Chapter 232: Seemingly True, Seemingly False

As predicted, in the time that followed, this "world" shrank faster and faster.

It started with the entire prison, then two-thirds, then one-third. The basketball court and water room were squeezed out. The constantly breaking space-time drove Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe to move continuously toward the center of this invisible cage, until all that remained in sight was a lonely prison building.

A bird landed on the top of the building. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe looked around and saw countless identical buildings standing in all directions. At this moment, he knew he had waited for it.

Under the pursuit of the Inverted Ghost and Fen Wu's plotting, he had finally held on until this moment, the moment Tuyu's strength was exhausted.

Although he had exhausted his strength a bit quickly this time.

"Earlier in Taoyuan City, Tuyu could pull the entire urban area into the Strange world for several days, and in the end, it was he who voluntarily lifted the blockade. But this time, he seems to have exhausted his strength exceptionally quickly." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe tried to collect as much useful information as possible from any possible angle.

Was it because too many people were pulled into the Strange world this time, increasing Tuyu's burden?

Or was it because of the intrusion of other Strange, causing Tuyu's control over the situation to weaken?

Or... he didn't exhaust his strength at all, but simply wanted to force me to show myself?

Any possibility made sense. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe thought for a moment and didn't dwell on this question. He now needed to worry about another problem: the world shrinking to one building meant he was about to meet Fen Wu formally.

Just as he approached the side door of the prison building, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe heard a low cry.

"Woo... woo..."

The low tone, a man's voice, echoed in the empty building, bringing Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe a bad feeling, familiar yet strange. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe followed the sound and looked toward the bathroom.

——To prevent prisoners from escaping through pipes and to reduce costs, Chenyu Valley Prison did not equip each single cell with a separate toilet or chamber pot, but instead had prisoners concentrate in the public bathroom on the first floor to use the toilet before returning to their cells to sleep, all monitored by prison guards and surveillance, with no privacy at all, although prisoners didn't have such things anyway.

"Woo-woo... woo..."

The man's crying was low and hoarse, coming intermittently from the first-floor bathroom. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe walked in a bit, stood in the prison, and looked around. In the cells, the prisoners who hadn't gone to sleep yet looked at him curiously, seeming to want to ask something but not daring to speak.

"The prisoners here haven't shown signs of large-scale death, otherwise they wouldn't be so calm." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had a conclusion in his heart.

There is only one explanation for this situation—after the Lamp-Extinguishing Ghost was shaken off by him, it didn't continue to kill on a large scale in the prison, at least not killing one after another, but quickly targeted some guy who couldn't be killed, haunting him and pestering him, just like it had pestered him earlier.

"But why would the Lamp-Extinguishing Ghost only pester Fen Wu?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was somewhat puzzled.

Among the Gridders he had come into contact with, whether it was Lan Shiwen, Bai Fugui, or even Duan Geng, Fan Daike, all paid great attention to maintaining and exercising their bodies, even that old guy Ji Bochang maintained his health so well he had the face of a child. Only that hot-headed Yu Zi Qian would indulge in sensual pleasures.

As a Gridder, is Fen Wu's body that bad? To the extent that his Yang fire is weaker than all the prisoners in the prison?

Or is Fen Wu a woman?

A woman...

A flash of inspiration crossed his brain. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe quickly arrived in front of a single cell, took out his pistol, and asked: "Was the prison guard who untied the ghost earlier a man or a woman?"

"He, he was wearing a hat, and the lighting here is dim, I didn't see clearly..." Looking at the pitch-black muzzle in his hand, the prisoner answered tremblingly.

The prisoner in the next cell also leaned over and said: "Although it was short hair and I couldn't see the face, I saw the clothes on him were baggy, seemed like a slim woman, just don't know why the voice was a bit hoarse."

"Don't interrupt if I didn't ask you." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe glanced at the prisoner in the cell, already having the bottom line in his heart.

Going down to the first floor, avoiding the prisoners' gaze, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe transformed back into the appearance of Yu Zi Qian, arrived at the bathroom door, and closed his eyes.

The prison in the dead of night had already turned off the lights. His special senses couldn't see anything here. Only his own shadow silently left his body. The pitch-black two-dimensional human figure slipped through the gap between the door and the floor into the public bathroom and found the source of the crying. It was a woman wearing a prison guard uniform, standing motionless in front of the public bathroom's washbasin, looking at herself in the mirror, crying uncontrollably.

——There was a large mirror stuck to the wall opposite the washbasin, where prisoners concentrated to wash up every morning.

"Woo... woo-woo..."

The crying echoed in the empty corridor. Clearly a woman, yet the low voice sounded like a man's.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's shadow stuck to the ceiling, his one gold and one silver eye quietly opening. In the mirror on the wall, he saw a female face covered in tears. A pair of eyes had already been cried red, filled with confusion.

"... I, am I Yan Yukuan?"

"No... no, I am not Yan Yukuan, I am not..."

"I am Fen Wu, I am not Yan Yukuan, I..."

While crying, the female prison guard talked to herself in the mirror, repeating the same words over and over, incessantly questioning herself in the mirror, tears streaming down.

Snap——

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Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe stood outside the door and snapped his fingers.

No reaction.

The female prison guard was still standing in front of the washbasin, neurotically talking to herself in the mirror, sometimes covering her face and crying, sometimes questioning sharply, sometimes doubting herself.

Watching such a bizarre scene, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe seemed to understand something.

The shadow on the ceiling moved down slightly. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe locked his gaze on the female prison guard's chest. A plastic work badge hung on the front of the baggy uniform, with the ID photo of a prison guard named "Yan Yukuan" and his work post.

The moment he saw this ID photo, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's breathing couldn't help but lighten.

What a familiar face... the brows, the bridge of the nose, the lips, the face shape, all had 80-90% similarity with the female prison guard in the mirror. The only difference was that Yan Yukuan's features were slightly more rugged, while the female prison guard's face appeared softer. Other than that, there was no difference, looking like a pair of twin brother and sister born to the same mother.

Excluding the gender factor, the two looked almost exactly the same.

"Am I Yan Yukuan? I am not Yan Yukuan... but I am Yan Yukuan... no, I am Fen Wu, I am not Yan Yukuan, I..."

The female prison guard stood in front of the mirror, muttering neurotically, her fingernails tearing bloody marks on her face.

"She is not Fen Wu."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe leaned against the wall, a bone-chilling cold crawling all over his spine, muttering:

"She is just... thinking she is Fen Wu."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 233 =====