Chapter 185 Ferryman Dungeon (VIII)
The black-sailed boat slowly approached the shore. Xia Yingnuan told Ning Hanqi to stay back and not get too close to the shore while she dealt with the body. He had died so "just in time"! She wanted to see if she could find any clues from the body. This person had consumed so many things tainted with resentment that the resentment hadn't been released after being consumed, but had been stored within his body.
Therefore, Xia Yingnuan could not let the body get close to the shore. If it exploded here, the surrounding environment would inevitably be contaminated.
"Be careful." Ning Hanqi warned.
Xia Yingnuan nodded, and then went over first when the other players didn't dare to approach the boat. The corpse lay quietly on the side of the boat, and the head that fell into the water was still bleeding. Occasionally, a trace of red liquid would dissipate in the river.
She stood behind the corpse and lifted it up by its clothes. The head of the corpse floated to the surface of the water, but its face had been bitten by something in the river. It was no exaggeration to say that it was beyond recognition.
"They are just friends." Ning Hanqi defended in a low voice.
Xia Yingnuan looked at her with a pair of eyes that were indescribably complicated. "You've already said it, so I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this way. The public's eyes are sharp."
She has been in so many worlds, so she still has some ability to judge people. Ning Hanqi has someone she likes, so she should be happy for her... Be generous. Her life has become like this because of you, and she finally has a normal life. She should wish her the best... Xia Yingnuan tried hard to ignore the strange feeling in her heart.
only……
Xia Yingnuan frowned slightly.
The women in Ning Hanqi's family seem to have a strange physique, and seem to be particularly attractive to scumbags. Her father is one, and the little girl Ning Yutian has also met one. Ning Hanqi... if her ex-fiancé also counts, then it's all here!
"They are all girls, don't make random guesses." Ning Hanqi avoided looking at Xia Yingnuan.
girl? !
Ning Hanqi glanced sideways and saw a little girl with her mouth opened into an O shape. Her eyes, filled with surprise, were filled with "I understand!"
So Ning Hanqi reached out, pinched the quilt and pushed it down, burying her face, which was similar to Song Qinuan's, and her expression, which was exactly the same.
Maybe she shouldn't have talked so much with the imaginative girl, because she had a strange dream that night.
She dreamed of the little girl who was as shy and self-deprecating as before. She still didn't dare to speak loudly in front of her, let alone talk about the things she did today.
She saw herself, her fingers nervously fiddling with the hem of her skirt, her voice as small as a mosquito's buzzing, "Mr. Ning, Mr. Ning."
This is the Guo Yuzhen I know. Actually, from this perspective, she doesn't look like Song Qinuan.
Ning Hanqi was about to speak when the girl suddenly bowed 90 degrees and said, "Thank you very much for taking care of me these past summers, and for your help to my parents before!"
"I, I'm leaving." Ning Hanqi's eyes revealed a hint of helplessness. Nuannuan's tone was both measured and inappropriate.
After Xia Yingnuan repaired Ning Hanqi's wound and made it less serious, she asked, "Move your foot and see if it still hurts."
Ning Hanqi's feet had no injuries to her bones and muscles, and the pain was not much after the external injuries were almost healed. She walked a few steps with the support of Xia Yingnuan, and the slight pain did not affect her walking.
"Luckily, the bones are fine." Xia Yingnuan helped Ning Hanqi sit back on the bed. "You rest in the room for a while. I'll go find some seasickness medicine and explore the structure of this place."
Now is a rare safe time to rest for a while. Later, she may not be able to leave Ning Hanqi alone in the room. Besides, if she looks at her more now, maybe she can remember something.
"This place should have regular medicines. You can ask the staff. Don't go to dangerous places." Ning Hanqi reminded.
"I understand." Xia Yingnuan nodded, then used her own power to cover the room so that she could sense any abnormalities.
Xia Yingnuan left the room only after all the protective measures were taken. However, not long after...
“Knock, knock, knock.”
