Yin Yang Lantern Man

Chapter 111 Rules Lantern
For new Qin modern medicine, sudden death is a noun that refers to sudden death.

Only Chen Ningan knew that the man's death was far from being as simple as sudden death. After the lantern man went in, it was impossible to rescue him.

He stared at the man to see how he died.

Maybe he was lucky, he walked for dozens of steps without any problems, and the rope was almost at the end.

In full view of everyone, the lantern man was safe and sound, and even deliberately took a detour to observe the furnishings in the village.

This made many people think, could it be that the danger has passed and the deaths of those people before were just a coincidence?
As he walked further and further away, he gradually turned the corner and could no longer be seen.

Ye Dingwan's hand holding the rope swayed slightly forward. She felt a pull that appeared quickly and disappeared immediately.

The rope stopped moving forward, and there was still more than ten meters of distance that had not been used.

not good!

She immediately used her arms to pull the man holding the lantern back.

Because it was tied to the chest, the lantern man was dragged face down for dozens of meters when he was pulled back, and by the time he turned over, a layer of skin on his face had been rubbed off.

But no one cared about this. Rong Qin called out to Deng Guanyang: "Quick, save people!"

They immediately started cardiopulmonary resuscitation using the prepared equipment to save the man.

"Hopeless."

Chen Ning'an just took a glance and then looked away, thinking silently.

He was fine before, but died as soon as he turned the corner.

Is there something lurking just out of sight?
If this is the case, he will feel more at ease and can confront directly.

But what if it’s not something?
Chen Ning'an's vision was suddenly occupied by a person.

"Friend, have you found anything?"

The speaker was a gentle man wearing glasses, his hands stained red.

"I just looked at your body. I'm sorry."

He felt apologetic and did not keep his distance from Chen Ning'an because of his previous behavior. Instead, he took the initiative to approach him.

"No."

Chen Ningan told the truth. The man pushed his glasses and said, "I have a little discovery. Do you want to hear it?"

"Oh?"

Chen Ningan folded his hands: "You have a purpose, tell me."

"It's not too late for you to draw a conclusion after listening to my guess."

The man pointed at the bodies and pushed his glasses:
“When we can’t find the cause of a problem, we might as well use the process of elimination.”

"First of all, the bodies fell in different ways, but the symptoms were the same: sudden death."

"Then we can rule out the possibility that it was done by a 'monster', because monster attacks always follow a certain pattern."

Chen Ning'an agreed with his words, and he didn't think it was a monster's doing.

"Then continue to eliminate."

The man continued, "The only thing that can cause a person's death is an external force, not a monster, so could it be the environment?"

"Just like fish cannot adapt to the air, humans cannot adapt to certain environments. I observed that their blood is dark red, which may be due to lack of oxygen."

"But if they were lacking oxygen, the problem would arise again. They shouldn't have no reaction. People have a survival instinct. They would run back immediately and struggle, unless they don't have the strength to run. So, this point is also ruled out."

"Another thing is toxins. If there are toxins in the air, then the deaths of these people are not surprising. The toxins in the Lantern World cannot be inferred by common sense, but...

He pointed at the people near and far away and said: "Some people are far away and some die as soon as they enter. This does not fit the inference. Let's continue to rule it out."

After one line of argument was deduced, the man with glasses finally opened his hands to Chen Ningan and said, "Maybe you won't believe it, but after ruling out all possibilities, we can only think in the most unexpected direction."

"Is there a possibility, a triggering condition, that once met will cause them to die?"

He quoted from the scriptures:
"Just like the famous science fiction writer xx, who conceived a powerful, omnipotent life form that we cannot understand, and when he said that light is poison, we all have to hide in the darkness underground?"

It has to be said that this inference amazed Chen Ning'an.

"It's a pity for someone with your IQ to carry a lantern."

Of all the people he had ever met, no one could compare to the man with glasses in front of him.

Especially the rules he deduced and the kind of life forms he mentioned, that is the concept of God.

