Chapter 255: Reunion
“Pa, pa, pa…”
Unhurried footsteps came from Zhang Qian’s right front. Although the sound was very faint and separated by an unknown number of bookshelves, Zhang Qian could still easily capture its information.
Ever since true qi appeared in his body, his physical qualities had improved in all aspects. Pinpointing the position of such footsteps was a piece of cake.
The footsteps gradually drew closer bit by bit, and before long, they seemed to appear right at the intersection directly in front of Zhang Qian.
Zhang Qian’s eyes narrowed slightly, and he keenly spotted a protruding foot, identical to the one he had seen before.
“Pa!”
That half-lifted foot still stepped on the ground, but unlike before, this time the sound seemed to come from all directions, enveloping Zhang Qian’s surroundings completely.
Looking around, Zhang Qian couldn’t help but sigh helplessly, “As expected, it’s not that simple. Not only does it split, but it can also perform space transfer in the ghost domain.”
“Moreover, the number has no limit. Two passages split into two people, and four intersections can similarly split into four people…”
Zhang Qian suddenly had a bold idea. If he cleared all the surrounding bookshelves, leaving an empty space, what would the administrator do?
Would it refuse to show itself directly, or split into a circle of people to surround him?
Of course, it was just a sudden whim, and he had no real intention of trying it.
After all, he could roughly guess the reason for this attack—it was likely that book he had damaged.
This pattern wasn’t hard to guess. Forget this fierce ghost-like librarian; even in a normal library, tearing a rare book to shreds would probably prompt someone to demand compensation.
However, a normal library would just demand money, while the library on this ghost ship seemed to want his life.
“But that book wasn’t damaged by me at all. It’s already good that I didn’t demand mental damages fee from you, yet you dare to come knocking for debt…”
Muttering to himself, Zhang Qian gripped the wooden stick and charged toward the nearest fierce ghost.
To save time, he didn’t hesitate much. He ran over in a few steps and swung a stick at the fierce ghost’s head.
His extremely high physical qualities made this swing create an afterimage. The tip of the stick whistled as it smashed onto the fierce ghost’s forehead.
“Bang!”
The immense force sent the fierce ghost staggering back several steps.
Of course, it wasn’t the brute force that worked—pure brute force had no effect on fierce ghosts; otherwise, things like excavators would become divine artifacts for exorcising ghosts.
Compared to this immense force, what mattered more was the extraordinary nature of the wooden stick itself and the Zhang Qian wielding it.
This wooden stick, once used to imprison the ghost map, was not as ordinary as it appeared. It inherently suppressed fierce ghosts and took effect upon contact.
In other words, simply pressing it against a fierce ghost would activate this supernatural item’s effect, but Zhang Qian preferred swinging it. One, it felt more satisfying; two, applying force during the brief suppression could repel such entities with physical form.
Seeing the fierce ghost tilting its head back about to fall to the ground, Zhang Qian showed no mercy. He chased after the retreating figure in a few big steps and delivered another powerful vertical chop.
After landing several more sticks in succession, the corpse in front of him finally settled down.
But this was only relative to its previous behavior. If an ordinary person saw this twisted-limbed, still-twitching dry corpse, they would probably faint on the spot.
Zhang Qian wasn’t fazed by this eerie sight. Without lingering, he turned around and headed back.
There were still three fierce ghosts waiting for him over there.
With experience from the previous one, dealing with these things was naturally a breeze. After a few smooth combos, these administrators turned into several lying or fallen corpses.
Though the process was easy, Zhang Qian’s mood wasn’t pleasant.
“Its supernatural strength is even a bit higher than Feng Quan’s. Though still very weak, things seem to be gradually getting tricky…”
Poor Feng Quan had no idea he had become someone’s tool for gauging combat power again. Right now, he was staring face-to-face with someone who called himself a streamer.
“You mean Yue Linhai was taken away by his dad?”
Wang Tao scratched his head and explained, “I know this sounds a bit hard to believe, but I’m not fooling you.”
“You don’t know… that old man can actually stop time—it’s straight out of a movie, too ridiculous.” As Wang Tao spoke, he guiltily glanced around, as if worried Yue Linhai was still nearby eavesdropping.
“You know it’s ridiculous too…” Feng Quan still couldn’t quite believe it.
Although ghost controllers’ abilities varied wildly, time stop? No matter how he thought about it, that seemed impossible.
Ye Zhen, who had stepped out of the car, was brimming with fighting spirit. “Not bad, finally encountered an interesting opponent. Do you know where he went now? I, Ye Mouren, must have a spar with him!”
Though he had been meditating with eyes closed, it didn’t mean he had let his vigilance down. At least in this small space inside the car, nothing could happen without him noticing.
Yet, he had been completely unaware of what just occurred, only reacting after Yue Linhai had disappeared for a few seconds.
He had thought it was just an ordinary ghost domain, but unexpectedly, it was connected to a time stop ability.
“Cough cough, what he said is probably true.” Xu Zheng chimed in weakly from the side.
“Because Yue Linhai can actually stop time too. But since he was with us the whole time and had no intention of showing his ability, I didn’t dare mention it…”
Ye Zhen was stunned and looked at Xu Zheng discontentedly. “What’s there to be afraid of? If he dared to act up, I would handle it myself.”
“Uh…” Xu Zheng was a bit embarrassed. After hesitating, he nodded. “Sorry, I was just worried…”
Though he believed Ye Zhen was no match for Yue Linhai, Yue Linhai wasn’t here now, while this living person Ye Zhen was right in front of him. Losing face and getting beaten would be bad.
“Hmph.” Ye Zhen snorted coldly and said no more.
Time stop was certainly terrifying, but he, Ye Zhen, wasn’t a pushover either.
No matter who he faced, Ye Zhen was confident he could remain undefeated. Even if temporarily at a disadvantage, he could eventually wear down the opponent.
But there was no need to say such things to these temporary teammates. Since they didn’t trust him, Ye Zhen had nothing more to say.
Anyway, when the time came to fight that odd father-son pair, everything would naturally be settled.
