruthless to the point where it didn’t seem like Fu Wei was the one that did it.
It was no longer a regular incident, but a conflict that involved the ancient martial arts world and the secular world.
“Call the police?” The butler’s expression seemed to turn even more terrified at the notion. “Second Miss, they’re all immortals that can summon the wind and rain and fly! The police would be useless in this situation, nor would they dare to help!”
“Right, it’s alright, you’re not a member of the Gu family…” Master Gu suddenly remembered this, and at that moment, this fact that would make him feel so much regret that it hurt in the past only bought him happiness and made him rejoice. “You’re not a member of the Gu family, so you’ll be fine.”
Upon saying this, Master Gu looked over at the butler. “Quick, go get Mr. Fu to let Miss Gu out!”
“Right!” The butler’s eyes seemed to s.h.i.+ne with hope as Master Gu reminded him of this too.
Other than butler and Master Gu, there were also several innocent youngsters from the branch families all huddled in a corner, s.h.i.+vering in fear.
After a short while, a middle-aged man walked down the stairs arrogantly, and there were several people following behind him.
“Mr. Fu was left behind by those immortals to supervise us, and if he understands the situation, you may be able to leave unscathed!” Master Gu whispered. “Miss Gu, please treat him with respect, even if it’s fake. This is a matter of life and death!”
“Master said that everyone that walks into these doors shall be killed unless he wants to take them in as outer disciples.” The man scoffed. “Killed without mercy!”
“Mr. Fu, please let Ms. Gu go, she’s innocent!” The butler immediately got down on his knees and prostrated himself. “I’m begging you!”
“Scram!” The man only scowled and swung his leg in the butler’s direction.
The butler was just a regular person, so he didn’t care if this blow caused fatal injuries.
The butler closed his eyes, but the pain that he antic.i.p.ated never came, and opening his eyes while trembling, he saw a robot that was eighty centimeters tall blocking the kick from Fu.
Gu Xiqiao got up from her seat and looked around the manor with squinted eyes. The entire manor was enveloped in a killing array that would kill anyone that stepped out of the premises with sword chi. This sort of array would be nothing in the ancient martial arts world, but placed in the secular world, such an array made it impossible for any of the victims to fight back.
They used this against regular people? A cold glint flashed through her eyes. “I’ll deal with this.”
Fu only looked at Gu Xiqiao with a sneer. “The entire manor is enveloped with a heavenly and earthly array, and he’ll come for you people tonight! None of you will be able to run!”
A pulse of chi surged in his body and he kicked at the robot again, but it was completely useless, and his expression finally changed.
“An arrogant one, aren’t you?” Gu Xiqiao smiled dangerously and raised her hand, making a strand of purple lightning wrap around Fu and hung him over the gates of Gu Manor.
After she did all of this, she turned around and left.
“No, Second Miss, you’ll get…” The butler shook himself into reality and saw Gu Xiqiao walk toward the metal gates, and he immediately chased after her frantically.
If they could live, who would want to die? Several people had tried to escape Gu Manor in the past few days, but they all died the moment they stepped out of the gates, then turned into minced meat.
In other words, it was an unnecessarily gory way to die.
That was the reason why the butler chased after her like that.
Meanwhile, Gu Xiqiao stepped out the gates without a single scratch, and she raised her hand and waved with her back to the manor.
The silhouette disappeared quickly, and the butler looked up at Fu that was wrapped up in a coc.o.o.n of purple lightning in confusion. Had their Second Miss done this?
“Second Miss is back!” At the same time, all the youngsters that were cowering a moment ago all jumped and cheered, crying in happiness and hugging each other from their narrow escape from death. “We don’t need to be afraid of those people!”
Meanwhile, on the northern side of N City.
A bunch of people seemed to be celebrating a great success, and one of the young people looked towards the person that sat in the main seat with awe and admiration. “Brother Lu, we’ve taken over all of N City!”
‘Brother Lu’ was one of the ‘immortals’ that appeared in N City, and he had the ability to control water, fire, and fly.
His appearance here caused great fear and admiration in this small city, and in a mere few days, he had already taken over all of N City.
The man that was called ‘Brother Lu’ seemed to be around thirty years old, and he was quite buff and burly. Even in this cold weather, he only wore a single s.h.i.+rt as if it wasn’t cold at all.
‘Brother Lu’ smirked and raised his cup, seemingly wanting to give a toast, but all of a sudden he realized that he couldn’t move anymore.
At the same time, the doors were pushed open and a figure that seemed like a young woman walked in, and it was as if she were surrounded by a haze, the way they all couldn’t tell how she looked like other than the silhouette. That moment, they were terrified to realize that they couldn’t speak nor move, and a clear voice resounded in their heads, saying, “Sorry for interrupting, but I have to take this Brother Lu away. Please, by all means, continue.”
After she said so, Brother Lu immediately disappeared.
In a few minutes, all of the ‘immortals’ that appeared in N City were brought away by a mysterious person, and this immediately caused panic in N City. How could such strong and mysterious superhumans be whisked away just like that?!