Chapter 62: Wealth
Chapter 62: Wealth
There are now two paths before Ning Zhe.
One is to just abandon Bai Zhi and run away. The man who drives the ghost wants to kill Bai Zhi and the survivors of the Bishuiwan Manor incident. Ning Zhe himself is not in his eyes. With Taiyi's ability, he can completely blend into the crowd, hide in the city and disappear from the world.
Secondly, he had to find a way to fight this person, preferably by killing him, so as to solve the hidden danger once and for all. After all, the person's purpose was not to kill people, but Zhao You. When he killed all the survivors of the Bishuiwan Manor incident, but still did not get Zhao You, Ning Zhe, as a suspicious person who had been in contact with Bai Zhi and Feng Yushu for a long time, would naturally be suspected and pursued by him. Grandpa and grandma would also be implicated.
The enemy is in the dark and I am in the light. Ning Zhe will never have peace for the rest of his life.
So the next thing to do is simple...
"Either you die or I die." From this moment on, Ning Zhe decided to have a crazy fight to the death with the man hiding in the shadows.
Ning Zhe was a cautious and decisive person. Once he made a decision, he would not hesitate or delay. His thoughts calmed down, his mouth slightly opened, and he silently said:
"Nian Jun?"
The next moment, a bright red figure appeared before his eyes.
He Nianjun's face still had no eyes, ears, nose or other facial features, only her rosy lips were slightly pursed. Her pale, bloodless hands reached into her chest and she took out the old almanac from her arms.
Ning Zhe looked down at his phone and saw the current time:
2018年06月07日，凌晨02:37，农历四月廿四。
The new day has already arrived, and it is time to turn to a new page in the lunar calendar.
Ning Zhe came in front of He Nianjun, raised her hand and turned over a page of yellowed paper. After turning over yesterday's almanac, she gently pinched it with her slender index finger and did not fall.
【Lunar June 29th】
[Suitable for: killing, offering sacrifices, bathing, praying, and making money]
[Avoid: breaking ground, moving to a new house, taking office, lighting a fire, cutting wood, getting married]
"Well, the taboos that are easy to violate today are mainly making fire and cutting wood, and the things that are suitable to do are... and so on." Suddenly, Ning Zhe's pupils suddenly dilated, and his eyes were fixed on the almanac in He Nianjun's hand, confirming the date on it again:
——[June 29th of the Lunar Calendar]
"June?" A feeling of doubt crept into Ning Zhe's chest.
He pulled out the old almanac page that he had just turned from He Nianjun's fingers and checked yesterday's fortune again:
【Lunar April 23rd】
[Suitable for: getting married, breaking ground, planting, buying clothes, and making money]
[Avoid: drinking, making fire, cutting wood, building embankments, building houses]
Yesterday was April 23rd, and today it became June 29th. Did time jump?
"Ning Zhe, what's wrong with you?" Bai Zhi sat on the sofa and looked at him curiously. She didn't quite understand why Ning Zhe was gesturing at the air with a shocked look on his face.
"I need to know the time now..." Ning Zhe said softly.
"Time?" Bai Zhi blinked and found her leather wallet and cell phone from her skirt that was crumpled up next to the sofa.
I unlocked the screen and saw that today was: June 2018, 06, the 07th day of the fourth month in the lunar calendar.
"No, it's not the time on your phone, but the time in 'this place'." Ning Zhe shook his head and walked out the door.
"The time in this place?" Bai Zhi frowned: "Are you saying that we have traveled through time?" "Maybe it's worse than that." Ning Zhe squatted down beside the dead body of the gas station owner and took out an old-fashioned keypad smartphone from his trouser pocket.
The large-scale replacement of mobile phones in China began around 2013. The number of smartphone users increased rapidly with this as a turning point, and soon became widely popular. However, the gas station owner still carries an old keypad phone. Does this mean that they are now at the time point around 2013?
Ning Zhe unlocked the screen of the keypad phone, and sure enough, the time at 'this place' was:
【2014年07月25日，农历六月廿九，凌晨02:38】
"This was four years ago." Ning Zhe put down the gas station owner's phone and confirmed this again from the electronic devices of other employees.
Baizhi found a paper calendar on the tea table. There were five galloping horses on it. 2014 was the Year of the Horse.
At this moment, Ning Zhe thought of many things.
He thought about how he had stayed in Hejia Village for two full days, but when he returned to reality he jumped directly back to the moment when he opened the door of his home two days ago.
He thought about how the message Bai Zhi sent to Feng Yusu in Gubei Town showed as read, but he only received a reply at the gas station.
"Yes...that's right, she received the reply after 'the sun set'." Ning Zhe keenly grasped this key point.
[When the sun sets], the omnipresent and invisible ghost begins to exert its influence.
The ghost stamped the idea that "Bai Zhi must be killed" on everyone exposed to the outdoors.
The ghost dragged them back to 4, four years ago.
"Were these two things done by the same ghost? Or is it that the person who is chasing us is actually controlling two ghosts at the same time, and the current effect is achieved through the cooperation of the two rules?" Ning Zhe was very confused, but he was not at all sure.
Perhaps 'time travel' and 'thought stamping' are two completely different rules.
Or maybe these two phenomena are just different manifestations of the same rule - just like Taiyi.
People who don't know the inside story can easily mistake Taiyi's rules for the abilities of "mind reading" and "death substitution", but in fact, both are just different manifestations of the rule of "stealing identity".
Mysteries arise one after another in the fog, but Ning Zhe has very few clues in his hands.
This is a ghost driven by humans, and it is a hundred times more terrifying than a simple ghost.
"I can't find any clues at all, and I don't know where to start... But there is one thing that I just need to do, and it will most likely not go wrong." Ning Zhe took a deep breath and turned to look at Bai Zhi who was sitting on the sofa: "Do you have money?"
"Hey?" Bai Zhi looked at him puzzledly: "Do you want money?"
"Yes, give me your money." Ning Zhe nodded.
Bai Zhi didn't understand what he said, but she still obediently opened her leather wallet, took out a few bank cards and some cash, and handed them all to Ning Zhe: "I'll give them all to you, but can you tell me why you do this?"
"It's a good day to make money. If you make more money for yourself, your luck will improve. You can also take a bath or pray, but there doesn't seem to be any Buddha statues or anything like that that you can pray for nearby."
Ning Zhe accepted Bai Zhi's cash, returned her bank card, and then said:
"I'll go search the body outside for more money. You can also look around the house to see if there's a cash register or something. If there is, put the money inside in your pocket."
"Also, remember, don't dig the ground or light a fire today. Don't destroy trees or other plants, and don't get married, otherwise you will be unlucky."
"Oh..." Bai Zhi nodded half-doubtfully, thinking to herself, it's impossible for me to get married today.
(End of this chapter)