Chapter 251: Someone Nearby
With the preparatory work already completed, this action to detain the Starving Ghost had now reached its most critical phase.
Li Jun stood straight under the streetlamp, regardless of whether the others were listening or not, still repeating one sentence: “Everyone must remember, all the ghosts of us few people combined cannot compare to the Starving Ghost. What we need to do is cooperate with Old Qin’s detention action, always ready to face sudden situations.”
“Everyone also knows the Starving Ghost’s Killing Pattern. According to this action’s process, our mission is very simple: as soon as the Ghost Painting is drawn here, immediately follow Old Qin’s command at the first moment to prevent unexpected situations.”
“Without Old Qin’s request, we will do nothing in this action.”
Although the crowd had little understanding of Old Qin’s strength, from his performance at the base headquarters meeting, it was not hard to see that this amiable old man beside them contained how terrifying a Supernatural Power in his seemingly frail body.
Like a Fierce Ghost, the world-subverting Restart.
This was absolutely not a ability that an ordinary Ghost Wielder could possess.
So in this action led by Old Qin, they were just existences used to assist or for emergencies.
As for the reason Li Jun said these words, it was because a few minutes ago, after receiving the news that Liu San was preparing to draw the Ghost Painting.
Old Qin had left instructions for everyone to stay in place and wait, while he chose to enter that hotel alone.
So to prevent the Ghost Wielders participating in this action from causing failure due to unauthorized actions, even if it meant talking more, he absolutely would not allow such a thing to happen.
“Simply put, it’s to pray that the ghost with codename Ghost Painting can successfully detain the Starving Ghost, then we help Old Qin assist. Li Jun, no need for your reminder; if the situation is wrong, I will definitely run faster than you.” An ordinary-looking man who was squatting on the ground playing with his mobile phone lifted his head and revealed a pale and feeble smile.
As if a corpse was smiling, making people shudder.
Looking at Old Qin’s figure that had already gone far, A Hong’s eyes flashed with a hint of relief. She glanced at Li Jun who was still waiting in place, then said in a calm tone:
“I’m rather surprised that Jiang Shan didn’t participate in this action. Compared to you, I prefer partnering with Jiang Shan. I heard his Ghost Domain can even suppress a Fierce Ghost to dormancy. You can’t do that, right, Li Jun?”
“Jiang Shan? That guy’s uncontrollability is too high. Headquarters probably doesn’t trust him. The more important the matter, the less likely they are to let him participate. After all, who knows what he would do?”
The last man leaned against a nearby flickering streetlamp and let out a cold laugh.
Li Jun glanced at the speaking man, then slowly said: “Jiang Shan is a very special person. His stance is no problem, but the person is unrestrained. In this action, Old Qin is the main body; we are just backup support. We should still be more prudent.”
While the crowd was talking.
The quiet surroundings gradually began to turn gray and hazy. From the sky above, some indistinct things kept drifting down, like gray thick fog condensing, or like clusters of chilling breath.
In just one breath’s time, everything around was covered by the gray hazy things. Everything visible to the naked eye had changed.
The entire world had lost all color; even the drone in the sky was gray, covered in this stuff on its body.
A Hong reached out to catch a clump drifting in front of her eyes, rubbed it lightly in her hand, leaving a gray mark on her palm.
“Paper Ash?” A Hong let out a light sound of surprise, finding it somewhat unbelievable.
Originally, this gray hazy everything was formed by the ashes left after some things burned drifting open.
“This is the Ghost Painting’s Ghost Domain.”
Li Jun slightly frowned: “It seems Liu San’s efficiency is much faster than imagined. He successfully drew the Ghost Painting here.”
“According to the previous judgment, there is no painting nearby, nor have we seen any paintings, so the probability of avoiding becoming the Ghost Painting’s target is high. At the same time, this Ghost Domain will invade our area, so everyone prepare in advance.”
Looking at the ashes continuously drifting down around, the surrounding world had completely changed its appearance. For some reason, Li Jun’s mood began to tense up.
The ghost had not yet appeared.
But merely the covering Ghost Domain already emanated a despairing aura like the end of days.
This gray hazy world had no vitality, no living creatures, only deathly silence, and ashes that seemed to drift endlessly forever.
“Li Jun, no instructions from Old Qin’s side.” After confirming the message in the walkie-talkie, A Hong walked to Li Jun’s side and said softly.
Hearing A Hong’s words, Li Jun nodded slightly to her, then pointed to his watch and looked at the crowd:
“Ten minutes. This is the maximum time Old Qin gave before the action. If the Ghost Painting’s Ghost Domain doesn’t disappear within these ten minutes, or no news comes from Old Qin’s side, then we must evacuate here immediately.”
“Now we continue to wait in place, maintain good condition, and be ready to act at any time.”
“OK, no problem, but I want to know, since Liu San completed the mission, where is he? Why haven’t we seen him yet.” The man playing with his mobile phone stopped his actions and slowly stood up.
Su Fan’s words made the crowd’s brows tighten, and they immediately scanned their gazes around, searching for Liu San’s traces.
“Plop!”
However, the next moment, from the gray hazy sky above, something like a corpse suddenly fell down, heavily smashing in front of the crowd. In an instant, this corpse was already shattered beyond recognition.
But it was still recognizable that this corpse was Liu San, who had participated in the action before.
“No danger, can act.”
The second after seeing the corpse, Su Fan looked at his mobile phone without hesitation, then calmly looked at Li Jun and immediately said.
“Not a corpse, it’s a Paper Person.” After confirming no problem, Li Jun walked over to check and found it was a Paper Person made of paper, just crafted very realistically, making the crowd mistake it for a corpse.
“The airplane couldn’t fly long in the Ghost Domain. Professor Wang’s calculation was very accurate. After persisting to here, the airplane completely couldn’t continue flying, but fortunately, the Ghost Painting was drawn here as expected.”
Inside the broken Paper Person was hollow. A yellowish palm stretched out from inside, then a weird person twisted and slowly crawled out from that Paper Person.
Soon, a man in his early twenties with sallow skin and a sickly body appeared in front of the crowd.
Liu San, who crawled out from the Paper Person, ignored Li Jun’s slightly dissatisfied gaze and suddenly looked in a certain direction with his eyes, then said in an icy tone lowly:
“There are people around!”
