Chapter 206: No Date for Return

The flight back to Qinzhou took off at 15:00 in the afternoon. Taking advantage of the few hours left, Ning Zhe came to the top floor of Genting Highlands, which was guarded by armed personnel. He put on a mask and walked into the controlled airship. Lan Shiwen had been waiting inside for a long time.

“You are finally here. It is like this, all signs indicate that you seem to have the ability to disguise yourself as other creatures. If possible, I would like to know whether your ability can disguise yourself as a human…”

“…Where are your politeness and manners?” Ning Zhe raised his hand slightly to interrupt Lan Shiwen’s question.

It is extremely rude to rashly ask or otherwise spy on information related to the other party’s rules. This is common sense among the Upgraded, or the unspoken rule. Although not everyone may abide by it, at least it will not be exposed in the open and make each other embarrassed.

“I’m sorry, I was impatient.” Lan Shiwen bowed his head and apologized, then continued: “The Dyke family’s informant has been trying to contact him since two hours ago. Now time is of the essence, and I lost my composure a little.”

“Who is Deke?”

“Van Dyck, the European…”

The course of events was not complicated, and Lan Shiwen quickly explained to Ning Zhe the whole cause and effect: he killed Van Dyke, who was a top figure in Europe’s weird circles. Now he hoped that Ning Zhe could use his abilities to disguise himself as Van Dyke himself, and use his identity to infiltrate the United States of Europe as a spy to help him achieve a certain goal.

As for the specific purpose, it can only be revealed after Ning Zhe agrees.

“This is not an easy task. You can agree or refuse. If you agree…”

Before Lan Shiwen finished speaking, Ning Zhe immediately shook his head: “It’s a waste of time. I won’t go.”

He can hardly protect himself now. Ning Zhe’s whole mind is now focused on catching a plane back to Qinzhou to look for the trace of the ‘God Who Cannot Be Looked At Directly’. He has neither the energy nor the mood to be James Bang.

“…But then again, if you can offer some conditions that I cannot refuse, it is not impossible for me to accept your employment.” Ning Zhe changed the subject and looked silently into Lan Shiwen’s eyes.

It is said that you can predict the future, but can you predict what I want next?

“——I saw you rush back to Qinzhou after you rejected me. You seemed to be looking for something.”

Lan Shiwen turned his head and looked out the window. The blue sky was clear. “Whatever you were looking for, it’s obvious that you didn’t find it. You went to Qinzhou and never showed up again. Even the girl surnamed Xia couldn’t contact you.”

“You said I would die in Qinzhou?” Ning Zhe raised his eyebrows. Very good, this was what he wanted to hear.

“Who knows?” Lan Shiwen’s words were ambiguous: “There are very few things that can make an ascender so anxious to find. As far as I can remember, the last time Ye Yao did this was when he asked Fen Wu for a special offer… In other words, you went to Qinzhou to find a ghost who could make up for your core defects. I hope I am right.”

In other words, Lan Shiwen was wearing a Zhongshan suit instead of a Taoist robe, otherwise, as soon as he stroked his beard and hung the flag, Ning Zhe would have grabbed his hand and said, “Banxian, your prediction is really accurate.”

Although the future he calculated was not very good.

“In the future that Lan Shiwen knew, I lost contact after returning to Qinzhou.”

If it was just a general loss of contact, it could be explained by being trapped in a strange world. Both Zanju Town and Hejia Village were isolated from the outside world. But Lan Shiwen said that there was a complete loss of contact, and even Xia Yubing couldn’t contact him.

Xia Yubing’s notebook is a special item that transmits information by synchronizing each other’s status. Ning Zhe has personally tested it and found that even if the person holding the notebook is separated from her by the Yin and Yang, they can still communicate without delay with the help of its synchronization feature. “Xia Yubing can’t contact me. There are three possible explanations for this. Either I lost the notebook somewhere, or I deliberately didn’t contact her, or… I’m dead.”

In fact, there is another possibility, that is, my future self has not lost contact at all, and this is a lie made up by Lan Shiwen to lure me to continue working for him. After all, this is only Lan Shiwen’s one-sided statement. How do you know that Lan Shiwen is not lying so that Ning Zhe can sneak into the United States of Europe as a spy and continue to work for him for nothing?
No matter what happens, it is always right to prepare for the worst. Let’s make more preparations before returning to Qinzhou. No matter whether there is danger in the future, it is better to be prepared.

But what can I do now to improve my self-protection ability in a short period of time…

Ning Zhe remained silent. Lan Shiwen, who was standing in front of him, narrowed his eyes slightly and exhaled a breath of confusion.

He didn’t know what Ning Zhe was thinking at the moment, but he came back again. The person who sent him back this time was… Ning Zhe.

“It seems that you have found a way to escape danger. I’m glad that my reminder came in handy.” Lan Shiwen looked at Ning Zhe who was in deep thought and smiled gently: “The future I saw has changed. I saw that you solved your own shortcomings and left Qinzhou alive. Congratulations.”

“That’s really a good thing.” Ning Zhe also smiled. Only he knew whether it was true or not.

The most clever lie is to tell part of the truth. Lan Shiwen was right. He did see Ning Zhe successfully solve his own shortcomings and leave Qinzhou alive, but he chose to conceal what happened next.

——The first thing Ning Zhe did after completing himself was to kill Lai Yundu.

“How did he kill me…” Lan Shiwen still had a smile on his face, but his eyes changed slightly. He didn’t understand how he died until the moment before his death.

This guy has mastered a rule of instant death that is difficult to trace, so we need to increase our vigilance level against Ye Yao.

His own ‘precognitive’ behavior has already made him feel disgusted. He must make him agree to the deal and establish a cooperative relationship here, otherwise he will come to kill him in the future.

Lan Shiwen took a deep breath and said, “The flaws in the rules are imminent, and I can’t force you to do anything. So before you go to Qinzhou, I will give you another piece of advice out of friendship.”

“What advice?” Ning Zhe tilted his head.

“Be careful of bad luck.” Lan Shiwen said, “Fen Wu is in Qinzhou recently, and as far as I know, Fen Wu is a person with very bad luck. He has very bad luck.

How bad is it? When he opens a can of cola, the pull tab breaks; when he eats oysters, the shell fragments pierce his gums and his mouth is full of blood; when he buys fruit, he can always accurately buy a few actors with rotten hearts but not rotten bodies; when he drives, he encounters various mechanical failures with a small probability… He can be said to be a child abandoned by God.

Moreover, Fen Wu’s bad luck is not just directed at himself. Anyone who gets close to him will become unlucky, very unlucky, extremely unlucky, unlucky to death…”

“If one day you suddenly find that your luck has turned bad, be careful, because perhaps the anger is approaching you.”

Lan Shiwen smiled as he stared at the ferocious evil spirit with green face and fangs on Ning Zhe’s face. The fake smile that was originally just for show became more genuine: “That’s all I have to say. It’s better to be safe than sorry. Be careful, my friend.”

This time, he was not killed by Ning Zhe.

(End of this chapter)