Liu Dajun became excited when he heard that.
“That’s a good idea! We should’ve launched the aphrodisiac a lot earlier. We’ll have to start this company as soon as we can. Right, have you thought of a name for it yet?”
“No!” Tang Hao shook his head.
“Let’s see, for a company producing aphrodisiacs, we need a grand name. Right, what do you think of Masculine Wind? Don’t you think that sounds cool?” Liu Dajun said excitedly.
“Hm… I think it sounds quite cheesy!” Tang Hao said.
Liu Dajun slapped his chest. “No problem at all. That’s how you get people to remember your company these days. I think we’ll call the aphrodisiac Masculine Wind too. It’s a wind that restores your masculinity!”
“That actually sounds not bad,” Tang Hao said. The name was not as cheesy the more he thought about it.
“That decides it!” Liu Dajun said, “So our new company will be Masculine Wind Health Products Co. Ltd. We’ll register the company tomorrow and we can start hiring.”
He suddenly thought of something. He leaned over and said mischievously, “Hey, Lil Tang, how’s your progress with the chick downstairs?”
Tang Hao was surprised, then he quickly realized that Liu Dajun was referring to Ma Fangfang.
“There’s nothing between us!” Tang Hao said.
“Really?”
“Really! We’re only classmates back in school.”
Liu Dajun chuckled mischievously then gave Tang Hao an understanding look. “Fangfang is a diligent and responsible girl. I think she shows great potential! I plan to promote her, then recruit her to the new company.
“That’s as much as your Big Bro Liu can help you!”
Then, he thoughtfully patted Tang Hao’s shoulder.
Tang Hao was speechless.
He went downstairs. He met Ma Fangfang as he passed the front lobby. As usual, she was dressed in her work clothes, and she looked pretty and charming in them. Her legs that were clad in pantyhose were seductive.
She was surprised when she saw Tang Hao. Then, a smile appeared on her face and she quickly walked over to him.
“You’re already back! I didn’t see you go upstairs earlier.”
She knew that Tang Hao had been attending college at Provincial City.
“I’m back!” Tang Hao nodded. “How have things been?”
“Still the same. I’m still working here every day!”
The two people chatted for more than half an hour.
Tang Hao went back to his company. He lingered for a while more, and soon it was time to leave.
His phone suddenly started ringing. He saw that it was from Sis Xiangyi.
He answered the call and immediately heard Sis Xiangyi’s anxious voice. “Can you come over here quickly, Lil Tang? Something is going on at the factory!”
Tang Hao’s expression changed drastically as he stood up.
“What’s wrong?”
“It’s a strange occurrence. I think it’s something supernatural. Aren’t you very good at that kind of stuff? Can you come here and take a look?” Sis Xiangyi said.
“Alright, I’ll come over now!”
Tang Hao ended the call, then immediately went downstairs, started the car, and drove toward Sis Xiangyi’s clothing factory.
Chapter 293 - Another Nanyang Shaman
Qin Xiangyi’s clothing factory was located in the countryside. Tang Hao arrived there in less than twenty minutes.
The sky was already dark by then.
An ambulance was parked in front of the factory. Several emergency paramedics were carrying a stretcher and bringing it into the vehicle. After that, it sped away with wailing sirens.
Qin Xiangyi and a crowd of factory workers were standing at the entrance.
Tang Hao slowed down and parked his car in front of the gate.
“What happened?” Tang Hao asked after he got out of his car.
Qin Xiangyi walked over quickly. Her brows were tightly locked and she looked worried.
“That’s the third casualty since afternoon. He was crushed by a product shelf that suddenly toppled. Another worker was injured the same way earlier, while the other was injured by some machinery that suddenly went out of control.”
Tang Hao furrowed his brows when he heard that.
Each one of those incidents was an accident, but three in one afternoon was too much of a coincidence.
“I’ve heard the workers say that there’s some unnatural movement in the workshops. It’s like as though… it’s haunted!” Qin Xiangyi’s face turned slightly pale when she said that.
She had heard Tang Hao talk about his encounters with ghosts before. Now that she was about to encounter one, she was a little afraid.
The crowd of workers at the entrance talked among themselves. They were uneasy about the accidents.
“Nothing like that happened before?” Tang Hao said.
“No. Everything was fine until this afternoon,” Qin Xiangyi said.
Tang Hao thought for a while and said, “Let me go and take a look!”
Then, he walked into the factory.
The workers were surprised when they saw that.
They recognized the boy. He regularly fetched their boss to work and was rumored to be their boss’s boyfriend.
The workers regularly gossiped with each other. The factory employed a majority of female workers and they regularly talked about their boss behind her back.
“Why is he going in? What if something happens to him?”
“If there’s a supernatural incident, shouldn’t we hire a monk or a Taoist master to exorcise the ghost?”
They talked softly among themselves.
“I’m coming along too!” Qin Xiangyi quickly caught up to him.
Tang Hao hesitated for a while but eventually nodded.
The workers were getting anxious.
