Chapter 57: Gods must not be looked at directly
“Speak more clearly.” Ning Zhe frowned.
"I said we encountered a ghost." Bai Zhi said word by word: "The ghost is looking at us now, don't look directly at it."
Ning Zhe was silent for a moment and lowered his head. I glanced at the time displayed on the car screen, 18:01.
"Don't look directly at ghosts... Is this a new rule?" Ning Zhe asked with a smile: "Our ghost story player is back?"
"To be precise, don't look directly at God." Bai Zhi's face was serious, and her eyes were full of solemnity: "God is a ghost that expands macroscopically, and ghosts are gods that collapse microscopically."
"How do I feel? Are you reading science fiction novels..." Ning Zhe sighed Tone: "Be specific, what is the code of ghost stories this time?"
Bai Zhi nodded and said:
1. God is everywhere
2. God Do not look directly
3. Be careful of people who have looked directly at God
"Also... you must find a hiding place before the sun sets and hide in it." Bai Zhi finally emphasized.
"OK, is that all?" Ning Zhe checked the screen. It was now 18:01 in the evening, and the distance to the nearest gas station was less than 5 kilometers away.
It gets dark very late in the summer in the south, and the sky is often still bright after seven o'clock in the evening, which means there is still at least an hour left for Ning Zhe to drive 5 kilometers away. gas station. That's enough time.
Ning Zhe stepped on the accelerator and increased the speed to 110 yards per hour. The fairy in the lake floated gracefully across the wide highway, getting farther and farther away from the Taojiang River behind her.
On the way, Ning Zhe asked while driving: "You just said that there are ghosts watching us, what's going on?"
Bai Zhi shook her head: "I don't know, I just suddenly felt like this She subconsciously felt that some things could no longer be done. "
In human terms, she didn't see a ghost, but she felt that there was one.
“I hope your feeling is reliable.” Ning Zhe sighed and concentrated on driving.
At 18:10 in the evening, Ning Zhe drove to the Sunshine Gas Station.
It was very quiet along the way, nothing happened, and I didn't even encounter a car on the road. Normally I wouldn't think anything of it, but after hearing what Bai Zhi said, maybe it was psychological effect, Ning Zhe always felt that the speed was high. There seemed to be a weird atmosphere hanging over the road.
Fortunately, the Sunshine Gas Station was still open for business. Ning Zhe parked his car in the parking space, transformed into Zhang Yangxu and went directly to the gas station owner and asked him to arrange a room. Give yourself a night's stay.
Zhang Yangxu’s face was still very useful. Ning Zhe soon got an unused room next to the grocery store. It was originally used to store sundries. The boss specially called the employees to put it in Clear away the clutter, clean up, and make the bed.
Ning Zhe’s tips were generous, so the employees were naturally more motivated to do things. Ning Zhe checked into this room before 19:00 in the evening.
The first thing Bai Zhi did after entering the door was to close all the curtains and lock the door from the inside. The operation was done smoothly, as if it had been practiced many times.
"Last night at Bishuiwan Manor, you locked yourself in the room and remained motionless like you do now." Ning Zhe asked lightly: "Is this okay?"
"Maybe, I don't "Sure." Bai Zhi shook her head: "You want to know what happened in the manor last night? What happened?"
Ning Zhe nodded: "You said. "The Bishuiwan Manor was blocked by an unknown method last night, and the space at the edge of the manor was distorted, and any 'outward' movement was blocked." They will all be automatically bent 'inwards', and everyone will be trapped inside.
Then someone released a ghost into this closed urn city.
"That ghost is called Te Rang." Bai Zhi continued: "My mother killed it, so she knows its name. Like you, she has embarked on a road of no return."
"Special envoy..." Ning Zhe recited the name several times in his mind and found that the situation described by Bai Zhi seemed to have been experienced by him.
When he took the initiative to violate the death taboo in Hejia Village, he also naturally learned the names of the snake god and the ghost pretending to be the snake god: Zhaoyou and Taiyi.
“After Special Agent was killed, the blockade of the manor has not been lifted, and we are still unable to leave the manor and go to the outside world.” Bai Zhi said clearly: “You were in a very bad state at that time, and your body was overgrown. Different people’s facial features, snake scales With the bird feathers appearing on your skin, you gave me a very dangerous feeling... I wanted to leave you outside at that time."
Ning Zhe nodded, that time. He was in really bad shape, and he didn't even know who he was.
"But mother didn't abandon you. She hid you in her room and sent you out of the manor after dawn." Bai Zhi continued.
"You mean..."
"Yes, after dawn, the blockade on the manor will be automatically lifted." Bai Zhi continued: "In other words, even if you don't take the risk Even if you risk your life to kill Special Agent, as long as you hide in the room with me and wait for daylight, you can still get rid of the weirdness and return to reality."
What she said made sense, but Ning Zhe shook his head: "The blockade on the manor was lifted at dawn, not because the time was up, but because the people who implemented the blockade were unwilling to continue the blockade like this. That's all."
Bai Zhi thought for a moment: "You're right."
Te Rang was artificially put into the manor, not a rootless wandering ghost like Tai Yi who just wandered here.
Ghosts are unrestrained. The only things that can restrain them are rules. But people are different. When people live in the world, they must be restrained by society.
People with high energy can certainly report the 36 people killed by ghosts as accidental deaths in safety accidents, but no matter how much they confuse right and wrong, there is always a certain degree. The simple ethics and morality of the masses are not clay in their hands and cannot be It’s completely up to you.
So the blockade of the manor is no longer maintained after dawn, perhaps not because it is impossible, but because it is not wanted. That person does not want to bear a high price for some uncertain things and bring unnecessary consequences to himself. trouble.
"So what do you say now?" Ning Zhe walked to the bed, sat down, and returned to his own appearance from a suit: "You asked me to find a hiding place to hide before dark, meaning The rules of this ghost are related to day and night? Is there danger after dark? ”
"I don't know... I can only vaguely feel that there will be fatal danger during the period when the sun sets." Bai Zhi shook her head, looking a little nervous.
She took out a large wrench from the hardware tool box in the corner, inserted it into the door handle and bolted the door. Then she still felt uneasy, and she removed the anti-theft net on the window and the surrounding corners. Checked it out.
After confirming that everything was okay, Bai Zhi relaxed and sat next to Ning Zhe.
Ning Zhe added a fourth rule to this rule from her words and performance:
1. God is everywhere
2. God must not be looked directly at
3. Be careful of those who have looked directly at God
4. The danger does not come from the night, but is related to the period when the sun sets
(End of this chapter)