Chapter 71: Take Action!
The stench of decay spread, screams coming from underground, and getting deeper and deeper, farther and farther away.
“What to do?” Zhang Han looked at the ground. As expected, the ghost was killing someone.
But they were underground, and they were completely powerless.
“There’s no method. If I could activate Ghost Domain, I could still save them.”
As the Person in Charge, how could he give up rescuing those survivors when he could guarantee his own life safety?
“Just watching like this isn’t a solution.” Zhang Han’s eyes flickered.
“Then what’s a good method?”
To be honest, this was the first time he had seen such a situation.
How to handle a ghost using Ghost Domain to take survivors underground? Headquarters’ training didn’t cover this.
Da da da~!
Suddenly, footsteps sounded.
Both of their gazes instantly turned that way, expressions vigilant.
“Looks like your trouble is not small, even using up the Ghost Candle.”
A familiar voice rang out, followed by a person wearing a windbreaker and carrying a long box appearing at the Teaching Building doorway.
“Ye Feng?”
Zhang Han was stunned.
“And us.”
Yu Lin and Manyue walked out from the darkness, standing beside Ye Feng.
“Yu Lin, Manyue, you’ve all come.” Zhang Han was somewhat surprised.
Was this the whole nest mobilized?
Currently, besides the two Presidents, everyone from the Club was here.
Well, and one Si Zeyuan who didn’t know any better.
“How’s the situation?”
“Eh?”
Ye Feng’s gaze instantly fell on the ground, “There are people below?”
“Does this school have underground floors?”
Detective Lu shook his head and approached Ye Feng together with Zhang Han.
“No, this school has no underground floors. It was made by the ghost.”
“In Ghost Domain, nothing is to be trusted.”
“Those students probably encountered Ghost Wall, chased by the ghost, heading continuously underground.”
Hu~!
After Detective Lu finished speaking, he blew out the Ghost Candle in his hand.
The light disappeared, and the surroundings quickly fell into dimness.
A cold assaulted them.
Ye Feng’s gaze shifted, “Don’t you have Ghost Domain?”
Hearing this, Detective Lu sighed, “Ghost Domain is under Supernatural Suppression. I can’t activate Ghost Domain. This is the first time I’ve encountered this situation.”
“In previous Supernatural Events, I haven’t encountered this either.”
“No wonder.” Ye Feng realized. No wonder Detective Lu hadn’t tried to rescue those survivors.
“The trouble is not small. Without Ghost Domain, we have no escape route.”
Ye Feng stroked his chin, listening to the increasingly faint screams from underground, until they could no longer be heard.
He didn’t know if they were dead or if the distance from the ground was too far; the sounds had almost vanished.
“No need for rescue. In this school now, probably only those few underground are still alive.”
Ye Feng looked at Detective Lu and Zhang Han:
“First, tell me about that ghost. I saw you light the Ghost Candle just now, so you must have made contact.”
“Have you guessed its Killing Pattern? What’s the Terror Level?”
Detective Lu: “We haven’t guessed the Fierce Ghost’s Killing Pattern.”
“Terror Level… I can at most confront it one more time before Fierce Ghost Revival.”
“After lighting the Ghost Candle, one complete Ghost Candle is estimated to withstand four Fierce Ghost attacks.”
“Terror Level is very high.”
After Detective Lu finished, Zhang Han took over:
“I withstood one attack, barely managing it. I don’t know if it’s because the three ghosts I control don’t have high combined Terror Level, or if that ghost counters me. Anyway, I can’t withstand a second attack in the short term.”
“Right, Si Zeyuan was dragged away by the ghost. I don’t know his situation now. I guess he’s probably dead.” Zhang Han added.
Hearing their intelligence, Ye Feng nodded, his expression not much relieved.
“Even controlling three ghosts, only barely withstanding one attack.”
Ye Feng glanced at Zhang Han. Indeed, Zhang Han’s strength was somewhat weak. Though he controlled three ghosts, their Terror Levels weren’t high.
The Club had estimated that Zhang Han could handle B-level Supernatural Events, but once it involved A-level Supernatural Events, he might die inside.
The other Club members were roughly the same.
Individually, they could at most handle B-level Supernatural Events; combined, they might handle A-level Supernatural Events.
“Your call for aid was right.” Ye Feng thought for a moment and said.
“Right, Detective Lu, why didn’t you use your Satellite Positioning Mobile Phone?”
This was something he was very puzzled about. The International Police’s Satellite Positioning Mobile Phone, charged once, could last three months.
Moreover, the International Police basically wouldn’t make the low-level mistake of letting the phone run out of battery.
So why didn’t he use it?
Ye Feng glanced at the Satellite Positioning Mobile Phone on Detective Lu’s chest. Though the shell was old and exposed the gold inside, gold could isolate supernatural forces.
It wouldn’t be affected by supernatural forces.
So this Satellite Positioning Mobile Phone was definitely functional.
