the h.e.l.l is wrong with you two? Don't you know how to knock?!" Song Wen snapped with a darkening expression as he looked at the fl.u.s.tered duo.

"I-It's a big matter!"

Lu Yang gasped for a breath of air before blurting out.

"What big matter? Did you dig up a treasure?" Song Qing's eyes lit up.

"Gulu... gulu...!" Lu Yang grabbed the cup of iced water on the table and gulped the entire cup down before turning to Song Wen. With his lips trembling slightly, he put the cup down. "Big Might is dead!"

"Big Might? Who the f*ck is Big Might? What's that got to do with me?!" Song Qing's patience ran out and he slammed the table with anger.

The two country b.u.mpkins had barged in fl.u.s.tered and jumpy without even bothering to knock, drank his water without asking him, and were now telling him about a dead Big Might? Who the h.e.l.l knew if they were talking about some dog or cat?

"Bam!"

"Old man! What the h.e.l.l were you digging for?!"

Song Qing had grown angry, but so had Lu Yang and Lu Jia Gui! They too slammed their palms on the table and pointed at Song Wen in rage!

Song Wen felt his heart leap as he slowly realized the severity of the situation. He had hired three men in the morning, but there was only two in front of him now. Could it be that the dead Big Might was the missing worker?

"Don't be anxious, we can talk about this slowly. I only asked you guys to dig for a plant root to make a bracelet! What exactly happened? Please speak more clearly!" Song Qing had a grave expression on his face.

Lu Yang calmed down and began to narrate the chain of events. When Song Wen heard that a root had shot out of the hole and stabbed into Big Might's eye, both him and Song Qing revealed doubtful looks. A root suddenly shot out of the hole? Why don't you just say that the root gained a spirit and became a divine being?

However, Lu Yang and Lu Jia Gui started to swear on their lives that before they left, there wasn't even the faintest sign of a root and when they turned around, Big Might had clearly been killed by a strange root!

Song Wen and Song Qing exchanged an anxious glance and hurriedly called the police. The moment the police officers arrived, the group all left for the cliff together.

The scene was quickly cordoned off and a few officers carefully ventured into the cave to check on the situation.

"Captain, there is a corpse inside, and the initial a.s.sessment is that he had died by unnatural causes. The cause of death appears to be a stab wound through the eye using a sharp object. However, we did not find any root at all."

A twenty plus year old police officer quickly emerged from the cave with a grave expression on his face as he reported the situation to a middle-aged officer.

"Impossible! I clearly saw a root about the thickness of an infant's fist protruding from the hole and lodging in Big Might's eye!"

Lu Yang and Lu Jia Gui cried out aloud.

At the same time, they moved to barge into cave for a look themselves, causing the young officer to immediately stretch out a hand to block them. The middle-aged officer placed his hand on the young officer's shoulder and shook his head lightly, indicating to let them through.

The roughly dug cave was about 3 or 4 meters deep, and about 2 meters wide. The cliff face with the hole was splattered with a generous amount of blood, now visible through the light of the lanterns.

"How can this be?!"

Lu Yang and Lu Jia Gui cried out in disbelief. Big Might who was previously stuck squatting when facing the wall was now slumped on the ground. The strange hole which was as big as an infant's fist did not have any trace of the root at all.

"Look, there's no such thing here like the killer root or whatever which you guys described!

The young officer watched the reactions of Lu Yang and Lu Jia Gui suspiciously.

"Are you sure that you did not make a mistake?" The middle-aged officer furrowed his brows as he turned to Lu Yang and Lu Jia Gui.

"Impossible! There's no way we could have seen wrongly!"

Lu Yang screamed in a deranged manner.

"Fine, Little He, bring these two guys with you and continue digging here!"

Tie Zhonguo pointed to the two officers behind him.

Both officers revealed a constipated expression on their faces as they looked at the middle-aged officer incredulously. This task... was a little too demanding!

The first order of business was still to carry Big Might's body away. Following that, the officers took over Lu Yang and the rest's tools and began working away at the hole. The others started to pace about outside impatiently, taking pictures and recording statements.

"What the h.e.l.l is this situation?! We've actually became stonemasons now? Actually, if you ask me, the two fellows out there are the greatest suspects! What nonsense is that about a killer root? The way I see it, they were killed with this thing!"

Little He held up the chisel in his hands and waved it about with the airs of a great detective.

"Haha, just shut up and dig. Who knows, there might really be a killer root here!"

The other two officers jested.

"Let me see how deep this strange hole goes... "

Little He grabbed the flashlight and shone it into the hole.

Before the terrified eyes of Little He, a slender black root really shot out of the hole with unbelievable speed! Before he could even react, the black root had stabbed a hole through Little He's forehead!

Five minutes pa.s.sed before another officer noticed that Little He had been unusually quiet for too long. "Little He, you've rested for so long already. Aren't you going to hurry up and get to work?" He grumbled with discontent.

Noticing that there was no response, he began to get an ominous feeling. The officer quickly tapped the other officer beside him and the two cautiously approached Little He together.

"AHH!"

"AH! There's really a killer root! It's a demon!"

The two officers immediately panicked and shot out of the cave as if they'd seen a ghost. Little He's eyes were wide open and his expression was extremely scary. A single root remained in his forehead.

The people outside took a quick glance at each other. Sensing that the matter was quite serious, they immediately sealed off the cave and reported the incident upwards.

But their actions were still a bit too slow. Someone had already posted the shocking news onto the internet, with the headlines "Ancient Demon Tree turns to life, two people killed!" A few pictures and even the location was attached to the post!

Although the post was eventually deleted just one hour after appearing on the internet, its page views had actually reached over a million by the time it was taken down!

People from this generation possessed an extremely strong curiosity towards any novel topics. Seeing that there was a picture and even the location on it, many people clicked on it, causing the post to become viral for a short moment.

"Patriarch! It seems like a Primordial Heavenly Tree had appeared!"

"Elder! We suspect that a Primordial Heavenly Tree had been born in Mt. Qing Ling!"

"Haha! What excellent luck! Quick, make preparations! We will rush to Qingcheng immediately!"

Similar scenes were playing out all over China as countless influential and great powers made haste to rush to Qingcheng!

A formless undercurrent stirred through the country, surging towards Qingcheng, awaiting the moment it would burst out!