Chapter 158: Awareness
The three gathered, and Lin Qian and Fang Shiming immediately felt at ease.
After all, they didn’t have to be at the forefront when things happened.
Fang Shiming, as a general manager and a seasoned capitalist, always thought that resorting to violence was a rather crude act.
And Lin Qian, as a national treasure-level researcher, naturally didn’t need to resort to violence either.
Who would take action?
It would naturally be Ye Zhen, the chuunibyou.
The village had completely become abnormal.
To leave now would require some effort even for them.
But the three had no intention of leaving.
That was a joke; they wouldn’t leave until their objective was met.
With Ye Zhen around, they were no longer afraid of anything.
They directly activated their ghost domains and sped along the road they came from.
“Cough cough~!”
Midway through, Lin Qian suddenly stopped.
A coughing sound suddenly echoed within the ghost domain.
The sound seemed to come from behind them, low and hoarse, making one’s hair stand on end.
The three immediately turned around, but there was nothing.
Just like before.
“It’s here again.”
The three quickly became vigilant, paying attention to their own conditions.
According to Ye Zhen’s explanation, when the coughing sound appeared, someone would be attacked.
They didn’t know which of them would be attacked.
Just as the three were preparing to withstand this attack.
Lin Qian’s figure suddenly began to flicker.
Seeing this, Fang Shiming and Ye Zhen immediately understood that Lin Qian was being attacked.
Lin Qian flickered seven times before stopping.
“Is the supernatural degree this high?”
Lin Qian’s expression was grave. His current strength required him to activate the Killer Ghost’s ability seven times to evade this attack.
If this ghost possessed stacked supernatural abilities, he would be in trouble without a restart.
“I told you it was high, but you didn’t believe me,” Ye Zhen said with a pout.
Neither of them paid attention to Ye Zhen.
“The ghost is inside the mirror, but the mirror has disappeared.”
“There must be some way to make the mirror reappear.”
Lin Qian rubbed his chin. “Ghosts or supernatural items that cannot be seen are essentially within a ghost domain.”
“The ghost domain here is of a very high level, at least, compared to the ghost domains of the three of us.”
Lin Qian’s ghost domain wasn’t good at invading, and Ye Zhen’s ghost domain was just a tool for showing off.
Among the three, only Fang Shiming’s ghost domain was good at invading, as he could invade the ghost domains of Ghost Messengers and Ghost Paintings.
The strength of his ghost domain was not much lower than that of Yang Jian’s ghost domain in the later stages.
Of course, it couldn’t compare to Yang Jian’s.
Yet, even with such a ghost domain, they couldn’t find the source here.
“I didn’t bring any White Ghost Candles when I went out,” Fang Shiming said.
If they couldn’t find the source, they could only try to lure it out.
And to lure out a fierce ghost, ghost candles were undoubtedly the best.
But unfortunately, none of them had brought such items with them.
After all, they had come in a hurry.
When he came, he only brought his Ghost Scissors and didn’t expect to encounter something like this.
Let alone Ye Zhen.
Lin Qian knew some things, but he hadn’t expected Fang Shiming and Ye Zhen to come.
“How about I go back for a bit?”
He would go back to get some White Ghost Candles and deal with the supernatural event here as soon as possible.
If things were allowed to develop like this, trouble would eventually grow.
“That’s also an option.”
“The two of us will hold the fort here, don’t worry about us dying.”
Fang Shiming said indifferently.
After all, they had legs and knew how to run.
Lin Qian nodded and retracted his ghost domain.
Without any hesitation, a mask appeared on his face.
The moment the mask appeared, it quickly fell off, twisted in the air, and disappeared.
In its place, a faceless corpse fell to the ground.
“With this kind of supernatural transfer method, Lin Qian must be an anomaly.”
Only an anomaly could disregard their own body.
Fang Shiming noticed that on Lin Qian’s corpse, the withered hand had also disappeared.
Lin Qian had taken all the supernatural power with him.
Leaving behind a useless corpse.
Without Lin Qian’s ghost domain, the two were exposed on the street.
The two were not in a hurry to activate their ghost domains.
They simply waited where they were.
Da Jiang City, Warehouse Storeroom.
A crashed fierce ghost suddenly moved.
Immediately after, the fierce ghost’s belly tore open.
A withered hand emerged from the flesh.
Then, a person wearing a Ghost Face Mask poked their head out.