There was a polite knock at their door.
"who?"
"I'm Zhuang Meng." Zhuang Meng, who had not appeared by the swimming pool just now, suddenly came to visit.
Ning Hanqi came to the door but did not open it immediately. Instead, he asked a few questions and confirmed the other party's identity before inviting Zhuang Mengjin.
"I just saw Miss Xia seemed to have gone out?" Zhuang Meng walked in with a smile.
"What's the matter, Miss Zhuang Meng? Do you have something to tell me that requires you to come to me without telling her?" Ning Hanqi looked at Zhuang Meng wearing black-framed glasses. It was obvious that the other party came prepared.
Zhuang Meng dragged the chair over and sat next to Ning Hanqi, saying cheerfully, "Look at what you said. What if I just came here to check on your injury?"
Ning Hanqi covered her lips with her hands and chuckled, "Oh? Really? Then my injury has almost healed. Thank you for your concern, Miss Zhuang Meng. You can go back now."
"...Cough." Zhuang Meng coughed awkwardly, "Forget it, forget it. Beating around the bush with you is just asking for trouble."
But when it came to the key issue, she kept considering how to start the conversation tactfully.
Zhuang Meng didn't say anything. Ning Hanqi suppressed her smile and spoke for her, "I guessed why you came. It's for this, right?"
She picked up the puppet doll. Apart from this, was there anything else that was worth Zhuang Meng talking to her about without telling Nuannuan?
Since Ning Hanqi had pointed this out, Zhuang Meng stopped being coy and said, "I guess so. Initially, I was planning to discuss a deal with you about her, but then I saw the relationship between you two... and I knew it was impossible."
Zhuang Meng was quite self-aware. Wanting to steal someone's love? She was afraid that she would die inexplicably in the dungeon.
"Then why did Miss Zhuang Meng come to see me?"
"Then I'll be frank." Zhuang Meng's tone was no longer so frivolous, but sounded a bit like he was in a serious negotiation.
"I want to talk to Miss Ning about your successful escape from the dungeon or a deal after your death." Zhuang Meng didn't say anything final. Although she knew that Miss Ning would not live for many years, what if she could successfully escape the dungeon before she died? So this situation also needed to be taken into consideration.
But no matter what happens, this item containing Xia Yingnuan will become ownerless, and he will probably be trapped in this game copy for a long time.
Ning Hanqi didn't mind people talking about this topic with her. What she cared about was that Zhuang Meng seemed to know that she couldn't stay in this game copy for long?
Zhuang Meng took off his glasses and handed them to Ning Hanqi, motioning her to put them on.
Ning Hanqi read the introduction of the props and put on the glasses silently. The distorted and terrifying side of this copy appeared before her, as well as the vibrant flames on Zhuang Meng's body.
Go? Where to?
“I hope you and Miss Song will be happy in the future!”
"She and I are not..." Ning Hanqi sighed, "and she is already dead. She has been dead for ten summers."
The girl stood up straight and smiled timidly, "She's back, President Ning."
"Look behind you, isn't she there?"
Behind you?
The girl in front of her waved to her and her figure gradually disappeared, as if she was saying her final goodbye.
Guo Yuzhen?! Ning Hanqi wanted to grab her, but found that he couldn't move.
A soft body suddenly hugged her from behind, and her voice was like a mixture of anger and tenderness, "If you keep staring at others like this, I'll get angry."
Ning Hanqi felt as if she was crying. She turned around and saw the person who died ten summers ago in her hazy vision. She was hugging her, so close to her.
Song Qinuan had never been so obedient and docile before. She wiped the tears from her face and kissed her cheek gently...
The alarm clock suddenly rang in the early morning, waking Ning Hanqi from her dream.
"Song Qinuan..."
Ning Hanqi touched her lips. For more than thirty years, she had been living a pure and abstinent life and had no interest in love affairs. She just didn't expect that the object of her first beautiful dream would be Song Qinuan.
