260: Chapter 260 Who exactly is the ghost?

"Beast? What beast?"

The people around them stared at the old man vigilantly.

The driver also turned his head to look over.

Looking at this situation, it was clear that they wouldn't start driving until they figured out what exactly was inside the snakeskin bag.

It was unclear if the thing inside the bag felt something, but it made a sound once again.

And the sound was much clearer than before.

"Help, help me..."

Everyone on the vehicle heard this sound.

The way they looked at the old man changed instantly!

Some of the tall male staff from the Film Crew even stood up directly.

"Old man! What on earth are you keeping in that bag? Take it out, quickly!"

"I'm telling you, if you've really harmed a child, we won't help you cover it up!"

"..."

Seeing that the old man remained indifferent.

A man nearby gathered his courage and snatched the snakeskin bag away!

But his hand slipped, and the bag fell directly onto the floor.

After the thing inside struggled for a moment, it quickly ran out.

To everyone's surprise, it turned out to be a Yellow Weasel!

The Yellow Weasel still had a chicken in its mouth!

It quickly ran into a corner and began to gnaw on it vigorously.

The chicken had already been gnawed until it was covered in blood, and the blood seeping out of the snakeskin bag was indeed from this chicken!

The smell of blood spread throughout the sealed vehicle, and many people couldn't help but feel nauseous.

The old man sighed softly and chided the Yellow Weasel: "Look at you, you've scared the kind-hearted people!"

The Yellow Weasel didn't seem to care and continued eating intently.

Someone recognized that this Yellow Weasel was the very same one they had encountered while going up the mountain.

At that time, it had kept asking them whether it looked more like a human or an immortal.

Fortunately, Lin Xiao and the other two had wittily resolved the situation.

Unexpectedly, they encountered it again on the way back!

However, this also made them heave a sigh of relief.

Compared to an injured child, they were much more willing to see this little beast.

The old man didn't hide anything anymore and began to explain to the crowd.

As it turned out, he was just an old bachelor in the village.

His ancestors were monkey performers, and he was quite skilled at training monkeys.

He used to make an easy living by performing with monkeys in the surrounding villages.

But with the changing times, people had more and more forms of entertainment, and fewer and fewer people enjoyed watching monkey performances.

By the old man's generation, he couldn't even afford enough to eat.

Until one day, an injured Yellow Weasel suddenly showed up at his door.

He was soft-hearted, so he saved the Yellow Weasel.

Unexpectedly, after the Yellow Weasel recovered, it actually clung to him, annoying him to no end.

Later, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

Since monkeys could be trained to perform, what about this Yellow Weasel?

After having this idea, he began to study how to train the Yellow Weasel.

Combined with some legends he had heard about Yellow Weasels, he began to train the Yellow Weasel in the act of seeking a title.

At first, he would let the Yellow Weasel block the road while he hid nearby to provide the voice.

But after being asked so many times, the Yellow Weasel actually learned to imitate human speech!

That led to the scene where it blocked the Film Crew members.

After learning the truth, everyone couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief.

The young man patted his chest and said with a smile: "See, I knew there were no ghosts in this world!"

Others quickly chimed in: "Exactly, there are no demons or monsters; it's all just deceptive nonsense!"

But unexpectedly, the old man interrupted them with a cold face: "You must absolutely not say that! My Yellow Weasel's title-seeking act is fake, but there really are ghosts in this world!"

The old man's voice was filled with a weathered, raspy tone.

In the rain-battered vehicle, it exuded a sense of mystery.

This caused the people present, who had just calmed down a little, to feel waves of chill in their hearts once again.

Someone asked in a low voice: "Old man, since you say that, have you seen one yourself?"

"Hmm."

The old man nodded slowly.

His eyes became sharp.

"A few years ago, in a neighboring village, there was an old bachelor who bought a woman from human traffickers to be his wife. I heard that woman was from the city and was even a university student."

Hearing this opening, everyone's hearts hung in suspense.

Why did it sound a bit familiar?

Not a single one of them dared to interrupt, just listening quietly.

The old man's eyes looked out the window, as if peering through the glass into the distance.

"That university student was smart. In order to escape the village, she started pretending to be crazy and foolish. Unexpectedly, she actually found an opportunity and ran out of that old bachelor's house... But she still underestimated the malice of the people in that village. Not only did none of the Villagers save her, but they even tied her up and sent her back to the old bachelor's house."

"That old bachelor was never quite right in the head, and after this, he went completely insane and actually used an axe to hack the university student to death!"

"Naturally, the old bachelor wouldn't give the university student a proper burial; he just found a straw mat, rolled the body up, and buried it casually in the mountains."

"But unexpectedly, just two days later, someone came running down from the mountain saying the body was gone! The place where the body was originally buried was left with nothing but a pit!"

"Later, rumors of a haunting began to appear in the village. Some Villagers said they would always see a female ghost wearing a red dress wandering around in the mountains."

"Not long after, that old bachelor also died. He died on the road home after getting drunk. It was the middle of winter, and by the time he was discovered, his body was already stiff!"

"Everyone said it was the female ghost claiming his life!"

"..."

After listening to the old man's story, the vehicle fell into an even deeper silence.

People felt as if the temperature around them had dropped significantly.

Their breathing became heavy, and their heartbeats accelerated continuously.

Someone gathered their courage and slowly turned to look at the Red-dressed woman sitting in the last row.

With a trembling voice, they asked: "Um, miss, when did you say you were abducted before?"