Chapter 184 [(*^▽^*)]

Xue Rui said, "Just from what we can see, I already feel something is very wrong. We only approached during the day, and we said we were just passing by, but they were very wary. I guess something must have happened at the Lin residence."

Zhou Feng said, "Judging from their past behavior, I guess someone has died."

Xue Rui: "If someone dies, why not just dispose of the body? How could anything else possibly happen?"

Zhou Feng: "Then...maybe it turned into a ghost? Or a vengeful spirit that came back to claim our lives?"

Xue Rui, "A vengeful ghost...do you have any tools to kill it?"

Zhou Feng: "Yes, but the effect might not be very good. Do you have any?"

Xue Rui thought of the disposable props Lin Leyou had given him before, "I have some too, but I can't use them many times, so they're probably not very useful."

Zhou Feng said, "We'll just go to the Lin residence later."

Xue Rui nodded, "That's the only way."

Their conversation was paused, but Lin Leyou managed to extract a single word from their dialogue: corpse!

Yes, a corpse!

He is now a vengeful ghost, in a ghostly state. He, Lin Leyou, is here to play the role of a vengeful ghost, but the identity of Lin Yang'an is based on a corpse!

Lin Zhoushan previously said he would deal with it during the day. Could it be that he burned his own body during the day?

He can't show up during the day!

No matter what Lin Zhoushan wanted to do, there was nothing he could do to stop him; he could only watch helplessly.

So now he's going to get rid of his own body!

He quickly left the area and flew towards the back mountain. Before long, he arrived at the Lin family's ancestral graves. The Lin family's ancestral graves were particularly eye-catching, and there were some simpler graves in the distance around them.

It should belong to someone else in Linjia Village.

He walked around and soon saw Lin Yang'an's grave. The tombstone was standing there, and it looked as if it had been prepared a long time ago.

Buried here, people passing by didn't notice it, probably because they didn't look closely, since this grave is located at the very back.

He thought for a moment and then used his ethereal powers to enter the ground and check his coffin. But he couldn't find a coffin at all. His body was only wrapped in a straw mat and then buried there.

Wow! That's really impressive!

But thinking about it, it makes sense. They dragged his body here in the middle of the night and hastily buried it. Where would they have gotten a coffin? There certainly wasn't one!

Go buy it? Impossible, we can't even leave the village, where would we buy it?

Lin Leyou looked terrible. After returning to the ground, he dug up his own corpse shortly after deactivating his talent, and then restored the soil to its original state.

As for where the body should be hidden?

He opened the straw mat and saw the corpse inside, its face covered in blackened blood, its body filthy as if it had just been dug out of the mud...

Hey! It was just dug out!

He wrapped the body again with the mat, then carried the body around and around in the mountains.

Digging a new pit to cover it up is definitely not an option. The ground in the mountains is very flat, and many places are covered with patches of weeds, so it would be easy to spot if it had been dug up.

Lin Zhoushan is unlikely to give up the search so easily.

After thinking it over, he sent Xue Rui a message: "What is your mission?"

Xue Rui quickly replied, "Find the abnormalities in the village and resolve them."

Lin Leyou carefully examined the abnormalities and resolved them.

Isn't the abnormal thing him? Does the solution mean killing this vengeful ghost?

That's right! Players come to this instance, kill the evil spirits causing chaos, isn't that the quest?

Lin Leyou: "System, am I the final boss that the players want to defeat?"

The system replied, "No."

Lin Leyou: "So, am I the mini-boss?"

The system replied, "No."

Lin Leyou: "Could you explain in detail? I'm here to complete a mission, so you need to explain it to me clearly."

"System prompt: Solving does not mean killing."

Lin Leyou understood. To resolve this matter, helping him kill Zhao Anxue and Lin Yangxu would also be a way to resolve it!

Could he bring Xue Rui here? Would it be feasible to hide the body with him?

Lin Zhoushan will definitely be able to lead all the servants of the Lin family to search every inch of the village!

Lin Leyou didn't know where to put the body. After considering various options, he decided to take the body back to the Lin residence first, thinking that the most dangerous place would be the safest place.

However, Xue Rui sent another message shortly afterward.

"Brother Lin, is there a problem on your end? Do you need my help?"

After seeing the message, Lin Leyou suddenly had the idea of ​​believing him. "Forget it, even if I fail, it's only a deduction of 500 points. It's okay, let's give it a try."

He didn't beat around the bush, saying, "I have a corpse that I need to hide."

Without even thinking, Xue Rui replied, "Brother Lin, where are you? I'm coming to find you now."

Lin Leyou thought for a moment, "I'll stay in the cemetery on the back hill."

Xue Rui gasped. He roughly knew Lin Leyou's identity and that it was definitely related to the strange events happening in the village and his mission.

But it doesn't matter, it's just 500 points, he doesn't care.

He put away his phone, got up and got out of bed. Zhou Feng was already asleep. Before going to sleep, he told Xue Rui to wake him up when it was time.

