Chapter 166 1 Road to the North

Chapter 166 1 Road to the North

Chapter 166 All the way north

Ning Zhe thought of a lot of things in a short period of time, but they were just thoughts. Before he could verify his guesses, he first needed to confirm one thing.

"Do you remember how you died?" Ning Zhe asked softly, looking at Xiao Ke's face in front of him.

The awkward atmosphere froze for a few seconds. Seeing that the other party had no intention of speaking, he felt that he should change the way he asked the question.

So he went on to say, "Do you remember what happened to you?"

Xiao Ke bit his lips tightly and stared at him fiercely.

Xia Yubing hesitated for a moment and said cautiously: "I think you should move your hand away from her chest before asking this question."

"Oh, I forgot." Ning Zhe felt his heartbeat in his palm and could understand Xiao Ke's excitement, so he put down his hand and asked again:
"Do you remember what happened to you?"

Xiao Ke struggled a few more times without giving up, but it was in vain. Xia Yubing's physique and level of training were far superior to hers. Even a healthy adult male could not break free from her arm lock, let alone an internet anchor with a chaotic lifestyle.

"Who are you?" Xiao Ke glanced at the green-faced and fanged devil mask on Ning Zhe's face, and whispered: "I... I seem to have seen you..."

"Have you seen me?" Ning Zhe frowned.

He is now using the identity of Feng Yusu and wearing the mask of Yu Ziqian on his face. Xiao Ke said that she had seen herself. Has she seen Feng Yusu or Yu Ziqian?

Before Ning Zhe could think about it, Xiao Ke's next words dispelled his doubts:
"I... seemed to have fallen asleep and had a very long dream. I dreamed that I was sinking in a gray ocean, and there were confused people everywhere. I was very hungry, very empty, and very... thirsty."

“Like a moth to a flame, I was chasing after a glimmer of light from the other side, as if that light was everything.

It is the food that can fill the hungry stomach, the treasure that can satisfy the inner vanity, the indulgence of the body that can release the inner repression, it is... everything. "

I have been chasing and chasing, sinking deeper and deeper into that gray sea. I hear someone crying in my ear and the whistling of the wind mixed with crazy laughter.

Laughter, cursing, sorrow, anger, endless emotions overwhelmed me. I sank to the bottom of the sea and saw a huge face, buried deep in the endless and boundless emotions. It was the center of the world, with all possibilities and the original one.

Then He opened His eyes and He said…”

"What did He say?" Seeing Xiao Ke pause, Ning Zhe hurriedly asked.

Xiao Ke shook his head: "It seems that He said something, but it also seems that He said nothing. He just looked at me quietly, just like he looked at everyone else.

Then I woke up, my hunger was filled, my greedy vanity was satisfied, and my repressed desires were released... I felt a pair of hands passing through my armpits, hugging my shoulders, pulling me out of the deep sea, and the lights on the other side were within reach. "

"Then I arrived here." Xiao Ke's eyes were slightly dazed, as if her thoughts were still wandering somewhere thousands of miles away: "It was really a very long, very long dream."

Ning Zhe signaled Xia Yubing to let her go, and then asked: "What about before the dream? What were you doing before you entered this dream? Do you still remember it?"

Xiao Ke stumbled, holding onto the wall with both hands, his eyes blurred: "I remember I was...live broadcasting, yes, live broadcasting. The live broadcasting activity had a very good traffic-attracting effect, and more than a dozen new captains joined the live broadcasting room.

A big brother gave me a gift and asked me to play the game of "one, two, three, statue" with a stone statue in the yard. I have been playing games and interacting with the audience in the live broadcast room.

There were many human-shaped stone statues in the yard. The ground was covered with lush weeds as tall as a person. More than a dozen stone statues were buried in the grass, like a group of naughty children playing hide-and-seek in it.

I stood at the door of the arch, with my back to the weeds in the yard, covered the camera with my hand, and then closed my eyes and called 1, 2, 3, then let go of my hand and looked back at the small yard with shadowy figures. Some viewers in the live broadcast room would take screenshots of the scene before the camera was covered, and compare them with the screenshots after I let go of my hand, just like playing a game of "spot the difference".

The audience was very serious, but I didn’t actually pay much attention to the stone statue in the yard, because there were many new viewers in the live broadcast room today, as well as several high-net-worth users who were generous with their spending.

I focused all my energy on pleasing the new big brother. Although I saw a few comments saying that they found that a certain stone statue in the yard moved quietly while the camera was turned off, I didn't care about it, thinking that it was a screenshot error or their misjudgment.

But as the game went on, more and more comments appeared in the live broadcast room saying that the stone statue was moving. I wanted to ask the moderator to temporarily ban these people who were stirring up trouble, but I found that the moderator was also posting comments.

Only then did I come to my senses from the shock of the gift. I looked back and saw that a stone statue dressed as a woodcutter, which was originally covered in grass, no longer had even a single blade of grass on it.

It was as if every time I closed my eyes and called 1, 2, 3, it was walking towards me step by step, until it completely left the bushes and was exposed under the moonlight..."

"Then what?" Ning Zhe asked.

Xiao Ke tried hard to recall what happened at that time, but he couldn't recall more details. His head hurt. "I, I can't remember it. I don't remember what happened afterwards. I only remember that I suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of my head, and then I felt dizzy, as if someone hit the back of my head with a hammer, and then... nothing happened."

Her memory ended there, and all that was left was a vast ocean of white.

Ning Zhe walked forward upon hearing that. Xiao Ke, who was still lost in her memories and in a trance, did not react and let him grab her shoulders and lift up her long hair, revealing a bloodstain on the back of her neck.

He inserted his fingertips into her hair and stroked it gently. A few strands of hair with blood scabs fell out through his fingers, but when he touched the back of her head, it was flat, with no signs of dents from being hit by a blunt object.

Due to time constraints, Ning Zhe did not examine Xiao Ke's body in detail before. Now, after a purposeful observation based on her recollections, she discovered large bloodstains between Xiao Ke's neck and hair.

Combining the state of the bloodstains and her own memories, Ning Zhe roughly worked out the following timeline:

When Xiao Ke was playing 123 statues with the stone statues in the yard, she was attacked from behind. She was hit hard on the back of her head with a blunt object and died. She sank into the gray dream in a daze.

After Xiao Ke died, her three corpses left her body and wandered around the town.

One of the corpses found Shen Qing and used his body to satisfy his own desires.

Then he and Xia Yubing came here and used treasures and food to satisfy the desires of the upper and middle corpses.

After the three corpses were sent away, Xiao Ke woke up from his confused state and stood in front of him.

There are many doubts, such as what is the gray ocean? What are the other figures and those chaotic emotions in the ocean? Who is the face on the bottom of the sea? What do the lights on the other side refer to? Who am I tossing and killing Xiao Ke?

But Ning Zhe put aside all the above unknowns and asked what he thought was the most pressing question:
"Where is the courtyard where you were ambushed when playing 123 Stoneman? What are its characteristics?"

Xiao Ke thought for a moment and said, "It's near the back mountain of Zanju Town, near the small quarry in the mountain. There are more stone statues there, and they are well preserved. It would be more effective to broadcast live there."

Ning Zhe closed his eyes and took a deep breath:

"North..."

(End of this chapter)