Chapter 58

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe sat on the edge of the bed, recalling the ghosts he had encountered in the past two days.

Taiyi is a wisp of hazy gas, formless and shapeless, arising and ceasing without void.

Zhao You is an old almanac, currently still tucked in He Nianjun's arms.

Te Rang is a mass of ferocious shadow, pitch-black as ink, always hiding under the feet of the corpse when it appears.

The forms of the ghosts seem to be associated with the rules they represent. With this as a prerequisite, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe tried to roughly outline the appearance of the ghost in Bai Zhi's words in his brain.

"Everywhere."

"Cannot be looked at directly."

"Something will happen to people who have looked directly at it, requiring me to be careful."

No matter which condition is very abstract, making Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe somewhat confused. What exactly will this ghost look like? "Bai Zhi, where do you think this ghost came from?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked: "We just left Gubei Town, not even 5 kilometers out, and were targeted and chased by a ghost. Is this, perhaps, too coincidental?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's implication is very shallow; he believes that the ghost targeting them now is not a rootless wandering ghost like Taiyi and the Serpent God, but a strange thing that is artificially released and utilized and manipulated by people, just like Te Rang.

Bai Zhi nodded: "I also feel it's not a coincidence, but I'm afraid things won't be exactly as you think."

"Let's talk later." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe checked the time; 19:11 in the evening, the sun was about to set.

Thinking for a moment, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe got off the bed and walked toward the window.

"What are you doing?" Bai Zhi looked vigilant.

"Taking advantage of the fact that the sun hasn't started to set yet, I'll go remind the others in the gas station to go inside and hide," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe replied.

"That's very dangerous, and they won't believe you," Bai Zhi shook her head.

"They can believe it or not," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe spread his hands: "I don't care about their life or death, just to reduce my moral burden a little."

"You actually still have morality?" Bai Zhi frowned.

"People should always have some morality," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe smiled and shook his head: "Even if it's faked."

Otherwise, what difference is there from a ghost.

As soon as the words fell, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's body disappeared, turning into a wisp of thin smoke. A black and white magpie jumped onto the windowsill, used its head to push open the curtain, and drilled out from the gap in the anti-theft net.

A few minutes later, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe returned.

"How was it? Did they listen to you?" Bai Zhi asked curiously.

"Not at all." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe flapped his wings and landed on the head of the bed, turning back into his own appearance, and then said: "You also know that gas stations, like hospitals and fire stations, belong to basic livelihood facilities and are all open 24 hours. How could they close the door directly just because I opened my mouth?"

"Just say it was useless to persuade them." Bai Zhi had an expression of 'you didn't listen to me earlier'.

"Useless or not, I have to persuade them." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said casually: "Whether they listen to persuasion or not is not important. But I opened my mouth to persuade them; this is very important."

Bai Zhi puffed out her cheeks: "Really can't understand you..."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe always has a strange style of doing things that makes people unable to fathom.

At this time, the sun in the sky had begun to set, and the light filtered through the curtains became dim. If Bai Zhi wasn't having a persecution delusion and had fabricated a ghost chasing her, then next, some kind of terrifying thing would happen outside.

The two sat side by side on the edge of the bed, waiting silently for something to happen.

But for a long time, the room remained quiet. Outside the gas station came the rustling sound of wind blowing through the green belt, and the sunset's afterglow sprinkled on the ground, golden.

"Seems like nothing happened?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe whispered to himself.

"Perhaps it has already happened, you just don't know," Bai Zhi said flatly. Clearly, she was very confident in her 'feeling'. "Fine, I believe you." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe shook his head. Given that she had indeed accurately described Te Rang's rules before, being careful was always right.

The sun gradually set, and a thin, bright moon rose from the foot of the mountain. The time came to 19:31 in the evening, and the gas station was still quiet.

Perhaps a bit... too quiet.

"Did you notice?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe whispered again.

Bai Zhi tilted her head to look at him: "What?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe exhaled and said: "We came here at 18:10. From then until now, for more than an hour, not a single car has come to this gas station to refuel."

Admittedly, Gubei Town is a small place, not a first-tier big city where everyone uses cars for transportation, but such big news just happened at Bishuiwan Manor yesterday, and there should be more cars entering and leaving the town than usual.

But now it's been more than an hour, let alone stopping to refuel, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe didn't even hear the sound of a car passing by, even quieter than the usual Gubei Town.

Just as Bai Zhi said, during the time the sun set, 'something' happened.

But they didn't know what exactly happened, and the room was dead silent.

Finally breaking this silence was a crisp knock on the door.

Thud thud thud—

"Boss Zhang, you haven't had dinner yet, right? We made some barbecue and cold beer ourselves. Do you want to eat and drink a little together?" The voice coming from outside the door was the small boss of the gas station. Perhaps because Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe gave a generous rent earlier, the boss seemed very enthusiastic.

Thud thud thud—he knocked on the door again.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe walked to the door and replied: "No need, I'm not hungry, you guys just eat."

"Don't be a stranger. Even if you don't have an appetite, don't let the little girl following you go hungry, right?" The boss persuaded earnestly: "How can young people not eat? My daughter says she wants to lose weight every day, doesn't eat this or that, and ruined a good body by starving herself, and her period is messed up... If the girl is willing to follow you, you have to cherish her, right, Boss Zhang?"

"She is already very tired along the way and is already asleep now. You'd better not disturb her," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said flatly: "You guys eat, I'm going to sleep too."

"Alright, it's a pity I specifically got some river shrimp from the town, you have no luck..." The small boss's voice gradually moved away.

After declining the invitation to have barbecue together, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe returned to the edge of the bed and sat down. Bai Zhi was still there, not having said a word from beginning to end.

"Do you think he's strange?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked.

"I don't know." Bai Zhi shook her head.

"Fine."

It seems Bai Zhi's special ability is limited to 'knowing the existence of ghosts' and 'predicting vague rules'. Asking for anything else is making things difficult for her.

The two stayed for a while. Bai Zhi looked a bit sleepy, her eyelids unable to stop drooping.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe slept from late last night until this afternoon. Sufficient sleep made him not feel sleepy, but Bai Zhi was not; she hadn't closed her eyes since being woken up by Feng Yushu early yesterday morning, and had guarded Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's bedside for the entire day. Now that night had fallen, the originally thin sleepiness had also thickened.

"If you're sleepy, sleep for a while," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said: "I'll keep watch for you."

Bai Zhi shook her head and didn't answer, but her eyes became harder and harder to open.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe didn't say anything more. He knew Bai Zhi couldn't hold on, and if she kept dozing off like this, she would sooner or later really fall asleep... but suddenly, a buzzing sound broke the silence in the room, making her wake up vigilantly.

The source of the sound was in Bai Zhi's skirt. She fished out her phone and unlocked the screen, her sleepy face quickly becoming surprised.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked.

"Mom... replied to my message."

(End of chapter)