Chapter 44 Who Am I? 43

However, fate did not seem to favor Lin Xiangjun.

After digging through the entire Garden three feet deep and finding nothing, she had to admit a fact.

There was no body of Qin Jianyuan in the Garden.

She planted the shovel on the ground and leaned on it, lost in thought.

This shovel was something she bought from the system shop; it was an ordinary item that could only dig soil and had no other uses, so the price wasn't expensive, costing only 50 underworld currency.

Although it could only dig soil, this thing was incredibly efficient at it; three clangs and she dug a big hole, ten clangs and she dug a coffin pit, twenty clangs and she dug a foundation pit.

It dug fiercely and was very useful, but what was the point?

She had spent ages digging, exhausting herself, and yet there wasn't a single clue!

There was no need to look for the remaining cat monster's stomach or the Cleaner's broom; if she defeated the monsters and they didn't drop loot, she would lose everything.

Lin Xiangjun climbed out of the pit, brushed the dust off her body, and checked the time.

5:30 PM.

There was an hour and a half left until the Eerie Parents returned home.

She said to the worried-looking Wang Min beside her, "Go into the residential compound and see how many of the other three players are still alive and what their pollution levels are. Do not say anything else, and do not answer if they ask you anything."

"Yes, Master."

Wang Min walked toward the direction of the residential compound.

Lin Xiangjun glanced at her retreating figure and sighed to herself; she had intended to hold her forehead and smile bitterly, but as soon as she raised her hand, she smelled a foul odor.

Lin Xiangjun: ...

Damn, she almost forgot that she had just reached into a shoe with these hands and hadn't washed them yet.

Lin Xiangjun felt a bit disgusted with herself.

The old men and Old Ladies nearby had gathered around when Lin Xiangjun was digging, but every bit of soil she dug up, she tossed into her pouch, ensuring not a speck of dirt fell on the path, leaving them absolutely no chance to catch her violating the rules.

Seeing Lin Xiangjun climb out of the pit at this moment, someone finally couldn't help but ask, "Child, what are you looking for here, digging such a deep pit?"

Lin Xiangjun recalled the residential compound rules and said with a smile, "It's my classmate. He said he wanted to play a treasure hunt game and buried his mother's large gold wedding ring and two gold earrings, saying whoever finds them first gets to keep them, so that's why I'm digging here."

"That large gold ring is said to be worth five hundred underworld currency!"

Five hundred underworld currency!

The old men and Old Ladies' eyes lit up.

Whoever finds them first gets to keep them!

The old men and Old Ladies' eyes lit up even more.

They hurriedly crowded around and asked, "Little girl, where did he hide that gold ring?"

"He just said it was in the residential compound Garden, but as for exactly where... I don't know."

Lin Xiangjun spread her hands helplessly, with a gold earring lying in her palm.

As she spoke, she carried the shovel and walked toward the swings and seesaw, "I've been digging for ages and haven't seen the gold ring, just found one earring. I'm exhausted, I'm not digging anymore."

The eyes of the old men and Old Ladies who saw the gold earring were practically fanatical.

Real gold and silver! Who could resist this?

And it was free for the taking!

Only a fool would pass this up!

Lin Xiangjun hugged the shovel and prepared to leave.

How could the old men and Old Ladies, having seen with their own eyes how powerful this shovel was at digging, let this digging tool go?

Someone immediately stopped Lin Xiangjun, "Little girl, if you aren't using this shovel, can you lend it to me? I'll return it to your house when I'm done."

As he spoke, he casually shoved two candies into Lin Xiangjun's hand.

"You have obtained the item [Abalaba-brand Fruit Candy]."

"You have obtained the item [Abalaba-brand Milk Candy]."

[Abalaba-brand Fruit Candy: Can reduce personal pollution to a certain extent. Orange flavored. If it is mild pollution, eating ten can clear it; if it is severe pollution, eating enough to get diabetes won't help.]

[Abalaba-brand Milk Candy: Can prevent pollution to a certain extent. Low-quality milk candy. To prevent the pollution from one serving of ordinary eerie food, you need ten milk candies. Relying on it to prevent pollution? Better eat it with insulin.]

Both candies were D-rank items, and this effect... it would be better to spend money in the system shop to buy some potions.

The items weren't very useful to Lin Xiangjun, but she didn't intend to get much in exchange for a shovel; she just wanted to get rid of the old men and Old Ladies surrounding her, and these candies were a nice little surprise.

Lin Xiangjun accepted the candies and handed the shovel to the old man.

The Eerie nearby saw that he had traded a shovel for two worthless candies and immediately gnashed their teeth in hatred.

That Old Man Wang! Usually, when crowding onto a bus or getting a seat, he acts like he's seventy or eighty and on his last legs, but as soon as there's an opportunity to take advantage of something, his legs and feet are incredibly nimble!

Every time he goes to the vegetable market, who can beat him to the freshest human meat!

Bah, it was a waste to issue him a senior citizen card!

How the Eerie nearby were cursing in their hearts, and how Old Man Wang was happily and gleefully going to dig, Lin Xiangjun had no interest in paying attention to.

She only focused on pulling aside the old man in the yellow top, the one who submitted the singing, leaned in close, and whispered, "I have something to ask you. Don't worry, if you answer well, there will be plenty of benefits for you."

The other old men and Old Ladies had already happily gone down to dig for gold rings, and no one was looking at him at all. The old man looked around and, seeing no one paying attention to him, could only accompany it with a smile and say, "Good, good, let's go over there and talk."

He hadn't believed Lin Xiangjun when she said she was digging for gold rings earlier.

This was a person who could casually give away three hundred underworld currency! How could she possibly go to the trouble of digging soil for a gold earring the size of a grain of rice?

The old man snuck a look at Lin Xiangjun's back, remembering the three hundred fresh, hot underworld currency he had received yesterday.

Singing three times got him one hundred, answering a few questions got him two hundred—what was she going to ask today, and how much money could she give him?

With money to be made, naturally, he had no reason to be unhappy.

It's just that...

The old man snuck a look at Lin Xiangjun's expression.

The God of Wealth didn't seem to be in a very good mood today.

The old man tried to gauge Lin Xiangjun's thoughts; in the short walk, he had already put away his greed for raising the price on the spot and continued to smile.

"What would you like to know? I will tell you everything I know, without holding anything back!"

The two had arrived by the seesaw. Lin Xiangjun turned her head; there was no smile on her face, and her expression looked a bit weary from the futility, but she wasn't dejected, and her state wasn't bad.

"I know there are two outsiders in your residential compound," Lin Xiangjun said.

"One outsider, that security guard, I have already eliminated. As for the remaining outsider, the Eerie that has been entrenched in the stairwell, how can I get rid of it? It keeps hiding from me."

The old man's eyes widened, his mouth slightly agape, looking as if he were shocked into a state of unconsciousness.

"Outsider?! You eliminated it?!"