Zhu Xiangyu was so frightened by his own guess that he broke out in a cold sweat.

He realized that a normal human body could not possibly emit a strange, rotten smell.

Only the body of a dead person, that is, a corpse, will slowly develop this smell.

But hasn't his father already come back to life?

He's alive and well, so why does he still have this strange smell on him...?

Zhu Xiangyu shakily reached out and checked his father's breath again under his nose; he was indeed still breathing.

Why do I smell like this?

Zhu Xiangyu was completely stunned. In the end, he could only tidy up Old Master Zhu's things in a daze and then leave his room.

Finally, he shared his new discovery with the rest of his family.

The others were also frightened when they heard this.

The old man's resurrection was strange enough, not to mention his bizarre behavior afterward, and now there's the stench of decay emanating from him...

So the family no longer dared to let things take their course as before. To prevent any new strange occurrences from happening to Old Master Zhu, they decided to find a master to take a look.

That's why we have the scene where Zhu Xiangyu comes to find Lin Xi now.

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"Master, this is roughly the situation. My dad is still lying at home, not eating, drinking, or going to the toilet. He sleeps during the day and can't be woken up no matter what, but he's awake at night. And now the smell on him is getting stronger and stronger..."

The first time Zhu Xiangyu smelled the scent on Grandpa Zhu, he had to be in his room and close to him to smell it.

Now, even standing outside the door, he can smell it.

In fact, Lin Xi had dealt with a situation where an elderly person in her family "came back to life" before.

However, that time it was a tree that the old man had planted since childhood that had become a spirit. After the old man died, in order to bring him back to life, it transferred all its life force to the old man, and almost made the old man become young again.

Because the vitality of trees is a kind of "beneficial energy" to all things in nature, the old man felt no discomfort at all after he came back to life.

The old man had no putrid or foul odor whatsoever.

But now, Zhu Xiangyu's father, Grandpa Zhu, is in a completely different situation than the old man before.

After he "resurrected," he not only exhibited various bizarre behaviors, but also developed a rotting odor.

If nothing unexpected happens, the smell on him should be that of a corpse.

The smell of decay proves that Mr. Zhu is still in a state of "death".

As for why he would act as if he had "resurrected," there are many possibilities.

For example, being possessed by another ghost, being controlled by someone else's corpse, or being resurrected by borrowing someone else's energy, etc.

The situation varies.

As for what exactly happened to Grandpa Zhu, we can only find out when Lin Xi goes to the scene.

So Lin Xi asked Zhu Xiangyu to take her there.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Xiangyu quickly took Lin Xi home.

By the time we arrived at the Zhu family's house, it was almost dark.

Lin Xi's senses were more acute than Zhu Xiangyu's, so she could smell the strong stench of corpses even before she entered the Zhu family's house.

"Dad, you're finally back!"

Zhu Xiangyu's son came out eagerly, but when he saw Lin Xi standing next to Zhu Xiangyu, he was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately asked.

"Is this Master Lin?"

Zhu Xiangyu nodded, noticing his son's anxious expression, and quickly asked him what had happened.

The son immediately explained.

"Grandpa suddenly woke up for a while, but he looked very uncomfortable. He kept calling out, but we couldn't tell if he was calling out or talking. We couldn't understand a word he said."

After Old Master Zhu "came back to life," his speech became very strange.

Especially as time went on, his speech became increasingly slurred, and his voice became sharper.

They had to work very hard to decipher what Old Master Zhu was saying.

They couldn't understand a single word of what Old Master Zhu had just said.

Moreover, for the past few days, the old man had been sleeping during the day and waking up at night.

Today, however, I woke up during the day, and after waking up, I spoke to them in an urgent tone.

The way he was in such a hurry made it seem like he was telling them something.

Unfortunately, they really couldn't understand a single word.

Zhu Xiangyu finally returned. As the person who had taken care of the old man the longest, they thought of having him come over to see if he could understand what the old man wanted to do.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Xiangyu's expression changed immediately, and he hurriedly ran towards Old Master Zhu's room.

Unfortunately, the old man had just woken up, but now he has fallen asleep again.

Fortunately, he was still breathing, but his breathing was noticeably weaker than before.

Although the Zhu family had always felt that the old man's "resurrection" was strange, they still felt panicked and reluctant when they saw him passing away again.

Seeing that the person had fallen asleep again, but their breathing was weaker than before, Zhu Xiangyu could only quickly ask Lin Xi to help him see what was wrong.

Lin Xi arrived at Old Master Zhu's bedside and slowly scanned his body with his gaze.

The old man not only emanated a strong stench of death, but was also surrounded by a thick aura of death and yin energy.

Then look at his face.

It's already a blank page.

There are only two kinds of people in this world, and Lin Xi can't see their faces clearly.

One type is someone whose cultivation level is higher than Lin Xi's.

Once one's cultivation reaches a certain level, even without deliberately concealing one's facial features, ordinary people cannot see through them.

The other type of person is the dead.

When a person dies, their lamp goes out, and everything in the mortal world ends for them.

Naturally, one's appearance, like life itself, fades away.

Old Master Zhu was not a member of the Xuanmen sect, yet Lin Xi could not see through his appearance, so he could only be a dead man.

Although he had already passed away, he was able to exist in the Zhu family for a few days in a state of "living"...

Lin Xi recalled that Zhu Xiangyu had mentioned several times that his grandfather's voice had become very strange, sharp, and even resembled the cry of an animal.

She suddenly asked Zhu Xiangyu.

"Do you have a cat at home? Or, on the night the old man was able to sit up again, did a cat come to your house?"

cat?

Zhu Xiangyu was stunned for a moment upon hearing this, as if he didn't know how the topic had suddenly shifted to "cats".

However, he still answered truthfully.

“Our family doesn’t keep cats, but many families in the village do.”

Moreover, raising cats in rural areas is not like in cities, where cats are kept at home every day.

In the countryside, cats are free-range. They are only given a food bowl or a bed at home, and sometimes no bed is even provided. The cats can sleep wherever they want.

Because almost every household lets their cats roam freely, even if other people don't keep cats, they can often see cats passing by their front door or inside their homes.

Sometimes, even when the whole family is at home, they can see other people's cats swaggering over their fences.

But as long as other people's cats don't steal their food, no one really cares.