Chapter 26

"Forgive me for being unbridled and loving freedom all my life..."

"Also afraid of falling one day oh—no—"

The melodious Cantonese singing came from Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, making his expression suddenly gloomy. Under Feng Yushu's curious gaze, he took out his phone. The screen, which had been lit, showed the caller ID—Gu Yunqing.

"Not even pretending anymore," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe whispered to himself: "Calling directly with a dead person's phone."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe hung up the phone without hesitation, but it was too late, because Feng Yushu, who was standing beside him, had already developed "doubt."

Because Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's phone had always been in silent mode, and the call only had vibration, no ringtone. The phone that made the ringtone just now was not his phone at all, but another person's.

Lin Zhiyuan's.

"Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, you... have you always had two phones?" Feng Yushu was a bit puzzled. Except for Apple, which generally supports dual SIM dual standby, very, very few people carry two phones with them.

In normal times, such a thing would not have made her pay much attention, but in this place, He Family Village, everyone who has lived until now has become extra sensitive.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe just wanted to say something, but the phone in his hand rang again. This time the caller was: Ye Miaozhu.

He hung up the phone again without hesitation, but as soon as he hung up, another call came in. This time it was: Zhang Yangxu.

The empty street was exceptionally dead silent, and only the singing of Beyond kept ringing, making Feng Yushu's face pale: "Ghost... ghost, why...?"

Why did the ghost constantly change identities and keep calling Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's phone?

In addition to fear, Feng Yushu suddenly reacted to one thing: "Wait a minute, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe... how does the ghost know your phone number?"

The ghost stole the identities of these 4 people: Xie Sining, Zhang Yangxu, Gu Yunqing, and Ye Miaozhu. It's not strange that it knows Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's phone number. However, the phone receiving the call now is not the phone that Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe exchanged numbers with everyone, but another one.

Feng Yushu had never seen Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe take this phone out. In other words, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had never revealed the phone number of his second phone to anyone.

Then how did the ghost know? Or rather... is the phone in Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's hand really his own? Looking at the caller ID constantly trembling on the screen, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's expression was gloomy to the extreme. He silently raised his head and looked at Feng Yushu, who was full of doubts standing in front of him.

"The ghost is forcing me to kill you," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said lightly.

"Eh?!" Feng Yushu's already pale face suddenly became even paler: "What's going on? W-why?!!"

"Don't ask, don't get to the bottom of it. I require you to blindly trust me next, maintain this state of knowing nothing, and don't try to figure out the truth of the matter—otherwise you will die," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's voice was still calm, without any panic: "I will too."

Feng Yushu nodded tremblingly. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe looked at her as if looking at a dead person.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe grabbed her wrist, set the phone to silent, pulled Feng Yushu, and walked forward with big strides.

"The ghost is trying to expose me," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's steps were fast, and the thoughts turning in his brain were even faster.

In less than two minutes, he had already figured out what had just happened.

—The ghost constantly changed identities and kept calling Lin Zhiyuan's phone to expose Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's lies and tear apart his disguise. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe clearly knew that he, who had stolen a part of the Serpent God's identity, now seemed to have a small advantage, but in fact, it was not. His current situation was extremely dangerous, and it was no exaggeration to say that he was dancing on the edge of a knife.

Stealing the Serpent God's offerings and stealing the Serpent God's identity, which seems simple to say, is actually extremely complicated and extremely fragile in the actual process.

This involves the ghost's rules wandering in He Family Village.

Its rule is: 【When someone mistakes a ghost for someone they know, using "wrong cognition" as a medium, the ghost can steal the corresponding person's identity, as well as all information related to this identity.】

When Zhang Yangxu mistook the ghost for Xie Sining, the ghost obtained the identity of "the Xie Sining that Zhang Yangxu knows," as well as all the memories related to this identity in Zhang Yangxu's memory.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe stealing the Serpent God's identity also used this rule, letting the villagers who saw the offerings being eaten mistake him for the Serpent God, using the villagers' wrong cognition as a medium to steal the identity of "the Serpent God that villager A knows."

But is it really that simple? Can anyone just steal some offerings and impersonate the Serpent God? Of course not.

"Identity theft with cognition as a medium" is the ghost's rule. Only a ghost can trigger this rule.

Just like the person who violates the almanac taboo, only the Serpent God has the qualification to punish him.

The reason why Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was able to steal the Serpent God's identity with the help of this rule was because before impersonating the Serpent God, he first impersonated the ghost.

—When on the roof of the ancestral hall, Feng Yushu once received a call, and the caller was: Lin Zhiyuan.

"In the known situation that Lin Zhiyuan was already dead, the dead person's call made Feng Yushu very panicked. I took the opportunity to use wordplay to induce her to have the thought that 'it was a ghost calling me with Lin Zhiyuan's phone'."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe strode across the empty street, the phone in his hand still trembling constantly: "But in fact, Lin Zhiyuan's phone is in my hand, and it was me who called her."

【Feng Yushu mistook Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe for a ghost.】

It was precisely with the help of this wrong cognition that Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe triggered the ghost's rules and stole a part of the ghost's identity.

After successfully possessing the identity of "the ghost in Feng Yushu's cognition," he began to steal the offerings, impersonate the Serpent God, and actively trigger the rules to steal the Serpent God's identity.

【Since only a ghost can trigger the ghost's rules, then why don't I just impersonate a ghost?】

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's plan was thorough and exquisite, one ring after another, like a domino array that had been precisely calculated, and one hair pulling the whole body.

But while this plan was extremely exquisite, it was also extremely fragile, because Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe knew that the reason he was able to trigger the rules to steal the Serpent God's identity was because he possessed the ghost's identity, and the reason he was able to possess the ghost's identity was because of Feng Yushu's wrong cognition of the call she received in the morning.

Because Feng Yushu mistook Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe for a ghost, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was able to impersonate the Serpent God as a ghost.

And once Feng Yushu knew the truth of the matter and understood that the "Lin Zhiyuan" who called her in the morning was not a ghost, but Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, then...

"Just like a high-rise building whose foundation is pulled out and collapses instantly, everything is over," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe gritted his teeth slightly, and the hand holding Feng Yushu's wrist tightened unconsciously.

(End of chapter)