Chapter 61

A golden full moon climbed into the sky, and the night gradually deepened.

Bai Zhi woke up from the sofa, with a headache like a hangover. She propped up her upper body and looked down, finding herself wearing a set of orange-black matching work clothes, which should belong to one of the employees in the gas station.

"Awake?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe walked in from outside the door, holding a handful of charred yellow skewers, river shrimp and beef and the like.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe sat on the sofa opposite Bai Zhi, tore a piece of roasted meat from the iron skewer, and chewed it in big mouthfuls. The meat on these skewers was far more solid than in barbecue shops, as the gas station boss and employees roasted them for themselves.

"You'd better give me an explanation," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked while eating: "With that degree of acute poisoning, a normal person would have died long ago. Even if they were luckily rescued by an experienced doctor, the body would still have permanent damage, but you are very strange."

"You clearly didn't receive sufficiently professional and timely treatment, just sleeping on the sofa, and all your poisoning symptoms subsided, not even leaving half a trace."

Sensing the existence of ghosts, knowing vague rules out of thin air, and... this thing that seems to be an immortal body.

There are more and more strange things about Bai Zhi.

"If possible, I really want to shoot you in the head to see if you can still live." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe put the finished skewer on the table and asked: "Speak, what exactly are you?"

Don't come again with 'I think I'm a strange-talk player', fooling a ghost.

"I... I don't know." Bai Zhi pressed her hands on her knees, shaking her head nervously again and again.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe frowned: "This look and tone... damn, she hid."

"What are you saying?" Bai Zhi looked at him in confusion.

"Nothing, it's just that I didn't find the person I was looking for." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe put a handful of skewers on the table and stood up: "Follow me, show you something."

Bai Zhi followed him out of the gas station in confusion. Several corpses were still lying on the platform in front of the door, not cleaned up. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe took her through the green trees and circled to the back of the gas station. Here was an open-air small courtyard, where a homemade barbecue grill emitted thick white smoke.

Two people were tied to two trees next to the courtyard.

One person's limbs were drooping unnaturally, the joints seemed to be broken, and the clothes on his body were full of bloodstains.

The other person had no signs of fighting on his body, only a faint bruise at the corner of his eye, and was also tied to the tree by Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe pulled Bai Zhi to the gas station employee with broken limbs and brought one of her wrists in front of the employee's bloody face.

"What are you doing?" Bai Zhi didn't dare to resist him and asked cautiously.

"Look for yourself," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said. Only to see the head of this employee, which was originally hanging weakly, suddenly lifted, his mouth opened, and he bit toward Bai Zhi's wrist desperately. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe pulled his hand back before she was bitten.

The employee with broken limbs lifted his head, panting, and made a sound almost like begging: "Brother, I beg you... let me go, let me kill this girl. I really must kill her... I, I must kill her, I must..."

"He wants to kill you."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said flatly:

"Although he doesn't know the reason himself, he wants to kill you, very, very much. Just like being hungry and needing to eat, thirsty and needing to drink water, it's that kind of instinct-level reaction. No matter what, he firmly believes that he must kill you."

"How could..." Bai Zhi's face was full of disbelief.

Subsequently, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe pulled her to another tree and repeated the trick, bringing her wrist in front of the other employee who was relatively neatly dressed.

But this employee did not try to tear Bai Zhi's wrist to make her die of blood loss, but lifted his head to look at Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe: "Are you crazy! Killing is against the law. You actually killed the boss and Old Liu and them... Now it's a society ruled by law, you can't run away... Brat, if you have the guts, kill me, you can't run away..." "See? It's the same gas station employee, but he doesn't want to kill you." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe let go of Bai Zhi's hand and asked: "Do you know what the difference is between them?"

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

She really didn't understand why someone would want to kill her for no reason? And it was that kind of 'fight to the death' belief, simply unbelievable.

"Because he stayed in the gas station before." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe brought Bai Zhi back to the gas station and briefly explained to her what happened last night.

— There were 8 people in the Sunshine Gas Station, including the boss and employees.

When the time approached evening, 2 of the 8 people guarded the front door, maintaining the normal operation of the gas station.

Of the remaining 6 people, 5 including the boss were having an open-air barbecue in the outdoor courtyard, and 1 was cutting meat in the house.

"The only person who doesn't want to kill you is the one who was cutting meat in the house," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe concluded: "During the time the sun set, 'something' happened."

"At that time, everyone exposed to the outdoor environment firmly believed that they must kill you, almost by instinct. And I, who was hiding in the house, and that one employee who was cutting meat in the house, were not affected like that. We don't want to kill you."

Summarizing the current information, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe initially reached such a conclusion:

Every evening, during the time the sun sets, the ghost will exert influence on all people in an open-air environment, making them firmly believe from the bottom of their hearts and by instinct: I must kill Bai Zhi, by all means.

This belief will not affect people's normal thinking; everyone can still communicate normally, everything about them is normal, the only point is that they want to kill Bai Zhi no matter what.

God is everywhere, but not in the house.

"What special attraction do you have that makes the ghost want to kill you no matter what? Even only caring about killing you, ignoring me."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was curious for a moment, why Bai Zhi, and not himself? Besides the identity of a strange-talk player, is there any difference between himself and Bai Zhi? Fine, let's sort it out from the beginning...

1. This ghost that 'exerts influence on people exposed outdoors every time the sun sets' is suspected to be driven by humans, just like he is driving Taiyi's rules, and like Te Rang, who was artificially released into the manor earlier.

2. The person who released Te Rang is suspected to be for Zhao You, but he seems to only vaguely know the location of Zhao You, but cannot accurately know who exactly Zhao You is on, otherwise he wouldn't have indiscriminately slaughtered everyone in the entire manor.

Finally, assuming that the person driving the ghost that is 'everywhere' and 'cannot be looked at directly' to chase Bai Zhi is the same one who released Te Rang, then his motive is very obvious.

Bai Zhi and Feng Yushu, both mother and daughter, are survivors of the Bishuiwan Manor incident, and Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe is not.

At least... not on the surface.

God knows what identity he was sent home by Feng Yushu at the time.

"Then in this way, what Bai Zhi said yesterday can be sorted out. This ghost is not chasing her alone, but is killing all the survivors of the Bishuiwan Manor incident equally."

Because it cannot determine who exactly Zhao You is on, it has to kill all suspected personnel.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe feels this conclusion is not necessarily the truth, but it should be relatively close.

(End of chapter)