Chapter 141: Landscape of Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 141: Landscape of Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 141: Landscape of Mountains and Rivers

night.

Ning Zhe sat in a small pavilion, silently watching the bright moonlight falling on the eaves, coating the surrounding flowers and green plants with a layer of silver light.

Since the power leakage accident, the entire Bishuiwan Manor has been closed for more than a month. The owner of the manor has already intended to sell the Bishuiwan land at a lower price. The staff in the manor have also been evacuated or resigned. The automatic irrigation equipment has also been cut off from water and electricity. The delicate flowers that have no one to maintain have withered one after another, leaving only the wild weeds that have grown wildly, casting a filter called "desolation" on this magnificent manor.

"As expected, a house is only popular if there are people living in it. It's only been empty for a month, and the whole manor is deserted like a zombie apocalypse."

Ning Zhe looked at the dark main building of the manor in the distance, feeling a little regretful.

I feel sorry for the desolation of Bishuiwan Manor, but I am also troubled by my reckless behavior today.

——To be honest, using the money to revive the dead grandparents is actually very, very, very irrational. Because doing so is not only not in Ning Zhe's interest, but will bring a lot of trouble and hidden dangers to himself.

Although it sounds incredible that a person who has been confirmed dead suddenly resurrected after being sent to the morgue, there have been precedents in medical history. Doctors are not gods, and there will always be misdiagnoses when they see so many patients. This is nothing uncommon.

But two people who were declared dead at the same time and in the same place for the same reason in the same hospital were resurrected at the same time in the freezer of the morgue. This is... not ordinary at all.

What's more, the relationship between these two people is even husband and wife. This literal life and death together is a natural material for conspiracy theories and urban legends.

It is also a strange phenomenon that the ascenders who wander like ghosts across the land of Kyushu should be alert to at all times.

"If nothing unexpected happens, an Upgraded Person should have noticed me by now." Ning Zhe sighed softly. He didn't even need to think about it to come to this conclusion. He just didn't know when the Upgraded Person who was alarmed by the strange incident would hear the news and come.

Maybe it has already arrived.

Ning Zhe reviewed today's events and felt that the most sensible way would be to simply give up the lives of his grandparents. They were both over 70 years old, and their aging bodies had been exhausted in their early years, so they didn't have much time left. Even if they were resurrected by himself, their bodies poisoned by neurological drugs were already decaying and they wouldn't have much time left.

It is foreseeable that the two elderly people will spend the rest of their lives paralyzed in bed. With the help of the God of Wealth, the two dead were forcibly brought back to the world from the gates of hell, but it would only make them suffer from illness for a few more years in this world, and finally die in pain.

This was a transaction with an extremely low cost-effectiveness. Not only did he lose two identities and get two chances to buy his life at the lowest price like the God of Wealth, but his true identity, which Ning Zhe had been trying hard to hide, became easier to expose. No matter from which perspective, Ning Zhe, who always acted with the intellectual thinking of the Tiandao AI type, should not have made such an irrational move.

But he did it anyway.

"When people live in this world, they always do some reasonable but irrational things."

Ning Zhe stood up, walked out of the pavilion, and walked through the flowerbed under the moonlight, stepping on the colorful and messy weeds: "Otherwise, what's the difference between you and a ghost."

He doesn't think he is a ghost, he is Ning Zhe... So what should Ning Zhe do now?
It's time to prepare for the college entrance examination.

琴州今年的高考是从7月10号正式开始，一共要考3天，到7月13号结束，而考生信息登记与准考证的发放则是从7月的7-9号就开始了。

Few students would take a month-long vacation like Ning Zhe in the last month of senior year, and few students would return to campus and prepare for the exam as Ning Zhe did when his relatives almost died and his parents were still in the hospital. Fortunately, Boss Chen, who also drank ice wine, was not seriously injured and recovered quickly. While spitting on his brother-in-law's insidious behavior, Boss Chen and his wife took the initiative to take care of the two elderly people who were still in the hospital, allowing Ning Zhe to take the exam with peace of mind. At the end, they did not forget to remind him to come back as soon as possible after the exam to get engaged, and their attitude was much more urgent than before.

While Ning Zhe left Gubei Town and returned to school to prepare for the exam, the Gubei Town Development Project Department continued its survey of the environment around the town.

In the early morning of July 2018, 07, Pang Xuesong, the Taoyuan regional manager of New World Group, drove with three subordinates to the top of Xuanhu Waterfall in the north of Gubei Town, and soon found the extremely conspicuous Yellowstone ancient stele at the mouth of the waterfall.

The ancient stele that gave Gubei Town its name is more than 7 meters high, with rounded edges and corners, not very square. It looks like a piece of unkempt stone that rolled down the mountain and happened to stand here. After one side was perfunctorily flattened, words were hastily engraved on it to form a stele.

The inscription on the Huangshi ancient monument is very brief, with only two words from top to bottom:
【Taishang】

"Taishang, yes, it's here." Seeing the ancient Yellowstone monument at the mouth of the waterfall lake from afar over the branches of the trees, Pang Xuesong couldn't help but straighten his collar to make himself look more formal.

He has an appointment with a nobleman here today. Although there are not many people accompanying him this time, he cannot lose his image.

After all, that noble man was so extraordinary that even their chairman Zhang Yangxu had to show him some respect.

"In the past, it was always Mr. Zhang who personally led people to contact that noble person, without exception... But Mr. Zhang said that he really had something to do these two days and couldn't get away, so he asked me to receive the noble person." Pang Xuesong looked out the window nervously, his heart solemn: "You must not lose your sense of propriety, so as not to make him angry."

The driver parked the car in an open space next to the Yellowstone ancient monument. The early morning sun cast a light of pale golden color on the hanging lake above the waterfall. Pang Xuesong and several neatly dressed subordinates got out of the car, looked around, but saw no one.

Pang Xuesong called the nobleman and asked, "Mr. Duan, we have arrived at the ancient monument. What are you doing now...?"

"I see you."

Pang Xuesong looked up and saw a pink convertible sports car driving on the road not far away. The driver looked like a woman from a distance, but when he looked closer, he found out to be a man with long hair. When he looked again, he found out to be a young Taoist priest in a wide robe with big sleeves.

The roar of the engine gradually subsided, and the pink convertible sports car stopped on the other side of the Yellowstone monument.

A young Taoist priest with disheveled hair pushed the door and got out of the car. His wide off-white Taoist robe was stained with mountains in ink. The ink-splashed mountains and water extended from his shoulders to his chest, then went around his back and returned to his waist. The towering mountains and steep cliffs were endless, as if he was wearing a magnificent landscape painting on his body.

The corner of Pang Xuesong's mouth trembled, thinking that the nobleman who even Mr. Zhang had to treat with disrespect was truly extraordinary, but the extraordinary qualities of this young Taoist priest went far beyond that.

He was seen wearing a wide Taoist robe with a pattern of mountains and rivers, a string of sandalwood Buddhist beads the size of a ping-pong ball hanging on his chest, a whisk in his left hand and a pestle in his right hand, and a silver cross necklace hanging inside the Buddhist beads.

The young Taoist priest casually placed his whisk on the hood of the pink convertible sports car, took off his necklace, used the slender cross as a hairpin, and tied up his loose hair into a Taoist hairpin, then said:
"Wulian - Tianzun, I guess you are Manager Pang Xuesong. My surname is Duan, and my Taoist name is Geng. You can just call me 'Duan Geng'."

Pang Xuesong coughed lightly and tried to control his emotions: "It turns out to be Taoist Duan. I have heard a lot about you."

(End of this chapter)