In such a godless world, this concept is undoubtedly extremely bold and groundbreaking.

"You're right. A corpse will lose temperature in an instant. It's not like it was attacked by a monster. Your point of view is at least 80% likely."

Chen Ningan pointed at the rescue efforts over there and said, "Look, that person hasn't been saved yet. It's obviously not a simple sudden death."

"I know." The man with glasses nodded: "I just heard your very sure voice. That person is beyond saving."

This is also the reason why he came to find Chen Ningan.

"So you came to me because you knew I saw something."

Chen Ningan sighed: "It's really strange, why did you come here to carry the lantern."

With such intelligence and vision, this shouldn't be the case.

“No matter how smart a person is, they cannot resist the birth, aging, illness and death of carbon-based life forms.”

The man with glasses sighed: "I have expressed my opinion, can you tell me your findings?"

"of course."

Chen Ning'an told him the theory of essence, energy and spirit and watched the man with glasses' reaction.

"Essence, energy and spirit? I seem to have seen it in a book on traditional Chinese medicine." The man with glasses did not make any rebuttal, but tried to believe it.

This made Chen Ning'an finally recognize him.

"Tell me your name." He looked at the big hole and said, "I will go through this big hole and go out into the cave with a lantern. If you are not afraid, you can come with me."

"It's my honor." The man with glasses stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "My name is Marvin."

"It's a bad name." Chen Ning'an commented, and then continued: "Follow me when we enter the village. Unless it is really force majeure, your life will be safe."

"Did you see the reason?" Ma Wen was surprised. Chen Ning'an shook his head: "I didn't see it, but I think Ye An will have a way."

He turned his head to look over there and saw that the man who volunteered to carry the lantern had his life bought for 250,000 yuan and was thrown aside casually.

His chest was all black from the electric shock, and his rib cage was deeply collapsed. His ribs were crushed but he didn't wake up.

Rong Qin is calling to report the situation here.

Soon, after he hung up the phone, he waited. They didn't speak, and the lantern man didn't speak either.

When someone asked, they just said to wait.

"How do you know they have a way?" The bespectacled man Marvin wondered, "Are you guessing that the lantern is very important to them?"

"No."

Chen Ning'an shook his head. The divination he had done when he went out did not indicate he would return home disappointed.

If you think about it the other way around, this problem is not a problem anymore.

"You can understand that I have some of the characteristics of the advanced life forms you mentioned."

His words made Ma Wen's glasses tremble and his heart was not at peace. He looked carefully at Chen Ning'an's face, then at Ye Dingwan, as if thinking about something.

An hour later, another taxi arrived, but this time there was only one person getting off.

He was wrapped in a cloak, looking very similar to the mysterious man Yang Xiong, but his outstretched hand was also wearing gloves.

There was a countdown hanging on the man’s chest, and there were 58 seconds left.

Rong Qin took two steps back with disgust in his eyes.

The man brought a small bottle, handed it to the latter, then turned and walked away without saying a word.

Time is slowly reaching the critical point.

"boom!"

Suddenly, the man exploded and the broken pieces flew everywhere.

"Life is only a one or two hour thing."

Rong Qin wiped the red spots on his face and looked at the bottle.

The bottle was only the size of a palm, with a cork in it and nothing inside.

But he was overjoyed and carefully tore a page from his notebook and stuffed it in.

There was nothing on the paper, but when he immediately pulled out the cork, there was already writing on it.

【Rule, don't lose sight. 】

When this sentence came out, Rong Qin clenched his fingers.

It's actually a rule?
How could there be rules in such a small place?
He squinted his glasses to hide his thoughts.

Then he said to everyone, "I have found the problem. You must be within sight after you hold the lantern, otherwise you will die suddenly."

When these words were spoken, everyone was shocked, and then they understood.

Yes, the 250,000 lantern-carrying man just now disappeared from everyone’s sight and died immediately.

