Chapter 27: The Person Who Avoids The Fierce Ghost’s Pattern Twice
The sky gradually darkened to gray, and an unnamed deathly stillness began to spread through the Village.
“Patta”
Jiang Shan, unable to find the Fierce Ghost Killing Pattern, lit a cigarette. Just as he was pondering what pattern there was in this information.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up. He discovered that the person who had perfectly avoided these two Killing Patterns was right in front of him.
If he remembered correctly, this so-called Manager Guo was named Guo Dezhong.
Earlier, when Zhao Leihu was carrying Guo Dezhong on his back, Jiang Shan saw that Guo Dezhong’s toes had touched the tree roots in the Hall more than once.
Under the “touch tree and die” Killing Pattern, Guo Dezhong was unscathed.
Jiang Shan walked straight to the unconscious Guo Dezhong, activated Ghost Domain Inspection to check his body, and after finding nothing unusual, squatted down.
This middle-aged man was wearing a custom suit. His capable appearance matched with the richness nurtured by money made it undeniable that this Guo Dezhong had more Boss demeanor than that Manager Li.
Looking at the bruise on Guo Dezhong’s neck and the roar that came from the third floor earlier.
Jiang Shan guessed that Zhao Leihu and Guo Dezhong had some dispute, and Zhao Leihu had knocked him out for convenience.
But now this man was in a coma, which was not good news for Jiang Shan, who could face a Fierce Ghost Attack at any moment.
This Guo Dezhong was now the only one who had stayed in Chen Family Village for a long time, touched the Ghost Tree, and not died. His information was very important to Jiang Shan.
With that thought, scarlet Ghost Characters surged from under Jiang Shan’s feet, covering the man’s entire body in the blink of an eye.
Unlike ordinary cold, the chilling cold brought by the Fierce Ghost seemed to seep from the bone marrow, the cold accompanied by the taste of fear making one horrified.
Jiang Shan estimated the time. After five minutes when the Ghost Characters had crawled all over the man’s body, Guo Dezhong finally slowly opened his eyes.
He sat up abruptly upon waking, shivered, and looked at Jiang Shan in front of him with some confusion:
“Where is Zhao Leihu? Who are you?”
Jiang Shan, having already retracted the Ghost Characters into his body, narrowed his eyes observing the man in front of him. After confirming he showed no signs of turning into the Ghost Tree, Jiang Shan said:
“Zhao Leihu has run away. I’m from the Club. None of that matters. What have you done from the day before yesterday to today?”
“Why the hell should I tell you? Get me out of this Ghost Place quickly. I’ve invested so much money in the Club, and Wang Xiaoqiang sends a kid to fool me? Whatever, just drive fast. I don’t want to stay here one more second!” Guo Dezhong glanced at Jiang Shan and said with a dissatisfied face.
It seemed that when Jiang Shan first went to the Little Qiang Club that day, Guo Dezhong was not present, otherwise he wouldn’t dare speak to Jiang Shan like this.
“Pa!”
Guo Dezhong, who was about to get up and walk toward the car, was slapped by Jiang Shan and staggered.
He covered his face, staring at Jiang Shan with full of anger, but when he saw Jiang Shan’s ice-cold, killing intent-filled eyes, he was startled. However, seeing many people standing at the hotel’s third floor windows, for the sake of face, he cursed:
“Anyone can ride on my head and shit now, huh? I…”
Before Guo Dezhong could finish his words, Jiang Shan aimed the gun from his pocket at his head and said in an ice-cold tone:
“Say one more word of nonsense, and I guarantee your head will explode.”
Feeling the ice-cold gun barrel on his head, Guo Dezhong’s face instantly turned ugly. He knew the thing in Jiang Shan’s hand was real, and seeing Jiang Shan’s crazy, emotionless eyes,
He was afraid.
He was just arrogant, bullying the weak and fearing the strong, but for a Ghost Wielder like Jiang Shan who was like a madman, he didn’t dare to act tough anymore. After all, this group of madmen sometimes really didn’t care about consequences.
Guo Dezhong said tremblingly:
“These past few days, I’ve been in the hotel accompanying my lovers. I didn’t do anything.”
