Chapter 164: Kill Everyone In Dachun City
In a campus in Dachun City, Jiang Shan found traces of Shen Bao and Sun Yan.
Although he didn’t know what they did during the time the Dead Face Ghost “devoured” the fourth ghost.
Seeing Sun Yan’s current unconscious state, Jiang Shan still remained cautious.
“Minister Jiang, the intelligence Committee Member Cao just sent you indicates that this Shen Bao, who has seemingly revived, appears to have the ability to control ghosts.”
“Headquarters’ Special Operations Team has successfully detained three ghosts, but he can control at least six more. Please be extremely careful!”
Jiang Qingwu’s voice came from the satellite phone on his chest.
“Ghost Herder?”
Jiang Shan’s mind immediately thought of this title.
Chen Qiaoyang, who could control five ghosts in the original work, had left a deep impression on him:
“According to Sun Yan, Shen Bao dismembered all the ghosts within his body to balance the supernatural power of the Ghost Rain.”
“If I’m not mistaken, to ensure the stability of controlling the Ghost Rain, he scattered his memories onto those ghosts as well. So, while he appears to be controlling fierce ghosts, in reality, those ghosts are him.”
In a blink of an eye, Jiang Shan had analyzed Shen Bao’s supposed ghost-controlling ability thoroughly.
After all, supernatural powers do not repeat, and based on his age, Shen Bao is definitely not the inheritor of Chen Qiaoyang’s Ghost Herder legacy.
Through elimination, the answer becomes clear.
“Sun Yan has apparently lost consciousness. It seems Shen Bao’s abilities are not as simple as just controlling the Ghost Lotus. Detaining three ghosts and having six more is quite an entourage.” Standing in the clouds, Jiang Shan let out a cold snort.
A silver light, like white lightning, instantly locked onto the man in the white robe.
Although after the Dead Face Ghost gained its fourth ghost face, its Ghost Domain did not manifest any new abilities.
However, the four ghost faces represented the supernatural powers of four ghosts. A Dead Face Ghost of this terror level would likely cause Yang Jian to die from Fierce Ghost Revival the moment he controlled it.
At a certain moment,
countless dense, blood-red ghost characters suddenly appeared on the man in the white robe.
Viscous, fetid black blood began to surge within the man’s consciousness, as if to permeate and erase Shen Bao’s memories.
The suppression of the ghost characters,
the devouring of the Dead Face Ghost’s Ghost Domain,
and the Blood Ghost’s consciousness attack all acted upon the man in the white robe in an instant.
“Hmm?”
But the second Jiang Shan launched all his attacks,
the man in the white robe seemed to sense something, and he suddenly looked up at Jiang Shan’s location and spoke to himself:
“Jiang Shan, you can’t kill me. Don’t waste your effort. With things reaching this point, I’ll accept this loss. Let’s take a step back and part on good terms. Escalating this situation won’t do anyone any good.”
Within the Ghost Domain, Jiang Shan heard Shen Bao’s threat, his expression unchanged.
Regardless of whether it was his duty as a Branch Minister or his greed as a Ghost Wielder, both he and Shen Bao had chosen to act for their own benefit.
It was simply survival of the fittest.
Jiang Shan would not choose to stop his actions because of Shen Bao’s seemingly “compromising” words.
“Accept this loss? Who would believe that?”
If he couldn’t kill or cripple Shen Bao to the maximum extent of his ability, he definitely wouldn’t be able to sleep soundly in the days to come.
He would not commit the foolish act of nurturing a tiger that would later harm him.
Not long after the attack was launched, the man, who looked like a jumbled building block, suddenly shattered like a mirror without any warning, instantly breaking into countless pieces of flesh.
“?”
Splattered fresh blood stained the ground. Looking at the scattered human tissues on the ground, Jiang Shan frowned deeply.
At the same time,
“Shen Bao is dead?!” Cao Yanhua, who was watching this scene through real-time satellite footage, was shocked.
