Chapter 57: God Cannot Be Looked At Directly

Chapter 57: God Cannot Be Looked At Directly

Chapter 57: God Cannot Be Looked At Directly

"Please explain it clearly." Ning Zhe frowned.

"I said we encountered a ghost." Bai Zhi said word by word: "The ghost is looking at us now, don't look directly at it."

Ning Zhe was silent for a moment, then looked down at the time displayed on the car screen: 18:01.

"Don't look directly at ghosts... Is this the new rule?" Ning Zhe asked with a smile: "Is our ghost story player back?"

"To be precise, don't look directly at God." Bai Zhi's face was serious, and her eyes were full of solemnity: "God is a ghost that expands at a macroscopic level, and ghosts are gods that collapse at a microscopic level."

"Why do I feel like you're reading a science fiction novel..." Ning Zhe sighed: "Be more specific, what are the rules for this ghost story?"

Bai Zhi nodded and said:
1. God is everywhere
2. God cannot be looked at directly
3. Be careful of those who look directly at God

"And... we must find a hiding place and hide in it before the sun sets." Bai Zhi emphasized at last.

"OK, is that all?" Ning Zhe checked the screen. It was now 18:01 in the evening and the nearest gas station was less than 5 kilometers away.

It gets dark very late in the summer in the south. The sky is often still light after 1pm, which means Ning Zhe still has at least an hour to drive to the gas station 5 kilometers away. It is more than enough time.

Ning Zhe stepped on the accelerator and increased the speed to 110 miles per hour. The fairy in the lake floated gracefully across the wide highway, getting farther and farther away from Taojiang behind him.

On the way, Ning Zhe asked while driving: "You just said that there are ghosts watching us, what's going on?"

Bai Zhi shook her head: "I don't know, I just suddenly had this feeling, subconsciously feeling that some things can no longer be done."

In simple terms, she didn't see a ghost, but she felt there was one.

"I hope your feeling is reliable." Ning Zhe sighed and concentrated on driving.

At 18:10 in the evening, Ning Zhe drove to the Sunshine Gas Station.

The journey was very quiet, nothing happened, and there was not even a single car on the road. Normally, I wouldn't have thought there was anything wrong, but after hearing what Bai Zhi said, perhaps it was a psychological effect, Ning Zhe always felt that there seemed to be a strange atmosphere on the highway.

Fortunately, Sunshine Gas Station was still operating as usual. Ning Zhe parked the car in the parking space, disguised himself as Zhang Yangxu, and went directly to find the owner of the gas station, asking him to arrange a room for him to stay for one night.

Zhang Yangxu's face was very useful, and Ning Zhe soon got an unused room next to the grocery store. This room was originally used to store sundries, and the boss specifically called employees to remove the sundries, clean it up, and arrange the beds.

Ning Zhe gave enough tips, so the employees were naturally more motivated to work. Before 19 p.m., Ning Zhe moved into the room.

The first thing Bai Zhi did when she entered the room was to draw all the curtains and lock the door from the inside. She did it smoothly, as if she had practiced it many times.

"Last night in the Bishuiwan Manor, you locked yourself in the room and didn't move, just like you do now." Ning Zhe asked calmly, "Is that all right?"

"Maybe, I'm not sure." Bai Zhi shook her head: "Do you want to know what happened in the manor last night?"

Ning Zhe nodded: "You say." Last night, the Bishuiwan Manor was blocked by an unknown means. The space on the edge of the manor was distorted, and any 'outward' movement would automatically be bent into 'inward', and everyone was trapped inside.

Then someone released a ghost into the closed city wall.

"That ghost is called Terang." Bai Zhi continued, "Mom killed it, so she knew its name. She, like you, embarked on a path of no return."

"Terang..." Ning Zhe repeated the name several times in his mind and found that he seemed to have experienced the situation described by Bai Zhi.

When he violated the death taboo in Hejia Village, he naturally learned the names of the snake god and the ghost pretending to be the snake god: Zhao You and Tai Yi.

"After Te Rang was killed, the blockade of the manor was still not lifted, and we were still unable to leave the manor and go to the outside world." Bai Zhi spoke clearly, "You were in a very bad condition at the time. Your body was covered with facial features of different people, snake scales and bird feathers appeared on your skin. You gave me a very dangerous feeling... I wanted to leave you outside."

Ning Zhe nodded. His condition was indeed very bad during that period. He didn't even know who he was.

"But mother didn't abandon you. She hid you in her room and sent you out of the manor after dawn." Bai Zhi continued.

"You mean..."

"That's right. After daybreak, the blockade of the manor will be automatically lifted." Bai Zhi continued, "That is to say, even if you don't risk your lives to kill Te Rang, as long as you hide in the room with me and wait for daytime, you can still get rid of the weirdness and return to reality."

What she said made sense, but Ning Zhe shook his head: "The reason why the blockade of the manor was lifted at dawn was not because the time was up, but because the people who enforced the blockade were unwilling to continue the blockade, that's all."

Bai Zhi thought for a moment and said, "You are right."

Terang was placed into the manor artificially, not a rootless wandering ghost like Taiyi who just happened to wander here.

Ghosts are free and the only things that can restrain them are rules. But people are different. When people live in the world, they are subject to social constraints.

People with great power can certainly report the 36 people killed by ghosts as accidental deaths, but no matter how they confuse right and wrong, there is always a limit. The simple ethics of the masses are not clay in their hands and cannot be completely manipulated by anyone.

So the blockade of the manor was no longer maintained after dawn, perhaps not because it was impossible, but because people didn't want to. That person didn't want to pay too high a price for some uncertain things and bring unnecessary trouble to himself.

"So what do you say now?" Ning Zhe walked to the bedside and sat down, returning to his normal appearance from a suit. "You asked me to find a hiding place before dark. Does that mean the rules of the ghosts this time are related to day and night? Will there be danger after dark?"

"I don't know... I can only vaguely feel that there will be fatal danger during the period when the sun sets." Bai Zhi shook her head, looking a little nervous.

She took out a large wrench from the hardware tool box in the corner, inserted it into the door handle and bolted the door. Then, still feeling uneasy, she checked the window security nets and the surrounding corners.

After confirming that everything was fine, Bai Zhi relaxed and sat next to Ning Zhe.

Ning Zhe added a fourth rule to the rules based on her words and behavior:
1. God is everywhere
2. God cannot be looked at directly
3. Be careful of those who look directly at God

4. The danger does not come from the night, but from the time when the sun sets.
(End of this chapter)