Chapter 210: A Ghost With Wisdom?
A loud crash of the door board shattering instantly made Feng Quan and the other tense up. The slightly yellowish lights in the room illuminated the dim corridor, but even with this dim light, they couldn’t see the scene inside the room clearly.
It was as if the room in front of them was shrouded in a piece of yellow mist, this mist both real and illusory.
“Ghost Domain? Or some kind of supernatural phenomenon?” Feng Quan frowned tightly and thought to himself.
At this time, Guo Fan, who had been constantly observing the ghost candle, after confirming the surroundings were safe, looked at Feng Quan with a grave expression and said: “Feng Quan, the ghost candle’s burning speed has only sped up a little. It seems there is definitely a ghost’s existence in this room, but its terror level shouldn’t be high.”
Although the ghost candle was very precious, headquarters had made corresponding notes on all kinds of situations regarding the ghost candle.
So just based on the ghost candle’s burning speed, Guo Fan roughly judged the terror level of the fierce ghost in the room.
“My Ghost Domain cannot spread into this room. Don’t be careless.”
After glancing at the stable bright flame of the ghost candle, Feng Quan reminded Guo Fan, then directly rushed inside.
Guo Fan didn’t hesitate at all and closely followed into the room.
After entering the room, Feng Quan discovered that this room was very large, and not dim at all. On the contrary, the lights here were very bright, so even normal people could see the situation in the room.
But when he carefully scanned the surrounding walls, he trembled slightly.
The room’s walls were plastered full of old newspapers, the newspapers stained with blood spots, and in the middle of each newspaper hung human faces with eyes closed, complete features, lifelike.
These human faces included men and women, children, old men, all kinds of people imaginable.
Just a rough estimate showed at least two or three hundred human faces, and from the degree of solidified fresh blood on the newspapers, these human faces hadn’t been placed here for too long, at most about ten days.
“This ghost is collecting people’s faces? How is that possible?!”
Seeing the various human faces on the walls, Feng Quan was greatly shocked in his heart. He had never seen a ghost actively collect certain things before.
Most ghosts were like killing machines restricted by program code:
Wandering aimlessly;
Attacking when someone matches the “code”;
Without obvious intention or autonomous consciousness.
But the scene he saw now directly shattered his understanding of ghosts.
“The ghost candle’s burning speed hasn’t changed, which means this room isn’t the means or medium for the ghost to launch an attack. Damn it! Could this ghost collecting human faces actually have wisdom?!”
Feng Quan, not acting rashly, stood in place covered in cold sweat. After entering the Caesar Grand Hotel and connecting all the weirdness he had seen.
The conclusion he reached made his scalp tingle.
An already terrifying fierce ghost actually had wisdom?
“What kind of joke is this?”
Just as Feng Quan was observing the surroundings of the room.
“Feng Quan, look here quickly, look at this face.” Suddenly, Guo Fan’s surprised and grave voice rang out.
He suddenly pointed at a human face hanging on a bloodstained old newspaper on the wall.
That was a woman’s human face, with proper features and rosy complexion, as if asleep.
But the appearance was very familiar.
This was Tong Qian’s appearance.
“Tong Qian’s face? Looks like she was already killed by the ghost in the room, her face peeled off, no possibility of survival. Put this face away, prepare to escape.”
Looking at Tong Qian’s human face, the experienced Feng Quan immediately judged that the ZS City person in charge Tong Qian was already dead, and the purpose of their coming here was to rescue her.
Since the target was already dead, there was no need for him and Guo Fan to stay here, so Feng Quan immediately issued the command to escape.
“I got it.”
Although unknown ghosts still existed in this hotel, they had nothing to do with the two of them anymore, so Guo Fan answered immediately without thinking.
“Zizi… zizi.”
Just as Guo Fan was holding the ghost candle and about to go take down Tong Qian’s human face, his satellite phone in his pocket suddenly emitted a burst of static noise.
“Damn it! Which bastard is scaring me at a time like this!” Guo Fan cursed in his heart.
Without knowing the ghost’s killing pattern, any factor breaking the original calmness could very likely cause the participants to trigger the ghost’s killing pattern and suffer an attack.
So after Feng Quan discovered no signal, he required Guo Fan to turn off his satellite phone like him, but somehow Guo Fan’s originally turned-off satellite phone suddenly regained signal and rang.
This unexpected change instantly made the two on site’s expressions tense, even a inexplicable chill surging into their hearts.
After Guo Fan safely took down Tong Qian’s human face from the wall, his first action wasn’t to pack it up, but to hang up the satellite phone first.
“Go!” Feng Quan reminded in a low voice.
At the same time as his reminder, a piece of mist began to spread from around his body.
This was when Feng Quan heard the satellite phone ring, he suddenly thought of something, then tried to spread his Ghost Domain.
But unexpectedly, this attempt actually worked.
“Looks like earlier it was some ghost’s Ghost Domain interfering with the hotel’s signal, even suppressing the ghost mist’s Ghost Domain. Although I don’t know why that ghost’s Ghost Domain disappeared, this is a good thing.” Feng Quan thought to himself.
Using the Ghost Domain ability, in the blink of an eye Feng Quan transferred himself and Guo Fan to the corridor on the fourth floor.
“Follow the road we took to come back, same as before. I’ll use Ghost Domain to observe the surroundings, you lead the way.”
After escaping from that weird room, Feng Quan immediately made arrangements.
Guo Fan said: “Okay, I won’t extinguish the ghost candle for now.”
“Mm.”
After clear division of labor, the two began to head back along the road they came.
But the originally three or four minute journey took them a full five or six minutes, and they didn’t even find the markers they had left earlier in the corridor.
Just as Feng Quan was about to be unable to continue maintaining the Ghost Domain, Guo Fan’s deliberately lowered voice rang out:
“Feng Quan, do you hear it… seems like laughter.” Even though inside the Ghost Domain, Guo Fan vaguely heard a faint eerie laugh echoing by his ear.
This laughter seemed to drift over from a relatively distant place, but it didn’t decay completely due to distance until disappearing.
On the contrary, this laughter seemed increasingly clear, starting intermittent as if it was auditory hallucination, then becoming clearer and clearer, as if there really was a person making an eerie laugh right by his ear. This laughter had a weird infectious power; after listening for a while, he couldn’t help but want to laugh along.
It was as if a ghost was right by the two of them.
