Chapter 148: Yeah, I’m Not A Ghost
The heavy rain abruptly stopped at a certain moment.
Just like turning off a faucet, the water disappeared immediately after it was shut off.
“Sure enough, it’s eerie enough.”
Fang Shiming looked at the road under his feet.
The water on the road was visibly disappearing.
The ground was becoming dry.
In just a few short minutes, the surrounding environment became dry and refreshing.
It didn’t look at all like it had just rained.
The gloomy dark clouds in the sky quietly dispersed.
There was no moon, but the starlight twinkled, with stars dotting the sky.
Although the starlight couldn’t provide them with much illumination.
Looking up at the starry sky gave people a different kind of mood.
The three looked at the starry sky, unlike ordinary people, they knew very well that such a scene represented an abnormality.
Bathed in starlight, the three did not use supernatural powers again.
After all, it wasn’t raining anymore.
They continued walking forward along the small path.
“This is really strange.”
After walking a stretch, the road ahead unexpectedly turned into a cement road.
A cement road wasn’t anything rare.
But here, it was still somewhat unusual.
“Huh?”
The moment the three stepped onto the cement road, they noticed something wrong.
The cement road that originally looked very flat felt uneven when walked on.
Ye Zhen rubbed the ground with his shoe.
Then he squatted down and reached out to touch it.
Lin Qian and Fang Shiming watched.
Then they were surprised.
They saw Ye Zhen reach out and exert slight force, and a petrified eye unexpectedly appeared on the cement road.
It was as if Ye Zhen had just lifted the eyelid of this eye.
Ye Zhen tried to dig out the eye, but no matter what, he couldn’t do it.
“This cement road is probably all like this.”
Ye Zhen stood up and licked his lips.
“This place is getting more and more eerie. Lin Qian, why do you like coming to such dangerous places so much?”
Fang Shiming was somewhat puzzled.
As the boss of an organization, this guy didn’t oversee everything from within the organization, but actually came out personally to take risks.
Lin Qian was also somewhat helpless; he also wanted to do nothing.
But the things he had to do, his own members basically couldn’t handle.
Only Xu Zhou who walked out from inside the ghost painting, and now Li Jun, might be able to go through such dangers in his place.
Don’t think their members were all very strong; supernatural strength actually wasn’t very useful.
Without stacked supernatural means, they were doomed to not even be able to face the powerhouses from the Republic of China era.
Last time in Taiping Ancient Town, they fought impressively.
But most of it was because those old men from the Republic of China were holding back.
And not at their peak.
Lin Qian didn’t explain.
“Let’s keep going.”
They couldn’t stop just because this cement road was full of hidden petrified eyes.
They weren’t ordinary people, nor ordinary ghost controllers.
But the boss of an organization.
The three walked on this bizarre cement road.
This cement road really looked extremely flat, but walking on it felt like walking on a road paved with cobblestones.
Very strange.
After walking a stretch, the cement road suddenly turned into an asphalt road.
And at the dividing point between the cement and asphalt road, there was a paifang.
The paifang was quite old, made of wood, and redwood at that.
It looked somewhat dilapidated.
A copper mirror hung on it.
The three looked up at the mirror, and they were directly reflected in it.
Nothing changed around them, and no abnormalities appeared.
But the three all kept an eye on that mirror.
The three exchanged glances, all knowing this mirror might be off.
But since no abnormality was detected, they didn’t act rashly.
The three stood at the paifang doorway.
“After going in, we might fall into a dangerous situation.”
Fang Shiming lit a cigarette, narrowing his eyes slightly.
“Scared?” Ye Zhen glanced sideways at Fang Shiming.
Fang Shiming ignored Ye Zhen and looked at Lin Qian.
Lin Qian pondered slightly; from the eeriness shown here, this was indeed a place where an old antique from the Republic of China survived.
The kind they couldn’t run from.
“Let’s go in.”
Lin Qian thought about it and still decided to go in.
With the three of them together, they could completely take down an old man from the Republic of China, and even try to fight one of the Seven Elders of the Republic of China.
Their survival abilities were all quite good.
Especially Ye Zhen’s.
His and Fang Shiming’s escape abilities were top-notch.
Fang Shiming’s ghost domain could even invade a ghost messenger’s ghost domain.
