Chapter 198 [(*^▽^*)]
Xue Rui's words warmed Lin Leyou's heart, and he smiled and said, "Actually, I'm also very surprised."
Xue Rui, "Brother Lin, what do you think is strange?"
Lin Leyou: "I don't know, but I feel like I've overlooked something very important."
Xue Rui said, "If it wasn't you, Brother Lin, who did it, then it was some other ghost."
Lin Leyou only realized what was happening after seeing his message.
yes!
The system didn't say there was only one vengeful ghost in this instance, so there are two or even three? What are the quests for those vengeful ghosts?
Lin Leyou: "Other ghosts... I don't know if they exist, I've never seen one."
Upon seeing this, Xue Rui's heart sank. Even Lin Leyou, who had become a vengeful ghost NPC, had never seen this ghost before. This vengeful ghost was hiding very well.
If this hadn't happened, and if he hadn't been able to communicate with Lin Leyou, he might have been completely deceived. So we can now conclude that there are at least two vengeful ghosts in this instance.
One of them is Lin Leyou, and the other is the one who drained the corpse and turned it into a mummified corpse. This is a bit tricky.
What we can now conclude is that the other vengeful ghost is hostile to everyone and may be impossible to communicate with. If we were to encounter the other vengeful ghost first, wouldn't we be attacked?
After all, they wanted to communicate, to cooperate with the vengeful spirit, and to complete this mission. They knew that the reward for this dungeon was 5,000 points, which was no small amount.
If converted to real-world currency, that would be a full fifty million. Of course, anyone with a brain wouldn't convert that many points into money.
Once you become a high-level player, you can have as much money as you want, but points are the real life-saving thing.
Xue Rui: "Brother Lin, do you have someone in mind?"
Lin Leyou thought and thought, recalling all the people who had died in the village and the Lin family before, and finally came up with a possibility.
Lin Leyou: "Do you think it could be that... Lin Zhoushan's ex-wife who died before?"
That is, the biological mother of Lin Yang'an.
Wait a minute, wasn't this biological mother supposed to have died of illness? Could it be that she was murdered, just like Lin Yang'an?
However, Zhao Anxue and Lin Yangxu only entered the family after she died; before that, the mother and son had no way to extend their reach so far.
So there's only one choice left. This vengeful ghost's target is Lin Zhoushan, because Lin Zhoushan wants a healthy child, so he has to kill his ex-wife so that Lin Yangxu can rightfully become the legitimate son.
Moreover, he directly became the eldest son of the legitimate wife, while the original eldest son, Lin Yang'an, had to be ranked after him.
Of course, this is just Lin Leyou's guess.
Xue Rui blinked after seeing the message, "So that's Brother Lin's mother?"
Lin Leyou's lips twitched. What was she thinking! How could it be her own mother? It was the mother of Lin Yang'an, the person she was playing this time.
His real mother is still raising the child in the village. After the child is born, she will be like a loving mother, gently coaxing the child, feeding him, and treating him well.
Even his father would adore this child, giving him whatever he wanted, buying him whatever he craved, and even buying him a house in town, making sure everything he owned was the best.
To the outside world, they would say that they had neglected their eldest son in the past because they were busy making money, but now that they have a younger son, of course they should treat him well.
Lin Leyou sneered and sent a message, "Don't cause trouble."
Xue Rui smiled, "I won't talk nonsense anymore, so now..."
Lin Leyou said, “The old way, I’ll check the cemetery behind the mountain. My mother must be buried in the Lin family’s ancestral cemetery.”
Xue Rui said, "Let's go take a look then, but not now. I'll go with you when I find an opportunity."
Lin Leyou said, "It's okay. If you can't go, I'll go by myself. There's no one there right now anyway."
Xue Rui: "Brother Lin, did you forget that Lin Zhoushan just ordered the servants to bury the mummified corpse in the back mountain?"
Lin Leyou paused slightly, as if he had really forgotten, but it didn't matter. "It's alright. The mummies are all from other villages. Lin Zhoushan wouldn't let anyone bury them near the ancestral graves. At most, he would just find a place on the back mountain where no one is buried and bury them there."
Xue Rui, "Then..."
Lin Leyou said, "Don't worry, I'll come back immediately if anyone is nearby."
Xue Rui: "Alright, Brother Lin, be careful. She used to be your mother, but things might change after she dies."
Just seeing the players turned into mummies made Xue Rui extremely wary of this other evil spirit; this vengeful ghost might attack Lin Leyou.
After explaining the situation, Xue Rui put away his phone and returned to where he had been, continuing to watch over his three companions. He glanced at them casually a few times.
If possible, it's time for me to build my own team. If the people in front of me are okay, they shouldn't refuse.
