Chapter 124: Raiding The Ghost Stall
As soon as Jiang Shan finished speaking,
the burning rotten sensation on Qin Xi’s body immediately disappeared, but the suppression from the ghost blood remained, so he still knelt on the ground, not daring to move rashly.
Although the pain in his body had disappeared,
the fear of having his life controlled by others’ moods enveloped the team’s hearts like a dark cloud.
Hearing this, Qin Xi quickly calculated in his mind, knowing this was the team’s only chance to survive.
After a few seconds,
he took a deep breath and then looked at Jiang Shan and asked:
“You want to know the information about this place, right?”
“Very smart.” Jiang Shan said.
Hearing this answer, Qin Xi let out a long sigh of relief in his heart, then hurriedly said:
“You must have come here because you touched the water surface too. Although I still don’t know what this ghost place really is, I know a way to get out of here.”
He deliberately paused, his gaze sweeping over Jiang Shan, trying to catch a hint of reaction from the other’s calm, emotionless eyes.
After all, anyone who accidentally entered this ghost place would want to leave, right?
So he wanted to test Jiang Shan’s reaction with this key information.
But what Qin Xi saw,
was only Jiang Shan’s gaze, devoid of any emotion, cold to the extreme.
This gaze involuntarily made him think of something:
Ghost!
Only from ghosts could he see such eyes!
“This is bad, I shouldn’t have done that. If the other loses patience…”
Qin Xi felt unease in his heart, and immediately he dropped his little scheme and spoke up:
“I’ve been here for a total of twenty-four days. As far as I know, there seem to be four core areas here: ghost school, ghost street, ghost hotel, and ghost park. I heard that by taking coins of different denominations from the counter in front of the ghost shopkeeper, you can leave this ghost place.”
“Coins?” Jiang Shan exhaled a puff of smoke lightly, his eyes narrowing slightly, seemingly interested in the topic.
“Yes, coins.” Qin Xi continued:
“Our team took a five-yuan coin from the counter, and the ghost shopkeeper gave us a piece of dehydrated human skin with writing on it about what we need to do. Once we complete this mission, we can take this coin to the ghost park to leave here.”
“So, you’re working for the ghost?”
Jiang Shan’s tone suddenly turned cold, killing intent flashing in his eyes, then he looked at the man.
Intense pain surged through Qin Xi’s body again. He grunted in pain and was about to speak when he heard cursing from beside him:
“What the hell are you pretending?! You’re selling goods at the ghost stall, aren’t you working for the ghost too? Qin Xi, can’t you see he just wants to kill us? Stop hesitating, can’t you ‘rebirth’? Hurry up and ‘rebirth’ then kill him!”
Qian Yuyang’s words made Qin Xi’s face change drastically. He endured the intense pain and turned back to roar:
“Shut up!”
“Back at the school, you were Jin Ziyi’s lapdog. Don’t think that after going to the ghost park and controlling two ghosts you’ve turned things around. Stop licking the goddess and start licking a man instead? You’re always just a dog! Hahahaha.” Qian Yuyang laughed maniacally.
Seeing infighting break out among the group in front of him,
Jiang Shan said nothing, but skillfully pulled out his pistol and walked to the side of the laughing man.
“Hahahahaha, you still want to shoot me with a gun? That’s hilarious, Qin Xi. He’s got no real skills and you’re still scared of him? You really are trash.”
The coldness of the gun barrel didn’t calm Qian Yuyang down; on the contrary, he became even more deranged.
His string of insults showed he had long harbored resentment against Qin Xi.
It also showed he didn’t take Jiang Shan’s action to heart.
Seeing the young man who had fallen into madness, Jiang Shan lit a cigarette.
Amid Qian Yuyang’s disdainful expression, he pulled the trigger.
“Bang~!”
Hot fresh blood splashed across Qin Xi’s face. Looking at Qian Yuyang’s unfocused pupils, he found it somewhat unbelievable.
A ghost wielder suppressed supernaturally is just an ordinary person.
But this group of “purely wild” ghost wielders seemed unaware of that.
As the corpse hit the ground, the ghost stall instantly fell into deathly stillness.
