Chapter 272: Source Of The Ghost Painting
Chen Yi froze in place, staring blankly at the woman who appeared on the path in the woods outside the Ghost House courtyard.
He had seen the intelligence on the Ghost Painting, and now even if he were a fool, he could recognize that the thing in front of him was suspected to be the Source Ghost of the Ghost Painting.
“How is this possible?! Damn it, shouldn’t this ghost be under Old Qin’s handling right now? Could Old Qin have failed?”
Regaining his senses, Chen Yi’s face turned ashen. Even though his whole body was drenched in cold sweat, as a Ghost Wielder, he forced himself to calm down.
“The most terrifying aspect of the Ghost Painting is its Ghost Domain. Although its Killing Pattern is still unknown for now, it hasn’t attacked me yet, which means I’m temporarily safe.”
Chen Yi’s mind raced as he tried to find a way out.
“There’s the suspected Source Ghost of the Ghost Painting ahead. Should I take a chance and try to detain it? No, something that Old Qin and two Captains couldn’t deal with is absolutely beyond me.”
“However, I can try to lure it somewhere else. I still have a White Ghost Candle on me. As long as I don’t trigger the Ghost Painting’s Killing Pattern, I can try to lead it away from Dajing City. But doing so, I’m very likely to die, and I won’t be able to report this news to Headquarters.”
Wait a minute,
Has it already locked onto me?
Just as Chen Yi refrained from any rash moves and maintained his original posture, he suddenly discovered with horror.
The woman suspected to be the Source Ghost of the Ghost Painting was walking step by step toward the Ghost House entrance. Although her strides were small, her Ghost Domain had already distorted the distance of reality. Moments ago she was dozens of steps away in the woods, but now she was less than ten meters from Chen Yi.
Chen Yi was startled and, maintaining the same speed as before, slowly retreated backward.
Clang!
A cold wind blew from behind him. The three doors leading to the depths of the Ghost House were opened by some Supernatural Power.
At the same time,
Five people walked out from the gray-white world of the Ghost Painting: Su Fan, Li Jun, A Hong, and others. But each of their hands had a Weird puncture wound.
Weirdly, the missing parts on each person were exactly the same size, with no differences.
“？！”
The next moment, as Chen Yi’s pupils suddenly contracted,
The five humanoid figures in the distance moved in unison, immediately stopping their steps. Their five somewhat stiff heads turned simultaneously toward Chen Yi.
“Damn it! What the hell are these things!”
Chen Yi met those five pairs of eyes, his pupils shrinking as his heart trembled, and he abruptly stopped retreating.
These five were no longer human. They were all ghosts.
Seeing those five people in the distance turn expressionlessly toward him, even though Chen Yi had experienced many events, cold sweat still broke out on his forehead at this moment.
“How could this be?” Chen Yi’s expression fluctuated, his heart filled with shock and disbelief.
Undoubtedly,
Those five were Ghost Wielders from the Detain Starving Ghost action. As one of the Persons in Charge in Dajing City, he was very familiar with them.
But now all five Ghost Wielders had become ghosts.
Was it failure in the action leading to death from Fierce Ghost Revival, or some other unforeseeable change?
“It’s impossible for all five to have died from Fierce Ghost Revival. The Detain Starving Ghost action had very thorough arrangements. Even though there weren’t many people in this action, Headquarters definitely had some safe retreat plans. The possibility of all of them wiping out should be very low.”
“Even if they encountered terrifying dangers in the Ghost Domain, at most one or two would die, not a total wipeout. Moreover, there was that Old Qin, a Ghost Wielder who has lived from the Republic of China to now. What exactly happened to these five!”
Chen Yi’s gaze flickered uncertainly as he quickly calmed down and judged the current situation based on the information he knew.
“Those useless people at Headquarters! How come at a time like this… No emergency contact message from Headquarters, which means they don’t know about these five people appearing here.”
He glanced at his Satellite Positioning Mobile Phone again.
Not a single emergency contact message came through, indicating that this action didn’t require support.
But did it really not need support?
Or had support already become pointless?
In an instant, he thought of many things, but the doubts in his heart didn’t diminish at all. Chen Yi could only vaguely judge that something had gone wrong in this action, causing some unforeseeable change.
Not only the Fierce Ghost that suddenly appeared in the suburbs, but also these five people who walked out from the Ghost Domain—there must be some terrifying connection between them.
However, Chen Yi had no time to think. The moment he saw those five appear, he felt a chilling sensation from behind.
“That woman disappeared? This feeling… it’s right behind me now!”
His long-term intuition from dealing with Fierce Ghosts allowed Chen Yi to make an instant judgment.
Watching “Li Jun” and the others rapidly approaching him, while behind him—at the Ghost House entrance—stood that blurry-faced female ghost, six inhuman things had him trapped in the middle, unable to advance or retreat.
At this thought, Chen Yi’s face turned somewhat ferocious.
There was no time for careful thought now. If he couldn’t withstand this, he would die here.
Already prepared to use his life to lure away the Ghost Painting, he immediately pulled out a candlestick from his body.
One end of the golden candlestick held a pallid candle, seemingly condensed from some kind of oil, carrying a Weird aura, while the other end was a golden long needle.
This design was to conveniently fix the candlestick into the ground, avoiding accidents like it being unsteady and blown over by wind.
Without any hesitation,
Chen Yi directly inserted this Weird candlestick into his shoulder.
The long needle pierced into the flesh and blood, and a foul odor surged out.
The heart-piercing pain made Chen Yi even calmer. In handling Supernatural Events, he was the type like Jiang Shan and Yang Jian.
Once he had a plan, he would execute it without hesitation, even if it was an all-or-nothing gamble with his life. He would temporarily cast aside fear and trepidation, leaving the outcome to the action.
And the moment the White Ghost Candle was lit,
Chen Yi gritted his teeth and charged straight toward the position of “Li Jun” and the others.
He knew the Terror Level of the Ghost Painting was absolutely beyond what he could confront. He might not even survive a second under attack.
While those five “people” were just Supernatural creations of the Ghost Painting.
With the life-preserving ability of Ghost Skin, as long as he could withstand the first wave of attack, he might still have a ray of hope.
Even if he died,
He had to lure the Ghost Painting away from the Ghost House. This ghost entering the Ghost House with such clear intent was definitely not a good thing.
Even if he could only delay the Ghost Painting by a minute, Chen Yi felt his death would be worthwhile.
At this moment.
Not far from the Ghost House, on the opposite side.
Li Jun, Su Fan, Liu San, and the others who had walked out from the Ghost Painting stared at the candlelight on the candlestick on his shoulder, standing Weirdly motionless in place, fixedly watching the frantically running Chen Yi.
Even the Ghost Painting halted its steps toward entering the Ghost House because of the White Ghost Candle. Her indistinct face turned toward Chen Yi, her hollow, lifeless eyes carrying an indescribable Weirdness.
However,
Just as the woman from the Ghost Painting took a step toward Chen Yi, preparing to launch a fatal attack.
A Silver Light pierced into the gray-white world like a blazing sun, shining directly onto the woman.
In an instant,
The Medium on Chen Yi disappeared.