But why didn’t he use it?
It couldn’t be no signal, right.
Hearing this, Detective Lu looked at the phone on his chest and helplessly explained the reason.
It really was no signal.
Ye Feng: …
“Signal blocked. This absolutely isn’t caused by the ghost’s ability.”
“Someone activated something that can block satellite signals.”
Yu Lin: “Block satellite signals?”
“This thing can be blocked too?”
Ye Feng was also curious. This touched his knowledge blind spot.
“It can, but such things are basically handled by special departments. Ordinary people rarely have access to them.”
Hearing Detective Lu’s explanation, Ye Feng understood.
“Got it. That’s understandable.”
“Not talking about that.”
Ye Feng suddenly pointed underground, “That ghost will soon kill all the survivors below. What’s your idea?”
Detective Lu: “Before you came, I was thinking of going all out with Zhang Han to see if we could detain it.”
“Now that you’re here, we don’t need to risk our lives.”
“Five Ghost Controllers should be able to detain this ghost no matter what.”
Detective Lu felt that this Supernatural Event should be handled easily.
Five Ghost Controllers, besides him, the others weren’t those who controlled just one ghost.
Though three of them might have strength not matching his, numbers were enough.
“My idea is, wait for the Fierce Ghost to come out, then we all strike together, instantly detaining it and resolving this Supernatural Event.”
“Ye Feng, what do you think?” Detective Lu asked.
Ye Feng touched his pocket, thought for a moment, and nodded.
“No objections.”
Ghost Controllers dealing with Fierce Ghosts is actually simple: directly attack and suppress.
If can’t suppress, decisively run.
If can’t run, call for backup. If can’t hold out until support arrives, then wait for death.
A ghost with Ghost Domain will kill even without triggering its Killing Pattern.
“Let’s get out first. It’s not spacious here.”
Ye Feng looked around. This wasn’t a good confrontation environment.
No one objected, and they quickly left the Teaching Building, heading to the playground.
They currently had no good method. To find the Fierce Ghost, they could only wait for it to finish killing those survivors and come for them.
On the playground, corpses littered the ground. The several Ghost Controllers vigilantly watched their surroundings.
On top of the school building, a young man overlooked the scene below, a pair of eerie eyes faintly flickering on the mask.
“Let me see your worth. Don’t actually be a bunch of trash.”
The young man muttered to himself, then looked down at the corpse under his feet.
“Reform Society. Is this humans controlling ghosts, or ghosts controlling humans?”
“You’re the real anomaly.”
Lin Qian questioned the ‘corpse’ under his feet.
The ‘corpse’ abruptly opened its eyes:
“Anomaly? Short-sighted, narrow-minded.”
“This is the correct choice. Humans controlling ghosts will eventually die, but ghosts controlling humans is different.”
“The ghost gets ‘my’ memory. Is it the ghost, or ‘me’?”
“Lin Qian, understand: humans are entirely composed of memory.”
“If you have someone else’s memory, you are that person.”
“Similarly, if the ghost has my memory, isn’t the ghost me?”
“You can’t kill me. I’m already a ghost.”
“Nothing can kill a ghost!”
Lin Qian expressionlessly watched the clamoring ‘corpse’ under his feet.
This person was mad.
Ghosts controlling humans?
What mad idea was this?
If a ghost controlled human memory, would it be human?
Wouldn’t it still be a ghost?
“You’re a madman.”
“But I’m curious, is everyone in your Reform Society like you?”
“What’s the Reform Society’s creed? Reform, reforming what?”
“Trash.” The ‘corpse’ just said coldly, then closed its eyes and said nothing.
Lin Qian’s mouth twitched, “You think I really can’t do anything to you?”
“Ghost controls memory. Then, will that memory be erased?”
“Though I don’t know how you made the ghost get human memory.”
“But it doesn’t matter. What’s important is, I happen to have a method to strip memory.”
“You’re courting death!” The ‘corpse’ suddenly opened its eyes.
In the numb, lifeless eyes, no emotion was visible.
But Lin Qian knew the other had panicked.
Moreover, Lin Qian was certain he couldn’t kill the ghost, but as long as he kept suppressing it, making its supernatural forces dormant.
The other’s memory would disappear on its own.
“You’d better let me go now, or the Reform Society won’t let you go.”
“Is that so?”
Lin Qian slowly increased Suppression Power.
The other immediately said: “You really not afraid of death?”
“I don’t know if I’m afraid of death.”
“But I know, if you don’t tell me what I want to know, you’ll really die.”
“I know a bit about anomalies.”
“Relying on supernatural forces to maintain your consciousness. If I suppress your supernatural forces, you’ll really die.”
“Without supernatural forces maintaining your memory, your memory will be like rootless duckweed, eventually dying.”
The ‘corpse’s eyes moved, terror in its heart, “How does he know!”
