Chapter 193 [(*^▽^*)]
Looking at Zhou Nanyue's battered face, the maid suddenly covered her face and said with a smile, "I'm sorry, young master only allowed us to prepare seventeen meals."
"If the three of you want to eat, you can go to the village and buy some from other villagers. The Lin family will not provide any for you three. Take care of yourselves, guests. I will take my leave now."
Zhou Nanyue took a deep breath, standing there pale-faced, not knowing what to do. Only then did he remember that the maid had spoken of the young master's orders.
So it was that illegitimate son he had offended before. Who would have thought he would withhold their food? No, wait, the food sent to their sleeping quarters was actually prepared by the Lin family!
He watched the other players eating, enjoying delicious and visually appealing dishes. It wasn't that he couldn't buy food from other villagers, but nothing could compare to what the Lin family provided.
The food prepared by those villagers must have been very simple and plain. If it had been provided like this from the beginning, it would have been fine to take it back now. But from the beginning, the Lin family provided the best dishes!
Zhou Nanyue was at a loss for a moment, as he himself hadn't even eaten! Smelling the delicious aroma here, he thought for a moment and decided to go and talk to Lin Zhoushan.
However, he did not see Lin Zhoushan. It was not that Lin Zhoushan refused to see him, but that Lin Yangxu was waiting there, preventing him from entering and also preventing other servants from informing Lin Zhoushan.
Zhou Nanyue saw Lin Yangxu standing in front of her with a smile, surrounded by servants. "What do you want with my father? He's very busy."
Zhou Nanyue swallowed nervously, then said, "We're here to help your Lin family deal with the vengeful ghost. Aren't you afraid I won't help you if you treat us like this?"
Lin Yangxu sneered, "What vengeful ghost? You're probably just playing tricks. Look how long it's been, and you've turned the entire Lin residence into a complete mess."
"If it weren't for my parents believing in me, I wouldn't have let you run wild in the Lin family mansion. You should thank me for not kicking you out right away!"
"Besides, if you were really that powerful—no, I should say, if you were really that powerful, would you have been beaten to the ground by a few servants from my Lin family?"
"So weak, yet you dare to claim you can help my Lin family deal with the vengeful ghost? Are you just here to cause trouble? The others seem to have some skill, but you're out of the question!"
Lin Yangxu said this, then waved his hand with a smile, "Someone, throw him out here. Oh, and carry him out while you're at it, so they can see him as you pass by."
As he spoke, the smile on his face gradually disappeared. "Let them understand their place and remember to follow the rules in the Lin residence and not cause trouble."
Thus, Zhou Nanyue not only failed to see Lin Zhoushan, but was instead covered by several servants, her hands and feet lifted, and thrown out of the Lin residence like a pig.
Along the way, they also passed by a place where other players were having a meal together. They seemed to be enjoying the spectacle, since there was something interesting to see.
After noticing Zhou Nanyue, Xue Rui and the others didn't look at her much. They quickly ate their meal, as it was already dark. It was time for them to make their appearance.
Lin Leyou followed Zhou Nanyue to the outside of the Lin residence once again. It was already dark, and there were no villagers in the fields outside. Only Zhou Nanyue was standing outside, looking rather desolate.
He wanted to rush in, but feeling the pain in his body, he gritted his teeth and didn't do it. After thinking about it, he left with a grimac.
He didn't head towards his lodgings, since he had no food, but instead went to the villagers' homes, seemingly to ask if they had any food, though he had no hope at all.
Although there was no moon that night, there were still some scattered stars, so it wasn't pitch black, but it was still a bit eerie.
A gentle breeze blew by, and Zhou Nanyue suddenly felt a chill. He subconsciously hugged his arms to warm himself, and then, out of the corner of his eye, he seemed to catch a glimpse of a dark shadow passing by.
He turned his head sharply, but looked around and saw nothing. "Was it just my imagination?"
As he continued walking forward, he saw a dark shadow flash by again, but when he looked over again, he still found nothing.
Although he observed more carefully this time, he still found nothing. "Could I be seeing things? Was I just hit on the head?"
He rubbed his temples, feeling a little strange, but didn't feel anything was wrong.
Just as he was about to continue walking forward, he suddenly felt a cool sensation on the back of his neck, as if there were some ice cubes placed there from a distance.
He froze on the spot, not daring to look back, for fear of being killed by a sudden turnaround. He still wanted to pass the level!
Lin Leyou had just turned off his talent and appeared behind Zhou Nanyue. Floating in the air, he gradually approached Zhou Nanyue. To his surprise, Zhou Nanyue actually noticed something was wrong.
