Chapter 28: Lin Yuan's Abnormality

  At this time, a knock at the door suddenly sounded outside, and the sudden knock made their hearts beat violently. Until the voice of the landlady came from outside the door, they let out a sigh of relief and opened the door.

  The landlady stood at the door with washing utensils in her hand and a smile on her face, her stout body almost blocking the entire door.

  "This is your toiletries." She handed over the things in her hand to Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan said thank you.

  "I heard you guys beat up one of our people today?" The boss's wife suddenly said.

  Even the boss's wife knew about it, and they were so embarrassed that they stuck out their tongues.

  "It's nothing, just can't bear to look at it!" Su Jin'er looked a bit embarrassed, as the impression she gave others was that this kind of thing was absolutely not something she could do.

  "It's clear you guys are very brave, but today, you've got the wrong person."

  "What? That rascal beat up an old man in public, how could we be wrong!" Lin Yuan thought the boss would praise them for what they did.

  Seeing Lin Yuan getting angry, the boss's wife hastily explained: "Don't misunderstand, I didn't mean to blame you."

  They made way for their boss to enter the house:"Actually, that old man is the son of that big fellow..."

  Lin Yuan became even angrier upon hearing this and interrupted the boss's wife, saying: "That's even more unacceptable, a son hitting his father, it goes against all reason!"

  "Xiao Yuan, listen to Auntie finish what she has to say."

  Lin Yuan pursed his lips and stopped talking.

  "The son beating the father is indeed wrong, but you don't know that today the old man fell into our big pit. It was originally frozen inside, but I don't know whose child broke all the ice open. The old man accidentally slipped in and when we rescued him, we found many of those blood-sucking insects on his body, they had already entered his body. If we don't get them out quickly, he will soon be sucked dry of blood and die."

  "Why don't you send him to the hospital!"

  "It's all because of poverty at home! However, in the countryside, there is a way to deal with it, which is to find someone to beat him until the worm comes out."

  "How cruel!" Lin Yuan couldn't help but sigh.

  "Yes! Although that guy is a rascal, he's actually a well-known filial son. He knows it's not right for his son to hit him, but he still doesn't want others to hit his own dad, fearing they won't know their limits!"

  After listening, they all lowered their heads and blamed themselves for not asking clearly before hitting people.

  "You don't have to feel guilty either, because he's not a good person anyway. I just want you to know the truth about what happened."

  After finishing speaking, the boss's wife left.

  "Ah! Good deeds lead to strange occurrences!" Lin Yuan fell onto the bed, saying with a mixture of surprise and schadenfreude.

  "This incident gave me some clues, after returning to school, we started investigating what happened five years ago and three years ago, whether it was right or wrong, all of which were collected, we want to start by finding the cause."

  "Good!"

  They ran for a day today and were very tired. They fell asleep soon after lying on the bed, and even breathing sounds came from the room.

  The wind outside is still blowing strongly against the window, making a clattering sound.

  Lin Yuan in the house turned over restlessly, her tightly furrowed eyebrows indicating that she was sleeping very uneasily.

  It wasn't until a mournful cry echoed from outside the window that she reluctantly opened her eyes.

  The room was pitch black, and she couldn't see anything. She rubbed her sore eyes and perked up her ears to listen carefully to the sounds outside.

  That mournful cry seemed to come from a distant place, yet it also seemed to be just outside the window. She raised her head and looked at the window, where the wind was blowing through the gap and the curtains were fluttering.

  She got out of bed and stood by the window, pulled open the curtains to take a look outside. The outside was still pitch black, nothing could be seen. She stuck her face on the window, suddenly a pair of blood-red eyes appeared outside the window, staring at her fiercely.

  "Ah!" She retreated backward in terror and fell onto the bed.

  Those eyes were still staring at her fiercely, but seemed to be laughing, laughing at how she had scared herself.

  The window started bleeding, and streams of bright red blood flowed down the glass, making the eyes stuck to the window look even more ferocious and terrifying.

  Lin Yuan sat on the bed with intense panting, his eyes fixed tightly on the outside of the window, afraid that if he wasn't careful, the eyes outside the window would enter the room.

  Sweat had soaked through her clothes, and so she stood frozen in a staring match with the eyes outside.

  Finally, those eyes seemed to have had enough of her fearful appearance and slowly moved. At this time, the window was full of blood, and her eyes also seemed to turn a bloody red.

  The eyes outside the window were gone, but that mournful cry grew louder, as if the sound was right next to her ear. She closed her eyes and covered her ears tightly, but the more she covered them, the louder the sound became, as if it was coming from within her own ears.

  She was on the verge of collapse, and the sound was so miserable that it made her want to commit suicide.

  Suicide!

  Yes, I'll just kill myself and then I won't have to hear this terrible sound anymore.

  She loosened her hand and slowly walked towards the window.

  She opened the window and a cold wind blew into the room, blowing her hair back. She was laughing, but it was an eerie laugh, and yet tears streamed down her face.

