"Impossible!"
"Impossible, Xiao Xue would never harm me!"
Li Qingyuan seemed to realize something and became agitated.
Lin Hao, seeing Li Qingyuan so worked up, asked with some curiosity, "Director Li, please calm down. Could you first tell me who this Xiao Xue you're referring to is?"
"Xiao Xue?" Li Qingyuan blinked, then looked at Lin Hao. "Xiao Xue is my granddaughter. Mr. Lin, are you suspecting my granddaughter of harming me?"
"Mr. Lin, that's impossible, absolutely impossible. There must be some misunderstanding."
As Li Qingyuan spoke, he became agitated again.
"Uh..."
Lin Hao looked at Li Qingyuan, feeling a bit awkward. It seemed he had overthought things.
"Director Li, please don't get too worked up. I believe your granddaughter wouldn't do such a thing. I think she was probably deceived."
"Yes, yes, yes!"
"She must have been deceived!"
"She was definitely deceived!"
"I'll call her over right now, you can ask her yourself."
Li Qingyuan said this, pulling out his phone to call his granddaughter.
At the same time, Xiao Hei, Liu Yongchang, and Lai Qingsheng also gathered around Lin Hao, looking at the Kuman Thong in his hand.
Xiao Hei was startled at first, then looked at Lin Hao and said, "Senior brother, isn't this a Kuman Thong?"
"Yes, it's a Kuman Thong," Lin Hao nodded.
"No wonder. This is not something ordinary people can get. It seems some people not only want Director Li to step down but also want his life."
Hearing Xiao Hei's words, Liu Yongchang and Lai Qingsheng's expressions changed. They looked at Xiao Hei and Lin Hao, confused. "Brother, isn't this Kuman Thong supposed to be a good thing?"
"I heard that wearing it or keeping it at home for worship can bring good luck."
"How can something that shortens one's lifespan bring good luck?" Xiao Hei looked at Liu Yongchang and Lai Qingsheng. "You two haven't kept one, have you?"
"No, no."
Liu Yongchang and Lai Qingsheng were startled and immediately shook their heads.
At the same time, Xiao Hei's words had also enlightened them.
They had heard about the process of making Kuman Thong, that it was made using children's souls, animal carcasses, and corpse oil.
Thinking about it now, wasn't this kind of thing something that shortened one's lifespan?
They remembered that someone had recommended such things to them before, but they found it creepy and didn't buy them.
Now that they thought about it, they were fortunate they hadn't bought them.
"It's good that you haven't. You must not touch this thing," Xiao Hei said to Liu Yongchang and Lai Qingsheng, then looked at Lin Hao. "Senior brother, could this Kuman Thong be something Wang Houde made?"
"It's possible."
Lin Hao nodded, also believing that this Kuman Thong was likely designed by Wang Houde.
After all, if an ordinary person were selling Kuman Thong, they would never sell such an evil spirit Kuman Thong.
This kind of evil spirit Kuman Thong, exuding a chilling aura, was purely for harming people.
On the market, those that were traded and sold usually had prohibitions placed on them, making them less fierce.
Even if they were not properly cared for and something went wrong, it usually wouldn't result in death.
However, the one Li Qingyuan had was an evil spirit Kuman Thong made specifically to harm someone.
Even in Southeast Asia, where Kuman Thong is prevalent, such things are very secretive, and ordinary people cannot access them, let alone buy or sell them.
Lin Hao was surprised that someone had procured such a thing for Li Qingyuan, clearly having gone to great lengths.
Lin Hao estimated that this evil spirit Kuman Thong in his hand, if it were to be sold, would cost at least over a million.
And that was with the right channels.
Without connections or channels, even with money, you wouldn't know where to buy it.
"Mr. Lin, I just heard you say this thing is called Kuman Thong. Isn't this a protective charm?" Li Qingyuan asked, hanging up the phone and looking at Lin Hao with confusion.
But before Lin Hao could reply, Liu Yongchang and Lai Qingsheng immediately started talking to Li Qingyuan.
Hearing Liu Yongchang and Lai Qingsheng, Li Qingyuan's face turned pale with fright.
He never imagined that the protective charm his granddaughter gave him was such an evil object.
However, he still couldn't believe his granddaughter would harm him.
He had watched his granddaughter grow up. She was pure, kind, and most importantly, very trusting of others.
Perhaps Lin Hao was right; his granddaughter had likely been deceived.
About ten minutes later, Li Qingyuan's granddaughter, Li Xue, arrived.
Upon entering the room, Li Xue saw her grandfather, Li Qingyuan, and quickly walked over. "Grandpa, why did you call me here so urgently?"
"Did they bully you?"
As Li Xue spoke, her gaze fell upon Lin Hao, Xiao Hei, Liu Yongchang, and Lai Qingsheng.
However, she found them to be kind-looking and not like bad people, which made her even more confused.
"Xiao Xue, this is Mr. Lin. Quickly tell Mr. Lin where you bought that protective charm you gave me that day," Li Qingyuan introduced Lin Hao to Li Xue and said urgently.
Li Xue was taken aback. She first glanced at Lin Hao, then said with some confusion, "It was on my way home from work that day. A person in a kasaya said he was a monk from Tubo and that he could see my fate."
"At first, I didn't believe him. But then he immediately said that I had a grandfather who was probably a director at a hospital, but he was now facing a deep prison sentence."
"When I heard that, I was startled and then I believed him. He then gave me a protective charm, saying that as long as Grandpa wore it, his calamity would be resolved."
"I even prepared to give him some money as thanks, but surprisingly, he only accepted a hundred yuan, saying it was fate and he was just establishing a connection."
"What's wrong, Grandpa? Is there something wrong with that protective charm?"
Li Qingyuan looked at his granddaughter and let out a wry smile. "Silly child, you've been deceived."
"That's not a protective charm at all. It's a Kuman Thong from Southeast Asia, and it's the most ferocious evil spirit Kuman Thong among them."
"Ah?"
"Kuman Thong?"
Although Li Xue had never dealt with such things, she had seen people talk about them online.
However, she remembered that those netizens said Kuman Thong was a good thing.
Although it sounded a bit strange, as long as one sincerely worshipped it, it would be very effective and increase one's luck.
Seeing his granddaughter's confused expression, Li Qingyuan recounted everything Liu Yongchang and Lai Qingsheng had said to Li Xue.
After hearing this, Li Xue's face turned deathly pale, and she stood frozen in place.
But then, as if remembering something, she suddenly turned her head to look at Lin Hao.