Chapter 123: The Ghost At The Door
They discussed for a long time more.
Lin Qian and the old man finally came up with a stable plan.
They re-wrapped the withered Ghost Hand with gold foil, then put it into the box.
There was no welding torch here, so Lin Qian could only make do with it for now, and re-weld it again after returning later.
“Remember what I said. In this scheme, I can only help you with outside matters. For the things inside, you have to pay more attention yourself.”
“If you take even one wrong step, you will be doomed eternally.”
The old man looked solemn. “Since you’ve chosen this path, there’s no possibility of regret.”
Hearing this, Lin Qian nodded solemnly.
“I understand.”
The old man waved his hand. “Go, go and prepare.”
Lin Qian stood up, put away the box, then glanced at Li Ru. “The old master can’t protect you forever. From now on, you should change your temper.”
“Even I, as a Ghost Controller, don’t dare to be so arrogant. Why are you, as an ordinary person, like this?”
“Is it just because the old master is still alive?”
“But you have to understand, the old master is old and will eventually pass with time.”
“In this desperate era, ordinary people have no choices, and even Ghost Controllers have no choices.”
Li Ru’s expression changed slightly.
Lin Qian had said all he needed to and didn’t stay longer, leaving directly.
The old man was very calm; Lin Qian wasn’t wrong.
“Master…” Li Ru looked upset.
The old man waved his hand. “He wasn’t wrong. You should change your temper.”
“Others are polite to you not because you have strength, but because you’re useful to them.”
“If one day you’re no longer useful, what will your outcome be?”
“I’m still alive, so you’re very safe, but I can’t live forever in this world.”
Hearing this, Li Ru felt complicated, somewhat frustrated and somewhat sad.
“Master, I remember.”
The old man didn’t say anything, just sighed inwardly.
Hopefully she remembered.
After leaving the traditional Chinese medicine shop, Lin Qian didn’t go back immediately.
Instead, he went to Da Han City and looked at that abandoned building.
“The story began here.”
Before, a corpse had jumped down from here.
Then, Da Chang City’s Yang Jian never used his hands to open doors in his life, only his feet.
“Bai Shui Town.”
Lin Qian turned back, not looking at the place where the story began.
He muttered and turned to leave.
Plan well.
Anyway, it was just incidental.
But first, he needed to update the Ghost Messenger Suppression Quota.
He knew the origin of the hand, and he also knew the origin of the Wish Ghost.
There wouldn’t be any danger for the time being.
Lin Qian returned to Da Jiang City.
As soon as he arrived, he saw Wang Xiaoqiang waiting for him in the office.
The moment he saw Lin Qian, Wang Xiaoqiang looked solemn. “Lin Qian, trouble has come.”
“What?”
“No way, I was only gone for a few hours, and trouble already?”
Lin Qian was a bit stunned.
But seeing Wang Xiaoqiang’s solemn expression, he knew the trouble was big.
Wang Xiaoqiang didn’t speak and directly took Lin Qian downstairs.
As soon as they reached the hall, Lin Qian saw what Wang Xiaoqiang meant by trouble.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at the little girl downstairs sitting on the sofa eating fried chicken, covered in dirt.
“This shouldn’t be…”
Lin Qian frowned in confusion. Zhao Kaiming’s family had just revived, so how could this little girl end up like this, and even come here by herself.
Lin Qian’s gaze was undisguised. The little girl reacted belatedly, slowly raising her head, her eyes carrying innocence and bewilderment.
“You leave first.” Lin Qian said to Wang Xiaoqiang.
“Have all members leave Da Jiang City now. Without my notice, don’t come back for the time being.”
Hearing this, Wang Xiaoqiang frowned. “The trouble is bigger than I imagined?”
“Leave first.”
Lin Qian didn’t explain.
Wang Xiaoqiang didn’t hesitate and directly opened Ghost Domain to leave.
Seeing Wang Xiaoqiang disappear, a hint of surprise appeared in the little girl’s eyes.
Soon, Lin Qian sensed that Wang Xiaoqiang, Ye Feng, and others had left Da Jiang City.
Then he looked at the little girl. “Zhao Xiaoya, what did you come here for?”
Of course Lin Qian knew why she came, but asking couldn’t hurt.
The little girl put down the chicken leg in her hand, wiped her mouth, but obviously, her dirty hands only made her mouth dirtier.
“It said, as long as you return its thing to it, it can fulfill one of your wishes.”
Zhao Xiaoya said very seriously.
Lin Qian raised his brow. This was here to trade?
