Chapter 188 Fire

Chapter 188 Fire

Chapter 188 Fire

[Don't do anything else] is a folk expression, which means "don't do anything else" in layman's terms.

That is to say, from the moment Ning Zhe opened the almanac and let Zhao You's rules cover this place, anything other than [marriage, sacrifice, pest control, hunting, net making, fishing, and coming-of-age ceremony] would be regarded as a violation of taboo.

Including breathing.

This is why Ning Zhe is unwilling to awaken the Snake God Zhaoyou easily. The rules of the Snake God are related to luck, and any side effects of using the power of the Snake God also depend entirely on luck.

Obviously, Ning Zhe's luck was not very good today.

The continuous wildfires continuously drew oxygen away from the fire scene. The scorching air poured into the lungs through the respiratory tract. Every tiny alveolus felt a burning pain. The burning heat spread from the internal organs to the pores. Ning Zhe knelt on the ground in pain, covering his throat with his hands, and coughed up large amounts of bright red blood.

Ning Zhe's body twisted in the flames and he gradually lost his life.

he died.

The moment before his death, his head fell to the ground. His retina, blurred by the heat, reflected distorted shadows, wrapped in enchanting flames and moving in the heat waves, like kelp dancing in the sea water with the ocean current, or like mosquito larvae wriggling in a water tank.

The next time I opened my eyes, everything was pitch black.

"Ah... yes, my eyes were burned and I can't see anything now."

Scorching pain came from every part of his body, as if countless red fire ants were crawling up and down in his body. Ning Zhe wanted to reach out and touch his face, but found that he didn't even have his hands.

...No, not just his hands, but his legs too. It was as if his entire lower body had disappeared into thin air, and the only things that were confirmed to exist were his back and spine. Ning Zhe calmed down and tried to hear something, but the world was so silent.

He was also deaf.

My eyes are blind, my ears are deaf, my mouth can't speak, my hands and feet have disappeared. What have I become?
The intense pain from the burning flames rose from his lungs all the way to his mind. It took Ning Zhe less than half a second to picture what he looked like now:
A monster with its eyes gouged out, its ears poked out, its mouth sewn shut, crawling in the sea of ​​fire relying only on a snake-like spine.

——聻.

"...Yes, after I opened the almanac, I saw that things were not going well, so I subconsciously switched back to Yu Ziqian's identity. I was burned to death as Yu Ziqian, and Yu Ziqian was already a dead man..."

People become ghosts after death, and ghosts become ghosts after death. This is the rule of Yanglao Village. I, who died in the sea of ​​fire, have become a half-human, half-beast deformed ghost in Yanglao Village, a long snake of human bones crawling around with a human head on my head.

The burning pain came continuously from every inch of the body. If Ning Zhe was not blind, he would be able to see a rotten headless corpse lying quietly in the middle of the rice field, and a charred human bone snake with flames spreading all over its body, spasming and twisting in pain.

There were many other vipers like him in the purgatory-like sea of ​​fire. Some of them were skinny old men with wrinkles all over their faces, and some were middle-aged men with burnt faces. Without exception, they were all swimming freely in the sea of ​​fire, bathing in the flames that burned them beyond recognition.

These monsters that crawled out from the deeper depths of death chased the spreading fire, crawled out of the village, passed through the rice fields, and climbed up the highway guardrails painted with bright yellow warning colors, forming a long traffic jam on the highway leading to Yundu.

"I can't go on like this, I can't go on like this..." Ning Zhe forced himself to stay awake amidst the pain of being burned by fire. He should not do anything else today. Doing anything would be a violation of taboos. When the taboos violated accumulate to a certain extent, death would be waiting for him.

To die here means to fall deeper into purgatory.

"What should I do today? What should I do today? Think about it, think about it..." Ning Zhe kept repeating it in his mind.

Being burned in the flames not only brought Ning Zhe physical pain, but also his spirit seemed to be thrown into the flames and roasted. The scorching temperature aroused his mind, making it impossible for him to calm down and recall or think.

"Ah...ah..." Anger, jealousy, hatred, resentment...all kinds of emotions turned into fire in his heart, burning in his empty chest. He wanted to throw away all his rationality and release all his extremism, crawl onto the highway and into the traffic like those snakes chasing after fire, drag out the drivers and passengers in the car doors one by one and eat them alive.

Why, why, why can I die but you can live.

Why, why, why am I old and feeble while you are young and beautiful.

I don't accept it and I don't want to. Why can you earn millions just by moving your fingers, while I work overtime day and night but can't even provide food and clothing for my family?

me……

I am jealous, I hate, I resent, I am angry.

Burn, burn, let everything burn to ashes, let everyone in this world go to hell with me...

The blazing flames burned his skin and soul at the same time. Ning Zhe's ribs struggled and spasmed painfully in the scorching air until his face was also ignited by the flames. A hoarse murmur came out from his mouth:
"Swaying faintly, without a trace..."

[Swaying quietly, without a trace. 】

【It is as clear as water and as bright as the sun. 】

【Bright and clear, the blue and white porcelain shines brightly in the sky. 】

[Vaguely, the smoke and clouds are boundless and the dragon is swimming...]

This was the sacrificial words sung by the villagers of Hejia Village when they worshipped the snake god Zhaoyou in the clan temple, but now it was sung by Ning Zhe.

The faceless girl in her wedding dress held the almanac in both hands, standing quietly beside Ning Zhe's body. The gold thread on her wedding dress also danced with enchanting flames.

Gradually, Ning Zhe's voice became less intermittent, the surrounding rice fields became bare, and the gray ashes were blown into the sky by the wind.

Taking advantage of the moment of clarity of mind, Ning Zhe's body suddenly disintegrated, disintegrating into a chaotic aura, and then condensed into shape again.

"Almost..." Ning Zhe used his hands and feet to struggle to get up from the mud that had been burned dry and charred by the flames. An elegant face wearing gold-rimmed glasses appeared in front of the faceless He Nianjun.

This is Gu Yunqing's face.

However, just as he got up, Ning Zhe suddenly slipped and fell heavily to the ground. The dry mud broke his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and the flying broken glass flew into his eye sockets, scratching his eyeballs. In just a blink of an eye, Ning Zhe's eyes were bleeding.

However, those ghosts chasing the flames were not much better than him. It was taboo for Ning Zhe to breathe, so weren't it also taboo for those ghosts to crawl in the sea of ​​fire while dragging their long spines?
click-

The spine of one viper was entangled with the tail of another snake. The pale joints meshed like gears. Two disheveled and charred heads suddenly became a ball with screams.

Screams, screams, roars, and roars, one after another, adding fuel to the raging fire.

The old almanac still hung quietly on the faceless man's slender knuckles, and there was not a single flickering spark on the dry and flammable paper.

(End of this chapter)