“Lovers? How many lovers do you have?” Jiang Shan said.
“Five.”
Jiang Shan looked at Guo Dezhong’s proud bald spot, then at the wig on the ground that he had slapped off, and after a few seconds of silence:
“You haven’t stepped out of the hotel once?”
“Never went out. Food and drinks were all delivered to the Room. I stayed in the hotel the whole time,” Guo Dezhong said.
“Did you know you touched these trees?”
As soon as Jiang Shan finished speaking,
Guo Dezhong suddenly looked at Jiang Shan with full disbelief. His whole body began to tremble uncontrollably, his voice carrying a sobbing tone:
“Really?”
“Really,” Jiang Shan said.
Looking at the other’s ice-cold expression, Guo Dezhong felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar. He looked at Jiang Shan with a face full of despair:
“You must have the ability to save me, right? I’m going to die. I’m going to turn into a tree. I don’t want to die. Please save me. I’ll give you money. I’ll give you all my Company shares. Please save me!”
Thinking of the miserable state of those people in the video, his fear kept amplifying.
“You’ve touched those trees for more than five minutes, but you didn’t die.”
Jiang Shan’s calm tone stunned the man. Before he could react, Jiang Shan continued asking:
“Do you know anyone on the fourth or fifth floor?”
“Yes! Two of my lovers live on the fourth floor. I was still entangled with them at noon,” Guo Dezhong said.
“I don’t want to hear the rest. Answer what I ask. These words are not only saving me but also saving you,” Jiang Shan said in an ice-cold tone, then continued asking:
“They might already be dead. Do you know what they did these past two days?”
“They’re dead?!” Guo Dezhong was full of horror. They were fine at noon, how could they suddenly…
He suddenly thought of Jiang Shan’s words and immediately said: “I-I’m not too clear, but I know they went on a spring outing this morning with that group on the fourth floor, near the Village.”
Spring Outing
Jiang Shan stood in place silently for a moment, lowered the gun pointed at the man’s head, and shouted toward the third floor:
“These past few days, if any of you have gone on a spring outing or left this hotel, if you don’t want to harm your family and friends, it’s best to sleep separately from them tonight.”
“Be especially careful, not just the trees outside. Touching grass and flowers counts too.”
Jiang Shan looked at the upstairs where only five or six Rooms had lights on and couldn’t help sighing. A Village of over three hundred people, now only these lucky ones staying in the hotel remained.
These lucky ones added up might not even reach ten.
If no action was taken, they too could not escape the fate of death.
Jiang Shan looked at the tree stump that had been knocked down, where new buds had surprisingly grown, and scanned the surrounding Woods. He found the trees were closer to him.
The trees were growing madly.
It seemed it wouldn’t be long, perhaps tomorrow, before this Village would be full of Ghost Trees.
While Jiang Shan was silently thinking, suddenly a familiar voice came from the Woods.
“Brother Zhao, we’ve come out! Look!”
Clearly, one could see everything that happened in the nearby Woods at a glance, but the two in the Woods seemed blind to it, running toward here full of excitement.
Guo Dezhong beside Jiang Shan looked at the two in the Woods in horror, his expression as if he had seen a ghost:
“Zhao Leihu? What’s wrong with them?”
If Guo Dezhong were to describe the two’s state now, he would say:
Madness!
Zhao Leihu and the other in the Woods showed no awareness of anything unusual. In their eyes, the front seemed to be hope!
But the moment the two rushed out of the Woods, Zhao Leihu saw Jiang Shan emanating chilling cold, as well as Guo Dezhong whom he had abandoned, and that extremely luxurious hotel.
He was about to collapse!
Clearly, he had set a trap, letting the Fierce Ghost kill Old Cao and another Team Member. He had finally walked out of this dense forest, but why was he back at the starting point!?
The most painful was giving him hope and then despair.
Zhao Leihu, whose spirit was on the verge of collapse, knelt on the ground and roared loudly. After a while, his eyes bloodshot, expression ferocious, he looked at Jiang Shan and Guo Dezhong and said fiercely:
“I can’t live, so you all come die with me!”
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