Chapter 9 The God of the Earth Cannot Hold Back
Gu Yunqing's lifeless body fell into the water, and the cold water droplets splashed onto Ye Miaozhu's face, making her unconscious.
"Yunqing...is dead?"
Ye Miaozhu murmured with absent-minded eyes. Ning Zhe reacted quickly and stepped forward to grab Gu Yunqing's sleeve. , did not let him be washed away by the current.
Drawing Gu Yunqing's body, Ning Zhe quickly glanced at Feng Yushu, who was trembling with fear and unable to move, and then at Ye Miaozhu, whose mental state was obviously not right. He realized that he could only rely on himself.
After unbuttoning Gu Yunqing's clothes, Ning Zhe quickly inspected his body.
Although he is not a professional medical student, he can make some basic judgments through simple examinations: "Like Xie Sining, Gu Yunqing has no external injuries, no internal bleeding, no drowning and suffocation, and no signs of poisoning. ..."
Except for the body temperature of Gu Yunqing who had just died and had not cooled down, there was no difference in the death state of the two corpses, they were exactly the same.
"There is no difference in the circumstances of their deaths. Were they both killed by something that could only pretend to be someone else's identity? Or is there danger in the river itself?"
Ning Zhe didn't know the answer, but he didn't dare to take the chance.
Putting down Gu Yunqing's body, Ning Zhe took a few steps back and away from the river bank. Feng Yushu, who was frightened and had a nervous breakdown, quickly followed him, leaving Ye Miaozhu still slumped there in a daze.
"Yunqing...why did he die like this?" Ye Miaozhu's eyes were scattered and a little confused: "We didn't violate any taboos, we didn't travel, there was no burial, there was no funeral...and there was no sacrifice. Why? Will Yun Qing die?"
Ye Miaozhu held his head in his hands and tangled his originally smooth long hair. : "Even if examining the body can be regarded as a funeral... Why is it that Yun Qing died but nothing happened to me?"
"I don't know." Ning Zhe shook his head: "How could I know... "
"Really? You don't know either." Ye Miaozhu lowered his body and buttoned up the buttons on Gu Yunqing's body one by one. Holding his body, he looked sideways at the river slowly moving downstream, with the bright white moon reflected on it.
"Are you seeking death?" Ning Zhe frowned: "I noticed Gu Yunqing's movements before he died. A few seconds before he lost his vital signs, he happened to be looking down at the river on the bank. I didn't know there was danger. Is it the corpse by the river, or the river itself, but you are undoubtedly cheating on your life by imitating what he did before his death."
"So what? "Ye Miaozhu raised his head and stared at Ning Zhe with his lifeless eyes: "I've had enough."
Ning Zhe was silent for a moment and said softly: "I understand, but I don't agree."
We are all ordinary people, studying, working, and living in an ordinary way, and keep to ourselves, thinking that life is just countless such ordinary days piled up day by day.
However, just by opening a door, they arrived at this inexplicable place, forced to abide by inexplicable rules and endure unreasonable fears.
The weight of death is so heavy that it makes everyone breathless. The rules that change every day torture people's fragile nerves, making them tremble and walk on thin ice.
Ning Zhe didn't know the relationship between Ye Miaozhu and Gu Yunqing, but in such a precarious environment, the two were used to relying on each other.
Ye Miaozhu is not such a strong person. If she had not been accompanied by someone familiar to her, she would have been crushed by the death that would come at an unknown time, let alone in this strange village full of strange things. Stick with it till now.
And now that Gu Yunqing is dead, she has lost her spiritual support and the courage and motivation to continue struggling to survive.
Ning Zhe did not approve of her giving up her life so hastily, but he did not object to Ye Miaozhu seeking death at this moment, because that was actually a good thing for him.
"After Ye Miaozhu's death, there are three ready-made death samples here." Ning Zhe said to himself: "I can't see the logic behind the bizarre death once or twice, but what about three times? What about four times? There will always be The clues...the puzzle can always be solved."
Others may collapse, give up, and break the pot, but he will not.
Looking at Ning Zhe's indifferent eyes, Ye Miaozhu suddenly smiled: "I actually wanted to get angry at you, because if you hadn't asked us to check Xie Sining's body, Yun Qing would not have died. But he felt his body slowly getting colder, I found that I no longer had the energy to be angry. "Fortunately, you didn't." Ning Zhe said lightly: "If you act mean to me, I will kill you."
< br>"Pervert." Ye Miaozhu cursed bitterly.
But then, she felt relieved: "But maybe only an inhuman pervert like you can survive in this inhuman place and be like a fish in water."
"For the sake of your death, I I won't hold you accountable for scolding me." Ning Zhe didn't care.
The river bank became quiet, and the small sentences were submerged in the crystal clear river water. Ye Miaozhu held Gu Yunqing's body in his arms, quietly watching his reflection on the river, like an execution ground The prisoners above closed their eyes and waited for death to come.
But time passed by, and Ning Zhe checked her phone again and again, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes... Ye Miaozhu always sat quietly on the bank of the river, letting the cool evening breeze take away her body temperature. , nothing else happened.
"It seems that the Snake God thinks that your life should not be cut off." Ning Zhe walked down the gentle bluestone slope and stretched out his hand to Ye Miaozhu who was sitting slumped on the spot: "It's time to go, since that thing that I don't know what it is is... If this life is given to you, cherish it.”
Ye Miaozhu lowered his head and remained silent for a long time. Finally, he let Ning Zhe grab his hand without any reaction.
Ning Zhe pulled her up from the river bank and quickly summarized the known information in his mind:
"First, the snake god is suffering from madness, and he gets sick regularly every month. The cause of the disease is Unknown, the symptoms are unknown.”
“Second, in addition to causing bad luck. In addition to the good and bad luck in the almanac, there are other hidden rules in Hejia Village that can directly cause death, such as reading tomorrow's almanac. "
"Third, Xie Sining and Gu Yunqing are suspected of violating the hidden rules and died. The circumstances of their death were exactly the same as those of Lin Zhiyuan.”
"Fourth, although the bodies of Xie Sining and Gu Yunqing both appeared in the river, Ye Miaozhu has proven that their deaths are not directly related to the river."
"Fifth, there is a person in Hejia Village A special existence that can assume the identity of others, and is suspected to be related to the hidden rules that lead to death."
As the information gained increased, the ideas in Ning Zhe's mind gradually became clear, and among the seemingly chaotic pieces of information. Here, he found his first breakthrough Point:
"The ghost that took over Xie Sining's identity followed Zhang Yangxu for a long time but did not kill him. It did not attack me after it found me. Why didn't it kill us? It didn't want to Or is it actually unable to kill people directly? "
"Or to think about it another way, the ghost doesn't need to be close to us if it wants to kill people, but it needs to meet certain conditions and needs us to trigger something. Some special rules? ”
The fog on the road ahead dissipated. From the tangled knot, Ning Zhe grasped the thread that unraveled the truth.
At this time, Feng Yushu's cell phone vibrated, and someone called.
The caller is Zhang Yangxu.
"Take the call, hang up anytime if something feels wrong." Ning Zhe said softly.
Feng Yushu didn't dare to answer, but he nodded involuntarily, and pressed the answer button with trembling white fingers.
As soon as the call was connected, a loud warning, almost shouted, came from the speaker:
——"Be careful of Gu Yunqing!"
(End of this chapter)
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