Chapter 165 Superposition State

Chapter 165 Superposition State

Chapter 165 Superposition State

After sending away the middle corpse that was begging for food and the upper corpse that was greedy for money, Ning Zhe walked around Shen Qing who was lying on the ground unable to speak, and went to the second floor.

"Um, the stone statue downstairs..." Xia Yubing hurriedly followed and asked in a low voice.

Ning Zhe said without even turning his head: "They won't move for the time being."

The rule of the stone statue is 'to be alive when not observed', and before going upstairs he placed a lit flashlight on the stairs, and now he has changed back to Feng Yusu's identity.

The stone statues that are specially allowed into view are in a state of "being observed" and therefore have no life.

"Okay, I understand." Xia Yubing nodded, looked up at Ning Zhe's soft waist who was walking in front of her, and swallowed silently.

She went on to say, "When I was on the street before, I lost a lot of things from my bag, and they were all high-value items - bank cards, car keys, jade watches, sapphire earrings and the like. Is this also related to the ghosts in the town?"

"The upper corpse is greedy for treasures. You must have happened to walk near a dead person and met the upper corpse of the dead person, and it stole the 'treasure' in your bag."

Ning Zhe thought about it, but couldn't figure it out. He shook his head and said, "It's a pity that I don't know whose corpse it is."

He sent Xiao Ke's corpse away as soon as it appeared. It should not be Xiao Ke who stole the luxury goods in Xia Yu's ice bag. There should be other dead people in Zanju Town. The three disembodied corpses were wandering around the houses in Zanju Town.

"The three corpses of the other dead..." Ning Zhe hissed softly, remembering something: "When Du Diao Han Jiang called you earlier, he said that he met Ah Zhen?"

"Yes." Xia Yubing nodded: "He said Ah Zhen is pursuing him."

"Then he might have encountered Ah Zhen's corpse." Ning Zhe guessed, "Ah Zhen died here three years ago. I didn't expect that after such a long time, her corpse is still wandering here."

If you put it this way...

Those shadows that I had previously "seen" through my special vision, those shadows that disappeared immediately after appearing and could not be observed, were they also the three corpses left behind by someone after his death?
But 'unobservable' should be the characteristic of the stone statues in the town. He had just come face to face with Xiao Ke's upper and middle corpses and fed them Snickers. Obviously, the three corpses can be observed.

Ning Zhe thought about it and listed some of the currently known information in different items.
[1. People who die in Zanju Town will separate into three corpses: upper, middle, and lower, which will wander around the town]

[2. The stone statues in Zanju Town are in a superposition state of "living things" and "dead things"]

Specifically, the stone statue is a dead object when it is observed, and a living object when it is not observed.

[3. The rules of the ideological stamp cannot operate normally in Zanju Town. It seems that it has been interfered with in some way.]

But the rules of Taiyi and Tehan can both operate normally.

Thinking about it, the two walked up to the corner of the stairs between the second and third floors, where Xiao Ke's body was lying.

Ning Zhe had originally planned to quickly meet up with Jiang Han in the town center to try and get some useful information from him, but what had just happened made him change his mind.

Having just sent away Xiao Ke's three corpses, he wanted to see what happened to her body now.

"Who are you?!"

At this moment, a timid cry suddenly sounded from the front. Ning Zhe walked up the stairs and looked up. He saw a slender woman in a pink puffy skirt leaning against the wall, looking at this side vigilantly.

"Who do you care who I am?" Ning Zhe said without hesitation, "Don't let her move."

Xia Yubing hesitated for a moment, looked at Ning Zhe who had the same attitude as usual, and finally forced herself to suppress the fear in her heart. She rushed forward, put her hand on Xiao Ke's shoulders and held her in her arms, and locked her arms tightly with the other hand, completely depriving her of the ability to resist.

Ning Zhe walked forward and touched Xiao Ke's neck and chest.

The body feels warm, the pulse is calm, and the heartbeat is accelerating. I don't know if it's because of anger or fear, but in any case, he is still alive. Ning Zhe's hand was on the left chest of the struggling Xiao Ke, and his brows were slightly furrowed. He felt like he had figured out something, but he also seemed not to have figured it out.

