Chapter 273 Curiosity

Is there someone following behind?

Ning Zhe frowned and protected Bai Zhi in front of him. He turned around and shone the corpse oil lamp forward, revealing a pale face with deep dark circles under the eyes in the darkness behind Bai Zhi.

"Spencer." Ning Zhe patted Bai Zhi's shoulder, signaling her not to be afraid: "It should be Spencer who was pulling you just now. Although you can't see it, he has been following you."

Bai Zhi was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why is he still following me after he died?"

"I'm protecting you. After all, your current identity is his sister, Kaqiuya." Ning Zhe said, slightly turning the corpse oil lamp in his hand, adjusting the angle of the light source, and observing Spencer's pale and illusory face.

Bai Zhi thought for a moment and said, "When a person is killed by a ghost, he will be assimilated into a ghost. This is the rule of Vanessa Castle."

"But I have seen the original ghosts in the castle, and I have also seen the ghosts that other players turned into after their death. What they have in common is that they are irrational and kill anyone they see, like the anti-virus program that runs automatically in a computer. - Why are other ghosts irrational killing machines, but the ghost that Spencer turned into would protect his sister because of his own feelings?" Bai Zhi was a little confused.

There are so many players killed by ghosts, why is he the only one who retained his feelings?

"People who are killed by ghosts will become ghosts. This is the rule of Vanessa Castle." After confirming Spencer's condition, Ning Zhe turned around with the corpse oil lamp and continued to walk forward along the secret passage, saying: "And it is my rule that allows Spencer to retain some of his emotions."

"Is that so..." Bai Zhi nodded and continued walking forward behind Ning Zhe.

The dark secret passage was narrow and long. The walls beside him exuded warmth. Ning Zhe walked slowly forward with an oil lamp in hand, organizing the currently known information in his mind:
The strange phenomena in Vanessa Castle can be roughly divided into two types.

【1. Parallel World】

With the third major renovation led by the Europa government as the dividing point, this world has both the 'Old Vanessa Castle destroyed by the flood' and the 'New Vanessa Castle renovated after the flood'.

The architectural structures of the old and new castles are basically the same, and the two worlds overlap without any gap.

After Spencer and other players are involved in strange events, the default scene they enter is the rebuilt New Vanessa Castle. After lighting the oil lamp, they can see the Old Vanessa Castle with the help of the light. Countless vicious ghosts are wandering in the old world. They have no reason and kill anyone they see. The people killed will also become ghosts wandering in the Old Vanessa Castle.

[2. Time distortion]

The speed of time flowing in different areas of Vanessa's Castle is different.

The speed of time flow on the first floor is basically the same as that in the real world outside the dream. The higher the floor, the lower the air temperature will be, and the slower the speed of time flow in the environment will become.

Ning Zhe had previously possessed Geza and stayed in the library for half an hour to 40 minutes, but after waking up he found that only less than three minutes had passed in reality.

"The distortion of time and the separation of space, this should not be a strange phenomenon caused by a single ghost."

Ning Zhe pondered for a moment and came to a preliminary conclusion in his mind: "There are at least two ghosts in Vanessa Castle, and two core rules. One of them affects time and temperature, and the other affects spatial overlap and the evil spirits lingering here."

The two rules influence each other but are independent of each other, together forming the fog and haze that shrouds the castle. Ning Zhe knows that he must dispel the fog at all costs and dig out the truth from the deepest part of the haze.

Because 'Jueyuan' has already impressed upon him the idea that he must do so.

On the road to advancement, every step is beyond your control.

"Okay... let's put the issue of the speed of time flow aside for now, and now focus on the situation of the new and old Vanessa Castles." Ning Zhe quickly picked out a key point.

When she first entered Vanessa Castle, Bai Zhi's "inspiration" told her the precautions for surviving in the castle:
1. Don't be found by 'it' 2. Don't touch the dead

3. Don’t go near places that don’t exist

4. Don’t eat food that doesn’t exist
5. Do not seek knowledge that does not belong to this world.

"It is known that there are at least two ghosts in Vanessa Castle, so who is 'it' referring to? Time or space?" Ning Zhe quickly came up with the answer: "It should be the latter."

Because the dead people, the non-existent places, the non-existent food, the knowledge that does not belong to this world...are actually all related to the old Vanessa Castle that should not exist.

The five precautions that Baizhi learned essentially point to the parallel world phenomenon of Vanessa Castle.

Pointing to the same ghost.

"That is to say, Bai Zhi did not obtain any information about the ghost that caused the disruption of the flow of time."

When there are two ghosts in the same area at the same time, can this so-called "inspiration" only perceive one of the ghosts?
"No, that's not right. It's not like that..."

Ning Zhe narrowed his eyes slightly outside the halo of the corpse oil lamp, and recalled an even more distant event. It was when he and Bai Zhi were in the Sunshine Gas Station. The owner and employees of the gas station were driven by the "God Who Cannot Be Looked At Directly" and were stamped with the thought of "I must kill Bai Zhi."

The things Bai Zhi felt at that time were:

1. God is everywhere
2. God cannot be looked at directly
3. Be careful of those who look directly at God

Among them, 'God is everywhere' is easy to explain, because the medium through which Jueyuan influences people is 'thought' and 'belief'. Everyone has thoughts, and everyone has his or her own beliefs.

Jueyuan’s medium is everywhere, and God is everywhere.

'Be careful of people who have looked directly at God' is not difficult to understand. Those are people who have been ideologically stamped by Yu Ziqian. Driven by Jue Yuan, they will try to kill Bai Zhi at all costs and by any means. Bai Zhi must of course be careful of them.

But what about 'God cannot be looked at directly'?

Ning Zhe has now controlled Jue Yuan. He knows clearly that Jue Yuan does not have a rule of "not being able to look directly at" and Jue Yuan cannot make people have thoughts that they did not have originally. He can only solidify people's original thoughts into a mental stamp.

"The employees at the gas station had no grudges against Bai Zhi, so they wouldn't have the idea of killing Bai Zhi out of thin air. So it wasn't Jue Yuan who made the employees obsessed with killing Bai Zhi, or it wasn't just Jue Yuan."

Jue Yuan simply turned the idea of 'wanting to kill Bai Zhi' into a mental stamp, and it was another ghost who made this idea appear in the minds of the employees.

'You can't look directly at God', is the ghost's rule.

"In the gas station outside Gubei Town, Bai Zhi sensed the rules of two ghosts at the same time. Why doesn't it work here?"

Ning Zhe stopped and the wall beside him had lost its temperature.

It is known that there are two ghosts in Vanessa Castle, one affects time and the other affects space. Why can Baizhi only sense the one that affects space?
Or was there only one ghost in this castle from the beginning? Was the so-called existence of two rules just my own wrong inference?

There was fog over his head, and a strong desire for knowledge surged in Ning Zhe's chest. He had to solve the mystery, he had to know the truth, otherwise he would go crazy.

(End of this chapter)

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