Because he knew all the inside details of “Ghost Town in the Rain,” when he requested support from Headquarters for the Ghost Wielders, he had specifically emphasized:
“Detain Shen Bao by any means necessary. He must not die. Even if he cannot be detained, he must be kept alive.”
After all, as the key and the only variable to controlling the Ghost Rain, Shen Bao’s Ninth Life absolutely could not die.
“What’s going on now? Did some special mutation occur, which is why Jiang Shan chose to kill Shen Bao?”
At this moment,
Cao Yanhua could no longer remain calm, his gaze fixed intently on everything presented in the satellite feed.
“Even if Shen Bao revived, he is still an anomaly who controlled the Ghost Lotus, not an ordinary person. But the current situation is rather weird.”
Jiang Shan, above the clouds, confirmed again through the Ghost Domain:
The man who had shattered into countless pieces of flesh had been a living, ordinary person just seconds ago!
There was no supernatural power within his body,
There aren’t even any ghosts!
“The attack I launched can only achieve a momentary suppression effect, and it absolutely wouldn’t cause this kind of situation for either a Ghost Wielder or an ordinary person.” Jiang Shan didn’t fall into panic because of this unexpected change, but calmly pondered everything that had just happened.
Jiang Shan was very confident in his supernatural control,
coupled with the fact that the four ghosts he controlled were primarily for suppression, and he hadn’t even launched a killing attack,
let alone Ghost Wielders,
even ordinary people wouldn’t die immediately, and certainly not in such a tragic state.
“So, the reason for this situation is that this man, who seemed harmless, is actually just a derived supernatural of a ghost.”
“The Ghost Rain and Ghost Lotus have never displayed this ability from beginning to end. It seems Shen Bao controls a very special ghost. He can imprint his memories onto derived supernaturals. This feeling is very similar to the Newspaper Ghost, but not quite the same.”
When he deduced the derived supernatural, Jiang Shan already felt that Shen Bao had another extremely important ghost within him.
Otherwise, how could he have divided his memories among so many ghosts, and not been eroded even over seventy years?
Perhaps this was the most crucial point for him becoming an anomaly!
“It seems Shen Bao has done most of what he needed to do. He didn’t succeed in controlling the Ghost Rain, otherwise he wouldn’t have exposed its weakness to me.”
Just now,
Jiang Shan had not only attacked Shen Bao, but also attacked the Ghost Rain’s true form on the lake, which he suspected Sun Yan controlled.
Whether it was Sun Yan or not, suppress first, then communicate.
A gentleman does not stand beneath a precarious wall.
Using his Ghost Domain, he directly felt the terrifying supernatural emanating from around the Short Old Man.
This was the Ghost Characters and Ghost Rain clashing, which meant:
“This corpse is not a derived supernatural. The Ghost Characters couldn’t suppress it, so it’s highly likely the true form of the Ghost Rain. But it seems to be in a Silent State now. What about Sun Yan? Where did her consciousness go?”
Although he didn’t know what percentage of the Ghost Rain Sun Yan controlled, Jiang Shan had already confirmed that she was also an anomaly.
A resurrected ghost,
consciousness born from supernatural power.
But it was precisely because he knew Sun Yan was also an anomaly that Jiang Shan’s heart grew heavy.
Because if an anomaly’s consciousness had no problems, a ghost wouldn’t enter a silent state.
Therefore, the current Silent State of the Ghost Rain made him feel a slight weirdness, and even some unease:
“First the rainwater turning into mirrors, then the source ghost, the Ghost Rain, falling into a silent state. It seems Shen Bao laid out his plans and made the worst preparations a long time ago! This Old Thing, does he really think I wouldn’t dare kill everyone in Dachun City?”
Suddenly understanding everything, Jiang Shan’s face turned incredibly cold. He now knew exactly what Shen Bao intended to do.
