A Manual for Surviving a Weird World

Chapter 391 Everyone has their own agenda
As the saying goes, there must be something fishy going on when things are out of the ordinary. Ning Zhe naturally didn't think that 20-year-old Feng Yushu was pregnant with Jesus. His first reaction to this matter was that something strange was at play.

Bai Zhi is 19 years old this year. Her mother was pregnant with her almost 20 years ago, before Ning Zhe was even born.

Ning Zhe, as an ascendant, has limited experience and knows almost nothing about those ancient and mysterious events buried in history. However, his ignorance does not mean that other ascendants are unaware of them.

The rules of Taiyi quietly began to operate, and one different 'identity' after another unfolded in Ning Zhe's mind:

'Fenwu in Lan Shiwen's Understanding'

'Ji Bo's understanding of resentment and desolation'

'Lan Shiwen as perceived by An Xiaoyu'...

As the stolen identity fragments became more numerous and complete, Ning Zhe's accumulated knowledge was already quite substantial. However, an overly complex collection of memories was both a treasure and a burden. Although, under the anchoring of Jue Yuan, even the most complex memories could not shake Ning Zhe's self-awareness, the sheer volume of information in his brain still significantly slowed down his thinking efficiency and reduced the speed at which he could recall certain events.

It's like a computer hard drive filled with all sorts of junk data. Although all the functions can still run normally, the efficiency of reading files and searching for keywords has become extremely slow.

After much effort, Ning Zhe successfully found information about 'pregnancy out of thin air' in the vast memory bank.

It was a bizarre event codenamed "Ghost Fetus".

This was an extremely unusual and bizarre event, unlike any ghost Ning Zhe had ever seen. It was not like the snake god, which would simply find a place to coil up and stay there, nor was it like the gambling ghost, which was always busy looking for people to play games with.

The eerie entity that descends into the real world in the form of a "ghost fetus" will directly attach itself to a person.

The "ghost fetus" has no preference for the gender of the host; both men and women may carry a ghost fetus. However, there is no precedent so far of a man who has carried a ghost fetus successfully surviving until the child is born.

Men are in danger, but women carrying ghost fetuses are not safe either. The core rules of the eerie creature curled up in a woman's womb still apply. If anyone violates the rules in the vicinity of the pregnant woman and disturbs the ghost fetus, the fetus in the woman's womb will instantly wake up, tear open the mother's body, burst out of her womb, and transform into a hideous demon.

The first recorded case of a ghost fetus born normally without being disturbed during pregnancy is named:

[Lan Shiwen]

"Xiao Lan?" This unexpected information made Ning Zhe pause for a moment: "So he's not human... How come I'm not surprised at all?"

Skipping over Lan Shiwen's various personal information, Ning Zhe finished reading the other information related to the "ghost fetus". Bai Zhi's name was not among them, but he did find the code name "Yin Lishang" with the name of the plague god.

“The records of ghost fetuses I could find did not include Bai Zhi, which means that she is a ghost fetus that has not been recorded.” Ning Zhe understood.

As for why Bai Zhi, this wicked child, wasn't recorded... Ning Zhe turned his attention back to Feng Yushu's memories.

Feng Yushu's memories were altered by Tai Chong.

The unaltered original memory that Ning Zhe saw using his Tai Chong power was 'getting pregnant without having a boyfriend.' In the altered version of the memory, Feng Yushu was forced to attend a party where her classmates got her drunk, and a male classmate named Bai Fugui took her back to her residence.

She didn't know what happened after that. Later, as the "ghost child" in her belly started to show, she felt that she had been taken advantage of. After all, a virgin who had never had a boyfriend didn't know how to judge whether she had been violated.

“Anger…”

Comparing the two versions of his memory, Ning Zhe could easily guess what really happened:
"Feng Yushu's pregnancy with a ghost child attracted Fenwu's attention. Because of Lan Shiwen's incident, he attached great importance to this ghost child. For this reason, he did not hesitate to modify Feng Yushu's memory, fabricate facts, and possess a male college student named 'Bai Fugui' to become the ghost's cheap biological father."

No wonder Bai Zhi wasn't recorded in Kyushu's bizarre archives, because this ghost fetus was raised by the Fenwu family.

Ning Zhe continued browsing through Feng Yushu's memories.

Feng Yushu attended the same university as her father, and after the pregnancy began to show, the news quickly reached her parents' ears. At first, Feng Yushu's parents scolded their daughter, regarding her premarital pregnancy as a disgrace to the family, and ordered her to abort the child immediately. This almost caused Feng Yushu to have a mental breakdown.

However, after meeting the culprit who caused their daughter's pregnancy, Feng Yushu's parents' attitude took a 180-degree turn. They greatly admired this young man named Bai Fugui, completely disregarding the disparity in their families' financial situations. They seemed very satisfied with this son-in-law who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and even stopped mentioning the abortion.

Feng Yushu had no feelings for Bai Fugui, a classmate she didn't know, but she had been used to obeying her parents' arrangements since she was a child. Soon she got engaged to Bai Fugui and continued her studies while taking care of her pregnancy.

"After the engagement, Feng Yushu left the university town and lived alone in the apartment rented by her parents. This was a stable environment that Fenwu had carefully prepared for the 'evil child' in her womb." Ning Zhe thought for a moment and quickly understood the operation.

After all, the university town is densely populated, and the rules of the Ghost Fetus are completely unknown. If Feng Yushu is allowed to continue her studies, who knows when a lucky student might accidentally trigger the rules and alarm the Ghost Fetus.

In the days that followed, Feng Yushu lived alone in an apartment outside the city, without even a nanny—more people meant more risk.

Bai Fugui, under Fenwu's control, started his business as a college student and steadily built it up. With the halo of his status as a young talent, he suppressed the rumors about Feng Yushu's premarital pregnancy and eliminated all unstable factors.

Ten months later, the illegitimate child was born, and Bai Zhi was born.

Just like any other newborn human, Bai Zhi was born with long fingernails and sharp teeth. She was a fair-skinned and tender girl with gentle features that resembled her mother.

At that time, Feng Yushu was just an ordinary female college student who did not know what an "upgraded person" or a "ghost child" was. She spent what should have been the most wonderful years of her youth in a poor and lonely environment. All she knew was that this was her daughter.

While Feng Yushu held her daughter in the delivery room, tears streaming down her face, Fenwu outside the hospital did not let his guard down for a moment.

The successful delivery of a ghost fetus does not mean it has become completely harmless. Although it appears as a baby, it is still a dangerous and vengeful ghost in its essence.

To calm down the evil spirit that could go berserk at any moment, a series of follow-up measures are needed.

The most important one is:
—Let Him think He is a human being.

(End of this chapter)