You know what, he was quite vigilant, but his fate was already sealed.
He leaned close to Zhou Nanyue's ear from behind and whispered, "Are you looking for me?"
Zhou Nanyue was so frightened that her vision went black. She instinctively waved her hands and shouted as she did so, which attracted the attention of several farmers in front of her. However, they saw a dark figure shouting and waving his arms on the road from a distance, muttered something like "sick" and went back to their houses.
When Zhou Nanyue came to his senses, he found that there were no ghosts at all. There was nothing around him except for the dark fields and some houses in the distance.
He only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming several times that there was absolutely nothing around him. "Phew..."
"Could I have misheard? There was no ghost? I must have misheard? Impossible, I definitely heard it, I definitely felt it, how could it be..."
"No, there really is a ghost! I've encountered a ghost! But why is this ghost following me? Shouldn't it stay at the Lin residence?"
Hearing him mutter these words, Lin Leyou thought to himself, "Isn't it true that I'm supposed to follow you? You've really messed me up in the real world. If it weren't for your quick thinking, you might have exposed your identity to the officials."
It seems that from now on, no matter which instance I'm in, I can't let anyone see my face except for Xue Rui. I have to hide it well!
Seeing that Zhou Nanyue had calmed down, Lin Leyou quickly deactivated his talent and moved closer. This time, however, he did not speak beforehand. Instead, he grabbed Zhou Nanyue's neck from behind with his pale, blood-stained hands, which now had sharp nails.
Zhou Nanyue stared intently, trying to pry Lin Leyou's hands off his neck, but they were as firmly welded to his neck as steel bars.
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't pry it open, and he couldn't scream, only let out some painful, broken groans.
While struggling, Zhou Nanyue kept kicking the ground with his legs, trying to escape in this way, but as he was lifted higher and higher by those hands choking his neck, he found that no matter how hard he kicked, his feet could no longer touch the ground.
Not long after, the two legs that had been kicking and thrashing stiffened for a moment before falling vertically to the ground, with the toes only a centimeter or two above the ground.
"Note: Congratulations to Lin Leyou for killing a player. No loot was dropped this time."
Lin Leyou's lips twitched. "What a penniless wretch!"
He casually tossed the corpse in his hand aside, not in anyone else's field to avoid polluting it, but just by the roadside.
Zhou Nanyue's corpse was quite frightening to look at. His eyes were bloodshot and stared straight ahead. There were also strangulation marks on his neck.
Lin Leyou once again blurred into nothingness, drifting around admiring Zhou Nanyue's corpse. He was in a great mood; it was truly satisfying!
"Hmph! You schemed against me. From now on, whenever I encounter you in a dungeon, I will definitely kill you to prevent you from accumulating enough points to survive indefinitely."
Lin Leyou returned to the Lin residence with satisfaction, unaware that after he left, a cloud of black mist appeared near Zhou Nanyue's corpse, lingered on the body for a while, and then dissipated in the wind.
After the black mist dissipated, Zhou Nanyue's body appeared to have been drained of its contents, turning into a dried-up corpse.
Lin Leyou returned to the Lin residence and continued to observe Xue Rui. Xue Rui and the others... no, all the players were now moving around the Lin residence under the cover of night.
They all remained quiet and didn't make a fuss or wander around. They definitely didn't go to places they shouldn't have. Many players did go to the courtyard where Lin Leyou used to live, but none of them found anything.
And even the body hidden at the bottom of the pond was not found. How could this be?
He leaned closer to listen to the conversation between the two players.
"How could there be no ghosts? We've already walked around the Lin residence, gone to every place we could go."
"My ghost-finding tools are definitely working properly. Could it be that the vengeful ghost hasn't arrived yet?"
"They definitely haven't come yet. Let's wait a little longer."
"This prop worked perfectly before, so it's definitely not a problem with the prop itself."
Lin Leyou then went to listen to how other players searched for ghosts. It turned out that some of them had tools to locate ghosts, just like the other two, while others relied purely on their eyesight.
He knew it! The reason they haven't found their own body yet is because their tools are for finding ghosts, not for finding bodies.
Zhou Feng and his three companions were currently in a rarely visited corner of the Lin residence. It was completely dark there, and no lanterns were even hung in the corner.
Fang Hong, "What should we do?"
Xue Rui: "Nothing much. We're not in a hurry at all. After the ghost's operation, we just need to provide support from the sidelines. We've already decided to take this path."
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