Chapter 296 [(*^▽^*)]
Lin Leyou composed herself. Instead of going down the stairs, she stood there waiting. "Go and bring the person up, or I'll go to the third floor and call your husband down to help."
"No! Don't call him! I...I'll go down, please...please don't do anything rash, I'll go myself, I'll go!"
Lin Leyou nodded, "Then go ahead, I'll be watching. Don't do anything rash, I'll see."
She had no choice but to go down herself. She had tried to trick Lin Leyou into going down, but Lin Leyou wasn't falling for it. Seeing her junior brother down there, she was still able to hold back—such composure…
Although it was difficult, she still managed to pull Xue Rui up from below little by little. Of course, Xue Rui was dragged up by her. Lin Leyou looked at the bruises on Xue Rui's cheeks and felt a little guilty.
But it quickly dawned on me that the injury must have been caused not by being dragged up, but by being thrown down.
“Master Lin, I’ve got him out. He’s absolutely fine. He wasn’t hurt at all. He’s very capable himself. I… I just knocked him unconscious. If you don’t believe me, Master Lin, you can take a look.”
Lin Leyou did not check on Xue Rui's condition immediately. "So, give me a reason why you attacked my junior brother. If you can't give me a reasonable explanation, don't blame me."
He continued to threaten the woman, hoping she would answer truthfully, but this time she said nothing, as if continuing to speak would trigger something taboo.
Lin Leyou just stared at her, feeling immense pressure. Finally, unable to hold back any longer, she blurted out, "If you really want to know, go ask the village chief yourself. Don't ask me; I can't say anything!"
After saying that, she rushed out of the storage room and quickly disappeared, leaving only Lin Leyou and Xue Rui who had fainted on the ground. So, should he wake Xue Rui up first?
Lin Leyou took a deep breath, walked over to Xue Rui, and knelt down to check on him. She found that he seemed to have simply fainted. In that case...
He reached out and pinched Xue Rui's nose. Sure enough, Xue Rui soon began to struggle due to suffocation, and finally suddenly woke up and pushed away Lin Leyou's hand that was pinching his nose.
He had just woken up and was still a little confused. "Brother Lin?"
Lin Leyou remained expressionless. "Awake? Do you remember?"
Xue Rui slowly came to her senses, wondering what had happened. "What...what's going on? How did I get here? This is..."
Lin Leyou, "Do you remember now? How exactly did you faint? What happened when you went downstairs?"
Xue Rui tried to recall, but he couldn't remember anything. "After I went downstairs... I think I just fainted. I didn't see anyone at all, and then I woke up here. Brother Lin, you..."
Lin Leyou told Xue Rui about her experience. Xue Rui touched her face and said, "I must have a lot of bruises on my face. I'm really unlucky to have fallen for this."
"Brother Lin, what do you think we should do now? We've practically broken ties with this couple already. Should we go ask the village chief?"
Lin Leyou said, "She just said that she can't say anything and that if you want to know, you should go to the village chief. So we do need to go to the village chief's house to at least find out what's going on first."
He subconsciously asked the system about the current number of players.
"System notification: 19 players remain."
Lin Leyou was stunned when he heard the number. Only nineteen people! They died so quickly? Could it be that the village chief led the attack on the players?
Xue Rui's last player quest is to escape this Yaoshan Village. Now that the village chief is making his move, won't there be no time to find the quest items?
Xue Rui, "Brother Lin?"
Lin Leyou: "The number of people has decreased again."
After asking the system, Xue Rui received a number: "Why are there only eighteen?"
Lin Leyou was startled and asked again, receiving the number eighteen, which meant that another player had died in just a few minutes.
Xue Rui said, "It's possible that players are killing each other. They may not be able to find the truth or the quest items, so before the dungeon ends, they can only try to kill as many other players as possible to make up for this loss."
Lin Leyou breathed a sigh of relief. "If that's the case, then it's good. Shall we go find the village chief?"
Xue Rui slowly stood up. "Okay."
Lin Leyou led him outside, "By the way, did you answer my call earlier?"
Xue Rui suddenly asked, "What call?"
After he finished speaking, he paused for a moment, took his phone out of his backpack, and looked through it. Sure enough, he found a call from Lin Leyou. He answered it, and the call was very short, but... he had no recollection of it at all.
"What's going on? I have no recollection of this at all. Could I be possessed by a ghost?"
