Chapter 238: Eating Ghosts
A loud gunshot seemed to ring out from a certain floor of Ping An Hotel, and a moment later, alarms blared.
Jiang Shan, who had been in a deep sleep, slowly opened his eyes.
He picked up his mobile phone and checked the time, finding it was only a quarter past three in the morning, with several hours until dawn.
“What troubled times,” he squinted and went back to rest.
Even though gunshots were ringing out and alarms were blaring, it had nothing to do with him. Someone would handle whatever happened here; he had no obligation to deal with such messy affairs.
“Let headquarters handle these minor issues themselves. What I need to do now is maintain my condition and see what the Newspaper Ghost, or rather Yang Xiaotian, is planning.”
Jiang Shan had already learned from Cao Yanhua that Zhao Jianguo was no longer at headquarters, and there was no information about him at all. He had vanished into thin air.
At the current meeting,
The Vice Minister’s disappearance was already weird, and Jiang Shan, who knew the inside story, was certain that something was about to happen in Dajing City.
And he, who had finally found a sense of being “alive” tonight,
Just wanted to savor this feeling.
Thinking thus,
Jiang Shan didn’t hesitate to turn off the satellite phone connecting him to headquarters, then rolled over and continued to rest.
Meanwhile,
Shen Liang, unable to contact Jiang Shan, was filled with anxiety. Being perceptive, he naturally understood Jiang Shan’s attitude.
Although he could forcibly connect Jiang Shan’s satellite phone,
He dared not.
If this were any other ghost wielder, he could use his position to threaten them or negotiate based on benefit. There would always be room for discussion.
But with Jiang Shan,
He truly didn’t know where to begin.
“Jiang Shan’s identity and abilities are too special, and this isn’t a major issue. Forget it, I’ll find that person instead.”
Worried about potential problems, Shen Liang chose to call another “troublemaker.” Compared to Jiang Shan, who was unwilling to get involved in anything, this troublemaker truly gave him a headache.
Soon, Yang Jian’s satellite positioning mobile phone was forcibly connected.
Shen Liang’s voice came through the phone: “This is Shen Liang, is Yang Jian there?”
“Can I not speak?” Yang Jian asked after a long silence.
“Are you at Ping An Hotel right now?” Shen Liang asked.
Yang Jian replied, “I’m sleeping. If there’s anything, we can talk about it tomorrow.”
Hearing that tone, Shen Liang’s tone also shifted, and he immediately said in a low voice:
“Then you must have heard the gunshots at Ping An Hotel. This isn’t a supernatural event; a ghost wielder has gone insane and shot a hotel staff member. They are currently in a highly dangerous state and could commit more crimes at any moment.”
“Oh, a ghost wielder has gone insane?” Yang Jian’s eyes flickered: “They must have been tormented by fierce ghost revival, unable to bear it any longer.”
Sleeping at night is the most vulnerable time for a ghost wielder, and the symptoms of fierce ghost revival will gradually become apparent.
He had experienced it deeply before; it could indeed drive people mad.
“I know you want compensation, so I’ll be upfront. As long as this incident is resolved, I’ll give you three white ghost candles. No bargaining, this is the headquarters’ limit.”
Hearing Shen Liang’s words, Yang Jian fell silent.
He had just dealt with the ghost hand incident on the airplane. With only two ghosts under his control, his own limits had already been reached.
His ghost eye was on the verge of revival, and the headless ghost shadow had completely revived, though it was currently in a dead machine state.
If he couldn’t find a way to balance his supernatural abilities, Yang Jian knew he wouldn’t live more than a few months.
Therefore, he had to seize any opportunity he had.
Although three white ghost candles were not as good as red ghost candles, they could play a huge role in critical moments.
Determined to gamble for the next few months, Yang Jian hesitated for a moment before accepting Shen Liang’s mission.
At this moment.
On a certain floor of the hotel.
It had been blockaded by security personnel. In the dimly lit corridor, several injured people lay sprawled about. Fresh blood flowed from their wounds, gradually dyeing the surrounding ground red. Sounds of pain and faint moans echoed around.
However, no one dared to easily set foot on this floor or cross the cordon, even in the face of severely injured individuals.
There was no other reason:
Unless their own interests were involved, most people, whether ghost wielders or ordinary individuals, were willing to be spectators rather than helpers.
And the bloodstains on the ground, left by bodies dragged across the floor, served as proof to others that someone on this floor did not want anyone to approach.
But this also indicated, indirectly, that the person still possessed consciousness.
“Who is so eager to die? Causing trouble here in the middle of the night, disturbing my sleep. Can’t you be quiet?”
“Hahahaha, perhaps another one has gone mad. They’re about to experience fierce ghost revival, another unlucky soul driven to mental breakdown by ghosts.”
