Chapter 57

"Speak more clearly." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe frowned.

"I said we encountered a ghost," Bai Zhi said word by word: "The ghost is watching us now; don't look directly at it."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was silent for a moment, lowered his head, and glanced at the time displayed on the car screen: 18:01.

"Don't look directly at the ghost... is this a new rule?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked with a smile: "Our strange-talk player is back?"

"To be precise, don't look directly at God." Bai Zhi's expression was serious, her eyes full of heavy color: "God is a ghost expanded macroscopically; a ghost is a god collapsed microscopically."

"How come I feel like you're reading a sci-fi novel..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe sighed: "Be more specific; what is the strange-talk rule this time?"

Bai Zhi nodded and said: 1. God is everywhere. 2. God cannot be looked at directly. 3. Be careful of people who have looked directly at God.

"Also... must find a hiding place before the sun sets, and hide inside," Bai Zhi emphasized at the end.

"OK, is that all?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe checked the screen. The current time is 18:01 in the evening, and there are less than 5 kilometers to the nearest gas station.

Summer in the south gets dark very late; often it's still bright in the sky even after seven or eight o'clock in the evening, which means there is at least more than an hour of time left for Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe to drive to the gas station 5 kilometers away. Time is completely enough.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe stepped on the gas, increased the speed to 110 yards, and the Lady of the Lake floated gracefully across the wide highway, getting further and further away from the Tao River behind him.

On the way, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked while driving: "You just said a ghost is watching us; what's going on with that?"

Bai Zhi shook her head: "I don't know; I just suddenly had such a feeling, subconsciously feeling that some things can no longer be done."

Speaking human language, she didn't see a ghost, but she felt there was a ghost.

"Hope your feeling is reliable." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe sighed and focused on driving.

18:10 in the evening, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe drove to the Sunshine Gas Station.

The journey was very quiet, nothing happened, and he didn't even encounter a single car on the road. Usually, he wouldn't feel anything, but after hearing what Bai Zhi said, perhaps it was psychological, but Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe always felt that a strange atmosphere seemed to permeate the highway.

Fortunately, the Sunshine Gas Station was still operating normally. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe parked the car in a parking space, turned into Zhang Yangxu's appearance, and went directly to find the small boss of the gas station, asking him to arrange a room for himself to stay for one night.

Zhang Yangxu's face was still very useful. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe quickly obtained a vacant room next to the grocery store. This place was originally used for stacking sundries. The boss specifically called employees to clear out the sundries, clean it up, and arrange the bedding.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe gave a generous tip, so the employees' enthusiasm for doing things was naturally high. Before 19:00 in the evening, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe moved into this room.

The first thing after entering the door, Bai Zhi pulled all the curtains, and the door was locked from the inside. The set of operations was smooth, as if it had been rehearsed many times.

"When you were in Bishuiwan Manor last night, you were just like now, locking yourself in the room and not moving." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked flatly: "Is this enough?"

"Perhaps, I'm not sure." Bai Zhi shook her head: "Do you want to know what exactly happened in the manor last night?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe nodded: "You speak." The Bishuiwan Manor last night was sealed by some unknown means, the space at the edge of the manor was distorted, and any movement 'outward' would automatically be bent into 'inward', trapping everyone inside.

Then someone put a ghost into this closed urn city.

"That ghost is called Te Rang," Bai Zhi continued: "Mom killed it, so she knew its name. She, like you, embarked on a path of no return."

"Te Rang..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe repeated this name in his heart several times, finding that the situation Bai Zhi described was something he seemed to have experienced.

When he actively violated the death taboo in He Family Village, he also naturally knew the names of the Serpent God and the ghost pretending to be the Serpent God: Zhao You, Taiyi.

"After Te Rang was killed, the manor's seal was still not lifted; we were still unable to leave the manor and head to the outside world." Bai Zhi said clearly: "Your state at the time was very poor; your body was covered with the features of different people, and snake scales and bird feathers appeared on your skin. You gave me a very dangerous feeling... I wanted to leave you outside and ignore you at the time."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe nodded; his state at that time was indeed very poor; he didn't even know who he was.

"But Mom didn't throw you away; she hid you in her room and sent you out of the manor after dawn." Bai Zhi continued.

"You mean..."

"That's right, after dawn, the seal on the manor was automatically lifted," Bai Zhi continued: "In other words, even if you didn't risk your life to kill Te Rang, as long as you hid in the room with me and waited for daylight, you could also escape the strange and return to reality."

What she said was not unreasonable, but Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe shook his head: "The reason the seal on the manor was lifted at dawn was not because the time was up, but because the person executing the seal was unwilling to continue sealing it like this, that's all."

Bai Zhi thought for a moment: "You're right."

Te Rang was artificially put into the manor, not a rootless wandering ghost like Taiyi that just happened to wander here.

Ghosts are unrestrained; the only thing that can constrain them is rules. But people are different; people live in the world and must be constrained by society.

People with great energy can certainly report the 36 people killed by the ghost as accidental deaths in a safety accident, but no matter how you confuse right and wrong, there is always a limit. The simple ethical morality of the masses is not clay in the hand, and cannot be completely manipulated by you.

So not maintaining the seal on the manor after dawn might not be because it couldn't be done, but because it wasn't wanted. That person didn't want to bear too high a price for some uncertain things, bringing unnecessary trouble to himself.

"So what do you say now?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe walked to the bed and sat down, returning from a suit to his own appearance: "You let me find a hiding place to hide before sunset, meaning the ghost's rule this time is related to day and night? Will there be danger after dark?"

"I don't know... I can only vaguely feel that there will be fatal danger during the time the sun sets," Bai Zhi shook her head, looking somewhat nervous.

She fished out a large wrench from the hardware toolbox in the corner, inserted it into the door handle to bolt the door, and still feeling uneasy, checked the anti-theft net of the window and the corners of the walls all around.

After confirming everything was fine, Bai Zhi relaxed and sat down next to Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe.

From her words and performance, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe added the 4th rule to this rule: 1. God is everywhere. 2. God cannot be looked at directly. 3. Be careful of people who have looked directly at God.

4. The danger does not come from the night, but is related to the time the sun sets. (End of chapter)