It seemed that the people before also died suddenly because they didn't pay attention?
After hearing this, Ma Wen gave Chen Ningan a bitter smile: "It seems that our guesses were in vain, this is the reason."

"No, your guess is not in vain. The help that Ye An can provide is because it is beneficial to them."

Chen Ning'an shook his head slightly: "And you accurately predicted that this is a rule. You are amazing to be able to deduce it when there is nothing."

He gave Marven affirmation and said that if he were to come and see, there would be no other way except fortune-telling.

And due to the lack of information in this area, he might only calculate the Li hexagram, which is related to the eyes, and nothing else can be seen.

"Let's go, let's look at each other." He didn't bring a lantern, and wanted to go from here to Yadong before continuing.

Marvin joined him, and they both noticed each other's figures walking forward.

They were the first team to go in. Everyone was watching them.

I kept seeing them passing the corner where the dead person was before, and there was no sign of life.

"Don't look at it, it's okay."

Marvin's voice came from afar, which made everyone feel relieved.

It seems to be the case.

They began to form groups of two or four or six, carrying lanterns and entering Dadong Village.

This village is not normal, there are dead bodies everywhere, silently.

Even the trees, flowers and grass withered and turned yellow. Without sight, even the plants died.

Chen Ning'an and Ma Wen did not move forward. Instead, they held lanterns and hid in the room behind the corner.

“Whether this place has only one rule or there are other rules, we don’t know.”

Ma Wen shouted that voice only after discussing with Chen Ning'an. They needed some people to help them investigate the situation.

If there were other rules, the two of them would be caught off guard and suffer a great loss.

"This village has a sense of separation that is hard to adapt to. There are rules in the living world. Are the rules even more powerful now that we have lanterns?"

There was a lot of worry in Ma Wen's words, worried that if one of them subconsciously left the sight, both of them would die.

“This problem shouldn’t be that big.”

Chen Ning'an looked around the house. The Dadong Village in another world was just a group of stone houses.

There was no one there, and Chen Ning'an found some torn papers in the room.

It is so old, it has turned yellow and tattered, but it is still somewhat usable.

"what are you up to?"

Ma Wen asked, he saw Chen Ningan folding and tearing it in his hands, and actually tore out two little paper figures.

He took out a brush from his bosom, dipped it in his own blood, painted the eyes and nose on one of the birds, and wrote some words A, B, C, and D.

After shaking off the blood on the pen, Chen Ning'an cut open Ma Wen's skin again, took the blood from his middle finger and repeated the action.

"What year were you born?" Chen Ning'an asked him, "What month, day and time?"

For some reason, Marvin always felt an incomprehensible discomfort when he saw this set of operations.

Mysterious? Perhaps that’s the right word, and it comes from that novel.

After Chen Ning'an finished doing all this, he put the two little figures on the table and let them look at each other.

"Is this good?"

Marvin didn't quite understand, but he chose to believe and understand with difficulty.

"Is this also what you said, the ability of higher life forms?"

"You can also understand it as an ability in the Lantern World."

Chen Ning'an told him: "The essence is different, but the way it is expressed is roughly the same."

They observed the lantern bearers coming and going and did not notice anything wrong with them.

"It is basically certain that the risk factor of the lantern this time is not high."

With enough understanding, Chen Ning'an took Ma Wen to the interior of Yadong.

"I don't understand why you didn't bring that girl with you. She should be very close to you."

Marvin asked, "I see you have a lot of similar features, are you brother and sister?"

"No, it's just because of some reasons. Besides, she doesn't need to participate in this lantern ceremony."

Chen Ning'an didn't say much. He planned to extinguish the lantern and then pick it up again when he reached Yadong.

Otherwise, if you walk here, I don’t know how long it will take to reach Yadong.

The candle went out, and Chen Ning'an and Ma Wen suddenly felt uncomfortable.

"and many more."

Chen Ning'an's expression changed slightly, and he quickly lit the candles for both of them.

