Chapter 284 [(*^▽^*)]
Lin Leyou returned to his residence and quickly slipped back inside through the window. While the couple upstairs were still getting dressed, he went back to his room on the second floor.
That's right. He ran away so quickly not because someone was woken up, but because the couple was also awakened and were still getting dressed, about to get up and come out.
Lin Leyou returned to her room and lay down on the bed. Just as she lay down, she heard the sound of a door opening on the third floor.
Then came the sound of two people walking downstairs. At this moment, Lin Leyou could also faintly hear wails coming from outside the window. He was now certain that these two people were NPCs, not players.
I never expected that on my first night out looking for clues, I would encounter two NPCs pretending to be ghosts to scare people. Aren't they afraid of scaring the players and then getting beaten up?
"Master, Master, are you inside?"
Lin Leyou stood up. "What happened?"
"It sounds like someone is wailing outside. We're planning to go check it out. Master, would you like to come along?"
Lin Leyou was silent for a moment, then said, "Okay, wait for me."
He moved around casually inside, making rustling noises for a while before going to open the door. This time he had changed his clothes; he couldn't very well go out in the same outfit as before. "Let's go, you two."
"Alright, alright, let's go."
When the three of them went outside, a group of people had already gathered there. Surrounded by them were the two NPCs who had dressed up as ghosts to scare people. They were now hugging each other and crying loudly.
Lin Leyou did not approach, but stood at the edge watching them, so that they would recognize his voice if he got closer.
These two are really something. It's understandable that they cried from fright when no one was around, but now that there are so many people around, why are they still so scared?
Lin Leyou found it strange, but didn't ask anyone. What if this question wasn't good for the villagers?
The villagers standing next to Lin Leyou started chatting quietly.
"Why is it the two of them again?"
"This is so annoying, how many times has this happened?"
"This seems to be the fifth time. Why do you always come out at night? Don't you know it's dangerous outside at night?"
"Being so frightened, they must have encountered something unclean..."
"Don't scare me, I'm terrified of ghosts."
"Look at them, they must have encountered a ghost. You should try to calm yourself down a bit, so that if you faint from fright when you encounter one later, you won't even have a chance to escape."
"Thank you so much..."
Lin Leyou asked in a low voice, "Do you know who these two know?"
"Huh? You didn't know? Oh right, are you a master who just arrived today?"
Lin Leyou nodded somewhat awkwardly. Master... that title is certainly acceptable, but he just didn't feel quite comfortable with it.
"Yes, there are many things I don't understand when I first arrive in the village, like these two people... what's going on? Could it be that they..."
The villagers probably knew what he hadn't finished saying, and they all smiled knowingly.
"Oh dear, these are the village chief's two foolish sons."
"Oh dear, you actually said it out loud! If the village chief finds out you said his son is stupid, he'll make things difficult for you!"
"What's there to be afraid of? Everyone knows this."
"But the village chief hates it when people talk about it, so you shouldn't either. I won't tell anyone. I accidentally let it slip before, and you helped me cover it up..."
"Alright, alright, I'll stop talking about it."
Sure enough, the village chief appeared not long after. He didn't come alone, but with several people, who seemed to be his family members.
They worked together to separate the two people who were still hugging and crying, and then took them back.
"Alright, stop gathering here, go back and get some rest late at night!"
The village chief chased people away, and the villagers didn't dare to openly oppose him. Everyone obediently went back, although their expressions were very unwilling.
Lin Leyou followed the couple back to their residence. "Do you know what happened just now? What's the relationship between those two men and the village chief?"
"Everyone in the village knows about this." They all sighed as they said this. "Actually, he is the twin son of the village chief's eldest son, and also the village chief's grandson."
"But his eldest son was caught in a thunderstorm when he went up the mountain to run some errands in his early years. He fell off the cliff and died."
"When their mother found out her husband was dead, she took the money and ran away overnight. Nobody knows where she is now, and she hasn't come back all these years."
Lin Leyou, "So these two..."
"When they were young, their families couldn't take care of them, so they didn't realize they had fevers in time. Even though they were eventually found out and sent for treatment, their brains were damaged by the fever."
"Although they are recovering quite well now and are gradually looking similar to ordinary people, their brains were indeed damaged by the fire. So even if they recover well, it doesn't mean they can really be the same as ordinary people."