“Oh, Boss, you shouldn’t go! What if there’s really something supernatural in there? That’ll be dangerous!”
“That’s right, you shouldn’t go!”
The workers crowded around her and tried to convince her to stay away.
Qin Xiangyi smiled. “Don’t worry. What’s the worst that could happen? Furthermore, he will protect me if something happens.”
The workers became even more anxious when they heard that.
Their boss had been intelligent and capable, but they thought that she made the wrong decision this time. Ghosts were no joking matter, and if they encountered one inside, the kid might not even be able to save himself, much less their boss.
Their gaze toward Tang Hao turned hostile.
‘Why is the kid butting in? There’s nothing to see inside. What if Boss gets injured because of him?’
Seeing that they could not convince their boss, some of the male workers shouted, “We’ll go along too! If there’s more of us, the ghost might be scared.”
“That’s right! We’re coming along too!”
The group of male workers looked eager.
“Well…” Qin Xiangyi hesitated. She turned to look at Tang Hao.
“It doesn’t matter,” Tang Hao said nonchalantly.
“Let’s go together then!” Qin Xiangyi said.
The workers gathered at one spot. In total, there were about forty people in the group who went to the building on the east side of the factory.
The building occupied a large area and was divided into multiple sections. Some of them processed manmade fabric, and there were also sewing workshops. Some of the sections were filled with mannequins.
It was fine when there was light. However, it looked rather spooky once night fell.
The group of people walked toward the area where the accidents happened.
The area was completely quiet.
Tang Hao remained calm, but the male workers who followed behind him were looking at the surroundings cautiously.
They arrived at the workshop.
Tang Hao opened his third eye and looked all over the place. H
owever, he made no discoveries.
He turned to Qin Xiangyi and shook his head.
Suddenly, they heard a crash in the room next door.
In a completely silent environment, the crash was as loud as a thunderclap. The workers were shocked and trembled with fear.
“It must be a ghost!”
“The ghost is next door!”
The workers’ faces turned paler than ever. Some of the less courageous ones were already trembling.
Tang Hao exited the workshop and went next door.
The room next door was a storeroom for miscellaneous items. It stored many broken mannequins. The sight of their hollow, white faces with broken bodies was rather disturbing.
Crack! Crack!
Suddenly, they heard a mysterious sound. In the pile of broken mannequins, one of them started to move. It slowly lifted its twisted head.
Then, the head turned to look at them.
“A ghost!”
The male workers were scared out of their wits when they saw that. Some of them fell sitting on the floor and crawled away while screaming for their parents.
The other workers stood on the spot, but their legs were shaking violently.
“B- B- Boss! Quick… Quick, let’s run away!” Their voices were trembling too.
Qin Xiangyi’s face turned pale when she saw that, but she resolutely stood behind Tang Hao.
The broken mannequin stood up and walked toward them in jerking steps.
“Run away, dammit!”
A few more people could not take it anymore and run out as fast as they could.
The mannequin cackled when it saw so many people running away. Then, it turned to look at Tang Hao with its tilted head.
‘Why isn’t this guy afraid?
‘He looks too damn calm.’
It wanted to scare him. It lifted its arm, then shambled toward Tang Hao.
The kid was not fazed at all. He even had an expression of condescension on his face.
The mannequin seemed to be angry. It quickened its pace.
Tang Hao grinned. He stepped forward, then delivered a slap at the mannequin’s face.
Smack! The head was detached from the body and landed on the ground with a thud.
“Show yourself, ghost!” Tang Hao roared sternly. He reached out, grabbed toward the mannequin, and pulled out a wisp of smoke. It coalesced into something the shape of a human.
It was indeed a ghost.
The ghost was extremely frightened. It struggled with all its might to escape Tang Hao’s grasp.
It was no match for Tang Hao’s power though, so it remained firmly on the spot.
On the top of a hill not far away from the factory, someone in a black suit and a felt hat was sitting cross-legged. His body suddenly trembled and he opened his eyes.
His face was wracked with shock.
“Dammit, there’s a powerful opponent inside!”
He quickly got up to his feet, packed his belongings into a black suitcase, then prepared to run away.
Back in the factory, Tang Hao carefully sensed his surroundings. His expression suddenly turned cold and his eyes flashed with killing intent.
Then, he tightened his grasp. The ghost exploded into bits of energy.
“Someone is behind this. Wait here!” Tang Hao roared. He removed the string of blood jade beads from his wrist and handed it to Qin Xiangyi.
Then, he leaped out of the window, ran out of the factory, and toward that hill.
Chapter 294 - Large-Scale Invasion
For a long time, no one made a noise in the room.
The male workers were slumped near the entrance. Their eyes glazed over as they stared at the open window.
The scene that happened earlier was just like a dream.
‘Who is this boyfriend of our boss?’
Only questions and confusion were left in their minds.
Once away from the factory, Tang Hao increased his speed and dashed away. Soon, he arrived at the mountain and intercepted the man who was running down the hill.
Tang Hao furrowed his brows when he saw that person.
He knew that person’s outfit very well: A felt hat and a black suitcase. That person was a Nanyang shaman.
