58. Cemetery

Taking the two small gold bars handed over to her, Chi You're eyes widened in astonishment.
Was he really this wealthy?
Just like that, he casually handed over two little gold bars.
Chi You remembered that her family wasn't particularly rich either, so where did these two gold bars come from?
They felt quite heavy in her hand.
At a glance, they must have cost a fortune.
"Where did you get these?"
"Given as a reward." Lu Lin stretched lazily, looking thoroughly unbothered.
"A reward from the app?" Chi You asked after a moment of thought.
"Yes."
Heh... Why was his app completely different from everyone else's?
"Why?" Hua Xiaoman blurted out in shock.
"Why does your app give you little gold fish as a reward!"
She desperately wanted that kind of gift too, alright?
Lu Lin chuckled and said, "Because I'm on the closed-beta version."
Everyone else: ...
This thing had a closed-beta version too?

Wait, does that mean this guy has been using it ever since the app first came out?
Chi You walked over to him and asked, "Did you use this app to become attractive?"
"Your brother here has been incomparably handsome since birth; how could I possibly need to use an app to look good?" Lu Lin shot her a sideways glance, looking extremely disdainful.
"Then what did you use it for?" Chi You continued to ask, genuinely curious.
"I used it to get smarter," Lu Lin said, his voice dropping so low that Chi You could barely catch it.
"Heh..." So this app could grant all sorts of different wishes after all.

Everyone went back to do their own things—some went to catch up on sleep, some ate, and some trained.
When night fell, they all spontaneously gathered in the main hall.
After exchanging a glance, they turned and headed toward the village morgue.
The village wasn't very large, but it was crisscrossed with numerous winding paths.
Nanzhi held the rope in her hand, letting her little black dog lead the way.
The little dog lowered its head, sniffing the lingering scent on the ground, and navigated the twisting alleys of the village step by step.
It was now eleven o'clock at night, and every household had long since blown out their candles and gone to bed.
Above the doorway of every house hung two white lanterns, with candles burning inside them.
Not only that, but white couplets were pasted on both sides of the doors, adorned with large floral decorations made of white cloth.
No matter how one looked at it, the atmosphere was deeply eerie.
As they emerged from a narrow alley, they noticed that one household actually had red lanterns hanging at its entrance.

Amidst a sea of white, this single house stood out in bright red, appearing completely out of place.
"Is this family celebrating a joyous occasion?" Chi You stood in place, staring at the gate with the red lanterns and frowning.
Jiang Pan paused nearby, took a look, and said, "This place is probably preparing for a ghost marriage with that deceased male corpse."
"They really can't wait, can they?" Chi You chuckled softly.
Guided by the little dog, they failed to find the morgue and instead arrived at a graveyard.
Seeing mounds of graves all around them, the little black dog began to bark incessantly.
In the silent mountain forest, apart from the howling wind, only the barking of the dog remained.
Not only was the dog barking, but its body was also slowly growing larger.
The rope tied around its neck snapped instantly.
A look of shock and terror washed over Nanzhi's face. "We've wandered into a place full of ghosts," she stammered, her body trembling.
"There are ghosts everywhere here."
"Everywhere..."
As her words trailed off, a pale, bluish-white hand suddenly burst out from one of the grave mounds.
"Ahhhh—" Lu Lin was standing the closest. Seeing that ghostly hand writhing about, he couldn't help screaming at the top of his lungs, "Ghost—!"
His piercing yell startled the birds resting in the trees, sending them all fluttering into the night sky.