Chapter 188: Fire

【Do Nothing Else】 is a folk term, which in human language means "don't do anything else."

That is to say, from the moment Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe opened the almanac and let the rules of Zhaoyou cover this place, any action other than 【Marriage, Sacrifice, Pest Removal, Hunting, Netting, Fishing, Coming-of-Age Ceremony】 would be regarded as violating the taboo.

Including breathing.

This was why Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was unwilling to wake up the Snake God Zhaoyou easily. The Snake God's rules were related to luck, and the side effects of using the Snake God's power were also entirely up to luck.

Obviously, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's luck today was not very good.

The continuous wild fire constantly extracted oxygen from the fire field, and the scalding air poured into his lungs along the respiratory tract. Every tiny alveolus was stinging with pain, and the scorching heat spread from his internal organs to his pores. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe covered his throat with both hands and knelt on the ground in pain, coughing up large amounts of bright red blood.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's body twisted in the firelight and gradually lost its breath.

He died.

At the moment before death, his head fell to the ground. In his retina, which was blurred by the high temperature, reflected twisted shadows, winding with enchanting flames and wandering in the heat wave, like kelp dancing with the ocean current in the sea, or like mosquito larvae wriggling into a group in a water tank.

When he opened his eyes next time, it was pitch black in front of him.

"Ah... that's right, my eyes were roasted, and now I can't see anything."

The scorching pain came from every part of his body, as if countless red fire ants were crawling up and down in his body. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe wanted to reach out and touch his face, but found that he didn't even have hands.

... No, not just hands, even legs were gone. As if his entire lower body had disappeared out of thin air, the only things he could confirm existed were his waist, back, and spine. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe calmed down and tried to hear something, but the world was so quiet.

His ears were also deaf.

Eyes blind, ears deaf, mouth unable to speak, hands and feet disappeared. What kind of thing have I become?

The scorching pain of the fire rose from his lungs to his brain. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe only spent less than half a second outlining what he looked like now:

A monster with its eyes gouged out, ears poked deaf, mouth sewn shut, crawling in the sea of fire relying only on a spine like a snake.

—Zhen.

"... That's right, I saw that the situation was not good after opening the almanac and subconsciously switched back to Yu Zi Qian's identity. I was burned to death as Yu Zi Qian, and Yu Zi Qian was already a dead person..."

People die and become ghosts, ghosts die and become zhen—this was the rule of Yanglao Village. He, who died in the sea of fire, had already become the deformed spiritual body that was half-human and half-beast in Yanglao Village, a human-bone long snake crawling everywhere with a human head.

The scorching pain came continuously from every inch of his body. If Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe could see now, he would be able to see a rotten headless corpse lying quietly in the center of the rice field, and a scorched human-bone snake covered in flames, twitching and twisting in pain.

Zhen snakes like him were everywhere in the purgatory-like sea of fire. Some were thin old people with wrinkled faces, some were middle-aged men with scorched faces. Without exception, they were now swimming in the sea of fire, bathing in the flames that burned them beyond recognition.

These monsters crawling out from the deeper depths of death chased the continuously spreading fire, crawled out of the village, crossed the rice fields, climbed up the highway guardrail painted with bright yellow warning colors, and led to the long line of cars on the highway to Yundu.

"Can't go on like this, can't go on like this..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe forced himself to wake up in the pain of being burned by fire. Today, do nothing else; doing anything was violating the taboo, and accumulating the violation of the taboo to a certain extent meant death.

Dying here meant falling deeper into purgatory.

"What is suitable to do today? What is suitable today? Remember, remember..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe repeated in his mind.

The pain of being burned by fire brought Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe not only physical pain, but even his spirit seemed to be thrown into the fire to be roasted. The scorching temperature teased his mind, making him unable to calm down to recall or think.

"Ah... ah ah..." Anger, jealousy, hatred, resentment... various emotions turned into heart fire, burning in the empty chest cavity, making him wish he could abandon all reason and release all the extremes, and like those zhen snakes chasing the fire, crawl onto the highway and into the traffic, dragging the drivers and passengers in the cars out one by one to swallow them alive.

Why, why, why can you live while I die.

Why, why, why am I old and decrepit while you are in your prime.

I am not convinced, I am not willing. Why can you earn millions by moving your fingers while I work overtime day and night but can't even solve the food and clothing of my family.

I, I...

I am jealous, I am hateful, I am resentful, I am angry.

Burn, burn, let everything burn to ashes, let everyone in this world go to hell with me...

The scorching flames burned both skin and soul at the same time. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's ribs struggled and twitched in the scalding air, until his face was also ignited by this fire, and a hoarse whisper came out of his mouth:

"Faintly swaying, silently without a trace..."

【Faintly swaying, silently without a trace.】

【Brimming like water, brilliant like the sun.】

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【Brightly, the blue flowers are swaying in the sky light.】

【Vast, the smoke and clouds are vast, the dragon swims...】

This was the sacrificial chant sung by the villagers of He Family Village when they sacrificed to the Snake God Zhaoyou in the ancestral hall, but now it was sung from Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's mouth.

The faceless girl in the wedding dress stood quietly beside Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's corpse, and the gold thread on the wedding dress also jumped with enchanting flames.

Gradually, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's voice was no longer intermittent. The surrounding rice fields were bare, and the gray-white grass and wood ash were rolled into the sky by the wind.

Taking advantage of the moment of clarity, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's body suddenly collapsed, collapsed into a touch of chaotic and undivided breath, and then condensed into shape again.

"Close..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe crawled up from the mud ground that was dried and crispy by the fire with his hands and feet, and a scholarly face wearing gold-rimmed glasses appeared in front of the faceless He Nianjun.

This was Gu Yunqing's face.

However, just after crawling up, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe suddenly slipped and fell heavily to the ground again. The dry mud ground broke the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and the splashing broken glass shards flew into his eye sockets, scratching his eyeballs. In the blink of an eye, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's eyes were bleeding profusely.

However, those zhen snakes chasing the fire were no better than him. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe breathing was a taboo. Was it not a taboo for those ghosts to drag a long spine and crawl in the sea of fire?

Snap—

The spine of one zhen snake was entangled with the tail of another snake. The pale bone joints bit together like gears, and two scorched heads with disheveled hair screamed and bit each other.

Screams, shrieks, roars, growls, one after another, added fuel to the fire of this prairie fire.

The old almanac still hung quietly on the slender fingers of the faceless person, and there was not a single spark jumping on the dry and flammable paper.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 189 =====