Chapter 120: Night Parade Of A Hundred Ghosts
With that human face letting out a long sigh, he continued:
“This is Ghost Street, connecting Ghost School and Ghost Hotel. My current state is all thanks to this Ghost Stall. If you come in, you’ll turn into this too.”
“In a little while, Ghost School will let out, and then extremely terrifying things will happen. You can’t leave Ghost Street now. Only by entering the Ghost Stall do you have a chance to survive.”
“This Ghost Stall can not only protect your safety, but as long as you sell something at the Ghost Stall, you can get three units of Ghost Money. Even if you don’t sell, you’ll get one unit.”
“I know you don’t believe in ghosts. Look at your feet—that’s all dead people’s flesh and blood. Whether you come in or not is up to you.”
That human face seemed a bit tired of talking at this point, closing its eyes and no longer speaking.
“Ghost Money—one unit?”
Although he didn’t know if the Ghost Money here was what he imagined, Jiang Shan could clearly hear the temptation in his words.
“He said this without any pause, almost in one breath. It seems he’s said it many times, not even willing to change the sentence.”
Hearing the man’s words, Jiang Shan analyzed in his mind.
Borrowing the candle flame of the Ghost Candle, he looked down at his feet.
His gaze swept over, and his leather shoes were indeed covered in countless sticky, rotten flesh and blood.
If it were an ordinary person, they would be scared out of their wits at this moment and unhesitatingly enter that eerie stall.
But Jiang Shan didn’t rush to respond.
Yet in a certain instant, the Ghost Candle in his hand suddenly burned out completely.
Feeling the chilling wax liquid like flowing blood on his hand, Jiang Shan’s expression changed drastically.
“The Ghost Candle burned out?!”
To know, the closer to a more terrifying ghost, the faster the Ghost Candle burns. Under special circumstances, a Ghost Candle could even burn out in minutes, or even dozens of seconds, greatly shortening the safe time.
The last time the Ghost Candle suddenly burned out was when he encountered the Blood Ghost Attack.
The Blood Ghost’s Consciousness Attack could even cause ghosts with low terror levels to stagnate for dozens of seconds.
Against people, needless to say, any Ghost Wielder without protective consciousness facing a Blood Ghost Attack would undoubtedly die.
So even back then, with the Ghost Candle’s protection, Jiang Shan could hardly escape the Attack and eventual death.
But what happened now?
An entire Ghost Candle burned out in an instant?!
Jiang Shan’s pupils contracted, immediately activating the Blood Ghost to probe the surroundings.
The Blood Ghost’s Killing Pattern is: as long as within a 30-meter radius centered on it, the Blood Ghost can launch Consciousness Attacks at any time.
This is also why Jiang Shan was attacked without seeing the Blood Ghost’s hand back then.
Without a Ghost Domain,
This ability of the Blood Ghost was his best scouting method now.
“!!!”
The information from the Blood Ghost shocked Jiang Shan greatly. He abruptly turned back to look into the darkness far south on Ghost Street.
“Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts? What a joke?!”
In Jiang Shan’s view,
Countless ghosts were marching majestically from the south end of the street toward here.
Even from a great distance, the chilling aura emanating from the group of ghosts made Jiang Shan shudder.
A mixed smell of corpse stench, burnt odor, and rancid mutton followed, so intense that he couldn’t help dry heaving:
“Urgh~! Fuck! How can so many ghosts suddenly appear here?! Ghosts from Ghost School?”
Jiang Shan’s face darkened as he looked into the distance, constantly thinking of countermeasures in his mind.
“Ghost Candle and Substitute Doll definitely won’t work. Even if Ghost Characters’ suppression is strong, with so many ghosts dispersed, the suppression power will be greatly weakened. Try it, and if it doesn’t work, have the Dead Face Ghost devour the fourth ghost.”
“Four Ghost Faces should be able to activate a sixth-layer intensity Ghost Domain. Even if this breaks the balance in his body again, he has to try.”
The Blood Ghost sensed a full 46 ghosts,
If including the vast Ghost Tide like a black wave behind the group of ghosts, Jiang Shan conservatively estimated the number of ghosts inside to be no less than 200.
Such a terrifying number made his scalp tingle.
The more ghosts, the more Killing Patterns.
Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts,
Even breathing might trigger some ghost’s Killing Pattern, putting Jiang Shan in a certain-death situation.
The time left for him to think was running out.
“Damn, is this the scene of school letting out? Why are there so many ghosts? They aren’t showing behavior of seeking Puzzle Pieces from each other? Damn, so cold. This level of supernatural Ghost Characters can’t suppress it at all. Looks like I can only use the Dead Face Ghost to find a way out.”
Looking at the “harmoniously coexisting” Ghost Tide, Jiang Shan frowned and thought:
“If the Dead Face Ghost can’t escape either, then use the Blood Ghost as the final attempt.”
Even though the Blood Ghost attacking ghosts would accelerate Jiang Shan’s own anomalous transformation.
Before resolving the consciousness issue.
He generally wouldn’t choose to use the Blood Ghost against ghosts.
But this worst-case scenario must be considered, with no room for luck. This is a quality every top-tier Ghost Wielder who has experienced countless deaths should have.
At this moment,
Jiang Shan had taken out the remaining Ghost Candle and Substitute Doll from the handbag, gripping the face-covering cloth printed with the crying face tightly in his right hand.
“You really won’t shed a tear until you see the coffin. In at most five minutes, they’ll reach this Ghost Street. I’ll give you the last thirty seconds. If you don’t come in, I won’t dare save you then.”
At some point,
The human face on the Withered Wood opened its eyes and said eerily to Jiang Shan.
Perhaps he had never stopped paying attention to Jiang Shan, and closing his eyes was just a deliberate act.
“He knows about this Ghost Tide and hasn’t left. It seems this stall might really be immune to Fierce Ghost Attacks. Since he wants me in so badly, I’ll go see what he’s up to.”
Jiang Shan’s eyes flickered, deliberately hesitating in place for a moment longer.
“Hurry and come in, through that curtain beside you. If you don’t, I really can’t save you!”
The man’s anxious urging voice rang out again.
“Okay.”
Because the Blood Ghost couldn’t invade the Ghost Stall, Jiang Shan attached Ghost Characters to his hands and tucked the Ghost Candle and crying face at his waist.
In the gap where the man couldn’t see, he took out a cleaver from the handbag, then plunged headfirst into the Ghost Stall.
The instant he entered the stall, a scream like a child’s cry erupted from the human face man’s mouth.
“Ah~ Ah~ Ah~!”
That scream was like countless tiny steel needles piercing into Jiang Shan’s skin from all directions, with tiny, invisible blood beads appearing on his body.
“Not dead? How is that possible?!”
The Withered Wood man’s face was full of horrified expression. His controlled Ghost Scream paired with this self-contained Ghost Stall.
The continuously echoing, overlapping supernatural Ghost Scream was enough to kill anyone.
Even the so-called Headquarters Person in Charge, he was confident he could kill instantly.
But seeing Jiang Shan unscathed, he was somewhat at a loss.
“What a borrowed terrain play. This Ghost Stall is indeed somewhat weird, but that’s about it.”
Feeling the stinging pain all over his body, Jiang Shan’s eyes turned cold. He gripped the cleaver “stained red” by Ghost Characters and quickly ran toward the Withered Wood human face.
At the same time,
The Blood Ghost and Ghost Characters instantly launched their Attacks.
