209: Chapter 209 The shovel is too small, so we use an excavator.

Lin Xiao did not seem angry at all, as if this scathing insult was not directed at him.

"Are you sure you want me to dig?"

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Lin Yu remained blunt.

For some reason, every time he saw Lin Xiao's calm and composed appearance, he felt incredibly irritable.

It felt as if he were the one being schemed against.

"Alright then, I will respectfully accept."

Lin Xiao slowly walked forward, took the shovel from Lin Yu's hand, rolled up his sleeves, and prepared to dig.

This made that strange feeling in Lin Yu's heart even stronger.

But after raising the shovel, Lin Xiao slowly lowered it again and said with some disdain, "No, this shovel is too small. Bring that one over for me!"

The people on site looked in the direction Lin Xiao was pointing and were immediately stunned.

Parked over there were excavators...

The mocking words Lin Yu wanted to say got stuck in his throat, and it took him a long time to squeeze out a few words, "What the hell, are you sick?"

"Don't be so stingy!"

Lin Xiao ran over with a grin and quickly drove an excavator over.

He swung the excavator's bucket, forcing Lin Yu to retreat several steps.

Seeing that Lin Yu was about to start cursing again, he turned the bucket and slammed it hard into the ground!

After a loud rumble, a large chunk of earth was scooped up from the ground.

Just as everyone present thought that Lin Xiao was just messing around to get revenge on Lin Yu.

Suddenly, someone pointed at the large pit in the ground and said in horror, "What, what is that over there?"

The attention of the others was drawn, and they all looked over.

Almost instantly, everyone's expression changed drastically!

"Is that... a corpse?"

"It really is a corpse! And there's more than one!"

"My god, why are there so many corpses here?"

"..."

One could see the corpses lying horizontally and vertically; just on the surface, at least a dozen could be seen.

No one knew how many more were underneath.

The degrees of decomposition varied.

Some could still be identified by gender through their clothing, while others were just skeletons.

After the initial shock, the onlookers began to feel nauseous.

A few who couldn't hold it back ran to the back and started vomiting.

It took Lin Yu a long while to react. He grabbed his assistant's arm and roared, "Block the news, quick! Block the news!"

However, it was already too late.

Lin Xiao sat on the excavator and waved his phone at Lin Yu, "I've already called the police for you, no need to thank me!"

Mrs. Qiu watched all this from the side, her heart pounding violently.

Thank goodness, thank goodness she hadn't insisted.

She had listened to Lin Xiao and given up on this plot of land early.

Otherwise, she would be the one cleaning up this mess right now!

With so many corpses, the police would likely investigate for a long time.

Not to mention the construction time delayed in the early stages and how much money would be wasted.

Even if construction could proceed smoothly later, there would be quite a bit of trouble afterwards.

This land was originally intended for residential housing; if people knew that so many corpses had been buried beneath it, who would buy houses here?

The previous valuations would all be void. Let alone making money, it was very likely that even the capital wouldn't be recouped!

For the Jin family, this kind of thing might not cause critical damage.

But if it were to fall on the already small-scale Qiu Corporation, the consequences would be unimaginable!

It was likely the entire company would end up heavily in debt, or even go directly bankrupt.

At this moment, Lin Xiao had already jumped down from the excavator.

Lin Yu rushed straight up to him and roared, "Lin Xiao! You did all this, right? You knew there was a problem here all along, didn't you?"

Seeing that Lin Yu was finally smart for once, Lin Xiao just smiled indifferently, "You can't just say things like that. With so many corpses, their origins must be complicated. I'm just an ordinary university student; how could I possibly have the ability to know this in advance?"

"You, you..."

The more Lin Yu thought about it, the more something felt wrong.

No wonder Lin Xiao was so easy to talk to yesterday and withdrew so easily.

He must have known something in advance.

But he had no evidence!

Before long, the sound of sirens came from afar.

Because the matter was serious, many police cars arrived at once.

The leading police officer was an old acquaintance.

"Hi, Officer Zhang!"

Lin Xiao waved at the lead police car.

When Officer Zhang heard that the reporter was named Lin, he had a bad premonition.

Seeing Lin Xiao at this moment, he felt even more of a headache.

"Lin Xiao, why is it you again? How many times has this been now?"

"I can't help it, I'm just that unlucky."

Lin Xiao shrugged helplessly.

Officer Zhang sighed softly and directed his subordinates to first check the condition of the corpses.

And he began to conduct a brief inquiry with the people there.

"You're saying he was the one who asked you to dig?"

Officer Zhang looked suspicious.

"Yes, everyone here can testify to that. I really didn't want to go at the time, but he forced me to."

Lin Xiao looked very innocent.

Officer Zhang seemed to be used to this; he sighed and looked at Lin Yu, who was standing to the side.

"Lin Yu, then you answer first. This is clearly the plot of land you bought yourself for the groundbreaking ceremony; why did you insist on having Lin Xiao get involved?"

"I, no, I just wanted him to dig a shovel-full at the time; who knew he would bring an excavator over!"

Lin Yu explained in a panic, "Right, he must have known there was a situation here, so he intentionally used the excavator to dig those corpses out just to frame me!"

Lin Xiao rolled his eyes and retorted irritably, "Heh, then I suspect that you insisted on grabbing this land because you didn't want the corpses here to be exposed! Yesterday, you even threatened Mrs. Qiu with her daughter to force her to give up the bid; many people saw that too."

As soon as these words were spoken, the way Officer Zhang looked at Lin Yu changed.