Chapter 11: You in My Eyes

"Didn't you ask us to be careful of Gu Yunqing earlier?" Ye Miaozhu said with a cold face: "He's dead."

Zhang Yangxu looked around, and indeed didn't see Gu Yunqing: "Did he also die by the river?"

Ye Miaozhu didn't speak, just lowered her head.

"I understand." Zhang Yangxu turned his head to look at Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe: "Can you tell me the specific situation? The cause and effect of Gu Yunqing's death, and why you said their deaths have nothing to do with that river?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe didn't mind this: "But I first need to know what happened between you and the thing that impersonated Xie Sining after that call was hung up, and how did you get rid of it?"

The guard is still very heavy... Zhang Yangxu nodded slightly with self-knowledge and continued:

"After the warning call from Feng Yushu was hung up, I tried to call back several times, but couldn't get through. During the time I was calling back, Xie Sining didn't do anything, just looked at me silently without saying a word. I didn't know at the time that she was already dead and had been replaced by the river. All the clues were just that inexplicable 'Be careful of Xie Sining' from Feng Yushu."

"To be honest, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, I don't trust you, so I didn't fully believe the call and the warning from Feng Yushu. I even seriously considered whether you were playing tricks to alienate the relationship between me and Sining. After all, you are alone here."

"I pretended to be calm and continued to the ancestral hall with Xie Sining, but the confusion in my heart didn't dissipate. I decided to test her."

Speaking of this, Zhang Yangxu paused: "On the way back to the ancestral hall, I intentionally chatted with Xie Sining about the real estate bidding issue of the New World Group for Gubei Town. The content of the conversation involved many relevant laws and regulations in that field, and her performance... was very strange."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe became interested instantly: "Finally got to the point, how strange?"

Involving trade secrets, Zhang Yangxu appeared a bit hesitant, but still said:

"Sining is a professional lawyer with very solid qualifications and possesses first-class professional standards recognized by peers in the industry. I have some knowledge reserves in law, but I'm still far inferior to her. I often consult her on relevant issues before making decisions, and basically can get fast and clear answers. Sining has always been very reliable."

"But this chat, the feeling she gave me wasn't that 'reliable'."

"I asked those professional legal questions involving the real estate field. Some she could answer, and the speed of answering was extremely fast, and the answers given were exactly the same as what I thought in my heart. Some questions couldn't be answered at all, and she couldn't give an accurate answer. However, with Sining's ability, it's impossible for her to not be able to answer this level of questions, which made me feel very strange."

"I continued to ask some other things with confusion. As the exchange deepened, slowly, I summarized a rule:"

"For those questions she could answer, I mostly already knew the answer. For those she couldn't answer, they were mostly ambiguous questions I didn't know the answer to."

"In other words, she only knew what I already knew, and didn't know what I didn't know."

Listening to Zhang Yangxu's description, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's brows furrowed: "You mean, that thing impersonating Xie Sining can read minds, or read memories or something?"

Relying on reading the other party's memory to disguise as someone the other party knows? "No, I don't think it should be."

Zhang Yangxu continued: "Because besides professional legal questions, I also asked her some more private questions that only I knew, such as whether the passwords of my several bank cards are the same, how much I transfer to my lover's card every month... and so on. She couldn't answer any of them."

If that imposter could really read minds, it would be impossible for it not to be able to answer these questions.

"Maybe it was pretending?" Ye Miaozhu said. Lying isn't difficult, if that thing can indeed read minds.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe waved his hand: "Let Mr. Zhang continue, be more detailed." Zhang Yangxu nodded slightly and described the exchange process between him and the fake Xie Sining in detail.

According to his narrative, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe roughly combed out a clear context.

When Zhang Yangxu asked a question to the fake Xie Sining, there were three situations.

1: Legal questions that are not highly professional, Zhang Yangxu knows the answer to the question, and thinks Xie Sining also knows.

In this situation, Xie Sining can give a correct answer accurately and quickly.

2: Private questions such as bank card passwords, Zhang Yangxu knows the answer to the question, but he thinks Xie Sining shouldn't know.

In this situation, Xie Sining will directly answer that she doesn't know.

3: Highly professional legal questions, Zhang Yangxu doesn't know the answer to the question, but he thinks Xie Sining should know. "This situation is the most special. At first, Xie Sining would very confidently indicate that she could answer completely, but after saying 'I know,' she would stand still completely, not blinking, not breathing, and even her heartbeat would stop... The rustling sound from her throat was like a computer program encountering a bug and unable to run normally, repeatedly reporting errors. She kept repeating the last sentence she said before getting stuck."

Speaking of this, Zhang Yangxu's expression became strange: "It's simply like... a game NPC whose plot was wrongly triggered."

"Or a rule that got stuck on a bug and couldn't run normally."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe sighed and said: "He Family Village is a place that sticks to conventions. Everyone, everything, every object we see here... and this entire world, all run according to some established rules."

So-called rules are rigid, absolute, without ambiguity or double-dealing. 1 is 1, 0 is 0, there is no 0.5 that touches both sides. Taboo things cannot be done, they cannot be done. If you violate the Serpent God's rules, you violate them. There is no such thing as 'I didn't bury half a person today, so it doesn't count as burial'."

Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing. Rules will be silent, but they won't lie.

Zhang Yangxu nodded deeply: "That thing wearing Sining's skin... every move of hers was exactly the same as the Xie Sining in my impression, but she was just not the real Xie Sining herself. That was the Xie Sining in my memory, not the real her. Do you understand what I mean?"

The one replaced by the ghost wasn't 'Xie Sining', but 'the Xie Sining Zhang Yangxu thinks'... is that so?

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's brows furrowed. He felt he seemed to have grasped some crucial clues, but couldn't describe the specific appearance of that line.

"After I finally determined with certainty from my heart through various tests and inquiries that the 'ghost' in front of me was definitely not Xie Sining, it disappeared." Zhang Yangxu said: "Like a wisp of drifting smoke, it disappeared completely. I just got rid of it like this."

"So why did you ask us to be careful of Gu Yunqing?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked again.

"Because after getting rid of Xie Sining, I quickly returned to the ancestral hall. In the ancestral hall, I met someone."

Zhang Yangxu said: "I saw Gu Yunqing standing alone in front of the lotus pedestal, reaching out to flip the almanac hanging on the Serpent God statue, flipping it to tomorrow."

Then he died.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 12 =====