Chapter 43: The Arriving Ghost Domain
“Chu He, are we just going to keep hiding like this?”
Da Jiang City, suburbs, inside an old building, two men and two women were crowded in a small guest room.
“What else?”
“Li Yong has already gone mad, and since he can’t have a good outcome himself, he’s thinking of dragging us down with him.”
Chu He looked somewhat exhausted; she hadn’t slept a wink in these two days of hiding and fleeing.
“Yu Lin, you’d better stay put honestly and wait for the president to return; everything will be resolved then.”
Manyue smoked, gazing at the gloomy sky outside the window.
Da Jiang City right now was extremely dangerous.
Two ghosts were killing people in Da Jiang City.
The person in charge of this city was clearly useless.
Allowing fierce ghosts to run rampant.
Although one of the ghosts had a ghost domain, that wasn’t a reason for you, Li Yong, to just wash your hands of it.
They didn’t know that Li Yong had already tried to handle this supernatural event and even dragged Lin Qian down with him.
When they learned that Li Yong had sent people to kill them, Chu He had already arranged for them to escape.
“I didn’t say I was going to do anything.” Yu Lin curled his lip.
“Chu He, where exactly has the president gone?”
“He wouldn’t really have run away like we guessed, right?”
Hearing this, Chu He turned back and glanced at Yu Lin, “If you have the guts, save those words for the president.”
Yu Lin’s mouth twitched, “Are you stupid? Do you think I’d say that?”
He wasn’t Li Yong, who had a screw loose in his head; with his own troubles piling up, he still thought of sending people to kill them.
He still had some time before fierce ghost revival, so his brain hadn’t gone bad yet.
“Chu He, just give us a little hint about the president’s whereabouts. Are we going to keep hiding until the president comes back?”
“At least give us some hope.” Manyue looked at Chu He with an exhausted expression.
Living every day in constant fear was something no one wanted.
They didn’t want to die, and even less did they want to live like rats in the sewers.
If the president returned too late, they would leave Da Jiang City and go live in another city.
They were just small fries; the games between big shots— even a bit of the fallout was enough to doom them eternally.
Three pairs of exhausted eyes were all fixed on Chu He.
Chu He fell silent for a long time before nodding.
“The president is in Da Chang City now. At nine o’clock this morning, ten billion was deposited into the company account, and someone contacted me saying that something belonging to the president would be delivered tomorrow.”
“The president should be handling things at Little Strong Club in Da Chang City right now and might be back soon.”
“Maybe he’s already on his way back.”
Chu He told them everything she knew and everything she guessed.
As an ordinary person hiding with three ghost controllers, she felt some pressure no matter what.
Ghost controllers were all inhuman existences.
She was just an ordinary person.
For an ordinary person to have done this much was already excellent enough.
After all, Chu He had always been doing things with her head on the line.
As soon as Chu He spoke, the three of them immediately showed wonderful expressions.
“I knew the president wouldn’t run away. So he went to Little Strong Club in Da Chang City.”
They all knew that Little Strong Club was the superior club to Black Eight Club.
The members of Black Eight Club felt relieved at this moment.
Of course, the main reason wasn’t knowing the president’s news, but that ten billion.
……
“This is your club?”
Three sports cars stopped in front of a villa.
Lin Qian rubbed his neck, “No special conditions; I just took it over not long ago and didn’t think of changing it. We can move to the city center later.”
Wang Xiaoqiang nodded; after dealing with that ghost controller named Li Yong, it wouldn’t be quite right to keep staying here.
The villa wasn’t locked, so the three of them pushed the door open and went in directly.
“Looks like while you were away, some things happened.”
The three stood at the doorway, looking at the wreckage in the hall.
Basically nothing intact could be seen.
Everything had been smashed to pieces.
Those in the know would realize people lived here; those who didn’t would think it was about to be demolished.
Lin Qian sensed the situation inside the villa: empty, no one there.
His members must not have had a good time during the days he was away.
He just didn’t know if they were still alive.
Lin Qian took out his phone and dialed Chu He’s number.
The call connected quickly; Lin Qian got a simple update on the situation and grinned.
“At the end of their rope, and they even thought of cutting losses in time.”
“A smart guy after all.”
