Chapter 41

Thump, thump. It was the sound of metal shoe nails hitting the floor tiles.

Before she had time to be happy about finding her daughter, what caught Feng Yushu's eyes was a young man wearing a plaid long-sleeved shirt and overalls. He was wearing sturdy hiking boots on his feet, and the anti-slip steel nails embedded in the soles hit the ground, making a thump, thump sound.

Walking normally wouldn't make the soles of the shoes collide with the ground to produce such a crisp sound, but he was jumping.

Just like the classic zombie image in Hong Kong zombie movies, the overalls-wearing man's legs were together, stretched straight, jumping upstairs one hop at a time, passing through the corridor, and jumping toward where Feng Yushu was.

This scene, which could be called funny, was so terrifying in Feng Yushu's eyes, making her shudder.

Because she had just seen this overalls-wearing man.

That was when she was crossing the lobby with Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe just now. She stuck to the wall and carefully avoided the fresh corpses lying in a mess on the ground and walked toward the stairs. The death states of these corpses were all different. Different expressions were frozen at the moment before each person's death, some dazed, some confused, and some terrified.

Among them was an electrician who was performing routine safety checks on the transformer box and the lines inside the wall. His expression was serious and focused, not noticing the arrival of death at all, until this focused and serious expression was frozen on his corpse like a plaster mold.

Thump—

The overalls-wearing man jumped forward another step. His hands hung on both sides of his body, sticking straight to both sides of his pelvis. The whole person was as upright as a javelin, stabbing heavily into the ground.

And his eyes were still focused, and the serious expression still remained at the moment of checking the lines before death.

Thump, thump—

The overalls-wearing man jumped two steps in a row, instantly narrowing a large distance. Now he was only separated from Feng Yushu by two rooms.

The gorgeous crystal lamp on the ceiling of the corridor cast beautiful, fine light spots on the floor, pulling the faint shadow under the man's feet very long. The threat of death filled Feng Yushu's chest coldly, making her nerves tense to the extreme.

The reason she didn't run away was because Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe and her daughter were still in the room.

"Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, the ghost... the ghost is upstairs..." Feng Yushu's voice trembled slightly, suppressing the fear in her throat to the extreme.

Almost immediately, a soft girl's voice came from inside the room. It was Bai Zhi's voice:

"Turn off the light quickly."

Feng Yushu was stunned: "A-Zhi?"

"Turn off the light." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's voice also came out.

Feng Yushu immediately reacted to what he was referring to, but it was too late to find the power switch. She hurriedly rummaged through her handbag and found her iPad Mini, threw this tablet directly upward, and threw it straight toward the crystal lamp on the ceiling in front.

Following a burst of crisp crystal shattering sounds, a crystal lamp extinguished in response, and Feng Yushu's vision immediately dimmed.

The crystal lamps above the corridor were not just this one in front of Feng Yushu. One extinguished, but the other crystal lamps were still lit, and the windows of rooms row by row also revealed bright white light. The whole castle was brightly lit, and only the front of the room where Feng Yushu was located was relatively dark.

Thump—

The overalls-wearing man's feet landed heavily on the ground. He stood straight in place, motionless, his serious expression seeming to be examining something, or just simply maintaining the appearance before death.

The ghost stopped moving?

Feng Yushu stood in front of Bai Zhi's room door, staring nervously at the upright corpse standing under the light, not even daring to breathe. She could feel her heart beating wildly, like a wild horse struggling to jump out of her throat.

At this time, a black and white bird drilled out of the window. It was a magpie.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe jumped onto Feng Yushu's shoulder, observing the upright corpse standing under the light with her, his thoughts in a mess.

"After turning off the light, the ghost stopped moving." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe examined the surrounding environment and said softly: "To be precise, after you hid in the dark, the ghost stopped moving."

Feng Yushu looked around. It was indeed so. There were very few dead corners in the spacious and bright castle that were not illuminated by light sources, except for the place where she was standing. This made her think of what Bai Zhi had said before: "Within the range of this ghost's activity, light means danger, and darkness represents safety. As long as you hide yourself in the dark, you won't be found and killed by the ghost."

The current ghost was completely consistent with Bai Zhi's description. It was still standing upright under the crystal lamp motionless, its serious expression seeming to be looking for something, but it never found it.

At this time, a crisp sound suddenly came from downstairs, like a table or chair falling to the ground.

"Hmm?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe noticed that the moment the sound of the table and chair falling sounded, the eyes of the upright corpse seemed to move.

It was looking at the floor under its feet, or rather, looking at the lobby on the first floor below the floor.

The next moment, the overalls-wearing man's corpse fell to the ground.

His body was no longer upright, falling face down on the ground, hitting a small bright red flower of blood, his limbs scattered irregularly, just like every corpse Feng Yushu had encountered along the way.

"The ghost is gone." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said softly: "It couldn't find you hiding in the dark, maybe it turned to look for the person who made the sound in the lobby."

Feng Yushu let out a long sigh of relief. At this moment, she felt her whole body go limp, and her legs were trembling.

"Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, you saved me again..." Feng Yushu placed her hand on her chest, still having lingering fears: "I don't know how to thank you."

"The one who saved you was your daughter, it has nothing to do with me." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said lightly: "Find a way to open the door."

After confirming the prerequisite of 'darkness = safety', Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe also slightly relaxed his mindset. After spending some time, he and Bai Zhi cooperated inside and outside to pry open the room door that had been blocked.

Just as the door opened, Feng Yushu immediately walked up, hugged the girl wearing a loose nightgown in her arms, her excited voice carrying a crying tone: "Great, you're okay, really great..."

Bai Zhi didn't seem very used to her mother's hug, but she didn't break free. She smoothed her messy hair behind her ears, revealing a pale and haggard face, and looked at Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe standing on the side: "Who are you?"

"My name is Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe."

Bai Zhi shook her head: "I know your name, I'm asking about your identity. What kind of person are you? Why do you know about the existence of ghosts? What is your relationship with my mother?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe spread his hands: "You can understand it as, I went for a walk in your dream with your mother."

"Eh?" Bai Zhi was stunned.

"Let's go into the room and talk, it's dark inside." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said, passing the mother and daughter and entering the door.

The three entered the room and closed the door. Feng Yushu simply told Bai Zhi about her experience of accidentally entering He Family Village and escaping from it with Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's help. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe just listened. In the darkness, he couldn't see the girl's expression changes, but he could feel her breathing becoming heavier and more rapid as the narrative progressed.

"Actually..." Bai Zhi's voice was stunned. Feng Yushu's experience obviously brought her no small impact.

"My background you already know, so now it's my turn to ask questions." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe didn't care about Bai Zhi's psychological journey and said straight: "When the ghost first appeared in the manor, I tried to investigate the ghost's crime scene, and then I died. At that time, I was standing on the treetop, even the closest corpse was more than ten meters away from me, and Auntie was only separated from the ghost by two rooms just now, less than 10 meters. She was much closer to the ghost than I was."

"But why did I die on the spot, and didn't even have time to make any reaction? But she had time to be dazed, stunned, reminded by you, and then hurriedly go to extinguish the crystal lamp?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's voice was not loud, but every syllable was bitten very clearly: "The ghost didn't kill your mother immediately. Why is this?"

Bai Zhi was silent for a moment and answered:

"Because ghosts are afraid of light."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was a bit surprised: "Didn't you say before that ghosts need light as a prerequisite to kill people?"

Why are you saying ghosts are afraid of light now?

(End of chapter)