Chapter 187 [(*^▽^*)]
Ghostly figures...
Besides Zhao Anxue, other people also saw ghostly figures, and there were so many of them, just as night fell.
Now, even if he didn't believe it, he had no choice but to believe it. Of course, he still had some doubts in his heart. Unless he saw it with his own eyes, he couldn't believe it 100%.
Tomorrow I'm going to visit Lin Yang'an's body at the ancestral graves on the back hill.
That night, Lin Leyou did nothing else. He hadn't expected that all the players would be released by Lin Zhoushan, but it didn't matter, since they would all die eventually anyway.
It's true that he can't kill NPCs, but that doesn't mean he can't kill players. If he kills the players that Xue Rui hates, he certainly won't let Zhou Nanyue off the hook either.
It wasn't for any other reason than to vent his anger. He hadn't gotten revenge for what happened before. It wasn't easy to do it in the real world, but since the other party had become a player, he shouldn't blame him.
Lin Leyou looked at the sun in the east. It turned out that a whole night had passed. Sure enough, after the sun rose, Lin Zhoushan led a few servants who knew the inside story to the ancestral graves on the back mountain.
After arriving at the cemetery, you can see many scattered graves along the way. These belong to other families in the village, while Lin Zhoushan's family ancestral graves are located at the very innermost part of this cemetery.
Upon reaching the innermost part, Lin Zhoushan immediately pointed to the newly dug grave from just two days prior and said, "Dig it up for me!"
The servants worked quickly and soon dug to the bottom, but they found nothing. Lin Zhoushan was shocked to see the empty tomb.
"Who did this? Who did this?!"
It definitely wasn't done by someone from the Lin family. He had been keeping a close eye on the Lin family's situation during this time, wary of news of Lin Yang'an's murder getting out, so there was no way someone from the Lin family would have had the opportunity to do such a thing.
So it must be someone else?
The villagers? Could it be that the villagers saw the burial that night, so they came to dig up the grave and take the body away?
But what would they do with Lin Yang'an's body? If they discover this, wouldn't they usually come looking for hush money? What use is a corpse?
What's the point of taking the body away?
Suddenly, an idea that Lin Zhoushan could not accept popped into his mind.
The body wasn't taken away by anyone else; Lin Yang'an took it himself to prevent something like this from happening again.
Could it be that Lin Yang'an really became a vengeful ghost? Was his body taken away to prevent others from desecrating it?
If that's the case, then what Zhao Anxue told those people who sneaked into the Lin residence last night was true! There really is something fishy going on!
Has Lin Yang'an really turned into a vengeful ghost to kill them? To take revenge!
Lin Zhoushan then realized something was wrong. He hadn't done anything to wrong Lin Yang'an. Although he didn't particularly like this son, who was frail and sickly, he had never lacked for the child's basic needs, especially medicine.
So even if this child becomes a vengeful ghost, he shouldn't come looking for me.
Why did they approach Zhao Anxue first instead of Lin Yangxu? After all, Lin Yangxu accidentally killed him. Did Zhao Anxue also play some role in this?
"Master, what should we do now?"
Lin Zhoushan snapped out of his daze, looked at the empty pit, and sighed. "Fill this place up, then remove the tombstone. Make sure no one else finds out, and just pretend this never happened!"
The servants quickly took care of the matter. As for destroying the tombstone? Why not just bury it in the pit? It's more convenient than smashing it, and no one will know.
Lin Leyou floated in mid-air, observing the situation. He stared at Lin Zhoushan for a few moments and noticed that Lin Zhoushan looked somewhat dazed. He then followed him toward the Lin residence.
Zhao Anxue was already waiting at the gate. When she saw Lin Zhoushan return, she immediately went over to him. "Master, how is it? Are you alright?"
Lin Zhoushan did not answer, but walked straight into the mansion. Once inside, he spoke with some difficulty, "It's gone."
Zhao Anxue was slightly taken aback, then asked, trembling all over, "What... what do you mean by 'disappeared'?"
"What's missing? Where is it missing?"
Lin Zhoushan: "Just as you thought, when we dug it up today, there was nothing inside."
Zhao Anxue, in a state of near collapse, clutched her hair with her fingers, looking as if she had gone mad. "How could it be gone? How could it be gone?"
"How could that be? Who would know there's someone buried over there? Villagers rarely go that way, especially not at night. He must have come back and taken his body with him!"
"Master, he's come to take revenge on us. We're all going to die; there's no escaping it."
Looking at her breaking down in tears, Lin Zhoushan felt strangely calm. "Even if what you said is true, why did he contact you first?"
"Even Ah Xu was put aside, and you were the first person he contacted. Can you tell me why?"
