Chapter 043
Lu Yao smiled and said, "If you had said so earlier, it would have been over. Anyway, I am still familiar with the hospital's business and there is not much to do. I can help you with a small favor, but you have to keep your word. Today's events have overturned my outlook on life for more than 20 years. If I don't figure it out, I will die of depression sooner or later!"
I told you not to worry, I promise to do what I say.
After saying that, I looked into the ward and saw that Lin Tian was sleeping soundly and breathing evenly. I left the hospital with peace of mind.
I took a taxi and headed directly to the wasteland outside the city. I asked the driver to stop the car when we were almost at the location of my grave. I searched around in the wasteland for a while according to my memory, and finally found my empty grave.
Now I had time to take a good look at the surroundings. There was no tombstone in the cemetery, just a pile of earth. The coffin was empty, with nothing in it except the soil that had fallen down.
But the blood on the ground and in the coffin was still very obvious, and it was a bit creepy at first glance. When I saw this, I couldn't help but think of the scene when Lin Tian was controlled and cut himself with a knife. I felt sad again.
The soil here is still a little moist, and if you step on it, it will leave footprints. I touched the blood amber in my bag, thinking that if the body in the hospital was accidentally found here, there would probably be footprints left.
But after searching for a week, I only found the marks of Lin Tian and I. Other than that, there was nothing strange around.
I scratched my head. This investigation made me even more confused. Could it be that the blood amber would come out of the coffin to look for someone?
What puzzled me even more was that if there were only my and Lin Tian's footprints here, then who had released me from the coffin before? I thought of Lin Tian as a possibility, but even if he still had some strength before he passed out, he probably wouldn't have been able to open the coffin lid. So the chances of it being him were very small.
But there are no footprints around. Could it be that some ghost had a change of heart and let me out of the coffin?
I shook my head. This idea was even more unreliable. Anyway, now, apart from the type of ghosts like Brother Wang, I have never seen other ghosts do a good thing.
I was lying on the ground, examining carefully, trying to find some clues, when I suddenly heard a faint sound of footsteps not far away. Stepping on the fallen leaves, there was a creaking sound.
I quickly stood up from the ground and pretended to be passing by, for fear that others would mistake me for a tomb robber.
I took out a cigarette from my bag, pretended to light it, and lowered my eyes to look towards the source of the sound.
Behind those messy branches, there was indeed a figure slowly walking towards me. I glanced at it and inexplicably felt that the figure was familiar, but it was blocked by those branches and I couldn't see it clearly.
I was confused and felt that I was not mistaken, but in this county town, there were very few people who made me feel familiar. Compared with the sudden arrival of a stranger, the sudden appearance of an acquaintance made me more confused!
I quickly hid behind a bush and saw the man getting closer and closer. He was actually walking towards the cemetery.
He was wearing a black suit and a hat with his collar pulled up high, covering half of his face so that I couldn't see his appearance clearly.
As he approached the cemetery, he looked up inside, his body suddenly shook, and he hurriedly ran to the coffin. He looked as if he was looking for something, but it was nowhere to be found.
I carefully picked up a stone from the ground and hid it behind my back. I tiptoed out from behind the bushes. He looked at the bloodstains on the ground carefully, just like I did just now, and didn't even notice that I was behind him.
This person's behavior is really suspicious.
I held the stone tightly on my back, ready to hit him if anything went wrong.
I swallowed and shouted, "Who are you!"
He didn't want there to be anyone behind him, so he froze for a moment and slowly turned around.
When we saw each other clearly, we were all stunned! This mysterious man turned out to be Lin Tian's father!
The stone in my hand fell to the ground with a "bang", and I said in surprise, Uncle Lin, why are you here?
Lin Tian’s father did not answer. He hesitated for a moment and then asked uncertainly, Tan Xi...are you okay?
I shook my head and said nothing. I felt increasingly strange.
From what I saw of him before, it seemed that he had come here specially, and he was alone. He acted so mysterious, completely different from how I usually saw him. It was obvious that he knew what had happened here.
He was silent for a moment, and then asked me, "Where is Lin Tian? I'll take him home..."
I didn't know how to answer him. If I told him about Lin Tian's current situation, he would probably go crazy. But then I thought again, it was not right. Even if he was looking for Lin Tian, he should have gone to my old house. Why would he go to a place like this?
I pondered for a moment and asked again, "Uncle Lin, what are you doing here?"
He pulled his collar, as if to cover his face. After a while, he suddenly said, "Tan Xi, we are all sensible people. I came here to collect Xiaotian's body..."
He said this slowly, but to my ears it was like thunder, leaving my mind blank.
I asked blankly, Uncle Lin, what do you mean by this...
He suddenly shouted, "Tan Xi! You don't have to pretend. I have provided everything you need. I even gave up my own son to you as a living sacrifice. Now you just want to take his body back. Is this not okay?"
