Chapter 50 Self-deception
Chapter 50 Self-deception
The management of Bishuiwan Manor had a rather bad taste. The mirror wall in the female staff's locker room was actually a one-way mirror that could be used to observe the inside from the outside, which made Ning Zhe very puzzled.
To build such a luxurious project in Bishui Bay, strong financial resources and accessible channels are indispensable. For a man who meets these two conditions, it would not be difficult to sleep with a movie queen. Would he do such a dangerous little trick to peek at his female employees changing clothes?
Ning Zhe couldn't understand the manor's investors' shady hobbies, but it was undeniable that some people just had these hobbies.
And there are quite a few people like this.
After leaving the locker room, Ning Zhe quickly walked up to the second floor, entered Bai Zhi's room and met Feng Yusu and her daughter.
As soon as he entered the door, Ning Zhe took off his suit, his messy short hair turned into long hair and tied up behind his head, his shirt and trousers turned into a slim waiter uniform, and his long legs were wrapped in flesh-colored stockings.
"Ningzhe?" Feng Yushu, who was sitting on the bed, looked at him curiously as he walked into the room as a woman: "Why are you..."
"Don't ask too much. Just do what I say later." Liu Yunzhi's sharp voice came from Ning Zhe's throat: "Where's Bai Zhi?"
"She... fell asleep." Feng Yuxu shook her head, looked sideways at her daughter who was curled up on the bed like a caterpillar, and sighed softly.
Bai Zhi really treated this place as a dream. She couldn't tell the difference between reality and illusion, and she felt completely unfamiliar.
"I feel like she looks very strange. Her manners and conversation are not like the one I know. She seems like a completely different person." Feng Yushu said softly, "Azhi is a very quiet child. Although she doesn't have many friends, she is always gentle to everyone, even if it's just on the surface. But today..."
"Maybe what you know is not the real her?" Ning Zhe said nonchalantly, "Come out when you are ready. We are ready to start."
"Okay." Feng Yusu stood up from the bed, followed Ning Zhe out of the room and into the corridor.
The body of the electrician who had been possessed by a ghost was still lying by the balcony, and had not been moved.
"Listen, what you need to do is very simple." Ning Zhe took out a flashlight from his pocket and put it in her hand:
"I'll count to 123. Turn on the flashlight and shine my shadow. The ghost will be attracted to me soon."
"If nothing unexpected happens, the ghost will possess that body and kill me. I want you to stare at it intently and watch the whole process of the ghost killing me without blinking."
"I will be killed by the ghost in the identity of Liu Yunzhi. After I die, you must turn off the lights immediately without any delay. Do you understand?"
"I understand." Feng Yuxu held the flashlight tightly and nodded seriously.
She understood what Ning Zhe was doing now. He had reached the last step. He was going to use a close-range death to test out the specific triggering conditions for the ghost's killing.
"Before we begin, I have a question." Feng Yushu suddenly asked, "Why Liu Yunzhi? And not that Brother Li?"
Ning Zhe has already stolen the identity of 'Brother Li whom Xie Yaoan knows'. Although Old Li is dying now, he is still alive. Why doesn't Ning Zhe use his identity to conduct experiments, but instead goes to great lengths to steal Liu Yunzhi's identity again?
"Because Lao Li's identity is not complete." Ning Zhe said lightly.
"What does 'incomplete' mean?" Feng Yusu became even more confused.
"Literally. Well, time waits for no one. Let's get started."
"Ah."
Feng Yusu nodded and turned on the flashlight. A colorless white light came on, dispelling the darkness in front of her and projecting the figure of a woman in a skirt on the wall. The body of the electrician was lying not far from Ning Zhe.
Ning Zhe quietly waited for the ghost to arrive, his heart was extremely calm. He did not explain to Feng Yusu why he chose Liu Yunzhi, because that reason involved the underlying logic of Taiyi rules. Rules are the lifeblood of ghosts, and also the lifeblood of Ning Zhe himself. The more people know his detailed intelligence, the more dangerous he will be.
Let’s review the rules of Too Easy:
[When someone mistakes Taiyi for someone they know, Taiyi can steal the identity and related memories of the corresponding person through the wrong perception.]
Simply put - he is whoever you think he is.
A person is the sum of all social relationships. The image of a person is different in the eyes of different people. A person's identity can be subdivided into a son known by his mother, a brother known by his buddies, a student known by his teacher, and so on.
The same identity is analyzed into slices of identity from different angles from different perspectives of different people. Only when all the slices overlap can a complete person be formed.
When Taiyi disguises itself as person A, the more people who know A are successfully deceived by it, the more identity slices Taiyi obtains, and the more complete the identity theft of A becomes.
It is complete to a certain degree that it can even cheat on the rules - even the rules of the Snake God Summoning.
When Ning Zhe violated the death taboo in Hejia Village, enough villagers mistook him for the Snake God. His identity as the Snake God was complete enough to cheat the rules and transfer the death taboo punishment he should have suffered to the Snake God.
But Ning Zhe's current identity as 'Old Li' is not complete.
All he had was a slice of 'Old Li whom Xie Yaoan knew', and at most one Liu Yunzhi.
If these two people were Lao Li's parents, sisters, or other very close people who knew Lao Li well enough, Ning Zhe might have been able to steal a sufficiently complete identity through their cognition, but this was not the case.
They are just ordinary colleagues. Their understanding of Lao Li is one-sided and incomplete. Such clumsy acting cannot cheat the rules.
So what is the fastest way to steal the most complete identity so that Ning Zhe can get a life for trial and error as soon as possible?
Or to ask it another way: If you were to find someone in this world who knows you best, who would that person be?
The answer is you.
No one knows you better than yourself, not even a psychologist who can see through your inner thoughts.
Through the one-way mirror wall in the dressing room, Ning Zhe successfully deceived Liu Yunzhi, making her think that the reflection in the mirror was herself, and stole the most complete identity to date.
There is no scam more difficult to detect than lying to yourself, and no one knows Liu Yunzhi better than Liu Yunzhi.
The flashlight shone on Ning Zhe's skirt, making the flesh-colored stockings on his legs look like white silk. The silent time passed quietly, and suddenly a noise came from the corridor, and the corpse stood up.
The ghost is coming.
(End of this chapter)