This ghost domain strength was indescribable.
As for him, his ghost domain strength wasn’t high, and he didn’t focus on invasion.
But his escape methods were absolutely first-class.
The three were all top ghost controllers, full of confidence.
The two had no objections.
They directly walked through the paifang.
Nothing happened.
The three walked on the asphalt road, continuing forward.
And at this moment.
On that previous cement road, the stone eye that Ye Zhen had forcefully lifted suddenly moved.
The stone eye slightly rolled and reburied itself into the ground.
The cement road returned to its previous state.
Following the road, they walked for nearly an hour.
Suddenly, they discovered that it was dawn.
Very abruptly, it was dawn.
The sunshine was bright, and the surrounding darkness instantly disappeared.
No, it wasn’t that it instantly disappeared.
But that they had only now discovered it was dawn.
The three paused and looked around.
A very strange feeling.
As if the sky had been bright for a long time, and only now did they notice.
At the same time, they suddenly spotted a building.
It was a house, a rural brick-and-tile house.
Unlike the town, rural houses weren’t densely packed.
They also saw farmland, land planted with crops.
“Looks like we’ve already entered here.”
Fang Shiming narrowed his eyes slightly; in the distance, near the asphalt highway.
Someone was working.
“Do you think those are people or ghosts?”
Ye Zhen stared at those working people.
They were all old people.
The kind in their fifties or sixties.
The other’s body seemed very robust, not like an old man at all.
But rural people seemed to be like that.
Ye Zhen was eager to try, seeming to want to go up and probe.
“Don’t act rashly.”
Lin Qian spoke up.
“Now that we’ve come in, this place will sooner or later reveal its differences and eeriness. Try not to disrupt the balance here with our own hands.”
This was after all a place guarded by an old antique.
Whether the old antique here was dead or alive was unclear; if still alive, killing someone wouldn’t matter.
But if dead, it might disrupt the balance here.
What was originally an easy matter would become very troublesome.
“I came here just to get one thing; before getting the thing, try not to be too arrogant.”
Lin Qian reminded.
Hearing this, Ye Zhen thought about it and nodded.
Fang Shiming looked pensive, with no objections.
The three continued walking, soon approaching the working people.
They were two old ladies, around fifty or sixty, weeding in the field.
“Young men, are you also here to attend the wedding banquet?”
Seeing the three young people walk over, one old lady looked up at them and asked.
The three stopped.
Lin Qian recalled what the ticket seller had said when they boarded earlier; it seemed there was such a thing.
“Yes, we’re here for the wedding.”
Lin Qian said.
“Are you also the bride’s classmates?”
The old lady asked.
Lin Qian: “Yeah, classmates. We were pretty close before, but after graduation we went our separate ways. Haven’t been in touch for a long time. Now she’s getting married, so we thought we’d come see her.”
The old lady nodded, “That’s the way it is.”
“How come no one came to pick you up?”
“I see others were picked up. Didn’t you encounter any strange things along the way?”
“What strange things?”
The old lady looked at the three, observing their expressions, and found nothing unusual, somewhat surprised.
“Can’t tell, you’re people with great fortune and destiny.”
The old lady shook her head, “Just follow the highway. The most lively house is the one.”
Hearing this, Lin Qian’s gaze shifted slightly, then he smiled and nodded, “Thanks.”
The three then continued walking forward.
Fang Shiming suddenly asked, “Did she know we’re not the bride’s classmates?”
Lin Qian nodded, “Yeah, she knew.”
“Huh? How did she know?” Ye Zhen was puzzled.
The two ignored him.
“Old people are shrewd.” Fang Shiming sighed.
Lin Qian nodded, “That’s the reasoning.”
Along the way, they encountered many people working in the fields.
But the more they looked, the stranger it felt.
Along the way, they saw people transplanting rice seedlings, people plowing fields.
But after walking a stretch, they saw people harvesting rice.
Products out of season made the place seem very bizarre.
Ye Zhen didn’t understand these things, so he found it all novel.
But Lin Qian and Fang Shiming knew a bit about farm work.
So they clearly knew something was off here.
“You’re also here from the bride’s side for the wedding, right?”
At this time, a middle-aged man jogged over.
Lin Qian nodded, “And you are?”
The middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief; good thing the trip wasn’t in vain.