I hope everything goes well.
Lin Leyou drifted all the way to the cemetery behind the mountain. He first went to see where the servants of the Lin family were, and finally found them in a small open space surrounded by the graves of some villagers.
He glanced at a few at random, then drifted away.
Some people were digging a pit, and some were splitting up the beds—the two beds where the two mummies had just slept. To be honest, if they weren't considered unlucky, these servants would have wanted to take them home and sell them.
It can be sold for a good price!
This place was still some distance from the Lin family's ancestral graves, so Lin Leyou felt relieved and went to the Lin family's ancestral graves.
Upon arriving here again, Lin Leyou immediately found his mother's grave, the name engraved on the tombstone being Gu Wenya.
It turns out that Lin Yang'an's mother was named Gu Wenya. In all this time, no one in the Lin family had ever mentioned her.
After he relinquished his talent, he began digging up the grave. Perhaps the pit he dug was too shallow when he buried the child, because Lin Leyou hadn't been working on it for long before he saw the coffin lid.
After he removed the mud from the coffin lid, he saw that all four corners of the coffin were nailed shut, and he immediately realized something was wrong.
There were nails!
Under what circumstances should nails be driven into the four corners of a coffin before it is buried in the ground?
It must be to prevent the corpses inside from turning into zombies, or rising from the dead, or becoming vengeful ghosts? Or perhaps... Gu Wenya wasn't dead at all when she was buried there.
The nails were driven in to prevent Gu Wenya from getting out; the plan was to bury her alive so she would suffocate and starve to death in the coffin, dying in despair.
So why did this vengeful ghost that suddenly appeared and drained the corpse only appear now? Is it because someone tampered with the coffin, which is why it took so long to appear?
He calmed himself down and slowly used his fingernails to remove the four nails. Although the nails still stung his fingers a little when he touched them, it wasn't a big deal.
Lin Leyou tossed one of the nails to the ground and watched as the small burns on his fingers gradually healed. He sighed, realizing that such a small injury was nothing compared to the ones caused by peach tree branches.
However, even after two years, the nails still have some effect against the evil spirits, which shows that the nails were indeed very powerful two years ago, especially since there were four of them.
The second and third nails were also removed and discarded. Lin Leyou immediately sensed something unusual; some black mist was drifting out from the gap under the coffin lid.
Lin Leyou watched for a while, then continued to take out the fourth and last one.
When he tossed the fourth nail aside, the coffin lid suddenly floated up, and black mist billowed out from the coffin like thick smoke.
Lin Leyou immediately floated to a distance to watch. The black mist that had already drifted outside suddenly stopped moving outward, as if it was being held back by something. The last part of it remained inside the coffin and could not come out.
The black mist outside struggled for a long time in a very humane way, but in the end, it all retreated back into the coffin, and the coffin lid was closed again.
It seems the corpses inside have also been tampered with.
Lin Leyou continued to check. The coffin lid would definitely need to be opened, but he didn't know what kind of scene would be revealed after it was opened.
This was the first time he had ever lifted the coffin lid, and inside lay his mother, who was in this very identity. Just thinking about it was a little thrilling.
He tentatively stretched out his little hand, then quietly moved it halfway open, and could now see what was inside clearly.
Two years have passed, and the corpse in the coffin has long since turned into bones. A palm-sized golden dagger can be clearly seen stuck in the corpse's throat.
Two years have passed, yet this golden short sword still emits a shimmering golden light.
He tried to reach out, but the instant his fingernail touched the golden dagger, the tip of his fingernail was burned off.
That's right, half of it was burned off!
Lin Leyou looked at her nail, which had been burned in half, with some surprise. Could it grow back?
He looked at it slowly and carefully, and found that the burned nail was indeed growing back, but at a slow pace. If the wound on his palm from the peach branch would not heal until morning, then this nail would take two hours to heal.
Therefore, it is clear that this dagger is far inferior to a peach branch.
Even if it's not as good as that, it's still not something I can touch. Just touching it would burn my fingernail. If I actually touched it with my hand, wouldn't that be...?
Therefore, they still need to ask Xue Rui for help, since they can't trust the other players either.
Lin Leyou sent a message to Xue Rui, "Help, help, the ancestral graves of the Lin family in the back hill cemetery."
After receiving the message, Xue Rui glanced at the three people who were still sleeping, thought for a moment, and then quietly woke Zhou Feng. He lowered his voice and said, "I'm going to go check over there. You keep watch for the night."
Zhou Feng had just been woken up and was still a little dazed. Hearing what he said, he nodded in agreement without thinking too much. It wasn't until Xue Rui disappeared from sight that he came to his senses.
How could we let him go alone? Of course, all four of us should go together!
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