Lin Leyou, "It's very likely that you were affected by the female ghost, but it's okay, at least she didn't take anything from your backpack."
Xue Rui immediately checked his backpack and, finding nothing missing, breathed a sigh of relief.
Lin Leyou, "Do you have any other wounds on your body?"
Xue Rui immediately checked himself over. "No, just some bruises, they'll heal soon."
Lin Leyou: "That's good, let's go."
When they came out of the storage room and came outside, the woman was gone. They didn't know where she had gone. Anyway, they hadn't heard her coming upstairs, so she must have run out.
So did she go to the village chief to talk about this herself first?
Since that's the case, they can't waste any more time. The village chief's house isn't far from here, and it's the best house in the whole village.
They had just left the house when they saw the conspicuous luxury building in the distance. The luxury building looked really out of place in the fields.
Lin Leyou: "She was indeed over there, talking to the people inside the village chief's house."
Xue Rui: "He runs pretty fast."
As the two walked toward the village chief's house, they kept their eyes fixed on that direction.
The village chief's family naturally noticed them as well. After all, someone had come to tip them off. If they didn't know, wouldn't they be in big trouble?
When they reached the gate, the woman had already been hidden inside, and the village chief had come out. The three of them faced each other at the gate.
Xue Rui: "Hello, village chief."
Lin Leyou didn't speak, while the village chief's gaze darted back and forth between the two of them. "Did you two come to see me for something?"
Xue Rui sighed, "Village Chief, what are you doing pretending to be ignorant now? Don't you know what she did? We were all invited by you to exorcise the ghost, but she attacked me and now she says she wants to ask you for a reason. Isn't that absurd? Otherwise, Village Chief, give me a reason so I can properly assess my next move."
The village chief sighed deeply, "Don't overthink it. There's not much I can say about this, it's just that you..."
Lin Leyou smiled and said, "Village Chief, please speak frankly. If my junior brother has really done something he shouldn't have, I, as his senior brother, will teach him a lesson. There's no need for anyone else to do it for him."
The village chief stroked his beard. "Actually, it wasn't a big deal. He had startled the female ghost who had broken into the house, so he was knocked unconscious..."
"But... her godparents lived in that house, so when her godmother was there, she didn't kill your junior brother, but only threw him into the basement."
Lin Leyou was stunned. "So, village chief, you mean that this woman not only didn't do anything to my junior brother, but also saved his life from the female ghost?"
The village chief nodded. "Whether you believe it or not, that's the truth. Don't pressure her anymore."
Lin Leyou was puzzled, but her tone remained much calmer. "If that's the case, why is she so afraid? Why doesn't she just say so? Saving my junior brother, isn't that a good thing?"
The village chief's lips twitched, and Lin Leyou burst out laughing when he saw it, but he couldn't laugh out loud, or all his efforts would be in vain!
He pinched his own flesh with his fingers inside his sleeve, barely managing to suppress his laughter because of the pain.
The village chief was probably cursing that woman in his heart for being good for nothing and good for making trouble. She made such a big fuss over such a small matter. Her head wasn't filled with brains at all, but with water!
Village chief, "Wasn't she too nervous at the time? She had just faced the female ghost directly, and then you interrogated her. It's understandable that she was flustered, after all, she's a rural woman who has never seen the world."
Lin Leyou felt that they shouldn't push too hard right now. "So that's how it is?"
The village chief said, "Yes, she meant well. I hope you don't misunderstand."
Lin Leyou said, "Since I misunderstood, then let it go. Remember to speak clearly in the future. Saying only half of what you mean can easily lead people to misunderstand."
Seeing that they believed his story, the village chief relaxed considerably. "Yes, I will talk to her properly. So... have you two masters gained anything?"
Lin Leyou said, "You're right. Since we came to the village, apart from the first day when we encountered that female ghost and I injured her, we haven't encountered any female ghosts since. Does this female ghost remember people?"
"She hides perfectly wherever I appear. I always feel like this female ghost actually has intelligence, unlike ordinary female ghosts..."
He lowered his head, stroking his chin as he pondered, as if thinking of some useful solution.
The village chief said, "Arong is a really good child. She was very smart when she was alive, and she must still be smart after becoming a ghost. She must remember you."
Lin Leyou: "If that's the case, this female ghost will hide whenever she sees me. How can I get rid of her?"
The village chief glanced at him a few times, then fixed his gaze on Xue Rui. "Master Lin's junior brother is also a formidable figure. I suppose he..."
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