Chapter 218 Chessboard
Ghosts are not scary, and it is not scary when ghosts kill people. What is scary is that ghosts kill people and you don’t even know how the person died.

Even though he witnessed the entire process of the ghost killing people with his own eyes, Ning Zhe had no idea about the cause of death of the prison guard and had no clues at all.

“How is this ghost’s killing rule triggered? Does it automatically trigger death when it gets close enough, or does it have to make physical contact? Or is it some other cause of death that I don’t know about?”

Ning Zhe was confused, and saw the evil ghost with bloodshot eyes continuing to approach him.

thump—

It was the sound of a head hitting the ground. Old Li jumped towards Ning Zhe with his head down and legs up, his whole body stretched straight. A cold and heavy depressing atmosphere moved with it, leaving a pool of bright red blood on the ground.

Why did the ghost jump upside down? Was it because his legs were tied?

No, now is not the time to think about that.

run.

Ning Zhe didn’t hesitate at all. He flapped his wings, beat the air, and flew straight out of the prison.

The evil ghost on the ground was still jumping and moving, like checkers on a chessboard. The red alarm bell in the cell kept turning. The sharp and rapid sound resounded throughout the prison, and the ground was covered with bright red for a long time.

Although the Chenyu Valley Prison is large, Ning Zhe uses air transport. He does not need to avoid obstacles or open doors to turn. He flies straight all the way on the air flow, passing over roofs, crossing high walls, leaving the electrified barbed wire behind him, and the lush trees in the Chenyu Valley come into view.

Ning Zhe landed on the top of a chestnut tree to take a short rest. Looking back, he saw that the prison gate was closed and the possessed Old Li did not chase him.

“It’s safe for now…”

Ning Zhe had no intention of confronting the ghost head-on, nor did he want to figure out the ghost’s killing rules out of curiosity, because he had just had bad luck.

When he turned into a cat and stood on the treetop looking at the moon, he fell directly to the ground. The prison guard who was walking under the tree with tea in his hand also happened to break the teacup. These two phenomena indicated the same thing – Fenwu was nearby.

“Fenwu has arrived. He is hiding nearby. Even if he is not in prison, he should be somewhere nearby…”

Ning Zhe shook his feathers, looked back at the concrete building bathed in the silvery moonlight under the night sky, and felt a little scared.

Fen Wu came. He came here quietly when no one knew and did not attract anyone’s attention.

No matter how Fenwu found this place, the fact is that my whereabouts have been exposed, and I have never even seen what Fenwu looks like… If I rashly confront the murderous evil spirit of Lao Li there, it is very likely that Fenwu, who is hiding in the dark, will take advantage of it.

So he chose to escape and not give Fenwu a chance to fight back.

“I am here to control God, not to fight with the Ascended Ones.”

Ning Zhe muttered in his heart: “All I need is the identity of ‘God’. Outside the prison, there are other people in Taoyuan City who are affected by the ideological stamp, although they are not as concentrated as in the prison. They are scattered all over the city, and it will take a lot of extra time and energy to find them.”

But isn’t it more cost-effective to spend more time looking for someone than to risk your life to play against Fenwu?

Moreover, there are so many people in Taoyuan City that it would be much more difficult for Fenwu to lock onto me.

That’s it, let’s go back to the city. How did Fen Wu find me, how did he know what I was doing… All these questions can be considered later. The most urgent thing is to get the ability of thought stamp as soon as possible, suppressing Tai Yi.

Ning Zhe made up his mind, and the green snake scales were faintly visible on his neck.

There was no time to delay any longer.

Ning Zhe spread his wings again, flew away from the treetops, and flew out of Chenyu Valley.

The body of a sparrow is too weak to withstand the air currents at high altitudes, and the flying speed is not fast enough. Ning Zhe seamlessly switches his identity during the climb, turning into a large raptor with a wingspan of nearly two meters. His dark wings stir up a vortex and fly with the wind. The raptor flies very fast, and soon, the greenery in the field of vision fades away, and a gray-white man-made building comes into view.

However, the moment he saw this building, Ning Zhe’s expression suddenly froze.

“Shouldn’t that be a road over there?” Ning Zhe couldn’t help but wonder.

During his time in prison, he basically got to know the environment around Chenyu Valley. It was an east-west valley, higher in the west and lower in the east.

A prison is located at the bottom of the valley in the east, and the valley entrance in the west is connected to the Qinzhou Provincial Highway. There is no winding maze, just a simple straight road.

But as Ning Zhe flew westward along the valley, the end of the road was not the provincial highway in his memory, but a reinforced concrete building in gray and white colors. The plain color was imprisoned in the electrified barbed wire, and the five-meter-high wall was covered with dark gray putty.

The gate under the arm-thick railing was closed tightly; this was a prison.

“Am I back again?”

“No, that’s not right. I was flying on a straight road. I never went around any bends. I flew straight to the west without stopping, turning or looking back. The highway should be in front of me.”

Ning Zhe’s thoughts were a little confused. The familiar high walls and thick buildings were getting closer and closer in front of him, and a familiar feeling surged in his heart.

“No… I can’t be sure yet…”

Ning Zhe flew over the prison below without turning or looking back, and flew straight towards the valley bottom in the east.

The terrain of Chenyu Valley is high in the west and low in the east. The deepest part of the valley in the east is the abandoned mine.

Ning Zhe left the prison behind and plunged into the deep valley. Layered green waves passed by his tail. Ning Zhe’s vision changed from open to confined and then to open again. What should have come into view at this time was not the desolate mine.

But a prison.

“It’s prison again…” Ning Zhe suddenly realized something.

Flying east is a prison, flying west is also a prison. No matter which direction I go, it seems that I have never left the same place.

He had encountered this situation before, in the Bishuiwan Manor.

Ning Zhe did not continue to move forward, but flapped his wings, and the strong wings of the raptor tore through the airflow, and climbed straight up like a cannonball. Qinzhou rarely has real high mountains, and it is basically hills. If it is a few hundred meters high, you can experience the feeling of being on top of the mountain and looking down on all the other mountains.

Flapping his wings continuously, Ning Zhe quickly climbed to a high altitude. The prison below was becoming smaller and smaller as the distance increased, like a small chessboard placed on the ground.

Ning Zhe lowered his head and found that there was more than one chessboard.

There is a wind power plant on the south mountain of Chen Yugu Prison, and there is a river over the north mountain. This is how Chen Yugu looked in Ning Zhe’s memory, but the real situation he saw after climbing to a high altitude was not like this.

There is no wind power plant to the south of the prison, nor is there a rushing river to the north. There is a prison to the north, a prison to the south, a prison to the east, and still a prison to the west.

Prisons were scattered across the endless green land, like pieces of Go neatly placed on a chessboard. Every piece was exactly alike, and so were every prison. Even if he exhausted his vision, there were still countless of them.

Ning Zhe did not stop, he was still climbing upwards.

After reaching a certain limit, he looked up and saw that there was no sky above his head, but an endless upside-down land and prisons upside down in the sky.

Above the prison, a dark bird of prey was flying towards him.

(End of this chapter)