N-M Chapter 160 An eye for an eye
Chapter 160 An eye for an eye
Chapter 160 An eye for an eye
Actually, losing two black ants is nothing to Mali.
What surprised her was that Lin Shouye would actually soak himself in that huge vat of blood!
Moreover, the conversation that Li Jiuhe and Ma Li had overheard between Lin Jianmin and the others was different from the scene they were in now.
They said that as long as the medicine in the blood vat is drunk up, life can be gradually extended.
But at this moment, Lin Shouye was completely immersed in a vat of blood, and his actions were clearly different.
So, is Lin Shouye hiding the specific method of using the longevity elixir from his children?
"Should we go over there now and catch Lin Shouye red-handed?" Ma Li asked.
Li Jiuhe shook his head: "If we're going to arrest someone, we should arrest them all together. Arresting him alone might alert them."
After a moment's thought, he added, "They must be in a real panic today, otherwise Lin Shouye wouldn't have started preparing the medicine during the day. They'll most likely use these ghosts to kill us tonight, or they might do it through other means during the day. Have your black ants keep an eye on things, and also keep an eye on Lin Siyu."
The two quickly returned to their room on the third floor of the villa.
Even when it was time for dinner, they didn't go to eat. During this time, Lin Jianmin and Lin Siyuan came upstairs to call them once each, but Li Jiuhe refused, citing that he was not feeling well and that Ma Li did not want to eat.
Ma Li was truly nauseous and didn't want to eat. Ever since her two ant chicks died in the liquid in that blood vat, she had felt nauseous and wanted to vomit.
For some reason, this feeling persists to this day; the scent of the medicinal liquid rises up from time to time, making Ma Li very uncomfortable.
She also told Li Jiuhe that she had a very strange feeling, but she hadn't fully figured it out yet.
As for Lin Jianmin, he went back and secretly told his wife that the couple guessed that Li Jiuhe and Ma Li were probably still frightened by the evil ghost last night, and their health might have suffered as a result.
However, they were still unable to find their son Yangyang, and they were somewhat uneasy.
As for Lin Jianguo, after returning from his wife's grave, he immediately found Li Jiuhe and quietly told them that the grave had indeed been dug up and his wife's body was nowhere to be found.
Li Jiuhe told him to stay in the room where his wife had hanged herself, to stay with them, and not to go downstairs for the time being.
During this time, Lin Jianguo's phone rang several times. It was either Lin Siyuan calling, or Lin Jianmin or Lin Shouye calling. He put his phone on silent and didn't answer any of the calls.
Yangyang was still fast asleep, but Ma Li had moved him to the bed. She didn't dare to wake him up, otherwise the child wouldn't have much of a thinking ability and might cry and expose himself.
The person hiding in this house at this moment is the least suspicious member of the entire Lin family.
After dinner, there was still some noise coming from downstairs, but as night fell, it quickly became quiet.
However, through her ant larvae, Mali had been secretly observing these people's movements and knew what they were doing at the moment, although they were very careful and did not make a sound.
As night deepened, Lin Jianguo sat with them, growing increasingly uneasy.
He asked in a low voice, "Detective Li, are we just going to wait like this? Aren't we going to do anything?"
"Of course we should do it, but it's not the right time yet," Li Jiuhe replied.
He then turned to look at Ma Li: "Have they finished their work?"
Ma Li nodded: "It should be about time. These guys hid all the usable headphones in the house, and then moved all the mirrors except for those on the second and third floors to the third-floor hallway, where they are now facing our room."
"Ah!" Lin Jianguo exclaimed in surprise, "Are they going to—are they going to send that hair-combing ghost—to deal with us?"
"The Hair-Combing Ghost is actually your mother," Ma Li said.
Lin Jianguo was stunned, because he had only heard of the rustling sound of combing hair, but had never actually seen the combing ghost.
Ma Li explained to him in a low voice.
Li Jiuhe walked to the door and opened it a crack to look outside.
At this moment, all the lights in the living room on the first floor were on, and sure enough, there were seven or eight mirrors placed in the corridor on the third floor, some of which had been moved up along with the dressing table.
All the mirrors were facing their room at that moment.
Because these people knew that Mali had long hair, and with the help of the mirror, the hair-combing ghost was bound to appear, and they couldn't escape.