Ning Hanqi's expression suddenly became particularly good-looking.
How could she be dreaming like that... She must have listened to the nonsense that little girl Guo Yuzhen said during the day. Ning Hanqi supported her head and could tell without looking in the mirror that her face must be blushing.
She found an excuse for herself and forced herself not to think about it anymore.
But whenever she was alone, she couldn't help but think of Guo Yuzhen's words, Liu Shanyan's teasing, and some old friends' whispers behind her back...
They all said that they liked Song Qinuan, and she denied it decisively every time. But now she suddenly couldn't tell whether she was denying because she didn't like them, or denying for the sake of denying.
Wouldn't it be even more tragic if I only realized that I liked Song Qinuan after she died?
Ning Hanqi focused all his energy on work, as if this would stop him from thinking about the dead person.
During this time, she found out that Buying's father had been beaten up and thrown under a bridge. As she guessed, it was her weak and confused mother who allowed that scumbag to come into contact with Tiantian. No wonder the child was fine when he was first brought home, but became so abnormal after not seeing him for a while.
She asked someone to investigate the reason why her father suddenly came back. It was quite funny to say that his biological son, whom he had been longing to inherit the family line, became addicted to drugs abroad. In order to make money from him, he took him with him. When his value was no longer there, he was kicked away by his biological son.
For money, he took advantage of the Huo family's influence to secretly run back and get close to his mother. He acted pitiful and persuaded his mother to help him hide it from him.
I didn't expect that in the end I would be stabbed by my closest relatives. How sad.
Ning Hanqi looked at the documents on her desk and couldn't even smile bitterly. She immediately asked someone to arrange for her sister to be transferred to another hospital. Since her mother didn't want her daughter for the man, she would let her wish come true.
Ning's mother couldn't see her youngest daughter and grandson, and her ex-husband was also missing. She immediately realized that her eldest daughter had discovered what she had done. She called her crying and making a fuss, scolding her for being conscienceless and cold-blooded, and asked how she could have given birth to a beast who abused her parents.
Ning Hanqi decisively hung up the phone without saying a word.
"Love-brained people are so scary." After hearing the system's retelling, Xia Yingnuan, who was supervising Ning Tiantian reciting ancient poems, complained.
That scumbag Ning's father would do anything for money. Last time when she picked up Ning Tiantian from school, this guy wanted to snatch the child away. She found a place where there was no one and no surveillance, beat him up, and then asked the system to help throw him under the bridge.
Please call her Lei Feng!
How Dang Xia ruined his original wife is no secret among the upper class in this city, and yet she was coaxed back like this. Tsk tsk tsk tsk, it is not an exaggeration to say that her mother Dang Xia is a naive and innocent young lady.
But to attack your daughter because of that scumbag is not being naive, but being stupid.
"What does love-brain mean?" The bear cub immediately shifted his attention.
"Lovesickness is... well..." How should she explain this to a child? Xia Yingnuan thought for a moment. "Say you give all your pocket money to that classmate named Zhang to buy snacks. No matter how mean Zhang is to you, you still think he's your best friend... right?"
The bear cub opened his eyes wide, looking very shocked, probably unable to understand why he was so mean.
Thinking that her family might have a tradition of being love-brained, Xia Yingnuan patted the little carrot head worriedly.
"He has such a big face! And he's still mean to me? I'm going to knock all his teeth out!!" Ning Tiantian waved her little fist.
"Yes, knock all his teeth out." Xia Yingnuan gave Ning Tiantian a thumbs up in approval.
[Host, is this really a good way to teach a child?] The little system didn't even know where to start complaining. Have you forgotten that you vowed to teach her to be a model student?
"You don't understand. The concept of staying away from scumbags must be cultivated from childhood. By the way, go and see how Ning Hanqi is doing. She is really unlucky to have such parents." Xia Yingnuan mentally instructed the system to go to the balcony to take a look.