I still couldn't believe what I heard, and I was silent for a long time, thinking about his words again and again. What kind of people did he mean by "we", and making Lin Tian a living sacrifice was naturally about me being buried alive by my mother. But all of this was clearly planned by my mother, although I don't know what the meaning of her doing these things is.
However, what concerned me most in this sentence was the four words "give up"! This meant that Lin Tian had become like this and almost died. His father knew all these things clearly. He was just waiting for the weird funeral to be over and then to clean up Lin Tian's body. However, he did not expect that although Lin Tian had lost too much blood, he still had a breath left and was not dead at all.
I was silent for a long time before I said, Uncle Lin, what you just said were not a joke...
He glared at me, and it felt like a hungry wolf staring at its prey.
He yelled, "Do you think I don't know about your encounter with a ghost? Do you think that Xiaotian's mother's dislike for you would allow Xiaotian to go out with you for such a long time without paying any attention to you? I was the one stopped you. Without me, how could Xiaotian have the opportunity to come to a place like this with you? Even this coffin was bought by me!"
I suddenly felt angry. I looked him in the eyes and my voice became colder and colder. I asked him, "Since you knew that this would happen when Lin Tian came, why didn't you stop him? He is... your son!"
He suddenly yelled, "You have no right to tell me this! If I didn't care about Xiaotian, I wouldn't be in this place now. If I want to blame someone, I can only blame your mother for being too cruel. My son is dead now. The grudges between me and your Tan family are wiped out. From now on, we don't owe each other anything! Tell me, where did you hide Xiaotian's body!"
I stared at him. This was the first time I saw Lin Tian's father so furious, but I didn't feel scared at all. I didn't know what kind of grudge there was between my family and Lin Tian's family. In my impression, although the parents of both sides basically had no contact, Lin Tian and I had been friends since childhood. Over the years, except for being often disliked by Lin Tian's mother, no one had ever come out to stop us.
I suddenly felt that Lin Tian and I were very pathetic. We knew almost nothing. We were like chess pieces in someone else's hands. You had to go wherever someone told you to go, and when it was time to abandon you, the person holding the chess piece would never hold back.
I looked at him quietly and said word by word, Lin Tian is not dead yet!
I saw him stunned for a moment, with an expression of disbelief in his eyes. There seemed to be a flash of joy, but he soon fell into inexplicable fear.
His hands trembled, and he staggered backwards, speaking incoherently, "Impossible! Impossible! Xiaotian can't be still alive, Tan Xi, you lied to me!"
If you don’t believe me, you can go to the hospital. Although Lin Tian hasn’t woken up yet, he is no longer in danger of death!
His father was very panicked, and it seemed that he had already made up his mind about Lin Tian's death since he came to this place, so when he talked to me, he had no taboos and blurted out everything. Because he believed that Lin Tian could not hear these things.
But he didn't expect Lin Tian to still be alive, and even to soon recover to his previous state. I dare not think about how he would feel when he knew that he was abandoned by his biological father. Maybe it was the same as when I was buried alive by my mother, despair and disbelief!
Lin Tian’s father became more and more panicked. He glanced at me hastily and said, Tan Xi, what you just said was all false, right? Xiaotian must be dead.
As he spoke, he walked towards me, pointed his hand beyond the bushes in the distance, and said, "Look, look, my car is over there. I'm here to pick him up!"
I looked in the direction his finger was pointing, but the bushes were very deep and I couldn't see anything.
As soon as I turned around, I suddenly felt a pain on my forehead. I immediately saw Lin Tian’s father picked up the stone I dropped on the ground and smashed it on my head!
My mind buzzed, my eyes suddenly went dark, and I fell backwards.
Lin Tian's father was not willing to give up. He immediately pressed his whole body on me and stretched out his hands to strangle my neck. I grabbed the ground with my hands randomly, and I didn't know how many weeds I tore off. I just wanted to find something to hit him with, but after searching for a long time, I couldn't find anything. I could only use both hands to pry his hands open.
I heard him shouting over and over again, his voice hysterical, "Go to hell, Tan Xi, if you die, Xiaotian will know nothing!"
I was first ambushed by him, and then I was strangled to the point where I couldn't breathe. The sounds I heard echoed, and my vision seemed to be getting blurrier and blurrier, and I felt like I was trapped in a coffin and was about to suffocate again.
But at this moment, Lin Tian's father suddenly let go of his hand. I heard him shouting in panic and I couldn't make out what he said, but I could feel that he was a little panicked and he quickly ran away.
I lay on the ground, holding my throat, and took a few deep breaths. The discomfort I felt before was slightly relieved, but my head still hurt a lot, as if it was cracked. I reached out and touched it, and found that the place where I was hit by the stone was broken. A lot of blood had flowed out, soaking my hair.
I finally sat up from the ground and looked around blankly, but Lin Tian's father was nowhere to be seen.
