Chapter 228: Why Sleep Long Before Death

"The human eye cannot directly see the three Life Lamps on one's body, but they can be seen indirectly through mirror reflections, camera shots, etc. This is a very interesting characteristic."

Ning Zhe silently noted this feature of the Lamp-Extinguishing Ghost, intending to write it into his Strange file in the future.

That is, provided he can survive and get out this time.

Arriving at the second floor of the prison water room, Ning Zhe's gaze crossed the high wall to look outside. All he saw was lush forest; this was not a good sign, because when he looked from here yesterday noon, there was a mountain in the distance outside the wall.

Now the mountain was gone, replaced by an endless forest. That was a scene copied and pasted by folded space. Seeing such a scene meant that this "world" had become smaller, and was still continuing to shrink, just like the shrinking poison circle in a battle royale game, urging the desperate outlaws to move toward the center of the circle and kill each other.

Ning Zhe took a notebook out of his bosom, flipped to the second page to look, and then tucked it back into his bosom.

"Xia Yubing hasn't replied to me yet." Ning Zhe's eyes narrowed slightly.

That's the bad thing about the notebook; although it can transmit information in real-time, ignoring the environment of being separated by Yin and Yang, there is no message notification when information arrives. Let alone flashing lights or ringing, it doesn't even have a vibration function, and there is no "read" receipt. Ning Zhe isn't even sure if Xia Yubing has seen the message he wrote to her.

Let's wait and see. Placing hope in others is ultimately unreliable; one still has to rely on oneself.

At the same time... well, not at the same time. In Linjiang Park in Taoyuan City, the evening sunset had just set, and the aunties from the nearby residential area had just moved their speakers into place, not yet starting to set up their square dance formation.

Xia Yubing, covered in sweat, had just come out of the gym, holding her bag and walking along the bamboo path by the park, preparing to go home for a bath.

Last week, Xia Yubing accidentally stumbled upon popular science about "why gym showerheads are removed." After being instilled with a bunch of taboo knowledge, she felt terrible. Subconsciously, she always felt that outside showerheads were dirty, so now she always went home to bathe after exercising.

"Sigh... if only there were an all-female gym." Xia Yubing couldn't help but think, but it was just a thought; hygiene issues don't distinguish between men and women.

Better to go find Auntie for some money and build a gym area with complete equipment at home...

She hadn't done that before because she felt it wasn't necessary, and Xia Yubing herself preferred exercising with others; it had a better atmosphere for effort, which is the same principle as studying in school being more efficient. Therefore, she only kept some commonly used basic equipment at home.

"It's all the fault of those marketing accounts, spreading nonsense science. Can this kind of thing be posted on the internet casually? Really..."

Xia Yubing walked with her two long legs, kicking resentfully at the grass emerging from the brick cracks. Spots of gold were spread on the road, the fine, fragmented sunset cut up by bamboo leaves.

"Hmm?" Xia Yubing walked on the road and suddenly her eyes blurred, and she froze: "What just passed by?"

Seemed like a black shadow?

If it were before, she would probably think it was a small animal like a squirrel or bird, or that she had seen wrong. But after coming out of Zuanju Town, Xia Yubing's courage had shrunk quite a bit. She would be scared by curtains blown by the wind when sleeping at night, let alone seeing a black shadow sweep past her.

Xia Yubing became somewhat nervous and vigilant, holding her bag in her arms, her two eyes unblinkingly watching the corner of the path ahead.

"Who's there? Come out!" she called out tentatively. As soon as she called out, she regretted it. She should have just run, run to the square behind, where there were so many dancing aunties. If it were really haunted, it wouldn't necessarily kill me first...

The moment this thought appeared, Xia Yubing froze. When... did I become like this?

Before she could figure out the answer to this question, a "da-da" sound suddenly came from the bamboo forest ahead. It was the sound of hard shoe soles hitting the floor tiles. Every crisp sound knocked on Xia Yubing's heart, making her hair stand on end.

"I-I-I-I was just calling out casually, you d-d-don't have to really come out!" Xia Yubing was so panicked that her voice trembled, and she turned to run away.

"Uh, what did you say?" Hearing the voice from behind, Xia Yubing stopped again. So it was a person, not a ghost.

Xia Yubing breathed a sigh of relief, patted her chest, and turned back tiredly, only to see a woman in a long black dress standing by the side of the road.

The woman was very beautiful, with a gentle temperament and dignified manners. Her long hair was coiled in a classical style at the back of her head, and a thorn hairpin with purple flowers was inserted into her hair. She wore large, smoky sunglasses on her face, but even looking only at the lower half of her face, Xia Yubing could tell that this must be a classical beauty with proper features, the kind of face that brings prosperity to her husband.

Her figure was also prosperous; it was the type that Auntie liked, good for childbearing. It is said that rich people like to marry such women home to be the main wife who keeps the house peaceful, as for the colorful flags fluttering outside, that's a matter for outside.

Xia Yubing looked down at herself, having a sense of frustration in this regard for the first time.

"Sorry, I just watched a horror movie last night, and I'm a bit nervous now." Xia Yubing lowered her head obediently to apologize, saying: "Did I scare you? Sorry, sorry..."

A look of confusion appeared on the black-dressed woman's face, but that confusion was fleeting. Immediately after, she came to Xia Yubing and said softly: "Do you know Ning Zhe?"

"Ah?" Xia Yubing froze, just wanting to say something, but couldn't open her mouth no matter what.

"It seems so." Feng Yushu nodded slightly, a few strands of unclear meaning appearing in her eyes as she looked at Xia Yubing.

"I must absolutely not reveal Ning Zhe's identity to anyone in any form"—besides Xia Yubing, no one else had been applied with such a Thought Steel Seal.

"Don't be nervous, it... it was he who asked me to find you." Feng Yushu lowered her voice and said: "I can't contact him right now, so the following things need to be conveyed by you."

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She knew Xia Yubing had some way to contact Ning Zhe under circumstances of being separated by Yin and Yang or space-time chaos, but she didn't know the specific form of that method; Ning Zhe hadn't told her.

"... You say it." Xia Yubing finally recovered, frowning as she looked at the black-dressed woman in front of her: "What is it?"

"Heh—" Feng Yushu took a long breath and said: "Bai Fugui has been staying in Yongzhou these past few days, hasn't gone to Qinzhou, and hasn't stepped out of the house even once."

"But the strange thing is... he has been bedridden for these two days, sleeping most of the time every day. Even when he occasionally wakes up, it's just to drink some water or go to the bathroom, and he will quickly go back to sleep."

After speaking, the two were silent for a few seconds. Xia Yubing asked tentatively: "Just like that? Nothing else?"

Feng Yushu shook her head: "No, that's all."

"Alright, I know. I will convey it for you." Xia Yubing nodded: "Then I'm leaving."

"Wait a moment." Feng Yushu called her back again.

"What else is there?" Xia Yubing stopped, her eyes puzzled.

Feng Yushu hesitated for a moment, but still couldn't help asking the question in her heart: "How did you meet him? What... what is your relationship with him?"

Xia Yubing thought for a moment and said reluctantly: "I suppose I'm his fiancée."

"Ah, this." Feng Yushu's heart was shaken, and for a moment, she couldn't say a word.

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