【oh. 】
Before the system left the house, Ning Hanqi had already calmed down and went to the study because it was time to apply medicine to Xia Yingnuan.
Xia Yingnuan carefully observed Ning Hanqi's expression and could not see any negative emotions at all. She felt that Ning Hanqi actually cared about her biological mother very much, but she couldn't tell whether she had become more restrained in her emotions as she grew up, or whether she had become disheartened by the torment she had suffered from her biological mother.
Tsk, how miserable.
If only those people could be quieted down.
The system accidentally caught a glimpse of Xia Yingnuan's eyes, and was startled by the gloom in them.
[Host, host? 】
"The medicine has been applied. Just lie down obediently." Ning Hanqi shook the medicine box in his hand, interrupting what the system wanted to say.
The system watched its host turn into a good little cat in a second, and suddenly it began to understand what the senior said.
What do you call this? One thing conquers another?
Regarding the inexplicable wounds on Xia Yingnuan's body, she wrote a special "greeting" report to the main system. However, the main system bastard obviously knew something, but refused to say anything, and only replied with six big words - [Your own problem.]
If I were Yingdao, would I still come to ask you about this? Xia Yingnuan, who was in the small world, could do nothing but angrily record a note to the main system in her account book.
Her wound came strangely, but healed quickly.
The system's repair ability was useless for this wound, but its self-healing speed was twice as fast as that of an ordinary person, and it quickly healed and formed a scab. However, the wound was always a little itchy while recovering. Xia Yingnuan couldn't help scratching it, and accidentally scratched half of the scab open.
So when applying the medicine, I couldn't help but be scolded again.
Xia Yingnuan buried herself in the pillow with grievance. Ning Hanqi took out the ointment, but she just applied it lightly, and the scab that had grown not long ago fell off.
A deep red mark was revealed underneath, and it was unclear whether it was a coincidence, but it vaguely looked like a red carp.
Ning Hanqi was a little stunned. She gently stroked the mark with her slightly cool fingers. The cool and itchy feeling gave Xia Yingnuan goose bumps.
This is……
Xia Yingnuan couldn't help it any longer. It was really itchy from touching it like this! It hadn't been like this before when she applied the medicine.
She moved unconsciously, and Ning Hanqi came to his senses and immediately helped her put on her clothes.
When she returned to the master bedroom to change clothes, Ning Hanqi hesitated for a moment, then took off her innermost piece of clothing. She looked at the place on her right shoulder blade that was symmetrical to Guo Yuzhen's wound, where there was a red birthmark.
When she was born, she had a birthmark that looked like a red carp. At that time, her parents had a very good relationship. The medical staff said that she was a blessed baby and would definitely bring good luck to the family. Her father was happy for a long time because of this.
Ever since the car accident, many incredible things have been happening to that girl Guo Yuzhen.
She thought of the heartbeat that had stopped during the operation, and of the child in her dream waving goodbye to her...
Ning Hanqi looked at himself in the mirror and muttered to himself, "Are you crazy? What are you expecting?"
"The scarf disappeared when I was dragged into the river. Maybe it was taken back?" Some powerful ghosts can take back important props given to humans, such as Ning Hanqi's dagger. Xia Yingnuan can reclaim the props after the death of the player she designated.
The props disappeared, the man was killed by having his neck slit, there were no traces of external force left by other ghosts on the body, and the death was so perfect...
Ning Hanqi's heart sank. She gently pinched Xia Yingnuan's pinky finger, prompting her to use a special communication method that only the two of them could hear. "Nuannuan, you just said that the corpse's face had been eaten and was unrecognizable, right?"
Xia Yingnuan replied, "Yes, his skin has been almost eaten away, and there are a lot of bones left. It's a good thing that the Dragon King has disposed of his body. Otherwise, I would have to think of how to deal with the body so as not to pollute the environment."
Ning Hanqi looked at the players coming and going not far away and asked solemnly, "Then... are you really sure that the body is him?"
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