Chapter 50

The financiers of the Bishuiwan Manor have quite a twisted sense of humor; the mirror wall in the female employees' changing room is actually a one-way mirror that allows people to observe the inside from the outside, which leaves Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe feeling deeply puzzled.

To build such a luxurious project in a place like Bishuiwan, both immense financial resources and extensive connections are indispensable. A man who meets these two conditions would find it easy to sleep with a movie star, so why engage in such dangerous, petty antics to peek at his own female employees changing clothes? Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe cannot understand the dark, damp fetishes of the manor's financiers, but it cannot be denied that some people do have such fetishes.

And there are quite a few such people.

Leaving the changing room, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe walked quickly to the second floor, entered Bai Zhi's room, and met Feng Yushu and her daughter.

Just after entering, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe took off the suit he was wearing; his messy short hair grew into long hair pinned behind his head, and the shirt and trousers he wore transformed into a slim-fitting waiter's uniform, his two long legs wrapped in flesh-colored silk stockings.

"Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe?" Feng Yushu, sitting on the bed, looked curiously at him as he walked into the room in the guise of a woman: "How did you..."

"Don't ask too many questions. Whatever I say in a moment, just do as I say." Liu Yunzhi's sharp, thin voice came from Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's throat: "Where is Bai Zhi?"

"She... is asleep." Feng Yushu shook her head, turned her head to look at her daughter, who was curled up on the bed like a caterpillar, and sighed softly.

Bai Zhi really has taken this place to be a dream, unable to distinguish reality from illusion, and her whole person has become very strange.

"I feel her behavior is very strange; whether it's her manners or her speech, she doesn't seem like the person I usually know, as if she were someone else entirely." Feng Yushu said softly: "Zhi is a very quiet child. Although she doesn't have many friends, she is very gentle toward everyone, even if only on the surface, but today she..."

"Perhaps what you usually know isn't the real her?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said casually: "Get ready and come out; we are about to begin."

"Okay." Feng Yushu stood up from the bed, followed Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe out of the room, and arrived in the hallway.

The electrician's corpse that had been possessed by a ghost earlier was still lying by the balcony, having not been moved.

"Listen, what you need to do is very simple." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe took a flashlight from his pocket and placed it in her hand: "In a moment, I will count to three. You turn on the flashlight and shine it on my shadow; the ghost will soon be attracted."

"If nothing goes wrong, the ghost will possess that corpse to kill me. I want you to keep your eyes fixed on it and witness the entire process of the ghost killing me without blinking."

"I will be killed by the ghost in the identity of Liu Yunzhi. After I die, you must turn off the light immediately; there cannot be any delay. Do you understand?"

"I understand." Feng Yushu gripped the flashlight tightly and nodded solemnly.

She understands what Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe is doing now; he has already advanced to the final step, and he is prepared to use a close-range death to test the specific trigger conditions for the ghost's killing.

"Before we start, I have one question." Feng Yushu suddenly asked again: "Why Liu Yunzhi? And not that Brother Li?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe has already stolen the identity of 'Brother Li, whom Xie Yaoan knows.' Although Old Li is currently on his last breath, he is still alive. Why didn't Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe use his identity to conduct the experiment, but instead went to such great lengths to re-steal Liu Yunzhi's identity? "Because Old Li's identity is not complete enough," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said flatly.

"Not complete enough, what does that mean?" Feng Yushu was even more confused.

"It means exactly what it says. Alright, time waits for no one; let's begin."

"Mm."

Feng Yushu nodded, flipped the switch on the flashlight, and a colorless white light shone, dispelling the darkness before them and casting the silhouette of a woman wearing a dress onto the wall. The electrician's corpse lay not far from Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe waited quietly for the ghost's arrival, his heart incomparably calm. He did not explain to Feng Yushu in detail why he chose Liu Yunzhi, because that reason involves the underlying logic of the Taiyi rules. The rules are the lifeblood of the ghost, and also the lifeblood of Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe himself; the more people who know the detailed information, the more dangerous he becomes.

Let's review the rules of Taiyi once more:

【When someone mistakes Taiyi for someone they know, using the incorrect cognition as a medium, Taiyi can steal the corresponding person's identity and related memories.】

Simply put—whoever you think he is, that is who he is.

A person is the sum of all social relationships; a person's image is different in the eyes of different people. A person's identity can be subdivided into the son known by a mother, the brother known by a buddy, the student known by a teacher... and so on.

The same identity is dissected into slices of identity from different angles in the different perspectives of different people; only when all the slices overlap is it a complete person.

When Taiyi disguises itself as Person A, the more people who know A that it successfully deceives, the more identity slices Taiyi obtains, and the more complete the theft of A's identity becomes.

When complete to a certain degree, it can even deceive the rules—even the rules of the Serpent God, She Shen Zhao.

When Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe violated the death taboo in He Family Village, enough villagers mistook him for the Serpent God; the Serpent God identity he possessed was complete enough to deceive the rules and shift the death taboo punishment he should have suffered onto the Serpent God.

But the 'Old Li' identity Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe currently possesses is not complete enough.

He only possesses the single slice of 'Old Li, whom Xie Yaoan knows,' at most plus one Liu Yunzhi.

If these two were Old Li's parents, siblings, or other very close people who understood Old Li deeply enough, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe might have been able to steal a sufficiently complete identity through their cognition, but that is not the case.

They are just ordinary colleagues; their understanding of Old Li is one-sided and incomplete. Such a clumsy performance cannot deceive the rules.

Then what method can most quickly steal the most complete identity, allowing Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe to obtain a life for trial and error as soon as possible?

Or to rephrase the question: In this world, if you had to find the person who knows you best, who would that person be?

The answer is yourself.

No one knows you better than yourself, not even a psychiatrist who can see through your inner thoughts.

Through that one-way mirror wall in the changing room, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe successfully deceived Liu Yunzhi, making her think the reflection in the mirror was herself, and stole the most complete identity to date.

There is no deception harder to see through than deceiving oneself, and no one knows Liu Yunzhi better than Liu Yunzhi.

The flashlight's beam shone on Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's dress, making the flesh-colored silk stockings on his legs look like white silk. The silent time flowed quietly by, and suddenly a sound came from the hallway; the corpse stood up.

The ghost has come.

(End of chapter)