The weirdness in the back mountain

“This…” Both of them fell into contemplation.

Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow, smiling sheepishly, “I suspect someone lives in that house!”

“What?!”

As soon as he said that, both of them exclaimed in unison.

“That’s impossible, who would live here? And I didn’t see any signs of anyone living in the house.”

Lin Yuan shook his head, “Originally, I didn’t think about it that way, but if you think about it carefully, many of the peach pits on the ground were half-eaten and then discarded, which means they were recently discarded.”

“If it was just one or two, it might be animals, but if there’s a lot, do you think that’s possible?”

“So, I suspect that everything we encountered just now was someone deliberately pretending to be a ghost to scare us.”

After hearing Lin Yuan’s analysis, both of them fell into contemplation; it seemed to make some sense.

The Photographer asked doubtfully, “If it really is a person, why would he pretend to be a ghost to scare people? What’s his motive?”

Lin Yuan rolled his eyes at him and explained, “What are we here for? To sell the house! If you lived here, would you want the house to be sold?”

“Oh~~” The Photographer suddenly understood, exclaiming, “I get it, his goal is to scare us away so we won’t dare to buy the house.”

At this point, Director Yu also gradually understood.

But no matter what, this was just Lin Yuan’s speculation.

No one could guarantee whether there was truly a ghost inside.

After a brief discussion in the car, the vehicle slowly drove away.

The next second, a shadowy figure furtively popped out from a corner of the courtyard.

Under the moonlight, he looked like a child of about ten years old.

Seeing Lin Yuan’s car driving further and further away, he quickly shouted into the courtyard, “Come out! Everyone’s gone.”

Whoosh, whoosh~~

Instantly, a flurry of footsteps sounded.

Immediately after, three children of similar age darted out.

Each of them had faces full of joy, as if they had won a battle.

The youngest child smiled triumphantly, “We are so smart, we scared them to death!”

“We worked so hard to occupy this place, we can’t let them buy it.”

“Be careful, there might really be a ghost here.”

The four children huddled together, chattering non-stop, one after another.

They completely failed to notice that two people were standing behind a large tree, listening to their conversation clearly.

The next second, two beams of light suddenly shone from not far away.

The four children were so scared that they scrambled to escape.

Immediately after, Lin Yuan calmly called out, “Don’t run, we’ve seen everything.”

With that, two figures slowly walked out.

Director Yu looked at the children in front of him with surprise, asking in confusion, “Why are you pretending to be ghosts to scare people here? Where are your parents?”

Under the light, all four children were boys, and each was very thin.

Their clothes were very thin, and their shoes were mostly broken.

Their hair was messy, and they had many scratches on their bodies, looking like homeless people.

Seeing this, the children knew there was no point in running, so the oldest child had no choice but to bravely reply, “This is our home.”

Hearing this, Lin Yuan couldn’t help but laugh, “Little ones, this house has an owner; it’s not your home just because you occupy it. I ask you, where are your family members? Is no one taking care of you?”

“We… we don’t have family. We all ran away from the orphanage.”

“Orphanage?” Lin Yuan frowned, “Why did you run away? I don’t think you’re doing so well now.”

“The orphanage is worse. We don’t get enough to eat there, and we get beaten every day. Little Xia’s sister was beaten to death by them!”

“Such a thing happened?” Director Yu couldn’t help but exclaim, “Then did you call the police?”

“Call the police? What’s the use? The police won’t listen to us. They just said my sister died of illness, and then it was left unresolved. If we didn’t run, we might have been beaten to death too.”

At this moment, the Photographer returned, driving the Wuling Hongguang.

When he saw that it was four children pretending to be ghosts, his jaw nearly dropped.

He never imagined there would be four children out in this wilderness.

Lin Yuan’s expression was also incredibly solemn at this moment; he hadn’t expected such a thing to still happen in today’s society.

Although he didn’t know if it was true or false, seeing the children willing to suffer just to run away, it was probably close to the truth.

If this was true, then after he returned, he would definitely call the police.

To clarify the situation, Lin Yuan got some food for the children from the car.

Watching them gobble it down, it was hard to imagine what they relied on to survive in such an environment.

Could it be just the wild fruits from the mountain?

Through their conversation, it was as he had guessed; those peaches were indeed eaten by them.

However, because they were wild peaches, they didn’t taste good, and they had to force themselves to eat them, which is why many were half-eaten and discarded.

The rumors of ghosts in the villa recently were almost all created by them.

Their purpose was to occupy this villa and make it their home.

They didn’t sleep in the main house but in the small house in the courtyard, where a thick layer of leaves made it very warm.

However, when Lin Yuan asked them why they only ate peaches and if there were no other foods on the mountain, the children immediately stopped eating, their faces turning pale.

The oldest child explained with lingering fear, “We all look for food at the base of the mountain; we don’t dare to go up.”

“Why?” The Photographer asked in confusion.

“Because… there are ghosts up there!!”

As soon as he said this, the other three children all shivered with fright.

This left Lin Yuan and the others dumbfounded.

Good heavens, you yourselves pretend to be ghosts, yet you’re afraid of ghosts?

What kind of act is this?

Lin Yuan asked curiously, “You saw a ghost?”

“No!” The little boy shook his head, but then replied, “I heard the ghost’s voice.”

“Mm-hmm!” The other children all nodded in agreement.

“You all heard it?” Lin Yuan asked in surprise.

“We heard it!” The four replied in unison.

“Once, we were so hungry at night that we wanted to go up the mountain to find something to eat under the moonlight.”

“But, when we passed by the graves, we saw that the door of one of the graves was open, and there was light inside, and someone talking. It must have been the ghost also hungry, coming out at night to find something to eat.”

Hearing this, Lin Yuan and the others were all stunned.

“Such a thing happened? You didn’t missee it, did you?”

“No!” The little boy answered very confidently, “Definitely not mistaken, because the next night we secretly went to look again, and it was still the same, but during the day, that grave would close. What else could it be but a ghost?”

“This…” Lin Yuan and the others exchanged glances, seeing the surprise in each other’s eyes.

Especially Director Yu, his eyes filled with anticipation.

After all, he made horror films, and such an unusual event could bring him much inspiration for his creations.

He immediately suggested, “Why don’t we go and see if it’s true? Anyway, I don’t believe in ghosts. Is it possible it’s grave robbers?”

Lin Yuan nodded thoughtfully, “That’s really possible. If it really is grave robbers, then we really have to go and see.”

But the Photographer almost cried when he heard this, “Brother, are we really going? Can’t we not go? If not, just call the police.”

“Relax~~” Lin Yuan patted his shoulder and said with a smile, “We’ll just take a look from a distance, and once we confirm, we’ll call the police. That’s fine, right?”