He hung up the phone.
Lin Qian looked at Wang Xiaoqiang and Ye Feng, “We’ll go straight to their door soon.”
“So soon?” Wang Xiaoqiang was stunned. No rest at all, just go right in?
Was Lin Qian’s temper that bad?
“A fortune doesn’t return home like wearing fine clothes at night. The opponent’s condition isn’t good now; strike while he’s sick, to take his life.”
Lin Qian briefly explained what had happened in Da Jiang City over the past two days.
After hearing it, Wang Xiaoqiang’s expression became wonderful.
This guy named Li Yong had such good luck?
Encountering two terrifying ghosts at once?
“Your secretary has some capability.” Wang Xiaoqiang suddenly thought of something and spoke up.
“Indeed, she even got this kind of intelligence. Hmm, she also turned one ghost controller.”
“She’s very smart. Although she’s an ordinary person, a club can’t be full of brainless ghost controllers, right?”
Wang Xiaoqiang deeply agreed; if a ghost controller organization was full of guys whose brains were fried by supernatural revival, that club could just be called a gathering place for reckless fools.
“My three members will be here soon. You stay here and discuss the merger of the two clubs with Chu He.”
“I’ll take Ye Feng to find their base.”
Lin Qian couldn’t wait to kill Li Yong now.
He originally hadn’t taken this guy seriously, but this dog thing was really good; whenever there was something good, he thought of him.
Not only was he targeted by the knocking ghost, but he also tried every way to drag him down too.
“Be careful yourself.” Wang Xiaoqiang didn’t refuse. Although he was a ghost controller, the ghost in him wasn’t good at combat; he could self-protect, but if he encountered a ghost that could rot flesh and blood, he’d be done for.
He wasn’t worried about Lin Qian flipping the car either; back when Lin Qian was still in Da Chang City, he had already controlled the ghost in the coffin.
An A-level fierce ghost.
Now Lin Qian was a ghost controller who had controlled four ghosts; his terror level was unquestionable, and with Ye Feng there, the two of them wouldn’t be in any danger.
It was just going to kill people, not handle a supernatural event; no need to worry too much.
Lin Qian nodded.
He took Ye Feng and headed toward the city center.
Now, the fierce ghosts he controlled were as follows: part of the ghost performer’s supernatural power, Wu Xun’s fierce ghost, Wang Zelong’s fierce ghost, Feng Quan’s mist ghost, part of the ghost messenger’s supernatural power, and the female ghost named the killer ghost by headquarters.
Adding up to supernatural power from six ghosts in total.
The ghost messenger could be excluded; that was just suppression power.
After all, he had only plundered the ghost messenger’s suppression power, not its killing pattern.
Now he had single-target attacks, group attacks, and escape abilities.
In less than half a month, he had gone from an ordinary person to a ghost controller wielding supernatural power from six ghosts.
All of this was thanks to his overbearing golden finger, plunder.
Lin Qian had also discovered that the lower the terror level of the ghost, the easier it was for him to plunder it, and the easier it was to cause ghost crash.
The opposite for higher ones.
But if the fierce ghost was in a detained state, he had a probability of plundering it entirely.
Meaning complete control of the whole ghost, without ending up with only part of its supernatural power.
Of course, such plundering didn’t increase the ghost crash probability; after all, the fierce ghost’s terror level was what it was.
It couldn’t be that the ghost became weak just because it was detained.
That wasn’t the logic.
Currently, two ghosts in him had crashed, and four hadn’t.
Although the four ghosts hadn’t crashed, the ghost messenger could perfectly suppress the revival of three fierce ghosts, while the other ghosts were also suppressing the ghost messenger, keeping it dormant.
This was a weird balance, a balance Lin Qian couldn’t understand.
In short, Lin Qian was very strong now and could easily take down Li Yong.
“President, shouldn’t we notify those three members?”
In the car, Ye Feng drove while Lin Qian gave directions; the two sped toward the city center.
“Three ghost controllers: two fierce ghosts close to revival, one weakling.”
“No, all three are weaklings. If they go, it’ll just be sending human heads.”
“Li Yong isn’t simple. Back when I had controlled three ghosts, I didn’t dare tear into him face-to-face, so he still has some strength.”
