Chapter 109: Who Exactly Has the Problem (Guaranteed 1st Update, Please Subscribe!)

Fang Yue threw everything he had into dodging, leaning back with all his might, but it was slow—too slow!

That ferocious spear was already thrusting straight toward him!

The spear grew closer and closer in Fang Yue's eyes, closer and closer; he could almost picture the spearhead piercing through his forehead.

Damn! What the hell is this guy raving about!!

Fang Yue screamed inside his heart.

And at that very moment, the spear suddenly stopped!

It halted three inches from Fang Yue's forehead, suspended in midair, neither falling nor retreating.

At that instant, time seemed to freeze; Fang Yue's heart pounded wildly.

Lin Ling's forehead veins bulging, he pressed his voice low and growled: "Why… why didn't you move! Why didn't you dodge! Is it because you have a guilty conscience! You animal! Why would you do something like this!!"

Huh?

Huh? Huh huh huh?

Fang Yue was completely dumbfounded. Seeing Lin Ling's mix of pain, anguish, and fury, he hurriedly reached out with both hands to grab the spearhead, trying to shift it away from his forehead, but the spear didn't budge at all.

Damn, let's talk this out, what's with the brandishing of weapons…

Seeing that moving the spearhead was futile, Fang Yue wiped the cold sweat from his brow and said tensely: "Brother Lin, calm down, I didn't do anything!"

"Didn't do anything? Didn't do anything!"

Lin Ling was so furious he laughed instead, his whole body trembling as he roared: "Then why the hell did Hua Wuye say you killed her entire family! Why did she say it was you! Speak! Why!"

Hua Wuye? Killed her whole family?

What the hell is going on?

Fang Yue looked at Lin Ling, then at Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu peeking her little head out from the doorway behind him, his mind a blank.

He could only say helplessly again: "Brother Lin, calm down, think about what we discussed yesterday! I just had a bad premonition, that's why I asked you those things. If you act impulsively now, you'll be playing right into their trap!"

A trap! A trap…

Lin Ling panted heavily, his shoulders rising and falling slightly. After a long while, he slowly withdrew the spear and stabbed it into the ground with a thud.

"Tell me, what did you do last night! Every single thing, tell me everything!"

Putting the spear away is good, putting the spear away is good…

Fang Yue, still shaken, glanced at the spear in Lin Ling's hand, feeling as if he'd just walked a round through the gates of hell.

Damn, that was really scary.

Seeing that Lin Ling's murderous gaze was still fixed on him, Fang Yue hurriedly said.

"Brother Lin, I was on night patrol yesterday. After patrol I went back to the Guard Station, and then I stayed with Wu Wu the whole time… that's her, I was with her at the Guard Station all night."

"All night? Really all night?" Lin Ling asked, frowning.

"All night!" Fang Yue affirmed.

"…"

Lin Ling fell silent, his brow tightly furrowed, seemingly thinking.

Only then did Fang Yue cautiously ask: "Brother Lin, what exactly happened? You show up trying to kill me and all that, I'm totally lost."

Apart from being dumbfounded, Fang Yue was also a bit pissed.

If you hadn't come over during the day, I would've slapped you right across the face! How would I be this passive now!

Lin Ling seemed to still be weighing how much truth there was in Fang Yue's words, and ignored him.

This left Fang Yue a bit sullen.

We've at least fought the bizarre together, shared life and death—aren't my words convincing enough?

"Brother Lin, I swear to heaven, I absolutely never persecuted Hua Wuye or her family! You've got to believe me!"

"You should know that up to now, I don't even know where Hua Wuye's home is! I've had zero contact with her family—what reason would I have to harm her?"

"There's no reason, and murder or anything like that doesn't even hold up!"

"Right?"

After these few lines, Lin Ling finally glanced around, then said in a low voice: "Come on, let's go inside and talk."

"Okay!"

Fang Yue breathed a slight sigh of relief inside. Lin Ling's reaction meant he probably believed seventy or eighty percent of what he'd said, and wouldn't try to kill him anymore.

That damned parchment, trying to scare me earlier!

