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Chapter 310 Offering
Chapter 310 Offering
The system was knocking on the glass with difficulty from the outside.
As Yan Xun cleared more dungeons, it gradually began to appear in those dungeons.
It struggled to tap on the glass with its short arms, trying to scare the people in the room—Yan Xun even turned on the lights for it so that its shadow would look big enough.
"Snapped!"
The system shattered the glass!
Inside the room, the father seemed to finally succumb to the psychological pressure and instinctively tried to escape outside.
Yan Xun slammed the door shut, blocking the only exit.
Lou Yanchuan, who had been dead behind him, seemed to rise from the dead and climbed out of bed—
"Brother, why did you hurt me?"
Lou Yanchuan lay half-lying on the bed, his face covered in blood and tears, looking at Yan Xun's father. "Why did you use witchcraft to harm me?"
When Dad saw Lou Yanchuan, who had seemingly come back to life, he was so frightened he almost jumped up.
He wanted Yan Xun to get lost, but found that Yan Xun had also changed—his eyes were also filled with the same blood and tears as Lou Yanchuan's.
"Brother, why did you hurt me?" he repeated Lou Yanchuan's words.
"Why did you keep Mom's death a secret from me?"
"I'm needed to prolong her life."
What exactly do you want to do?
Why did you kill us all?
Yan Xun's father was extremely reverent towards ghosts and gods—otherwise, he wouldn't have sought help from a master after his mother fell ill, nor would he have sought help from a master when Yan Xun "fell ill." He even knew that Yan Xun might be a "ghost child."
Seeing these things suddenly broke through his psychological defenses.
He immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, spilling the beans as if pouring out all his secrets—
This is basically the same as what Yan Xun had guessed before.
After Grandma Yan Xun fell ill, many strange things happened in the old house, and several times they almost took the life of Yan Xun's father.
They found a master, but the master said that the things in the house were too strange for him to handle, and he could only ask Grandma Yanxun to take action.
However, the other party was already seriously ill, and was even knocked unconscious by that thing... Seeing that he was about to die, the master unintentionally told him a life-extending spell.
“Since your younger brother is away from home most of the year and is in good health,” the master said, “it won’t matter if he shares some of his energy with your mother.”
"However, this spell is a bit strange; once it starts, there's no way to stop it."
“Once your mother passes away, the magic will also directly drain the life force from your brother,” the master said. “However, the things in your house are too malevolent.”
"Moving won't get rid of it."
You'd better make plans sooner rather than later.
Yan Xun's father said haltingly, "I really didn't mean to harm anyone!" He said to Lou Yanchuan, who was shedding tears of blood, "I think my mother's health hasn't been good lately, but it's not as bad as the master said..."
“You’re lying,” Yan Xun immediately said from behind.
"Didn't Grandma pass away before you prevented Lou Yanchuan from seeing her?"
Lou Yanchuan then stretched out his hand, "I want you to pay for this in blood!"
Yan Xun's father was so frightened by the two bloody faces in the darkness that his eyes rolled back and he fainted.
Yan Xun squatted down, took out his phone, and glanced at the number he had dialed.
The number marked "Master" is completely different from the one on the business card, indicating that Ning Hengyuan has changed his phone number again in the past few years.
However, there were some chat logs with the master in my phone messages—
Inside, Yan Xun's father inquired in detail about how to use the "life-extending" magic, without asking at all about its impact on Lou Yanchuan.
The master even claimed that he had recently discovered a spell to suppress evil spirits in an ancient book.
If five families are allowed to live in a specific location, with evil spirits buried below them and suppressed separately, then the five families above will enjoy great wealth and prosperity.
Yan Xun's father couldn't wait to ask if he had a chance.
The master said that the five households have not yet been gathered.
Once he had found all five households, he immediately arranged for Yan Xun's father to be employed.
"Those two little devils of yours will become the guardian spirits of your ancestral graves," the master said in the message.
You must treat them with utmost care; even if you're afraid, you can't let them discover anything amiss.
Once they realize you are not their real father, they will turn against you.
"But lately, I've noticed that the older one seems to have discovered something; he keeps giving me a sinister look," said Yan Xun's father.
"It's nothing serious. Just remember to make sure he takes the medicine to suppress his soul every month," Ning Hengyuan said to Yan Xun's father.
Over time, he will become your pet spirit, and even if he wanted to harm you, he would be powerless to do so.
Perhaps seeing that Yan Xun's father was still somewhat hesitant, Ning Hengyuan sent a voice message.
