Chapter 175 Cheaper than a Copper Coin
Chapter 175 Cheaper than a Copper Coin
A gunshot rang out and Xia Yubing's body fell to the ground again.
Ning Zhe took off the evil ghost mask with green face and fangs, revealing a young man's face with a slightly bookish air. That was his original appearance.
Xia Yubing, whose brain stem was pierced by a bullet, lay motionless on the ground, with a pair of eyes that were still open, as if staring at Ning Zhe and asking why.
The sun was rising on the eastern horizon, and its warm rays of light were shining on her gradually cooling body, like three intertwined snakes.
Xia Yubing's three corpses also began to leave his body.
"Sure enough." Ning Zhe stuffed the pistol back into his pocket and turned to look at the featureless face of the big Buddha behind him.
The verification was successful and his guess was correct.
When a person dies in the blind spot of the Four-Faced Buddha's field of vision and his death process is not observed by the Four-Faced Buddha, the person's corpse will undergo abnormal changes. The three corpses will leave the body and wander around, trying to report the truth of the person's death to the heaven.
The "sky" of Zanju Town is the Four-Faced Buddha.
"Under the operation of the rules, the objective facts believed by the Four-Faced Buddha are automatically converging with the real objective facts, and the three corpses leaving the body are the manifestation of this process." Ning Zhe nodded slightly and glanced at Xia Yubing's gradually pale body.
The method to stop this process is not complicated. You just need to prescribe the right medicine and bribe the three corpses so that they do not report the truth to the Four-Faced Buddha. Then those who have died long ago can continue to live by relying on the observation of the Four-Faced Buddha.
In a sense, this is also a kind of alternative "eternal life".
"The logic of obtaining 'eternal life' through the Four-Faced Buddha is somewhat different from the God of Wealth Wutong, who directly turns human lives into currency and sells them. It's hard to say which one is better, as each has fatal drawbacks."
Ning Zhe shook his head and didn't take it to heart.
While he was thinking, a cold hand grasped his knuckles, dispelling the warm morning light and bringing a biting chill.
Ning Zhe lowered his head and saw Xia Yubing's pale face covered in blood.
"Would you like some Snickers?" Ning Zhe took out a chocolate bar, unwrapped it and held it towards her bright red mouth from which blood plasma was constantly leaking out.
"No reaction, it looks like he's not possessed by a corpse." Ning Zhe clicked his tongue, put the Snickers back into his pocket, and took out a pure gold pocket watch from his arms.
This time, Xia Yubing finally reacted. She loosened her cold hand that was tightly gripping Ning Zhe's wrist, took the pocket watch he handed over, and her restless eyes calmed down and became lifeless again.
This is the upper corpse.
After a person dies, he or she becomes three corpses, each with their own preferences.
The upper corpse is greedy for treasures, the middle corpse is greedy for delicious food, and the lower corpse is lustful.
As long as you understand the preferences of these ghosts and prescribe the right medicine, you can bribe the three corpses and make them temporarily give up reporting people's crimes to the heavens. Compared with the result of "extending life", the cost of bribing the three corpses is really not worth mentioning.
After sending away the greedy corpse, another pair of hands grabbed Ning Zhe's neck. A biting chill spread from behind him, and he knew what it was without even looking.
Ning Zhe took out an unwrapped chocolate bar from his pocket and passed it behind him. Then, a crunching sound of chewing followed.
Slowly, the sound of chewing chocolate and peanuts faded away, and the two ghost hands pinching Ning Zhe's neck also disappeared. Among the three corpses, the greedy middle corpse is the easiest to deal with, just give it something delicious.
The most difficult to deal with are the greedy corpses. People with average economic conditions really can't afford to satisfy the greed of the corpses. In fact, Ning Zhe couldn't afford it either. His gold pocket watch was taken from Shen Qing's bag. Ning Zhe turned his head and slightly moved his neck that was just pinched by the ghost hand. He lowered his eyes and saw that the pale arms of the female corpse lying on the ground suddenly straightened, and she slowly sat up, twisted her face full of splattered blood, and stared at him with two eyes.
The corpse is lustful and sexually aroused. This ghost can be easily or difficult to deal with. It all depends on whether the person concerned values his or her chastity.
Ning Zhe lowered his head and looked at the two hands reaching towards his thighs, thinking that he would probably be treated the same as Shen Qing next.
In fact, if you really want to keep your chastity, it is very simple. You just need to pay a copper coin to buy back Xia Yubing's life from the God of Wealth. Ordinary people who have not encountered strange events certainly cannot afford the money to buy life, but Ning Zhe can.
But Ning Zhe asked himself a question in his heart: How much is my chastity worth?
The answer is cheaper than one copper coin.
If just sacrificing one's body could earn one coin to buy one's life, then the number of people lining up to sell themselves would probably stretch from Yizhou to Cangzhou.
So Ning Zhe slowly exhaled and let Xia Yubing reach for his belt.
Probably even Lan Shiwen could not have imagined that an ascender of Ye Yao's level would actually develop a deep-rooted relationship with a ghost just to save a copper coin.
When Xia Yubing regained consciousness, it was already noon.
My aching shoulders felt weak and almost dislocated, and my lower body felt numb and tingling as if I had just trained my legs for a whole afternoon yesterday, and felt weak and sore as if I had done 200 squats with weights.
The throat and back of the head, which were injured for the second time, were still aching slightly. Xia Yubing opened his eyes with difficulty and saw a gray car roof.
There was a shaking and bumpy feeling beneath her body, and the green trees leaned back from the car window. The car was carrying her forward on a bumpy road.
"Awake?" Ning Zhe held the steering wheel with one hand, looked up at the phone fixed on the bracket, and said, "It's about 5 kilometers to the city. Your family is waiting for you in the hospital."
Xia Yubing was stunned for a moment, but after her confusion disappeared, she was filled with uncontrollable joy: "I, we are out?!"
"Well, we came out. The process was smooth. If it weren't for your good physical strength that wasted so much time, we should have left earlier." Ning Zhe's tone was a little embarrassed because he regretted it.
Xia Yubing's muscular body was not trained in vain. When he got mad, he was like a tiger pouncing on a lamb. His waist was almost broken by him. I guess his pelvis will have two more stitches after this sitting.
I should not have saved that one copper coin and suffered this old misfortune.
Xia Yubing blinked. Ning Zhe's words were still as confusing as before, but for some reason, this time she felt as if she might... understand a little?
"hiss……"
Xia Yubing was just about to move her sore body to a more comfortable sitting position when she suddenly felt a tearing pain from below her body. She gasped in pain: "It hurts... Why does it hurt so much..."
It didn't hurt this much even when he shot me in the stomach with a rubber bullet before.
"Bear with it." Ning Zhe gave her a middle finger: "I didn't even cry out in pain, but you did it first."
Go against Tiangang.
(End of this chapter)