Chapter 35

After witnessing the deaths of Gu Yunqing and Ye Miaozhu, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe left the clinic and flew out along the main road of the town.

According to Zhang Yangxu's own account, the opportunity for him to enter He Family Village was when he stopped at a gas station. There was only one regular gas station within a 5-kilometer radius of Gubei Town, called 'Sunshine Gas Station'.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe soon arrived above the Sunshine Gas Station, but he didn't immediately see the car that Zhang Yangxu was suspected to be riding in. There were only a few scattered ordinary family sedans and cargo vans parked at the gas station. Obviously, these vehicles did not match Zhang Yangxu's identity as a real estate tycoon.

"It seems there is still some time before Zhang Yangxu arrives here." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe lowered his body and hid in a tall loquat tree next to the gas station, using the dense leaves to cover his body, waiting patiently for Zhang Yangxu's arrival.

During the wait, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe organized his thoughts, trying to review what happened in He Family Village: 1, the Serpent God 'Zhaoyou' was the native god of He Family Village, while 'Taiyi' was an external wandering ghost; 2, Taiyi wandered in He Family Village, and by guiding the villagers' erroneous perceptions, stole the Serpent God's identity, causing the Serpent God to suffer from madness; 3, the symptoms of the Serpent God's illness were unknown. Because Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe successfully cleared He Family Village before the Serpent God went mad, they didn't get to see what the Serpent God looked like when it went mad;

4, when Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe flipped through the almanac and violated the death taboo, he simultaneously possessed three identities: Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, Taiyi, Zhaoyou.

Then the subsequent development of events was easy to deduce...

"Assuming that the Serpent God identity I possess is complete enough to deceive the rules, then the death taboo I violated by flipping through the almanac would be regarded as being violated by the Serpent God. According to the rules, the Serpent God must kill itself, which is Zhaoyou."

"But besides the Serpent God Zhaoyou, I also simultaneously possess the identity of the wandering ghost Taiyi. And the Serpent God's two eyes are both blind; He could completely regard the person who violated the death taboo as a ghost. Therefore, if the Serpent God kills Taiyi, it also conforms to the rules."

"Or there is another explanation..."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe turned his head, watching the gas station below through the gaps between the loquat leaves:

"That is, the Serpent God also mistook me for a ghost."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe could use the identity of the Serpent God Zhaoyou to violate the death taboo, but whether the Serpent God actually flipped through the almanac, Zhaoyou himself knew best.

Perhaps in the eyes of the Serpent God, who was driven mad by the ghost stealing its identity, it was the wandering ghost Taiyi who was using His identity to flip through the almanac, and it was Taiyi who attempted to use the death taboo of the rules to kill Himself. The Serpent God had sufficient reason to believe so... but in reality, the one who made this crazy move was just a young man named Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe who was accidentally pulled into He Family Village.

So when He Family Village shattered, who did the rules actually kill? Was it the Serpent God? Or the ghost? "Perhaps the answer will be... all of them."

After all, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was not the only existence that stole the Serpent God's identity. There were still many villagers who were not deceived by Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe. The wandering ghost Taiyi could completely transfer the death taboo punishment it received to the Serpent God Zhaoyou.

But in doing so, it would further anchor the Serpent God's erroneous perception that 'it was Taiyi who opened the almanac'.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe lowered his head, examining the black and white feathers with a touch of cyan-blue on his body, as well as the two claws that were firmly gripping the tree branch:

"The Serpent God mistook me, who violated the death taboo, for a ghost, while the ghost transferred the death taboo punishment it received to the Serpent God, and this further made the Serpent God firmly believe that I am a ghost..."

"If the facts are really as I think, and both the Serpent God and the ghost were killed by the erroneously triggered rules, then I am the only one left in this world who still possesses the identity of 'Taiyi'."

Both the Serpent God and the ghost were killed, and the person who successfully cleared He Family Village gained Taiyi's abilities. It fits the game logic of killing monsters to level up.

No wonder he suspected before whether the He Family Village that Bai Zhi dreamed of could be a plot dungeon in some game work.

"Speaking of Bai Zhi, why did she dream of the scene of He Family Village?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was a bit curious: "Wait until 7 PM, after Auntie returns, and go find her to chat." If Feng Yushu was still alive at that time.

While organizing his thoughts, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe waited quietly on the loquat tree. About 4 hours later, at 11:31 AM, a sophisticated-looking black luxury business car entered his view.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe didn't know cars, nor did he recognize the brand and grade of this luxury business car, but he subconsciously felt that this car must be very expensive, so he left the canopy of the loquat tree and landed in a green belt closer to the black business car, observing silently.

Not long after the car stopped at the refueling position, the rear door was opened, and a tall woman wearing a women's suit and a black tight skirt walked out, heading straight toward the department store.

"Xie Sining." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe recognized her at a glance.

According to Xie Sining herself, she entered He Family Village when she finished buying cigarettes for Zhang Yangxu at the gas station and pushed the door to leave the department store. As for Zhang Yangxu, he waited for her in the car for a long time without her returning, and wanted to get out of the car to see the situation. The moment he pushed open the car door, he was also pulled into He Family Village.

Facts proved that at least in this matter, neither Zhang Yangxu nor Xie Sining lied, and the subsequent development was exactly as they said.

From afar, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe saw Xie Sining, who had finished buying cigarettes, push open the door of the grocery store, and then her body went soft, and she died on the spot at the entrance, scaring the boss of the department store out of his wits.

"Xie Sining really died too, so the next one is Zhang Yangxu?"

Thinking of this, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe left the green belt, did not spread his wings to take off, but hopped on the ground with a pair of bird claws, and arrived under the territory of the luxury business car.

A few minutes later, Zhang Yangxu, who had waited for Xie Sining for a long time without her returning, puzzledly opened the car door on the other side of the rear seat. At the same time, the light in his eyes suddenly extinguished, and his powerless body leaned against the rear seat.

Zhang Yangxu also died.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe seized the opportunity to jump onto the car, changed back from a magpie to Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's original appearance, sat next to Zhang Yangxu's corpse, and closed the car door heavily.

Bang—

"Mr. Zhang, what's wrong with you?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's action of closing the door was heavy and loud, making the driver in the front row ask puzzledly.

The driver looked up at the rearview mirror in the car and saw that 'Zhang Yangxu' had moved to the position where Xie Sining had just been sitting, so he was even more puzzled.

"Sining has been gone for a long time." Zhang Yangxu's voice with a slight smoky tone came from Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's throat: "You go out and take a look, urge her."

"Okay, Mr. Zhang, I'll go right away." The driver immediately got out of the car and walked toward the department store.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe took a deep breath, took out Zhang Yangxu's phone from the pocket of the corpse lying on the side, and then stuffed his corpse into the trunk from inside the car.

—From Zhang Yangxu's memories, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe already knew that this business car was not equipped with internal monitoring and recording equipment, and the car windows were one-way glass that could not see inside from the outside.

After hiding the corpse, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe stuffed Zhang Yangxu's phone into the lining of his suit, sat calmly on the leather-wrapped rear seat, waiting for the driver to bring him the news of Xie Sining's death.

(End of chapter)