Chapter 186 [(*^▽^*)]
To avoid trouble from them later, Xue Rui and the others had to go back first no matter what.
Lin Leyou ignored Xue Rui and the others. After they left, he turned his attention back to the situation inside the Lin residence. Of the fourteen remaining players, some managed to escape by scaling the wall while being chased, while others were surrounded or found places to hide.
In short, Lin Zhoushan was woken up.
He got dressed and went outside. "What happened?"
"Sir, there's a thief!"
Lin Zhoushan: "What? Thieves? Go find them right now and arrest them all!"
Lin Leyou was pleased to see the chaotic state of the Lin residence. Soon, the servants and housekeepers who were easy to catch were all captured, while the rest either escaped or were still hiding somewhere.
Lin Zhoushan looked at the four players who were tied up and thrown on the ground. His face was very ugly. His youngest son had just been beaten to death and buried overnight. The next night, someone sneaked into the Lin residence.
Could it be that Lin Yang'an's death has been discovered?
However, their Lin family's ancestral graves are located in the innermost part of the cemetery on the back mountain, and apart from them, no one usually goes near their ancestral graves.
So these are just simple thieves?
Lin Zhoushan: "Who are you people? What brings you to my Lin residence so late at night?"
The player looked left and right, as if searching for an opening to exploit so he could escape, completely ignoring what the NPC in front of him was saying.
Lin Zhoushan was furious when he saw that they had all been arrested and still dared to ignore him. "You think I won't know just because you don't talk? Anyway, you've been caught red-handed. It doesn't matter if you don't speak. We'll send you to the yamen when it's light!"
At this point, he angrily flicked his sleeves, "Lock them up first and keep a close eye on them! Then search everywhere, I refuse to believe there are only these four!"
"Yes, sir."
When Lin Leyou saw this scene, his lips twitched. There really weren't just four people left. Besides Xue Rui and the other three who escaped, there were fourteen people left, eight of whom had successfully escaped by climbing over the wall earlier.
Besides the four who have been captured, there are still two people still inside the Lin residence, hiding in some secluded corners, waiting for the servants to lower their guard so they can escape.
However, the fact that they hadn't been able to escape before meant that they weren't very skilled. So one of them was found hiding and captured by a servant, while the other tried to escape when no one was around. But he was spotted by a servant while climbing over the wall and was pulled back by his leg.
Now, six players have been arrested.
Lin Leyou's lips twitched when he saw this scene. He thought that if Xue Qian and Zhou Nanyue hadn't been absent, they would probably have been arrested as well, given their skills.
What a pity.
Seeing their dejected appearance, Lin Leyou was a little puzzled. Why hadn't any of these six players used any items? Did they run out of items? Or were they short of points?
Are these six players also newbies? Don't they have many items?
I don't quite understand. Is a C-rank dungeon really that easy? How can just any player be sent in?
"System prompt: C-level difficulty dungeons are the easiest dungeons in the difficulty levels. Any player may be assigned to one. Only players who have cleared a C-level difficulty dungeon once may be assigned to a B-level difficulty dungeon. The same applies to subsequent dungeons."
Lin Leyou was startled by the system's sudden explanation. He hadn't even asked the system, yet it took the initiative to explain. It seemed that his system had become quite advanced.
They even proactively explain the questions that arise in their minds. I wonder if the system is something like artificial intelligence.
He continued to observe the six captured players, who were all tightly bound and left in some uninhabited courtyards of the Lin residence, with a few people left to guard them.
Lin Zhoushan returned to the main courtyard, and Zhao Anxue was not woken up. It seemed that she had been frightened earlier and was now sleeping soundly.
Lin Yangxu, on the other hand, has been fooling around with women in the courtyard the whole time. It's already past midnight and he's still not asleep. Even though he heard the noise outside, he didn't go out to check.
Lin Zhoushan sighed deeply as he watched Zhao Anxue sleeping restlessly. It seemed that the death of his youngest son could no longer be concealed.
These people must have known something to come and sneak into the Lin residence at night.
Moreover, if we're talking about things that are shameful, the Lin family has more than just Lin Yang'an's affair; there are others...
What if we get discovered?
no!
Lin Zhoushan suddenly stood up, his face contorted with rage. He absolutely could not be discovered!
She stood up and walked out again, this time to see the six people who had been arrested. On the way, she met a servant who said, "Master, we've searched every part of the mansion and caught six people. They're all locked up in the back courtyard where no one lives."
Lin Zhoushan nodded, "Okay, I'll take a look too. You guys keep looking and try to find out where they came in from."
