Chapter 222 Upside Down

After flying over the high wall, Ning Zhe came to the outside of the prison, looked around, and stopped under a tree.

Before the ghost caught up, Ning Zhe pulled out a dagger from his arms, half-knelt under the tree and started digging quickly. Soon he dug out a hole the size of a basketball.

After digging the pit, Ning Zhe swiftly took out the shoulder badge that he had taken off the prison guard from his arms and placed it at the bottom of the pit. After filling it with soil, he covered it with a police hat.

“We need another monument…” Ning Zhe looked around.

There was no shortage of wood in the forest, but there was definitely not enough time to cut a plank of wood on the spot. But who cares? He would try his best. Ning Zhe pulled a relatively straight branch from the tree, cut off the excess branches with a dagger, and then thrust it into the ground, hanging the badge with the prison guard’s ID photo on it.

Judging from the time, the ghost is almost catching up.

“slip.”

Ning Zhe leaped forward, transformed into a nimble bird and disappeared into the woods, leaving behind a cenotaph.

Ning Zhe still remembers the boundless land he saw when he flew high into the sky. It seemed endless, but in fact, the only thing that made up this boundless world was the Chenyu Valley.

Copy and paste the same valley, connect countless identical puzzle pieces together, and they will form this boundless and strange world.

This world structure is somewhat similar to the scene reuse in games. When the game character moves to the western end of the map, he will be automatically and seamlessly teleported to the easternmost starting point of the map, and walk the same path he has already walked without knowing it, making the map seem very large. However, in fact, from the beginning, he has been circling in this small area.

“This strange world is made up of countless copied and pasted puzzle pieces. No matter where I escape to, I can’t escape from the scope of this Chenyu Valley.” Ning Zhe glided in the sky, thinking about the next countermeasures in his mind.

“But fortunately, the size of a single puzzle is not narrow. There is a whole space of Chenyu Valley for me to hide and maneuver, and slowly figure out the rules of Fenwu…”

Not long after this thought came to mind, Ning Zhe’s mood, which had just relaxed a little, became tense again.

A gray reinforced concrete building appeared in front of him again. What else could it be but a prison?
“I just flew a few hundred meters and didn’t even leave the range of Chenyu Valley…”

Ning Zhe figured out the key to this in an instant, and his expression became serious: “The world is shrinking.”

The ‘puzzle’ that makes up this strange world is shrinking. What was previously the entire Chenyu Valley has now become a small area centered on the prison.

And it was still shrinking. The invisible dome covering the prison kept shrinking, trying to trap him like a turtle in a jar.

This is the targeted strategy that Fenwu uses to counterbalance the high mobility brought about by the rules that are too easy to change.

“Okay, that’s cruel enough.” Ning Zhe spread his wings and landed on the second-floor windowsill of a concrete building.

This building is the canteen and washroom of Chenyugu Prison, not far from the cells where the prisoners sleep. Ning Zhe stood by the window, took out a telescope from his bag, which was still in its packaging, and observed the cell at night from a distance through the lens.

The prison was quiet at night, perhaps because the prison guards were all killed by Fen Wu. The searchlights that were always running at night were turned off. Only a few street lights were still on, and the rest was pitch black.

Fortunately, it didn’t rain tonight, the sky was clear and cloudless, and the visibility was okay.

The prison building stood in the camera, and there was silence and lifelessness in the camera.

Ning Zhe moved the camera to the lower left and saw several prison guards and medical staff lying at the prison gate. The stretcher he had turned over was still lying there, untouched. Looking up the steps, the body that had been standing there was gone, and no one knew where it had wandered off to. Only a circle of hemp rope was left at the gate, bloody.

“Wait, twine?”

Ning Zhe looked carefully and saw that it was indeed the hemp rope that was tied to Lao Li’s legs before: “Fen Wu helped Lao Li to untie the rope? Isn’t he afraid of the ghost possessed by the corpse? Or is it that the killing rules of this ghost are actually irrelevant to distance, and will not be triggered even if it is close?”

The world is shrinking and we should not continue to waste precious time on such difficult issues.

Ning Zhe moved the camera away from the prison door and looked at the non-powered wind ball that was spinning continuously on the roof of the opposite building. This was a device used for indoor ventilation, generally used in factory buildings or warehouses.

Further down are the workshops and basketball courts where the prisoners work, as well as the prison guards’ lounge on the other side of the basketball court. Ning Zhe still remembers the whimpering sounds he heard in the rest room. The man’s voice was so low that it is still creepy to think about it now.

Ning Zhe had an intuition that he should go there and take a look.

Finding the prison guard crying in the bathroom might help us uncover the ghost’s killing rules.

Wanna go back to the lounge?

But the hemp ropes tied to the corpse have been untied, and the ghost has been freed. Now he has to risk returning to the lounge and leaving. What if he encounters that tireless monster again? Will he still be lucky enough to escape?
The camera stayed on the basketball court, and Ning Zhe was a little hesitant.

The next moment, a slowly moving black shadow attracted his attention. Ning Zhe quickly moved the camera over and saw a black human-shaped object clinging to the gray outer wall of the prison building, like a gecko stuck on the wall, with its outstretched limbs like a spider.

It was a man, a man covered in blood. His clothes were torn by the concrete eaves, revealing his bloody flesh underneath. His bloody fingers climbed on the outer wall of the building without feeling any pain, crawling slowly like a spider, from the third floor to the second floor, and then from the second floor to the roof.

After adjusting the focus of the telescope, Ning Zhe saw clearly the strange human body crawling like a spider. It was Old Li who was possessed by a ghost.

In the camera, he was not climbing facing the wall, but with his back to the wall, his hands and feet bent behind his back in an inhuman posture, his hands gripping the rough edge, hanging his bloody body on it, the excessive force causing his nails to turn over, revealing the bright red flesh underneath.

The camera moved slowly, and Ning Zhe watched the ghost slowly crawl from the roof to the ventilation hole on the second floor. It was a small hole with a diameter of less than 35 centimeters, and only underdeveloped children could pass through it.

But under Ning Zhe’s gaze, the bloody human spider forcibly broke its shoulder blade and drilled into the vent unhindered, leaving only dried blood imprints on the wall.

“This……”

Ning Zhe put down the binoculars and suddenly had an idea. He took out the ID card of another prison guard from his arms.

The prison guard’s name is Cao Huabin. His name, ID photo and position are shown on his work badge. Due to the emergency situation, Ning Zhe had just hurriedly taken it without observing it carefully.

But after seeing the strange human spider, Ning Zhe looked at the work badge with purpose and immediately discovered its weirdness:

“The direction of the bangs is… the opposite.”

Ning Zhe had taken this work badge when he examined the corpse before. He had a good memory and he clearly remembered the facial features of the prison guard named Cao Huabin, as well as his bangs combed to the left.

But in the ID photo on his work badge, his bangs were combed to the right.

(End of this chapter)