My incredible luck and the girl I picked up

"Ah... haha, I was just kidding, were you scared?" Leng Yihan finally realized that the person she was playing was named Lin Ye.

"Sigh...yes, you really startled us. We thought you were really possessed by a ghost...it's all your fault for suggesting this and saying such nonsense." A fat man said with dissatisfaction.

"Xu Zhou! What are you saying!" Zou Yu, like a cat with its fur standing on end, grabbed Leng Yihan's hand and glared fiercely at Xu Zhou, the fat man. His short black hair was neatly combed, and he was dressed in designer clothes that Leng Yihan recognized. It was obvious that he was a rich kid.

"Okay, okay, I know you and Lin Ye love each other so we can't talk bad about him to others, right, Ruan Qi?" Xu Zhou said, looking at a thin boy wearing glasses.

“Ah, yes, everyone at school knows about your loving relationship with Lin Ye.” Ruan Qi nodded in agreement.

Wait... what's going on?! Did Leng Binglan manage to get rid of this girl?! Then how does she know so much about the plot?!

Before Leng Yihan could understand what was going on, two pairs of eyes fell on him from behind. Feeling their gazes, Leng Yihan subconsciously turned around. Sure enough, the two people standing behind him were Leng Binglan and Feixue, and their appearances were exactly the same as in the Divine Oracle Main World.

But... what's going on?! This guy who claims to be my girlfriend... suddenly has a girlfriend out of nowhere...

"Xia Bing, Sister Xue, let's go in quickly, shall we?" Zou Yu turned around and said to the two of them with a smile.

“Alright! Let’s go in then.” Feixue smiled, seemingly accepting the name calmly and adapting quickly. She walked ahead and was the first to enter the town gate, a bold move that shocked the other three.

“Lin, Forestry... Sister Xue... So you’re really that bold... No wonder you brought her here…” Zou Yu clung to Leng Yihan’s hands, her face trembling.

“Yes, that’s how it is…” Leng Yihan continued naturally, taking into account the last sentence the system had added earlier, so he tried his best to act very friendly with Zou Yu.

"...Linye, what's wrong with you..." Zou Yu suddenly said.

"Huh?" Leng Yihan was stunned.

"Because... because Lin Ye, you're usually so cold to me... why are you suddenly so nice to me today..." Zou Yu lowered her head and said softly.

After seeing Feixue go in, Xu Zhou and Ruan Qi followed her into the town. Now, only Leng Binglan, Leng Yihan, and Zou Yu are here.

"...Actually, I usually like you too, but... I'm a little shy... Now, I feel very safe by your side." Leng Yihan said without changing her expression, but Zou Yu's face turned bright red.

Looks like I did a pretty good job flirting...

"Um... can we go now?" Leng Binglan walked to Zou Yu's side and took Zou Yu's hand.

"Hmm, Xia Bing, don't be afraid, your sister will protect you~" Zou Yu seemed to have a special fondness for Leng Binglan, with her left arm around Leng Yihan's hand and her right arm holding Leng Binglan's hand.

“…” Leng Binglan pouted, feeling dissatisfied.

Damn it... This girl suddenly appeared and said she was my brother's girlfriend... and they were hugging so intimately... I know she was acting so close so they wouldn't suspect anything, but it's still so annoying...

"Let's go in," Leng Yihan said, taking Zou Yu's arm as they walked into the desolate town.

The town had only a patchwork of cement road that hadn't been maintained for a long time; it was covered with fallen leaves, and the surrounding houses were dilapidated, as if no one had lived there for years.

“Let’s go, let’s go to that villa now! We can get there by just following this cement road, right?” Xu Zhou said. The way to the villa is just by following this big cement road, which Leng Yihan had already seen from her previous omniscient perspective.

“Wait a minute, I don’t think we need to rush. We can ask the residents around here about the story of that villa first. After all, things on the internet aren’t always entirely true,” Leng Yihan said, looking at the surrounding houses.

That's what they say... but it looks like nobody lives around here at all.

“Hmm…that makes sense. Let’s ask the residents nearby, though we don’t know if anyone lives here,” Ruan Qi said, though he didn’t seem to think anyone lived in the area.

The town wasn't big. Leng Yihan looked up at the position of the sun. It was probably not even noon yet, so they should have enough time to walk through this small town.

Led by Leng Yihan, they began knocking on doors one by one, but there was no response along the way. Before long, the six of them had knocked on half of the town's doors, but no one came.

