Chapter 21: The Strange Gourd

  He was so engrossed in his studies that time flew by again, and it wasn't until Guo Zhengyang felt a bit dizzy from using his brain for too long that he sat up straight and stretched his waist. It was only when he stretched his waist that he discovered he was the only one left in the classroom.

  A person, Guo Zhengyang thought this was a good thing, because when there's no one around, he can relax more, so he quickly got up and walked out of the classroom, standing outside the window to take a breath of cool morning air before taking out a cigarette and lighting it.

  He has been familiar with dizziness caused by long-term brain use for a long time, and he can recover as long as he takes a short rest.

  But unexpectedly, when he finished a cigarette quietly and was about to return to the classroom to continue his struggle, an idea suddenly appeared in his mind.

  Kuang Zhengyang suddenly stopped in his tracks, and a hint of astonishment also flashed across his eyes.

  The idea has emerged again?

  The first thought appeared more than ten days ago, and after an interval of over ten days, it reappeared for the second time this afternoon. How did it appear again just over ten hours later?

  In his astonishment, Guo Zhengyang carefully sensed it again, and only then did he suddenly realize that this time the emergence of the intention was different from the previous two times. This time, the message it conveyed was to let him go to a certain place to gain opportunities, which was expressed very clearly.

  But it's no longer like the first two times, just letting him go somewhere and saying that there will be benefits.

  "Have I found an opportunity? It was him, the long-haired man from yesterday afternoon... So this idea really helped me steal his chance."

  Guo Zhengyang was even more shocked to find out that after killing the target person indicated by his intention, he not only gained sin but also obtained the other party's fate.

  After reaping the guilt yesterday, there were no other situations, and Guo Zhengyang also thought that yesterday's hunt had completely ended. Who would have thought that after more than ten hours since the incident, this turn of events would appear again?

  "It's really a robbery of fate, if I don't follow the guidance of my thoughts, even if I find the target and see that the other person gets their own fate, even if I think of ways to get that fate from the target's hands, things will be thoroughly ended and no more sin will appear. But if I follow the guidance of my thoughts and act accordingly, I won't just be able to get the other person's fate, but also gain those gray energies that refine my body... isn't this tempting me to keep killing people? ...and this guy even has a compelling or slowly bewitching effect on me."

  Having understood everything, Guo Zhengyang cursed under his breath, but he quickly turned around and locked up the classrooms before following the guidance of his intuition out of the campus.

  Since this time the intention is to let him go and harvest the already seized opportunity, even if he doesn't go, it's a waste, so why not take a trip. Who knows, maybe he'll get a few more elixirs, that would be wonderful.

  But as he walked along the road guided by the directions, he went further and further away, and even gradually left the county town, a hint of astonishment flashed in Guo Zhengyang's eyes again.

  So far?

  Just half an hour ago, he was walking as fast as flying, with a speed comparable to that of an ordinary person's 100-meter dash, and could walk a mile in one minute. However, after walking for half an hour, he had already left the county town and arrived at a desolate wilderness, yet still hadn't arrived?

  "Right, the long-haired man was preparing to tear up his ticket yesterday afternoon. If he hadn't died, after tearing up the ticket, he would definitely want to escape from Mingchuan City. So, it can be said that the opportunity he is about to encounter is one he will meet while fleeing?"

  In shock, Guo Zhengyang thought for a moment and then sighed, if the opportunity he was about to seize was encountered during the long-haired man's escape, where would the final destination be? What if it was in another city or hundreds of miles away, how far would he have to go?

  But now it's 2 am and he is on a remote highway outside the county town. Is he going to go back to the county town to find a car?

  Helpless, Guo Zhengyang could only continue on his way. After walking for more than half an hour again, he really didn't know where he was, but roughly estimated that the distance from Yigao had already been 30 or 40 kilometers, and the guidance of his intention finally changed.

  Guo Zhengyang also followed the guide and walked down a deep ditch on the side of the road.

  Ten seconds later, he stood up again with a mud-covered broken gourd in his hand, and his eyes were full of weirdness.

  This is the ultimate goal of mind guidance.

  Is this the fate of the long-haired man? How could it be a broken gourd in a ditch on a rural highway? If the other party didn't die, they should have escaped, and it's not impossible that they took this route. But how did the person who escaped to this desolate wilderness end up finding such a broken gourd in a ditch?

  Was it also like last time with Yang Lulu, where she was walking and a gourd fell from the sky and was discovered by the long-haired man who was escaping?