Humans controlling ghosts and ghosts controlling humans aren’t much different, just the essence differs.
Ghost Controllers, if eroded too deeply by Fierce Ghosts, die instantly if the Fierce Ghost is suppressed.
Similarly for him.
Even Lin Qian was the same.
His body was long no longer that of a living person.
Once supernatural forces were suppressed, he would die instantly.
“I said, in this world, nothing can kill a Fierce Ghost.”
The ‘corpse’ remained stubborn.
Lin Qian realized this person was soft all over, except his mouth was still hard.
“Fine, fine, keep being stubborn. Next, I absolutely won’t ease the suppression.”
“Hehe.” The ‘corpse’ sneered coldly, unafraid.
Lin Qian stopped talking nonsense and directly used Ghost Messenger’s Suppression Power to forcibly suppress the Fierce Ghost.
The ‘corpse’s opened eyes instantly closed.
“Mouth really hard.”
Lin Qian’s mouth twitched.
Though he said that, Lin Qian liked such stubborn subordinates.
Any other boss with such a hard-mouthed subordinate would laugh awake at night.
“What a Reform Society, truly eerie.”
Even coming up with ghosts controlling humans.
This Reform Society was about to turn the world upside down.
Ghosts getting human memory— wasn’t that equivalent to Fierce Ghosts with wisdom?
This Reform Society definitely had issues.
Lin Qian reached out, yin cold emerging on his five fingers. He directly grabbed the ‘corpse’s face.
Instantly, a bizarre scene: the ‘corpse’s face peeled off like a face mask, easily torn by Lin Qian.
“I can’t peek at your memory yet, but I can preserve it.”
The faceless ‘corpse’ had now completely become a ghost.
Looking at the thin-as-cicada-wing face skin in his hand, he detained it into the Golden Box.
Waiting for later, when he had means to peek at memory, to examine this Reform Society member’s memory.
Below, darkness enveloped the playground.
Corpses scattered on the ground like trash.
Lin Qian watched: five Ghost Controllers waiting for the Fierce Ghost to appear.
This Supernatural Event that destroyed a century-old university would finally be contained.
The five vigilantly watched their surroundings.
Suddenly.
The surrounding darkness abruptly intensified.
A thick, pungent corpse stench appeared.
“It’s coming!”
Zhang Han and Detective Lu, who had confronted that ghost once, knew clearly what this corpse stench meant.
Everyone’s expressions tightened.
Sure enough, from the direction toward the Teaching Building, in the darkness.
A girl with a numb expression, barefoot, walked out from the Teaching Building.
Heading this way.
“Everyone be careful. This ghost is even more terrifying.” Detective Lu said gravely.
“A terrifying ghost.”
The moment this ghost appeared, Ye Feng clearly felt the two non-dormant ghosts in his body stir.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, touched the golden small box in his pocket, feeling much more at ease.
“Prepare to act, everyone go all out.”
They were all Ghost Controllers with one dormant Fierce Ghost. As long as the dormant ghost could suppress the revived ghost, they wouldn’t face Fierce Ghost Revival.
If they didn’t go all out, they really deserved to die.
Except for Detective Lu, the others knew what to do.
Zhang Han exhaled, took off his clothes and threw them on the ground.
A ferocious Fierce Ghost tattoo was revealed.
Zhang Han’s bones crackled, and the tattoo on his back suddenly opened a pair of lifeless, numb eyes.
Yin cold covered Zhang Han’s whole body.
Yu Lin licked his lips, his arm trembling slightly, yin cold rising from the arm.
Black threads tore through Yu Lin’s arm flesh, wriggling to wrap his entire arm.
In the blink of an eye, Yu Lin’s arm became a bizarre arm completely composed of black threads.
Manyue’s eyes flickered. There were no obvious changes on her body, but in her watery eyes, the black pupils suddenly split into four parts.
The bizarre scene made one’s hair stand on end.
Ye Feng glanced at Zhang Han and their preparations, grinned. They all looked impressive.
He was different; he didn’t look impressive.
Under the pitch-black windbreaker, the blood-red Death Robe emitted a thick bloody smell.
Ye Feng rubbed his hands, blood seeping from his clothes, wrapping his hands.
Blood spread. A mouth abruptly tore open on Ye Feng’s cheek.
Immediately, a ferocious sharp mouth appeared. The sharp mouth opened, revealing sharp teeth still dripping blood.
Detective Lu swallowed, “Fuck, these people look even more terrifying than me?”
But now wasn’t the time to think about that. The Fierce Ghost ahead was approaching.
Detective Lu stared fixedly at that ghost, supernatural forces surging on his body, waiting for it to reach a certain distance.
One step, two steps…
The Fierce Ghost walked slowly, its snow-white long legs stepping on corpses, stained with rotten corpse blood.
Yin cold arrived.
Suddenly.
The darkness surged violently, rushing toward them!
“Attack!” Ye Feng shouted.
