265: Chapter 265 Another Wrong Guess

The Old Daoist Priest clearly had not yet realized that danger was imminent.

Seeing Lin Xiao speaking so convincingly, he couldn't help but sneer, "Is this person perhaps the screenwriter for your Film Crew? He's actually quite convincing. Well, then, tell me, if those two aren't ghosts, then what are they?"

"They are scammers, scammers who are in cahoots with you."

Lin Xiao looked up and stared at the Old Daoist Priest without blinking.

The Old Daoist Priest was stunned, then said indignantly, "I am a dignified practitioner of the Dao. You keep calling me a scammer—do you know how much of a taboo that is!"

Lin Xiao rolled his eyes in annoyance, waved his hand dismissively, and couldn't be bothered to pay any more attention to him.

He continued to explain to the people from the Film Crew, "Just as that woman said, after she was abducted to these mountains, she really did find an opportunity to escape. However, when she returned to the city, she suddenly discovered that everything around her was different from before she was abducted!"

"She hadn't finished university, only had a high school diploma, and her family didn't care about her, leaving her to work and support herself. With that monthly salary of two or three thousand, there was barely anything left after paying rent. Gradually, she couldn't stand that kind of life, so she thought of a way."

"She actually returned to the village where she had been abducted, joined forces with the old man who had bought her at the time and this Old Daoist Priest, and started playing god in the mountains, deliberately tricking outsiders passing by into buying all sorts of messy talisman papers and fake jade."

"..."

Everyone suddenly understood.

This matter had actually turned from a rescue event into a supernatural event, and then back into a fraud case?

But thinking about it, this was fine too; at least they hadn't been scammed yet.

That was better than actually encountering a ghost!

The assistant stroked his chin, raised his hand in confusion, and asked, "Wait a second, the old man and the Old Daoist Priest? Whose wife is that woman, exactly?"

Is that the main point?

Everyone looked at the assistant with some disdain, but they also pricked up their ears.

Although it wasn't the main point, it could certainly satisfy everyone's gossip cravings.

Lin Xiao chuckled, "You can figure that out for yourselves."

Ooh!

Lin Xiao hadn't said anything, but it seemed like he had said everything.

There was a hint of mockery in everyone's eyes as they looked at the Old Daoist Priest.

Seeing that he had truly been completely exposed, a clear look of panic flashed across the Old Daoist Priest's face.

He intended to slip away when no one was paying attention.

But he hadn't expected the topic to turn to him.

This caused him to be pinned down just two steps into his escape.

"You damn scammer, how dare you play god and scare us! Call the police! Call the police immediately!"

The director was furious.

No matter what, he had been struggling in society for so many years, yet he had almost been scammed.

He didn't even dare to imagine how much it would have affected him and their film if he had actually been taken in this time and it had been exposed later!

People from the Film Crew found a rope in the prop box and tied the Old Daoist Priest up tightly.

Now, they just needed to wait for the police to arrive.

The director, having been fooled the whole way, finally felt vindicated, and his spirits rose.

He kicked the Old Daoist Priest, pointed at the wooden box in the dirt, and asked, "This should also be part of your scam, right? Speak, what exactly is inside?"

The Old Daoist Priest looked at the box in confusion and shook his head, "I don't know, this has nothing to do with me!"

"Heh, do you think I would believe that?"

The director snorted coldly, not believing him at all.

Even though he had been played for a fool the whole way, he still felt that he definitely hadn't guessed wrong this time!

"Inside here, there must be some scary props like a skull! Heh, don't think you can fool me again!"

As the director spoke, he used a shovel to dig away the dirt around the box and directly flipped the lid open.

"Hey? You..."

Lin Xiao wanted to step forward to stop him, but it was already too late.

"Let's see how you can fool me this time..."

The director hadn't finished his sentence.

When he saw what was inside the box, the rest of his words got stuck in his throat.

Because what was inside was definitely not some prop.

It was a box full of hand grenades!

The only thing he had guessed right was that this was indeed something that could scare him.

"Th-this..."

The director couldn't say a single word.

His hand was stuck on the lid of the box, and he didn't dare to move at all.

He was afraid that if he accidentally touched something, it would trigger a terrible explosion.

The scene where Lin Yu and the others were almost wiped out by an explosion flashed through his mind once again.

Back then, there was only one hand grenade.

And now, it was a whole box!

If it exploded, he was afraid he wouldn't be left with even a scrap of himself!

"Director! Don't move, absolutely do not move!"

"Director! Stay calm!"

"..."

Everyone present subconsciously took several steps back.

They stared fixedly at the director, terrified that he might move recklessly.

The director was almost crying.

His raised arm was aching.

He didn't know if it was from fear or stiffness, but his legs also began to tremble.

If there weren't so many people present, he would have really wanted to cry and call for his mom.

With no other choice, he turned to look at Lin Xiao, his voice filled with a crying tone, "L-Lin Xiao, will this thing actually explode?"

Lin Xiao shrugged, "How should I know? I'm not a bomb."

"You should calculate it!"

The director was really about to cry.

"Oh."

Lin Xiao feigned calculating on his fingers and said indifferently, "It won't explode for the time being."

[But it will definitely explode later; otherwise, what, is it a mascot?]

Although the director didn't hear the inner voice, he was still scared silly, "What does 'for the time being' mean? Does that mean it will explode in a while?"

"Uh."

Lin Xiao didn't quite know how to explain this problem.

The director took it as him tacitly agreeing.

While crying, he waved at the assistant in the distance, "Turn on your phone's voice recorder; I want to record my last words..."

The assistant was also affected by the director's sadness; with red eyes, he took out his phone.

Lin Xiao watched from the side and realized they seemed to have misunderstood his meaning.

He hurriedly interrupted, "Wait a second, I didn't say there was no turning point in this matter..."

Hearing this, the director stopped crying, and a glimmer of hope flashed in his eyes, "You mean I can still be saved?"

"You can be saved."

Lin Xiao nodded, a smile curling at the corner of his lips, "I can help you resolve this impending disaster! It won't be fifty million, it won't be five million; right now, it only costs five hundred thousand!"