Chapter 225: Injury-Free Player

In this world, there exists a phenomenon:

【In a given region, the more people who know of the existence of the Strange, the higher the probability and intensity of Strange events occurring in that region.】

The probability of a Strange event occurring and the intensity of said event are directly proportional to the number of people within that region who are aware of the Strange's existence.

This is a thesis proposed by an anonymous scholar in their paper, which has now been widely accepted and recognized by the groups of Gridders and Grant-receivers.

The Chenyu Valley Prison currently holds a conservative estimate of at least several thousand prisoners, all of whom are already aware of the existence of the Strange.

"Every person who believes that ghosts exist in this world is bait for attracting ghosts."

Thousands of people who know of and believe in the existence of ghosts are gathered in one place; their presence has already raised the probability of this prison being haunted to a terrifying degree.

Strictly speaking, that paper did not draw a definitive conclusion on all points of doubt. For instance, even that anonymous scholar did not provide a conclusion as to how large an area or how many people who believe in the Strange must be gathered to inevitably trigger a Strange event.

Even though thousands of people meeting the criteria are already gathered in this prison, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe cannot conclude that it will definitely be haunted. He can only say the probability of it being haunted is very high. As for whether it will actually be haunted... it depends on luck.

Unfortunately, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's luck today is bad.

For someone currently experiencing a streak of bad luck, as long as a bad thing is possible, it will inevitably happen.

Therefore, Chenyu Valley Prison is haunted.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe gritted his teeth and crawled up from the ground. At the same time, a thousand miles away in Yundu, at a KTV, a down-and-out fellow who was laughing heartily while holding a hostess suddenly dropped dead on the sofa.

During the process of crawling up from the ground, the features under Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's mask changed once again. His originally tall and upright stature became shorter, turning into a young woman wearing a red hoodie and ripped jeans. This was another identity stolen through Taiyi, named Wang Jingli.

A Gridder who masters Taiyi can theoretically steal others' identities infinitely to serve as a substitute for death. However, in actual operation, due to factors like memory confusion and the shaking of self-cognition, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe does not dare to truly do so.

The "identities" he has in reserve are actually quite limited, and many of them are deceased individuals like Zhang Yangxu and Yu Zi Qian, which cannot be used as substitutes for death.

This Wang Jingli is now one of the few living identities he has left that can be used as a substitute for death.

"Fen Wu's goal has been achieved."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe held the iron bars of the adjacent cell with one hand, while the prisoner sleeping by his feet remained motionless: "He hasn't even shown his face, yet I have already been toyed with to such a wretched state."

"Lili?"

Just as he stood up, a soft call came from behind him; it was the voice of Wang Jingli's mother.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe once again could not suppress the urge to turn his head, but this time, he reacted quickly. Before turning his head, he applied a Thought Steel Seal to himself.

【I must absolutely not respond to the ghost's call】

The intense desire to turn his head was finally suppressed. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe flipped and jumped to the first floor; this place was not suitable for a long stay.

Fen Wu is an old-school Gridder who has been active since the 1970s. Would such a person lack the means to face an enemy directly? No.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe can be almost certain that Fen Wu must have more direct and lethal means that he hasn't used yet. The reason he hasn't used them is caution.

Just like primitive tribesmen chasing prey tens of thousands of years ago, the primitive men could clearly have chosen to pick up spears and engage the prey in close-quarters combat. Their stone spears were sharper and longer than the saber-teeth of any saber-toothed tiger. For an adult male to hold a spear and solo a large herbivore head-on, the probability of failure could be said to be negligible. But they didn't do that.

They didn't want to take even the slightest risk.

The primitive men who didn't want to take risks followed the prey from afar in groups, chasing them unhurriedly, throwing a spear or a stone from time to time, making the prey's already fearful nerves even more taut.

Relying on their exposed skin that facilitates heat dissipation, their developed sweat glands and pores, and their terrifyingly long endurance, the seasoned hunter toyed with his prey with ease until the poor prey was exhausted to death during its panicked flight.

Returning to the initial question, why didn't the hunter pick up a spear and engage in close-quarters combat from the start? Because:

——It's not that they couldn't win, they just wanted to be injury-free.

This is what Fen Wu is doing right now.

From this person, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe saw something called "arrogance." Arrogance requires strength as capital, and without a doubt, Fen Wu has such capital.

"Yu Zi Qian?"

Zhang Yunwen's voice sounded behind Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe again. Just now, when he applied the Thought Steel Seal to himself, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had briefly switched to the identity of Yu Zi Qian.

"Does this ghost imitate the people the person knows to call them?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's mind was scattered. He turned into a bird and left the prison without looking back. He remembered clearly that he had been killed the moment he turned his head just now.

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An Inverted Ghost, a ghost that uses the voices of acquaintances to call people—there are at least two ghosts wandering in Chenyu Valley Prison right now. Because Fen Wu is here, everyone's luck is very bad. Whether other ghosts will smell the scent and crawl here next, no one knows.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe flapped his wings and flew over the basketball court, landing lightly on the roof of the water room. From under the eaves, he removed the camera he had previously installed there, which was pointed at the basketball court.

There was no time to watch the footage. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe casually threw the camera into his bag, leaped off the roof, used a butterfly as an intermediate buffer, and landed on the edge of the basketball court.

The moment he landed, he switched back to the identity of Wang Jingli, walked up the steps with a pair of long, beautiful legs, and hurried into the prison guard lounge where the crying had come from earlier.

Turning on the light to look, the lounge was no different from before; the wardrobe, coffee table, and tables and chairs showed no signs of having been moved. The only difference was that this time when Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe entered the lounge, there was no more crying coming from inside.

Crack! After checking his pistol, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe hurried through the lounge to the bathroom door, turned the handle, and the door opened.

The bathroom, about 2 square meters in size, was empty. There was only a toilet, a roll of toilet paper hanging on a nail, a wastebasket, and a mirror stuck to the wall. The air was filled with the smell of burning tobacco. The prison guard who had been sitting here crying was gone.

"A wasted trip." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's heart sank.

But this actually proved that the hint he had received through his sixth sense earlier was correct. The Strange situation on that prison guard might truly be able to help him solve an important mystery, but unfortunately, he had missed it.

Without too much regret, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe turned to leave, when a "thud" sound came from the lounge outside.

It was the sound of a skull hitting the floor.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe swallowed silently; the Inverted Ghost had chased him here.

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