Chapter 130: Structural Contradiction

Looking at Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's calm expression, Feng Yushu hesitated, as if there was something she wanted to ask but didn't dare to speak.

At this moment, the phone in his pocket rang.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe held an index finger to his lips, made a shushing gesture to Feng Yushu, and as he answered the phone, the features on his face changed.

"Missing me so soon?"

"It hasn't been that fast; it's only been a day. It will take at least a week or two to finish things here; I probably won't be back until around the 15th."

"Alright, I know. Be good, don't throw a tantrum. I'll spend time with you all when I get back."

"Mm, let's leave it at that for now. I'll find a gap to video call you all tonight. Remember to take your sister to the hospital for a check-up..."

Feng Yushu listened silently to Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe coaxing the girl on the other end of the phone with a gentle tone before asking cautiously, "Who was that just now?"

"Yu Zi Qian's girlfriend, or to be precise, his slave."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said bluntly:

"These two sisters were childhood sweethearts who grew up with Yu Zi Qian. Both had some feelings for him. Yu Zi Qian was a playboy; he wanted both, but modern social morality and ethics can hardly tolerate such things. The sisters told him to choose one, or he gets neither."

"But you can probably guess what happened later."

Yu Zi Qian mastered the 'God That Cannot Be Looked Upon' and used the ability of the Thought Steel Seal to achieve 'having them all.'

Feng Yushu took a moment to understand the logic and figured out the current situation. "So you stole Yu Zi Qian's identity? And turned his slaves into your slaves?"

"You could say that." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe nodded. "I entrusted Yin Lishang to that pair of sisters to take care of. People controlled by the Thought Steel Seal are far more loyal than any professional hired for money."

The only drawback was that these two slaves were too restless and clingy. This had to be blamed on the fact that the Thought Steel Seal Yu Zi Qian planted in people back then was love, not obedience.

Human love has always been a void and ethereal thing—unseen, untouchable, and unfathomable. The sound of a stray dog digging for food in a trash heap tearing open a plastic bag is more pleasant than 'I love you.'

At least the stray dog's desire to fill its belly can be proven to be real.

"So that's how it is... By the way, what is the background of that girl named Yin Lishang? Is she a human or a ghost?" This was a question Feng Yushu had always wanted to ask.

"She is a ghost, but a ghost who thinks she is human." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said without looking up. "The relationship here is very complicated; it's not something you should be concerned about. I will handle it."

"Okay..." Feng Yushu nodded obediently. "But you had me kill so many people in the Science Park; won't that cause any problems? Will that young man named Seeing Lan Shiwen come to trouble you?"

"No, because those people you killed are all considered people of the 'Great Families'."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said indifferently, "Yunshan Pharmaceutical is Ji Bochang's industry, and this person Ji Bochang has already been proven to have the suspicion of wanting to turn his own family into a 'Great Family.' His two sons fled abroad early on and are now being hunted across the ocean by Gridders from the Central Plains."

"Any attack by ordinary Gridders on the Great Families has natural legitimacy. Therefore, even if you killed all 50,000 employees of the Yunshan Pharmaceutical Group, you would absolutely not face any sanctions, because they are the lackeys of the 'Great Families.' Seeing Lan Shiwen will absolutely not trouble me for this; otherwise, he would be the next target of public criticism."

Feng Yushu was a bit stunned. "Gridders... do they have some grudge against the Great Families?"

"Not just Gridders; to be precise, every single person living on this Earth has an irreconcilable hatred for the Great Families."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said lightly, "Whether male or female, old or young, Central Plains people or foreigners, as long as you can still be counted as 'human,' the Great Families are your mortal enemies. Because the existence of the Great Families will push the human race toward extinction."

"Any member of a Great Family, whether it's an old person on the verge of death or an infant waiting to be fed, should be killed by all humans on Earth."

"In short, being born into a Great Family equals a death sentence. Anyone who has any form of blood or inheritance relationship with a Great Family deserves to die."

"I repeat, anyone who has anything to do with a Great Family, no matter who they are, must die."

Feng Yushu was stunned, her head full of confusion, and she couldn't help but ask, "Why?"

Was the theory that one is born guilty actually true? Does there really exist in this world evil that spreads through bloodlines?

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe silently took out a small leather-bound notebook from his bosom, opened it in front of Feng Yushu, and handed it to her.

The envelope Seeing Lan Shiwen gave him had self-combusted and burned after being read once. This was a manuscript Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had written from memory, the intelligence on 'Ji Bochang's 7 Deaths and Causes of Death,' as well as some intelligence Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had collected through various channels.

Feng Yushu took the notebook, lowered her eyes, and saw Ji Bochang's first death in his youth:

【December 03, 1959, a strange event occurred in Yunting City, Yunzhou Prefecture, event number 01521, codenamed 'Fissure'.】 【The incident occurred at a construction site under construction in Yunting City. More than 20 construction workers lost their lives in the incident. Ji Bochang, 22 years old at the time, was a laborer at the construction site and also the sole survivor of the incident.】

【Ji Bochang cracked and mastered the strange rule codenamed 'Fissure' at the construction site, becoming a Rule-User.】

One thing that is very counter-intuitive is that although Ji Bochang is famous for the rule of the God of Wealth Wealth-God Wutong, the first strange rule that made him a Rule-User was not Wealth-God Wutong, but 'Fissure.'

