Chapter 295 [(*^▽^*)]

Xue Rui denied it lightly on the other end of the phone, "No, that's not true. I'll be back soon. You go back and wait for me. When I get there, we can eat a whole cow!"

Lin Leyou frowned. "What exactly happened?"

Xue Rui didn't say on the phone, "I'll tell you the details when I get back. Don't ask now, I'm very busy, don't waste my time. I'll be done soon and back right away."

After saying that, Xue Rui hung up the phone. At first glance, it seemed like there was no problem, but...

When Lin Leyou heard Xue Rui speak to him in such an attitude, he immediately knew that the person who answered the phone earlier was not Xue Rui, or rather... Xue Rui was being controlled by something.

After all, Xue Rui's phone was always in his backpack. No one but himself could take anything out of a player's backpack, not even trash.

Lin Leyou quietly looked at the phone in his hand, then threw out all ten mechanical spiders from his backpack in search of Xue Rui. When he had thrown out nine and was about to throw out the tenth, he suddenly thought of something and then grabbed the tenth mechanical spider back into his hand.

He walked back with the mechanical spider and came to the outside of the couple's house. The man was still sleeping on the third floor and hadn't come down. Only the woman was still there, and she seemed puzzled to see Lin Leyou.

"Master Lin, you're back? Why couldn't you find my junior brother?"

Lin Leyou stared at her for a few moments before nodding, "Yes, I don't know where the child went. I went out for a walk several times in broad daylight but couldn't find him."

"What should we do? Should I go and talk to the village chief? Maybe we can ask the villagers to help us look for it and find it soon."

Lin Leyou shook his head, "It's alright, I've already sent... to look for it, I believe we'll find it soon, so I won't trouble you or the village chief. The village chief has a different status and many things to do."

She was taken aback. What had they sent to find? She hadn't heard what Lin Leyou had just said at all. Could it be another master? But she hadn't seen Lin Leyou talk to anyone else.

Xue Rui didn't know where he was, but he could hear and see the images and conversations transmitted back by the nine mechanical spiders.

They searched every house in the village, including the village chief's house, but found nothing. Finally, Lin Leyou remembered what Xue Rui had told him before, so he sent two mechanical spiders to the graveyard on the back mountain.

Xue Rui previously said that he was taken to his coffin by a female ghost as soon as he entered the instance. Now, perhaps he was seen by the female ghost wandering outside and taken back.

The tone of my voice when I was on the phone just now was off; it's very likely that I was influenced by the female ghost to some extent, or perhaps I was simply being controlled.

However, it is absolutely impossible to completely control Xue Rui, so if he can find someone as soon as possible, Xue Rui might be able to wake up on his own.

The mechanical spider was very small, and when it arrived at the cemetery on the back hill, it quickly discovered a new grave and dug a small passage leading to the coffin at top speed.

The two spiders went down together and quickly dug to the location of the coffin. The tips of their limbs were very sharp. Working together, they soon dug a small hole in the side of the coffin large enough for a spider to enter and exit.

However, after the spider entered the coffin, it did not find Xue Rui inside. In fact, it did not find anything else besides Xue Rui, which means that the coffin was empty.

What's going on?

Could it be that this coffin... was dug up after Ah Rong was buried? Was her body stolen?

Was it done by another player? That shouldn't be the case. Digging up the coffin to examine the body is understandable, since an investigation is necessary. But stealing the body and then burying the coffin back in is a different story.

Is this really okay? You can't put a corpse in your backpack. If you steal a corpse, you can only find another safe place to put it. Besides, the corpse will probably rot, and the smell will be unbearable.

Or perhaps Ah Rong returns as a vengeful ghost to seek revenge, and her body won't decompose until she's finished retaliating?

Never mind, none of that matters right now. What matters is... where did Xue Rui go? Could it be that the person who spoke on the phone earlier was really Xue Rui who wasn't being controlled, and that he really had something important to do?

Lin Leyou still felt something was wrong. Xue Rui's attitude towards him wouldn't be this bad. He decided to search again, having searched every possible place in the entire village, but…

Wait, there seems to be one place we haven't looked at yet? He stood there, looking back at the house where he and Xue Rui lived with great suspicion.

When he went downstairs earlier, he asked the woman where Xue Rui was, but she said she didn't know. However, while saying she didn't know, she also said that she might not have noticed that Xue Rui had gone out.

