Chapter 78 Weird Files
Chapter 78 Weird Files
On June 2018, 06, Bai Fugui underwent various checkups in the hospital. After confirming that there was nothing wrong with his health, he left Qinzhou with his wife and daughter.
After the incident at Bishuiwan Manor, and the sudden deaths of Ye Miaozhu, Gu Yunqing and others in the town, the New Home Group, which lost more than a dozen senior executives, has lost interest in contracting the Xuanhu Scenic Area in Gubei Town.
All lobbying teams that participated in this bidding have withdrawn, leaving only a few personnel to focus on some possible downstream industries.
The main part of the project was undoubtedly taken over by Zhang Yangxu's New World Group, although they didn't really want to. The group was generally pessimistic about the project, almost assuming that it was a trek into muddy waters, and that they would be considered successful if they could get through it without losing money.
Ning Zhe stayed in Taoyuan City for a few days under the identity of Zhang Yangxu, both to handle work and to sort out some necessary information before departure.
After carefully summarizing Yu Ziqian's life experience, Ning Zhe learned that there are at least three unspoken rules in the current circle of upgraders.
1: [Those who have been promoted will not easily reveal their identities]
Anyone encountered in a strange incident could be an ascender with a hidden identity, or an ordinary person who has strayed into it.
2: [The ascended ones will not reveal the core rules they know to anyone, even their closest relatives]
This is easy to understand. The core rule is the life and property of the person who is promoted. Just like Ning Zhe who knows the special rule can easily kill Feng Yusu, people who know the Taiyi rule can also use it to murder Ning Zhe.
3: [An ascender will not easily kill another ascender]
This is not because of mutual sympathy or legal restrictions, but because when an ascender dies, the rules that collapsed in his body at the microscopic level will be expanded at the macroscopic level, pulling large areas of reality into strange events.
No matter how experienced an Ascender is, he cannot guarantee that he can survive and escape from every strange incident.
There are no laws in the circle of the Upgraders; they just act cautiously.
Ning Zhe wrote down these rules with a fountain pen in a newly opened leather notebook. In addition to the unspoken rules of the Upgraders circle, the notebook also recorded the rules of several ghosts:
The special person who treads on shadows, the summoner who seeks good fortune and avoids disaster, the evil spirit who sneaks out of the body... and the Taiyi who has no form or shape.
He compiled all the information he had learned about ghosts into this strange file in his hand.
In fact, if possible, Ning Zhe did not want to do so. The reason has been mentioned above. The upgraded person will never reveal the rules he knows to anyone. If the rules are written on paper and this strange file is obtained by someone else one day, the consequences will be disastrous.
But Ning Zhe still chose to do so.
"Until I find and truly master the ghost that possesses the rules of thought stamp, my self-awareness is still at risk of being confused."
Ning Zhe has a clear understanding of his own situation: "I don't know the limit of the rules that are too easy to simulate. If one day in the future my cognition is still confused, my memory is disordered or lost, and I lose myself and become another confused person... then, maybe this strange file can help me."
Maybe, who knows.
After thinking for a while, Ning Zhe picked up the pen again and added a few sub-items under the file entry "An ascender will not easily kill another ascender":
"An ascender will not easily kill another ascender... However, there are exceptions."
Ning Zhe pondered for a moment, then wrote a new entry in the strange file: - In the following situations, an ascender may kill another ascender:
1. The other party has rules that he needs urgently
For example, Yu Ziqian, who was about to die, frantically hunted down the survivors of the Bishuiwan Manor incident before he died, in order to find Te Rang to extend his life.
If Ning Zhe in the future falls on the verge of losing himself and finds the ghost that imprinted his thoughts, only to discover that the ghost has been controlled by someone else... then Ning Zhe at this time may become the next crazy Yu Ziqian.
2. You already know all the rules that the other party has.
Knowing the rules means that even if you kill the Ascendant, you have a good chance of surviving the strange events that unfold after the Ascendant's death.
When the cost of killing becomes bearable, the tacit agreement of non-aggression among the upgraded ones becomes meaningless.
3. Someone knows their core rules
Please refer to entry 2 for this. The core rules are the life and property of the ascender. When the core rules of an ascender are cracked, killing him becomes an option.
The Ascended will fight to the death with anyone who breaks their rules, whether that person is an ordinary person or another Ascended.
"When any of the above conditions are met, there is a chance that the Ascended will kill each other... Conversely, when all of the above conditions are not met, the extreme situation of an Ascended killing another Ascended will almost never occur."
Ning Zhe picked up the pen and put a comma at the end of the entry. He spent more than ten seconds waiting for the ink to dry, then closed the strange file, buttoned the cover, and put the leather-covered notebook close to his body.
A few minutes later, there was a knock on the door. Ning Zhe said the door was not locked, and Zhang Yangxu's assistant opened the door and walked in.
"Mr. Zhang, the flight to Yunzhou will take off in 2 hours, so we can go there now."
"Okay, let's go." Ning Zhe stood up, left the hotel with his assistant, and took a car to the airport.
Zhang Yangxu's assistant is quite professional. With just a few words from Ning Zhe, everything from the round-trip flights to accommodation after landing was arranged in less than a few hours.
Although he didn't ask a single question, the assistant was actually a little confused. The contract for the ancient monument town had just been drafted, and Zhang Yangxu said he had to go to Yunzhou right away. He said that a famous calligrapher named Ji Bochang in Yunzhou had passed away yesterday, and he had to rush to attend Ji Bochang's funeral...
The assistant was a little confused. Could the funeral of a scholar be more important than a company contract with real money?
Moreover, according to the assistant's personal knowledge, although Zhang Yangxu collected many calligraphy works of Ji Bochang, the two did not actually have a very deep personal friendship.
Ji Bochang's children only politely sent invitations to attend the funeral to those well-known collectors who had collected many of his calligraphy and paintings. The ceremonial nature of such invitations was actually more than their practical nature. Everyone would be happy if they went to show their support, but no one would say anything if they said they had something to do and didn't go.
But Zhang Yangxu really went, and asked his assistant to book the most urgent flight and arrange the tightest schedule.
"I've never seen Mr. Zhang value these men of letters so much before..." The assistant was confused for a moment.
However, as an ordinary person, he did not know that Zhang Yangxu was not the only one invited to the funeral.
There is also Yu Ziqian.
(End of this chapter)