Chapter 26: The Killing Pattern That Cannot Be Found
Starting from that loud shout, it was visible to the naked eye that the fat man’s entire body began to gradually transform into a tree trunk, even his two arms involuntarily sank into his ribs, and his whole person was stretched like taffy.
In just a few breaths, a lush, over three-meter-tall tree appeared at the hotel entrance.
Jiang Shan watched the scene before him with a grave expression. When the man’s body had just transformed into a tree earlier, he had activated his ghost domain to envelop Manager Li’s entire body.
Even with Jiang Shan’s ghost domain fully activated, he was horrified to discover that he couldn’t find a single trace of the fierce ghost on the man’s body.
He wanted to save him, but he was completely powerless.
“So does that mean all these trees in the village are people?!”
Jiang Shan took a deep breath, looking at the woods surrounding everyone, and couldn’t help but feel his scalp tingle.
At this moment, Zhao Leihu, who was carrying Manager Guo on his back, also noticed this terrifying scene.
A living person just turned into a tree like that?
Then Manager Guo on his back…
Fearing being affected, Zhao Leihu shuddered in fright. At this moment, he didn’t care about any gold master anymore. He still had a lot of money he hadn’t spent, so why should he risk his life for them?
With that thought, Zhao Leihu instantly let go of his hands and hurriedly ran to the car. Looking at the dazed trio, he shouted sternly:
“Are you fucking standing there waiting to die? Hurry up and run with me!”
The trio who reacted rushed toward his car, but when the car turned around, Zhao Leihu was stunned.
The road?
Where was the way back?
Looking around, the entire village was already filled with woods, and even some houses’ roofs had been pierced by thick tree trunks.
At this time, Chen Family Village had quite the flavor of returning to a primitive forest.
“Fuck, they’re just some damn trees, can they stop me?!”
Zhao Leihu cursed fiercely in his heart, then stepped on the accelerator fully. The SUV’s engine let out a roaring growl and instantly charged forward.
The SUV’s front end was inherently more sturdy than ordinary vehicles, and this SUV of theirs was privately modified, specifically to handle various emergencies.
Even the front bumper of this car was made of gold alloy.
Knocking down these over three-meter-tall, fist-thick saplings was effortless for this car.
The woods seemingly formed from living people were quickly bulldozed alive by the SUV, carving out a path. At this moment, Zhao Leihu was already extremely panicked.
If it was killing a ghost wielder, he absolutely wouldn’t be afraid at all.
But facing such weirdness, to be honest, when he saw Manager Li’s ferocious pained expression, he was scared.
“Run! If I run out, I can live!”
Watching the SUV disappear into the woods so simply and easily,
Jiang Shan frowned tightly. From the moment Zhao Leihu’s group rushed toward the woods, he had activated his ghost domain to prevent Zhao Leihu from suddenly triggering a mutation.
But nothing happened. Those trees were like normal trees; after being knocked down, their broken branches lay on the ground without any trace of ghosts.
Weirdness,
For these trees, Jiang Shan only felt endless weirdness.
No ghostly characteristics, yet having some ghostly killing pattern.
Remembering Chen Yue’s words, Jiang Shan stood motionless on the floor tiles at the hotel entrance at this moment.
The hotel hall was full of tree roots, and behind him was that woods. Apart from this open space in front of the hotel entrance, if he didn’t touch any trees, Jiang Shan had nowhere else to go.
After observing the situation, Jiang Shan noticed that some rooms on the hotel’s third floor still had lights on, so there were apparently survivors in the hotel.
But aside from that,
The hotel’s other floors had no lights on at all, as if already empty.
Realizing something was wrong, Jiang Shan shouted loudly toward Chen Yue’s room:
“Chen Yue, tell me everything you know. When did people start turning into trees? And were there people staying on the hotel’s fourth and fifth floors?”
At this moment,
In a certain room on the hotel’s third floor
Chen Yue, who had been constantly watching Jiang Shan’s movements, breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that Jiang Shan hadn’t touched those weird human trees. She looked heartbroken at her mother lying on the bed in the room.
She hadn’t expected that her family would encounter such a terrifying fierce ghost right after moving back to the ancestral home.
Her father was missing, and her mother was suffering a gout attack in the hotel, barely able to get out of bed.
Chen Yue knew that at this moment, the only one she could rely on was Jiang Shan. She had to tell him everything she knew; perhaps this way, her family could still have a ray of hope.
Chen Yue had prepared early, so when Jiang Shan asked, she immediately said to him downstairs from the window:
“The day before yesterday! The day before yesterday, Manager Liu and a group of people went hunting in the mountains and suddenly lost contact. Then yesterday, two strange people came, bringing a group of villagers into the mountains to search, but after coming back, early this morning they all turned into trees.”
At this point, Chen Yue recalled the miserable appearance of that group in the video. She forced herself to calm down and continued:
“There are people on the fourth and fifth floors. This morning I still heard sounds from upstairs. Why are you asking this…”
Chen Yue’s voice grew smaller and smaller. She remembered that yesterday when she wanted to go downstairs, she found the hotel’s first and second floors already overgrown with weird trees. Not daring to drink tap water, she went upstairs to borrow a few bottles from one of Manager Guo’s lovers.
But from Jiang Shan’s tone, the people upstairs were gone?
Chen Yue’s heart sank. Clearly, they upstairs hadn’t touched the ghost trees either, so how did they die so inexplicably?
And at this moment,
Jiang Shan downstairs was even more baffled. Combining all the information, he really couldn’t figure out what the fierce ghost’s killing pattern was.
These trees formed from people, Jiang Shan called them ghost trees. From Chen Yue and that Manager Li who had just turned into a ghost tree, he knew:
“Touching these ghost trees triggers the ghost’s killing pattern. Manager Li is the best example.”
But why was Zhao Leihu fine?
Jiang Shan thought of Zhao Leihu who had yanked a ghost tree sapling with his hand; he showed no abnormality at all.
Whereas that Manager Li, not long after touching the ghost tree, his body began showing signs of ghost tree transformation.
Also, according to Chen Yue, Jiang Shan knew there were still people living on the hotel’s fourth and fifth floors this morning.
Jiang Shan didn’t believe that at dusk, with gunshots coming from downstairs, the people on those two floors wouldn’t turn on lights?
In this ghost-infested village, their abnormal behavior could only mean that from some point, they had died, died without a sound.
But these people who died in the hotel hadn’t touched the ghost trees, so how did they trigger the ghost’s killing pattern?
Jiang Shan, whose mind was in turmoil, scanned the surroundings. He wanted to use his ghost domain to see if he could find any clues about the ghost trees, but after scanning around, he found nothing.
Those ghost trees were just like ordinary trees,
Same branches, same patterns, and even Jiang Shan observed that the ghost trees knocked down by Zhao Leihu’s car had no abnormalities in the growth rings on their stumps!
The fierce ghost’s silent killing pattern was gradually killing everyone in the village,
Including Jiang Shan himself!
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