Chapter 143: Annihilating Headquarters
Ning’an Building’s hundredth floor,
After Wang Chaling was suspected dead, that transaction using Ghost Wielders as chips also ended hastily as a result.
With the dominant party of the transaction gone, how could the transaction continue?
That day,
The news of the “King of Time”‘s death was posted on the Supernatural Circle’s website by some Ghost Wielder from abroad as a gimmick, without Minister Jiang knowing at all:
The so-called Wang Chaling who could grant “Immortal,” his previously accumulated prestige and influence suffered unprecedented damage amid the fermentation of the situation.
At the same moment Wang Chaling died inside Ning’an Building,
Behind a blue brick wall of the Wang Family Old House,
A small compartment similar to a storage room was hidden behind this wall. It seemed something weird had once been hidden inside, but that thing was long gone, and now it had become one man’s hiding place.
“Huff huff~ huff~!”
At this moment, a man sitting on a leather sofa, wearing a casual suit, → wearing glasses, was gasping for breath madly inside the compartment.
Sweat beads as big as soybeans kept appearing on his forehead, sliding down one after another with his undulating body.
This man with a gentle temperament, handsome appearance, and scholarly aura emanating from his entire body, whose speech and manners exuded an indescribable charm, called the “King of Time” abroad by foreigners, felt such fear in his heart for the first time.
He couldn’t believe it,
Clearly, he had already used the Pendulum Clock and the ghost inside his body to place his true self as a medium on a timeline full of conflicts, impossible to find.
But just earlier,
A terrifying Supernatural Power had erupted on his body. This attack, unknown whether from man or ghost, had actually affected his projection in reality!
At this time,
The Supernatural from the ghost inside his body was continuously corroding Wang Chaling’s body, and a decaying smell similar to that from an elderly person’s body filled the entire room.
If someone were present, they would notice,
Wang Chaling, sitting on the sofa with a ghastly pale face and hands clenched tightly, was beginning to turn illusory all over. His half-real, half-fake body seemed like it might vanish from this world in the next second.
This was because the ghost inside him, which had gone Dead Machine, had encountered some unknown Supernatural,
And it was actually continuously resurrecting!
Once this ghost escaped the Dead Machine state and its resurrection exceeded what Wang Chaling could bear, he would completely disappear from this world.
According to what he had said back when he first saw this ghost’s killing method:
“People killed by this ghost die, but they don’t die either, because their bodies disappear from the present, disappear from the past, existing only in the future.”
Wang Chaling, with an ashen face, sat in the cold room, continuously wiping the cold sweat from his forehead with his hand, remaining silent.
At this moment,
Merely seconds after the God-Beating Whip was shoved into Li Hanfeng’s mouth, he suddenly stopped struggling in the water, his limp, drooping body as if he had been dead for a long time.
“Stop looking. He’s already dead. Shouldn’t you share some information to show your sincerity? I spared your life not for you to watch the show.”
As Minister Jiang’s cold voice rang out, Hong Ze, standing in the water with an incredulous expression, suddenly snapped back to reality.
Ignoring his dislocated arm, he immediately looked at Minister Jiang, his voice trembling as he said:
“Minister Jiang, what do you want to know?”
“All the information you know about this place. And about Wang Chaling.” Looking at the cigarette in his hand soaked by the pool water, Minister Jiang said with a chilling tone.
Seeing Minister Jiang’s displeased gaze, Hong Ze shuddered all over and immediately replied:
“Minister Jiang, I just joined Wang Chaling not long ago and don’t know much of his information. With my current status, I can’t even see him. Though I don’t know many confidential matters, I do know he met a foreign Ghost Wielder with the codename Missionary today.”
“From what Li Hanfeng said, I feel the disappearances of civilian Ghost Wielders around Dadong City are definitely closely linked to Wang Chaling, or rather, he’s the one hunting these Ghost Wielders.”
As he spoke, his peripheral vision glanced at Minister Jiang,
Seeing Minister Jiang’s brows slightly furrowed, seemingly dissatisfied with his words, Hong Ze racked his brain for information about Wang Chaling. When he thought of one, he immediately spoke up:
“Minister Jiang, there’s a man named Liu Bai Mu by Wang Chaling’s side. I heard him say while drinking before: ‘In a few more months, Brother Wang will team up with some people to wipe out Headquarters. Once the high-level officials at Headquarters are dead, Brother Wang will give each of you a city.’ There were some other words I can’t remember.”
“That’s enough. Save those words for when we return to the Present World. Now tell me, what exactly is going on here? How did you people get in?” Before Hong Ze could finish, Minister Jiang waved his hand to interrupt him.
Hearing this information, he already understood Wang Chaling’s intentions and plans.
The specific details weren’t too important for now. The top priority was how to restrict this ever-expanding Ghost Rain, or even find a reasonable way to handle it.
Just thinking of the hundreds of Fierce Ghosts wandering Ghost Street made Minister Jiang’s head ache.
So restricting the Ghost Rain’s resurrection was the minimum requirement. The current terror level of the Ghost Rain already made his eyelids twitch.
Minister Jiang knew that without the Ghost Wielder named Shen Bao from the Republic of China period stirring things up in the middle, he might not even have the qualifications to confront the Ghost Rain.
This wasn’t because Minister Jiang thought his own strength was insufficient. If he really thought that, he wouldn’t have taken the position of minister over these three provinces.
Rather, this place was simply too weird. It could probably rival places like “Zhang Dong Old House Group of Ghosts Ghost Tree Forest,” “Out-of-Control Ghost Lake,” and “Luo Qian Endless Graveyard.”
And to some extent,
This Supernatural Space suspected to be the Ghost Rain’s, with its complexity and weirdness, sometimes left even Minister Jiang baffled.
“This is my first time here too. Around eight o’clock today, before coming here, I saw Li Hanfeng have us stand in front of a huge mirror. Then he lit a grayish piece of Spirit Money like the kind used for burning paper at graves. After the Spirit Money burned away, a muddy road appeared out of thin air in the mirror.”
“On the road, Li Hanfeng told us the place we were going to was called Ghost Pool. It can suppress the ghost in the body and delay the ghost’s resurrection. He had us go into the Ghost Pool and find a man within three hours, then kill him.”
“What man?” Hearing the key point, Minister Jiang immediately asked.
“Ah, let me think, Minister Jiang, right away.” Caught off guard by the sudden question, Hong Ze was startled and instantly forgot what to say next. After thinking for a moment, he said:
“Li Hanfeng said the man was about 1.7-something meters tall, very delicate-looking with a feminine appearance, around twenty-five or twenty-six years old. I don’t know why there was no photograph, but he had one distinguishing feature: he got headaches easily.”
Hearing this, Minister Jiang’s brows locked. It seemed his guess was indeed correct.
The person Wang Chaling had these seven enter the Ghost Rain to kill,
Was none other than Qin Xi!