"It's fine during the day, but at night, for some reason, she always does some inexplicable things. For example, tonight, she inexplicably started crying outside, and no matter who came, it didn't help."
"What happened tonight was relatively minor. A few years ago, there was a much bigger incident where someone burned down a house! They were jumping around and shouting 'Good fire! Good fire!' while the house was burning. In the end, the village chief had to pay a large sum of money to stop them from doing so."
Lin Leyou suddenly blurted out, "So, you, or the entire village, suspect that it was the two village chiefs' mentally unstable grandsons who, under the cover of night, threw that little girl into the well and drowned her?"
After the question was raised, the couple fell silent. They didn't speak, so they neither admitted nor denied it, which was enough to show that they actually tacitly agreed with this statement.
Although there is really no evidence to prove that those two idiots did it, since idiots always make a fuss about doing bad things at night and let others know.
But they've never talked about the little girl, so there's a possibility that this has nothing to do with them.
"Can you tell me why the villagers suspect them? After all, even if the two of them always come out at night, it doesn't necessarily mean that he did it."
They were all very unwilling to accept it, "They must have done it!"
"These two come out almost every night. After all, they sleep during the day and are active at night. They come out every night to do bad things. Sometimes they pretend to be ghosts to scare people, and sometimes they just go up to people's houses and bang on their doors. In short, they never have a moment of peace. If it weren't for the fact that they always find a different place to cause trouble, the whole village would have ganged up on the village chief's house."
"But it just so happened that on that day... the night before we found the little girl's body, the two of them didn't go out, or rather, they did go out, but no one knew what they did before their family found them and took them back."
"So, Master, can you guess what wrong things they've done outside?"
Lin Leyou stroked his chin. "So, they are indeed highly suspicious. Then why didn't the little girl's ghost seek revenge after returning? Instead, she was running around in the village well? Could it be..."
The couple looked at Lin Leyou, as if anticipating what he was about to say.
Lin Leyou did not disappoint them, saying, "Perhaps they are looking for the family that killed them? But they haven't found them yet?"
The couple exchanged a glance, then picked up paper and pen and began to write something. Lin Leyou looked over, but he couldn't make out what they were writing.
It took them about ten minutes to begin explaining.
"I'm sorry, Master. We were just looking at all the families whose wells had problems. These families shouldn't have done anything wrong or done anything to wrong our daughter."
These families have all been visited by ghosts, but the female ghost did not make a move. Does this mean that there is no one in these families who killed the girl?
"So... has this ever happened at the village chief's house?"
The couple gritted their teeth and said, "We don't know either."
"What do you mean by that?"
"The village chief's family has always said that there are problems in their house as well. There seems to be something strange about their well. Others may not know, but we know very well that the village chief's family has been sealing their well ever since the first household experienced this strange event, and they haven't opened it since."
Lin Leyou blinked. "So that means even if the female ghost really went to the village chief's house, she wouldn't be able to come out of the well and go to their house to look for people?"
“That’s right! They’re lying. Other families only stop using their wells or seal them up after something goes wrong, but the village chief’s family is the only exception.”
Lin Leyou said, "It seems that the village chief's family situation is indeed very suspicious."
They looked at each other and saw the determination in each other's eyes.
"Master, could you... possibly..."
Lin Leyou: "What? You want me to help investigate this matter?"
"Yes, this is really important to us."
Lin Leyou stroked his chin, "But I was invited by the village chief to exorcise the ghost..."
They were stunned for a moment before they suddenly realized that Lin Leyou was a master, and that he had been invited back by the village chief!
So what did they just say? In front of the master, they said they wanted to investigate the village chief, and that they suspected the two idiots in the village chief's family had killed their daughter whom they had raised for so long.
Is it too late to regret it now? Can I take back what I just said?
Seeing that they were all getting anxious, Lin Leyou said with some emotion, "I won't tell anyone what you told me today."
"Really? You really won't tell anyone?"
Lin Leyou said, "Although I came here on behalf of the village chief to exorcise the ghost, this ghost is not so easy to deal with. First of all, we need to find out the cause of her death and who killed her. Even if you don't tell me, I still have to investigate this matter."
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