Chapter 26 The vast sea and sky
Chapter 26 The vast sea and sky
"Forgive me for my unruly and free-spirited love in this life..."
"I'm also afraid that one day I'll fall down oh——no——"
A melodious Cantonese song came from Ning Zhe, making his face suddenly gloomy. Under Feng Yusu's curious gaze, he took out his mobile phone. On the screen that had been lit, the caller ID showed - Gu Yunqing.
"Don't even bother pretending." Ning Zhe whispered to himself, "Just call me from a dead person's phone."
Ning Zhe hung up the phone without hesitation, but it was too late, because Feng Yusu, who was standing next to him, had already begun to have doubts.
Because Ning Zhe's phone has always been in silent mode, incoming calls only vibrate but not ring. The call ringtone just now was not from his phone, but from another person's phone.
Lin Zhiyuan's.
"Ningzhe, have you always had two mobile phones?" Feng Yuxu was a little confused. Modern smartphones generally support dual SIM cards and dual standby, except for Apple, and very few people carry two mobile phones with them.
Under normal circumstances, such things would not attract her attention at all, but in Hejia Village, everyone who has survived to this day has become extremely sensitive.
Ning Zhe was just about to say something when the phone in his hand rang again. This time the caller was: Ye Miaozhu.
He hung up the phone again without hesitation, but as soon as he hung up, another call came in. This time it was from: Zhang Yangxu.
The deserted street seemed particularly dead silent, with only the continuous sound of Huang Jiaju's singing. Feng Yushu's face turned pale when she heard it: "Ghost...Ghost, why...?"
Why did the ghost keep changing his identity and calling Ning Zhe's phone non-stop?
In the midst of fear, Feng Yushu suddenly realized something: "Wait a minute, Ning Zhe...how did the ghost know your phone number?"
It is not surprising that the ghost knew Ning Zhe's phone number after stealing the identities of Xie Sining, Zhang Yangxu, Gu Yunqing and Ye Miaozhu. However, the phone that received the call was not the one that Ning Zhe exchanged numbers with everyone, but another one.
Feng Yusu had never seen Ning Zhe take out this cell phone. In other words, Ning Zhe had never revealed the phone number of his second cell phone to anyone.
So how did the ghost know?
Or in other words...is the phone in Ning Zhe's hand really his?
Looking at the constantly shaking caller ID on the screen, Ning Zhe's face became extremely gloomy. He silently raised his head and looked at Feng Yusu who was standing in front of him with a puzzled look.
"The ghost is forcing me to kill you." Ning Zhe said calmly.
"Hey?!" Feng Yushu's already pale face suddenly became even paler: "What's going on? Why?!"
"Don't ask, don't dig deep. I ask you to blindly trust me from now on. Keep your ignorance and don't try to find out the truth of the matter - otherwise you will die." Ning Zhe's voice was still calm, without any panic in it: "I will too."
Feng Yusu nodded tremblingly, and Ning Zhe looked at her as if he was looking at a dead person.
Ning Zhe grabbed her wrist, turned his phone to silent mode, and walked forward with Feng Yuxu in his arms.
"The ghost is trying to expose me." Ning Zhe's steps were quick, and his thoughts were running even faster.
In less than two minutes, he had figured out what had just happened.
——The ghost kept changing his identity and calling Lin Zhiyuan's mobile phone in order to expose Ning Zhe's lies and tear apart his disguise. Ning Zhe knew clearly that he, who had stolen part of the identity of the snake god, seemed to have a small advantage now, but in fact, it was not the case. His current situation was extremely dangerous, and it was not an exaggeration to say that he was dancing on the edge of a knife.
Stealing the offerings of the snake god and stealing the identity of the snake god may seem simple, but the actual process is extremely complicated and fragile.
This involves the rules of the ghost wandering around Hejia Village.
Its rules are: [When someone mistakes a ghost for someone they know, using "false recognition" as a medium, the ghost can steal the identity of the corresponding person and all information related to that identity]
When Zhang Yangxu mistook the ghost for Xie Si Ning, the ghost acquired the identity of 'Xie Si Ning known to Zhang Yangxu' and all the memories related to this identity in Zhang Yangxu's memory.
Ning Zhe stole the identity of the Snake God by taking advantage of this rule. He made the villagers who saw the offerings being eaten mistake him for the Snake God. He used the villagers' misunderstanding as a medium to steal the identity of "the Snake God known by Villager A."
But is it really that simple? Can anyone just steal some offerings and pretend to be a snake god?
of course not.
'Identity theft through cognition', this is the rule of ghosts, and only ghosts can trigger this rule.
Just like someone who violates the taboos of the lunar calendar, only the snake god has the right to punish him.
The reason why Ning Zhe was able to steal the identity of the Snake God with the help of this rule was that before impersonating the Snake God, he first impersonated a ghost.
——When Feng Yusu was on the roof of the ancestral hall, she received a phone call from Lin Zhiyuan.
"Since Feng Yuxu knew that Lin Zhiyuan was dead, the call from the deceased made her panic. I took the opportunity to use rhetoric to induce her to think that 'it was a ghost using Lin Zhiyuan's phone to call me'."
Ning Zhe strode across the empty street, the phone in his hand still vibrating: "But in fact, Lin Zhiyuan's phone is in my hand, and I was the one who called her."
【Feng Yusu mistook Ning Zhe for a ghost.】
It was with the help of this wrong cognition that Ning Zhe triggered the ghost's rules and stole part of the ghost's identity.
After successfully possessing the identity of 'the ghost in Feng Yusu's cognition', he began to steal offerings, impersonate the Snake God, and actively trigger the rules to steal the identity of the Snake God.
[Since only ghosts can trigger ghost rules, why don't I just pretend to be a ghost? ]
Ning Zhe's plan was careful and ingenious, with one link after another like a carefully calculated domino array, and any move would affect the entire structure.
But while this plan was extremely ingenious, it was also extremely fragile, because Ning Zhe knew that the reason he was able to trigger the rules to steal the identity of the Snake God was because he had the identity of a ghost, and the reason he had the identity of a ghost was because of Feng Yusu's misunderstanding of the phone call he received in the morning.
Because Feng Yusu mistook Ning Zhe for a ghost, Ning Zhe was able to pretend to be a snake god as a ghost.
Once Feng Yushu knew the truth of the matter and realized that the 'Lin Zhiyuan' who called her in the morning was not a ghost but Ning Zhe, then...
"It's like a high-rise building with its foundation pulled out, collapsing instantly. Everything is over." Ning Zhe gritted his teeth slightly, and the hand holding Feng Yusu's wrist unconsciously tightened.
(End of this chapter)