Chapter 56

There is no decent large hospital in Gubei Town, only a health center with passable medical conditions. After Bai Zhi's father received a simple check-up at the health center, he was transferred overnight to a city-level large hospital for nursing.

Qinzhou Medical College Taoyuan West Branch, 23 kilometers away from Gubei Town by car. Not far, but the road is winding, requiring passing through 3 tunnels and frequently going up and down overpasses.

The terrain is steep and transportation is inconvenient, which is also one of the reasons why this area of Taoyuan City has been relatively backward.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe wanted to try contacting Bai Fugui's subordinates or confidants in his own group to have them pick up Bai Zhi and send her to her parents, but found that they were basically all dead. Yes, Auntie seemed to have mentioned earlier that the group executives who came here with their family all lived in the manor together...

Miserable.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe looked at Bai Zhi's shy appearance, where she didn't even dare to speak loudly, and felt that letting her take a car alone would probably be very dangerous.

"Did your mom say anything to you before she left?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked.

"Mom asked me to watch over you, and notify her when you wake up." Bai Zhi said truthfully.

"Anything else?"

"Also..." Bai Zhi thought for a moment, and after organizing her language, said: "She also said to let me pay attention to safety, and not to believe anything anyone says... except you."

"Alright, it seems Auntie encountered danger." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe roughly understood Feng Yushu's intention in leaving her by his side: "Wait for me here for a while, I'm going to handle some things. You just stay here, don't walk around."

"You're taking advantage of me." Bai Zhi muttered in a small voice.

"Huh?"

"What you said is the line from Zhu Ziqing's father..." Bai Zhi's voice was even smaller.

"Ha." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe couldn't help but laugh: "Don't always stay at home reading books and playing games, even if you surf the internet? Life always needs a sense of humor."

Otherwise, it would be too boring.

"Oh..." Bai Zhi nodded reluctantly.

Leaving Bai Zhi in a milk tea shop on the street, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe left alone. After the chat just now, he had been able to fully confirm—this was his first time meeting Bai Zhi.

Or to put it another way, this was his first time meeting 'this' Bai Zhi.

The Bai Zhi that Feng Yushu left at home to look after him and the Bai Zhi he saw in Bishuiwan Manor last night were simply not the same person. Although the outer skin was exactly the same, whether it was her actions, the tone of her speech, her attitude toward people, or the quiet and elegant temperament like a begonia flower on her body, all revealed a sense of incongruity that was out of place with the image of Bai Zhi in Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's memory.

They were simply two people.

"Schizophrenia?... According to her mental state, that is indeed a possibility. But could it be something else? Even twin sisters?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe thought while walking.

He walked all the way to the hotel where Zhang Yangxu was staying. With a light step, he turned a corner, and a middle-aged male face with firm lines appeared on Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's face.

In the identity of Zhang Yangxu, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe walked into the hotel and found the assistant who had been looking for him.

To Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's surprise, the assistant did not overreact to Zhang Yangxu's disappearance all night, which saved him the trouble of making up another lie.

And as strings of cognition about Zhang Yangxu poured into his mind, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe understood the reason: Zhang Yangxu is a very typical 'struggle-maniac'; even in a high position, he has always constrained himself with a strict schedule. Such a self-disciplined Boss Zhang has no other fetishes; his only hobby is being lustful, loving to play, and playing quite wildly.

Long before setting the itinerary for Gubei Town, he had already contacted channels for entertainment.

Therefore, when Zhang Yangxu, who had been out of contact for a night and a day, appeared at the hotel entrance with fatigue, no explanation was needed; his confidant assistant understood in a second. Perhaps the only regret was not being brought along.

"Because of last night's power leakage accident, and the absence of Boss Bai Fugui of the New Homeland Group due to injury, the bidding conference originally scheduled for today and tomorrow has been postponed. The specific time is yet to be determined." The assistant reported in detail: "We received news that multiple real estate companies, including New Homeland, intend to withdraw from participating in the development of Gubei Town. I think we should also consider it early."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe laughed: "Bai Fugui is from Yongzhou; of course he can withdraw if he wants to. I can't; I am from Qinzhou. My roots are here; if I pull them out, I will die."

Just as legislators in a voting political system can always receive votes from their fellow countrymen back home, Zhang Yangxu's ability to reach today is inseparable from the support of his hometown, Qinzhou, along the way. Bai Fugui can walk away because his roots are not here; Zhang Yangxu cannot. Making a wavering gesture to fight for more benefits for himself from Gubei Town, which is about to undergo a cleanup, is fine.

But if he really wants to leave, he will die.

"What you said is exactly what I was thinking." The assistant nodded slightly.

After handling work matters, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe sent the assistant away, drove the car in the garage, and drove all the way back to stop at the entrance of the milk tea shop where he had an appointment with Bai Zhi.

Bai Zhi looked curiously at the luxury business car outside the window. Just as she was confused, her phone buzzed, and she received a message from Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe:

【Look at the car window.】

Tilting her head to look, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's face was indeed in the rolled-down car window.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe only showed his face for a moment before closing the window again. Bai Zhi got into the car in a daze, sat in the passenger seat, closed the door, and asked in a confused tone: "Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, do you have a driver's license?"

"No." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said frankly: "Although I am only 18 years old this year, I am actually an old driver with 21 years of driving experience."

Bai Zhi burst into laughter: "Then I'm a year older than you; I have 22 years of driving experience."

"I advise you to give up that idea." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said with a dark face, stepping lightly on the gas: "I won't call you 'sister'."

Bai Zhi opened her eyes wide in surprise: "How did you know what I was thinking? Can you read minds?"

"Heh, women." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe drove the car onto the street with disdain.

The former Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe didn't understand cars, not even recognizing the Mercedes-Benz logo with the highest recognition. Only after possessing the relatively complete identity of Zhang Yangxu did he know that this pure black 'Lady of the Lake' is limited to 150 units worldwide, with an official price of 15 million dollars, and the second-hand price has more than tripled.

Zhang Yangxu coming in this car also somewhat meant wanting to suppress Bai Fugui, who came from afar; Qinzhou is his territory after all.

Perhaps men all have a luxury car dream, such as driving a bright and beautiful Lady of the Lake along the highway through the countryside, with beautiful scenery and sweet wind passing by their ears, just like a playboy young master in ancient times wearing fresh clothes and riding a horse stepping on falling flowers. If one or several young and beautiful girls could sit in the car, that would be even better.

But Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's mood is very calm now, with no fluctuations.

Because he knows this luxury car is not his, the young girl is not his, and the road conditions in the countryside are terrible.

Driving a low-chassis car on a dirt road, one drive and it doesn't make a sound.

Compared to being a driver for Feng Yushu's daughter, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe would rather park the rumbling ghost-fire motorcycle at the family building, slap the ultrasound film on the old cadre's livid face, and say, "Old man, don't be ungrateful; we are true love."

The Lady of the Lake drove downstream along the highway on the bank of the Tao River and got onto the highway.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's thoughts were wandering when suddenly, he felt something was wrong; Bai Zhi hadn't made a sound for a long time.

The atmosphere in the car became somewhat oppressive and strange. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe turned the corner silently, and after driving onto the straight road, he turned his head to look, finding that the young girl who didn't belong to him was staring straight at him, her beautiful big eyes not blinking.

"Speak, what exactly is going on?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked along the way.

"They encountered a ghost," Bai Zhi said in a low voice.

"Who are they?"

"Everyone who didn't die in the manor," Bai Zhi said: "Including us."

(End of chapter)