——First of all, is Xiao Ke really dead?
Judging from the vital signs of the human body, yes, she was dead. Ning Zhe felt with his own hands that she had no body temperature and pulse.

But when Xia Yubing and I first arrived downstairs in this building, Te Ran observed two shadows in the stairwell, one was Shen Qing and the other was Xiao Ke.

At that time, the female corpse that was riding on Shen Qing and being squeezed hard was specially judged as a "living person".

A living person with no vital signs.

After Shen Qing put in a lot of effort to satisfy the lower corpse and gave out treasures and food to get rid of the walking corpse and the middle corpse, Xiao Ke began to show signs of life again, and even regained his self-awareness and sense of shame.

Ning Zhe looked at Xiao Ke in front of him, whose face was flushed and who kept struggling but couldn't break free from Xia Yubing's arm lock, and nodded slightly.

"The stone statues in Zanju Town are in a superposition state of 'alive' and 'dead', which is very similar to Xiao Ke before.

When she was riding on Shen Qing, her body had no signs of life, but her shadow was judged as a 'living person' by Special Rang. Isn't this a superposition of 'life' and 'death'? "

Following this line of thought, what determines the life or death of the stone statue is "observation". If someone is observing it, it is dead; if no one is observing it, it is alive.

So what determines Xiao Ke’s life or death?
It's the three corpses.

Ning Zhe narrowed his eyes slightly, his mind tangled with thoughts, and recalled the records he had read in books before about the theory of the three corpses and nine insects:

【When a person is born, his body is in the womb of his parents and he is fed with the essence of the five grains. Therefore, each person has three corpses and nine worms in his stomach, which are very harmful to him.】

This passage comes from "Tai Shang San Shi Zhong Jing". The general meaning is that when people are alive, they have mortal bodies and eat the essence of grains. There are three corpses and nine insects living in their stomachs, which are very harmful to people.

This ancient text is half science and half metaphysics.

The "Nine Worms" is the scientific part, which refers to the nine parasites in the human body, such as roundworms, lungworms, dung worms, etc. Another book that Ning Zhe has read, "The Great Master's Sutra of Eliminating the Three Corpses and Nine Worms to Preserve Life", talks about the ancients' methods of preventing and controlling parasites by regulating living habits and using drugs.

The 'three corpses' refer to the metaphysical part, which says that after a person dies, the soul goes up to the sky, the spirit body disperses on the earth, and only the three corpses wander around, making trouble everywhere, and they are called 'ghosts'.

When a person is alive, the three corpses are not at peace. Every year on the night of Gengshen Day, when a person falls asleep in bed, his three corpses will take this opportunity to communicate with heaven and earth, exaggerate the evil deeds that the person has done, report to heaven, invite disaster for him, and shorten his life.

Therefore, there is a saying of "guarding Gengshen" in the Taoist practice, which means that practitioners cannot sleep on Gengshen days and must stay up until dawn to not give the three corpses a chance to complain to the sky.

【Three times of guarding Gengshen, the three corpses will be frightened; seven times of guarding Gengshen, the three corpses will be completely extinguished. Then the mind will be stable, the body will be healthy, the five spirits will be calm, and no longer disturbed.】

This passage can be roughly understood as: If you observe Gengshen days seven times in a row, you can starve the three corpses to death in your stomach, and from then on your mind will be stable and your life will be prolonged.

Thinking of this, Ning Zhe looked carefully at Xiao Ke who was still struggling in front of him.

"Shen Qing and I have satisfied the three desires of the three corpses one after another. To some extent, can this be considered as bribing her three corpses so that they do not complain to the heavens?"

It's just like my grandmother used malt sugar to stick the Kitchen God's mouth shut to prevent him from saying bad things about my family in heaven.

Could this be the reason why Xiao Ke turned back into a living person from the superposition state between life and death?
Ning Zhe opened his phone and looked:
【XNUM X Year X NUM X Month X NUM X Day】

[Lunar June 15th]

【Gengshen Day】

(End of this chapter)