"Let's go take a look on the other side," Leng Yihan said. The spot they had just looked at was the right half of the cement road leading towards the villa, and now they were going to the left half.

Leng Yihan started knocking on doors from house to house again, but later they simply knocked casually and left, and eventually they basically stopped knocking altogether.

But not long after, Leng Yihan stopped walking.

"Hmm? Lin Ye, what's wrong?" Ruan Qi asked, noticing that Leng Yihan had suddenly stopped walking.

“This house is home.” Leng Yihan pointed to the house in front of her. Although it was a bit dilapidated, Leng Yihan shouldn’t be so sure.

“There’s trash at the entrance, it’s new, and…” Leng Yihan took a few steps back and looked up at the balcony above, “There are also a few pieces of clothing drying up there, but it looks like an elderly person lives here, the clothes are all quite old.”

"Let's try knocking," Feixue said, stepping forward and knocking on the door while calling out, "Hey! Is anyone home? Is the old lady home?"

After Feixue shut up, she didn't respond, but she didn't give up and immediately continued to knock on the door and call out.

"Sister Xue, give up. Let's try another method." Leng Yihan could tell that the people inside didn't want to open the door, but that made her even more curious about why they weren't opening it.

"Linye, step on that spot for me, I'll step on it and go up to take a look." After hearing Leng Yihan's words, Feixue stepped back to observe the house, pointed to a protruding spot close to the balcony, where there was a water pipe for her to hold onto.

"Then give it a try, but just do your best." Leng Yihan was naturally reminding Feixue that they were not in the physical condition of game characters.

"Okay." Feixue stretched her muscles, took a running start, stepped on Leng Yihan's clasped hands, and then jumped with all her might, grabbing the water pipe and immediately standing on the protrusion.

"Heave-ho!" Feixue immediately jumped again, grabbed the edge of the balcony, and looked inside.

"Ah!!!" Feixue's face changed, and she slipped and fell.

"Snowflakes!!!"

216 The Girl in the Villa (3)

Leng Yihan didn't care about revealing anything anymore. There was a distance of more than three meters between them, and Feixue would definitely get hurt if she fell.

Leng Yihan rushed forward and caught Feixue as she fell. Although Feixue looked a little pale, she quickly recovered.

“That guy inside… scared me… really caught me off guard…” Fei Xue said, while gesturing for Leng Yihan to put her down.

"Huh? What is that?" Xu Zhou asked. Everyone seemed to have ignored Leng Yihan's shout of "Flying Snow" just now, and the weight that had been on his mind lifted a little.

"She looks..." Before Feixue could finish speaking, footsteps sounded, and the six of them subconsciously took a step back, cautiously looking towards the door.

Soon, the footsteps stopped at the door. The door opened, revealing an aged face—an old woman. The wrinkles on her face were terrifying, seemingly forming some grotesque pattern. Her skin was extremely pale; she didn't look human at all…

"What are you doing?" Her voice was hoarse and not loud. Although Leng Yihan was scared to see such a person, she still needed to ask for clues.

"Um... excuse me, we're a team conducting an investigation. May I ask, ma'am, have you lived here for a long time?" Leng Yihan asked, making up an excuse.

"...You all better run quickly, or none of you will survive past midnight." The old woman didn't answer Leng Yihan's question, but said this instead.

“Midnight, I guess… Thanks for reminding me. So, what’s our problem…” Leng Yihan asked again.

"Don't go to that villa. It's a cursed place. A little girl was once tricked there, and I don't know how that guy managed it," the old woman said. "Before she died, she told me... if anyone wants to go to the villa and finds me, give him something." After saying that, the old woman went back to her room, but she didn't close the door.

Leng Yihan frowned. Clearly, this old woman was no ordinary person. Leng Yihan was puzzled. Could the little girl she mentioned be the person described at the beginning? What did she want to give us? How did she entrust the item to the old woman before she died? And how did the old woman escape death?

The group exchanged glances, and a chill ran down their spines. Soon, footsteps sounded again, and Leng Yihan immediately looked back at the door. The old woman was holding an item in her hand: a cell phone.

"A phone...?" Leng Yihan frowned in confusion. Although the phone had several cracks, it was still usable. She took the phone from the old lady and tried to turn it on. The screen lit up, and the battery was full, clearly indicating that it had been charging.

"This is that little girl's phone. You should leave now. There's enough stuff in here for you to write on." The old woman said, then closed the door, not giving them a chance to speak again.

