Chapter 194 Right to Know

Chapter 194 Right to Know

Chapter 194 Right to Know

2018年07月03日，凌晨00:00，火光冲天。

The jumping second hand pointed to the number 12 just above the dial, and along with the second hand, pointed to the sky was the blazing flames shooting up from the broken tree trunk.

But the fire that was reignited from the embers did not spread and expand further. Instead, it gradually died down as time passed, and the jumping flame tip shrank back into the hollow trunk, like a wick imprisoned in a glass cover.

Because the plague god is back.

"Sure enough, after the God of Plague returned to Yanglao Village, the burns on the God of Land immediately stopped worsening." Ning Zhe stood up in front of the Land Temple and turned to look at the village entrance in the distance. The firefighters and the rescue team had already brought Yin Lishang in from there.

Ning Zhe took off the mask, revealing a thin face that was slightly childish. He walked towards the village entrance towards the lights of the rescue team and met Lan Shiwen, the team leader.

"Are you... Ye Yao?" Lan Shiwen looked at the evil ghost mask in his hand and spoke with some uncertainty in his tone.

"It's me, who else could it be?" Ning Zhe smiled, hung the mask around his waist, stretched out his hands to catch Yin Lishang who ran over and threw himself on him.

The little girl had a slightly sweet and astringent smell of disinfectant on her body. This was because she had stayed in the hospital for too long and the smell had gotten into her. Her two little hands tightly hugged his waist, as if she was afraid that he would run away again: "Brother, I miss you so much, where have you been..."

"You're back." Ning Zhe patted her head and picked up Yin Lishang. He lifted up the hair on Yin Lishang's forehead and looked at the scar on her face. It was still the same as before.

It seems that the skin diseases all over his body are incurable. Fortunately, Ning Zhe had been thinking about seeing what Yin Li would look like after he recovered from his injuries.

"I'm sorry to interrupt you and your sister's reminiscing, but I need to know what happened in Yanglao Village?" Lan Shiwen said.

"There is no free lunch in the world. Give something in exchange." Ning Zhe said with a smile.

"Of course." Lan Shiwen handed Ning Zhe a sealed document bag that he had prepared long ago: "This is a research paper on the frequency and location of strange events. You may be interested."

The most valuable wealth of the ascenders is not currency or gold, not jewelry or beauties, not even strange products such as money that can buy life, but information, or in other words - intelligence.

Information is more valuable than gold, but due to the lack of an absolutely universal general equivalent to price information, the information exchange between Upgraders is still at the primitive stage of barter, where sometimes you gain an advantage and sometimes you suffer a loss, depending on your character.

"Then I'll be frank. This entire Yanglao Village is a prison..."

Ning Zhe accepted the envelope handed to him by Lan Shiwen, and selectively explained part of his understanding and speculation about the situation in Yanglao Village. The entire process was recorded by an official next to Lan Shiwen.

"...In summary, in order to maintain the stability of the land god's state and ensure that the fire does not burn through the seven layers of the world again and spread the fire to reality, the Plague God must stay here and cannot go anywhere."

Ning Zhe finished speaking and signaled the other party to stop recording: "That's all I can say."

Lan Shiwen nodded: "I understand."

If we trace the source of this fire back to the beginning, it should be considered that Ning Zhe was the one who caused it, but Lan Shiwen had no intention of holding him accountable. It was difficult for worldly laws to restrain the otherworldly Ascenders, and to be honest, people like Ning Zhe who were willing to risk their lives to clean up the mess after causing trouble were actually very rare among individual Ascenders.

Ning Zhe's moral standards are a bit weird, but they are better than those monsters with zero morals.

"I plan to buy the land in Yanglao Village and build a farm here. I will surround it with high walls and not open it to the public. You can also have your people stationed here to supervise and observe the status of the God of Plague and the God of Land." Ning Zhe gently stroked Yin Lishang's cheek, who was leaning on his shoulder, and asked, "What do you think?"

"That's great, but for this kind of thing, we can just ask the government for funding, you don't have to spend money." Lan Shiwen nodded. "What if I insist on spending money?" Ning Zhe looked like he was smiling.

"...Okay, I understand what you mean." Lan Shiwen shook his head helplessly. Of course he understood what Ning Zhe was saying.

After discussing the follow-up treatment plan for Yanglao Village, the rescue team and the fire brigade set up simple barracks on the spot and settled down here temporarily.

After coaxing Yin Lishang, who was afraid to run away, to sleep in the tent, Ning Zhe sat beside the little girl's bed and opened the envelope containing a research paper on the 'frequency and location of strange events'.

As the name suggests, the author of this paper collected records of a large number of strange events that occurred in various parts of the earth from 1980 to 2015 from various channels including government agencies, the upgrade network, offline oral accounts of upgraders, and folk legends.

This information is summarized and analyzed further in combination with the environmental atmosphere of the place where the incident occurred and the timing of the strange incident, which proves one of the author's main points.

which is:
[In a region, the more people know about the existence of strange things, the higher the probability of strange things happening in the region and the higher the intensity of the events. ]

The article uses the northern part of Qinzhou, which was controlled by the mysterious family Lou in the 80s, as the main argument to prove this point.

The main sphere of influence of the Lou family was located in the Qinfen City in the northern part of Qinzhou. The family was prosperous, and at its peak there were over a thousand people in the direct line alone, with countless side branches, vassal families, etc.

Most of these people who were controlled by the Lou family knew, either clearly or vaguely, that there were "strange" things in this world, and they lived in large numbers in Qinfen City.

Corresponding to this is the He family, which controls the hilly area in southern Qinzhou.

The He family is very small, with no more than three children in each generation. Even if they die, they will not give birth again. Some people have speculated that this is due to the core rules passed down from generation to generation, but there is no conclusion yet.

Because the He family has a small population and is not interested in expanding its influence, the Qinzhou government has been able to completely control the grassroots organizations in southern Qinzhou for a long time, minimizing the impact of strange events on civilians and blocking the news most efficiently.

The paper provides a detailed statistics of almost all the strange events that occurred in the north and south of Qinzhou over the past 20 years, and the conclusion is obvious:
From 1980 to 2000, a total of nine strange incidents occurred in the northern part of Qinzhou, centered on Qinfen City, two of which caused significant casualties.

During the same period, only three strange incidents occurred in the southern part of Qinzhou, centered on Taoyuan City, one of which caused significant casualties.

This is the data calculated when the total population in the southern part of Qinzhou is far greater than that in the northern part.

Qinzhou is just one of the regions the author used to prove his point. The cases he cited are not only from Kyushu, but also from other countries across the ocean, islands in the Pacific Ocean, and neighboring countries across the water...

All over the world, the situation has emerged that 'the more people know about the existence of strange things, the more likely strange things will happen in that area.'

"Is that so...?" Ning Zhe put down the paper in his hand, lowered his head and looked at Yin Lishang who was already sleeping on the bed, his eyes deep.

[In a region, the more people know about the existence of strange things, the greater the probability of strange things happening in the region, and the intensity of the events that occur in the region will also be higher. ]

It's a very interesting argument. It's not a big loss to exchange the information about Yanglao Village for such a detailed research report from Lan Shiwen.

Or a small profit.

(End of this chapter)