Chapter 282 [(*^▽^*)]
Thirty-three people were divided into twenty households to live in. Each household had about one or two players, and the host families would prepare three meals a day for the players staying in their homes.
Lin Leyou lives alone in a house; no other players live with him there.
After the village chief settled him in here, he chatted with the family for a while before leaving. After he left, the people living in the house warmly greeted him.
The two people who walked up to Lin Leyou were a couple. They looked rather simple and unassuming, but he didn't know what their true personalities were like.
"Um... Master, hello!"
Lin Leyou paused for a moment. Master? They actually called him a master?
Wait a minute, were these players invited by the village to exorcise ghosts? Thirty-three masters invited at once to exorcise ghosts?
Okay, this is a game instance, so logic isn't really important. Thirty-three... thirty-two is fine, no problem.
Lin Leyou: "Hello, may I take a look at the accommodation first? I need to tidy up a bit."
"Okay, okay, absolutely no problem!"
The couple led Lin Leyou to the master bedroom on the second floor. This master bedroom occupied one-third of the space on the second floor, which showed how spacious the room was. Everything inside looked brand new.
"Thank you. I'll tidy up first. I'll ask you about the details when we have dinner later. Don't worry, I'm here. If anything goes wrong, come find me immediately."
The couple had probably been waiting for him to say that, so as soon as he finished speaking, they immediately showed expressions of surprise and delight, saying, "Okay, okay, thank you, Master!"
After the couple thanked him profusely, they went downstairs to prepare dinner. Lin Leyou watched their departing figures and fell into deep thought. It seemed that the families in the village who could secure the services of players... no, masters, must all be relatively wealthy or have a high status in the village.
He thought the players in this village wouldn't have very good living conditions, but he didn't expect them to be so popular. He wondered if the other players had the ability to get him.
However, these events also reveal some information: the villagers are resorting to such methods to snatch the so-called master from their homes, which means...
It's definitely ghostly.
Lin Leyou's lips curled into a smile. Now that it's confirmed there's a ghost, that's for the best. Let's see what kind of ghost it is then.
Dinner was quickly prepared, and the couple invited him downstairs to eat. Lin Leyou did not refuse, since the food was sure to be of good quality.
When he went downstairs and saw the more than twenty dishes laid out on the dining table, he was a little overwhelmed. So many? If he couldn't finish them today, would he have to eat the leftovers tomorrow?
"We didn't know what the master liked to eat, so we just made some dishes. Please feel free to eat whatever you like. If you want anything else, you can tell us and we'll make it now."
Lin Leyou said, "No need to make a fuss, let's eat. After we eat, I want to have a good talk with you all."
"Okay, okay, no problem!"
Seeing that Lin Leyou did not refuse but was very enthusiastic, the couple was even happier. Generally speaking, the more fake someone is, the more they like to delay. Lin Leyou did the opposite, which shows that he has real skills!
The village chief previously said that he had invited many masters, and they had managed to secure one of the masters' spots, but they didn't know the true extent of this master's abilities.
In retrospect, they were quite lucky.
Lin Leyou started eating, and to be honest, it tasted really good!
After the meal, there wasn't much leftover food; it was probably enough for the three of them to have breakfast the next morning.
The three moved to the living room, where Lin Leyou sat on the sofa, leaning comfortably against the back. "Please tell me the details without missing a single word."
"No detail can be overlooked. If your oversight leads to serious consequences, then it's not my responsibility, understand?"
The couple seemed a little uneasy, but they nodded to indicate that they understood.
"Actually, the girl who fell into the well and drowned lived next door to me. She fell into the well and drowned herself. My wife found out."
Lin Leyou blinked. He remembered the small house he had seen on the way to this house when the village chief brought him here. It was not far from this house.
It was a mud-brick house, and most of the mud plaster on the outside had peeled off, making it look dilapidated and really run-down. It didn't look like a habitable place at all.
I never imagined that a girl would live alone there, without any relatives or friends. Someone like her would easily be bullied, so the girl was killed.
Did someone deliberately push her into the well and then run away, leaving her to drown?
"We felt sorry for her because she was such a pitiful little girl, so we would help her out from time to time. Sometimes it was clothes, sometimes it was food."
