Chapter 2: Escape
The thirty-sixth floor was nearly a hundred meters high.
But in just a short one or two seconds, Lin Qian was about to see the ground.
The wind howled.
Lin Qian widened his eyes, looking at the rapidly approaching ground.
“Damn it, am I really going to be smashed to death?”
He was completely overwhelmed by fear and didn’t even notice that he lived on the thirty-sixth floor.
It was only at the moment he jumped out that he suddenly remembered this.
At this moment, Lin Qian’s heart was entirely suspended.
His whole body was chilled to the bone, and that weightless feeling was simply indescribable.
Lin Qian, in mid-air, did not notice that the surroundings were darkness.
He also did not notice that in his room, that eerie and terrifying Ghost Performer, which originally only appeared in the Caesar Grand Hotel, was now strangely disappearing.
The next moment.
The darkness suddenly shattered.
Lin Qian stumbled and fell to the ground.
He looked around in bewilderment, not knowing what had happened.
He only knew that at the moment when his head was about to hit the ground, the ground suddenly disappeared.
Then he came here.
“What is this situation?”
At this moment, Lin Qian sat on the ground, his body extremely weak; he didn’t even have the strength to carefully sense any changes in himself.
Lin Qian looked around in bewilderment; this was a town, a very old town.
He looked down at his feet, and his pupils suddenly contracted.
This… this damn thing is an opera stage!
Suddenly, Lin Qian felt a surprised gaze.
Lin Qian looked up and was immediately stunned.
An old woman with gray hair, a young man who looked immature; one above the other, they stared at each other, big eyes glaring at small eyes.
Both were somewhat bewildered.
“You’re that young person who bought my mask.”
“You’re that old lady who sold me the mask!”
Both spoke at the same time, then realized something and fell silent simultaneously.
Lin Qian slowly stood up and looked down at the old woman.
His gaze shifted slightly as he quickly sensed the situation inside his body.
“I retrieved the mask, so why are you the one who appeared here?” the old woman suddenly said.
Hearing this, Lin Qian instantly realized why he had appeared here.
Turns out it was because this old woman had retrieved the mask.
Lin Qian did not answer the old woman’s question. He looked around. “This is Taiping Ancient Town?”
Hearing this, the old woman frowned but thought for a moment and still nodded.
“Yes.”
She now wanted to ask this young fellow what was going on with her mask.
Why, when she used the medium to retrieve the mask, a living person came instead.
“So, you know about that mask, right?”
Lin Qian stared straight at the old woman.
“Do you know? That’s a ghost! My parents died, I almost got killed by that mask; if I hadn’t jumped off the building…”
At this point, Lin Qian suddenly fell silent.
The old woman narrowed her eyes slightly.
Jumped off the building?
Could it be that this kid accidentally touched the medium?
The old woman looked carefully at Lin Qian and confirmed there was no ghost on him.
He was just an ordinary person.
The old woman let out a breath; it seemed she had really made a mistake.
At this moment, Lin Qian’s body was trembling, his expression one of painful despair.
He stared at the old woman, waiting for her answer.
The old woman looked at this pitiful child and fell somewhat silent.
This matter was essentially her fault; she had deliberately let him buy that mask.
As for why.
Of course, to increase the terror level of the mask.
To suppress the fierce clothes at home, ghosts that were too weak wouldn’t do.
“Child, you are very pitiful, and I am very sorry, but…”
“Sorry, I cannot let you leave here alive.”
Even if he was just an ordinary person, she could not let him go.
Cut the grass and remove the roots, lest it grows back.
Hearing this, Lin Qian’s heart sank; this old thing really intended to silence him just as he had guessed!
Sure enough, in the eyes of Ghost Controllers, ordinary people aren’t even considered human!
Lin Qian felt a chill in his heart; he had just escaped from the ghost’s clutches, and now he had to face an attack from a Ghost Controller?
What kind of joke is this!
“Enough, let him go; he’s just an ordinary person.”
A chilling coldness was already emanating from the old woman, but at that moment, Lin Qian suddenly felt his vision blur. When he came to, he was already outside Taiping Ancient Town.
“Gravedigger, you…”
In front of the opera stage, the old woman frowned as she looked at an old man carrying a shovel, her eyes full of hostility.
“Enough is enough.” The old man looked at the old woman and said after a moment of silence.
The old woman snorted coldly. “In the entire ancient town, you’re the only one with a bodhisattva heart. Look at He Liansheng and the others—who’s like you?”
The old man shook his head upon hearing this. “That was just an ordinary person. If he had controlled a Fierce Ghost, I absolutely would not have let him go.”
“Moreover, he has already touched the supernatural and will surely be haunted by a ghost soon.”
“Instead of arguing with me about this, you should think about how to find that ghost you lost.”
“That ghost’s terror level is not low.”
After speaking, the old man glanced at the opera stage, a hint of wariness in his eyes.
That mask had been found inside this opera stage.
Everyone in the entire town was extremely wary of this opera stage.
Although it was just an opera stage, it was also a ghost!
Hearing this, the old woman coldly stared at the old man. “If later, because of your moment of mercy today, our Taiping Ancient Town suffers a major disaster, believe me, before I die, I will dig out your heart to see just how kind you really are!”
The old man said nothing, withdrawing his gaze from the opera stage and looking toward the town doorway.
At this moment, outside the town, Lin Qian ran for his life following his memory.
His face was grim.
Just wait; this matter isn’t over today.
After more than ten minutes of desperate running, he saw the road, and at the same time, a taxi sped toward him.
Lin Qian didn’t hesitate at all and rushed out directly, stopping the taxi.
With a screech, the tires smoked against the ground.
Immediately after, the bus window opened, and the driver looked at Lin Qian angrily, opening his mouth to say something.
But Lin Qian directly opened the passenger door and got in.
“Master, sorry, it’s an emergency; no time to explain. Dayuan City Airport—I’ll pay extra!”
The driver master saw Lin Qian’s anxious appearance and swallowed the national curse he was about to spit out.
He didn’t hesitate and shot off immediately.
Who doesn’t have emergencies?
The taxi sped away toward Dayuan City Airport.
Under the night, on the road, an old man and a Faceless Person stared at the departing taxi.
“That kid is very smart.”
He Liansheng said indifferently.
“Let go?”
Two words strangely appeared on the Faceless Person’s head.
He Liansheng glanced at it, thought for a moment, and shook his head. “No.”
“Surviving from that mask is very difficult, but this kid managed to survive.”
“Based on the time, the mask has been in his hands for more than seven days.”
“But once the mask is obtained, the Fierce Ghost Revival happens at most in two days.”
“Seven days—how did this kid survive?”
“Moreover, he appeared on the opera stage via the medium, which is very abnormal.”
“He appeared on the opera stage but didn’t trigger its killing pattern.”
He Liansheng’s eyes flickered. “The opera stage attacks anyone, human or ghost, who steps onto it, yet he was fine.”
The Faceless Person listened, thought for a moment, nodded, and more text appeared.
“Something’s off; can’t leave him.”
He Liansheng smiled. “Can’t leave him.”