“Where is it?”
Lin Qian asked.
“It’s right there, big brother. Can’t you see it?”
Zhao Xiaoya pointed blankly at a liquor cabinet in the hall.
Lin Qian’s gaze slowly shifted. In front of the liquor cabinet, there was nothing, completely empty.
He couldn’t sense it.
Not really existing?
He knew Zhao Xiaoya wasn’t lying because he really saw a blurry figure in front of the liquor cabinet in her eyes.
But he couldn’t see it.
Lin Qian smiled. It didn’t dare to truly come.
The other party was very clear that confronting him, if not careful, it would be suppressed by him.
As long as it could speak like this, in a restart matchup, if he got a chance to touch it, the moment of contact, the Wish Ghost would be suppressed.
And for the other party to confront him, it had to use restart to limit his plundering ability, keeping his plunder always in plunder time.
Otherwise, he could plunder the other’s supernatural.
He couldn’t plunder the withered Ghost Hand, couldn’t he plunder the bodiless Wish Ghost?
“Big brother, promise it.” Zhao Xiaoya said very seriously.
“Otherwise, you’ll have big trouble.”
Looking at the serious expression on Zhao Xiaoya’s dirty face, Lin Qian showed a smile. “Do you want to revive your dad?”
Hearing this, Zhao Xiaoya was stunned, seemingly unclear how the other knew.
But children don’t know how to hide emotions; she nodded. “Yeah! Xiaoya wants daddy back!”
Lin Qian sat on the stairs, looking at this dirty little child.
The current Zhao Xiaoya didn’t yet have the malicious personality from the original work.
This was just a child.
But Lin Qian absolutely wouldn’t think children were naturally kind.
“It can bring your dad back, and I can too.”
Lin Qian looked at Zhao Xiaoya. “Do you believe it, or believe me?”
“You might not know, its essence is the real killer of your dad.”
“Because it…”
Lin Qian suddenly narrowed his eyes; the originally dazed Zhao Xiaoya suddenly disappeared.
“Interesting.”
Ghost Domain instantly covered Da Jiang City.
But it didn’t find Zhao Xiaoya’s presence.
Lin Qian withdrew Ghost Domain. “Gone?”
Suddenly, several Ghost Domains appeared.
Then, in the hall, Wang Xiaoqiang and others appeared.
The moment they appeared, supernatural outburst immediately erupted, scanning the surroundings, seeming ready to act if anything seemed off.
But soon, they found no danger in the hall.
“President, no action?”
Yan Li scratched his head; the bloody smell on him was extremely strong.
“No.”
Lin Qian looked at them.
Hearing this, they all breathed a sigh of relief; Yan Li was somewhat disappointed.
“I thought I could show off my power.”
Lin Qian: “…”
“Nonsense.”
“Don’t show off; you can’t even touch that thing.”
Lin Qian stood up. “Next, closely monitor the situation in Da Jiang City. If you see that little girl, don’t contact her; stay as far away as possible.”
“The little girl isn’t important; what’s important is the ghost behind the little girl.”
“After seeing that little girl, remember, don’t let anyone else contact her.”
A child holding a sharp blade could create huge danger at any time.
“Got it.” Wang Xiaoqiang nodded.
“What is that ghost’s ability?”
Lin Qian looked at Lu Lin.
Lu Lin was stunned, then thought for a moment, eyes narrowing. “Wish?”
Lin Qian nodded. “How’s the investigation going?”
Lu Lin’s expression became solemn. “That guy’s relatives and friends all died in accidents.”
“After his relatives and friends died, his students also started dying frequently in accidents.”
“Is this the price of the wish?”
Lu Lin asked.
The others were slightly stunned.
Ye Feng was very calm; he knew.
Lin Qian nodded. “That eerie hand is a puzzle piece of the ghost behind the little girl.”
“That ghost has wisdom and came here for that hand.”
“Holy shit?”
Ye Feng was stunned. “Another ghost with wisdom?”
Before, Xu Ming and they thought it was an accident, but now another one?
“Yeah, that thing is very eerie. The starving ghost event in Da Chang City was actually caused by it.”
“At that time, that ghost’s host was Zhao Kaiming.”
They looked at each other, feeling numb hearing this.
No way, was this thing that terrifying?
Their expressions unanimously became solemn.
“I know Zhao Kaiming.”
Lu Lin had paid attention to Da Chang City’s successive persons in charge.
Feng Quan, Zhou Zheng, Zhao Kaiming, and finally the current Yang Jian.