“Continue.”
In the next half hour, Qin Xi spilled almost all the information he knew.
1. Selling goods for the ghost at the ghost stall earns ghost money.
2. Burning ghost money allows entry to the ghost hotel for one day of safety.
3. Completing the ghost shopkeeper’s mission allows leaving here.
These three points were what Jiang Shan summarized from Qin Xi’s words.
“So, your mission is to rob an abacus from the ghost pawnshop?”
Looking at the text on the dehydrated human skin in his hand, Jiang Shan frowned tightly. He pocketed the dehydrated human skin, then took out a stack of ghost money and looked at Qin Xi as he said:
“How can we guarantee we can all enter the ghost hotel together?”
“As long as we’re all in each other’s line of sight, burning the ghost money will take us back to the ghost hotel together.” Qin Xi replied.
At this time,
the team members had regained their ability to move.
They stood obediently inside the ghost stall, waiting for Jiang Shan’s next instructions.
Because the ghost stall seemed to lose its supernatural properties during the day and nothing like last night occurred, Jiang Shan didn’t make them leave.
“I’m taking your mission. Everyone head back to the ghost hotel first. I know you have your little clique. In a bit, I’ll need you to do some things.” Jiang Shan looked at the group and said.
From Qin Xi’s description,
he felt this ghost hotel and the ghost shopkeeper’s behavior resembled one place very much:
Ghost Post Office!
But the ghost post office was established by those ghost wielders from the Republic of China era, specifically to train ghost wielders.
Its purpose was to have couriers solve some supernatural events by delivering mail.
If back then Yang Jian said delivering mail for the ghost post office was working for the ghost.
But now it seemed,
Jiang Shan thought the team in front of him that had taken the ghost shopkeeper’s mission,
and the countless unknown ghost wielders living here who had also taken missions.
They were the ones truly “serving the tiger” and working for the ghost.
After pondering for a moment,
looking at the weird supernatural items on the wooden table, Jiang Shan’s eyes flickered.
A bold idea emerged.
“You all go out first, get a bit away from the ghost stall, but don’t leave my sight. Run if you want, just make sure we don’t meet again next time.”
Hearing Jiang Shan’s words, the group exchanged glances.
“Running won’t solve anything. It solves nothing. This man is very strong; maybe he really can take us out of here. Running is the dumbest thing to do.”
After figuring it out, Qin Xi shook his head at the group, then led the remaining three team members to stand about five meters from the ghost stall.
This was the maximum visibility range in the heavy rain.
“What is he doing?!”
Qin Xi narrowed his eyes, watching Jiang Shan’s every move inside the ghost stall.
He saw Jiang Shan burn the ghost money and open the handbag.
At the moment when the ghost money was about to burn out, Qin Xi watched in shock as:
Jiang Shan cupped his hands over the ghost stall’s wooden table, then swiftly packed everything on the wooden table into the handbag.
After doing all this, he immediately grabbed the handbag and ran outside.
At the same time,
the instant the wooden table was emptied.
Even though it was raining, a burnt smell began to fill the air, and with the curtains around flying up, the entire ghost stall suddenly burst into flames!
Painful wails came from all directions in the ghost street.
In the hazy heavy rain, countless indistinct humanoid shadowy figures appeared, running and climbing madly in the rain like crazed beings.
The team members watched the scene before them, all of them scalp-numbing and trembling all over.
“Run!”
Jiang Shan’s shout brought everyone back to their senses.
As the “ghost money” burned out completely, at some unknown point, a path suddenly appeared in front of them.
The moment they saw this path, everyone present began to flee frantically.
Jiang Shan was no exception.
Seeing the weird changes around him, his intuition told him a great terror was about to appear.
Even the deathly still ghost characters began to show unease at this time.
This was the first time it had reacted like this since Jiang Shan regained control.
Without any hesitation, Jiang Shan charged out of the ghost stall through the eerie flames, running toward the path in the rain.
Family member is sick and needs my usual care, so I can’t do a big update for brothers on October 1st. Really sorry to everyone.
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Thank you brothers for your kindness!!!