His gaze turned cold and his killing intent rose.
He did not have a good impression of Nanyang shamans.
The Nanyang shaman was shocked when he saw Tang Hao appear suddenly in front of him.
“We… We can talk, brother!” He said with a shaking voice.
Tang Hao examined him closely.
Compared to the other three grandmasters before him, that person looked to be in his mid-twenties and did not have a high cultivation base.
“Who ordered you?” Tang Hao asked sternly.
“A boss named Xu,” the shaman said, “He wants me to disturb the operations of this factory to take revenge on that female boss.”
“Now that you’ve said so, there’s no reason to keep you alive anymore,” Tang Hao said coldly.
The shaman trembled in fear. “Don’t! Don’t kill me! You can’t kill me. If you do, my master will avenge me. He is a very powerful shaman,” he said, trembling.
“Is that so?” Tang Hao was nonchalant.
He flicked his wrist and several jade talismans appeared in his palm. He threw those talismans out and reduced the shaman to ashes.
He never showed any mercy toward Nanyang shamans.
Tang Hao furrowed his brows and thought about something.
“A boss named Xu? I’ll ask Sis Xiangyi when I get back.”
After that, he dashed back toward the factory.
The entire journey took no more than a few minutes. The male workers had not recovered from their shock yet when they saw Tang Hao coming back from the window.
They were once again stunned.
“Did you find out what happened?” Qin Xiangyi asked.
“It’s caused by a boss named Xu. He hired a Nanyang shaman to cause trouble in your factory,” Tang Hao said.
“Xu? It’s him!” Qin Xiangyi’s eyes widened in anger.
“We’ve competed for an order once, but that Xu guy lost. I didn’t expect that he would do something so underhanded.”
“He’s from Westridge as well?”
“No, he’s from the neighboring district.”
“Is that so? I’ll pay a visit tomorrow and teach him a lesson!” Tang Hao’s face flashed with viciousness.
…
Nanyang was the name for the vast geographical area to the south of Huaxia.
In a room on an island somewhere in Nanyang, an oil lamp suddenly went out.
A figure sitting cross-legged in the middle of the room opened his eyes suddenly.
He was an elderly figure. His body was as thin as bamboo and his face and eyes were sunken like a skeleton.
However, his gaze was sharp and penetrating.
Even though he looked thin and frail, he carried a formidable aura.
His eyes opened wide as they swept toward the lamp that had just gone out. A shocking aura burst forth from his body.
His silver hair danced wildly.
He howled. His skeletal face was contorted with rage.
The lamp signified the life force of his youngest and favorite disciple.
Now that the lamp went out, it meant that the person died.
“Come to me!”
He howled again, and his voice spread across the land like a thunderclap.
Soon, someone opened the door and laid prostrate on the floor. “Yes, Grandmaster?”
“Duri is dead! Find out who killed him! Also, gather all the shamans on the island,” the elderly figure said sternly.
The servant trembled when he heard that. His face turned pale.
‘Duri is dead!’
He knew that it was extremely bad news.
Duri was the Grandmaster’s favorite disciple.
He quickly replied in the affirmative, then left the room.
Soon, a
horn blast was heard throughout the island.
Various figures lifted their heads and looked toward the middle of the island.
In Nanyang, the shamans had their own organization, though the hierarchy was not as strict. Almost a fifth of all the shamans in Nanyang lived there.
The shamans changed into their black suits and gathered at the meeting hall in the middle of the island.
A while later, the elderly figure appeared in the hall, wearing a black suit.
“Grandmaster Toto!”
Everyone in the hall stood to attention and greeted the elderly figure.
Grandmaster Toto was the most experienced shaman in the Nanyang cultivation world, and the one with the highest cultivation base.
Grandmaster Toto sat down. He swept his eyes across the hall and said, “Duri is dead!”
“What? Duri is dead? How could that be?”
The people in the hall talked to each other loudly.
Everyone knew that Duri was Grandmaster Toto’s favorite disciple, and he showed the most promise.
“He has indeed lost his life. He died in a place called Westridge District in Huaxia. He was there for a pilgrimage, but he died there.
“I can’t let my disciple die in vain. So what if it’s Huaxia?” Grandmaster Toto’s gaze sharpened as he roared with a deep voice.
“That’s right! So what if it’s Huaxia? They have been on a decline for the past few years, and it’s time for Nanyang to rise up! If they killed one of our own, then we ought to make them pay the price in blood!”
“That’s right! Make them pay!”
The shamans in the meeting hall were all very agitated.
Suddenly, someone shouted, “Westridge? I remember that name. Chacha, Bakar, and Abu all died there.”
The hall instantly descended into silence when they heard that.
“What? They all died there? What is this Westridge place?”
“Westridge? I’ve never heard of it before!”
“Even Abu died. Someone powerful must be hiding there!”
Grandmaster Toto stood up from his seat. “Did you hear that?” He roared, “Even Abu died there. They’ve gone overboard! Where is our dignity if we don’t avenge our people?
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