Chapter 218: Chessboard

Ghosts are not scary, and ghosts killing people is not scary. What is scary is that the ghost killed someone, and you don't even know how the person killed by it died.

Even if he witnessed the whole process of the ghost killing people face to face, Ning Zhe had no clue about the cause of the prison guard's death, and there was no clue at all.

"How is the killing rule of this ghost triggered? Is it triggered automatically when approaching a certain distance, or does it count only when there is physical contact? Or is it some other cause of death I don't know?"

Ning Zhe was confused, only seeing the fierce ghost with red eyes continuing to approach him.

Thump—

It was the sound of a head hitting the ground. Old Li was head down and feet up, his whole body taut and straight, jumping straight toward Ning Zhe's direction. A cold and heavy oppressive atmosphere moved with him, leaving a pool of bright red blood on the ground.

Why does the ghost jump with its head down and feet up? Is it because its legs are tied?

No, now is not the time to think about these.

Run.

Ning Zhe didn't hesitate at all, flapped his wings to beat the air, and flew straight out of the prison.

The fierce ghost on the ground was still moving jump by jump, like a checker on a chessboard. The red alarm in the cell kept rotating, the sharp and urgent sound resounded through the entire prison, and a ground of bright red lasted for a long time.

Although Chenyu Valley Prison is large, Ning Zhe took the air route, without having to avoid obstacles or turn corners. He flew straight along the airflow, swept over the roof, crossed the high wall, left the electrified wire fence behind, and the lush trees in Chenyu Valley came into view.

Ning Zhe landed on a chestnut treetop to take a rest and looked back. The prison gate was closed tightly, and Old Li, possessed by the evil ghost, did not chase after him.

"Temporarily safe..."

Ning Zhe had no intention of fighting head-on, nor was he curious enough to want to unravel the ghost's killing rules, because just now, he had bad luck.

When he turned into a cat and stood on the treetop looking at the moon, he fell directly to the ground. The prison guard who walked under the tree with tea also happened to drop his teacup. Both phenomena indicated the same thing—Fenwu was nearby.

"Fenwu has come. He is hiding nearby. Even if he is not in the prison, he should be in other places not far away..."

Ning Zhe shook his feathers, looked back at the concrete building bathed in silvery moonlight under the night sky, and felt a lingering fear in his heart.

Fenwu had come. He had come here quietly without anyone knowing, without attracting anyone's attention.

Regardless of how Fenwu found this place, the fact was that his whereabouts had been exposed, and he hadn't even seen Fenwu's appearance... If he rashly confronted the murderous evil ghost possessed by Old Li there, he might be taken advantage of by Fenwu hiding in the dark.

So he chose to run away, not giving Fenwu a chance to confront him.

"I am here to master 'The God,' not to fight with Gridders."

Ning Zhe muttered in his heart: "All I need is the identity of 'The God.' Leaving the prison, there are other people in Taoyuan City affected by the Thought Steel Seal, although they are not as concentrated as in the prison. They are scattered all over the city, and it will take a lot of extra time and energy to find them."

But spending more time finding people is more cost-effective than risking one's life to play chess with Fenwu, isn't it?

And in Taoyuan City, in the vast sea of people, it would be much more difficult for Fenwu to lock onto him.

Let's do this, go back to the city. How Fenwu found him, how he knew what he was doing... all kinds of questions can wait until later. The top priority is to get the Thought Steel Seal ability as soon as possible to suppress Taiyi.

Ning Zhe made up his mind, and green snake scales faintly appeared on his neck.

He couldn't drag it out anymore; he really didn't have time.

Ning Zhe spread his wings again, flew away from the treetop, and flew out of Chenyu Valley.

The sparrow's body was too weak to withstand the high-altitude airflow, and its flight speed was not fast enough. Ning Zhe seamlessly switched his identity during the climb, turning into a large bird of prey with a wingspan of nearly two meters. His pitch-black wings stirred the vortex and flew with the wind. The bird of prey flew very fast. Before long, the lush green in his field of vision faded away, and a piece of gray-white man-made building came into view.

However, the moment he saw this building, Ning Zhe's expression froze.

"Shouldn't that be a road over there?" Ning Zhe couldn't help but wonder.

During his time in prison, he had basically figured out the environment around Chenyu Valley. This is a mountain valley running east-west, high in the west and low in the east.

The prison is located at the bottom of the valley in the east, and the valley mouth in the west connects to the Qinzhou Provincial Highway. There is no winding maze; it is just a simple straight road.

But Ning Zhe flew all the way west along the valley, and the end of the road was not the provincial highway in his memory, but a piece of gray-white reinforced concrete building. The plain color scheme was imprisoned in an electrified wire fence, and the five-meter-high high wall was smeared with dark gray putty.

The gate under the arm-thick railing was closed tightly. This is a prison.

"Did I go around again?"

"No, that's not right. I flew a straight road, never turned a corner. I flew straight to the west, without stopping, without turning, and without looking back. In front of me should be the highway."

Ning Zhe's thinking was a bit chaotic. The familiar high walls and thick buildings were getting closer in front of him, and a familiar feeling welled up in his heart.

"No... I can't be sure yet..."

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Ning Zhe swept past the prison below, without turning or looking back, and flew straight toward the bottom of the valley in the east.

The terrain of Chenyu Valley is high in the west and low in the east. The deepest part of the valley bottom in the east is the abandoned mine from back then.

Ning Zhe left the prison behind and plunged into the deep valley bottom. The overlapping green waves brushed past his tail tip. Ning Zhe's field of vision went from open to closed and then to open, but what should have come into view at this time was not the desolate mine.

But the prison.

"It's the prison again..." Ning Zhe had some realization in his heart.

Flying east is the prison, and flying west is also the prison. No matter which direction he goes, he seems to have never left the place.

He had encountered this situation before, in Bishuiwan Villa.

Ning Zhe didn't continue to move forward, but flapped his wings. The strong wings of the bird of prey tore through the airflow, and he climbed straight up like a cannonball. There are few real high mountains in Qinzhou, basically hills. If you have a few hundred meters, you can experience the feeling of "looking at all the mountains at a glance."

After flying without stopping, Ning Zhe climbed rapidly to high altitude. The prison below became smaller and smaller as the distance increased, like a small chessboard placed on the ground.

Ning Zhe lowered his head and found that there was more than one chessboard.

The wind power plant is on the mountain south of Chenyu Valley Prison, and there is a river across the mountain to the north. This is what Chenyu Valley looked like in Ning Zhe's memory, but the real situation he saw after climbing to high altitude was not like this.

There is no wind power plant south of the prison, and there is no flowing river to the north. To its north is the prison, to its south is the prison, to the east is the prison, and to the west is still the prison.

Prisons are dotted on the lush land that stretches as far as the eye can see, like Go pieces neatly placed on a chessboard. Each piece is exactly the same, and each prison is exactly the same. Even if he exhausts all his vision, they are still countless.

Ning Zhe's movements didn't stop, and he was still climbing.

After reaching a certain boundary, he looked up. There was no sky above his head, but an inverted boundless land, and prisons inverted in the sky.

Above the prison, a pitch-black bird of prey was flying toward him.

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