Chapter 100 Chaos's Turn (Part 2) Rotting Tissue and the Smelly Stink...
Zhang Deng even wanted to laugh out loud, but he held it back. He finally understood. He felt that the only thing in this world that he couldn't handle well had completely disappeared.
There was no need to discuss it anymore, no need to dwell on the hurt he had suffered. This matter was completely over in his world.
Zhang Deng picked up his phone and turned to leave.
Ye Hong said: "Light the lights!"
Wei Yuanye followed Zhang Deng and saw that Zhang Deng stopped. Zhang Deng might have something to say, so everyone stopped nervously, subconsciously waiting for him to speak. However, after a brief pause, Zhang Deng opened the door, and he and Wei Yuanye left.
After a while, He Xiaoqiu and Liu Yan also said goodbye.
Seeing Zhang Deng and Wei Yuanye hailing a taxi at the entrance of the residential complex, Liu Yan parked his car beside them and said, "Want to find a place to eat?"
Zhang Deng asked, "What delicious food can I have for you?"
"There's no need to be so aggressive," Liu Yan said, "I didn't provoke you."
Zhang Deng: "Your presence is annoying."
As he said this, he saw He Xiaoqiu winking at him from behind, then turned around and opened the car door.
Liu Yan looked at them in the rearview mirror and said, "You two are quite stable."
"Aren't you two quite stable?" Zhang Deng retorted.
Liu Yan said: "I didn't harass you, why are you bothering me so much?"
Zhang Deng said, "I get annoyed when I see fickle men."
"I'm truly sorry," Liu Yan said. "I've turned over a new leaf and am a completely new person."
He Xiaoqiu sneered, using the lantern as a mouthpiece, and said, "I don't believe you."
Liu Yan: "Why do you have to define it? You can observe it first."
He Xiaoqiu said, "Send me back. I don't want to eat anymore."
Liu Yan said, "Didn't we just agree on this? Why aren't you eating anymore? You didn't even take a few bites."
He Xiaoqiu shook her phone: "My husband called me."
This incident left everyone silent.
Zhang Deng said: "Yes, you still have a husband."
Liu Yan asked, "Isn't that the actor you hired?"
Zhang Deng: “?”
He Xiaoqiu said angrily: "I don't understand what you are saying."
"I've checked. Your classmate's ex-husband," Liu Yan said, "invested in you to come back and act in the script. I support you."
Zhang Deng suddenly realized: "No wonder you've been in the news so much lately."
"What era are we in now?" He Xiaoqiu couldn't stand it any longer. "You still think anything a marketing account posts is news?"
Wei Yuanye asked, "Do you want to eat it or not?"
"Are you in a hurry?" everyone said impatiently.
"It's okay," Wei Yuanye said, "No rush, you guys continue."
Zhang Deng said, "You two can chat, I'm going home now."
He Xiaoqiu also said: "I'm not going either. I want to go back to the hotel."
Liu Yan glanced at Wei Yuanye and said, "Then... shall we go together?"
Wei Yuanye: "Sorry, I have something to do."
"What can I do for you?" He Xiaoqiu asked. "Aren't you Zhang Deng's agent?"
"Why do you say that?" Zhang Deng was dissatisfied again.
Wei Yuanye pulled out his phone's call logs and said, "Hu Ningning has called me three times."
Zhang Deng was startled and looked at his phone, only to find that it was turned off because he had forgotten to charge it yesterday.
"Are you stupid? Why didn't you say it earlier?" Zhang Deng said.
Wei Yuanye: "Aren't you busy?"
He called Hu Ningning and explained to Zhang Deng, "Just called."
Zhang Deng was really impressed. He asked Wei Yuanye, "Do you have any business?"
"Hu Ningning is nothing serious," He Xiaoqiu said, "Why have you been so close to her recently? You really have no friends."
Liu Yan said: "Which one? Ah - it can't be that one?!"
Liu Yan had also helped arrest Hu Ningning, and he was incredulous: "You're friends with her?"
Zhang Deng asked, "Are you my parents?"
Liu Yan said: "Why are you friends with her?"
He Xiaoqiu said: "He even invited us to go drinking together last time."
"You went?" Liu Yan was a little overwhelmed. "Are you crazy too?"
The call was connected, and Wei Yuanye signaled everyone to shut up. Hu Ningning's voice on the other end of the line seemed a little off: "Would it be convenient for you to come over?"