  This is impossible, because when the gourd was in the ditch just now, only a small half of its body was exposed outside the mud, and the surrounding mud covered most of its body very well. It's absolutely not the case that it fell from the sky and made a hole.

  This gourd should have been there for a long time, with wind and rain, and a little bit of mud sedimentation, I don't know how long it took to form the situation where the soil was naturally buried just now.

  "If this is really the fate of the long-haired man, he wouldn't have escaped to here, stopped to pee and accidentally fell into the ditch, just happened to fall near this broken gourd, and only then discovered it?"

  The more Guo Zhengyang thought about it, the stranger he felt, and this broken gourd didn't seem to be anything special. He sensed it a bit, but there was no spiritual energy fluctuation at all. After wiping off the mud on the gourd, he took out his lighter and shone it from front and back, roughly making out the shape of the gourd.

  This is just like a calabash that looks like it was freshly picked from the vine, can be held in one hand, and far from being as beautiful as the calabashes sold on the market. On the contrary, the mouth of the calabash is a bit crooked, and the upper body is not very smooth. Just looking at its shape, it's just a long, deformed calabash.

  And this gourd is all black and gray in color, which also looks a bit ugly.

  It's a bit heavier than a normal calabaza when held in your hand, but not excessively so, weighing around several hundred grams.

  The idea in Guo Zhengyang's mind had also dissipated at this time, because the idea had already guided him to obtain the opportunity, but with this opportunity in hand, Guo Zhengyang really stared blankly.

  The last opportunity was a Huahua Dan, which helped him greatly. That was indeed a good opportunity, but this time it's such a strange gourd. Just holding the gourd and feeling around, no matter how he looked at it, Guo Zhengyang couldn't see any wonderful place, but his body shook again, and he suddenly touched his stomach.

  "Full? How did I suddenly feel so full... it's too weird, I walked 30-40 kilometers, which is a very energy-consuming exercise, and I was already feeling a bit hungry on the way, but how did I suddenly feel so full, so full that I want to vomit. This broken gourd doesn't look any different from usual, but my body has suddenly changed, with a strong feeling of fullness, a feeling that makes me want to find a place to throw up, which also made Guo Zhengyang's face change color."

  This body reaction is too abnormal, and it's so strange and abrupt, what's going on?

  Guo Zhengyang suppressed that feeling and stroked his belly, thinking carefully. After a moment of contemplation, he looked at the gourd in his other hand with great surprise. Because he suddenly discovered that the very full feeling was actually transmitted to him by this gourd.

  "This gourd is so full... and it's actually transmitting this feeling of fullness into my body, making me want to vomit. What kind of thing is this?" In his astonishment, Guo Zhengyang suddenly bent over, holding the gourd with one hand on his knee, and started vomiting.

  This is what the calabash brought to his feeling, so this vomiting didn't spit out anything at all. To know that he was already hungry on the way here, where did he still have things to vomit?

  With a sudden movement, Guo Zhengyang threw away the gourd again. As soon as he let go of the gourd, the feeling of being full and wanting to vomit suddenly disappeared. Guo Zhengyang straightened up, his face full of weirdness.

  By now, he was certain that this gourd was not an ordinary object. He must be taking it back with him, but as soon as he held it in his hand, he felt nauseous and wanted to vomit?

  Guo Zhengyang looked at the gourd on the ground with a strange gaze, and only then did he take off his outer garment. He wondered if it would work to wrap the gourd in his clothes before picking it up. As he tentatively covered the gourd with his clothing, another bizarre change suddenly occurred - Guo Zhengyang's outer garment had just wrapped around the gourd when it suddenly vanished with a whoosh. Even when Guo Zhengyang took out his lighter to illuminate the area, he couldn't see where his jacket had gone, even though it was still in his hand just a few seconds ago.

  "Damn, my clothes were swallowed by this gourd?" No matter how hard he looked, Guo Zhengyang's gaze finally fell on the black and gray mottled calabaza. No matter how he looked at it or sensed it, it was just a dull and unremarkable calabaza, which was even a bit ugly to look at. But the problem was that after really coming into contact with this calabaza, its strangeness had repeatedly shocked him.

  Was even the overcoat swallowed by this gourd?

  What did he do next?

  Hold it in your hand? No way, as soon as you pick it up, you want to vomit and can't walk at all. Wrap it with something else? In this desolate wilderness, there's nothing usable, all mud and dirt, how about taking off another piece of clothing to wrap it around?

  What if I get swallowed again?

  Now the weather is gradually warming up, and Guo Zhengyang's clothes were originally not thick anyway.

  The upper body is just a warm undershirt, a dress shirt, and an added casual suit jacket.