Chapter 68: Karma
Chapter 68: Karma
The bright red sun slowly rose from the east, and the silvery white moon unwillingly set in the west. The Wuling Hongguang broke through the electric fence of the hospital gate and plunged into the empty hospital lobby.
A thin man stood up from a large table. The mask covering his entire face depicted a hideous devil's face, leaving only two bright eyes that were inconsistent with his physical condition.
His left eye is amber-gold, and his right eye is metallic silver-gray.
The spacious conference room was empty except for him. The wide square table in the middle of the room was occupied by an intricately crafted city model. The winding Tao River flowed among the rolling hills, the city was lined with tall buildings, and there was a constant flow of traffic on the roads.
This is a scaled-down urban model of Taoyuan City.
A mobile phone was leaning against the side of the skinny man wearing a mask, displaying a video call interface, but the other end of the screen was pitch black.
In the dark screen, an elegant and easy-going male voice was heard: "It's dawn now. Should I congratulate you on your success or regret your failure?"
"You should shut your mouth." The masked man whispered.
"It seems that you have failed." The man's voice was still gentle and sounded quite good-tempered. If Feng Yusu were here, she would immediately recognize that this was the voice of her husband, Bai Fugui's voice.
In the pitch-black video interface, Bai Fugui's voice continued to come out from the speaker: "I can only give you one more sunset. Such a large-scale space-time fuse requires a huge price. Tu Yu will kill me. If you still dawdle here after the next sunset, I will not accompany you anymore. Ye Yao."
The masked man known as Zuoye Yao narrowed his eyes slightly. The situation, which was not optimistic to begin with, became even more urgent due to Tu Yu's urging.
——In the circle of upgraders, no one will reveal their real name. Most people use the rule name they obtained when they upgraded themselves for the first time.
The other party is Tu Yu and he is Ye Yao.
Ye Yao lowered his head and stared at the city model on the table. He paced back and forth anxiously and said to Tu Yu on the other end of the video: "Most of the people in Bishuiwan Manor are dead, and I still haven't seen any trace of Te Rang. Are you sure the person with Te Rang is hiding among those people?"
"I'm not sure." Bai Fugui said with a smile: "It's you who needs to make concessions, not me. I was just hired by you to be the trap to lure you into. You can't catch the turtle in the trap yourself, so you can't blame me."
"Stop talking so damned pretentious, as if you're the only one who's educated." Ye Yao seemed a little exasperated, his skinny shoulders trembling slightly: "I'm dying, don't mess with a dying person."
"What does it have to do with me whether you live or die? Can you kill me?" Bai Fugui smiled and said, "In short, you only have one sunset left. After the next sunset, I will take back Tu Yu. You can cry or go crazy and kill people, but I will not care about you anymore."
“But you will hide in the dark and watch me being tortured to death by Ye Yao, and then come to collect my body.” Ye Yao gritted his teeth and said, “And my ghost.”
"That's good to know." Bai Fugui's voice still contained a hint of laughter: "Hurry up, my friend, time waits for no one. You want to live... so do they want to live too?"
The video call was disconnected.
The only sound in the empty conference room was Ye Yao's heavy breathing. He leaned his hands on the edge of the table, his bright eyes fixed on the hospital in the northern district of the city model, and his fists clenched unconsciously.
Just now, a car crashed through the gate and drove into the hospital.
"What happened to that guy..." Ye Yao was both angry and confused. The people in the car never came out after entering the hospital, and he couldn't find any trace of them even if he searched privately. In just one night, the boy who followed Bai Zhi seemed to have seen through the essence of the rules of "God"... Was he really just an ordinary person who happened to get involved?
...No matter what the truth is, I don't have much time left.
"If this guy really takes those two women to hide in the hospital and fight me until dark, I will be the only one to be killed."
Ye Yao is very clear about the current situation: "If I enter the game now and try a mid-range assassination, the chances of winning are not small, but the risks are also great."
The rest of the people have become alert. Even if they have not seen through God's rules, they should have had a way to prevent them. And the extremely rare instant death rule of "Te Ran" is logically fatal to themselves.
As the original buyer, Ye Yao had a detailed understanding of the rules of this ghost.
"Although the concession is dangerous, it will be fine as long as I don't get close to it." Ye Yao thought about it again and again, and finally sighed helplessly: "Time is running out, no matter what, I must get the concession."
This is the only way, he has decided to join the game.
Ye Yao knew that he was very lucky to have a chance to give it a try before he died. Too many ascenders failed to find a ghost that met their own rules until they died, and could only be disqualified in pain and perish in chaos.
"At least I am still qualified to take risks and fight for my life." Ye Yao comforted himself: "Others would have nowhere to fight if they wanted to."
He turned around, opened the door, and left the empty meeting room.
At the same time, in the Taoyuan West Branch of Qinzhou Medical College, Ning Zhe, who had just entered the hospital, was running between the corridors and aisles on the first floor, closing the curtains, screens, blinds, etc. of all the windows one by one, and turning off all the lights on the floor.
The sun had just risen from the east, and the hospital was already pitch dark.
Bai Zhi followed behind him and helped, while curiously asking: "Why do we have to turn off the lights and windows? If it is true as you said, if we hide indoors, the person behind the scenes will be unable to hold back and come out personally, and he will try to get close to us next, then we should not turn off the lights."
The special rule requires light and shadow to trigger. Feng Yuxu, who holds the special rule, can directly sense the existence and movement of all shadows within a certain range, which is a huge advantage in close contact.
Extinguishing the light source is equivalent to blocking the extra perception that the special offer brings to Feng Yuxu, which is like cutting off one's own arm before the fight even begins.
"Time is running out. I can't explain to you slowly why I'm doing this." Ning Zhe said at a very fast speed: "If you want to survive, trust me and do what I say."
Ning Zhe already knows the rules of God. Based on this, if we assume that the person behind the scenes already knows that he knows the rules of God, then the other party’s reaction will definitely be to take action immediately.
A head-on confrontation with a supernatural being who has mastered multiple ghosts is about to begin, and he must race against time.
"But this time, it's my turn to set up the venue."
Ning Zhe pulled the curtains shut with a bang and shot out the lamp above his head.
(End of this chapter)