Chapter 71

Enduring the excruciating pain as if his soul were being torn apart, Master Yeyao curled his body against the wall and quickly passed through the pitch-black corridor.

He didn't know how Bai Zhi knew he was following her.

Nor did he know why Feng Yushu appeared silently, becoming an oriole hiding behind the mantis.

He didn't know even more why the cooperation between this mother and daughter was so tacit, as if they had seen through his soft underbelly from the beginning, delivering a fatal sword without any hesitation.

But as a veteran with several years of experience in dealing with strange events, Master Yeyao's survival instinct told him the only thing he should do now—run. Run at all costs.

The intangible shadow was now like a tangible arrow. Master Yeyao fled toward the outside of the hospital in a panic. He knew he still had a chance. The hospital was still pitch black, and Te Rang's ability to perceive shadows was still in a shielded state. As long as he returned to his body immediately, there was still hope.

But a sudden burst of light shattered his hope.

"Backup generator set..." Master Yeyao gritted his teeth in hatred.

Lights flickered on in the hospital, which had been plunged into darkness. Wall-mounted lamps in the corridors illuminated the aisles, and medical equipment that had been shut down due to the power outage began to restart, as if pumping blood back into dry veins. With the startup of the backup generator set, this steel-and-concrete giant called the hospital building began to pulse with a powerful heartbeat again.

A backup generator set is something almost every large facility like schools, hospitals, and hotels must have.

"This is a trap!" Only now did Master Yeyao begin to regret his rashness, but it was too late. The blinding light illuminated almost every inch of space. From this moment on, the movement of all shadows in the entire hospital was under Te Rang's view.

He couldn't escape.

"No, there's still a chance, there's still a chance..." Master Yeyao didn't slow down and continued to rush toward the building where his main body was located.

Even if his movements could be monitored, so what? Although Te Rang's instant-death rule was extreme, it didn't provide any bonus to movement speed. Feng Yushu couldn't outrun him; she couldn't catch up.

But Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe could.

An agile shadow streaked across the hospital's outer wall, its broad wings catching the rushing wind, flying fast without making a sound.

This was a large bird of prey called a Eurasian eagle-owl. This raptor possesses extraordinary night vision and can move freely even in the jungle at night. Its specially structured feathers allow it to turn and move in the air without making a sound. There were at least twenty of them kept in Hengsha Ecological Park.

"The direction he is moving is the building across the street."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe flapped his wings and flew across the street with streetlights, rushing straight to the top of the building across from the hospital. He was no longer Feng Yushu, so he couldn't perceive the movement of Master Yeyao's shadow through Te Rang's rule, but the general direction of movement had been noted.

That guy had been panicked by the fake Te Rang and had even forgotten to make some deceptive tactical detours to confuse Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's judgment. Relying on the eagle-owl's excellent eyesight, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe locked onto the man sitting against the wall on the top of the building in the pitch-black night.

"Is this his main body?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe folded his wings and dived down.

Obviously, this person, like himself, possessed at least two different rules of two ghosts. One was the Thought Steel Seal, and the other was letting his shadow leave his body to sneak around.

... Then was there a third one?

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe couldn't be sure; now was the time to test his luck.

As it happened, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's luck was sky-high today.

The eagle-owl circled over the building, and after confirming that the man sitting on the roof didn't react, it landed and turned into a middle-aged security guard in a work uniform, appearing in front of him, his large hands directly grabbing the man's head.

At the same time, Master Yeyao, who seemed to have sensed something, scurried through the hospital even more frantically. He had already sensed the arrival of death.

But he couldn't sense that death was arriving faster than he thought.

Master Yeyao scurried through the stairwell like a madman, sticking to the wall and heading straight for the first floor of the hospital. Because he knew Te Rang's existence could perceive his movement trajectory, even though he was anxious, after calming down slightly, he still moved and jumped along shadows such as the wall base. Now was no exception. After rushing down the stairwell, Master Yeyao instinctively avoided the relit lights and continued to rush toward the main entrance using the long shadow under a row of benches as a transition.

Then, with a click, a light turned on, exposing the man's shadow under the bench. A left foot wrapped in black silk stockings and high heels landed lightly, stepping on Master Yeyao, who was about to leave the bench and rush to the main entrance.

Click—the heel landed.

This time it wasn't the fake rule Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe forged using Taiyi; that foot stepping on Master Yeyao's head belonged to the real Feng Yushu herself. It turned out she had been sitting on the chair just now.

The real Te Rang rule was triggered at this moment, like a sharp nail pinning a live snake to the floor.

This time there was no struggle, no wailing. This incomplete human shadow was completely pinned to the ground in an instant, and before it could make a sound, its life was completely extinguished.

If you step on a shadow, you die. Te Rang's rule is just that simple and unadorned.

The moment he pinned Master Yeyao to death, Feng Yushu knew its name:

"Master Yeyao?" Feng Yushu frowned. What a strange name, just like Te Rang.

She put down the parasol in her hand and looked up at the building across the street. She could feel Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was there.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had just twisted off the neck of Master Yeyao's main body.

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"Is it over?" The thought flashed through Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's mind: "No... not yet."

Because just as Feng Yushu killed Master Yeyao's shadow and Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe twisted off his physical neck, in an instant, the originally pitch-black sky became bright, and a rising sun hung high above the dome, casting scorching light onto the earth.

But this rising sun only existed for a few seconds before it disappeared immediately, and Taoyuan City four years ago was plunged into darkness again.

Although the magnificent scene just now was strange, it didn't have any impact on the people on the ground and passed in a flash.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe dialed Feng Yushu's number with doubts and asked her for details about what had just happened... There was no doubt that the ghost named Master Yeyao was already dead, killed by Te Rang's instant-death rule. Feng Yushu already knew its name.

But for some unknown reason, Te Rang's rule only killed Master Yeyao, but failed to kill the other ghost on this man.

【Master Yeyao】 died.

The 'God who cannot be looked at' left.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe thought for a moment and roughly understood the logic: "After the person who controls the ghost dies, the ghost they control will regain its freedom."

"This man controlled two different ghosts, 'Master Yeyao' and 'The God who cannot be looked at', at the same time. Among them, Master Yeyao's ability is to let his shadow leave his body to sneak around."

"Te Rang's instant-death rule can only be triggered through shadows, and God has no shadow."

Therefore, Master Yeyao changed hosts, and the God who regained freedom rose to the sky again.

But because it missed the time window when the sun and moon were in the sky at dawn and dusk, God could not look directly at the earth, so it could not affect the people on the ground. God left.

"Wait a minute, if that's the case..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe looked at the corpse with its neck twisted to the right in front of him, and a bizarre guess couldn't help but well up in his heart: "Master Yeyao's ability seems to be highly complementary to Te Rang."

Does this mean that the target of this person's trip was very likely not Zhaoyou, but Te Rang?

So the person who released the ghost to kill people at Bishuiwan Manor that night wasn't him?

(End of chapter)