“Of course, that also had to do with the fierce ghosts I controlled being too weak.”
Wang Zelong’s ghost complemented the ghost performer’s killing pattern, but its terror level wasn’t high.
Wu Xun’s ghost had a strange killing pattern; similarly, low terror level.
Although after full revival, the terror level would be passable, it still fell short compared to an A-level supernatural event.
At the time, he hadn’t been confident enough to take down Li Yong, so he tolerated the guy jumping around in front of him, and in the end, he even got pitted.
But now, his strength was sufficient.
“True, ghost controllers without controlling a second ghost die very quickly.” Ye Feng deeply agreed; He Sheng, Zhang Yiming, Ye Jun, Ouyang Tian had all died that way.
Ghost controllers with only one ghost, aside from the initial slow revival after starting to use supernatural revival, every subsequent use doubled the revival time.
For example, Yang Jian had become a ghost controller less than a month ago, and his ghost was already on the verge of revival.
But now, he had controlled two ghosts, stopping the revival, without any impact on his strength.
That was the path of ghost controllers: slow fierce ghost revival at first, weak supernatural power, but as the fierce ghost gradually revived, it became more and more terrifying until full revival.
If at that point, they controlled a second ghost to balance the fierce ghost revival, creating mutual suppression, then that ghost controller could use the supernatural power of a near-revived fierce ghost.
That terror level was on another level.
Overall, the closer a ghost controller was to revival, the more terrifying, but also the closer to death.
Among Yu Lin and the other two, two were not far from fierce ghost revival, so logically their strength should be terrifying, but ghosts had limits.
Lin Qian had confirmed the ghosts in these three; even fully revived, together they might just barely reach the threshold of an A-level supernatural event.
Ghosts were very complex things, extremely hard to research.
Terrifying, undead, emotionless, like a machine that only kills.
Ghosts were like that.
……
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Da Jiang City, commercial street.
Lin Qian got out of the sports car and stared at the tallest mansion in the city center not far away.
“Do you feel it?” Ye Feng got out of the car, stood beside Lin Qian, and gravely looked at the distant building.
“I feel it.”
Not only did he feel it, he sensed it even more clearly than Ye Feng.
His ghost performer was restless; if not for being firmly suppressed, it might have already started preparing for fierce ghost revival.
The ghost performer was inside that building.
“Li Yong’s in big trouble.” Ye Feng took out a cigarette and handed one to Lin Qian.
Lin Qian took it, lit up, and the two leaned against the sports car, puffing away.
“If they’re in big trouble, ours won’t be too bad.”
“Best if they die at that ghost’s hands.”
Hearing this, Ye Feng nodded, “Then we won’t even need to act.”
That would be the best outcome.
But Lin Qian shook his head, “Still need to act; I want to try detaining that ghost.”
He never forgot that he was being chased by a ghost.
While the ghost performer had killed few people now and its terror level hadn’t risen yet, he needed to fully control it quickly, or else once its terror level increased, he might really get taken down by it.
He wasn’t the type to sit and watch it grow more terrifying.
“Besides, we need to finish them off. You’re not sure if they all died at that ghost’s hands.”
“Cut the grass, remove the roots.”
Hearing Lin Qian’s words, Ye Feng’s eyes flickered slightly, and he nodded, “You’re much more decisive than Wang Xiaoqiang.”
“Of course, that’s why I’m the president.”
“You… you’re Lin Qian?”
Lin Qian and Ye Feng both looked up.
Several people dressed as students froze upon seeing them look up, then hurried over.
Four people, two men and two women.
Their faces seemed familiar.
Like he’d seen them before.
“Holy crap, it really is you.”
A tall boy looked at Lin Qian in surprise, his eyes full of shock.
Lin Qian sized up this overly familiar boy, puzzled.
He didn’t seem to know this person.
But he felt familiar.
“Lin Qian, this is… your car?”
Among the two girls, a flamboyantly dressed woman looked at Lin Qian oddly.
Though looking at Lin Qian, most of her gaze fell on the sports car behind him.
Lin Qian frowned: familiar, increasingly familiar. He carefully recalled his memories.
Various scenes flashed by, then froze: the four faces appeared.
Matching the four in front of him.
