Chapter 63

The two searched separately inside and outside the house, and soon found quite a bit of cash, all stuffed into their pockets. Although they hadn't started to really have good luck, the psychological effect already made Ning Zhe feel that his luck had improved quite a bit.

Besides acquiring wealth, today is also suitable for: Bathing, Killing, Sacrificing, Praying.

So Ning Zhe and Bai Zhi took a bath in the bathroom at the gas station one after another, then killed the employee who was affected and tied up in the backyard, and finally burned a few sticks of incense for the portrait of Guan Yu posted in the boss's tea room.

After doing everything suitable for today, Ning Zhe picked up the boss's homemade shotgun, wanting to find some spare ammunition.

Before taking a few steps, he bumped into a wooden cabinet at a corner.

The heavy cabinet tilted over right in front of Ning Zhe, not hurting him at all, but instead directly dropped a whole box of paper-cased shotgun shells hidden in the interlayer behind the cabinet, which were neatly arranged inside.

"See, I said our luck would get better." Ning Zhe poured the paper-cased shotgun shells out of the wooden box and arranged them neatly in the inner pocket of his jacket, convenient for taking at any time.

Bai Zhi sat on the tea table, wiping her wet hair after the bath with a bath towel, and nodded in a daze.

After the whole process, the time came to three o'clock in the morning.

Ning Zhe carried the shotgun to the parking space next to the green belt. The Lady of the Lake that was parked here earlier was indeed gone.

"Where is your car?" Bai Zhi asked softly.

"Left in 2018, I guess." Ning Zhe shook his head, started a Wuling Hongguang parked in the warehouse with the key searched from the gas station boss, and it seems it was used for transporting goods to town usually: "Get in the car, let's go."

Bai Zhi seemed to be sitting in this kind of van for the first time, looking around the carriage curiously before sitting in the passenger seat, fastening her seat belt, and then asking: "Where are we going?"

"Forgot? Go find your mom." Ning Zhe leaned the shotgun between the two seats, closed the car door, stepped on the gas, and drove the Wuling Hongguang onto the highway.

Because Ning Zhe's luck today was already as good as it could be, he drove without any scruples, stepping on the gas to 115 yards. Driving fast late at night was even faster than when driving the Lady of the Lake during the day earlier, leaving Gubei Town far behind, and heading straight toward the Taoyuan City urban area.

The road conditions of this highway in 2014 seemed to be even better than in 2018, perhaps because it had just been paved not long ago. The road was empty all the way, and he didn't even encounter a single car, only the round moon overhead crawling slowly in the pitch-black sky.

At the same time, in the North District of Taoyuan City, in the brightly lit hospital corridor, the sound of high heels hitting the tiles rang out.

A graceful, full-figured noble lady, wearing a cinched-waist silk dress, holding an exquisite parasol that looked more like a collection than a daily necessity, walked leisurely in the empty corridor, the crisp sound of footsteps echoing in the deep and empty building.

A vibration suddenly came from her thigh. Feng Yushu looked back at the corridor behind her. There were only a few corpses wearing nurse uniforms slumped against the wall on the ground, surgical knives and scissors and other instruments scattered beside them. Besides that, there was nothing else.

— These corpses all had one thing in common: they had no shadows.

The light of the LED lamp shone directly through the corpses on the ground, just like passing through colorless crystal glass.

After confirming safety, Feng Yushu held her parasol and walked into a small cubicle for stacking sundries, closed the door, fished her phone from her skirt, and unlocked the screen.

The vibration just now was a few messages that had just arrived, but when she unlocked the screen to look, the sending time was yesterday, a few hours ago.

Messages sent yesterday, only arriving now? Feng Yushu checked the content of the messages with doubt. It was sent by Bai Zhi:

【Ning Zhe is right next to me.】

【Where are you now? Are you still in the hospital?】

【How is the situation on your side?】

"Great..." Feng Yushu pressed the phone screen against her chest, and her tense nerves finally relaxed. She let out a long sigh of relief. Since her daughter was still by Ning Zhe's side, she was still safe. This person Ning Zhe seemed to be able to do anything. Even if such a terrifying guy was hiding in the dark and hissing, he could definitely protect her or others.

Perhaps it was thinking inertia, perhaps path dependence, Feng Yushu had subconsciously trusted Ning Zhe incomparably.

After panting for a moment, she hurriedly picked up the phone and typed her reply in the input box: 【I'm still in the hospital, temporarily fine.】

【Someone is chasing the survivors of the Bishuiwan Manor incident. That security guard named Tian Chengyun has already been killed.】

【Several hotel waiters are also dead.】

【The next one is us. Zhi, you must be careful. Even if it's pestering him, you must stay by Ning Zhe's side. Only he can protect you.】

【That person hasn't shown his face so far, but is remotely controlling a ghost, influencing people from afar.】

【That ghost seems to have the ability to manipulate people's hearts. Nurses, doctors, patients' families in the hospital... everyone has tried to attack me.】

【Fortunately, Te Rang's rules can perceive their shadows, moving behind me, I... I killed them.】

【This is not a way to go on. Can you show this paragraph to Ning Zhe? Maybe he can think of something.】

【Be careful in everything, don't worry about Mom.】

After sending the last message, Feng Yushu stared at the screen for a while. Seeing that these messages were not yet displayed as 'read', she suppressed her excited mood and put the phone into the pocket inside her skirt.

Feng Yushu opened her parasol again and walked out of the utility room. Taking a deep breath of the air filled with the smell of disinfectant to calm herself down, she continued to walk toward the front of the corridor.

The ghost's influence on people seems to be random. Some people in the hospital wanted to kill her as soon as they met, while others were no different from normal people. Feng Yushu couldn't distinguish who was a normal person and who was influenced by the ghost from their appearance at all, which made her always carry a heavy moral burden when using Te Rang's rules to kill.

When someone threatened her life, Feng Yushu didn't think using Te Rang's ability to kill them was a crime, but what if her judgment was wrong, and the person killed wasn't actually influenced by the ghost, and she actually hurt an innocent person? This ideological burden had been tormenting Feng Yushu's spirit, making her panic all day long, not daring to think about how many of the people killed by her were driven by the ghost, and those who just happened to be close to her were normal people.

But after seeing Bai Zhi's message, Feng Yushu's spirit relaxed.

"I want to live... that's right, no matter what, I must live. I want to live to see Ning Zhe, live to see my daughter." Feng Yushu's left hand gripped the umbrella handle tightly, her right hand resting on her collarbone, murmuring and self-hypnotizing: "Live on, no matter in what way, no matter what I become in the end, I must live..."

Perhaps even Feng Yushu herself didn't notice that since when, Ning Zhe's name had a more important position in her heart than her own daughter, Bai Zhi.

Feng Yushu walked cautiously, the sound of high heels 'ta-ta, ta-ta'.

But suddenly, her footsteps stopped.

In Bishuiwan Manor, no matter how remote or hidden a corner people hid in, as long as they accidentally exposed the outline of their shadow under the light, they would be detected by the Special Soil.

Te Rang would quickly possess the corpse closest to the location where the shadow appeared and start killing.

Within a certain range, Te Rang can accurately perceive the existence and movement of all shadows. Feng Yushu is the same now.

And just now, Te Rang's rules were triggered. Feng Yushu perceived a swift black shadow rushing in from outside the main entrance of the hospital on the first floor.

(End of chapter)