This was to distance himself from the situation while making himself believe that Xue Rui had left, rather than... rather than still being in the house.

In that case...

He casually tossed the mechanical spider he was holding into the air. The spider stealthily searched the house, looking for every nook and cranny, and finally found a clue.

In a storage room on the far left of the first floor, which may not have been cleaned for some time, dust was everywhere, and there were many traces of dust on the floor.

Besides the footprints, there were two drag marks, so this is... Could it be that this couple did something to Xue Rui? No, Xue Rui is so skilled, how could those two old folks possibly handle him?

No... if we add that, maybe it will work.

Furthermore, the man had been resting and sleeping on the third floor and didn't hear anyone coming downstairs, which means that it was this woman who conspired with that...

Lin Leyou sat in a chair in the living room, looking at the woman busy outside the front door on the first floor. "Auntie, have you seen my junior brother?"

She turned around, somewhat puzzled. "Master Lin, why are you asking me again? Didn't I say before that I didn't see anything? He probably went out quietly on his own. I was busy in the kitchen the whole time and didn't look outside at all."

Lin Leyou: "Yes, what's going on with those things in the storage room...?"

She froze, because she had turned her head away and was now facing away from Lin Leyou, making it impossible for him to see her expression.

But the stiffness in her body was still noticeable, which was quite obvious.

"What storage room? I don't know what Master Lin is talking about."

Lin Leyou said, "Since I've said that, it means I've seen it. Are you going to hand over my junior brother yourself, or should I go find him myself? You make a choice."

He could see that after he finished speaking, the woman's body began to tremble slightly. This time, Lin Leyou saw her expression, not because she turned around, but because he had arranged for a mechanical spider to go to the front and observe the woman.

Her true expression was somewhat different from what Lin Leyou had expected. Lin Leyou thought she would at least be a little panicked, but in reality, the woman's expression was very normal, as if nothing had happened.

It seemed she was confident she wouldn't be found. In that case, Lin Leyou stood up and pushed the chair behind her back a little, the chair legs scraping against the ground with a screeching sound.

The woman immediately turned to look at Lin Leyou, "Master Lin, what... what are you doing?"

Lin Leyou smiled at her, then turned and walked towards the storage room. The woman was stunned for a moment, then quickly got up and chased after him. But when she caught up with Lin Leyou, he had already opened the door to the storage room.

The situation inside was immediately presented to Lin Leyou, and it was no different from what he had seen with the mechanical spider. "Come on, tell me, what's going on here?"

She remained silent, and Lin Leyou didn't mind.

“We were invited by the village chief of Yaoshan Village to help the village exorcise ghosts. Instead of giving us enough help, you are being secretive and evasive, refusing to answer our questions.”

"That's not all. In the end, they even attacked us who came to exorcise ghosts. Is this how your Yaoshan Village treats its guests?"

The woman stammered, unsure of what to say, but Lin Leyou didn't give her a chance. "Now, hand over my junior brother immediately, or don't blame me for being ruthless."

He paused for a moment, then continued quietly, "I can do more than just exterminate ghosts, I can also... kill people!"

Only then did the woman notice Lin Leyou's sinister expression. No longer daring to waste time, she changed the subject and quickly went to the back of the storage room. She moved aside the things piled up in the corner, revealing a small door on the ground. Opening the door revealed a staircase leading downstairs.

She smiled sheepishly, "He's down there, probably unconscious. Master Lin, do you think we should go down and bring him up?"

Lin Leyou, "Did you just throw it down?"

Look at the height, it's probably over three meters. If you throw someone down like that, they'll be stunned.

"No... it rolled down the stairs. It's not injured, it'll just hurt for a while at most."

Lin Leyou: "Why did you faint? Who was the person I just spoke to on the phone?"

The woman was so nervous that she was sweating profusely, even her forehead was covered in cold sweat. "This...this is...me..."

Lin Leyou leaned close to her ear and whispered, "Is there anyone else helping you? Tell me who it is, but don't say it's your husband. I know he's been sleeping on the third floor."

The woman's expression now was completely different from when she was outside. She was trembling all over, and tears and snot were streaming down her face. She looked extremely disheveled.

Lin Leyou felt disgusted after looking at it, and didn't look at it again.