The lights came back on and the two reappeared in the room.

"Why is this paper figure broken?"

Marvin frowned. He cared a lot about the paper figure and saw that it had been broken into pieces on the table.

Not only his, but also Chen Ningan's.

"When we finished holding the lantern just now, danger arose."

Chen Ning'an checked the paper man and put it together. He found that blood was flowing from the eyes, mouth and ears of the paper man, and the head was the most seriously shattered.

Marvin always felt that there was a sense of terror in the paper man.

"Did this paper man help us withstand an attack?"

He saw the meaning, "The cracks on these paper figures look like they were torn apart by something."

He looked at the paper man's chest and saw several very small holes. After a simulation, it seemed that a claw first penetrated and then tore it open fiercely.

"You said, were we attacked in this world or in the real world?"

"In this world."

Marvin affirmed, “The moment we finish holding the lantern.”

He was thankful that Chen Ning'an reacted quickly and lit the red candle in time so that they were not exposed and remained intact.

Chen Ningan smiled and said, "I've been waiting for this."

Just wait for them to extinguish the red candles, and then launch the attack.

"If you take the initiative to end the lantern, you may not return to the real world."

He saw through this Dadong Village and realized that danger always lurks in the distance.

To some extent, it is even more terrifying than the Cold Corpse Realm.

Marvin nodded, thinking that it would be better to hide and wait for it to be over.

But Chen Ningan asked him again: "Marven, if there is a treasure here, what kind of treasure would it be and how should we find it?"

Chen Ning'an actually still wants to find benefits. Doesn't he see the dangers?
Marvin couldn't help but admire the other party's calmness. For him, his brain was not as precise as before, and many of his reactions were not as sensitive as when he was in the real world.

"From what I understand, there are no such things as opportunities in this world. Even if there are, they are dangerous."

"If you want treasure, then that treasure is most likely the source of danger."

His speculation was correct; danger is opportunity, which was most directly reflected here.

"Help!"

Suddenly there was a cry of surprise in the darkness, and a smile appeared on Chen Ningan's lips. Isn't this the opportunity?

The two men approached the place where the screaming was coming from, and the first thing they saw was Hongzhu lying on the ground.

And... a person whose body was pierced, but not a drop of blood flowed out.

Chen Ning'an touched his knee and it was still warm, proving that he did not die because of the rules.

"He is the only one, the other one is missing."

Marvin's eyes moved between Chen Ning'an and the ground, looking for clues.

“There are water stains on the ground.”

He pointed to some wet spots and asked, "Are you going to chase them?"

Of course Chen Ning'an had to chase after him, but before doing so he took a detailed look at the deceased's wounds.

"Do you think this is similar to the wounds our paper figures got when they were attacked?"

Their chests were pierced, but their paper figures were completely shattered.

"There's only one water stain here. Monsters don't appear in pairs. It must have a way to solve the sight problem."

The two followed the water stains. The street outside was also muddy, but it was much better than Dadong Village, and there were bluestone roads appearing from time to time.

Although the houses near the bluestone road were also made of tiles, they had courtyards and stone walls, and looked much more luxurious.

The two walked past a house with a red lantern with the word "Dian" hung on it.

Chasing, they passed by the house again.

Because they wanted to keep their attention on their teammates, the two of them didn't notice it at first.

When passing for the third time, Ma Wen called Chen Ningan.

"We seem to be circling around here all the time. We have passed this house next door more than once. We may have encountered another rule."

"Ghost hits the wall?"

Chen Ning'an frowned and came to the door of the house.

The doors are very luxurious, nailed with iron nails and very thick.

He kept moving his eyes towards the red lanterns with the word "Dian" on them. Red lanterns are used for weddings, while the word "Dian" is for the dead.

What? This family wants to have a ghost marriage?
What's the point of stopping them?

"You've offended the wrong person." Chen Ning'an pushed open the door, and the other party had offended a professional.

(End of this chapter)