Chapter 159 Time difference
Chapter 159 Time difference
Just after the message was sent, within a few seconds, the caller ID popped up on the screen. It was Jiang Han calling.
"Turn on speakerphone." Ning Zhe said softly.
"Oh..." Xia Yubing reluctantly turned on the hands-free mode and answered the call. Just as she was about to say 'hello', Jiang Han's anxious voice came out from the speaker:
"Where are you?"
"Uh..." Xia Yubing touched the bruises on her abdomen from the rubber bullets and the muddy shoe prints with her left hand, and glanced at Ning Zhe who was reloading the magazine of live ammunition for his pistol, and said against her will: "I'm on the street in the north of the town. What's wrong with you? You look so anxious."
"I saw a fucking ghost!"
Jiang Han's voice rose a degree, and suppressed gasps came from the speaker. He seemed to have just gone through a strenuous exercise:
"I saw A-Jen!"
Xia Yubing was stunned: "Huh?"
Azhen?
"It's Ah Zhen who died here three years ago!" Jiang Han added loudly, "It's following me!"
"Huh?" Xia Yubing was even more confused: "Are you okay..."
She wanted to continue by saying that Jiang Han should stop getting too into the role, as he was probably just a made-up actor prepared by the production team for the show's effects. However, not long after this thought came to her mind, her eyes widened.
Ning Zhe, a young man who looked thin in his clothes, gradually became shorter in front of her. His chest was full, his arms were slender, and his waist-cinching long skirt outlined his waist and hips as round as a full moon. His soft oval face still wore the evil ghost mask with green face and fangs, but he transformed into a plump and charming jade-like beauty, standing quietly in front of her.
Thinking of the finger that she had bitten off and then disappeared, for some reason, Xia Yubing could no longer say what was in her heart.
"Let him continue." A gentle voice came from under the mask: "Ask him where he is."
Xia Yubing's fingers trembled and she nodded timidly.
"Then where are you? Do you want me to come find you?" Xia Yubing asked in a gentle voice.
"I'm heading to the town center. We'll meet under the lotus platform of the four-faced Buddha later. Be safe."
"it is good."
Jiang Han hung up the phone.
Xia Yubing carefully put down the cracked phone. Her previous rebelliousness and pride disappeared at this moment. She stared at the woman standing in front of her and asked in a hoarse voice: "You, who are you? ...What are you?"
"It was someone your aunt hired to get you out of this hellhole." Ning Zhe said calmly.
His attitude was as indifferent as ever, but this cold attitude was presented in the image of Feng Yusu, giving people an indescribable meaning, as cold and beautiful as a white rose under the moon.
Xia Yubing has a good family background. Her aunt was one of Ji Bochang's clients. After Ji Bochang's death, the client list fell into Lan Shiwen's hands, and then there was no further news.
Ji Bochang's network of interpersonal relationships was too large and too wide, and the result of rashly pulling it out was a mess, so many things had to be left unresolved.
If it is just a wealthy lady from an ordinary family who disappears in a strange incident, her family probably does not have the channels to ask the Upgraders to help rescue her. Even if they have the channels to contact them, they do not have the capital to attract the Upgraders.
But Xia Yubing was lucky. Her aunt was an early customer of Ji Bochang. More than ten years were enough for her to accumulate considerable wealth.
Taiyi can block the bug of the God of Wealth to a certain extent. Ning Zhe’s need for money to buy his life is not particularly urgent, but Yu Ziqian is very short of money.
Yu Ziqian is really short of money.
So he came here.
So some people have really good lives, as if they were chosen by God.
"Come here." Ning Zhe sighed and said. "..." Xia Yubing took a cautious step forward, her eyes dodging.
"Don't look around." Ning Zhe added: "Look into my eyes."
Xia Yubing hesitated slightly, and a white hand as soft as mutton-fat jade grabbed her collar. Ning Zhe grabbed Xia Yubing's collar with one hand and pulled it down suddenly, forcing her to lower her head and look at him.
In this short process of less than 2 seconds, Feng Yusu's plump body turned into a tall and thin young man.
Then Xia Yubing saw a pair of beautiful eyes that shone as brightly as the sun and the moon, lighting up vividly in the eye sockets of a hideous evil ghost.
Yu Ziqian is 1 meters tall, the average height for northerners, but when standing in front of Xia Yubing, who is over 77 meters tall with shoes on, he still looks like an underage boy. He needs to stand on tiptoes and hold his head high to keep their eyes fixed on each other.
Xia Yubing lowered her head and looked at the green-faced, fang-toothed devil mask on his face, and a strange feeling of 'shame on myself' arose in her heart.
She was obviously the taller one, but when she looked into Ning Zhe's shining eyes, she felt like she was "looking up".
They are the humble creatures like ants and dust under the sky, looking up at some more transcendent and higher existence.
He said, "Follow me."
"Okay." Xia Yubing nodded.
Ning Zhe walked backwards, looking directly into Xia Yubing's eyes, and said as he walked, "Listen, you've come to the wrong place. Zanju Town is not some popular tourist attraction suitable for live streaming, but a portal to a strange world.
The opening time of this portal is either regular or irregular, it all depends on luck. If you come here at the wrong time, you will be involved in strange events that you should not be involved in."
"I checked the system time on your phone. You've just entered this town for less than 5 hours. But do you know when I came in?"
Ning Zhe paused for a moment, then continued, "July 7th."
"Huh?" Xia Yubing subconsciously took out his cell phone and glanced at it. It showed: July 2018, 07, the day they just entered Zanju Town and started the live broadcast.
"I saw a news report in the news section of Qinzhou Morning News that all the Yutai anchors were missing. The police searched the entire Zanju Town but couldn't find any trace of them. The program team that brought you here is still being interrogated in the police station, but they don't know anything."
"I saw a lot of people discussing in the comments whether this is a show or not, and whether the platform, which can't come up with new things, has started to open up new tracks on the old tracks."
After all, it is a live broadcast of the supernatural section, and the hosts of this section like to do some weird things that normal people can't do to create program effects.
Ning Zhe stared into Xia Yubing's eyes without blinking, and continued, "There is no sun or moon in the mountains, and it has been a thousand years in the world. For you, this live broadcast has only been going on for 5 hours, but from the perspective of the outside world, you have been missing for more than half a month.
Your family is extremely worried, so your aunt asked a friend of mine to help her and paid me to come here to look for you."
"But..." Xia Yubing hesitated to speak. Although she had definite evidence to refute Ning Zhe's flawed statement, it was not appropriate to show it now. She was afraid that if the truth was exposed, this weirdo would turn against her.
Just like in folk tales, there is a confused ghost wandering around the place where he lived before, not knowing that he is dead, so everything remains the same. But once someone reminds the ghost that you are dead, after the truth is exposed, the originally confused ghost cannot accept the fact that he is dead, so he becomes violent and kills people.
Xia Yubing felt that Ning Zhe was just such a ghost, so no matter what he said, she just hummed and hawed and did not dare to refute.
Ning Zhe didn't pay attention to her complicated expression. His eyes were still bright, and he turned the words from his mouth into a steel stamp of thought engraved in her soul:
"If you want to get out of here and return to the real world, you must trust me unconditionally. Don't ask anything, don't think about anything, and do everything I say. This is your only choice, and it is a way of life that your family has bought for you."
Xia Yubing opened her mouth, wanting to say something but stopped herself.
Ning Zhe frowned.
——She was hesitating.
Why did she hesitate?
(End of this chapter)