[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-survival-guide-in-a-mysterious-world":3,"chapter-survival-guide-in-a-mysterious-world-survival-guide-in-a-mysterious-world-chapter-71":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Survival Guide in a Mysterious World",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2299040,4497,"Chapter 71: Fleeing Like a Wisp","survival-guide-in-a-mysterious-world-chapter-71",71,"\u003Cp>Ye Yao gritted his teeth against the agony as if his soul were being torn apart, curling his body against the wall corner and sprinting through the pitch-black corridor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had no idea how Bai Zhi knew he was following her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had no idea why Feng Yu had appeared silently, becoming a yellow bird lurking behind the mantis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had no idea why the mother and daughter’s coordination was so flawless, as if they had seen through his weakness from the start, delivering a lethal blade without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as a seasoned veteran who had dealt with strange incidents for years, Ye Yao’s survival instinct told him the only thing he must do now—flee. Flee at all costs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The invisible shadow now resembled a tangible arrow; Ye Yao fled recklessly toward the hospital’s exit, knowing he still had a chance—the hospital was still pitch-black, Lei Te’s ability to sense shadows remained blocked, and if he could return to his body immediately, all was not lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But a sudden burst of light shattered his hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Backup generator…” Ye Yao bit his teeth in fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lights flickered on one by one in the deeply dark hospital; dormant wall lamps illuminated every corridor, partially powered-down medical equipment rebooted like blood plasma pumped back into dried veins. With the backup generator activated, the steel-and-concrete giant known as the hospital building resumed its powerful heartbeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Backup generator systems were nearly mandatory in every school, hospital, hotel, and other large facility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s a trap!” Ye Yao finally regretted his recklessness—but it was too late. The blinding light illuminated every inch of space; from this moment on, every movement of every shadow in the hospital lay bare before Lei Te’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, there’s still a chance, still a chance…” Ye Yao didn’t slow his pace, racing toward the building housing his physical body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So what if his movements could be monitored? Lei Te’s instant-death rule was extreme, but it granted no boost to speed—Feng Yu couldn’t outrun him, she couldn’t catch up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Ning Zhe could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A swift shadow sliced across the hospital’s outer wall, broad wings catching the turbulent wind, flying fast yet making not a single sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a large raptor called a chixiao, commonly known as an owl, possessing extraordinary night vision that allowed it to navigate freely even in forest darkness; its specially structured feathers turned and twisted in midair without producing any noise. Hengsha Ecological Park kept at least twenty of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He’s moving toward the building across the street.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhe flapped his wings over the street lit by lamplight, heading straight for the rooftop of the hospital’s opposite building. He was no longer Feng Yu, so he could no longer use Lei Te’s rule to track Ye Yao’s shadow—but he had memorized its general direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man had been thrown into panic by the fake Lei Te, forgetting to employ even a single deceptive maneuver to mislead Ning Zhe’s judgment. With the chixiao’s superb vision, Ning Zhe locked onto the man sitting against the wall on the rooftop in the pitch-black night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is this his physical body?” Ning Zhe folded his wings and dove downward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, this man, like himself, bore two different rules from two distinct ghosts—one was the Thought Stamp, the other allowed his shadow to detach and move independently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…Was there a third?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhe couldn’t be sure. Now was the time to test luck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As it happened, Ning Zhe’s fortune was flawless today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chixiao circled once above the building, confirmed the man sitting on the rooftop showed no reaction, then landed and transformed into a middle-aged security guard in uniform, stepping forward and gripping the man’s skull with both broad hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same moment, Ye Yao, sensing something amiss, moved even more frantically through the hospital—he already sensed death approaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what he hadn’t anticipated was how swiftly death would arrive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Yao dashed through the stairwell, hugging the wall as he raced toward the hospital’s first floor. Knowing Lei Te could perceive his movement path, he forced himself to stay calm and kept moving along shadows—along walls, under cover—just as he had before. After sprinting down the stairs, he instinctively avoided the newly lit lights, using the long shadow beneath a row of benches as cover to keep sprinting toward the main entrance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—click—a light turned on, exposing the man beneath the bench. A slender left foot, encased in black stockings and high heels, landed gently atop Ye Yao as he was about to leap from the bench toward the exit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Click—the heel struck the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, it was not Ning Zhe’s deception using Taiyi’s false rule. The foot pressing on Ye Yao belonged to the real Feng Yu—she had been sitting on the bench all along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Te’s true rule activated at this moment, like a sharp nail pinning a living snake to the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No struggle, no cry—the incomplete human shadow was instantly pinned to the ground, extinguished without uttering a single sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be stepped on by a shadow means death. Lei Te’s rule was this simple, this plain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the instant she pinned Ye Yao, Feng Yu learned his name:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ye Yao?” Feng Yu frowned. A strange name—just like Lei Te’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She set down her parasol and looked up toward the building across the street. She felt Ning Zhe was there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhe had just twisted the neck of Ye Yao’s physical body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>=9+Book bar\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is it over?” Ning Zhe’s thought flashed: “No… not yet.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For as Feng Yu killed Ye Yao’s shadow and Ning Zhe twisted his body’s neck, the pitch-black sky suddenly brightened—a blazing sun hung high above, pouring scorching light upon the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the sun lasted only seconds before vanishing instantly; four years ago, Taoyuan City plunged back into darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the magnificent scene was bizarre, it affected no one on the ground—fleeting, gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhe, puzzled, dialed Feng Yu’s number and asked her for a detailed account of what had just happened. …Undoubtedly, the ghost named Ye Yao was dead—killed by Lei Te’s instant-death rule—and Feng Yu now knew its name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for some unknown reason, Lei Te’s rule had killed only Ye Yao, not the other ghost inhabiting this man’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Ye Yao】 was dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The “Unseeable God” had departed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhe pondered a moment, grasping the logic: “When a human who controls a ghost dies, the ghost regains its freedom.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This man simultaneously controlled two distinct ghosts: ‘Ye Yao’ and ‘The Unseeable God.’ Ye Yao’s ability allowed his shadow to detach and move independently.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lei Te’s instant-death rule triggers only through shadows—but the God has no shadow.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Ye Yao switched hosts, and the freed God ascended once more into the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But because it missed the window of dawn or dusk when sun and moon coexist, the God could not gaze upon the earth and thus could not influence those below. The God left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait—if that’s true…” Ning Zhe stared at the corpse with its neck twisted to the right, a bizarre suspicion rising in his mind: “Ye Yao’s ability seems highly complementary to Lei Te’s.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Does this mean this man’s true target was not Zhao You—but Lei Te?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the person who released ghosts to kill at Bishuiwan Villa that night… wasn’t him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1222,"2026-06-20T06:29:21.893Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","ebfaf9b80d2d1db78a1c6fc38d9cd2706d6ab32f4dd783e284ec347caaa2355d","survival-guide-in-a-mysterious-world-chapter-72","survival-guide-in-a-mysterious-world-chapter-70",353,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsurvival-guide-in-a-mysterious-world-cover.jpg"]