Chapter 9: Goodbye Nine-Fingered Man
"You have to go through 13 different reincarnations."
"As long as you fail three times in a row or six times in total, then you will literally disappear from this world."
"I've passed six tests now, but I've also failed five times, which means that every reincarnation I have since gone will be directly related to my life and death."
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Fang Lei's words kept echoing in my ears, and I hadn't had any contact with them since the last time I saw them for the first time, but every word they said that night and everything I saw with my own eyes made me haunted. What kind of organization are the four gates of "Heaven", "Earth", "Xuan" and "Huang", and why does a building with only five floors appear out of thin air with a sixth floor? Is it a man, a ghost, or a god who controls everything behind the scenes? What exactly is the value of that mysterious notebook. The most important thing is whether the person who killed Liang Wenya really exists in these four gates as Pei Yuan said? I was a materialist, but what had happened before destroyed my worldview time and time again......
"I said, Guozi, what do you want? You've run two red lights, you know? Liu Xishan sat in the co-pilot and nervously tightened his seat belt.
"Ah...... Didn't think about anything. I said perfunctorily.
"Since Liang Wenya died, you have been unable to give up all day long, I feel that you have lost a lot of weight, it's been almost a month, it's time to let go, the old doesn't go, the new doesn't come."
I did not make any reply to Liu Xishan's words. Although more than 20 days have passed since August 13, and I have gradually accepted the fact that Liang Wenya died, it still gave me a big blow. For people like Liu Xishan, who wander around the pile of women every once in a while, and have never been in love, they can't understand my feelings. Of course I don't blame him, he just comforts me in his way. However, according to Pei Yuan, Liang Wenya's three deaths also represent the failure of my first reincarnation, if the thing about the 'Yellow Character Gate' is true, then can I finally succeed in breaking the game?
Seeing that I was indifferent, Liu Xishan didn't say anything anymore, but took out his mobile phone and played.
"Be careful, it's going to be red." Liu Xishan reminded.
Stepping on the brakes and slowly stopping the car, the number of pedestrians passing on the zebra crossing gradually increased, and suddenly, a familiar figure hurried past in front of the car, looking like a nine-fingered man, wearing a mask and a hat, and carrying a backpack behind him.
"Boom", the green light came on, and with one foot of the accelerator, I turned the car to the left.
", Guozi, you just occupied the straight road!" I didn't care what Liu Xishan was saying, continued to drive and turned around in front, then pulled the car over the side of the road and stopped, quickly opened the door, and ran towards the back of the car.
I patted the man on the shoulder, he was agitated, hesitated for a moment, turned around, and then relaxed, and when he saw that it was me, his eyes began to become evasive again, and his left leg took a step back, as if trying to escape. I stretched out my right hand and waved it in front of him, ripped off his mask, and a familiar face appeared in front of me.
"Sure enough, it's you!" Facing the nine-fingered man, I said through gritted teeth.
The nine-fingered man didn't say much, he pushed me back directly, turned around to run, I grabbed the backpack behind him, who would have thought that because I and he were too strong, the backpack was disconnected from the middle, and a booklet fell out of it. The nine-fingered man wanted to bend down to pick it up, but when I saw this, I kicked the booklet to the side, and beckoned the nine-fingered man in the face with a punch, and asked at the same time, "Who told you to take Liang Wenya away?" ”
Seeing that the situation was not right, the nine-fingered man parried my punch with his arm and kicked me in the knee. The tingling sensation hit me, and I didn't stand still, and I fell to my knees. The nine-fingered man didn't fight, he wanted to pick up the booklet, but his face suddenly became very frightened, and he turned around and rushed out of the crowd watching the excitement on the side.
I got up from the ground, rubbed my knee that had been kicked by the nine-fingered man, felt a little swollen, and limped over to the booklet to pick it up. Just when I wanted to see what was written in it, Liu Xishan gasped and patted me behind me, "What's wrong again?" In a hurry, the car keys were not pulled. As he spoke, he dropped a bunch of keys into my hand.
"It's okay, I saw an acquaintance, I want to say hello, let's go back." I pinned the booklet behind my waist, pointed to the parked car in front of me, and motioned for Liu Xishan to go back. Because my knee was too painful, I put my hand on Liu Xishan's body, hoping to borrow a little strength.
"Why are you still lame when you say hello?" Liu Xishan held the steering wheel in his hand and looked at me suspiciously. I hurt my knee, so I gave him the car to drive.
"I ran too fast just now and fell down."
“..... Never mind...... Alas. Liu Xishan wanted to speak and stopped, and then sighed.
I know that reasons like "meet an acquaintance and say hello" can't deceive Liu Xishan, after all, seeing my abnormal behavior just now, no one would believe it. But because there are so many things involved, I don't want more innocent people to be involved. However, fortunately, Liu Xishan knows how to observe words and feelings, and he will never ask more questions that should not be asked, which is why Liu Xishan has been in the company for many years and has always been smooth sailing. Comparatively speaking, I'm ashamed of that.
When I got home, I sat on the sofa and pulled out the booklet that the nine-fingered man had left behind, and then I realized that the booklet was not complete, only a small part, to be exact, it was only a few pages, and the back part had traces of being torn off.
I opened the booklet, and the contents were all handwritten words and illustrations, which were roughly about the terrain of places like Styx and Hitomi Valley that I had never heard of. Suddenly, on the title page of the booklet, I found a place that had been scribbled with a pen, but I could still distinguish the three words "Tianzimen" from it, which reminded me of the notebook mentioned by Fang Lei before, and the content recorded on it was likely to be the place of reincarnation.
"It can't be that coincidental......" I flipped through the notebook over and over again, hoping to get some useful information out of it.
"Uncle, come and play; Uncle ...... "Suddenly, the mobile phone next to me rang, it was Wang Changyou."
"Mr. Gu, I'm Wang Changyou, the captain of the first criminal investigation team, and we've met before. I called you today to tell you that we have found the nine-fingered man you mentioned that day, and I want you to go to the police station to identify him, but he is dead. ”
"What? You say he's dead?! ”