Chapter 8: Who Secretly Recorded The Video?
Meeting Lin Ling again, Yu Lianyun’s face pulled into a stiff smile: “Boss Lin, good evening.”
“I wonder how the initial experience with my family’s product was?” Lin Ling seemed not to notice the other’s nervousness, his expression relaxed.
As soon as she recalled that eerie video tape, Yu Lianyun could clearly perceive a knife pressing against the back of her head, like thorns pricking her back, with fear and crisis sense rising uncontrollably in her heart like a malignant disease.
“……Not bad.” Yu Lianyun took a deep breath and said, “Boss, I’ve thought about it, how about I change to renting it? That video tape is too precious.”
“It’s actually not that precious.” Lin Ling scratched his head, walked to the shelves where the video tape had been placed before, took out a sealed box, and after opening it, the black video tapes that nearly filled the entire box were like a swarm of man-eating ants, so dense that it made Yu Lianyun’s scalp tingle. “Look, there are still so many.”
“Still……better to rent it.” Yu Lianyun said with a stiff smile, “I really don’t have the fortune to enjoy it.”
Lin Ling chuckled lightly, put the box back, and after turning around, asked a strange question: “Miss Yu, do you know what the difference is between blessing and curse?”
Facing Lin Ling’s question, Yu Lianyun thought carefully for a moment, shook her head cautiously, and gave an answer she herself didn’t quite believe: “I’m not clear, perhaps blessing is beauty, and curse is evil.”
Pacing back to the coffee table, Lin Ling gestured for Yu Lianyun to sit down, brewed tea while voicing his own thoughts: “In my view, there is no difference between them.”
“I’ve scoured theological scriptures, and I discovered that the world’s most venomous curses come from the deity, and the heaviest blessings come from evil.” Lin Ling said softly, “Therefore, what is a curse and what is a blessing? It seems they are not that important.”
Listening to Lin Ling’s remarks, Yu Lianyun felt a slight shock in her heart while pondering the meaning behind Lin Ling’s words.
Lin Ling smiled: “Sure, if you want to return the video tape, the rental period I mentioned before is still valid.”
As he spoke, Lin Ling’s gaze suddenly sharpened, vigilantly looking at Yu Lianyun, “Of course, I absolutely won’t refund the money.”
“……No, no, of course not.” Yu Lianyun gave a dry laugh, then voiced her biggest doubt, “Boss, if the ‘blessing’ from the video tape disappears, will I……still be targeted?”
“Blessing is like a vicious stench to those things; they fear and avoid it.” Lin Ling explained, “It’s like a delicious cake that makes one’s mouth water, but if the cake is suddenly doused with shit, it becomes something frightening that one wants to stay away from. Even if the shit on the cake is perfectly removed……would you still eat that cake?”
What kind of metaphor is this?
Yu Lianyun’s mouth twitched, and she suddenly understood: “So, only those things that have perceived the ‘blessing’ on me won’t target me, but others that haven’t seen it might still make a move on me?”
“Good understanding.” Lin Ling poured a cup of the brewed tea for Yu Lianyun and himself, smiling with praise.
Yu Lianyun couldn’t be happy; she remembered what those from the Mysterious Group had said. With her now super high inspirational ability, she was almost a calamity star who couldn’t avoid anomalous disasters. Although the video tape’s blessing would kill her, losing the blessing, she would sooner or later die at the hands of other anomalies.
“You can wait until the rental period ends, then bring the video tape back.” Lin Ling issued an order to leave, his words making Yu Lianyun’s heart chill, “Hurry and get out; that group of people is looking for you.”
Yu Lianyun was suddenly startled, her gaze toward Lin Ling becoming even more fearful, because the other party actually knew she hadn’t come alone.
She had originally thought the three from the Mysterious Group had gotten separated from her, but now it seemed that wasn’t the case.
What kind of deity is this shop’s boss? What kind of methods did he use to know everything happening in the outside world in this place with no village ahead or shop behind?
“Boss, I……” Yu Lianyun had originally been rejoicing that she had gotten separated from the three from the Mysterious Group. She could return the video tape in the shop and then go out to enjoy freedom to her heart’s content without any restrictions, and Lin Ling wouldn’t know about it. But facts proved this was her wishful thinking.
Lin Ling just smiled and shook his head, gesturing for the other not to mind such a small matter.
In fact, he didn’t care at all what background that group from the Mysterious Group had or what special abilities they possessed; he simply didn’t want to be entangled by those serious people.
That would remind him of his days in the mental hospital; those from the Mysterious Group would likely try to deal with him in that same imprisoning and rearing manner.
Lin Ling had finally escaped, so naturally he wouldn’t want to return to that stifling place.
Therefore, he had long ago secretly set a new program for the small dwelling: except for those with good intentions hugging him or his designated choices, no one else could normally find this small dwelling.
Thus, the three from the Mysterious Group with impure motives got separated from Yu Lianyun, and in the end, only Yu Lianyun, who had early contact with Lin Ling, found this shop’s location.
“Alright, I’ll leave now.” Yu Lianyun didn’t think more, fearing to anger Lin Ling, but she didn’t choose to take the video tape with her again, instead leaving it in the shop. Lin Ling kept smiling the whole time, without stopping her.
“By the way, although the video tape has been recovered, the blessing on you hasn’t disappeared, because someone recorded a video through other means.” Lin Ling’s final voice startled Yu Lianyun, but she gritted her teeth, lacking the courage to turn back and inquire.
When Yu Lianyun left the small dwelling and walked out of the mist-wrapped realm of the small dwelling, she suddenly felt the world before her eyes in chaos. With a shake of her head, she discovered she was back on the mountain, but the environmental mist had long vanished, leaving only the serene night.
“Yu Lianyun, where did you go?!”
The three from the Mysterious Group ran over from not far away. After their interrogation, Yu Lianyun dazedly realized she had lost contact with them on the mountain for nearly an hour, during which the three from the Mysterious Group had been searching for her sudden disappearance.
Recalling Lin Ling’s earlier words, facing the questioning, Yu Lianyun had made her own decision.
“Just now I went to that forest cabin again, then returned the video tape to the boss.” Yu Lianyun honestly confessed what she had done during her disappearance.
He Jia’an and Li Yingqi were both skeptical at first, but when they looked at Wei Jiang, who had lie-detecting ability, he shook his head, indicating Yu Lianyun wasn’t lying, and the two couldn’t help but frown.
“In that case, Miss Yu, I think we should head back first.” He Jia’an gave Yu Lianyun a deep look and said.
Yu Lianyun said nothing more, just nodded, her lowered eyelids hiding a pair of beautiful eyes scrutinizing the three Mysterious Group members before her.
Among these three, which one recorded the video!
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