“I’m from the bride’s maternal home, here to help out.”
“I saw you from far away.”
“That’s the bride’s husband’s family.”
“Come with me, I’ll take you there first. If you’re staying overnight, the wedding starts tomorrow.”
The middle-aged man was very enthusiastic.
Lin Qian nodded, “Thanks.”
“By the way, if I may ask boldly, are you the bride’s classmates?”
The middle-aged man asked.
“Yeah.”
“Probably university classmates, right?”
The middle-aged man said.
“Yes.”
“I knew it; basically all who can come now are university classmates.”
“It’s a pity the bride doesn’t have many friends; it’s great that you came.”
The middle-aged man said sincerely.
Lin Qian felt something off; this person seemed overly enthusiastic.
But soon, he didn’t feel that way anymore.
In the room arranged by that middle-aged man.
Fang Shiming looked at his wallet, now half empty, then at Lin Qian.
“First time, attending a wedding banquet that cost me thirty thousand.”
Lin Qian stood by the window, looking at the busy people below.
“Don’t say it, first time for me too—one thousand per person. The personal gift is too expensive.”
Damn, couldn’t not give it.
Ye Zhen, who was charging his mobile phone nearby, suddenly asked, “When we came up just now, in that main hall, did you see?”
Hearing this, Fang Shiming put away his wallet, “Saw it. Under that red cloth was a coffin.”
Lin Qian nodded, “Undoubtedly a coffin, and a white one at that.”
When they arrived here and went upstairs, they had noticed something off in the main hall.
In the main hall, there was a coffin covered by red cloth.
The red cloth covered it tightly; someone unfamiliar with coffins might think it was just a slightly larger offering table.
“Tomorrow, the wedding procession; there might be some change then.”
Fang Shiming said.
“What thing are you looking for?”
Hearing this question.
Lin Qian stroked his chin, “A fan, a red fan, a round fan.”
“It’s a supernatural item.”
“When you see it, you’ll recognize at a glance it’s the thing I want.”
Hearing Lin Qian say this, Fang Shiming and Ye Zhen both nodded.
Fang Shiming thought, as long as they got the thing, they could leave.
A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall.
While Ye Zhen thought, once they got the thing, he could act without restraint.
No situation now; looks like they could only wait until night or see tomorrow.
Meanwhile, in Da Zhou City, inside a villa.
A man stared in shock at the girl in front of him.
“You… you’re still alive?”
The girl was somewhat bewildered, “Huh? Can’t I be alive?”
“Didn’t you go to detain that ‘C’-level fierce ghost?” The man looked at the girl suspiciously.
“Yeah, I went to detain the ‘C’-level fierce ghost.”
Hearing this, the man was even more surprised, “You went?”
The girl put her hands on her hips, “What do you mean by that? Of course I went!”
She pointed at the body bag nearby, “I even caught the ghost and brought it back. If you don’t believe me, open it and see yourself!”
The man instantly widened his eyes, “What?”
He looked at the body bag and swallowed, feeling somewhat terrified, but soon he seemed to think of something.
“Are you sure you caught the ghost from the photo?”
The man felt he was in an extremely dangerous situation.
“Of course, I caught the ghost from the photo.”
“You don’t believe me?”
The girl frowned, then squatted down and directly unzipped the body bag.
An elderly face appeared before the man.
At this moment, the man’s mind went blank, as if hammered by a sledgehammer.
His lips trembled as he stared deathly at the face in the body bag.
Without any hesitation, he turned and ran.
Heavens!
He had never thought this girl would come back alive.
Even less thought she would bring the target back.
This wasn’t a joke, was it?
“Huh? Why are you running?”
The girl looked bewildered.
The man didn’t want to talk, just rushed toward the room door.
Joking, not run?
Not run and wait to die?
But the next moment, the man suddenly fell to the ground.
The girl widened her eyes.
The man’s limbs eerily disappeared.
In the blink of an eye, without time to react, the man turned into a human pig.
“Reform Society, probing right to my head?”
An elderly voice rang out.
The girl stiffly turned her head, then was stunned, “You’re not a ghost!”
The old man slightly tilted his head to look at this girl.
Then the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.
He stared at this girl for a long time, then helplessly sighed, “Yeah, I’m not a ghost.”