“How can you have the idea of giving up halfway in making offerings to ghosts and gods?” he said. “There is one thing you need to pay attention to. I recently did some calculations and found that he has been associating with a malevolent spirit.”
"If you don't want to suffer the consequences, you should stop the two of them from meeting."
Yan Xun looked through his conversations with the master and his usual searches, and it was not hard to see that his father had always wanted to make money through unorthodox methods.
Perhaps she had asked her mother, but Granny Shi's magic was only passed down to women, not men.
His phone also contained many secret techniques he had collected in his early years, such as the Five Ghosts Transporting Wealth Technique. It seems that he later met a master through an intermediary, learned about the master's "luck-changing" methods, and finally hit it off with Dr. Du.
The reason why Grandma Yan Xun didn't stop it was also mentioned in the chat.
She thought her son was just missing his mother and that helping a wandering ghost reincarnate was a good deed. Little did she know that her foolish son had no good intentions from beginning to end and was repeatedly deceived by Ning Hengyuan, making a terrible mistake step by step according to the other party's plan.
Yan Xun tossed his phone to Lou Yanchuan, looking at his father who was unconscious on the ground, feeling utterly absurd.
"The evidence on the phone was able to be discovered because we had collected enough clues beforehand," Lou Yanchuan said.
With the evidence on the phone presented, the secret of Yan Xun's family was finally completely exposed.
Yan Xun thought that if Lou Yanchuan hadn't entered this instance, his family's secret would probably have been simpler—like the other secrets hidden under white roofs, where the weakest person in the family was sacrificed to gain wealth.
Meanwhile, things weren't peaceful in the homes of the other players either.
Lin Wen and Fang Shuo finished eating the goldfish that Fang Shuo had bought in advance. Fang Shuo breathed a sigh of relief, "Luckily, I caught some goldfish at the market beforehand."
He looked at Lin Wen and asked, "Do you think Yan Xun guessed the rules of the instance from the very beginning?"
Lin Wen was having a conversation with the old man in her mind.
Lin Wen asked the old man what the remaining secrets of the dungeon were, but the old man hesitated and accused Lin Wen of not following his plan.
'Why did you contact Yan Xun alone?' The old man was still talking about Lin Wen's collaboration with Yan Xun.
“That way he’ll trust us more, won’t he?” Lin Wen asked the old man in return.
When she planned to cooperate with Yan Xun, she wanted to use Yan Xun's help to solve the task, and at the same time, she wanted to test the old man's intentions.
Now it seems that this old man was indeed like a parasite, not a good person.
Lin Wen was so worried that Yan Xun would find out, which probably meant that Yan Xun really had ways to deal with him... Recalling her conversation with Yan Xun, Lin Wen felt more at ease after confirming that the other party understood her hint.
While thinking this to herself, she was also coaxing the old man, saying that she was only trying to lower Yan Xun's guard.
"What are you planning to do about him?" Lin Wen asked.
"You still haven't told me how I'm going to deal with him."
"Well, this is for the best," the old man muttered. "To avenge Wen Yuanzheng, I also obtained some useful items in the last dungeon."
"Since you two have a foundation for cooperation, I'll borrow your body and use that prop to subdue Yan Xun."
'I'll make my move before the last moment arrives. Once I kill Yan Xun, we can leave the instance and escape that…'
"Avoiding what?"
"His protection?"
"Hmm," the old man said, "He's slow to react; he definitely won't be able to summon his bond partner."
'There is one thing, a bit of a problem.'
"what?"
"I always felt something was off about that cripple next to him," the old man said.
Lin Wen knew he was talking about Lou Yanchuan. "What's wrong?"
"I've never heard of him knowing this person," the old man said.
"Maybe we met suddenly."
I don't think so.
Lou Yanchuan's identity was a secret throughout the entire backtracking process. Even in other people's live streams, he did not appear in his true form—different people saw different versions of him in their live streams.
The old man is currently adrift in the instance world and is unaware of this.
"You have the tools to kill Yan Xun, why are you afraid of a cripple?" Lin Wen asked, mimicking the old man's tone. "He can enter such a low-level dungeon with Yan Xun, so he can't be a high-level player."
"I see the hidden rewards in the dungeon are quite generous," she asked the old man. "Aren't you interested in those hidden rewards?"
"My primary goal now is to avenge Wen Yuanzheng," the old man mumbled.
"As for that hidden quest, it's best if we get the reward, but if not, we'll just have to let it go," he told Lin Wen. "The hidden quest is clearly related to Xie Qingdu; you should spend more time with him and look for new clues."