Afterwards, Lin Qian walked out, glanced at the storeroom, quickly found a box, and opened it directly.
Inside were white candles.
Lin Qian estimated the quantity and took the entire box into the opera stage.
Then he took a dozen Red Ghost Candles and left immediately.
After Lin Qian left, the storeroom door opened not long after.
Ye Feng looked at the faceless corpse on the ground, missing a hand, and then glanced at the fiercely ghost that had been ripped open.
He immediately understood who had been there.
He checked the situation in the storeroom and found that a box of White Ghost Candles and a dozen Red Ghost Candles were missing.
“It seems the President has indeed encountered some trouble.”
Ye Feng walked over, destroyed the corpse, and then put the fierce ghost back.
Then he left the storeroom and made a record of the losses in the storeroom.
After that, he had nothing else to do and continued to lie down and rest in front of the storeroom.
On the street.
The corpse suddenly moved.
Fang Shiming and Ye Zhen’s pupils flickered as they shifted their gaze from the figure wearing a death robe and emitting black smoke in front of them.
Had they returned?
Or had a ghost possessed Lin Qian’s corpse?
The two speculated in their minds.
They paid attention to the ghost in front of them and also to Lin Qian’s corpse.
It wasn’t unheard of for a ghost to possess a corpse.
The corpse had moved before, it was just a feeling, but now it was definitely moving.
Suddenly.
Lin Qian’s faceless corpse stood up in an extremely bizarre posture.
Just like the zombies depicted in movies.
Immediately after, a strong stench of decay and coldness emanated from the corpse.
“Alright, confirmed, it’s a ghost.”
Seeing this, Fang Shiming and Ye Zhen clearly understood the situation.
It was strange, how did this ghost possess Lin Qian’s corpse right under their noses?
However, it didn’t seem like the time to ponder these things.
“You choose first.”
Fang Shiming said, crossing his arms and looking at Ye Zhen.
Ye Zhen heard this and walked directly towards the figure in the death robe, which seemed to be entirely formed from black smoke.
Fang Shiming was not surprised at all and walked towards Lin Qian’s corpse.
Meanwhile.
In the Li family’s courtyard.
A ground full of corpses, incredibly bloody.
The stench of corpses permeated the air, making it hard to imagine these were the bodies of recently deceased people.
But at this moment, an old mirror suddenly appeared.
The mirror reflected the ground full of corpses.
The mirror stood there.
Time slowly passed, and it seemed like nothing was happening.
But suddenly, a change occurred within the mirror.
Within the mirror, dark shadows suddenly appeared and surged towards the corpses.
In a bizarre turn of events, those dark shadows all drilled into the corpses.
*Creak creak creak*!
The sound of bones grinding echoed.
The corpses inside the mirror, after being penetrated by the dark shadows, actually began to move slowly.
Then, something terrifying happened.
The moment the corpses in the mirror moved, the corpses outside the mirror also moved at the same instant.
The corpses stood up bizarrely.
All the corpses on the ground stood up.
These ‘resurrected’ villagers now all walked towards the outside of the door and onto the street.
And the old mirror, at some point, had disappeared.
“Damn it, what kind of thing is this?”
His arm was instantly torn off.
A young man quickly retreated, clutching his severed arm.
Even though he had severed his arm to survive, the supernatural power still spread to him from his broken limb.
Half of his body visibly began to turn dark blue.
He stared fixedly ahead.
There, a woman in a red wedding dress stood.
She was holding a blackened arm tightly in her hand.
And beside this woman were two fierce ghosts, lying on the ground, already suppressed.
“Damn it, is this the source of this place?”
The young man felt his condition and, without further hesitation, turned to run.
His first attempt at containment failed, and he lost an arm.
Was this supernatural event this overpowered?
The young man fled forward in a sorry state.
The fierce ghost behind him did not pursue him.
The supernatural spread. After the young man escaped, the two suppressed ghosts slowly stood up.
One of the ghosts held a white candle in its hand.
It had originally been extinguished, but suddenly a gust of wind blew, and the candle suddenly ignited.
The pale candlelight enveloped them.
At this moment, in the Li family’s backyard.
An old man carrying a lantern looked at the corpses walking out of the courtyard and sighed, “Ultimately, I couldn’t stop them, could I?”
“Couldn’t stop what?”
The old man suddenly turned his head. “Who!”
“It’s you!”
