Chapter 199 [(*^▽^*)]

That's what Zhou Feng thought, but now Xue Rui has disappeared without a trace, and even if he chases after him, he won't know where he went. There's nothing he can do but wait for him to come back.

Fang Hong and Ding Baishuang are still sleeping together in each other's arms. I can't just leave them here, can I?

Xue Rui took advantage of a loophole and successfully left the Lin residence. He quietly bypassed the Lin family servants who were digging a pit elsewhere and came to Lin Leyou's side.

"Brother Lin, I'm here. What happened?"

After seeing him, Lin Leyou pointed to the grave he had dug open next to him, "It's in here, the golden short sword stuck in the corpse's throat. Try to touch it."

"If anything goes wrong, I'll come to your rescue immediately, don't worry."

Xue Rui sighed, "Brother Lin, that's not what I'm worried about."

When he saw the message, he thought something had happened to Brother Lin. He never expected that he was being stopped by something. Come to think of it, it makes sense that Lin Leyou is a vengeful ghost now and is being blocked by these superstitious things.

He moved closer to the coffin and examined up close the golden dagger stuck in the neck of the skeletal corpse. Even at night, inside the pitch-black coffin, a faint golden glow could be seen.

It seems this thing is truly extraordinary.

Can he really touch it?

Xue Rui was somewhat suspicious, but now was not the time to be suspicious. Under Lin Leyou's gaze, he cautiously reached out his hand, and then, just like Lin Leyou, touched it with his fingernail before immediately withdrawing it.

He carefully examined his fingers and found nothing wrong. Only then did he reach out again, touch the short sword, and, after confirming that everything was alright, he grabbed the sword and pulled it out forcefully.

Lin Leyou immediately grabbed him and pulled him back a long distance. The two of them looked at the coffin from afar, and after a while they noticed that black mist was continuously billowing out of it.

Just as the two were on guard, the black mist quietly dissipated in mid-air, as if it had never existed, leaving them both stunned.

Xue Rui, "Aren't there any ghosts?"

Lin Leyou: "There should be some, but I'm not sure. But since everything's alright now, let's restore the coffin. We can't just leave it like this."

Xue Rui nodded and went over to help. The golden short sword in his hand was a quest item and couldn't be put into his backpack, so he could only hold it in his hand for the time being.

Put the coffin lid back in its original position, along with the four nails.

Lin Leyou pointed to the nails, "These four nails need to be placed at the four corners of the coffin. Can you do it? My fingers burned when I pulled them out before."

Xue Rui immediately said, "Let me see."

Lin Leyou held out her hand, which hadn't been burned by the peach branch, and said, "It's healed now."

Xue Rui examined it carefully with his hand and found no wounds. It was indeed healed, except that one fingernail was missing half of its original size, which was a bit strange, but he didn't say anything more about it.

He lowered his hand and stared intently at Lin Leyou, making Lin Leyou somewhat flustered. "What's wrong?"

Xue Rui frowned slightly. "What do you mean, 'what's wrong'? Of course, there's another hand."

Lin Leyou blinked. He thought of the large, black wound on his other hand that had been burned by the peach branch, which was still more than half-healed!

Although it looks much better than before, Xue Rui didn't see the original wound.

Seeing his dawdling, Xue Rui's expression darkened even more. "Brother Lin!"

Lin Leyou sighed, "Ugh, why is she so fierce?"

Xue Rui was very dissatisfied, "Let me see it right now!"

Lin Leyou had no choice but to hand her other hand to Xue Rui, who immediately noticed the severe burns on her palm.

"What happened? Brother Lin, aren't you supposed to recover quickly?"

Lin Leyou, "Those are just ordinary wounds, this one..."

Xue Rui: "Who is it?! Is it Xue Qian?"

Lin Leyou blinked. It was indeed related to Xue Qian, but it wasn't Xue Qian who did it. He was burned by accident while picking up props. Could he just say that directly?

Lin Leyou sighed, "Sigh... killing Xue Qian will still come at a price."

Xue Rui: "So he's right?"

Lin Leyou thought that made sense, so he nodded. "Alright, don't be angry. I've already killed him. Even if you're angry now, you won't be able to find him."

Xue Qian fell silent.

Lin Leyou is right, but he is not truly helpless; he can still return to the real world to teach Xue Qian a lesson.

Wait a minute, it seems I still can't be too obvious. Let's wait and see. In a few months, when I turn eighteen and start taking over the family's assets, this Xue Qian will be in for a beating.

I will definitely not let him off easily.

Let's be patient for a few more months. There's plenty of time; this is just the beginning.

Lin Leyou, "Xue Rui?"