"Yes, sir."
Lin Leyou watched as Lin Zhoushan quickly moved to the back and soon arrived in front of the six players.
His face looked terrible, and when the players noticed, they became a little nervous. Could it be that he was going to kill them?
If that's the case, they'll definitely get serious, since failing to pass the level will deduct 500 points, and less than half of the six of them have more than 500 points.
Lin Zhoushan: "Who exactly are you people? Why did you sneak into the Lin residence at night? If you don't give me an explanation, I'll just kill you all without having to hand you over to the authorities."
The players looked at each other; they were tied up, but their mouths weren't gagged, yet they remained silent, because they simply didn't know what to say.
Suddenly, one of the players seemed to remember something and said hesitantly, "Actually, there's nothing else. We were just passing by the Lin residence when it was getting dark, and we thought we saw a ghostly figure floating by."
“At first we thought we were seeing things, but then we thought we weren’t, so we decided to come in at night to see if we were seeing things wrong or if there really was something ghost.”
As soon as he said that, the remaining players seemed to have found a topic to talk about, and they all started chattering about it.
"Yes, yes, I was startled at that time. I had never seen a ghost before, and I always thought they were fake and that ghosts didn't exist."
“We thought we’d come to your door directly and say we wanted to come in and look for ghosts, but you definitely wouldn’t agree, so we thought we’d come quietly at night.”
"I didn't expect to be discovered... I'm sorry, Mr. Lin."
"We only did this because we were too curious about ghosts..."
Did you see a ghostly figure, so you came in to look for it?
If they hadn't come today, but yesterday or even the day before, Lin Zhoushan would definitely have thought that these people weren't seeing ghosts, but talking nonsense.
But now he was a little uncertain. After all, Zhao Anxue's appearance was right in front of him, so he couldn't completely deny it. He had indeed never seen these people before.
Moreover, given how poor their skills are, they don't seem to have been sent by someone else. It's likely that, just as they said, they saw a ghost and came looking for it.
They must be thinking they're living too comfortably!
Lin Zhoushan: "You're looking for ghosts? What if you find one?"
"Of course we'll kill the ghost if we find it. We've always dreamed of fighting evil spirits when we grow up, but we've never actually encountered one."
"Yes, we've prepared some useful tools for this. If Mr. Lin thinks it's alright, we can come and help."
To be honest, Lin Zhoushan was tempted.
What attracted him was not anything else, but the props they had mentioned.
"What kind of props are they?"
"What else could it be? Of course, it's the Three Pure Ones Bell, talismans, peach wood swords, and the like. We've prepared a lot of those."
"Mr. Lin, do you need our help? We just want to see a real ghost, we don't need anything else."
Lin Zhoushan remained silent for a long time, seemingly lost in thought, but in the end, he inexplicably agreed.
"no problem."
The player was left bewildered after agreeing so readily.
They actually agreed, so ghosts really do exist! They thought the first person to say that was just making up an excuse.
It's true!
Actually, the player who initially mentioned looking for the ghost overheard passing servants discussing how their mistress had been frightened unconscious by a ghost while they were hiding.
I never expected that I could actually convince this NPC. He himself didn't expect it, and he was convinced in just a few words.
It seems they are really afraid of this ghost, very terrified.
"In that case, we..."
Lin Zhoushan sighed and told a servant to come in and untie their ropes. "Where do you all live?"
When asked where they were staying, they said they could easily find out by asking around, so they didn't hide anything and pointed in a direction, "We just arrived, we're here to have some fun, and we're staying in that house over there."
Lin Zhoushan then remembered that a group of tourists seemed to have come to the village these past few days. "Oh, it's you guys. No wonder..."
No wonder they were so excited to find and kill the ghost.
Seeing that they weren't after the Lin family's secrets, Lin Zhoushan finally breathed a sigh of relief. After all, their skills were really too poor, and Lin Zhoushan couldn't be too suspicious.
"Well... please go back now. Please come to my Lin residence tomorrow. It's too late to entertain you all."
"Of course, of course, thank you for being so magnanimous, Mr. Lin."
Lin Zhoushan, "By the way, after you go back, you can also ask the other partners if they'd like to come. I can explain the details to you then, since..."
At this point, he looked worried and sighed deeply, as if he had endless grievances to express.
The players wanted to continue asking questions, but Lin Zhoushan had already had his servants see them out, so they had no choice but to come back tomorrow.
After seeing the players off, Lin Zhoushan's face darkened.
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