Chapter 129: The Wanderer

"Handsome, congratulations! You are our shop's 520th customer today. We'd like to gift you two a special hidden dessert." A waitress approached Ning Zhe's table with a tray, placed two sundaes in front of Feng Yushu and him, bowed slightly, gave him a faint smile, and turned to leave. "Enjoy your meal."

The snow-white ice cream was topped with mango flesh carved into heart shapes and thumb-sized cherries. Ning Zhe took a spoonful; it was sweet but not cloying, quite delicious.

"You really have good luck." Feng Yushu looked very happy; she seemed to quite enjoy desserts. One could tell just by looking at her figure.

"I'd be content just buying a lottery ticket." Ning Zhe shrugged and said, "There was a guy abroad whose luck was so explosive that he survived being struck by lightning on the head... yet even with that level of heaven-defying luck, if he came to the Central Plains to buy a lottery ticket, he absolutely wouldn't win even a one-yuan consolation prize."

This wasn't a matter of luck, but of mathematics.

Feng Yushu giggled, scooped the cherry off her mango sundae, and popped it into her mouth.

On the road outside the window, the accident scene had been cleared by tow trucks and workers. The briefly disrupted traffic order quickly returned to normal, and people on both sides of the street found new topics of conversation.

After finishing the dessert, Feng Yushu paid the bill and walked out of the milk tea shop alone with a cup of lemon tea. She crossed the road and returned to her car parked in the underground garage across the street.

She had come out driving her husband's car today, and her attire was quite capable—a proper, formal suit, looking just like an ordinary office lady who had just stepped out of an office building. Her smooth black hair was tied into a convenient bun, and a beautiful water-blue butterfly rested on top of it, looking like some sort of special hair accessory.

Feng Yushu sat in the driver's seat, and the butterfly resting on her head flew down to the passenger seat, transforming into the likeness of Ning Zhe.

"Has the aftermath in Retirement Village been handled?" Ning Zhe asked straight to the point as soon as he sat down.

"It's all handled." Feng Yushu nodded. "After you left with Yin Lishang, I immediately went to deal with Ji Taimei's grandmother's head."

As for how exactly it was 'handled,' Ning Zhe didn't need to give further instructions.

"The death in Retirement Village is not a true death, but a path to falling to the next layer. So, I didn't kill Ji Taimei's grandmother; instead, I first used a knife to gouge out her eyes, poked her ears deaf, stuffed her mouth with mud, and finally used wire to seal her jaws shut, throwing her head into the eternally burning tree hollow of that ginkgo tree."

"I think this should be safe enough."

When Feng Yushu spoke, her hands on the steering wheel didn't tremble in the slightest. She was already accustomed to such things. Or rather, numb to them.

"After dealing with that human-bone snake's head, I consumed one, then two copper coins, and purchased two lives from the God of Wealth. I returned from the 'Ghost' realm to the 'Xi' realm. In the -1 layer of the Underworld, I did the same to the head of Ji Taimei that you had cut off, throwing it into a villager's septic tank."

Ji Taimei, having died once, was already a 'Ghost.' Even with his head cut off and thrown into a septic tank, he wouldn't die, but would live on as a head soaking in that dark, foul-smelling hell.

If that state could even be called living.

After cleaning up all the loose ends, Feng Yushu, while in the -1 layer, picked up the copper coin Ning Zhe had casually discarded by the steps of Ji Taimei's house. She then bought another life from the God of Wealth and returned to reality alone.

By then, Ning Zhe had already gone far away with Yin Lishang.

When she re-established contact with Ning Zhe, she was ordered to kill all the employees deployed by Yunshan Pharmaceutical in the West Suburb Science Park... Facts proved that Feng Yushu had adapted to her current identity and situation; she completed Ning Zhe's instructions in a standard manner.

"Well done." Ning Zhe nodded slightly, leaning back against the passenger seat and looking up at the starry ceiling. "Is there anything else you need me to do?" Feng Yushu asked.

"Not for now." Ning Zhe shook his head again. "I'm returning to Qinzhou tomorrow."

Feng Yushu's previously relaxed expression turned serious. "Ning Zhe, have you already found the clue to the 'God That Cannot Be Looked Upon'?"

She remembered clearly that the Gridder named Yu Zi Qian had mastered two rules and two ghosts—one called Yeyao, and the other with an unknown name, only known as 'Cannot Be Looked Upon.'

At that time, Feng Yushu had used the rule of 'Special Let' in the hospital to stomp on Yu Zi Qian's shadow. While Yeyao's rule was broken, the ghost transferred onto Feng Yushu along the foot that 'Special Let' had used to stomp on it.

But at the time, only Yeyao's rule had been broken. After Yu Zi Qian died, the 'God That Cannot Be Looked Upon' became free and disappeared. The God, having lost its restraints, vanished above Taoyuan City without a trace.

Ning Zhe suddenly said he was returning to Qinzhou—could it be that he had already found a clue about the 'God'?

"Uh, I'm returning to Qinzhou to take the college entrance exam." Ning Zhe looked up and gestured for Feng Yushu to look at the car's electronic screen. "Qinzhou's college entrance exam starts on July 10th this year. Didn't you know?"

Feng Yushu was stunned.

"Ah, this..."

"So you really didn't know." Ning Zhe sighed. "If I remember correctly, Bai Zhi is a freshman in college this year, right? Your reaction doesn't look like someone who has a female college student at home... Ah, almost forgot, you are from Yongzhou. Yongzhou's college entrance exam is generally a week later than other provinces."

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Feng Yushu shook her head repeatedly. "No, no..."

The reason for her shock was certainly not that she had forgotten the date of Qinzhou's college entrance exam, but rather shock that... someone like Ning Zhe would actually take the college entrance exam.

Perhaps it was because the previous Ning Zhe had always appeared too calm and rational; his image was as elusive as flowers in the mist, and as unflappable as a reef in a torrent. His intense self-centeredness and highly aggressive style of doing things had caused Feng Yushu to ignore, for much of the time, that this teenager named Ning Zhe was actually a high school senior one year younger than her own daughter.

Now, being reminded of this absurd fact again, she felt that the whole world was so unreal.

"Don't look at me like that. If I could, I wouldn't want to enter the exam hall to write those damn papers, but I am Ning Zhe." Ning Zhe closed his eyes and said softly, "Ning Zhe must take the exam no matter what. Even if the sky falls."

Even setting aside Ning Zhe's self-perception, for a model student whose grades were always at the top to suddenly drop out and abandon the exam would be a bit too eye-catching.

"I understand..." Feng Yushu nodded.

Seeing her somewhat dejected appearance, Ning Zhe didn't speak.

In principle, he was indeed not lying to Feng Yushu; he was indeed returning home to take the college entrance exam. But that was only one of the reasons he was returning to Qinzhou. And the other reason was—

He had indeed obtained some clues related to the 'God That Cannot Be Looked Upon.'

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