Xue Rui nodded, "I understand, Brother Lin. I won't act impulsively."

Lin Leyou breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good."

Xue Rui, "When will this wound heal?"

Lin Leyou: "Probably tomorrow morning."

Xue Rui turned around and put the nails back, then he and Lin Leyou covered the soil together. Of course, Lin Leyou was quickly shooed aside by Xue Rui.

"If you're both injured, don't try to be brave. I can handle this on my own."

Lin Leyou had no choice but to obey. He watched as Xue Rui tamped down the soil by himself, making it indistinguishable from the other graves around him. Only then did Xue Rui clap his hands and leave with Lin Leyou.

On their way down the mountain, they still saw several servants from the Lin family burying the mummified corpses below. The two men did not disturb them, but left quietly, as if they had never been there at all.

Before approaching the Lin residence, Lin Leyou reactivated his ethereal talent and hid himself. Only then did Xue Rui slowly enter the Lin residence and find Zhou Feng and the others.

By this time, all three of them had woken up.

When Zhou Feng saw him, he quickly stood up and asked, "Where have you been?"

Xue Rui subconsciously thought of the golden short sword in his pocket. "Let's go back first and talk about it then."

Zhou Feng nodded, and Fang Hong and Ding Baishuang followed. The four of them returned to their residence and sat in Xue Rui and Zhou Feng's room.

Xue Rui took the golden short sword out of his pocket and placed it on the table. "I just went to the Lin family's ancestral graves in the back hills to dig them up..."

Zhou Feng asked, "Whose grave did you dig up? Why didn't you call us to come with you?"

Xue Rui said, "I'm just guessing, I'm not sure, so I want to go and see for myself. As for whose grave I dug up, it's Lin Yang'an's... the grave of the biological mother of the young master who died before."

Currently, apart from Xue Rui, no other player knows that there are actually two vengeful ghosts. He cannot reveal this information casually, "because although it is confirmed that there are ghosts, the origin of these ghosts is still unclear."

"We can't find Lin Yang'an's body at this stage, but we can find his mother's body. Perhaps this vengeful ghost is his mother in disguise?"

Fang Hong: "That's true, it's possible."

So Xue Rui recounted the details of digging the grave, such as the four nails, the short sword taken from the corpse, and the black mist emanating from the coffin.

Everyone gasped in shock; Gu Wenya was definitely a vengeful ghost.

"We've also found the reason why she only appeared in the Lin mansion as a vengeful ghost now. It's because she was nailed to the coffin and a short sword fixed her soul inside, which is why she couldn't escape."

"As for the series of events that happened before, it was probably all her doing. For example, because so many years have passed, these seals have loosened, so some of them escaped and drained several players. She also secretly took her son's body and hid it away."

Xue Rui nodded. What they said made a lot of sense, so could he refute them?

Zhou Feng said, "We have found the true identity of the vengeful ghost. It is Gu Wenya, Lin Yang'an's biological mother. Our next task is to figure out where we can meet this vengeful ghost."

Lin Leyou was eavesdropping on their conversation when he suddenly sensed something strange coming from the Lin residence, so he quickly floated back to the Lin residence.

However, after wandering around the Lin residence several times, he still couldn't find anything suspicious. Could it be his imagination?

Many players are already exhausted and need to go back to their accommodations to sleep.

To be honest, Lin Leyou felt that this dungeon was a bit too easy. So far, he had only managed to kill three players by taking the initiative to attack.

The remaining one was fine.

Wait, that's not right either.

Just because nothing happened before doesn't mean nothing will happen later. After all, another vengeful ghost has been released. Just because you are gentle doesn't mean the vengeful ghost that drains corpses is gentle.

Lin Leyou floated above the Lin residence, then suddenly looked up at the sky. "Hmm?"

He noticed that the few scattered stars in the sky had all vanished, leaving only true darkness.

Only then did he remember that a few nights ago there were many stars, but... as time went by, there were fewer and fewer stars in the sky at night.

Even now, not a single star remains.

In the absence of moonlight and starlight, in the pitch-black Lin Family Village, where one could not even see their own hand in front of their face, only the Lin Mansion in the middle of the village was still lit.

The Lin residence seemed to be the only place in the world with light, which was quite eerie.

Watching this scene, Lin Leyou subconsciously murmured, "So that's how it is, it's about to begin..."

Dungeons with difficulty levels are definitely not that simple. The past few days were just to give players some buffer time to investigate some of the storylines of the dungeon.

However, these players only know how to find the vengeful ghost in the Lin Mansion and don't know how to follow the storyline at all. These players will be the first to be eliminated.

"Damn, it's so dark! I can't see anything!"