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Upon hearing my words, the neighbors at the yard gate turned pale with shock, with some timid ones getting scared and running straight home.
But the relatives wore expressions of disdain.
Big Cousin spat vehemently on the ground.
"Infectious disease? Who are you fooling?"
"Are you the only one in the village who went to school? You say it's an infectious disease, so it's an infectious disease? I think you just want to scare us away and take all the inheritance for yourself!"
"The old man treated this bastard the best when he was alive. I bet she took all the money."
"Exactly, the little brat is definitely lying. The old guy even supported her to go to medical school, there's no way he didn't have money!"
Big Cousin's words made me tremble with anger!
He is the least qualified to say such things!
Big Cousin is a notorious thug in the village, uneducated, who in earlier years was involved in gang fights and accidentally injured someone severely.
To receive the family's forgiveness, the aged grandpa with his frail body, got on his knees and begged, even selling off his mere ten acres of land to raise the compensation.
Yet, ungrateful and unrepentant, he continued on his merry way, even stealing grandpa's monthly pension of one hundred yuan on the day it was credited.
As for the money grandpa used for my education, he collected it by scavenging empty water bottles early in the morning and late at night.
Sometimes, to collect more, he would squat at the restaurant entrances in town, pleading with people for their empty drink bottles.
For this, he endured countless disdainful looks.
But in their eyes, grandpa definitely still had a significant amount left!
Glaring at these relatives, worse than beasts, my resentment spread through my chest like wildfire!
I wished they would all die soon!
But thinking about the virus within grandpa, which could break through his body and spread at any moment, I was frantic!
By then, the entire village, even the town, would be affected by the deadly disease, the consequences unimaginable!
With reddening eyes, I yelled at them:
"Grandpa truly has a deadly infectious disease, if we don't cremate him soon, we'll all die! If you don't believe me, go ask the disease control center yourselves!"
Right before them, I called the disease control center.
After saying this, the faces of the relatives turned somewhat grim.
Yet they didn't believe grandpa had no money left, let alone what I said about the infectious disease.
They thought it was just an excuse I made up to take all of grandpa's inheritance.
The next second, Big Cousin slapped the phone out of my hand!
It hit a rock, the screen shattered instantly!
Seeing the interrupted call, a feeling of helplessness surged through my heart.
"Stop using the infectious disease excuse to fool us!"
"As long as we can get a share of the inheritance! Even if there is a disease, we're not afraid!"
Saying this, he pushed me down, and, with the relatives, started rummaging through grandpa's old, broken-down house.
As I lay on the ground, glancing at grandpa's body, an alarm bell went off inside me!
His hands suddenly had the appearance of herpes-type corpse spots, I immediately realized, this was a sign of corpse transformation!
In such a short time, the body had already started showing signs of decay!
The virus was evolving much faster than I imagined!
If we don't cremate now, once the Corpse Qi carrying the virus leaks out, we're doomed.