Li Jiuhe quickly closed the door again, returned to Ma Li's side, and asked, "Where are these people now?"
"Except for Lin Shouye, everyone else is gathered on the second floor, but Lin Siyu is in her own room," Ma Li said.
Li Jiuhe glanced at the time; it was already past midnight. He nodded: "It should be fine now."
Just then, a strange rustling sound came from outside the door.
Judging from the sound, it was the old woman combing her hair and scraping her scalp with a comb. Now, without even looking, it was clear that the old woman was standing in front of one of the mirrors in the corridor, combing her gray hair in front of the mirror.
Ma Li immediately tensed up: "It's here! It was the same sound last time! That hair-combing ghost is outside!"
"Don't be nervous, just do as I tell you later," Li Jiuhe reminded him.
On the second-floor corridor.
Lin Jianmin, Wang Li, and Lin Siyuan huddled together. The three of them weren't in their own rooms; they were cautiously looking up towards the third floor.
A short while later, Lin Siyu's room door opened a crack. She didn't dare to open it completely, so she just peeked out from behind it.
"Don't come out, it's none of your business, close the door!" Lin Siyuan frowned.
The door behind him closed immediately.
Almost at the same moment, the sound of combing hair came from the third floor, and the three people on the second floor were immediately delighted.
They knew the plan had succeeded.
This time, instead of destroying the mirror or moving it outside the villa, they changed its location, creating the conditions for the appearance of the hair-combing ghost.
It seems that the hair-combing ghost will soon lock onto her target and then hunt down everyone around that target.
When the two detectives arrived on their first day, they did not confront them directly, but instead assumed that Li Jiuhe and his companion would be able to deal with the three ghosts and kill themselves.
To everyone's surprise, the next day they were found to be miraculously unharmed.
So the next day they prepared to tamper with the food, but soon discovered that they seemed to have the ability to tell whether the food was normal or not, because the two agents didn't even touch the tampered dishes.
Moreover, both of them eat very little, so even if they did eat some, the medication wouldn't be very effective.
Therefore, the best course of action is to redirect the ghost's attention and take care of these two detectives tonight.
If they can survive tonight, once their elixir of immortality is complete, they can leave immediately, just like their father Lin Shouye did before, find a new place to continue their lives, continue to have many children and blessings, and even have more offspring.
The reason why Lin Jianmin and the other two dared to stay outside was because they all knew very well that the first half of the night was when the "hair-combing ghost" would appear.
The Hair-Combing Ghost has already appeared.
It was only in the middle of the night that Pengpeng, who was playing hide-and-seek, would appear.
By then, the people on the third floor will probably have been wiped out by the Hair-Combing Ghost.
So at this moment they are very safe even outside. They will probably only return to their rooms satisfied after they are sure that the hair-combing ghost has started killing upstairs, and wait for dawn to clean up the mess.
It now appears that the plan is progressing perfectly.
Suddenly, the unsettling sound of combing stopped. The three people listening on the second floor were startled, guessing that the combing ghost had begun to lock onto its target.
According to Wang Li, who had seen the old woman combing her hair, the combing ghost would insert the comb, which could be used as a weapon to kill, into its hair and then begin chasing its target.
Normally, if she sees her target for the first time and starts chasing it, she will give up the chase if she is interrupted by other people who do not meet the criteria for her target.
If the same target is targeted a second time, the resentment of the hair-combing ghost will increase, and even if there are other people around the target, they will all become her targets.
Because she had previously pursued Ma Li, Ma Li now meets the conditions for her second attempt to kill her.
However, after the combing sound stopped, they did not hear any chasing, screams, or cries of agony.
The third floor remained completely silent.
"What's going on?" Lin Jianmin turned to look at Lin Siyuan.
Lin Siyuan was also full of doubt.
Just then, a childish voice suddenly rang out beside the three of them, startling them.
"Shall we play hide-and-seek? If you find me within five minutes, I can answer one question for you."
The three of them turned their heads at the same time and saw Pengpeng, a little boy covered in bruises, with his strange face laughing.
Lin Jianmin, Wang Li, and Lin Siyuan were immediately filled with a chill, and goosebumps rose on their skin.
They couldn't understand it at all; wasn't Pengpeng supposed to appear in the middle of the night?