Fang Yue felt he had to find a way to deal with the parchment, otherwise the thing was getting way too arrogant.

Once inside, Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu silently followed behind. Glared at by Lin Ling, she gave a frightened shudder.

So scary! That guy's eyes are so scary!!

"Brother Lin, she's my witness!"

"…"

Lin Ling said nothing. Fang Yue gave her a look, and only then did Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu reluctantly follow.

Once inside, the door locked, Lin Ling finally spoke slowly.

"This morning, after I woke up, I brought medicine to Hua Wuye's home."

"And then…I saw, hanging at Hua Wuye's door, a human head."

A human head?!

Could it be Hua Wuye's…

As if reading Fang Yue's thought, Lin Ling shook his head.

"That wasn't Hua Wuye's head, it was her elderly father's head."

"I panicked on the spot, rushed straight in, and then saw the rest of Hua Wuye's father's body parts—hands, feet, heart, lungs… those organs were scattered on the ground like spare parts, a trail of fresh blood everywhere."

Fang Yue's expression shifted slightly.

With Chen Mu in front and Hua Wuye behind, being the captain of Gu Yue Cun is way too dangerous.

Could the next one be Lin Ling, or... me?

Lin Ling, unaware of Fang Yue's wild thoughts, continued speaking.

"I kept going deeper, heading straight for Hua Wuye's boudoir, and then I saw... Hua Daniang's corpse, sliced clean in two at the waist, frozen in a posture as if she were about to lunge toward Hua Wuye's door. The blood had dried, staining a patch red."

"That was... a blade wound! Only a fierce Blade Technique, a sharp swift blade, could cut a person in half with a single strike!"

"As far as I know, in the whole village, the only one who cultivates a Blade Technique and wields such a swift blade is you!"

Lin Ling's dangerous gaze shifted to the Cold Moon Blade at Fang Yue's waist, still sheathed.

You can't just throw accusations around!

Fang Yue hurriedly said, "Hua Wuye's parents were just ordinary people, right? To slice ordinary people in half, you don't necessarily need a swift blade—a normal blade can do it too, as long as you're strong enough!"

Earlier, Fang Yue had assumed the villagers' base attributes were the same as the player's: 1 point of Strength and 1 point of Endurance.

But in fact, that was wrong.

Villagers are NPCs, people born and raised within the game.

They have full lifespans, experiencing birth, aging, sickness, and death—the whole process from coming into the world to dying of old age.

And in this process, they don't start out with 1 point in each attribute at birth!

Their attributes are uneven; many people only have 0.3 or 0.5 in an attribute, often skewed toward a single stat.

Something like 0.7 or 0.8 is already considered a fairly sturdy adult villager.

Of course, going further, there are also villagers born with 1.5, 1.6, or even higher 2-point attributes—naturally strong ones.

In short, the randomness in villagers' attributes is huge.

And Hua Wuye's parents were both ordinary people, and on top of that, they were old, so their attributes were even lower—basically impossible to exceed 0.5.

Two NPCs like that—even Niu Niu could cut them down in one strike, or even slice the corpse clean in two!

After all, Niu Niu has 3.7 Strength—that's several times the difference in power!

Hearing this, Lin Ling froze for a moment, thought it over, frowned, and said, "You're right... earlier I was blinded by rage, didn't think it through that carefully, and just instinctively assumed it was you."

"Huh? You're kidding, right? Just based on that, you think I did it?"

"Just based on that?" Lin Ling sneered.

"Of course, just the blade wound alone isn't enough—but what if we add Hua Wuye's eyewitness accusation? She swore she could recognize you, that beast who killed her family, even if her eyes were gouged out!"

What?!

Damn it!

This Hua Wuye is sick in the head!

We have no grudge between us, yet you insist on framing me as the one who slaughtered your whole family!

Holy shit!

Fang Yue's memory was perfectly fine—he'd spent the whole night cultivating the Starfire Heart Method, no time to go out killing people for fun!

Wait!

That's not right!

Hua Wuye's whole family is dead, yet she herself didn't die—she's still alive?

Damn! Could Hua Wuye be the problem?!

(End of Chapter)