Chapter 151: Entanglement
“Screech——”
With a creaking sound, the rusty door slowly opened outward.
Most of the doors he had encountered before were locked, but this time Zhang Qian’s luck was decent; he directly found a door that could be opened.
Listening intently to the movement in the room, Zhang Qian gripped the door handle tightly, with no intention of rashly entering the room.
After all, he only needed to stand at the doorway and could observe the situation inside the room through the half-open door.
Undoubtedly, this was another room with very old decorations and furniture, just like those previous rooms from an assembly line, with no discernible difference.
Skipping over those already extremely familiar spots, Zhang Qian’s gaze wandered around, trying to find the differences among them.
But after searching back and forth, he couldn’t see any figure or strange item, as if this was an empty room.
“Something’s not right…”
He took out the map again and confirmed it in front of him.
The room in front of him was just very faintly colored, but still had a light gray, not completely blank.
That meant there was still a fierce ghost existing inside; at the very least, there should be some traces left by the fierce ghost.
After thinking for a moment, Zhang Qian pushed open the door, planning to go in and investigate.
During this time on the ghost ship, he might have to rely on the ghost map; if possible, it was better to confirm its accuracy.
This room at least appeared relatively safe, and the danger of verifying it wasn’t that great.
Just as Zhang Qian had one foot already stepped into the doorway, with most of his attention focused inside the room.
A certain anomaly suddenly occurred in the corridor.
A black shadow suddenly darted out, without any sound, abruptly entering the corner of Zhang Qian’s vision.
Although he couldn’t see what this thing looked like, on the ghost ship, what else besides a fierce ghost could make such movement?
Without hesitation, Zhang Qian instinctively swung the wooden stick in his hand; the fluorescence on the wooden stick flashed slightly, and with a bang, it fiercely smashed into that black shadow.
The supernatural briefly collided and the winner was decided; under the enhancement of true qi, the black shadow had no room for resistance and was uprooted before it could make any action.
Then the black shadow flew backward from the carpet, heavily falling onto the corridor not far away.
Only then did Zhang Qian see what that thing looked like.
“An arm?”
The highly rotten arm had no skin at all; the arm seemed to have been torn off from some person, and at the break, one could still see jagged shredded meat and stark white bones.
This heavy blow seemed to have caused great damage to the arm. The arm that had just wanted to sneak attack now could only curl up on the ground, no longer looking different from a rotten corpse; even if thrown into a mass grave, it would feel completely natural.
The arm seemed to have crashed; under Zhang Qian’s vigilant gaze, it remained motionless, as if it was just a dead person’s arm.
“One stick and it’s done? The power seems pretty good.”
Zhang Qian lifted the wooden stick and looked at it; the spot at the tip where it collided with the fierce ghost showed no change at all, not even a scratch.
Perhaps because the wooden stick itself had a deep red paint surface, the blood had fused with the wooden stick, and not even a blurred bloodstain could be seen on it.
“As expected, fierce ghosts still need to be countered with supernatural-related things; using gold is just a helpless measure. This stick’s intensity is good, the feel is acceptable too, much better than the gold extendable baton.”
“And this is just a stool leg; if he could gather the whole thing, the power would definitely be stronger, but he didn’t know where the other parts of that stool were.”
Confirming that the severed arm had lost its ability to resist, Zhang Qian twirled a sword flower, and looking at this thing, he felt it looked familiar.
Although he hadn’t been able to see the severed limb ghost’s appearance in the corridor before, that arm which had first probed into the room had left a deep impression on him.
The current severed arm’s bloody and mangled appearance was exactly the same as that arm from before.
“Ability unclear, but the appearance matches. The arm should be part of the fierce ghost, yet here there’s only one arm. Could the severed limb ghost split into clones?”
“Even if it can split, its main body hasn’t appeared. How did this thing suddenly appear at my feet?”
He had been very careful with every step before, and had carefully surveyed the surrounding environment; it was impossible to miss such a large arm.
Weighing the wooden stick in his hand, Zhang Qian uncertainly looked toward the corridors on both left and right.
Nothing.
Even under the enhancement of true qi, within his field of vision, there was still only the narrow corridor and neatly arranged iron doors.
Even as Zhang Qian’s movements stopped, the entire corridor fell back into that deathly silence, as if nothing existed here except him.
Strange…
Just as he turned around, planning to go pick up the arm and examine it, a bizarre scene suddenly appeared.
The arm that had just been lying obediently on the ground suddenly began to disappear, like it was clipping through, sinking bit by bit from the bottom into the floor, soon leaving no trace of existence.
This process made no sound or fluctuation at all; if not seen with his own eyes, Zhang Qian probably wouldn’t have noticed.
Just like how he hadn’t noticed the rotten arm’s sneak attack at the beginning.
“If it can disappear like this, it can naturally appear like this too.”
Zhang Qian frowned as he looked at the black water surging at his feet, feeling that these things were the key to the severed arm’s appearance and disappearance.
“Although this speed isn’t fast, it does resemble spatial movement somewhat. Could these black liquids carry some characteristics of the ghost domain?”
If that were true, being able to act silently without a trace would also be normal.
“Then this severed limb is undoubtedly from the severed limb ghost. After all, the severed limb ghost is suspected to be an existence formed by the figure devouring the water ghost, so inheriting the water ghost’s abilities is normal.”
Although he had figured out the identity of the severed arm, Zhang Qian’s mood didn’t relax because of it; instead, it became even more grave.
The severed limb ghost had already given up attacking him before; if he didn’t trigger the killing pattern, it wouldn’t come knocking again.
But just now, he hadn’t done anything, yet he was sensed by the severed limb ghost who knows how far away, even attempting to use the ghost domain to kill him from afar.
“Thinking back to that initial inexplicable chase, maybe from the moment he entered the aisle, he was already on the fierce ghost’s killing list…”
This killing pattern was no different from inevitable triggering for Zhang Qian; after all, he couldn’t stay in the room forever, and the room couldn’t block this ghost either.
Even if nothing happened now, moving around with a fierce ghost that could attack at any time put considerable pressure on him.
He had already been entangled by that eerie musical sound before; now with one more ghost, he naturally wasn’t afraid of facing them one-on-one, but if two ghosts came together, that would be interesting.