Xue Rui quietly left and ran quickly to the cemetery behind the mountain. When he arrived at the cemetery, he saw the corpse wrapped in a straw mat lying on the ground, with no one around.

He called softly, "Brother Lin?"

Lin Leyou deactivated his talent, and Xue Rui saw a figure appear in his field of vision, its color gradually darkening, floating near the corpse with its feet off the ground.

A pale, blood-covered face turned toward him, its dark red eyes staring at him. Even though Xue Rui was prepared, the sight still made his heart skip a beat.

He asked somewhat uncertainly, "Brother Lin?"

Lin Leyou nodded, "It's me, I came to help me hide the body."

Xue Rui wiped his face with lingering fear. This was a graveyard in the mountains in the middle of the night! How terrifying! He almost screamed!

Lin Leyou, "What's wrong? Are you scared?"

Xue Rui couldn't help but roll her eyes. "Of course I was scared! You startled me!"

Lin Leyou smiled, and Xue Rui asked again, "This corpse is..."

"be mine."

Xue Rui paused for a moment, "Huh?"

Lin Leyou said, "What are you thinking? This corpse belongs to Lin Yang'an, the young master of the Lin family. He was killed by his stepmother's illegitimate son on the very day you arrived."

Xue Rui, "Tell me in detail."

Lin Leyou: "Sure."

Since he had already decided to give up the 500 points, he wouldn't be stingy with such a little bit of information.

He briefly explained the situation at the Lin family, "Although Lin Yangxu was born to a stepmother, he is two years older than Lin Zhoushan's child from his first marriage."

Xue Rui's expression was rather unpleasant, clearly because he was thinking of himself, and he felt disgusted with Lin Zhoushan, whom he had never even met.

He's now really planning to abandon his mission and help the scum of the Lin family. It doesn't matter if he doesn't complete the mission.

Lin Leyou, "Xiao Rui?"

Xue Rui snapped out of his daze. "Brother Lin, where should we put this body?"

Lin Leyou: "I'm not really sure either. Lin Zhoushan is quite prestigious in Linjia Village. If we really mobilize the villagers to search, he'll probably be found no matter where he's hiding. Where do you think would be a good place to hide him?"

Xue Rui blinked. "I don't know either."

Lin Leyou, "What do you think about hiding it in the Lin residence?"

Xue Rui: "Hmm? Where in the Lin residence?"

Lin Leyou, "I'm planning to hide in the original room. Do you think that's feasible?"

Xue Rui said, "There is still a certain degree of danger."

Lin Leyou, "Then where do you think would be a good place to hide it?"

Xue Rui, "How about digging a hole in your yard and burying it?"

Lin Leyou suddenly thought, "There's a pond in my yard, could it be hidden underneath?"

Xue Rui: "Okay, let's do it this way!"

Lin Leyou smiled and said, "In that case, let's go."

Under the cover of night, Xue Rui quietly followed Lin Leyou to the Lin residence. Most of the servants in the Lin residence were asleep late at night. Although Zhao Anxue had made a little noise earlier, since nothing happened, no one thought much of it.

Lin Leyou's old courtyard is now almost abandoned. Since the body was thrown out and buried, no one has come to the courtyard. The tables in the house are covered with a layer of dust.

They didn't pay attention to it, nor did they touch anything carelessly, lest they wipe off the dust and cause someone to notice something amiss.

Xue Rui carried the body into the pond. Fortunately, the pond was not deep; when he reached the middle, the water only reached his chest.

The body was slowly buried under the silt of the pond.

Xue Rui said, "Alright, this way it won't float to the surface and will stay at the bottom. Unless they dig up the pond, they will never find it."

When he came up, he made sure to fix the lotus flowers in the pond so they were no longer visible before he came up.

Lin Leyou, "You're really going to help me like this?"

Xue Rui said, "The people from the Lin family are the kind of people I hate the most. Even if the mission fails, I don't plan to help them."

Lin Leyou, "Your player mission only asks you to resolve this matter; it doesn't say that helping the Lin family is the solution, does it?"

Xue Rui was stunned for a moment, "It seems so... What should we do then?"

Lin Leyou said, "Do whatever you want. The mission requirements weren't explicitly stated anyway. Maybe your choice is the right one?"

Xue Rui's mood improved considerably. "The task assigned by the system shouldn't be to help those on the side of evil. This must be a trap."

Lin Leyou, "Have you figured it out?"

Xue Rui took off his soaking wet clothes and wrung them out. "First, we asked the players to investigate the Lin family mansion. Then we learned that the Lin family mansion was haunted. Everyone would think that the haunting was an anomaly in the village, and that killing the ghost was the way to complete the mission."

Lin Leyou said with a smile, "But the truth is not like that. The one who became a vengeful ghost was the victim. He just wanted to come back to seek justice."

Xue Rui breathed a sigh of relief. "If the player actually kills this vengeful ghost, the mission will probably fail."