But the hair-combing ghost upstairs is still there, so how did he come out?
According to the rules of these vengeful ghosts, two tigers cannot share one mountain, so their appearances will naturally be staggered.
The appearance of Pengpeng's ghost has clearly offended the already appearing hair-combing ghost.
But for some reason, there was still no sound from the third floor, and the sound of combing hair stopped and never came again.
Although they didn't understand why this was happening, the three of them reacted quite quickly.
They knew that now that they had encountered Pengpeng's ghost, they should not play hide-and-seek with him. Based on past experience, they could choose not to agree and then immediately go back to the house.
Before he could even finish speaking, Pengpeng turned and ran downstairs.
The three of them were stunned for a moment, then exchanged a glance.
"Um, it seems we haven't agreed yet, right? Did he...did he violate his rules of conduct?!" Lin Siyuan exclaimed in surprise.
"Should we go find him?"
Seeing the child she and her husband had killed run away to hide, Wang Li asked in horror.
Because after a person dies and becomes a ghost, they have their own rules of conduct, and many of their memories of their past life are incomplete. Only the most profound memories, or rather, their obsessions and resentments, remain.
When Pengpeng saw his parents, he completely ignored them.
His rule was simply to play hide-and-seek with everyone he met.
"In that case, we have to go find him," Lin Jianmin warned. "Otherwise, if we don't go, we'll be skinned alive too!"
Therefore, this "skinning" game punishment is very likely a projection of his resentment after his death.
"Let's go look for it together. We have five minutes. Remember to bring your earphones with you first, because we'll have another round of hide-and-seek later," Lin Siyuan reminded him.
He then quickly returned to his room and took the headphones he had hidden there.
Lin Jianmin and his wife immediately went back into the house, took the earphones they had prepared, plugged them into their phones, and turned on their music players, turning up the volume in advance.
After the three met in the stairwell, they immediately went down to the first floor to search.
Because Lin Siyuan had experience with hide-and-seek before, he knew that Pengpeng could transform into other people, so he had already told Lin Jianmin and his wife that their current target was not Pengpeng, but all suspicious people.
Furthermore, everyone just saw Pengpeng run downstairs to hide, so the search area has been greatly narrowed down to the first floor.
After arriving on the first floor, the three split into two groups. Lin Jianmin and his wife went to the living room, kitchen, and dining room to search, while Lin Siyuan went to the study and his grandfather Lin Shouye's bedroom.
They were very fast; in just over three minutes, they had basically searched the entire first floor.
The couple, Lin Jianmin and his wife, chose open spaces where the kitchen and dining room were connected to the living room, allowing them to see most of the area at a glance.
They simply looked at it from a different angle, and just to be on the safe side, they opened the cabinets and refrigerator to check, but quickly determined that they didn't see Pengpeng.
At this moment, Lin Siyuan had already come out of his grandfather Lin Shouye's room, which was also empty, with no one on the bed.
Grandpa didn't come for dinner tonight, saying he had something important to do.
Although he didn't see him, Lin Siyuan guessed that his grandfather must also be doing something similar to the longevity elixir. After all, according to his speculation, Lin Shouye's last dose of the medicine was about to end, and if he wanted to continue the previous effect, he would also need to take the longevity elixir.
Moreover, Lin Shouye had previously called in a strange man from outside, and his sister seemed to have some interest in that man.
That person has left during this time, and I don't know what Grandpa is doing.
However, Lin Siyuan dared not ask him. He had a natural fear of this grandfather because sometimes the grandfather's eyes seemed to devour people, which made him shudder.
Although his grandfather didn't say it explicitly, Lin Siyuan knew very well that he was probably going to use the elixir of immortality to conduct a screening process.
Those who resonate with Lin Shouye can continue to live in this way, while people like his father, Lin Jianguo, are not of the same kind.
Therefore, there is a high probability that the father will be targeted by Lin Shouye, and his life will be in danger.
In addition, there is his younger sister, Lin Siyu.
Putting all that aside for now, since there was a chance to achieve immortality, Lin Siyuan told himself that he must do his utmost to seize it.
He also wanted to live to be like his grandfather, living for hundreds of years.
They will then expand their lineage, rigorously selecting and eliminating future generations, so that they too can become heads of their own families and establish their own immortal lineage.
