Chapter 160: Method
One old and dilapidated grave after another stood before his eyes.
The graves were shrouded in darkness.
Faint mist slowly drifted within the graveyard.
The young man swallowed, he was somewhat regretful, he perhaps shouldn’t have come here.
He had been too reckless, thinking that with his superior escape skills, he could go anywhere.
But now he realized he couldn’t leave this place at all.
Even his injuries couldn’t recover in the slightest.
Sensing the situation inside his body, the ghost within was slowly invading his body.
But at the same time, it was also offsetting the supernatural power of the wedding dress female ghost from before.
This was a good thing, but while the supernatural power was being cleared, his own ghost was also reviving.
Here, he was very passive.
Unable to suppress his own supernatural revival, he would sooner or later die here due to fierce ghost revival.
The graveyard before his eyes was unclear what situation it was in.
There might be extremely terrifying ghosts inside, but there absolutely wouldn’t be no ghosts.
Normally, encountering this kind of uncertain supernatural event, he should turn around and leave.
But now there was still an extremely terrifying fierce ghost following behind him.
He couldn’t retreat, retreating meant death.
No way out, he knew he couldn’t retreat, nor could he stop here.
He gritted his teeth, for now he could only pass through this graveyard and find those three people.
Only by finding those three could he possibly survive.
The young man directly rushed into the graveyard.
In just a moment, he was swallowed by the darkness and disappeared into the graveyard.
The village was still changing.
Lin Qian carried a lantern, walking on the street, gradually he discovered that he seemed to have walked onto a new road.
The road he walked wasn’t the previous street.
He didn’t see the previous coffin shops and paper craft shops…
This was just a street, with nothing there.
Completely empty.
No buildings on either side, just a street.
Lin Qian gazed ahead, very far in front, a faint green candlelight flickered slightly.
That place seemed to have something there.
A different change.
Lin Qian knew he had separated from Fang Shiming and Ye Zhen.
But he didn’t mind, he always had a backup plan.
Moreover, for now, he was very safe.
This lantern in his hand really had an incredible effect.
Lin Qian walked towards that lighted place.
Soon, Lin Qian discovered that the place emitting light was actually an ancient house.
The ancient house was entirely red, all made of redwood.
Extremely luxurious.
On the gate, two red lanterns hung at the doorway.
The lanterns emitted a faint green glow.
The light seen from afar before was emitted by these lanterns.
Lin Qian examined the ancient house, the gate was tightly closed, compared to other families’ gates, this gate had no door gods.
Nor couplets.
Lin Qian looked around, this ancient house was built right in the middle of the street.
Nothing around, completely empty.
This ancient house was very overbearing, actually built in the middle of the road.
Lin Qian circled around the ancient house.
Then he surprisingly discovered that there was no road behind the ancient house.
This old house was the end of this road.
Lin Qian stroked his chin.
But suddenly, he discovered that the road he came from was suddenly shrouded in mist.
The mist appeared extremely fast, in just a moment it covered the road.
Was this forcing him to go in and take a look?
Lin Qian looked at the old house.
Entirely redwood building, walls all wooden.
Red lanterns flickering with faint green candlelight.
Lin Qian carried the lantern, enveloped within the red candlelight emitted by the lantern.
He thought for a moment, walked up, pushed open the gate and went in.
The gate made creaking sounds.
The sound made one’s skin crawl.
The gate was pushed open, and at the moment the gate was pushed open, a room on the second floor of the old house suddenly lit up.
A figure appeared.
The other stood before the window, sideways to the window, from the shape of the shadow, it seemed to be a woman.
Lin Qian narrowed his eyes, quickly surveyed the situation inside the old house.
Entering was a courtyard, behind was the hall, beside the hall was the courtyard.
Then beside the courtyard were some rooms.
Then a small loft.
The second floor of the small loft was that room with the light on.
The figure inside was still there.
From here, the old house was very clean, as if someone cleaned it often.
Although it looked very clean, there was always a faint odor inside the old house.
Lin Qian didn’t go to that small loft that looked eerie right away.
He searched the old house and discovered that this old house absolutely had no one living there.
Rooms were empty, no furniture, and a thick layer of ashes had accumulated inside the rooms.
