Chapter 218 Chessboard
Ghosts are not scary, and ghosts who kill people are not scary. What is scary is that ghosts kill people, and you don’t even know how the people they killed died.
Even if he witnessed the whole process of ghost murder in person, Ning Zhe had no clue as to the cause of the prison guard's death. He had no clue at all.
“How are the killing rules of this ghost triggered? Does it automatically trigger death when approaching a certain distance, or does it require physical contact? Or is it some other cause of death that I don’t know?”
Ning Zhe was confused and saw the vicious ghost with blood-red eyes continuing to approach him.
Boom——
It was the sound of his head hitting the ground. With his head down and his legs up, his whole body was straight, and he jumped straight in the direction of Ning Zhe, cold and heavy. The oppressive atmosphere moved accordingly, leaving a pool of bright red blood on the ground.
Why do ghosts jump around head down and feet up? Is it because the legs are tied?
No, now is not the time to think about this.
Run.
Ning Zhe didn't hesitate at all, he flapped his wings and flew straight out of the prison.
The evil ghost on the ground is still moving jump by jump, like checkers on a chessboard. The red alarm bell in the cell keeps turning, and the sharp and urgent sound resounds throughout the prison. The ground is bright red for a long time.
Although the area of Shen Yugu Prison is large, Ning Zhe uses air transportation. He does not need to avoid obstacles or open doors and turn. He flies straight on the airflow, passes over the roof, and crosses high walls. The barbed wire fence was left behind, and the lush trees in Shenyu Valley came into view.
Ning Zhe landed on the top of a chestnut tree and rested for a while. When he looked back, he saw that the prison door was tightly closed and the evil spirit-possessed Old Li was not chasing him.
"It's safe for now..."
Ning Zhe had no intention of confronting him head-on, and he never wanted to unravel the ghost's killing rules out of curiosity, because just now, he had bad luck.
When he turned into a cat and stood on the treetop to look at the moon, he fell directly to the ground. The prison guard who walked under the tree carrying tea also accidentally broke the teacup. Both phenomena are foreshadowing. It's the same thing - anger is nearby.
"Anger Wu has already arrived. He is hiding nearby. Even if he is not in the prison, he should be somewhere not far around..."
Ning Zhe fluttered his feathers and looked back. Looking at the concrete building bathed in silvery moonlight under the night sky, I felt a little scared.
Anger Wu came, he came here quietly without anyone knowing it, without attracting anyone's attention.
No matter how Yan Wu found this place, the fact is that his whereabouts have been exposed, and I have never even seen Yan Wu's appearance... If I rashly confront Lao Li's murderous ghost there, I will probably... The angry fisherman who was hidden in the dark profited.
So he chose to escape and not give Yan Wu a chance to confront him.
"I am here to control the 'gods', not to fight bravely with those who have been promoted."
Ning Zhe thought silently in his heart: "All I need is the identity of the 'god' That's all, after leaving the prison, there are other people in Taoyuan City who have been imprinted with ideological stamps. Although there are not as many people as there are in the prison, they are scattered throughout the city, and it takes a lot of extra time and energy to find them."
But it is better to spend more time looking for them. Risking one's life to play chess with Yan Wu is cost-effective, isn't it?
Moreover, with the huge crowds in Taoyuan City, it would be much more difficult for Xin Wu to target himself.
That’s it, go back to the city. How did Yan Wu find him, how did he know what he was doing... All kinds of questions will be considered later. The top priority is to obtain the ability of the ideological stamp as soon as possible. It is too easy to suppress.
Ning Zhe made up his mind, the green snake scales looming around his neck.
Can't delay any longer, he really doesn't have time.
Ning Zhe spread his wings again, flew away from the treetops, and flew towards the outside of Chenyu Valley.
The sparrow's body was too weak to withstand the high-altitude airflow, and its flight speed was not fast enough. During the climb, Ning Zhe seamlessly switched his identity and turned into a large raptor with a wingspan of nearly two meters. His dark wings stirred the vortex. , and walk in the wind. The raptor flew very fast. After a while, all the greenery in the field of vision faded away, and a gray man-made building came into view.
However, the moment he saw this building, Ning Zhe's expression suddenly froze.
“Shouldn’t it be the road over there?” Ning Zhe couldn’t help but wonder.
During his stay in prison, he basically understood the environment near Shenyu Valley. This is an east-west valley, with high in the west and low in the east.
The prison is located at the bottom of the valley to the east, and the valley entrance to the west is connected to the Qinzhou Provincial Highway. There are no winding mazes, just a simple straight road.
But Ning Zhe flew westward along the valley, and the end of the road was not the provincial highway in his memory, but a gray and white reinforced concrete building. The plain color scheme was imprisoned in an electrified building. Inside the barbed wire fence, the five-meter-high walls are covered with dark gray putty.
The door is closed under the arm-thick railing. This is a prison.
“Did I circle back again?”
“No, that’s not right, I flew in a straight path and never went around a bend. I flew straight to the west without stopping or turning. Without looking back, the highway should be right in front of me.”
Ning Zhe's mind was a little confused. The familiar high walls and thick buildings were getting closer and closer in front of him, and a familiar feeling came to his heart.
"No... we can't be sure yet..."
Ning Zhe flew past the prison below, without turning or looking back, and flew straight towards the valley bottom to the east.
The terrain of Chenyu Valley is higher in the west and lower in the east. The deepest part of the valley bottom in the east is the abandoned mine.
Ning Zhe left the prison behind and plunged into the deep valley bottom. The cascading green waves passed by the tip of the tail. Ning Zhe's vision changed from broad to claustrophobic and then wide. It should have come into view at this time. But it's not that desolate mine.
But prison.
"It's prison again..." Ning Zhe had some realization in his heart.
Flying eastward is a prison, flying westward is also a prison. No matter which direction you go, it seems that you have never left the same place.
He had encountered this situation before, in Bishuiwan Manor.
Ning Zhe did not continue to move forward, but flapped his wings. The strong wings of the raptor tore through the airflow and climbed straight up quickly like a cannonball. There are very few real high mountains in Qinzhou. They are basically hills. If you have one a few hundred meters high, you will feel like you are at the top of the mountain and you can see all the small mountains at a glance.
Flapping his wings non-stop, Ning Zhe quickly climbed to high altitude. The prison below became smaller and smaller as the distance increased, like a small chessboard placed on the ground.
Ning Zhe lowered his head and discovered that the chessboard had more than one piece.
On the southern mountain of Shen Yugu Prison is a wind power plant, and across the northern mountain is a river. This is how Shen Yugu looked in Ning Zhe’s memory, but what he saw after climbing to a high altitude was not the real situation. Not like this.
There is no wind power plant to the south of the prison, and there is no turbulent river to the north. To the north is a prison, to the south is also a prison, to the east is a prison, and to the west is still a prison.
Prisons are dotted across the green land as far as the eye can see, like neatly arranged Go games on a chessboard. Every chess piece is exactly the same, and every prison is exactly the same. Even if he exhausts his All horizons are still countless.
Ning Zhe's movements did not stop, he was still climbing upwards.
After reaching a certain limit, he raised his head. There was no sky above his head, but an endless land hanging upside down, and prisons hanging upside down in the sky.
‘Above the prison’, a dark bird of prey was flying towards him.
(End of this chapter)