Wei Yuanye said, "Where?"
Hu Ningning mentioned a place very close to the coffee shop they went to last time. Wei Yuanye searched on Zhang Deng's phone and said, "Ten minutes."
Liu Yan asked: "Where? I'll take you there."
"What else can I do if I don't send you off?" Zhang Deng asked, "Is there anyone willing to go on a date with you?"
Now the feelings among them have become very pure. No one likes anyone else and they speak without any scruples. Zhang Deng has even become a little accustomed to this feeling of wantonness. There is no intrigue, no sophistication, just pure hatred between people, which is tangled and difficult to sort out. Because the growth experiences of the three of them are too closely bound together, even if the other party disappears from their lives for a few years, it will not affect their familiarity with each other at all. When they return again, they are still full of attacking desires.
Liu Yan asked He Xiaoqiu: "Are you going?"
"Whatever," He Xiaoqiu said, "Let's send him off first."
He said so, but when they really arrived at the place, He Xiaoqiu glanced at the KTV door and said, "Let's go in and take a look."
Zhang Deng said, "You still care about her very much."
Zhang Deng felt that He Xiaoqiu seemed to have changed a lot after experiencing cyber violence, breaking up, and going abroad. At that time, Zhang Deng always felt that he would never have any intersection with He Xiaoqiu again. The feeling at that time may be true, but at this moment he feels that it is not bad to meet him occasionally. Maybe it is not a betrayal of his feelings at that time, but because He Xiaoqiu has indeed changed.
Several people went to the room number that Hu Ningning said. There were not many people in the KTV, and singing could only be heard from a few rooms. The more Zhang Deng walked, the more he felt uneasy.
Zhang Deng attributed this feeling to the fact that he had just severed a very important blood relationship in his life and completed a life lesson. But when Wei Yuanye opened the door, Zhang Deng subconsciously said, "Wait."
Before he could react, the door of the KTV opened from the inside.
Hu Ningning's face was revealed.
Her face was as pale as snow, with black hair hanging on both sides of her cheeks. She grabbed Wei Yuanye's hand and said, "Come in."
The lights in the KTV were dim, and the dazzling lights made it difficult for Zhang Deng to see what was inside. Hu Ningning then noticed someone was following them. She was very alert, but Liu Yan pushed the door open. Zhang Deng didn't notice anything unusual in the room for a moment, and asked casually, "What's wrong?"
Hu Ningning stood at the door and said, "I met Tong Ying."
"Didn't he get transferred?" Zhang Deng sat down.
Hu Ningning said: "Yes, that's what he said."
Zhang Deng felt her tone was off, but Wei Yuanye moved towards the back of the sofa. After a while, Zhang Deng heard Wei Yuanye ask, "What's going on?"
Zhang Deng’s eyesight wasn’t very good, so he couldn’t see clearly. The first thing he noticed was that He Xiaoqiu was about to scream, but Liu Yan covered her mouth.
Zhang Deng's eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness and he asked, "Is that a person?"
Wei Yuanye said, "Don't come over."
The first thing Zhang Deng felt was that Wei Yuanye was in a bad mood.
Wei Yuanye's condition was very strange. He seemed very angry and tense. Zhang Deng didn't know what made him so nervous. He stood up and walked over subconsciously. In the darkness, his eyes formed an outline of a man lying on the sofa. This KTV must be quite old. There was a smell of mold and decay. The further Zhang Deng walked in, the more damp he felt. He didn't like this smell. He covered his nose slightly and slowly realized that the man's head seemed to have been hit by a sharp weapon. The blood had directly stained a piece of the sofa black.
Zhang Deng's eyes turned white and he heard a sharp chirping sound in his ears. He felt as if he had lost consciousness for a short time, but he quickly regained consciousness.
He saw a blood-red word appear on the man in front of him: "Death."
"die."
Zhang Deng almost didn't recognize this word. He felt strange. How could such a good person die like this?
His first reaction was to deny reality, and then he quickly inferred from the reactions of the crowd that this conclusion would not be wrong.
Four words appeared in his mind: "Tong Ying is dead."
Then everything around me seemed to disappear.
He began a long discussion centered around death.
What is death?
His brain quickly concluded that Tong Ying died because Hu Ningning smashed the wine bottle on Tong Ying's head.