Nowadays, no one knows how many families the Lin family has expanded to above Lin Shouye, or how many of their descendants have died.
However, if they could get through this hurdle today, they believed that Lin Shouye would tell them more secrets.
Lin Siyuan then went into the study to search.
Mr. and Mrs. Lin Jianmin had already dragged out the living room sofa and started sweeping the corners of the house and some places where it was obvious that no one could hide.
Just then, footsteps sounded, coming from the direction of the stairwell.
The couple looked up and saw that Lin Shouye, who had been missing since dinner, had appeared and was walking downstairs with a serious expression.
They looked at each other, wondering when their father had come upstairs.
"Dad?" Wang Li exclaimed in surprise.
After his initial surprise, Lin Jianmin quickly recovered. He gently tugged at Wang Li, then looked at Lin Shouye and tentatively said, "We—we've found you!"
Wang Li then realized that Lin Shouye in front of her could indeed be Pengpeng's ghost in disguise.
Lin Shouye continued downstairs without making any statement until he reached the first floor.
"It's not time yet, you don't need to dress up anymore, we've already found you!" Lin Jianmin added.
Then Lin Shouye stopped and grinned at the couple.
The smile grew wider and wider, gradually becoming more and more terrifying, and increasingly matching the deformed face of their son, Pengpeng.
Wang Li glanced at the time and said anxiously, "Why won't he admit it? Is it really him? Time's almost up!"
"That's him! That smile is just like Pengpeng's." Lin Jianmin nodded hurriedly, then added, "This round of the game is over, we found you!"
five!
Four!
three!
two!
—!
Suddenly the study door opened, and Lin Siyuan and the little boy Pengpeng walked out one after the other.
Lin Siyuan called out to the couple who were standing in the living room, stunned, "Found him! He's in the study!"
The little boy Pengpeng beside him looked up with a strange smile, then exclaimed excitedly, "Hehehe, you found me, but they didn't! Time's up! Sorry, you two—you lost!"
As he spoke, he pointed at Lin Jianmin and Wang Li, his scarlet tongue darting out from the corner of his grinning mouth. He licked his lips, emanating a terrifying aura that sent chills down one's spine.
"what!"
The couple turned pale instantly, their bodies jolted, and they looked at Lin Shouye standing at the top of the stairs.
"Dad?! It really is you!"
Why aren't you saying anything? Could it be—could it be that you're deliberately trying to harm us?!
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Lin Jianmin and Wang Li immediately became excited.
"No, this doesn't count. Someone interfered! Otherwise, we would definitely have gone into the study and found you with Lin Siyuan!"
"Let's peel it!"
Pengpeng paid no heed to their words. After shouting excitedly, his small figure vanished in a flash.
When he reappeared, he was already standing in front of Lin Jianmin and his wife. At the same time, he stretched out his hands and quickly inserted them into their abdomens.
The intense pain, coupled with their severe injuries, caused them to scream and collapse to the ground.
Soon after, he began to convulse, bleeding profusely, and it was clear that he wouldn't last much longer.
Pengpeng acted as if nothing had happened, dragging two pieces of leather in his hand, and turned to look at Lin Shouye: "After this round, I'll play with you again later."
Lin Shouye said nothing and did not return to his room. Instead, he turned around and went upstairs again without even glancing at Lin Siyuan.
Lin Siyuan was dumbfounded and trembling all over. The terrifying scene in front of him made him feel like he had difficulty breathing, as if the skin on his body had been peeled off at the same time.
A moment later, he realized what was happening and quickly turned to look at Lin Shouye, who was going upstairs: "Grandpa, Grandpa—"
Lin Shouye ignored him and disappeared lightly from the second floor without even using his cane. It was unclear whether he stayed on the second floor or went to the third floor.
"Now it's your turn to hide."
Pengpeng had returned to Lin Siyuan's side, threw the human skin in her hand away, then covered her eyes with her blood-stained little hands and turned away.
"nineteen----"
Lin Siyuan had no time to think and immediately ran upstairs.
In his haste, his gaze fell upon the two blood-soaked figures, skinless and convulsing, that sent chills down his spine.
"No, I can't become like that, I absolutely can't become like them!"
As he ran, Lin Siyuan quickly shoved the earphones into his ears and turned the music up to the maximum volume, instantly silencing the countdown timer.