Chapter 88: Video (1/2)

“He runs really fast.”

Bai Yan watched the boy’s figure get farther ahead, feeling rather strange. If he saw correctly, the boy’s expression just now must have been filled with envy. But, what was he envious about?

Jealous that Gou Dan still has grandparents, while all his family members had died early deaths?

Bai Yan glanced at the old lady who liked giving out sweet potatoes, unconsciously taking another bite out of his own. Just from the taste of the sweet potato, having a grandmother like this would deserve that boy’s jealousy.

Shaking his head, Bai Yan felt that there wasn’t a need to look through this thoroughly.

At this moment, an old man came over, carrying a half-filled sack with both hands.

He walked up to the group’s vicinity and put the sack down, wiping off the seeping sweat on his forehead and calling Gou Dan, “Grandchild, help grandfather move this sack of corn cobs inside!”

“There’s only a few steps left, can’t you do it yourself?” The boy mumbled to himself, looking unwilling to do so.

“The water has already been boiled, but there’s no smoke coming out of the chimney?”

Ye Shangyu heard Bai Yan’s words and looked back to the chimney out of reflex.

Like Bai Yan had said, the chimney was clean as ever with no traces of smoke.

The grandfather and grandson duo spoke in unison, saying that the water had been boiled, but since there was no smoke coming out of their chimney, the two were obviously lying!

The grandfather looked like he was a serious person. This kind of person usually wouldn’t lie out of amusement without a good cause.

Seeing this, Bai Yan and Ye Shangyu’s hearts had the same speculation, that this family’s grandfather and grandchild were nothing but trouble!

But, whatever the outcome was, they wouldn’t rush in there to fight tactlessly.

The two problematic ‘family members’ may be killing people, and them crashing at the scene of the crime could make them the next ones to suffer that calamity.

In any case, by tomorrow, everything will become apparent.

“Granny…”

Ye Shangyu murmured this with a slight trace of agitation was shown between her brows.

However, she merely redirected her line of sight towards the marks on the ground left behind by the maza with a profound look on her face, then turning her head around and following the dirt road without looking back at the distant farmhouse they had just departed from.

Upon seeing this, Bai Yan also moved along. He knew that all signs pointed to disaster for the old woman, but he wasn’t always thoughtless. Even if he knew that the NPCs were also real people, he would never do anything that was such a pain in the *ss as doing good and saving a person.

On the road, Bai Yan was tossing the sweet potato in his hand and was indifferently eating it, suddenly realizing that the smell had become more fragrant.

After the two ate, he suddenly said to Ye Shangyu, “Want a few? I’ll split it with you.”

Ye Shangyu just shot him a glance, feeling unimpressed by his suddenly generous demeanor, and only dully replied, “Later, I still need to do some research. Don’t get me annoyed, the mood can negatively affect efficiency.”

Bai Yan merely chewed and finished the remaining sweet potatoes by himself. Once he finished them all, Ye Shangyu also found a suitable place for them to sit down and started to noisily type on her laptop.

Truth be told, although it was towards the end that they saw misfortune about to befall, after asking the family, Bai Yan and Ye Shangyu had gathered quite a lot.

Especially Ye Shangyu, she learned that Xu Lanfang normally liked looking at supernatural videos and was also usually scrolling online, this was extremely crucial.

She had acquired a lot of information about ghosts during her stay at the ‘Supernatural Research Institute’s’ Doomsday level. Compared to the other players, she naturally knew more.

Like Xu Lanfang, not long after she entered the game, just from seeing the old woman’s abnormal appearance, she deduced that Xu Lanfang was the ghost, not the old woman who lived with her.

In the app’s game, knowing who the ghost was ahead of time undoubtedly saved a lot of grievances.

Since Gou Dan mentioned that Xu Lanfang liked scrolling through supernatural videos, Ye Shangyu determined that scrolling was an important factor in their investigation.

She used a code she wrote herself to look through scrolling activity. Because she didn’t know Xu Lanfang’s username for scrolling through her feed nor did she dare look for this female ghost’s account, she simply aimed her attack towards this supernatural live broadcast platform, trying to analyze who exactly posted the problematic video.

While Ye Shangyu was avidly searching online, Bai Yan just surveyed their surroundings, acting as a guard if a stranger was approaching them.

Roughly ten minutes had passed when Ye Shangyu stopped her hands and suddenly said, “Found it, it must be her.”

“That fast?”

Bai Yan was astonished. He knew that Ye Shangyu’s computer skills were good, but wasn’t it too fast this time?

However, when he saw the results of Ye Shangyu’s investigation, he immediately understood why it was so simple.