"Old man," Lin Wen thought to herself, "he talks a good game, but in the end he's trying to frame me."
When the old man said he wanted to borrow her body, Lin Wen sensed something was wrong. She knew that this was how Wen Yuanzheng had been tricked to death.
He specifically asked himself, and it seems there's no way to force possession.
Lin Wen's thoughts raced through her mind before she finally had time to answer Fang Shuo's initial question, "Maybe."
"He doesn't seem like someone with a childlike heart."
"So, the rules for tomorrow might be related to fire," Fang Shuo said immediately. When he saw Lin Wen looking at him, he realized that he had kept this a secret.
However, now that the secret of their home has been found, Fang Shuo felt that he didn't have the ability to complete side mission 2, and he also let down his guard. He mentioned that he had observed Yan Xun and followed them to buy fire extinguishers.
Lin Wen looked at the fire extinguisher Fang Shuo had pulled out and said, "Possibly."
On the other side, after finishing the phone call, Du Yun promptly killed the goldfish she had bought.
Deep down, I felt more and more that I had made the right choice in following my elder brother.
He sat in his gaming chair, still pondering the connection between himself and Duan Songen. Based on his previous deductions, his father and Duan Songen's father were half-partners, both having connections with that master.
Logically speaking, both of them were involved in shady dealings, so how come his father was fine while Duan Songen's father went bankrupt?
He recalled Duan Songen saying at the gathering that he used to live with Shu Fan, but had to move away because of bankruptcy.
However, according to the timeline, Dr. Du's business should have been thriving when they went bankrupt.
How could Duan's father, who made a fortune selling reincarnation slots, suddenly go bankrupt and leave?
What costs does his business have?
Du Yun sat in his gaming chair, deep in thought, and decided to search for information about Duan Songen's father online.
Unexpectedly, the other party's father was somewhat famous—albeit in a bad way.
According to the information, this person started out as a contractor. After making money, he took advantage of the trend and rose rapidly. Everyone said that he had good vision. The places he chose either received good policies or turned around when everyone was pessimistic.
After becoming wealthy, he even spent money to repair roads in order to repay his fellow villagers.
Some say it's because the Duan family's ancestral graves are in a good location, while others say it's because the Duan family found a good fortune teller.
But the good times didn't last long. In just over ten years, Lao Duan's business suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse. Either the approvals wouldn't come through, or the land deals suddenly went wrong, or various accidents suddenly occurred at the construction site.
The project for which he spent the most money was the lakeside resort villa area he co-developed with the Ning family. Despite the heavy investment, strange things kept happening from the very beginning, starting with laying the foundation.
Old Duan's funds were not as abundant as the Ning family's, and he also encountered other accidents, so he had to leave the scene in the end, resulting in bankruptcy.
Some people even said that Duan was framed by the Ning family.
It is said that the Ning family has a master who is particularly good at feng shui arrangements. Old Duan's construction site often has problems because this master is interfering.
Du Yun squatted on the gaming chair and moved the mouse.
"...Wait a minute," he muttered. "Isn't Lao Duan in a cooperative relationship with that master?"
"How come that lakeside villa is related to him?"
Du Yun then looked at the news reports about Lao Duan's scandals. The most shocking one was that he had switched the materials, and the high-end lakeside villas he advertised were actually made of plywood.
Some villas, despite their seemingly sturdy walls, were actually made of layers of paper; thankfully, an undercover reporter exposed them.
However, Lao Duan responded that this villa was not for sale, but was built by him to serve as decoration, and that the other villas were fine.
But no matter how you look at it, this kind of talk seems like a pretext to fool people.
Fortunately, the Ning family backed them up, stating that they would absolutely not sell these items.
They also stated that they would remove Lao Duan from the deal, and only the remaining items that pass inspection will be sold to the public.
Du Yun collected all this information, packaged it up, and sent it to Yan Xun.
Just as I was about to relax and play a few games, I noticed that the guy with the buzz cut was calling me.
"brother!"
"Give me a hand!"
The man with the buzz cut whispered anxiously, "Let me hide!"
Du Yun wasn't surprised. "Are you avoiding Xie Qingdu again?"
"No!" the crew-cut man said anxiously, "It's someone else!"
"Didn't you see the new rules?"
"Today is almost over, and everyone else has gone crazy!" the crew-cut man cursed. "Xie Qingdu hasn't reacted at all, but I think those two are planning to kill someone."