Chapter 172 Step 1 Verification
Chapter 172 First Step Verification
After watching the video, Ning Zhe stood up from the dilapidated wall, jumped down to the ground, and retrieved the equipment placed in the other three directions of east, south and north one by one.
There is nothing worth mentioning in the recordings from other devices. They simply replay the scene where Jiang Han's state changes due to the change of the observer from different perspectives. There is no difference.
After putting all four mobile phones into the travel bag, Ning Zhe came to the pool, turned on the flashlight, and saw Shen Qing's body lying at the bottom of the pool, surrounded by countless broken stone sculptures.
He fell headfirst to the bottom of the pool, and his head hit the hard skirt of a ballerina statue. His entire face was torn into two halves, and he died on the spot.
"I guess even he himself didn't expect that he would die in this way."
Ning Zhe raised his head to glance at the cracked face of the Four-Faced Buddha above his head, then turned the flashlight in his hand to scan around Shen Qing's body. During this process, his body gradually became plump, his scattered short hair turned into a cloud-like hairpin tied behind his head, and a crimson purple dress wrapped around his beautiful and mature body.
He once again expanded his vision and, with the help of the flashlight, took in Shen Qing's shadow.
The shadow of a corpse is not considered a shadow. The flesh of a dead human being does not count as a "living person" under the special rules. It is just a mass of rotting flesh wrapped around bones and internal organs.
But Shen Qing's body was different.
The flashlight shone on his body, and a blurry black shadow appeared in Te Rang's field of vision, giving Ning Zhe a very... strange feeling.
Shen Qing's body has a shadow, and more than one shadow.
Perhaps it was the scattering caused by the light source being too far away, or perhaps it was some other reason, but in Te Rang's field of vision, three identical figures were lying on the bottom of the pool, overlapping each other, like three entangled, wriggling snakes.
"Shen Qing has begun to transform into a zombie." Ning Zhe straightened his upper body, slightly relieving the chest tightness caused by his knees squeezing his chest when he was squatting on the ground, and thought that this body was really not suitable for movement.
Te Rang's observations indicated that Shen Qing's three corpses had begun to leave his body, which was consistent with Ning Zhe's previous speculation:
——The bodies of those who died in Zanju Town would separate into upper, middle and lower corpses, which would wander around the town.
"But this is not right, this is not right..." Ning Zhe shook his head and turned off the flashlight.
So far, Ning Zhe can confirm that the three corpses that appeared belonged to Azhen and Xiaoke. Azhen died outside the air-raid shelter, and Xiaoke died in a small courtyard. Both locations are located on the north side of Zanju Town.
However, the place where Shen Qing fell into the pool was to the west of the Four-Faced Buddha.
"Shen Qing, who died in the west, also separated into three corpses. This is inconsistent with my previous speculation." Ning Zhe stood up slowly, his brows slightly frowned under the mask.
According to his guess, only people who died in the north of the town would enter an ambiguous state of life and death, with three corpses separated from their bodies. But at this moment, Shen Qing, who died in the west, also had three corpses separated from his body.
This means that Ning Zhe's previous speculations were largely wrong, and some extended conjectures about the "observer" of the Four-Faced Buddha were also completely overturned. The mystery that had been slightly clearer became foggy again.
"This damn place is really enough..." Ning Zhe took a deep breath to calm his already limited emotions.
At this time, a tall figure appeared not far behind him.
Ning Zhe turned his head vigilantly, and then his tense body relaxed. It turned out to be Xia Yubing.
Xia Yubing and Xiao Ke walked out of the alley behind him together, and they came to the open space in the center of the town, exposing their two shadows, one tall and the other slim, under the moonlight.
"Didn't I tell you to hide and wait?" Ning Zhe asked, "Why did you come here?"
"I, I'm scared..." Xiao Ke lowered his head and didn't dare to look at him.
Xia Yubing raised her head and straightened her chest confidently: "I'm scared, too." "I've never seen anyone be so self-righteous about being a coward." Ning Zhe sighed, and the next moment, his slightly relaxed body tensed up again.
Because after Xia Yubing and Xiao Ke walked out of the alley and walked towards him, a third shadow suddenly walked out from the same alley.
"Stop." Ning Zhe took out his gun.
"Ah? Oh." Xia Yubing held Xiao Ke's hand, and they both stood there in confusion, staring at him.
Xiao Ke asked in confusion: "Uh, why do we have to stop...ah!"
Before she finished her words, her face turned pale, because a tall, thin, bloody figure appeared behind her at some point, and walked out dragging his feet.
"Jiang Han!"
"He...has been following us..."
Xia Yubing looked tall and strong, with a personality as fierce as a wild horse, but she did not have much courage in facing strange events. A bloody arm stretched out from behind and placed on her shoulder. The sticky and cold touch made her brain go blank in an instant. She slowly turned her head and saw a gray and stiff dead face close to her.
Her legs went limp and she slumped to the ground. A dark pool of water seeped out from the inside of her light-colored denim shorts, running down her sturdy, well-trained thighs and wetting the sand on the ground.
Xiao Ke crawled to Ning Zhe's side, his face paler than the makeup on her face. A few pink and white intestines were hanging in the bloody hole in Jiang Han's abdomen, swaying with his staggering steps.
"Jiang Han has also turned into a zombie?" Ning Zhe tilted his head and watched with interest as Jiang Han slowly bent down not far away, with a large section of pink and white small intestine squeezed out of the bloody hole in his abdomen. His hands stretched out to the chest of Xia Yubing, who was sitting on the ground in shock.
Is the corpse coming?
No, it's the corpse.
The pale hands stained with blood reached out to Xia Yubing's chest, but did not tear her clothes. Instead, they grabbed a platinum rose pendant on her neck and pulled it off violently, leaving a circle of eye-catching red marks on her snow-white neck.
Ning Zhe walked over, stretched out his hand to grab Xia Yubing's arm, and pulled her up: "The upper corpse is greedy for good treasures, you are lucky."
If the person who came was a corpse, Xia Yubing would lose her virginity here.
Although being possessed by a ghost was somewhat disconcerting, Ning Zhe didn't bother to care even if such a thing really happened. After all, his employer asked him to take her out alive, but didn't say that he had to help her keep her virginity.
Ning Zhe doesn't care whether she can get married in the future.
Jiang Han took the necklace and continued walking forward, heading towards the direction of the Four-Faced Buddha sitting cross-legged on the lotus platform. As if he didn't see them, he jumped into the pool without making any sound.
Xia Yubing was pulled up by Ning Zhe weakly, and said in a daze: "It, it's gone?"
"Let's go." Ning Zhe said.
"That's great... I, I thought I was going to die just now." Xia Yubing patted her chest. The marks on her neck were still aching. The necklace was an adult gift given to her by her late mother when she was 18 years old. She felt so heartbroken, but it was good enough to be alive.
"Not necessarily." Ning Zhe put the muzzle of the gun to her forehead and smiled silently: "If the ghost doesn't kill you, I will kill you."
The next second, he pulled the trigger.
(End of this chapter)