Chapter 35 How can we tell the difference

After witnessing the deaths of Gu Yunqing and Ye Miaozhu, Ning Zhe left the clinic and flew out along the main road of the town.

According to Zhang Yangxu's own account, he entered Hejia Village when he parked at a gas station. There was only one regular gas station within a 5-kilometer radius of Gubei Town, called "Sunshine Gas Station."

Ning Zhe soon arrived above the Sunshine Gas Station, but did not immediately see the car that Zhang Yangxu was suspected to be riding in. There were only a few ordinary family cars and freight vans parked in the gas station. It was obvious that these vehicles did not match Zhang Yangxu's identity as a real estate tycoon.

"It seems that there is still some time before Zhang Yangxu arrives here." Ning Zhe lowered his body and hid on a tall loquat tree next to the gas station, using the dense leaves to cover his body, and waited patiently for Zhang Yangxu to arrive.

While waiting, Ning Zhe sorted out his thoughts and tried to review what happened in Hejia Village:
1. The snake god Zhaoyou is the native god of Hejia Village, while Taiyi is a wandering ghost from outside.
2. Taiyi wandered around Hejia Village and stole the identity of the snake god by misleading the villagers, causing the snake god to become insane;
3. The symptoms of the snake god's illness are unknown. Since Ning Zhe successfully cleared Hejia Village before the snake god went crazy, they did not see the snake god's madness;

4. When Ning Zhe violated the death taboo by reading the almanac, he simultaneously possessed the following three identities: Ning Zhe, Tai Yi, and Zhao You.

Then the next thing to happen is easy to reason...

"Assuming that my identity as the Snake God is complete enough to deceive the rules, then the death taboos I violated by reading the almanac will be considered to have been violated by the Snake God. According to the rules, the Snake God must kill himself, that is, Zhao You."

"But in addition to the Snake God Zhao You, I also have the identity of the wandering ghost Taiyi. The Snake God is blind in both eyes, so he can completely regard those who violate the death taboo as ghosts. Therefore, if the Snake God kills Taiyi, it is also in accordance with the rules."

"Or maybe there is another explanation..."

Ning Zhe turned his head and looked at the gas station below through the gaps between the loquat leaves:

"That means the snake god mistook me for a ghost."

Ning Zhe could violate the death taboo by using the identity of the Snake God Zhao You, but Zhao You himself knew very well whether the Snake God had looked through the almanac.

Perhaps in the eyes of the Snake God, who was driven mad by a ghost who had his identity stolen, it was the wandering ghost Taiyi who was using his identity to look through the almanac, and it was Taiyi who was trying to take advantage of the death taboo in the rules to kill him completely. The Snake God had every reason to believe so... But in fact, the one who did this crazy thing was just a young man named Ning Zhe who was accidentally dragged into Hejia Village.

So when Hejia Village was destroyed, who was killed by the rules? Was it the snake god? Or was it a ghost?
"Maybe the answer will be...all of them."

After all, Ning Zhe is not the only one who has stolen the identity of the Snake God. There are still many villagers who have not been deceived by Ning Zhe. Yougui Taiyi can completely transfer the death punishment he has received to the Snake God Zhaoyou.

But this would further solidify the Snake God's misconception that "it was too easy to open the almanac."

Ning Zhe lowered his head and examined his black and white feathers with a hint of blue, as well as his two claws that were firmly grasping the branch:

"The snake god mistook me for a ghost because I had violated a death taboo. The ghost then transferred the punishment he had received to the snake god, which in turn made the snake god more convinced that I was a ghost..."

"If the truth is as I thought, and the snake god and the ghost were both killed by the wrongly triggered rules, then I will be the only one in the world who still has the identity of 'Tai Yi'."

The snake god and the ghost were killed, and those who successfully passed Hejia Village gained the ability of Taiyi. This is in line with the game logic of killing monsters and upgrading.

It is no wonder that he had previously suspected that the Hejia Village that Baizhi dreamed of might be a copy of the plot in a certain game.

"Speaking of Bai Zhi, why did she dream of the scene in Hejia Village?" Ning Zhe was a little curious: "Wait until seven o'clock in the evening, when aunt comes back, go and talk to her." If Feng Yusu was still alive at that time.

While organizing his thoughts, Ning Zhe hid in the loquat tree and waited quietly. About 4 hours later, at 11:31 noon, a black luxury business car with an exquisite appearance drove into his sight.

Ning Zhe didn't know much about cars, nor did he recognize the brand and grade of this luxury business car. He just subconsciously felt that this car must be very expensive, so he left the crown of the loquat trees and landed in the green belt closer to the black business car, observing silently.

Shortly after the car stopped at the refueling station, the back door was opened and a tall woman in a women's suit and a black hip-hugging skirt walked out and walked straight towards the department store.

"Xie Si Ning." Ning Zhe recognized her at the first sight.

According to Xie Sining herself, she entered Hejia Village when she pushed the door to leave the department store after buying cigarettes for Zhang Yangxu at the gas station. Zhang Yangxu had been waiting for her in the car for a long time and wanted to get out to see what was going on. The moment he opened the car door, he was also sucked into Hejia Village.

It turned out that at least in this matter, neither Zhang Yangxu nor Xie Sining lied, and the subsequent developments were just as they said.

From a distance, Ning Zhe saw Xie Si Ning push open the door of the grocery store after buying cigarettes. Then her body went limp and she died suddenly at the door, which scared the owner of the department store.

"Xie Si Ning is indeed dead, so the next one is Zhang Yangxu?"

Thinking of this, Ning Zhe left the green belt. Instead of spreading his wings and taking off, he hopped on the ground with a pair of bird claws and came under the chassis of the luxury business car.

A few minutes later, Zhang Yangxu, who had been waiting for Xie Si Ning to return, opened the other door of the back seat in confusion. At the same time, the light in his eyes suddenly went out, and his weak body leaned against the back seat.

Zhang Yangxu also died.

Ning Zhe seized the opportunity and jumped into the car. He transformed from a magpie back to his original appearance, sat next to Zhang Yangxu's body, and slammed the car door shut.

boom--

"Mr. Zhang, what's wrong with you?" Ning Zhe closed the door so heavily and loudly that the driver in the front seat asked in confusion.

The driver looked up at the rearview mirror and saw that Zhang Yangxu had moved to the seat where Xie Sining had just sat, which made him even more confused.

"Si Ning has been gone for quite some time." Zhang Yangxu's smoky voice came from Ning Zhe's throat: "Go out and take a look, hurry her up."

"Okay, Mr. Zhang, I'll go right away." The driver got out of the car and walked towards the department store.

Ning Zhe took a deep breath, took out Zhang Yangxu's cell phone from his pocket, and then stuffed his body into the trunk of the car.

——From Zhang Yangxu's memory, Ning Zhe already knew that this business car was not equipped with internal monitoring and recording equipment, and the windows were one-way glass that could not be seen from the outside.

After hiding the body, Ning Zhe casually stuffed Zhang Yangxu's mobile phone into the lining of his suit, sat calmly in the leather-wrapped back seat, waiting for the driver to bring him the news of Xie Sining's death.

(End of this chapter)

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