Chapter 527: Almost Buried
Shi Yuyan was genuinely terrified. Anyone who had been kneeling in the ancestral hall not long ago would suddenly be caught in an earthquake.
The ancestral tablets on the table clattered and hit him, startling him so much that he thought his ancestors had risen from the dead and were trying to kill him.
I finally managed to escape from the ancestral hall, and in the blink of an eye, the place collapsed!
Yes, it collapsed!
Shi Yuyan had no doubt that if she had come out even a little later, she would have been buried inside.
Before I could even feel relieved to have survived, I was inexplicably locked up again.
Shi Yuyan even suspected that these people thought he was responsible for the collapse of the ancestral hall, and that they would soon drag him away to feed the insects to appease the spirits of their ancestors.
The weak, helpless, and pitiful Second Young Master Shi had already imagined countless possibilities of dying miserably in less than half an hour.
Just when he was filled with despair, Ye Wanxi appeared in front of him without any warning.
Shi Yuyan almost choked and died like the old clan chief. After seeing who it was, she couldn't help but roll her eyes and said with lingering fear, "Can't you guys show yourselves in a more human way?"
Why make it so eerie? It made him think he was seeing a ghost in the middle of the night!
Shi Lang was shocked, bewildered, and at a loss because he was experiencing the teleportation ability that was only possible in myths.
Hearing her brother's words, her face immediately darkened, and she slapped him hard on the back: "If you appeared in a human form, do you think you would still be able to see us?"
Shi Yuyan, who was beaten up as soon as they met: "..." He had suffered so much misfortune that day, and instead of comforting him, he was beaten up. Wasn't that going too far?
Compared to the two brothers hurting each other, the young Taoist priest quickly regained his senses as soon as he stood up, his eyes shining as brightly as searchlights.
"It's amazing, so amazing! It was just a moment ago... only a few seconds ago, how could it be..."
Although the young Taoist priest was Qin Hongxu's prized disciple, even his master only knew some skills in catching ghosts, exorcising evil spirits, let alone him, a junior.
Countless thoughts raced through the young Taoist's mind, but in the end, only one question remained: "Miss Ye, that kind of... that kind of..."
"Um?"
"The kind of flying on a sword like in fantasy dramas..."
Ye Wanxi quickly understood what he wanted to ask, and after a moment's thought, she said, "My fourth senior brother knows..."
"So it's true, it's true..." The young Taoist priest stared blankly, looking as if he were lost in thought, occasionally letting out a few awkward, silly laughs.
Ye Wanxi: "???" Could this child have been scared out of her wits?
On the other side, after reprimanding his younger brother, Shi Lang's face hardened, and he asked in a deep voice, "What exactly happened? Didn't you go to kneel in the ancestral hall? Everything was fine the night before, so why did an earthquake suddenly occur tonight? You didn't tamper with anything in the ancestral hall, did you?"
"I'm innocent!" Shi Yuyan cried out hastily. "I already said I wasn't interested in the treasures in their ancestral hall. Besides, who knows what kind of snakes, insects, rats, and ants are swarming around that ancestral hall? I'd be too busy trying to move anything, let alone do anything recklessly!"
"What happened? Was it really an earthquake?" Shi Lang frowned deeply. "But we didn't feel anything inside the house."
Shi Yuyan shuddered, seemingly lost in thought: "That's why it's so eerie. When I was dragged here and locked up, I overheard them talking outside. Apparently, the ancestral hall shook twice the night we entered the village, but not as violently as this time. And tonight, while I was still kneeling there, the ancestral hall started shaking violently."
As Shi Yuyan spoke, she pointed to her head to show the others: "This is what happened when those memorial tablets were shaken down from above. My back was hit even worse, with a lot of cracking and popping. It almost killed me."
Only then did Shi Lang and the others notice that Shi Yuyan had a slightly swollen bump on her forehead, but they hadn't noticed it because the room was dimly lit.
"I screamed as I was hit and scrambled to the side to hide for a while. I thought it was over, but then there were aftershocks. I was really scared and rushed out. But as soon as I stepped out the door, the ancestral hall collapsed."
"The ancestral hall collapsed?"
Ye Wanxi and the others had been focused on the virus, so their information was relatively delayed, and they only just learned that their family ancestral hall had collapsed.
"You bet that's right. That ancestral hall looked pretty sturdy, but who would have thought it was as flimsy as paper? It collapsed with just a wiggle! I was stunned. If I had come out a minute or two later, I would have been buried underneath, and you might have had to go to the underworld to fight Yama for me."
Feng Tianyu glanced at him and said disdainfully, "Do you think we'd go to all that trouble for you?"
Shi Yuyan: "..." Don't expose my flaws, are we still brothers?!
Ye Wanxi pondered for a moment, then couldn't help but ask again, "You really didn't touch anything in their ancestral hall?"
Shi Yuyan was getting anxious. If even his own people didn't believe him, then the villagers outside the village certainly didn't either.
“I swear, I only touched the prayer cushions in their ancestral hall, and I didn’t touch anything else. The collapse of their ancestral hall really has nothing to do with me. Maybe the ancestral hall was just old and dilapidated, and I just happened to become a scapegoat.”
“But they won’t think that way.” Upon hearing this, Feng Tianyu understood why Wu Chi and the others had suddenly changed their tune and were willing to risk offending their superiors to place them under house arrest.
The ancestral hall was in trouble, then people in the village were in trouble, and there was the lesson learned from the incident twenty years ago. And to make matters worse, Shi Yuyan was in the ancestral hall when all of this happened.
With so many coincidences, it's hard not to make the villagers think the wrong thing.
Even if Shi Yuyan had a hundred mouths, she probably wouldn't be able to explain herself clearly now.
Shi Yuyan was well aware of this, and his shoulders slumped as he said with a bitter face, "What do we do now? They were already prejudiced against us, and now we're in even more trouble. Why are we so unlucky? Could it be that their ancestors were angry with me for treating Xiaowan too badly before and deliberately took revenge on her to break us up, this pair of star-crossed lovers?"
Shi Lang laughed angrily: "So you know you've been really mean to her?"
If it weren't for the younger brother's stupidity, why would they have come here to be bullied?
However, if it weren't for Shi Yuyan, they wouldn't have come here, and they wouldn't have discovered...
"Put your matter aside for now. With Tianyu and Miss Ye around, your life is pretty much guaranteed. The most important thing now is to find a way to get them to trust us and cooperate with us so that we can isolate the patients as soon as possible and prevent more people from getting infected with the virus."
Shi Yuyan: "Virus? What virus?"
“AIR virus. Several people in their village have contracted a strange disease. We suspect they have been infected with the AIR virus, but they don’t believe us and are unwilling to cooperate with us.”
(End of this chapter)
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