The Millennium Massacre that led to the destruction of the Yin family occurred in the year 2000, and in the year when the Fissure incident occurred, the Yin family was still at its peak, and the God of Wealth Wealth-God Wutong was still under the control of the Yin family.

【The second day after mastering Fissure and becoming a Rule-User, Ji Bochang died in a hotel. Fissure went out of control and became a large-scale strange event, causing over 41 deaths or disappearances.】

【The then-head of the Yunzhou Yin family sent people to blockade the scene. While forbidding anyone from entering the hotel, the Yin family began to send family members into the hotel.】

【7 days later, all the Yin family members who entered the hotel died. Ji Bochang, who had already died, was resurrected by some means and mastered Fissure again.】

This was Ji Bochang's first recorded and verifiable 'death.'

Feng Yushu held the notebook, and Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe leaned against the back of the passenger seat, explaining:

"It was proven later that Ji Bochang did not die from the backlash of Fissure's rule, but was assassinated by people from the Yin family."

"A Rule-User known as 'Burning Fog' bypassed the Yin family's blockade, entered the hotel, and obtained life-buying money by hunting Yin family members, resurrecting Ji Bochang. The two of them killed all the Yin family members in the hotel together, which finally calmed down the 'Fissure' event that had gone out of control again."

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Fenwu...? Feng Yushu was stunned. "Fenwu, isn't that..."

"That's right, that's the Burning Fog who wanted to kill me and take the Soul-Calling Lamp from my corpse." Ning Zhe nodded. "He is an old guy from the same era as Tu Yu."

"But I don't understand." Feng Yushu asked suspiciously, "Why did the Yin family assassinate Ji Bochang at that time? A construction laborer solved the strange event in Yunting City and avoided a larger-scale disaster; isn't that a good thing?"

After the Yin family assassinated Ji Bochang, Fissure went out of control, which instead led to countless innocent casualties in the hotel, and the Yin family's own family members were also hunted by Burning Fog. No matter how you look at it, it seems unreasonable.

Why would they do such a thing that harms others and doesn't benefit themselves?

"Because the Great Families cannot tolerate the appearance of any new Gridders." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe exhaled lightly and said indifferently, "Great Family members inherit the rules of their elders through bloodlines, thereby holding extraordinary power for generations, standing high above. Mortals without extraordinary power cannot resist their rule, but Gridders can."

"For the Great Families, as long as they don't have their family's blood flowing in them, they are outsiders. The ascension of any outsider is destroying the foundation of their own rule. Therefore, the Great Families will not tolerate anyone other than their own family members mastering the rules of ghosts. They indiscriminately slaughter every survivor of every strange event."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe took back his notebook from Feng Yushu, put it in his pocket, and continued:

"The same thing happened in Qinzhou, which is my hometown."

"The thousand-year Great Family that occupied Qinzhou in the early years was surnamed 'Lou.' In 1987, a strange event occurred in a Watchtower ruin in the suburbs of Qinfen City, Qinzhou Prefecture. Because the Watchtower had been abandoned for a long time, this strange event did not cause large-scale casualties, only killing 1 farmer who was cutting grass and feeding fish nearby."

"After the incident occurred, Qinfen City responded quickly. A large number of volunteers who had signed life-and-death contracts tried to enter the Watchtower. They were willing to use their lives to explore the rules, striving to calm the incident in the shortest time. But the Lou family members quickly arrived at the scene and strictly forbade anyone, including volunteers, from entering the Watchtower, only allowing Lou family members to explore the incident."

"This strange event that occurred in the Watchtower was relatively special. It did not stay fixed in one place like the Soul-Calling Lamp or Fissure, but would crawl and move toward places with people like some kind of living thing. In the process of the Lou family trying to crack the Watchtower's rules, the strange event began to move toward Qinfen City, which had millions of people."

"Until the ghost crawled into the city, the Lou family did not successfully resolve this strange event, and of course, they did not allow any volunteer willing to risk their life to explore the rules to enter the influence range of the event—those who snuck in were also killed by them."

Hearing this, Feng Yushu couldn't help but widen her eyes, her rosy lips slightly parted. "This... this is too absurd."

"It is very absurd, but that is the Great Families."

Ning Zhe concluded finally, "The Great Families don't care about the civilians in Qinfen City, nor do they care about how many people will die after the strange event in the Watchtower crawls into the city. They only care about one thing—they cannot let 'outsiders' master the rules."

The Great Families will never allow any outsider to touch the path of ascension, even if the sky falls.

This is the structural contradiction between the Great Families and the rogue Gridders and all of humanity. The same thing happened all over the Nine Provinces, and it has never subsided for thousands of years. Thus, there was the later Millennium Massacre.

"In 1996, Seeing Lan Shiwen was born in a hospital shrouded by a strange event. This natural Gridder crawled out of the corpse of his mother who had been killed by a ghost and was adopted by Tu Yu, who came to handle the incident."

"In 2000, Tu Yu held the 4-year-old Lan Shiwen and walked into Gathering Immortals Garden, and together with Burning Fog and Ji Bochang, killed everyone inside."

In 2018, Ji Bochang attempted to turn his own family into a 'Great Family.'

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