Upon clearly seeing who it was, the old man was extremely surprised. “You’re still alive?”
“How is that possible?”
“You’re surprised I’m alive?”
“On the other hand, you.”
Lin Qian looked at the lantern in the old man’s hand, “You know a lot.”
“Then do you know how to deal with this supernatural event?”
Lin Qian was very curious that this old man, on the verge of death, was still alive.
“It seems you are not an ordinary person.”
The old man sized up Lin Qian.
“But even if you are not an ordinary person, it is too late now.”
“If those five people hadn’t sent that unknown letter, there might still be a chance.”
Lin Qian leaned against the pillar, “Tell me.”
The old man sighed, “Before, the ghosts hadn’t escaped yet, we just needed to cover the mirror and wait until morning.”
“But now that the ghosts are out, it means one mirror has been broken through.”
“The other mirrors must also have been broken through.”
Lin Qian heard this, “The ghosts were originally detained inside mirrors?”
The old man nodded, “Yes.”
Lin Qian stroked his chin, this seemed to make sense.
“According to you, we just need to detain the ghosts back into the mirrors and then seal them?”
The old man shook his head, “No, in fact, we are already inside a mirror.”
“Or rather, the mirror has pulled this village into itself.”
The old man’s words were somewhat contradictory.
If the village was pulled into the mirror, why did he say the ghosts inside the mirror had escaped?
Seeing Lin Qian’s confusion, the old man continued.
“There are mirrors within mirrors, and the ghosts are detained in the mirrors within those mirrors.”
“Our village is not within the mirror during the day, only at night is it pulled into the mirror.”
“No one knows about this, only the village chiefs of each generation know.”
Mirrors within mirrors, and the ghosts are detained in mirrors within mirrors?
What kind of security measure is this?
The village is not in the mirror during the day, and is pulled into the mirror at night.
So, from the moment they entered this village, they were essentially entering a mirror?
This style, as expected, is a place where old antiques exist.
Time inside the mirror.
“Since it’s a world within a mirror, there should be a main mirror here that controls everything.”
The old man looked at Lin Qian with some surprise, as if he hadn’t expected him to guess this.
“There is indeed, but that mirror contains an extremely terrifying ghost.”
An extremely terrifying ghost?
Lin Qian looked at the old man, “That ghost can’t come out?”
The old man shook his head, “No, it’s not that it can’t come out, but it’s very difficult for it to do so.”
“That ghost is trying to find a way out, and there are still mirrors in the village that haven’t been broken through.”
The old man might truly be old.
He previously said all the mirrors had been broken through.
Now he says there’s still one mirror that hasn’t been broken through.
Seeing Lin Qian scrutinize him, how could an old man who had lived so long not understand what he was thinking?
“That ghost is very special, and its confinement location is extremely strange.”
“Let’s put it this way, it’s true that all the mirrors have been broken through now.”
“But as I said before, we are now in the world inside the mirror.”
“The ghosts that have escaped are from the mirrors within this world.”
“But that ghost is different, it is detained in a mirror within a mirror within a mirror within this world.”
Lin Qian felt it was a bit convoluted, but he quickly sorted out the situation.
“You mean, that ghost is detained in mirrors within mirrors, and it’s repeated many times.”
The old man immediately showed an expression of “a good student.”
Lin Qian frowned slightly, “According to your explanation, that ghost has already passed through many mirrors, so now, as long as it passes through one more mirror, it can come here, and then escape the mirror completely?”
“That’s right.”
The old man nodded.
“Then, are there also fierce ghosts detained in those repeated mirrors?”
“Of course, and many.”
Lin Qian’s gaze shifted.
Mirrors within mirrors.
Every mirror could potentially contain ghosts.
These ghosts were undoubtedly trying to invade from the outside.
No one knew how many ghosts an old antique had detained.
Mirrors.
Lin Qian narrowed his eyes, the ghosts appearing in this place might be intended to confuse them.
They had to deal with the source, otherwise the trouble would be immense.
But speaking of which…
“How do you know all this?”
The old man sighed upon hearing this, “It’s passed down orally. My grandfather passed it to me. I was going to pass it to my grandson, but as you can see.”
“My grandson and granddaughter-in-law have already met an unfortunate end, and they’ve been possessed by ghosts.”
“I fear this time, our village will become extinct.”
This is how supernatural events are. When ordinary people deal with supernatural events, with one careless mistake, the whole family can be wiped out.
