Chapter 95 Fortune, Longevity and Happiness

When the warm human body suddenly comes into contact with ice-cold water, the sudden temperature difference will cause muscle spasms, blood vessel contraction, and then cramps in the limbs, leading to drowning. There have even been cases of acute sudden death among people with weak constitutions who participated in the "Ice Bucket Challenge."

Although this is actually only a low-probability event, people who have learned to swim formally know that they should do warm-up exercises before entering the water to promote blood circulation, which can further reduce the probability of accidents.

But what does that saying go? No matter how small the probability of an event is, if it happens, it is 100%.

Ning Zhe didn't do any warm-up exercises before going into the water, and he didn't have the time. Who knows when he would die again?
The clear, transparent water in the pool was icy cold. He did not take off his trousers, but sat on the shore with his upper body naked. He slowly stretched his legs into the water, and after his feet touched the stones on the bottom of the pool, he held onto the asparagus fern on the shore with both hands and carefully soaked his entire body in it. The water in the pool was not deep, and Ning Zhe was cautious, and Lan Shiwen was watching beside him, so even if he got cramps, he would not drown.

Ning Zhe had a very good physique. Even after soaking directly in the cold pool water without doing any warm-up exercises, he did not suffer from muscle spasms or cramps.

Ning Zhe was unlucky because just a few minutes after he entered the water, a low-probability event occurred that was even less likely than cramps.

The cold pool water flooded his chest. The rapid alternation of hot and cold stimulated his sympathetic nerves. The load on the heart increased sharply as the blood vessels contracted, and his heart beat faster. An intense feeling of palpitations surged into Ning Zhe's heart, and the next second, his heart stopped beating.

An event with extremely low probability happened right in front of him, and Ning Zhe died suddenly.

——This is the future that Lan Shiwen sees.

But the actual situation was that Ning Zhe dived directly into the water, and then jumped up with a somersault. His trousers were soaked in water, wet and heavy, but it did not slow down Ning Zhe's agile posture at all.

He has no business.

"I told you, it's a good time to take a bath today." Ning Zhe pushed his wet hair behind his forehead and used the cold water to wash off the dirt on his body: "You should also come down and take a bath. Your luck will get better."

If he is lucky, he won't die so easily, and Lan Shiwen won't have to use his ability to predict the future so frequently, so he can reserve more room for future explorations.

"Luck...?" Lan Shiwen's eyes changed slightly, and the previous experiences of death came into his mind.

While thinking, he unbuttoned his Zhongshan suit and soaked in the pool with Ning Zhe.

"I'm going to go to that pavilion next." Ning Zhe took a deep breath and asked Lan Shiwen, "Will I die?"

Lan Shiwen thought for a moment and said, "You left and never came back."

Ning Zhe took a deep breath, put his hands together, and bowed three times respectfully to the statues of the three immortals in the pavilion, then drew a cross on his chest: "Heaven and earth, may God bless us, Amitabha."

After doing this, he asked again: "Now what?"

"Um... you came back safely this time, and your expression was a little serious." Lan Shiwen said as he scrubbed his neck with the pool water: "You seem to have found something under the pavilion."

"Understood." Ning Zhe nodded slightly, transformed himself into a three-meter-long giant anaconda and dived into the water, swimming towards the pavilion in the center of the pool in a winding posture.

"What the hell is this..." Lan Shiwen didn't understand, but he was shocked.

He only saw Ning Zhe transform into a giant snake swimming in the clear water without any fish, but what Lan Shiwen did not see was that behind him, in the bamboo forest on the shore, a hazy figure in a wedding dress was standing there quietly, holding an old almanac in her delicate hands like white jade, and a page of yellow paper had just been turned over and was sandwiched between her fingers.

[The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month] [Suitable for: bathing, cleaning, offering sacrifices, praying, erecting tombstones, burying, moving graves, moving coffins,]

[Avoid: getting married, moving to a new house, digging a well, opening a pond, seeking medical treatment, consultation,

Lan Shiwen came ashore after taking a bath, dried his body slightly and put his clothes back on. He still couldn't quite understand what the relationship was between taking a bath and luck?
Sitting on the shore and looking at the center of the pond, you can see eight columns inserted into the water, supporting an octagonal pavilion above the water. The three immortal statues in the pavilion are as tall as real people, and you can tell at a glance that they are very heavy.

——Ning Zhe swam to the water right below the pavilion, and then the floor of the pavilion collapsed with a creaking sound. The three stone statues of immortals fell into the water and crushed him to death underneath.

This is what Lan Shiwen saw.

But after Ning Zhe started talking nonsense and worshipping the gods together, the result that Lan Shiwen saw changed. Ning Zhe turned into a big snake and swam smoothly to the center of the pond, and then swam back safely. Nothing happened in the whole process.

It was as if the result of 'the pavilion collapsed and Ning Zhe was crushed to death' never existed from the beginning and never happened.

"Luck...luck..." Lan Shiwen muttered to himself.

Under the water, Ning Zhe swam all the way to just below the pavilion in the middle of the pond.

The floor of the pavilion is built very high, more than 1 meter above the water surface. Eight columns under the octagonal pavilion circle out a prototype open space in the center of the pond with a pebble-covered bottom, through which you can see the black silt at the bottom of the pond.

In the mud, there are three rectangular objects arranged in the shape of a "品" at the bottom of the water.

Ning Zhe changed back into human form to have a clearer vision. He dived into the cold, clear water like glass and saw three rectangular blocks at the bottom of the pool. They were actually three coffins.

"Hmm..." A chill rose from Ning Zhe's chest.

In the dark, he seemed to feel three cold gazes hanging above him, staring at him with hatred like the gods from above looking down at the ants on the ground. In the pavilion above Ning Zhe's head was a heavy statue of three immortals, and under him were three coffins sunk to the bottom of the water.

His survival instinct told him that this place was dangerous, very dangerous, extremely dangerous.

But Ning Zhe's luck was really good, he actually didn't die.

He even had the leisure to dive underwater and observe this third-grade treasure coffin up close.

There are three coffins at the bottom of the pool, arranged in the shape of a Chinese character "品", each in a different color.

The coffin above was painted bright red, as bright as blood. On each end of the bright red coffin was written a word "Fu" in golden cursive script.

The coffin on the left was painted in plain white, not the common snow-white or pure white color. Instead, it looked like an old man who was dying of an illness. His lifeless face was bloodless. At each end of the pale coffin, there was a golden word "Lu".

The coffin on the right was painted dark black, darker than the mud at the bottom of the pond. It seemed as if one would be pulled into the coffin by an invisible force if one looked at it for a second longer… There were also two large golden characters written on both ends of the dark black coffin - 'Shou'.

(End of this chapter)

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