Zhao Anxue's previously devastated expression froze slightly, a guilty look flashing across her face. "How...how should I know? Maybe he doesn't like me as his stepmother, after all, that's what stepmother is all about."
Lin Zhoushan felt it wasn't that simple, but Zhao Anxue's words seemed to make sense. When Lin Yang'an was still alive, he had indeed never liked Zhao Anxue.
"Why……"
He doesn't know what to do now.
However, those who left last night soon arrived outside the Lin residence. Of course, it wasn't just a few people who came, but all twenty players, including Xue Qian and Zhou Nanyue who hadn't left the house last night.
Lin Leyou watched as the twenty players were welcomed into the Lin residence in a grand procession, where Lin Zhoushan received them in the largest reception room.
Relying on the fact that no one could see him, Lin Leyou, who had grown up in the light, listened to their conversation from the side.
There were relatively few players speaking up; most of them were those who had been arrested yesterday. Lin Zhoushan believed that the others had followed behind, so it was inconvenient for them to speak.
However, when Lin Zhoushan saw that twenty people had suddenly arrived, he immediately thought of the people who had successfully escaped after being discovered the night before. It turned out that there were not just six, but twenty people!
It's really impressive that the Lin family didn't lose a single thing.
However, this also proves that these people are indeed not thieves, not here to steal anything, and are very likely genuinely interested in that vengeful ghost, just as they claimed.
Lin Zhoushan sighed, "Actually, this is a long story."
“I have a young son named Lin Yang’an. He was sickly from birth and had to take medicine for many years. Just recently, he suddenly became seriously ill. We went to see a doctor immediately, but before the doctor arrived, the child was gone.”
“I felt extremely guilty, thinking that my child had left so young and was all alone. I wanted to keep him at home for a while and see if I could find a girl of marriageable age in another village who had died but was not married, to arrange a ghost marriage. But what we never expected was that the child’s body had disappeared.”
Lin Leyou stroked his chin. His body disappeared in the graveyard behind the mountain. If the players knew this, they would definitely start their search from the back mountain.
But now that Lin Zhoushan has made this change, everyone will be looking for this corpse in the Lin residence, which is not good. If twenty players search little by little, it will probably only be a matter of time before they find his corpse.
Moving so many bodies from the Lin family residence is no easy task.
Lin Leyou turned his gaze to Xue Rui, wondering how he would help him solve this problem.
Lin Zhoushan sighed deeply and continued, "I think you probably know what happened next. I sent people to look for the body, but we couldn't find it anywhere."
"I initially thought someone had taken the body to deliberately cause trouble for my Lin family, but I never expected that my wife would encounter something strange last night."
"Mr. Lin, could you tell us what strange thing happened? Where exactly did you encounter it?"
Lin Zhoushan: "Last night, when the lady was resting in the room, the candle suddenly went out. After she went out of the room, she found herself trapped in a place and could not get out no matter how she walked. Then she saw a dark shadow floating in the air."
"She was greatly frightened, and when she came to her senses, the servants in the house found her and took her back inside."
Zhao Anxue wasn't here at the moment, and neither was Lin Yangxu. He was still sleeping comfortably with his beauty in his arms early in the morning, so he wouldn't care about this matter.
As for ghosts or anything like that, he absolutely did not believe it.
Xue Rui and Zhou Feng exchanged a glance, and then Fang Hong said, "Master Lin, I saw you leading a lot of people towards the cemetery on the back mountain early this morning. What were you doing there?"
Lin Zhoushan paused for a moment. He hadn't expected that his actions that morning would be seen. But he couldn't say anything else now. "My youngest son's body has disappeared, hasn't it? So I was wondering if someone had secretly buried him in the ancestral grave. That's why I wanted to go and check during the day, but of course, there was nothing there."
Fang Hong: "Oh, I see."
Is this something for idiots? The Lin family didn't bury the body and wanted to arrange a ghost marriage, but the body is missing, so they went to the ancestral grave to look for it?
Could it be that Lin Yang'an didn't want to get married, so he came back to life and buried himself in his ancestral grave?
Many players felt that Lin Zhoushan's words were incoherent and that there was something wrong with what he was saying, but many of them chose to ignore it.
After all, they all believed that as long as they destroyed the vengeful ghost of the Lin family, they would pass the test, so other things were not important to them at all.
Lin Zhoushan secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that they did not continue to refute him. Since Lin Yang'an had returned as a vengeful ghost, then he should not be blamed for not showing any mercy.
If you're dead, just die peacefully. Why did you have to come back?
As the head of the family, he has to consider the family's well-being. He can't just kill his wife and only son because of Lin Yang'an, can he?
Lin Zhoushan said with a worried look, "If any of you have any way to expel the evil spirit, please lend a hand to my Lin family. I, Lin Zhoushan, will certainly not treat you unfairly."
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