“This person… is so strange…” Zou Yu frowned. “Who is that girl she’s talking about…?”

"Isn't that the person who died in the villa six months ago?" Xu Zhou interjected. "A girl died in that villa six months ago. According to some information I've gathered privately, she lived far away from here, but I don't know why she came here..."

Bringing it here with my mother...

Leng Yihan and the other two glanced at each other, and they all knew roughly what had happened, since they had all seen that CG.

"Let's check the phone first," Leng Yihan said, turning on her phone. There was no password required, and the wallpaper featured a girl with long, straight black hair. After glancing at it a few times, Leng Yihan opened the call log.

The most recent communication record was from six months ago, with the note "Dear Mother" and the date being the day the girl went to the villa.

"What's going on?" Leng Yihan remembered there were still messages. Although he didn't know if there were any, he wanted to check, just in case. Leng Yihan opened the messages, and sure enough, there was a message.

"There's a message!" Hearing his words, the others curiously gathered around. Leng Yihan also opened the message, a message that hadn't been opened for half a year...

"Daughter, where are you? The car and a bunch of things are gone, and you're nowhere to be found either. Come back quickly, it's so late, Mom is so worried... Your dad is frantic..." The speaker was the girl's mother. Leng Yihan was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and upon listening carefully, she indeed heard the sound of police sirens in the background.

Then... who is the 'mother' who took the girl away?!

Leng Yihan's hair stood on end. The message was only one paragraph long. After listening to it, the three of them looked puzzled, while the three players looked at each other in confusion. Their question was the same: Who exactly is the mother who took the girl away?

"What does this mean?" Zou Yu tilted her head.

"Well... I don't really... know either." Leng Yihan looked down and suddenly trembled slightly.

There are six of them; normally, they should only have twelve legs.

But Leng Yihan counted carefully and realized there were clearly fourteen legs—

While Leng Yihan tried to discuss the matter with them, she carefully examined the pair of feet. They seemed to have appeared out of thin air, right behind Ruan Qi, even though there was clearly nothing behind him...

"So what do we do now?" Ruan Qi asked.

“…Let’s go check out the other rooms.” Leng Yihan replied, walking ahead again. As she exchanged glances with Leng Binglan, Ruan Qi, who was originally at the back, was replaced by Leng Binglan and Feixue, and then they saw it too.

Those feet, those illusory feet.

Another half hour passed, and they had explored the left half of the town. Only now did Leng Yihan realize that the main quest hadn't even refreshed yet...

"There's only one family in the whole town..." Xu Zhou said in disbelief, "...and the only family is...so eerie..." Ruan Qi continued.

"What do we do now? That old lady said that none of us will survive after midnight... What does that mean..." Leng Binglan looked very scared.

"Xia Bing, don't be afraid! We're here. That old lady is acting strangely; maybe she has some big secret in the villa that she wants us to go." It was Ruan Qi who spoke. If it were the original Ruan Qi who was so excited, Leng Yihan might not have cared. But after seeing those strange legs, Leng Yihan began to question Ruan Qi's behavior.

“…Let’s go check out the villa,” Leng Yihan said after a moment of silence. “As long as we leave before midnight, it should be fine.”

"Okay, let's go then." Perhaps noticing her own excitement, Ruan Qi reverted to her previous quiet demeanor.

There's a problem... there's definitely a problem...

From that moment on, Leng Yihan became wary of Ruan Qi...

217 The Girl in the Villa (4)

"Forestry...I...I think we should go back?" Zou Yu shuddered as he looked at the gloomy mansion in front of him.

"I...I think so too..." Xu Zhou's face was pale, and he didn't look much better.

"It's alright! We're already here, let's go in and take a look." Ruan Qi's intention was still to go inside.

Unfortunately, the minority had to submit to the majority. With the forestry leader, played by Leng Yihan, also agreeing not to go, Feixue and Leng Binglan immediately echoed her sentiment.

Although Leng Yihan was determined to go in, she still hoped to save as many people as possible. After all, if they went into this place, not only the NPCs, but even Leng Yihan and her group might not be able to come out alive.

Seeing that so many people were leaving, Ruan Qi had no choice but to give up and didn't insist on going in. She followed Leng Yihan and the others back to the entrance of the town.

Whether it was Leng Yihan's imagination or not, at this moment he felt as if he was being watched by many people, with two or three people watching him from every house.

Leng Yihan's gaze suddenly fell on a certain house, but the house was empty, with nothing on it.

Could it be... that we can't get out?