This old house was only clean on the outside.
Nothing noteworthy.
Lin Qian turned his head and looked at that small loft.
This small loft was very exquisite, no different from where a young lady from a good family used to live.
But in this place, this exquisiteness instead revealed a gloomy and eerie feeling.
The loft had a door, but it was open.
Inside was pitch dark.
Lin Qian carried the lantern and walked in.
The loft had no first floor, stairs went straight to the second floor.
This architectural style felt very off.
Looking at those old wooden stairs.
It made Lin Qian feel that as soon as he stepped on them, the stairs would collapse.
The end of the stairs was pitch dark, the stairs old.
Going upstairs at this time wasn’t a wise choice.
Thinking it over, Lin Qian turned and left.
Rather than probing the unknown here, better to rendezvous with Fang Shiming and Ye Zhen, then directly brute force through here.
Lin Qian’s idea was simple, the old antique here definitely set up some things.
Following the old antique’s setup was too brain-consuming.
Better to use their own ideas, more direct.
Lin Qian left.
Soon he walked out of the old house.
Then directly walked into the mist.
And at the moment Lin Qian left the old house, the room with the light on in the small loft suddenly went dark.
Inside was quiet for a long time, suddenly a weak voice sounded, “What do you want to do?”
“Why not come in?”
“I can’t hold on much longer, you should have taken this mirror away, then I wouldn’t have left from inside.”
The voice muttered briefly.
But no one could hear it.
Lin Qian had already entered the mist.
Cough cough~!
That eerie coughing sound rang out again.
Right behind Lin Qian, same as the previous coughing sound, but at this moment, the coughing sound only rang at the edge covered by the lamp’s light.
Lin Qian didn’t look back, continued walking forward.
But the coughing sound was like having a spasm, constantly coughing at the edge covered by the light.
Lin Qian frowned slightly, looked back, “If you can speak, then fucking speak, don’t fucking cough.”
“What does your coughing mean?”
“You think I can understand?”
When the first cough sounded, Lin Qian thought that ghost had started killing again.
But as the coughing continued, Lin Qian knew this absolutely wasn’t that ghost killing.
He had mistakenly entered this place, found that old house, obviously not because of the fierce ghost, but because of human reasons.
As soon as the words fell, the coughing stopped instantly.
Lin Qian waited a moment, no sound rang out.
The coughing didn’t ring out, but instead footsteps sounded.
And eerily, the footsteps appeared from ahead, passed by his side, then went behind.
Seemed to be heading to the old house.
Lin Qian thought briefly, then decisively left.
None of his business.
Lin Qian was very decisive.
And at this moment in the old house, a footprint suddenly appeared at the old house doorway.
The footprint was pitch black and still had water stains.
Bang bang bang~!
The old house gate was suddenly violently rammed.
On the small loft, the extinguished light suddenly lit up again.
A figure appeared once more.
“Where did Lin Qian run off to?”
Ye Zhen stood on the street, somewhat impatient.
Fang Shiming sat on a paper figure, glanced at the other’s collapsed coffin shop.
The coffin shop had been demolished, demolished by Ye Zhen.
Very violent.
The nearby paper craft shop, fur shop, and death robe shop had all been taken out by them in one go.
This harvest was very good.
“The ghosts on this street seem to be just these.”
Fang Shiming patted the paper figure under his butt.
A paper figure with supernatural power was different, sitting on it felt just like sitting on a real person.
Ye Zhen leaned against the wall, “Just this one street, and have you noticed, we seem unable to leave this street.”
The end of the street was that wall, and after he came out, that wall disappeared.
And following back was the Li Family, the starting place of the incident.
The ghosts on this street had all been cleared by them.
Here was very safe.
But did this village only have this one street?
Impossible.
“Unable to leave?”
Fang Shiming looked around, the street was wide, shops on both sides.
Now the opened shops were forced to close, this street had no shops open anymore.
This ghost street had also lost its reason for existing.
Fang Shiming stood up, the paper figure under his butt quickly began to rot, in just a moment it turned into a puddle of rotten mixture.
“Can’t get out, we’ll directly invade our way out.”
Fang Shiming reached out, ghost wind gathered in his hand.
Howling wind sounds came from Fang Shiming’s hand.