“To go mad here? That’s practically asking for death. Don’t they know where this is? This is Dajing City. Who knows how many ghost wielders are stationed here. Someone from headquarters will handle this in no time. At this critical juncture, anyone causing trouble is simply an idiot.”
“Do any of you know who made the move this time?”
In a restaurant on a nearby floor, over a dozen ghost wielders from various places had gathered.
The newcomers to Dajing City were already uneasy, and with the commotion at the hotel, they couldn’t rest peacefully. So, under the hotel’s arrangement, they were gathered together to make management easier.
“That person is Lin Shan, a university student. He’s quite foolish. When he first became a ghost wielder, he thought he had superpowers and misused them in the early stages, trying to act like a protagonist in urban novels, chasing after popular girls. In less than two months, he experienced fierce ghost revival. Fortunately, this idiot did one relatively correct thing: he joined headquarters.”
“Although he didn’t become an International Criminal Police officer, headquarters, considering the shortage of personnel and his potential significant value, specifically authorized him to come to Dajing City to handle the fierce ghost revival issue.”
A young man with a somewhat gloomy expression sat in a nearby dining chair, fiddling with a wine glass.
“That’s true. Headquarters has been recruiting all sorts of ghost wielders lately. These inexperienced newcomers are all controlled by their egos, acting like they’re the most important beings in the world. It’s laughable.” As soon as the youth finished speaking, someone immediately chimed in.
Those who could stay at Ping An Hotel were all persons in charge from headquarters. Many of them had undergone training together in Dajing City previously, so they could clearly see many unfamiliar faces.
Previously, headquarters required strict testing for recruiting ghost wielders from the public.
But now that headquarters had lowered its requirements and was recruiting persons in charge in large numbers, many “old-timers” felt uneasy because they knew what this implied.
Headquarters was afraid.
What they were afraid of, no one knew.
“Who knows what headquarters is up to? Hey, how do you know information about that troublemaker?” someone asked curiously.
“Of course, I know. Lin Shan is my classmate,” the youth sneered. “I’ve disliked him for a long time. That guy overused the fierce ghost’s ability too much, so his terror level is above mine, and I’ve suffered losses at his hands.”
Two ghost wielders appearing in the same school was indeed a rare occurrence.
The others all turned to look, it seemed this person and the troublemaker named Lin Shan had significant conflict.
“Who do you think headquarters will send to handle this matter this time? I heard that Branch Minister Jiang Shan checked into this hotel today. Will headquarters ask him to take action?” someone whispered again.
Upon mentioning that name, everyone present, without exception, their expressions slightly changed.
Resolved two S-class events alone;
Became a Branch Minister in half a year;
Annihilated his circle of friends overnight and beat Supernatural Forum’s Ye Zhen like a dog.
Even without knowing the details, just the information circulating in the supernatural circle sent a shiver down their spines.
Although most of them had never met Jiang Shan, they were ghost wielders who had encountered supernatural events. They had almost died from just C-class and B-class supernatural events, and recalling it still brought some fear and tension. Therefore, it was hard for them to imagine that there were people in this world who could resolve S-class supernatural events.
Could such ghosts truly be dealt with by ghost wielders?
And Jiang Shan alone could resolve two such ghosts?
Furthermore, based on the latest videos circulating in the supernatural circle, he could even suppress a ghost into silence with one hand.
Was this a joke?!
“Jiang Shan will handle this? You people are truly brain-dead from ghost erosion. I think it will be Chen Yi, the person in charge of this area, or Yang Jian with the Ghost Eye who arrived today. The probability of them handling it is the highest.”
“Chen Yi will most likely handle it, as it falls within his jurisdiction. But why would Yang Jian get involved? He’s just a regional person in charge; would he bother with this mess?”
As the ghost wielders were discussing animatedly, the lights in the restaurant suddenly dimmed, as if the electrical circuits were affected by something.
Huh?
This sudden change made everyone present’s eyelids twitch.
Something was wrong.
They immediately realized the situation was not good.
“Drip! Drip! Drip!”
The sound of dripping water echoed in the suddenly quiet living room.
Not only that,
A faint green mist began to permeate the room, like wisps of smoke just exhaled, spreading silently with the sound of dripping water. However, this chilling green mist only permeated certain specific rooms.
It seemed someone was deliberately planning something, but no one knew about it.
Just as the ghost wielders were fleeing this place as if from a disaster,
On a certain floor.
The lights were completely out, the surroundings were dark and chilling, and the air was damp. Water droplets continuously emerged from the nearby walls, and a musty odor emanated from the air.
Deep within this source, in a guest room.
