Beware!!

Gu Yunqing's lifeless body fell into the water. The cold water drops splashed onto Ye Miaozhu's face, making her mind dazed.

"Yun Qing... is dead?"

Ye Miaozhu muttered with dazed eyes. Ning Zhe reacted quickly, stepped forward and grabbed Gu Yunqing's sleeve, preventing him from being washed away by the current.

Holding Gu Yunqing's body, Ning Zhe quickly glanced at Feng Yuxu, who was shaking with fear and unable to move, and then looked at Ye Miaozhu, whose mental state was obviously not right. He realized that he could only rely on himself.

After unbuttoning Gu Yunqing's clothes, Ning Zhe quickly checked his body.

Although he was not a professional medical student, he was able to draw some basic conclusions through a simple examination: "Like Xie Si Ning, Gu Yunqing had no external injuries or internal bleeding, was not drowned or suffocated, and had no signs of poisoning..."

Except for the fact that Gu Yunqing had just died and still had some residual body temperature that had not yet cooled down, there was no difference in the cause of death of the two bodies; they were exactly the same.

"The two men died in exactly the same way. Were they both killed by that thing that could impersonate others? Or is the river itself dangerous?"

Ning Zhe didn't know the answer, but he didn't dare to take the risk.

Putting Gu Yunqing's body aside, Ning Zhe stepped back a few steps away from the river bank. Feng Yusu, who was frightened to the point of nervous breakdown, hurriedly followed him, leaving Ye Miaozhu sitting there in a daze.

"Yun Qing...how could he die just like that?" Ye Miaozhu's eyes were scattered and confused: "We didn't break any taboos. We didn't travel, we didn't bury him, we didn't have a funeral...we didn't even offer sacrifices. Why did Yun Qing die?"

Ye Miaozhu held her head in her hands, ruffling her originally smooth long hair: "Even if examining the body can be considered a funeral... Why is Yun Qing dead, but I am fine?"

"I don't know." Ning Zhe shook his head: "How would I know..."

"Really? You don't know either." Ye Miaozhu bent down and buttoned up Gu Yunqing's clothes one by one. Holding his body, she looked sideways at the river water that was slowly moving downstream, with the bright white moon reflected on it.

"Are you looking for death?" Ning Zhe frowned. "I noticed Gu Yunqing's movements before he died. A few seconds before he lost his vital signs, he just looked down at the river surface. I don't know if the danger is the body by the river or the river itself, but you are imitating what he did before he died, which is undoubtedly a sign of losing your life."

"So what?" Ye Miaozhu raised her head and stared at Ning Zhe with her lifeless eyes: "I've had enough."

Ning Zhe was silent for a moment, then said softly, "I can understand, but I don't agree with it."

We are all ordinary people, studying, working, and living in an ordinary way, keeping to ourselves and believing that life is just a pile of countless such ordinary days.

However, just by pushing open a door, they came to this inexplicable place, forced to abide by inexplicable rules and endure unreasonable fear.

The weight of death is so heavy that it makes everyone breathless. The changing rules every day torture people's fragile nerves, making them tremble and walk on thin ice.

Ning Zhe didn't know what the relationship between Ye Miaozhu and Gu Yunqing was, but in such a precarious environment, the two had become accustomed to relying on each other.

Ye Miaozhu is not a very strong person. If she hadn't had someone familiar by her side, she would have been crushed by the death that could come at any time. It would have been impossible for her to persist until now in this strange village full of weirdness.

Now that Gu Yunqing is dead, she has lost her spiritual support and the courage and motivation to continue struggling to survive.

Ning Zhe did not approve of her giving up her life so rashly, but he did not object to Ye Miaozhu seeking death at this moment, because that would actually be a good thing for him.

"After Ye Miaozhu's death, there are three ready-made death samples here." Ning Zhe said to himself: "I can't see the logic behind one or two bizarre deaths, but what about three times? Four times? There will always be clues... The mystery can always be solved."

Others might collapse, give up, and throw everything into chaos, but he won't.

Looking at Ning Zhe's calm and indifferent eyes, Ye Miaozhu suddenly smiled: "I actually wanted to be angry with you, because if you hadn't asked us to check Xie Si Ning's body, Yun Qing wouldn't have died. But feeling his body slowly getting colder, I found that I no longer had the energy to be angry."

"Fortunately you didn't." Ning Zhe said lightly: "If you throw a tantrum at me, I will kill you."

"Pervert." Ye Miaozhu cursed viciously.

But then, she felt relieved: "But perhaps only an inhuman pervert like you can survive in this inhumane place like a fish in water."

"Since you are about to die, I will not pursue the matter for scolding me." Ning Zhe said without any regret.

The river bank became quiet, and the fragmented sentences were drowned in the clear water. Ye Miaozhu held Gu Yunqing's body in her arms, quietly staring at her own reflection and his on the river, like a prisoner on the execution ground, closing his eyes and waiting for death to come.

But time passed minute by minute, Ning Zhe checked his phone again and again, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes... Ye Miaozhu sat quietly by the river bank the whole time, letting the cool evening breeze take away her body temperature, nothing else happened.

"It seems that the snake god thinks that you are not destined to die." Ning Zhe walked down the bluestone slope and extended his hand to Ye Miaozhu who was slumped in the ground. "It's time to go. Since that unknown thing has given you this life, cherish it."

Ye Miaozhu lowered her head and remained silent for a long time. Finally, she let Ning Zhe grab her hand without any reaction.

Ning Zhe pulled her up from the river bank and quickly sorted out the known information in his mind:

"First, the snake god has contracted madness, which occurs regularly every month. The cause and symptoms of the disease are unknown."

"Secondly, in addition to the good and bad luck of the almanac that can cause bad luck, there are other hidden rules in Hejia Village that can directly lead to death, such as looking through tomorrow's almanac."

"Third, Xie Si Ning and Gu Yun Qing both died due to violating the hidden rules. Their deaths were exactly the same as Lin Zhi Yuan's."

"Fourth, although the bodies of Xie Si Ning and Gu Yun Qing were found in the river, Ye Miao Zhu has proven that their deaths had no direct relationship with the river."

"Fifth, there is a special person in Hejia Village who can impersonate others, and it is suspected to be related to the hidden rules that cause death."

As Ning Zhe gained more information, his thoughts gradually became clearer. Among the seemingly disorganized fragments of information, he found the first breakthrough point:

"The ghost that replaced Xie Si Ning's identity followed Zhang Yangxu for a long time but didn't kill him. It didn't attack me after it found me. Why didn't it kill us? Did it not want to? Or is it that it can't kill people directly?"

"Or another way of thinking is, if the ghost wants to kill someone, it doesn't have to get close to us, but needs to meet certain specific conditions, and we need to trigger certain special rules?"

The fog on the road ahead dissipated, and from the tangled knot, Ning Zhe grasped the thread that would lead to the truth.

At this time, Feng Yusu's cell phone vibrated and someone called.

The caller is Zhang Yangxu.

"Answer it. Hang up anytime if you feel something is wrong." Ning Zhe said softly.

Feng Yusu didn't dare to answer the call, but nodded involuntarily, and pressed the answer button with her fair and smooth fingers trembling.

As soon as the call was connected, a loud warning, almost shouted, came from the speaker:

——"Be careful of Gu Yunqing!"