"But what can I say about this child? She always keeps her head down, and her thick, black hair covers most of her face; most of the time you can only see her chin."
"They're quite polite. They always greet us when they see us, and they say thank you when they receive things. My wife went there the other day but couldn't find them. Then, when she passed by the well, she glanced at it subconsciously and saw them floating in the well..."
"The matter was quickly reported to the village chief, who then gathered the villagers to hold a funeral for her and bury her. Everyone initially felt sorry for her."
"Everyone thought that the matter was over, but unexpectedly, two days later, strange things started happening in the village. At first, there were strange noises coming from the wells of some houses, but after checking, nothing strange was found."
"Secondly, someone might knock on the door in the middle of the night..."
Lin Leyou: "Knocking on the door? That must be someone playing a prank."
Their faces turned pale. "The key isn't knocking on the front door, but... but knocking on the room door!"
Lin Leyou's expression changed, and he knocked on the door.
"At first, some people thought it was someone else in the family knocking on the door, but every time they opened the door, the others were also woken up and came out, terrified. They were all sleeping in the same room, but..."
"People kept knocking on the door, just the room door. Several times, the braver people went to open the door, but there was nothing there, just an empty room."
"Everyone was terrified. In the end, they couldn't take it anymore, so the village chief invited a master back."
Lin Leyou nodded, "If that's the case, then it is indeed strange. Have you encountered any such strange things?"
The couple nodded. "We've never had anyone knocking on our door in the middle of the night, but a few times when we passed by our well, we heard some strange noises, though they were very faint. Several times we thought we were just imagining things..."
Lin Leyou: "Have you checked the well? Did you find anything?"
“We’ve searched many times, but we haven’t found anything. The well water is very clear, and there’s nothing else in the well. We’re terrified…”
Lin Leyou nodded. "Around when did the anomaly in the well occur?"
"There's no fixed time, we can't say for sure, we're sorry..."
Lin Leyou shook his head, "It's alright, I'll go take a look now."
After saying that, he got up and walked outside, slowly approaching the well in front of the door, ready to take out the peach branch from his backpack at any time.
However, he didn't see anything unusual when he got close to the well. Even when he peered down from the edge of the well, he didn't see anything wrong inside, nor did he hear any strange noises.
And he didn't know if it was just his perception, but he felt that this well water was particularly good! It was somewhat different from the well water he had seen before, such as the well water he had seen in his hometown in the real world.
Lin Leyou withdrew his gaze, turned and walked inside, shaking his head at the couple, "I didn't find it. It probably appears intermittently, maybe only when you get close. Why don't you come out and walk around the well a couple of times and see? Try walking around the well a couple of times. If you want me to solve these things, I definitely need to see it with my own eyes."
The couple had no objections, but of course they strongly insisted that Lin Leyou accompany them, which Lin Leyou naturally did not object to.
The three of them slowly approached the well, or rather, they didn't walk directly towards the well, but in another direction. If they kept walking forward, they would reach a position very close to the well.
Just when Lin Leyou thought that such a simple method would not produce any results, some strange sounds actually came from the well.
Lin Leyou listened carefully and, after some discernment, discovered that the sound seemed to be the sound of someone drowning. Of course, it was only a vague resemblance and not a certainty.
Without hesitation, he took out a peach branch from his backpack, ran to the well, and stretched out his hand to put the peach branch into the well, waving it continuously.
Perhaps the peach tree branch was really too powerful. Even though it didn't actually hit anything, he clearly heard a scream coming from the well, followed by the disappearance of what seemed to be a cold, eerie aura.
The couple, who were not far away, also heard the scream.
"What? What is that sound?"
"Isn't it? Why does it sound a bit like that girl's voice? She used to scream like that when those thugs beat her up, only this time her voice is a little softer."
"Yes, it was so pitiful that she was beaten like that before... I never thought she would die at such a young age. Someone must have done something evil to kill her, otherwise, why didn't she reincarnate?"
"Yes...then should we ask the master to leave a little room for maneuver..."
Lin Leyou's lips curled into a smile. "You want me to go easy on you? Leave some leeway, well... that's not impossible. I'll be more careful in the future, but I hope you..."
It's best not to regret it.
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