A man with a pale, swollen complexion was trembling uncontrollably on a chair. He held a golden pistol, with several shell casings scattered nearby. Not far from him, two security guards and a female service worker lay in pools of blood, their bodies mangled and their breaths gone.
“Don’t, don’t come near me. I don’t want to die… I can give you money, I can give you all my collections, please don’t kill me!”
Seeing the man with a dark, bruised body appear in the room, Lin Shan, a ghost wielder, knew instantly that it was a ghost!
The chilling cold that made one’s hair stand on end and the emotionless gaze made his hairs stand on end the moment he saw it a few minutes ago.
But this was not the most terrifying part.
After all, this was Ping An Hotel, a place headquarters used to accommodate persons in charge. How could there be a ghost here?!
Lin Shan at this moment couldn’t bother with his doubts; fear was engulfing his entire body.
But no matter how he activated the supernatural power of the fierce ghost within him;
no matter how much the accumulated water on the ground could drown ghosts;
no matter how strong the fetid smell of decay permeating the air was, none of it seemed to affect that man, no, that ghost at all!
It was still frantically eating the corpse of the waitress on the ground.
One bite,
then another.
“Ugh~! Damn it! Why can’t my ghost suppress it, what in the world is going on?! Help! Someone save me!”
Lin Shan shouted in despair, he found he could no longer control his vomiting; the water in his stomach seemed to be churning, as if everything was going to be vomited out today.
Even though he was now on the verge of a fierce ghost revival, the ghost before him seemed completely unaffected.
Trembling words laced with crying and the swallowing sounds of flesh and blood being gnawed echoed in the empty room.
But the cold, blood-stained walls seemed to isolate everything within, trapping endless despair in this not-too-small room, unable to escape.
Perhaps Lin Shan would never know.
The entire wall cavity of the room he was currently in contained a thin layer of gold. Although there was no gold cavity inside the room door, it had been specially modified with soundproofing materials.
To put it bluntly,
the entire room was a coffin made of gold.
If this design was to prevent ghost wielders from losing control, as the Headquarters might have intended, then it was understandable, but now it seemed this specially modified room was not just for containing ghosts.
It was more like it was specially built by certain “people” to “raise ghosts.”
And there were countless such rooms in the Ping An Hotel now.
“No. No!”
Due to extreme fear and the fierce ghost’s revival, Lin Shan’s legs had gone so weak they were almost paralyzed. In his despair, he watched as the man, whose body was entirely dark blue, finished eating the corpse on the ground and was now walking towards him step by step.
“Thump~!”
Forcing himself to stand up to prepare to escape, Lin Shan, overcome with fear, instantly fell to the ground along with his chair. He was still struggling, crawling towards the room door.
But no matter how long Lin Shan crawled, within the faint green mist, he seemed destined to never reach the end of the room, never reach the room door.
He,
was trapped in the illusion of the ghost domain.
“Ah~!”
Lin Shan, who was crawling frantically, suddenly felt a pair of bone-chilling hands grasp his neck, and then an intense pain shot from his head.
It was a person,
no, it was a ghost gnawing on his head!
“Ahhh~! My head hurts so much! It, it’s eating me! How am I sinking?! This is the supernatural power of the ghost I control, but how could it affect me?!”
The change in perspective made Lin Shan, who was almost in pain to the point of losing consciousness, even more terrified. He found himself continuously sinking into the accumulated water on the floor.
He knew too well what was in the accumulated water.
And this was the source of Lin Shan’s endless fear.
At this moment, he was incapable of analyzing the situation. If Jiang Shan or Yang Jian were here, they would realize that this ghost, entirely dark blue and covered in blood, was devouring the supernatural power of the ghost within Lin Shan!
It was eating people,
and even more so, it was eating ghosts!
“Gulp.”
As the chewing sounds disappeared, Lin Shan, who had been lying on the ground, vanished entirely. The ghost within his body also left no trace.
In the room filled with accumulated water, bloodstains, and a fetid smell, only a dark blue man stood eerily in place.
The next second,
the man’s pale, expressionless pupils suddenly shifted. Then, the waitress and two security guards, whose corpses had been “eaten,” reappeared completely intact in their original positions.
Also reappearing,
was Lin Shan, sitting on a chair with a special pistol in his hand, his face contorted in madness.
It seemed as if everything that had just happened was an illusion, but the bloodstains and bone fragments around the man’s mouth proved that everything had indeed truly happened.
As the faint green mist in the room dissipated, the man also disappeared through a secret passage within the room.
No one knew where he had gone through this secret passage to, to devour another ghost wielder.
However, all of this,
was unknown.
Everyone can guess what kind of ghost ate Lin Shan.
So cool!
Dajing City is so cool~!
