Chapter 120 Money is tight
I have encountered death three times.
The world in Sui Meng is filled with monotonous colors. Pale flames jump happily in the hollow trunks of the ginkgo trees. There is silence all around. The earth god in a wide official robe is still sitting in the small In the earth temple, he has kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and a pleasant smile. He holds a jade tablet in both hands and holds it at his waist.
'Taiwei Xiyi Xianshengzhenjun Mighty Zhenjie Emperor', 14 gold lacquered characters are listed vertically on it, which is particularly eye-catching in the dim tones of the surroundings.
"Ah..." Feng Yushu's mouth opened slightly. After waking up from the fear of death, her mind was still a little dazed. She still couldn't quite understand what happened just now.
"Ning Zhe, I...where are we?" She couldn't help but ask softly.
But as soon as the words came out of her mouth, Feng Yushu was stunned because she found that she... couldn't hear what she said.
Not only people’s words, but also the rustle of the wind blowing through the ginkgo tree crown, the crackle of the flames burning the wood, the chirping of insects in the corner, your own breathing... and the ubiquitous environmental whiteness Noise, everything, all sounds disappeared.
This is a world without 'sound' at all.
The world of ‘Xi’.
Ning Zhe didn't look surprised or surprised. He silently took out his phone, opened WeChat and typed a line in the input box:
"We are on the -2 floor."
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2 floors?
Feng Yushu frowned, also typed a line on his phone, and showed the screen to Ning Zhe: "-2nd floor, does it mean we died three times?"
"Yes." Ning Zhe responded simply and neatly, typing a question in the input box:
[How many lives do you think a person has? 】
"There is only one life, naturally it is one life." Feng Yushu made his judgment without hesitation and gave his answer directly:
[Of course it is one life. 】
Ning Zhe nodded, typing, and walked towards the way he came. Feng Yushu quickly followed.
Neither of them made a sound as they walked.
The ghostly figures that had just surrounded me from all directions had disappeared at some point. The decapitated Ji Taixun, the human bone white snake crawling out of Ji Taixun’s grandmother’s body... all kinds of enchanting and strange things seemed to be related to this The colors and sounds of the world have disappeared together, and now the entire Yanglao Village is empty, empty and dead.
Ning Zhe finished typing quickly. Feng Yushu took the phone and looked at it. There was a long paragraph on it:
[Everyone has one life, so the living person has one life. The human world, the earthly world, or the real world, is the first level. 】
【After a person dies, his life returns to 0, and he changes from a yang person to a yin soul, which is the so-called soul, or ghost. The place where ghosts live is called the underworld, and that is level 0. 】
[After the ghost dies, it becomes a ghost, and its life changes from 0 to -1. Di is a deformed spirit that is half human and half animal. It is extremely ferocious. Ghosts are afraid of Di, just like people are afraid of ghosts. 】
[The place where the 軻 is active is called the 'Dou Ming Nether Realm', which is one layer deeper than the underworld on the 0th floor, that is -1 layer]
[And where we are, it is deeper than - The 1st floor of the Netherworld is even deeper. 】
Feng Yushu nodded secretly as if he understood something, and carefully wrote down the text on the screen: "The 1st floor is the Yang world, the 0th floor is the underworld, and the -1st floor is the underworld..."
What is the place deeper than the Netherland of Diming?
While Feng Yushu was reading the text on Ning Zhe's mobile phone, Ning Zhe had already finished typing the next paragraph on her mobile phone:
[The ancients said that people die as ghosts, ghosts die as ghosts, and ghosts die as hope. . 】
[This is a saying that has been widely circulated among the people in the Central Plains. It can be traced back to the Song Dynasty. It is also mentioned in books such as "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" in the Qing Dynasty, and there is also a dialogue in the "Tao Te Ching" Relevant explanations of the morphological characteristics of Xi, Yi, Wei and others after death,]
[We committed suicide three times and fell from the 1st floor of the world to the -2nd layer. This is the world of 'Xi'. 】
[It is recorded in the Tao Te Ching: If you hear it and it is not known, it is called Xi. 】"Those who want it will not hear it..."
Feng Yushu read the text on the screen and suddenly realized that it was not his ears that had a problem, but that this world was a world without sound.
The way for people to fall from the first level of the world to this faded world without sound is death.
Ning Zhe stopped slightly and looked up at the bamboo forest not far away - as the whole world turned gray, the originally simple and clear roads in Yanglao Village became slightly difficult to identify. .
Stop and see a well half-hidden in the bamboo forest in front of you. Ji Taixun's small building is not far away.
"But this doesn't make sense..." Feng Yushu was a little confused and quickly typed another line on his phone. He gently tugged on Ning Zhe's sleeve and handed the screen to him to see
[But if it's really like you As said, if the people are on the 1st floor, the ghosts are on the 0th floor, and the ghosts are on the -1 floor, what happened just now cannot be explained. 】
【We committed suicide three times in total before we successfully descended from level 1 to level -2. 】
【But we only committed suicide once when we subdued Ji Taixun, and witnessed his grandmother turning into a half-human, half-animal snake with human bones. I think that was Ji. 】
【But we only committed suicide once at that time. We should have been in the underworld on level 0 at that time. Why are there diseases in the underworld? Shouldn't he be in the deep world of -1 level? 】
Feng Yushu couldn't figure out the reason.
...And Ji Taixun's grandmother was originally a living person. She was only killed once by Ye Yao, so her life after death should be 0, even if a mutation occurs after death. He turned into a ghost, not into a monster that looked like a human and a beast.
Ning Zhe nodded slightly, acknowledged her doubts, and retyped a line of words on the screen:
[You are right, there should be no gluttons in the underworld]
[ So there shouldn’t be ghosts in the human world, right? 】
"Ah..." Feng Yushu's shoulders trembled, as if an electric current passed through her brain and went down her spine to her tailbone.
Could it be...
【Not sure yet. 】
Ning Zhe patted her left shoulder gently, walked towards the small building hidden among the bamboo trees, and typed another line on Feng Yushu's mobile phone:
[All speculations, The more steps there are in reasoning, association, and assumptions, the easier it is to make mistakes. Take it one step at a time, don't be too ambitious. 】
The first step of inference based on factual evidence can have a high accuracy rate, but the second step of inference based on the results of the first inference may be very wrong.
Ning Zhe came to the door of the small building. The door was closed tightly, and the lock hanging on the door latch was also locked.
"Huh..." Ning Zhe breathed a sigh of relief, turned to look at Feng Yushu behind him, and exchanged their mobile phones again.
A new line of text has been placed in the input box:
【Do you want to know why I brought you here? 】
Feng Yushu's eyes suddenly brightened and he nodded repeatedly.
(End of this chapter)