Chapter 103: Teaming Up
“Thanks.”
Zhang Qian nodded slightly, standing in place without any action.
His position was some distance from the female corpse, and normally, contacting the female corpse would require some effort.
Fortunately, he had previously tested that the Ghost Face Ability could affect targets within fifty meters. It was a bit far here, but still within the fifty-meter range.
With a slight thought, strands of black smoke immediately emerged from the space beside the female corpse, surging onto its body like draping a black gauze cloak over the corpse.
The Ghost Face Ability quietly activated, and the view before Zhang Qian’s eyes shook slightly, then split into two screens.
Zhang Qian stared at the scene in slight daze, because the colors presented by these two perspectives were not the same.
His main body on the covered bridge could only see a black-and-white image, while the clone in the illusion could see much richer colors.
However, the black smoke space was an existence in illusion to begin with, so it seemed normal not to be affected.
In the center of the venue, a female corpse lay quietly there, without any action.
The reason it was called quiet was because it didn’t look like a dead person, but rather like a living person asleep.
Its smooth skin wasn’t wrinkled from seawater immersion, and the exposed areas showed no spots that only dead people would have.
If not for the lack of chest movement, Zhang Qian really wouldn’t have been able to tell it was a dead person.
However, its skin was still very pale; even without the black-and-white filter, it was grayish with no trace of blood color.
This paleness actually added a bit of beauty to it, and with the white dress on its body, it had a somewhat icy cold vibe.
“She’s pretty good-looking, what a pity. Why be a spare tire for no reason?” Zhang Qian shook his head slightly, feeling somewhat emotional.
This unknown Ghost Controller was fixated on the old house owner, even wanting to die together with that old man.
In the end, the old house owner turned around and found a wife, and now the son’s age was probably older than she was when alive.
Thinking this way, the old house owner seemed pretty shameless. People from the Republic of China Era would be at least over a hundred years old, right?
Yue Linhai was now around thirty years old, so didn’t that mean this old man found a new wife in his seventies or eighties and even had a son?
He really was vigorous in old age; it was unknown whether it was due to supernatural influence or if he was originally that strong.
After walking in.
The female corpse still showed no reaction, seemingly badly injured from the previous attack.
But this level was not enough, because it was only temporary fake death. With the passage of time, the female corpse would eventually resurgence on some day soon.
To stop this resurgence, it could only be imprisoned with gold, but unfortunately the female corpse’s main body was still in the seawater, and Zhang Qian had no corresponding container on hand.
“My purpose wasn’t to imprison it anyway. I just need this fierce ghost to remain in silence forever, without staring at this face to come out and harm people.”
Zhang Qian stared at the motionless female corpse, pondering feasible plans in his mind.
Although fierce ghosts had undying bodies, recovering from the influence of a supernatural attack wasn’t easy either.
The more terrifying the attack, the longer the restore time required.
For example, Ghost Hand’s Suppression: unless it was like boiling a frog in warm water to gradually wear down the fierce ghost’s supernatural power, most fierce ghosts could recover immediately once withdrawn. But even after withdrawing the Ghost Face’s Attack, this corpse still couldn’t move.
So theoretically, as long as the attack’s influence was great enough, the fierce ghost would fall into silence and never be able to resurgence.
The theory existed; now it was just a matter of practice.
“To make a fierce ghost fall into eternal silence, I wonder if I can do it.”
After squatting beside the female corpse, a faint glow appeared in Zhang Qian’s hand as he pinched the female corpse’s neck, lifting it to curb any possible resistance.
But Ghost Hand’s Strength was too mild; to make the female corpse sleep forever, he had to use the Ghost Face Ability.
“Offended.”
Zhang Qian muttered to himself, and several derivative ghost hands immediately crawled out from the darkness, prying open the female corpse’s eyelids.
No choice, the Ghost Face’s Attack was terrifying, but it also had limitations; otherwise, it wouldn’t have been easily imprisoned by a blind person back then.
Pitch black pupils were revealed. Though not moving, Zhang Qian could feel a icy cold gaze quietly spying on him.
Due to Zhang Qian’s contact, the female corpse that should have been asleep awoke again.
Fortunately, though Ghost Hand’s Suppression wasn’t very strong, dealing with this incomplete fierce ghost was no problem.
“Quite a temper, huh? But you won’t have a chance to get angry anymore.”
Zhang Qian smiled lightly, and as he bent down, he forcefully turned the female corpse’s head toward him.
The prepared Ghost Mask was pressed right in front of the female corpse. Without any sound, the terrifying attack had already triggered in that instant according to the pattern.
“Ah!”
In just an instant.
The female corpse immediately let out a wail, and piercing, shrill screams emanated from its pitch-black mouth, shaking Zhang Qian’s eardrums painfully.
It wanted to struggle, but the power in its body had long been suppressed by the ghost hand, and with the added influence of this attack, even moving its body was extremely difficult.
“Don’t scream.”
Zhang Qian extended his free left hand and roughly clamped shut the female corpse’s jaw, blocking its screams back into its mouth.
Even so, the female corpse still emitted bursts of whimpering sounds, with a trail of blood tears streaming from the corner of its eye, looking utterly desolate, as if suffering some inhuman torment.
Unfortunately, Zhang Qian felt no pity for this. Instead, he summoned more ghost hands to caringly wipe away the female corpse’s tears, lest it evade even a bit of the attack.
Xu Zheng, standing on the bridge, also heard the scream and uncomfortably rubbed his ears.
“What’s the situation? Need help?”
He looked at Zhang Qian, eagerly requesting.
“Hmm… can you reach it?” Zhang Qian looked at the distant female corpse, somewhat skeptical.
It wasn’t that he looked down on Xu Zheng, but most Ghost Controllers needed contact to launch attacks, and this distance could stop many people.
“You’re kidding, this distance is perfect for me to perform.”
Xu Zheng patted his chest with a thud, “Really, I was just careless before. Give me a chance for revenge too.”
“Alright then, don’t worry about me. Just attack that corpse directly.” Zhang Qian withdrew his gaze.
More attack strength would speed up the suppression of the female corpse by one portion. Even if Xu Zheng’s recent performance wasn’t great, it should be better than nothing, right?
“Not to brag, but my fierce ghost’s attack range isn’t smaller than yours.” Xu Zheng said confidently.
With a wave of his hand, the cloaked fierce ghost immediately walked to the railing, countless strands surging from its feet like little snakes, wriggling forward and crossing the covered bridge edge in the blink of an eye, dangling down from the bridge.
