Chapter 227 Death is like a lamp going out

According to folklore, living people have yang energy, which burns on their bodies as three yang fires, located on the top of the head, left shoulder, and right shoulder.

The divine fire above the head is where the heavenly spirit resides. Mortals are blessed by heaven, and there are gods above their heads.

The flames on the left and right shoulders are nameless fires. The size of the fire is affected by factors such as a person’s physical condition, whether he or she has any disease, his or her mood, etc.

The sick are weak, the injured are on their last legs, the elderly are at the end of their life, and the children are young and tender, so their yang fire is weak and they are surrounded by yin energy, making them easy to attract ghosts.

This is also likely to happen to those who have just experienced great sorrow and pain, extreme emotional ups and downs, and are restless.

On the contrary, young guys and strong men in their prime years are healthy, have abundant Qi and blood, and their Yang fire is burning fiercely. Therefore, evil spirits retreat and ghosts cannot invade.

Ning Zhe still remembered that he had heard from the old people in the town that it was impossible to see the moon when walking at night on a cloudy day, so it was best not to wear a hat when going out, as it would suppress the divine fire and attract evil spirits.

If you hear someone calling your name on the street at night, try not to respond. Even if you want to look back, it is best to turn around directly instead of just turning your head – if you turn your head without turning around, the fire on your shoulders will be suppressed by your chin, and evil spirits can take advantage of the opportunity to sneak in, bring in cold wind, blow out the yang fire, and kill people.

If a living person is blown out of the darkness by a ghost, he may suffer a serious illness at best, or even lose his life at worst.

In addition to Ghost Blowing Out the Light, being patted on the shoulder by someone will also disturb the Yang Fire. If a ghost pats the shoulder, the Yang Fire will be directly extinguished. The consequences are similar to Ghost Blowing Out the Light. Either you will get a serious illness or your life will be in danger.

Therefore, the yang fire in the human body is also called the “life lamp”. When a person dies, it is like a lamp going out, and when a person is alive, it is like a candle burning. As the words suggest, ghosts do not have life lamps.

But Lao Li does.

Ning Zhe lowered his head and stared at the surveillance screen in his hand with a serious look. In the shaking picture, he could see a ghost lying upside down on the floor, covered in blood. It was a dead body possessed by a ghost – that was what Ning Zhe originally thought.

But the surveillance footage shot by Ning Zhe himself showed that there were three pale flames swaying on the “corpse”, located on the top of the head, left shoulder, and right shoulder.

Different from Ning Zhe’s vigorous spirit, the Yang fire in Lao Li’s body was weak and dim, like a candle in the wind that would be extinguished with a slight blow, and he looked dying.

Ning Zhe guessed correctly, Lao Li was indeed still alive.

He guessed wrong too. Old Li, who was possessed by a ghost, was half dead.

Looking at the upside-down ghost and the tiny, shaky flame in the picture, Ning Zhe pondered for a moment and discovered a pattern:
“When I was in the prison before, the lamp-blowing ghost ignored the other prisoners in the prison and chose to blow out my lamp first.”

“Just now in the bathroom, the lamp-blowing ghost changed its target again, ignoring me and choosing to blow out Lao Li’s lamp first.”

why?
“Because I used Wang Jingli’s identity in prison, I was a woman at that time…”

Feudal superstition holds that women are naturally more yin and their yang energy is not as strong as men’s. However, all the prisoners in Chenyugu Prison are men, and there are almost no older prisoners like Lao Li.

That is to say, in the prison at that time, Wang Jingli, who was transformed by Ning Zhe, was one of the people with the weakest Yang Fire in the prison. But when Wang Jingli arrived at the prison guards’ lounge and the inverted ghost caught up with her, she was no longer the person with the weakest Yang Fire.

Old Li, who was tortured to death by ghosts, had extremely weak Yang Fire, even weaker than that of the woman Wang Jingli.

“The Light Blowing Ghost will first blow out the weakest Yang Fire in the field.” Ning Zhe’s expression was as calm as water. He watched the transparent and invisible Light Blowing Ghost on the surveillance screen gently blow out the flame on Lao Li’s shoulder. He had seen through the ghost’s killing rules: “The Light Blowing Ghost bullies the weak and fears the strong.”

Before he finished his words, in the pitch-darkness, Ning Zhe’s muscles swelled up rapidly, and he instantly turned into a muscular man with a broad back and strong arms.

Now, he is the most passionate person in the entire prison.

——From encountering strange things and escaping death, to unraveling the mystery and understanding the rules, Ning Zhe only spent less than half an hour. Perhaps even Fen Wu, who was aloof from the world and always hooking and catching ghosts, could not have imagined that this weak prey, which was just a little tricky in his eyes, could achieve such a level.

Now, the situation has reversed.

“The Lantern Blowing Ghost is a wild monster attracted by the prisoners of Chenyugu Prison. It has never been captured by anyone, at least not by Fenwu.” Ning Zhe turned off the screen in his hand and took a deep breath: “I know the rules of the Lantern Blowing Ghost, but Fenwu doesn’t.”

After being played around by Fen Wu until now, he finally gained the first advantage.

Fen Wu deliberately turned thousands of prisoners in the entire prison into bait to attract ghosts in order to expand his own advantage and trap Ning Zhe to death here.

But thanks to luck, Ning Zhe quickly figured out the rules of the Blowing-Out Ghost with incredibly fast efficiency, and turned this murderous ghost that entered the game midway into his own advantage.

It seems that Fenwu’s luck is not very good.

In the pitch-black darkness, Ning Zhe smiled softly: “Although my luck is not very good, it is obvious that Fen Wu’s luck is worse than mine.”

Fenwu, you… moved the grave, right?
After thinking all this through, Ning Zhe kicked the door open, walked out of the warehouse, and exposed his sturdy body to the moonlight in the middle of the night.

The reason why he dared to act so arrogantly was that he no longer had to worry about being hunted down by the upside-down ghost.

“Before, the Upside-Down Ghost ignored other prisoners and specifically hunted me down throughout the prison. In fact, it was not because I triggered the Upside-Down Ghost’s killing rules, but because the one who was hunting me was not the Upside-Down Ghost from the beginning, but a living person.”

Ghosts are fair, but humans are not.

As he walked, Ning Zhe sorted out his thoughts, and the fog in front of him became clear:

“Fen Wu may have used some method I don’t know to control Lao Li’s mind, and then made him possessed by the inverted ghost. He artificially created an ascender who controls the ghost with his body to hunt me down.”

Fen Wu controls Lao Li, Lao Li controls the inverted ghost, and now, Lao Li’s life lamp has been blown out by the lamp-blowing ghost, which means… the inverted ghost has escaped from Fen Wu’s control.

Without the restraint and control of the Upgraded One, the Inverted Ghost once again became a rigid rule that only followed logic. Ning Zhe no longer had to worry about the mad dog-like targeted hunting that had happened before. There were so many people in the prison that it would not be his turn to be killed first.

“It seems that your luck is really bad… Fenwu.” Ning Zhe looked up at the vast earth hanging high above his head and revealed a smile that was uglier than crying.

Ning Zhe now suddenly likes this ghost who blows out the lanterns. With his arrival, the deadlock situation that was originally trapped and struggling suddenly became alive. Fen Wu started to have bad luck and hope for life began to emerge.

“Maybe this guy is my lucky star.” Ning Zhe took a step forward and walked further and further away.

(End of this chapter)