Then he realized that something was wrong. Before he could figure out what was wrong, his consciousness had uncontrollably passed through Tong Ying's body and arrived in another world of ten directions.
Wei Yuanye kept echoing in his head: "If you have any thoughts, everything will collapse."
"As soon as you have a thought, your mind collapses."
"As soon as you have a thought, your mind collapses."
What does this mean? Zhang Deng asked himself, do you really know what this means?
Zhang Deng suddenly opened his eyes: "This is the greatest punishment the gods have bestowed upon the human world."
"Causality."
He suddenly recalled that Wei Yuanye once asked him a question: "Why are you called Zhang Deng?"
This name is very strange. Why would people hang lanterns? Hanging lanterns always represents decoration, but he has no brothers or sisters. His name seems to be celebrating something that will never happen.
The name of Zhang Deng always makes people feel disappointed because there is no subsequent "Jie Cai".
It is very strange that there is a cause but no result.
Things always develop in a linear manner. People devoutly abide by the law of cause and effect and are the most staunch materialists. They all believe in "God rewards hard work", which is regarded as a virtue without superstition in human society.
Humans cultivate immortality in order to escape this law of cause and effect.
He once caught a glimpse of a corner of the higher-dimensional world during Chi Xiaoxia's erroneous time-travel operation. At that moment, he saw countless possibilities happening at the same time. He grasped them freely, as if he could choose one of the realities. In other words, he also became a god for a short time.
Through the word "death", Zhang Deng saw countless possibilities for Tong Ying. He died, but he was not completely dead. He was in a superposition state of death and life. Countless possibilities overlapped and intersected, and Zhang Deng saw Tong Ying's life.
To be honest, Zhang Deng once doubted whether the appearance of the character Tong Ying had any special significance. As a creator, Zhang Deng felt that the appearance of this character was abrupt and his departure was inexplicable. Generally, this kind of character in the work plays the role of some mysterious behind-the-scenes mastermind.
Especially when Zhang Deng saw the same books on his bookshelf in Hu Ningning's room, this suspicion became even more difficult for him to ignore. However, Zhang Deng did not deliberately look for Tong Ying.
Because he always felt like he was being pushed along, he knew that everything would eventually come to light. Zhang Deng didn't believe in the power of hard work; he wasn't willing to reach upward, just wanting to go with the flow. Now it seemed like this was causality.
For an lazy person, cause and effect is simply a form of hegemony.
So Zhang Deng buried his suspicion of Tong Ying in his heart. He never expected that Tong Ying would appear in such a state again.
But Zhang Deng also got to see Tong Ying's life.
This is a dummy.
Only then did Zhang Deng understand why the ragdoll cat was so different before and after.
Tong Ying is a mannequin created by Hu Ningning using a ragdoll cat. She caught an animal that looked very much like a ragdoll cat in another world. The characteristic of this animal is that it can change its shape at will. Hu Ningning fabricated a "boyfriend" for herself, so the ragdoll and Tong Ying have never appeared at the same time.
From beginning to end, Tong Ying is Hu Ningning, and Hu Ningning is Tong Ying.
Zhang Deng even had a feeling like he was in "The Truman Show". He thought for a long time in the still passage of time, and finally made a decision helplessly.
The scene in front of him changed suddenly as if a short video had been turned on with special effects. In the blink of an eye, Zhang Deng was already standing in the mall.
He was holding a blind box in his hand when the phone rang. Zhang Deng hesitated for a moment and picked it up. He glanced at Wei Yuanye, who was holding his ice cream in his hand and asked him with his eyes if he wanted to eat it.
Hu Ningning said over there: "What are you doing?"
Zhang Deng said, "On a date."
Hu Ningning: "Who allowed you to live so happily?"
"Want to come out and play?"
Zhang Deng's Adam's apple rolled, and he said, "Okay."
Hu Ningning cheered: "Then I will start to put on makeup now, and then I will go find you."
Zhang Deng hung up the phone. Although he had been very secretive, Wei Yuanye was still keenly aware of his emotions. He leaned over and asked curiously, "Are you feeling unwell?"
Zhang Deng continued to open the blind box, and the card inside fell out. Wei Yuanye bent down to pick it up and said with a smile: "It's the one you wanted."
Zhang Deng saw the card in his hand, which had a picture of the ugliest fish he wanted.
Zhang Deng took a look, nodded, smiled, and said, "This one is not bad either."
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