Chapter 28

"Ah Zhi's diary started in 2013, which was 5 years ago, when I just bought her this computer. The content of the first few years was still normal, just recording what books she read every day, which restaurant's desserts were delicious, she always went to eat alone... But since the middle of last year, the content of her diary changed. Her words became messy and dark, like the anti-social words that a world-weary criminal would say."

"Since the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2017, Ah Zhi began to repeatedly have the same dream. The content of that dream was very... twisted and oppressive, just like the horror games in her computer. Every time she had this dream, her mental state would deteriorate, and the content of her diary would be more messy, making me break out in a cold sweat."

"I was really worried about her mental state, but I was afraid that if I said it directly, Ah Zhi would blame me for peeking at her privacy, so I copied the diaries that wrote about the content of the dream and sent them to a psychiatrist in the psychiatry department of Qinzhou City Hospital."

"The doctor said that Ah Zhi might be because she has been immersed in bizarre and horror virtual works for a long time without normal social and family relationships, resulting in delusions and hysteria. As long as she adjusts her state of mind appropriately and goes outdoors for activities, it can be alleviated. If necessary, he can come to the door in person for a consultation."

"But I know it's not like that!"

Feng Yushu's emotions suddenly became agitated, and her voice became louder: "Because that dream Ah Zhi had... that horror dream that appeared repeatedly in her diary!"

"The scene of that dream happened in an eerie village where everyone's face was covered with yellow paper written with their own names. Everyone in the village believed in an evil god whose appearance was a snake. The name of that village is... He Family Village."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's expression became extremely gloomy: "You didn't say such an important clue earlier?"

Feng Yushu seemed to have not heard his question at all, not responding, but chattered on neurotically: "I can't die here, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, I really can't die here. I must go out alive and see my daughter. She has already been entangled by the eeriness of He Family Village... I have to go help her, mother has to go help her..."

"Do you know? Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, I actually don't care, I don't care about anything! You can ask me to do anything, I just want to know how Ah Zhi is now. She can't have an accident. She is still so young and has a great future that she hasn't experienced. If Ah Zhi has an accident, I, I really don't know how to live..."

Looking at Feng Yushu's hysterical and incoherent appearance, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had a headache.

"Your mental state, Auntie, is not much better..."

No different from being crazy.

Feng Yushu being able to hold on until now was not because of any motherly strength. She had actually been broken long ago, just not showing it.

After Feng Yushu's state stabilized slightly, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe stopped and asked: "Your daughter... is named Bai Zhi, right? What are the horror games in Bai Zhi's computer? What are the bizarre comic works specifically? Tell me all about them. She might have dreamed of a scene in which game or comic."

Feng Yushu thought for a moment and reported several names: "For games, there are: Extreme Panic, The Evil Within, Mental Hospital, Silent Hill, Mandarin Debt, Red Silk Entanglement, Paper Man, Hong Kong Horror Record... For comics, most of them are in foreign languages, I don't know them. Only one youth comic called 'Extreme Split' is in Chinese, but it's not a rural background, it seems to be some kind of urban superpower type."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe thought about these names one by one and found that these games and comic works didn't match his current situation: "None of them are right. He Family Village is not a dungeon scene in any horror game or novel comic."

It seems that what he is experiencing now is not the old-fashioned script of a game invading the real world. They have really encountered eeriness that cannot be explained.

"Looking at it this way, Bai Zhi dreaming of the scene of He Family Village is very intriguing, and she had the same dream many times." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe thought for a while and asked: "Auntie, did Ah Zhi write in her diary what the dream she had was specifically?"

Feng Yushu shook her head: "No, Ah Zhi's description of her dream was very chaotic, with only some fragmented sentences, incoherent scenery descriptions and dialogues, reading it gives a very... strange feeling."

As strange as she was when she first arrived at He Family Village. "Okay," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe didn't delve into this direction.

Bai Zhi's dream might be an important clue to explore the relationship between this eerie place and the real world, but Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe felt that he, a person who was going to die, should find a way to save his life first, and focusing on the present was the right thing to do.

And the most important thing right now is to try not to let Feng Yushu know the truth about the "Lin Zhiyuan" call in the morning.

Absolutely cannot let her wrong cognition be corrected, otherwise it will fall short.

"Auntie, do you want to live?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked this without warning.

"Of course I do," Feng Yushu didn't understand: "What do you want to say?"

"Nothing..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe let go of Feng Yushu's hand. He stood on a bluestone step on the side of the street, opened his arms, and stretched a big stretch toward the sky before continuing: "I also want to leave here alive, but I need your help, understand?"

Feng Yushu nodded: "How do you need me to help you?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe lowered his head and said: "I thought of a way to crack the rules here. This plan is already in progress, but the ghost saw through my plan and is preparing to destroy it..."

"The good news is that this plan has been proven effective. The ghost is already anxious. Its attitude of constantly changing identities to call and using every possible means just now proves the correctness of my thinking. I... might really have a way to kill it."

"The bad news is that the structure of my plan is very fragile, fragile to the point that it will be easily destroyed by the ghost, and one carelessness will lead to a complete loss."

"And the key to my plan is on you. If the ghost wants to kill me, it must start with you. So Auntie, I need you to help me," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said lightly.

Feng Yushu nodded as if she understood: "You... need me to do what?"

"Do nothing," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said decisively: "I want you to find a place to hide immediately. Don't listen to, believe, or accept anything anyone says or does. You just need to be an ostrich with its head buried in the sand until everything is over. Leave all the remaining things to me, and I will solve them."

"Listen, Feng Yushu, I will send you to your daughter alive, I promise," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's words were still calm, his eyes had no emotional ripples, only the coldness and nonchalance of a hunter examining dead prey: "But can you guarantee that you will ignore all external interference factors and blindly trust anything I say without any reason?"

"If your answer is yes, then..."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe turned his head, and the hunter's emotionless eyes stared directly into Feng Yushu's eyes: "I can go kill that ghost now."

(End of chapter)