Terrifying supernatural power gathered and stacked.
Then, Fang Shiming slashed forward.
The ghost wind stacked in his hand was like a sharp blade, actually directly tearing open a crack.
Mist filled, an asphalt road appeared.
“Just a ghost domain, very easy to tear.”
Fang Shiming said.
Ye Zhen: “Mere parlor trick.”
Fang Shiming didn’t mind.
The two directly stepped onto that asphalt road filled with mist.
And at the moment they entered.
In the mist, Lin Qian slowly raised his head.
That familiar supernatural power let him instantly confirm who it was.
Red light covered the surrounding mist.
Fang Shiming and Ye Zhen looked at that conspicuous red in the mist.
They exchanged a glance and quickly approached.
Da da da, footsteps sounded.
In the mist, two figures and that red light quickly converged.
“Lin Qian, what place did you come to?”
Fang Shiming looked at the surrounding mist.
Red light shone, figures blurry, but the two still recognized who the lantern carrier was.
“Unclear, but I got some intel.”
Lin Qian carried the lantern close to the two, enveloping both in it.
This way, the three temporarily wouldn’t be attacked by fierce ghosts.
“Intel?”
Fang Shiming: “Tell us.”
Lin Qian quickly told them the news he got from the old man.
“Situation is like this, from what I just experienced, that old antique might still be alive, but he probably can’t control his own supernatural power anymore.”
Lin Qian said.
Fang Shiming upon hearing, “Mirror within a mirror…”
“If every mirror is likened to a ghost domain, then there are absolutely many ghost domains here.”
“Lin Qian, that old guy probably wanted you to do something.”
Lin Qian nodded, “I know, but too much trouble, and might backfire.”
Fang Shiming organized the information.
“So now we’re inside a mirror, but inside the mirror there are more mirrors, unknown how many times repeated.”
“The source ghost here is temporarily still in the mirror inside this mirror world, wanting to get out.”
“Guessing from the intel you just got, the old antique is still alive, but can’t control his fierce ghost.”
“Or rather, can’t control this place anymore.”
“It’s about to die.”
Lin Qian nodded, “High probability that’s it.”
Fang Shiming stroked his chin, “What you need might be on the source.”
“So, we either release that thing and deal with it.”
“Or, we enter the world inside the mirror and find that ghost.”
“But that way the risk is high, we might get trapped in the world inside the mirror.”
“Although we liken mirrors to ghost domains, they’re not the same, mirrors and ghost domains are two different things.”
“The option with low risk for us is only releasing the fierce ghost.”
Fang Shiming looked at Lin Qian and Ye Zhen, “But if so, Da Zhou City will have huge risk, even fall.”
Lin Qian upon hearing nodded, “What you said is possible, not impossible.”
Ye Zhen: “Just do it, Ye will handle the aftermath!”
Ye Zhen said confidently.
“If you encounter a ghost that can restart time, won’t you explode?”
Lin Qian said.
Ye Zhen’s expression stiffened instantly, this was indeed hard to refute, encountering a ghost that could restart time, he had no way to deal with it, unless he had a coffin nail in hand, to kill it before it used restart.
But that was basically impossible, the coffin nail was still in the ghost painting, held by a ghost.
“Impossible, absolutely impossible, how could there be so many ghosts that restart time.”
“That ghost was just an accident, I don’t believe Ye’s luck is that bad, to encounter another such ghost.”
Ye Zhen waved his hand, repeatedly saying impossible.
Lin Qian and Fang Shiming just looked at Ye Zhen like that.
Both somewhat helpless.
After a simple eye contact, they unanimously decided to ignore Ye Zhen for now.
“Now the situation is somewhat clear.”
“There’s an old guy here about to die, this place is losing control.”
“The old antique wants to stop it, but is powerless.”
“What you need is on the old antique.”
“Lin Qian, how about we negotiate with that old guy, cooperate, help him stop this place from losing control, and as the price, let it give you what you want.”
Fang Shiming said rationally.
Lin Qian upon hearing felt this method was acceptable.
But he hesitated a bit, after all, he had just been disrespectful to that old senior.
Three methods, different risks, but absolutely, the method Fang Shiming proposed was the most stable.
