Chapter 219 Inspiration
Ding–

It was the sound of coins falling to the ground.

When Ning Zhe flapped his wings and climbed up to a certain height, ‘up’ turned into ‘down’.

The original acceleration and inertia were superimposed on the sudden reversal of gravity, and his body fell straight down like a cannonball. In a flash, Ning Zhe quickly reacted to what would happen next, but the hollow bones of birds could not forcibly reverse direction at such a speed, which would only cause the wings to break.

At the moment of hitting the ground above, the raptor’s jet-black wings turned into a wisp of air and dissipated, and were replaced by a beautiful ice-blue butterfly, which fluttered its scaly wings and landed lightly on the ground.

The next moment, he was dead.

“what–!”

The ice-blue butterfly disappeared in an instant. Ning Zhe knelt on one knee on the ground, suddenly opened his eyes, and was sweating profusely.

He died, without any warning or anything unusual. He just died.

Ning Zhe lowered his voice and panted softly, looking around vigilantly. He found himself in the basketball court near the prison factory. It was already night time, and the basketball court was empty at night. The prisoners who played basketball here during their lunch break had already returned to their cells to sleep, and the patrolling prison guards were nowhere to be seen.

The empty basketball court was dark. Only a few pitiful moonlight like broken silver sprinkled through, casting the blurry and slender figure of the young man on the court. Farther away was pitch black. Faint sounds of alarms could be heard in the silent night, rapid, sharp, and looming.

Ning Zhe didn’t say anything. He silently took out a coin from his pocket and threw it into the air.

He lowered his head and did not look at the trajectory of the coin spinning in the air until the coin hit the back of his head squarely, bringing a hot and clear stinging sensation.

“Fenwu is still nearby.” Ning Zhe said in his heart.

He didn’t know what had just happened, but he was sure that he had died here the moment he landed, and seamlessly bought back his life from the God of Wealth with a copper coin.

After clearing his mind, Ning Zhe stood up in the middle of the basketball court. Didn’t Fen Wu want to summon You? Then come on.

He raised his left hand forward and turned a page of the almanac that only he could see.

【Lunar June 27th】

[Suitable for: traveling, cleaning, moving, marriage, engagement, burial, coffining]

[Avoid: moving graves, breaking ground, accepting money, accepting livestock, digging wells, digging ponds, planting, praying for children, and consecrating ceremonies]

It seems that staying near Fenwu has indeed made his luck worse. Even the taboos found in the almanac are far more than the auspicious things.

If I can’t escape from the prison today and continue to stay here and be influenced by the anger…it’s possible that tomorrow I’ll be told ‘don’t do anything else’ or even ‘don’t do anything’.

No, maybe he will die before that time.

Ning Zhe glanced at his watch. It was now 21:22 pm, more than four hours until midnight.

“We have to hurry.” Ning Zhe looked around again. The basketball court was quiet at night and he didn’t see anything unusual. There was not even a single person. It was dark and quiet, so quiet that it was surprisingly quiet.

He took a step forward and walked to the walkway connecting the basketball court and the factory.

There was a heavy iron door at each end of the corridor. The all-steel metal door was locked from the inside. Ning Zhe tried to push it but failed.

This heavy door that could easily keep ordinary people out was actually not difficult to pass through for Ning Zhe, who was burdened with such a heavy burden. He could simply transform himself into a bee or a butterfly to squeeze through the crack in the door, or at worst transform himself into a bird and fly directly into the sky.

But after thinking about it, Ning Zhe decided not to do so. “From Fen Wu’s performance so far, he doesn’t know the specific rules of Taiyi, and he didn’t even know the existence of Taiyi at one point. This is my biggest trump card, and it’s also the reason why he hasn’t made a move on me.”

Even now that they have fallen out, Fen Wu is still lurking in the dark without revealing any trace, which is enough to explain something.

Ning Zhe pushed the door again, but the iron door didn’t move at all. Maybe he should take a detour?

No… maybe it’s better not to take a detour.

There is no reason, just a feeling, an intuition.

There was a strange feeling lingering in Ning Zhe’s heart, invisible, intangible, elusive, and incomprehensible, but it was this feeling that stopped Ning Zhe from leaving.

Just like the person who gave you a tricky puzzle will give you one or two hints with a sly smile when you are racking your brains to figure it out. Ning Zhe also heard his own hints. An inaudible voice whispered in his ear:

She said there was a ‘road’ behind the door.

“That’s Bai Zhi’s ‘sixth sense’…” Ning Zhe instantly understood where this strange inspiration came from.

He subconsciously listened attentively, trying to make the ethereal voice more real, but after trying several times in vain, he had to give up.

Perhaps if I were to become Bai Zhi now, I would be able to hear the hints a little more clearly, but it is not appropriate here. When I don’t know whether Fen Wu is secretly watching me, any unnecessary action will reveal more information.

Besides, Baizhi’s physical fitness is not that good. Her frail body is full of heavy burdens and is not suitable for long-term strenuous exercise.

“call……”

Ning Zhe bent down according to his intuition, knelt on one knee with his hands on the iron door, leaned down, and looked inside through the gap between the door and the floor.

There was no light in the corridor behind the door, and it was pitch black. Ning Zhe shone a flashlight through the crack in the door. There were snow-white walls on both sides of the corridor, and it was empty. There was only a round black object in the middle of the corridor, with a pool of dried blood underneath. It was a human head.

The light of the flashlight made the thing react. Its bloody head slowly turned around, facing the direction of the gate. Its pair of bright red eyes stared straight at it. It was Old Li, who was standing upside down with his head down.

click –

Ning Zhe turned off the flashlight, turned around and left.

The next moment, a series of thudding sounds came from the corridor behind him. The upside-down corpse fell headfirst onto the ground and jumped towards the tightly closed door, hitting the heavy iron door from the inside again and again.

Bang, bang, bang. Ning Zhe walked across the basketball court without saying a word and came to the concrete building that was separated from the walkway by the entire court. This was one of the prison guards’ lounges, from where one could directly see the entire basketball court.

The prisoners are all people who have committed crimes and generally have bad tempers. Basketball is a sport that is known to involve a lot of physical contact. Who knows when a conflict will arise during a game. It is better for the prison guards to be close to them so that they can suppress the situation at any time when there are signs of a real-life fight and extinguish any riots before they even start.

From the basketball court behind him, there was still a constant banging sound of the iron gate, each bang getting heavier and more rapid than the last, as if the monster behind the door could break out at any time.

Ning Zhe’s strong psychological quality made him turn a deaf ear to it. He went straight to the steps of the prison guards’ lounge, intending to see if there were any doors that were not locked.

“Woo, woo woo…”

A low cry came from inside.

(End of this chapter)