  She slowly climbed up the window, a voice in her mind kept saying: Jump! You'll be free if you jump down, hurry up and jump! Don't hesitate.

  Lin Yuan shook her head desperately, her subconscious knowing she couldn't jump, but her body seemed no longer under her control.

  Just as she was climbing up to the window and getting ready to jump down, Su Jin'er grabbed her in time.

  "Are you crazy? Why did you jump down." Su Jin'er hugged her and pulled her back onto the bed.

  The lights in the room were already on, and Lin Yuan sat on the bed with his legs trembling.

  "What's wrong with you?"

  "I... I don't know, I just heard a scream and got up to take a look, then I saw a pair of blood-red eyes staring at me fiercely. The window started bleeding, so much blood, and then those eyes disappeared. Later, I heard the scream again, it was so desperate, saying that if I jumped down, I would never hear it again."

  After hearing Lin Yuan's words, Su Jin'er broke out in a cold sweat. She tightly hugged Lin Yuan, and if she had hesitated for just one more moment, she would have lost her best friend forever.

  "It's okay, don't cry anymore, everything is fine now, everything is fine."

  She turned her head to look out of the window, there were no scary eyes nor bleeding windows, what was going on?

  Lin Yuan gradually stopped crying, she wiped away her tears and said: "Jin'er, let's not bother with these things anymore, okay? I really think that all of this is not something we can stop."

  "Xiao Yuan, I'm sorry. It's all my fault for dragging you into this. Now we can't even extricate ourselves, he/she has already found us."

  "What? Do you know? I'm not afraid, they can control our minds, make us do whatever they want. If it was you who were controlled just now and I didn't wake up, the consequences would be terrible, do you know?" Lin Yuan's tears made Jin'er feel heartbroken, but she didn't know how to comfort her, so she could only gently pat her shoulder.

  She was also very scared, if it wasn't for the cold wind that suddenly blew in and woke her up, she would be crying with Lin Yuan's bloody corpse in her arms now! Just thinking about it makes me feel terrified. But what exactly is behind this? Why can it control people's will, control people's thoughts? Is it really a ghost?

  Lin Yuan tightly hugged her and got under a quilt with her, his body still slightly trembling.

  They lay there with their eyes open, staring at the ceiling, and didn't dare fall asleep again.

  Chu Fei Fan looked at his serious-faced father, who told him to find his brother, but didn't give him any clues. He had been home for three days already, and it wasn't until today that his dad had time to talk to him.

  "Is it just to ask about your brother that you've come back this time?" Chu Xiong asked, holding an unlit cigar.

  "Yes! Isn't this the task you gave me?" Chu Fei Fan was very respectful of his father, but he didn't like him.

  He thinks his father is enthusiastic about work but has no interest in anything else, which can be said to be inhumane.

  "To be honest, I haven't heard from him either, it's just that he's been out for a long time and I'm worried."

  Is it really unbearable? Chu Fei Fan couldn't help but want to laugh, his own son had become a criminal, how could he save face.

  "Dad, if you really care about him, just look for him openly and honestly. Don't tell outsiders that your son is dead." He was somewhat angry at his father's selfishness.

  "I didn't announce his death to the outside world." Chu Xiong suddenly looked very tired, he put down the cigar in his hand and seriously looked at his son: "Forget it, you're all grown up now, I'll tell you the truth! Seven years ago, your brother escaped from prison, I sent my men and the police to look for him everywhere, but half a year later, we found his body on that mountain near your school, he was burned to death. At that time, I was heartbroken, so I had him cremated, because you were still young, so I didn't tell you."

  Chu Fei Fan looked at his father in surprise, seeing two lines of tears on his face, which didn't seem like a lie. "Since you already know that my brother is dead, why do you still want me to investigate?"

  "Because I just recently discovered that your brother's death was suspicious, so I want to investigate the cause of his death."

  "Why didn't you investigate when your brother died? Now it's been seven years since your brother died, and only now do you want to investigate?"

  "At that time, Dad was very sad and angry, thinking it would be better to die. Later, he felt sorry for him, so he wanted to find the murderer."

  "Is your brother a murderer?"

  "I don't think your brother would commit suicide."

  He's already escaped from prison, how could he possibly commit suicide?! But it's also possible that it was an accident!

  He always thought his brother was living in some corner of the world, but didn't think that he already...

  When he left his father's study, his footsteps were a bit disordered. Although his brother seemed like a spoiled brat to outsiders, who only knew how to eat, drink and have fun every day, but his brother was actually very good to him, always giving him the best things whenever he had something good. When he found out that his brother had killed someone and was put in prison, he cried for a long time and even got sick. But now, facing the news that his brother had been dead for seven years, how could he not feel heartbroken?

  He returned to his room, sat in a corner and cried silently. Everything had changed too quickly, he hadn't even had time to prepare himself.

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