Chapter 128: Warning

Ning Zhe briefly explained to Lan Shiwen the layered structure of Retirement Village, as well as the rigid conditions between different layers.

To go from the current level to the next level, you need an "instant-death rule" that can directly kill people.

To return from the

"The death rule and the resurrection rule—both are indispensable. These are the hard conditions for reaching the end of the abyss and bringing back 'that thing'."

After Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe finished speaking, he sighed with some regret: "It's a pity I can't go."

Seeing Lan Shiwen nodded, indicating he understood.

Based on the currently known information, it was easy to draw this conclusion: for a person to walk to the deepest part of Retirement Village and return, they need to descend six layers of the world, which means killing themselves six times and then purchasing six lives from the God of Wealth to return to reality.

The price of purchasing six lives starting from 1 is 1+2+4+16+256+65536 = 65,815 copper coins.

This is the price for a new customer who has never traded with the God of Wealth.

But Ning Zhe had already traded with the God of Wealth more than once. Lan Shiwen did not know how many times Ning Zhe had bought his life from the God of Wealth in Retirement Village, but he could be certain that the price Ning Zhe paid to buy his life from the God of Wealth would definitely not start from 1.

"The price of the sixth life is 65,536 copper coins, and the seventh life is about 4.3 billion copper coins. This is a massive sum that Yeyao could never raise." Seeing Lan Shiwen nodded inwardly, and his gaze toward Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe became a bit gentler.

At what number would Yeyao start buying his life from the God of Wealth next time? 2? 4? Or 16? It didn't really matter. Lan Shiwen now knew that, at least regarding the Yin family inheritance in Retirement Village, the other party no longer posed a competitive threat to him.

No wonder Yeyao shared this important information with him so easily... Seeing Lan Shiwen couldn't help but think.

And this was exactly what Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe wanted Seeing Lan Shiwen to know.

"These are the specific causes of Ji Bochang's seven deaths." Seeing Lan Shiwen collected his thoughts and handed a sealed wax envelope to Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe: "After you open it, this letter will spontaneously combust. Be careful not to burn your hands."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe nodded and took the envelope. Afterward, two male nurses emerged from a passage on the other side and came before them.

"We need to collect some of your stem cell samples before we can begin printing money for you." The male nurse bowed slightly to Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe and said with his head lowered: "If you agree, please come with us."

"No, no thank you." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe smiled and shook his head: "Let's leave it for today. Allow me to consider it further."

"Contact me when you've made up your mind." Seeing Lan Shiwen was not surprised by Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's cautious attitude; in fact, he would have been surprised if he weren't cautious: "Please keep the access card for the Hive facility safe. The doors here are always open to you."

"I know." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe smiled and stuffed the access card into his pocket along with the envelope, his polite expression flawless.

After the transaction ended, Seeing Lan Shiwen escorted him all the way to the entrance of the technology park and dispatched a special driver to take Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe back to Yuncheng. After watching the Yunshan Pharmaceutical official vehicle disappear beneath the distant, evil city walls, Seeing Lan Shiwen returned to the underground Hive of the Yuncheng Western Suburbs Technology Park at a leisurely pace.

"Report the sampling results." Just as he walked through the door, Seeing Lan Shiwen said this.

However, only his own voice echoed in the empty building within the pure white structure. He could almost hear the faint sound of cold air blowing from the air conditioning. The vast space beneath the entire central dome was so quiet—terrifyingly quiet.

Seeing Lan Shiwen sensed something was wrong. He walked quickly to the spiral staircase and cast his gaze toward the fire door below. The two corpses lying horizontally in front of the door came into view. Seeing Lan Shiwen was an extremely experienced Ascender; the moment he saw the guards' corpses, he intuitively realized this was not a normal death that could be understood by common sense, but a bizarre event right before his eyes. They had been killed by a ghost.

Holding this preconceived vigilant mindset and looking closer, Seeing Lan Shiwen soon discovered the clue—although they were under bright light, there were no shadows beneath the two guards' corpses.

"Yeyao..." Seeing Lan Shiwen couldn't help but hiss, casually placing the guards' corpses back against the wall and walking straight through the second blast door at a very fast pace.

As Seeing Lan Shiwen's hurried footsteps echoed from the west side of the technology park's central dome to the south, he quickly scanned the various departments of the Hive facility. In large facilities of different purposes, corpses dressed in white lay scattered everywhere. Their deaths were so quiet that they hadn't attracted anyone's attention.

Seeing Lan Shiwen stopped before the last blast door, panting.

A bone-chilling cold crawled up his spine along his vertebrae. A terrifying fact unfolded before Seeing Lan Shiwen's eyes—there wasn't a single living soul left in this entire Western Suburbs Technology Park besides himself.

Yeyao had killed everyone here.

"He is warning me..." Seeing Lan Shiwen clenched his fists. In a fit of anger, he felt quite angry.

... It was not worth making an enemy of an Ascender of Yeyao's level just for a mere branch of Yunshan Pharmaceutical in Yuncheng.

The scorching sun of early July rose over the Yuncheng sky. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was delivered to Yuncheng city by the Yunshan Pharmaceutical official vehicle, and the driver politely nodded and said goodbye to him.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe changed his appearance, walked into a milk tea shop by the roadside, ordered two cups of preserved plum lemon tea, sat by the window, and watched the Yunshan Pharmaceutical official vehicle turning around on the road, preparing to return.

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The lemon tea with preserved plum had a slight salty taste. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe took a shallow sip, and the sweet and sour bubbles burst in his mouth. He watched as the official vehicle in the distance had just finished turning around for only a few minutes when the entire car suddenly lost control without warning, crashing straight into the green belt in the middle of the road like a headless fly, slamming head-on into a utility pole.

The driver was dead.

The bustling street immediately fell into chaos. Fortunately, no one else was injured besides the driver himself. In the chaotic scene, no one noticed a pitch-black shadow flash past in the green belt, moving rapidly along the gaps between billboards and walls, finally disappearing into an unnoticed corner.

Traffic police maintaining order soon set up roadblocks, pulled up isolation tape to protect the scene, and redirected traffic while waiting for ambulances and other relevant personnel to arrive. Traffic accidents were not exactly rare in a metropolis like Yuncheng; perhaps the driver in the car had been driving while fatigued.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe rested his chin on one hand, biting the straw as he quietly watched the passing traffic outside the window and the tow truck that arrived late to haul away the wreckage of the official vehicle.

After a long while, a woman in a hurry walked into the milk tea shop, looked around, and sat down opposite Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe without saying a word.

Feng Yushu was wearing a slim-fit three-piece suit today—shirt, vest, and blazer—with well-tailored black high-waisted trousers on the bottom. Regardless of what she was like as a person, at least her image looked much more capable, and she didn't have so many conspicuous accessories on her.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe pushed a cup of lemon tea toward her: "Is it all resolved?"

"It's all resolved." Feng Yushu bit her lip lightly and nodded: "Except for the person you mentioned, not a single living soul was left."

"Well done." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe smiled slightly: "You've worked hard."

(End of chapter)