Feng Quan was still alive now.
Zhou Zheng died from Fierce Ghost Revival; Zhao Kaiming’s situation was unclear.
But now it seemed he was definitely dead.
“Zhao Kaiming, the person in charge before Yang Jian. According to headquarters files, Zhao Kaiming was seriously derelict in duty, allowed the starving ghost’s incubation, endangered human safety, was expelled from headquarters for violating human safety law, and is now wanted.” Lu Lin said.
“Zhao Kaiming is already dead.”
“That’s not important. Now, that ghost has targeted me. There won’t be issues in the short term, but later is unclear.”
Hearing this, Wang Xiaoqiang said, “We team up…”
Yan Li waved his hand. “Don’t think about it; that thing is very troublesome.”
“President, how do you plan to handle it?”
Yan Li knew how terrifying that thing was.
After all, he had witnessed the Wish Ghost invading the Endless Graveyard.
“I’ll handle it.”
Lin Qian was calm, as if talking about a small matter.
“Don’t worry about me. It’s just one ghost. Knowing its killing pattern, I won’t lose.”
Hearing this, they finally relaxed.
“Go get busy. When you have time, think more about your own Ghost Controller path: what ghost to control, how to make your supernatural more terrifying, enrich your methods.”
“This is the way to survive in this era.”
“You’re already different from other Ghost Controllers; learn to utilize this difference.”
Lin Qian turned and returned to the office; the others exchanged glances.
“Looks like we’re still too weak.” Ye Feng sighed.
Wang Xiaoqiang nodded. “Indeed.”
Lu Lin agreed with this conclusion.
Manyue exhaled. “Too weak, can’t even help.”
Zhao Bai suspiciously looked at them, and seeing even Yan Li say they were too weak.
Zhao Bai also began to reflect: were they really too weak?
They, with an average of four or five ghosts controlled per person, really too weak?
Back in the office, Lin Qian was stunned.
“What are you doing here?”
He looked at the young man sitting in his boss chair, playing with a teapot.
The young man looked up at Lin Qian upon hearing him.
“Bored, nothing to do, came to fight you.”
“Then why not go find Fang Shiming?”
Lin Qian grabbed a bottle of beer and tossed it to the young man.
“I wanted to, but in Da Jing City, little Fang definitely won’t fight me, and lately Da Jing City has an event.”
“Seems like Ghost Controller training, very important. If I go looking for a fight, headquarters definitely won’t be happy.”
Self-proclaimed Ye, no need to guess who it was.
Ye Zhen caught the beer.
“I won’t fight you either.”
Lin Qian took out a welding torch and welded a golden box shut in front of Ye Zhen.
“Why?” Ye Zhen was curious, put the beer on the table; he didn’t like this stuff, he liked milk.
“There’s milk over there.”
Lin Qian didn’t look up. “No reason. We can’t decide a winner, and fighting here, do you want Da Jiang City to completely fall?”
Ye Zhen walked to a cabinet, opened it, and took out a bottle of pure milk.
“Can’t decide a winner?”
Ye Zhen drank milk and stroked his chin. “Setting that aside, if we fight long enough, a winner will emerge.”
“As for where to fight, that’s indeed a problem.”
The welding torch turned off; Lin Qian looked at the glowing golden box and tossed it into water.
“You really want to fight me?”
Lin Qian tilted his head toward Ye Zhen drinking milk.
“Nonsense, why else would I come find you?”
“Chat?”
“That’s even more boring.”
The water cooled the gold.
Lin Qian picked it up, still warm.
He didn’t mind the temperature and put it away.
“Fighting is the least beneficial thing.”
“Ye Zhen, you want to fight, but I definitely won’t fight you.”
“However…”
Ye Zhen: “However what.”
Lin Qian opened a bottle of beer and took a sip. “However, in a while, a major supernatural event will happen somewhere. I’ll go, you come along too. There will be plenty of opponents you want inside.”
“Fight ghosts?”
Ye Zhen asked.
“Something like that. Though it’s ghosts, I guarantee you can fully use your supernatural.”
Lin Qian smiled.
Joking, inside the Ghost Painting, Ye Zhen could use supernatural however he wanted, no worry about destroying a city.
“Interesting.”
Ye Zhen thought about it. “Fine, notify me when the time comes.”
Though no fight with Lin Qian disappointed him a bit, Lin Qian offered a future chance to go all out.
It wasn’t in vain coming here.
“Sure.” Lin Qian nodded, agreeing.
