Chapter 192

【Emergency news: Around 07:21 today, a fire broke out in a village on the outskirts of Yun City, Yunzhou Prefecture. Fire, emergency, environmental protection, and other departments have rushed to the scene to carry out emergency rescue and environmental monitoring work.】

【It is reported that the fire first broke out somewhere in Yanglao Village, spreading along the rice fields to the highway. The burning greening tree trunks collapsed in the middle of the road, and the chain-reaction rear-end collision has now caused at least 7 injuries and 1 death...】

【The fire situation is being further tracked; this station's reporter is reporting for you.】

The wall-mounted TV in the hospital room was playing the emergency news from early this morning. Several fire photos captured by drones occupied most of the screen. A disheveled young girl sat on the hospital bed, staring motionless at the screen, with the scorching flames flickering slightly in her pupils.

Crack, the door opened, and Seeing Lan Shiwen, wearing a Zhongshan suit, walked in from outside.

Yin Lishang turned her head at the sound, her two pitch-black eyeballs staring motionless at Seeing Lan Shiwen's face, without saying a word.

Seeing Lan Shiwen did not like being stared at like this, especially when the person staring at him was Yin Lishang. He could not see any emotion related to a living person on the face of this terminally ill girl; she was like an exquisite but soulless porcelain doll. She spent most of her time in the hospital room like this, unless she was talking about her brother with the nurses or someone else.

Every time he was looked at by Yin Lishang like this, he felt as if he were being stared at by a ghost.

However, this time, Yin Lishang took the initiative to speak to him:

"I want to go find my brother." The girl's pitch-black eyes looked at him without blinking.

"Brother?" Seeing Lan Shiwen frowned slightly.

Of course he knew who Yin Lishang's brother was—one of the remnants of the Yin family, the son of Ji Wuxie, originally named Yin Taimei, alias Ji Taimei. He had already died in Yanglao Village.

But Yeyao didn't know what means he used to fool the Plague God, making Yin Lishang think he was her brother, to the point that she was still worried and thinking about returning to her brother's side after staying in the hospital room for so many days.

In all fairness, Seeing Lan Shiwen really wanted to know how Yeyao did it. If he could solve the secret, he might be able to find another brand-new path of ghost-driving other than "Gridding" and "Granting." But reason told him it was impossible.

The way to drive a ghost is a bottom-of-the-box secret for any Gridder. This is a non-saleable item that cannot be communicated; even if you kill the Gridder, you might not get the answer.

Seeing Lan Shiwen sighed, looking at Yin Lishang's deep, abyss-like pitch-black eyes. Just as he was about to say, "Okay, I'll take you to find your brother now," the phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

He had more than one SIM card. The one that received the call was a private number specifically used for contacting Gridders, and few people knew it.

The caller ID was an unfamiliar number. In Seeing Lan Shiwen's impression, he had never had such a contact, and his private number enjoyed specialized service from the operator, so it was impossible to receive spam calls.

"... Has someone come to plead for the Liu family so soon?" Seeing Lan Shiwen exhaled a turbid breath and answered the phone: "If you are here to persuade me not to be impulsive, you can hang up now."

The person on the other end of the phone was stunned for a moment, and a cautious female voice immediately came through: "Yes, it was Yu Zi Qian who asked me to persuade you..."

"Yu Zi Qian?" The impatience on Seeing Lan Shiwen's face disappeared instantly: "Explain in detail."

"Um, he said... the situation in Yanglao Village has temporarily subsided, but before midnight tonight, no one is allowed to approach Yanglao Village under any circumstances."

The female voice on the other end of the phone was not fast, and the tone of weighing every word was like reading a textbook from a script: "He also said, if you ask why, just say it was Yu Zi Qian who said so. If you do not comply, you will bear the consequences yourself. Um, that's all."

Seeing Lan Shiwen nodded slightly: "Is that all? I understand."

The female voice on the other end of the phone also breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, I'm hanging up."

"Wait." Seeing Lan Shiwen suddenly asked: "Who are you to Yu Zi Qian?"

"Um... fiancée? No, I can't tell you anything else, I'm hanging up!"

The phone hung up.

Seeing Lan Shiwen looked at the gray "Call Ended" on the screen, his heart full of question marks: "Ah? Fiancée?" Yin Lishang on the hospital bed was still looking at him motionless: "I want to go find my brother."

"Cough... cough, I know." Seeing Lan Shiwen coughed twice and put the phone back in his pocket: "I can take you to find your brother, but it must be after midnight tonight."

Yu Zi Qian had already sent a warning: from now until midnight tonight, no one can approach Yanglao Village, otherwise they will bear the consequences themselves.

Meanwhile, in Yanglao Village, in the Ming Realm, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had already arrived in front of the ginkgo tree with remaining fire.

In the Earth Temple under the tree sat a clay statue of the Earth God. The ragged clothes were burned to shreds by the fire. Only on the jade tablet in the Earth God's hand could the 14 characters "Taiwei Xiyi Mr. Zhenjun Weiwu Zhenliang Dadi" still shine with golden light.

If you look closely, you can still see traces of scorching burns on the Earth God's clay statue, and the painted features have become somewhat blurred.

"It seems that the Earth God of Yanglao Village and the ghost that caused the fire just now are not the same one."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe stood in front of the Earth Temple, looking at the scarred Earth God clay statue, took a deep breath, and whispered: "Nian Jun."

The faceless girl wearing a wedding dress appeared before him again.

Unlike the previous recklessness, this time Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's actions were well-considered.

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It is known that Ji Taimei's mother said in the letter that his grandfather, the previous generation of the Yin family, hid something that could kill a Gridder in the deepest part of Yanglao Village, and that "deepest part" could not be reached by human power.

Then, those who know the rules of the Earth God of Yanglao Village can easily deduce that the so-called "deepest part" where the Yin family hid the thing is in the last layer of 【Human, Ghost, Zhen, Xi, Yi, Wei】, the realm of "Wei."

What in Yanglao Village can kill a Gridder?

—Fire.

"Assuming that the thing the Yin family hid in 'Wei' is the fire seed that caused the great fire just now, then..."

Then why didn't this fire burn earlier or later, but suddenly started today after he took Yin Lishang away?

Is there any connection between the Plague God's departure and the fire getting out of control? To know the answer to this question, one must go to the deepest part and see for oneself.

So Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe stretched out his palm and flipped the almanac to the next page.

The next moment, he died, all sounds disappeared from then on, and the world became quiet.

The "Tao Te Ching" says: Listening to it but not hearing it is called "Xi."

The best way to judge whether you are in the realm of "Xi" is to prick up your ears and listen carefully; if you find that you cannot hear any sound, then that is it.

By committing suicide to fall downward, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe successfully arrived at the -3 layer "Xi" from the -2 layer "Zhen."

Opening his eyes in the world of Xi, before him was still the ginkgo tree with remaining fire and the small Earth Temple with the sitting clay statue, which seemed no different from the world of Zhen.

But the difference was that as his level deepened, the existing burn marks on the Earth God in front of Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe seemed to have become more obvious.

In addition, the remaining fire jumping in the ginkgo tree also became brighter. The jumping flames made Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's mood become restless, with a kind of... urge to jump into the fire.

"The deeper one goes, the more severe the burns on the Earth God become, and the more obvious the influence on people standing by the fire."

"What is the relationship between the Earth God sitting under the tree and the fire burning in the tree?"

(End of chapter)