Zhang Hua, Chen Ping, Li Manman, Zhao Xiyun.
Through his memories, Lin Qian learned these four were his predecessor’s university classmates.
All in the same class; Zhang Hua and Chen Ping were even his dormmates.
Memory insight complete, Lin Qian came back to his senses.
“These guys…” Ye Feng narrowed his eyes at the four overly familiar people; the first student who approached was now circling the sports car, touching it here and there.
“My classmates.”
Lin Qian thought for a moment and said.
Hearing this, Ye Feng nodded, “Oh, classmates.”
Ye Feng had just now realized that their current president was actually still a university student.
“Lin Qian, what’s your situation?”
Chen Ping looked at Lin Qian, then at Ye Feng beside him, then at the sports car.
“Why haven’t you been to school lately? The counselor can’t reach you or your family either. Did something happen to you?” Zhao Xiyun’s eyes flickered slightly; she looked at Lin Qian with some worry.
Her expression seemed genuine, but when she confirmed it was him, she quickly moved a bit away from Chen Ping.
Chen Ping’s face changed slightly at that moment but soon returned to calm.
Lin Qian ignored these details; who didn’t have some melodramatic stuff in university life? Who didn’t have a crush?
Anyway, he wasn’t his predecessor; he wouldn’t rush to be a simp.
“Xiyun, listen to you; Lin Qian’s driving a sports car now—what could happen to him?”
Li Manman pretended to chide Captain Zhao Xiyun.
Then she turned to Lin Qian, her gaze soft as water, a hint of spring in her brows, “Right~ Lin Qian?”
Zhao Xiyun’s face changed slightly, but due to face, she didn’t dare say much and could only suppress her dissatisfaction.
Lin Qian frowned; he remembered his relationship with this girl wasn’t good.
They hadn’t had much interaction in school.
Just in the same classroom.
“President.”
Ye Feng had been watching the drama with interest, but suddenly his expression turned grave.
He looked around; at some point, the surroundings had become gloomy.
The sky was now being shrouded in deep darkness.
Lin Qian looked up slightly, “Both ghosts are here.”
Ye Feng narrowed his eyes, “Knocking ghost incident?”
Lin Qian nodded, “I’ve been targeted by the knocking ghost too, and so has Li Yong.”
“The knocking ghost has probably always been in Da Jiang City and never left.”
“Looks like it’ll be a bit troublesome.” Ye Feng’s mood grew heavy; facing two ghosts at once—if not careful, they’d die.
“Indeed, the knocking ghost’s terror level is very high. Let’s go check Li Yong’s situation first.”
If Li Yong wasn’t dead, they’d finish him off; if he was, they’d try to detain the ghost performer and control it.
Anyway, he didn’t want to run into the knocking ghost outside.
“Lin Qian, are you guys talking about a novel?”
“Why did it suddenly get dark?”
The four listened to Lin Qian and Ye Feng’s exchange, their faces changing slightly.
The surroundings were clearly off.
Especially after hearing what Lin Qian and Ye Feng said, they felt even more uneasy.
Lin Qian couldn’t be bothered with these classmates.
He looked at the tallest building not far away, “Charge straight in.”
Hearing this, Ye Feng nodded.
The four grew more confused and increasingly uneasy.
“You guys have bad luck, but that’s normal too.”
Lin Qian glanced at the four; from his memories, none had good relations with his predecessor—some even had conflicts, especially Chen Ping and Zhao Xiyun.
His predecessor had chased Zhao Xiyun for so long without even holding her hand, yet kept getting brainwashed.
Only his predecessor would, after finding out Zhao Xiyun and Chen Ping were together, go question her, and when she said “no,” he’d foolishly believe it.
Lin Qian thought his predecessor dying was a good thing.
Ignoring the uneasy four, Lin Qian directly activated his ghost domain; he and Ye Feng vanished from the spot instantly.
The four’s pupils shrank sharply, standing stunned in place.
After a long time, a scream rang out:
“Ghost!”
Ghost domain descended, darkness assaulted; the entire street was enveloped by the knocking ghost’s ghost domain.
Not far on the street, an old man holding a shovel looked gravely in the direction Lin Qian had disappeared.
“This… how is that possible!”
