Chapter 226: Natural Disaster, Tsunami
“Xu Zhou, leave behind a medium that can return to the original spot. That ghost will definitely come to stop you when it discovers you plan to leave from the source of the Ghost Painting.”
“Next, you’ll have to compete with it in speed and scheming.”
“But don’t rush. If you encounter something that feels off, discuss it with Professor Wang.”
“When encountering a situation, think directly toward the worst possible outcome, then consider the possibilities within it. If it’s less than four points, don’t do it.”
At this point, Lin Qian paused, “Anyway, be careful with everything. I’ll be listening on the side. If there’s a problem, just ask me and Professor Wang directly.”
“Got it, President.”
Xu Zhou indicated that he understood.
Lin Qian fell silent.
As he fell silent, Wang Xiao Ming came back online.
But it was a double connection.
Lin Qian could speak at any time.
Wang Xiao Ming knew that his plan had a slight issue.
That ghost’s wisdom was very high, and it was a bit mad.
“Sorry, Xu Zhou. Although I had anticipated it early, the worst outcome still appeared.”
“It’s fine. Didn’t we anticipate it early?”
“Moreover, I’m not encountering danger right now.”
Although it was very dangerous inside the Ghost Painting, he hadn’t directly faced the Ghost Messenger or the Starving Ghost.
That ghost called ‘Li Zhe’ had only acted once.
That time, he had been prepared in advance.
So he hadn’t been directly nailed to death.
Without a Ghost Domain, the Coffin Nail couldn’t exert its maximum effect.
Wang Xiao Ming exhaled.
Suddenly, the mobile phone popped up a chat window.
Wang Xiao Ming glanced at it; it was a message from Yang Jian.
Yang Jian: Three Ghost Paintings can briefly isolate the Ghost Messenger’s supernatural nature.
Seeing this message, Wang Xiao Ming’s eyes flashed.
Wang Xiao Ming: Is the intelligence accurate?
The message was sent, and a reply came quickly.
Yang Jian: Intelligence exchanged for three ghosts.
The implication was that intelligence exchanged for three ghosts would have no issues and was absolutely real.
Yang Jian: But there’s a huge risk. If the distance from the Ghost Messenger doesn’t exceed three Ghost Paintings, Wei Jing will instantly lose control.
Wang Xiao Ming looked at this message, his eyes flickering.
Wang Xiao Ming: Is there a way to resolve it?
Yang Jian: Asking now.
After about five minutes, Yang Jian’s message came again.
Yang Jian: Have Wei Jing carry three Ghost Paintings with him. Once he senses he’s about to lose control, immediately enter a Ghost Painting, then have Xu Zhou take the Ghost Painting and leave.
Additionally, because the Starving Ghost and Ghost Messenger devoured the absolute majority of fierce ghosts inside the Ghost Painting, their own supernatural nature has become extremely terrifying.
The source of the Ghost Painting is avoiding the Ghost Messenger and Starving Ghost; it won’t be easy for you to find the Ghost Painting.
Yang Jian: Xu Zhou has only three ways to leave the Ghost Painting: the source of the Ghost Painting, the method you first used to enter, and another method someone else used to enter.
The last two have the highest risk, the Ghost Painting source the lowest; perhaps that’s what you’re thinking.
But you’re wrong; the lowest risk is actually the method you first used to enter the Ghost Painting.
Alright, that’s all I know. I hope Xu Zhou can come out alive.
Wang Xiao Ming looked at this series of messages.
He began to think.
Why did Yang Jian say the lowest risk was leaving via the Ghost Gate?
What secret was hidden here?
At this moment, in Da Chang City, Yang Jian checked his balance. He had stayed home without doing anything and spent one hundred million.
This didn’t even count the fierce ghosts consumed.
Nothing to say, really nothing to say.
However, he had also found the correct method to use the Ghost Cabinet.
So it wasn’t a total loss.
Later, he’d get reimbursed from the President.
Next, he was about to go on a business trip.
It would take some time to return.
Yang Jian went back, took some supernatural items, and then left Guan Jiang Residential Community, boarding a private jet with an operator from abroad to head to the Island Country.
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“I always have this feeling that a great disaster is about to befall me.”
Sun Ren looked at his sweaty palms and the hairs standing on end.
His heart was pounding wildly, and the panic in his mind couldn’t be suppressed no matter what.
Even though he had already drunk four or five cups of ice water.
“You too?”
Luo Sheng was stunned.
Sun Ren suddenly looked up at Luo Sheng.
“You’re feeling it too?”
Instantly, both their expressions changed.
If one person felt uneasy, it might be that person’s issue.
If two people felt it, then it wasn’t a human issue.
“Boss, something’s happened. Lots of people are clamoring to get off the ship.”
Suddenly, someone rushed in, looking panicked and gasping for breath.
“Get off the ship? What happened?”
“I don’t know. They all say they’re panicking. Some even say the ship is about to have an accident and want us to dock immediately.”
What?
Both of them stood up.
Luo Sheng and Sun Ren exchanged a glance, both feeling it wasn’t good.
“You go check the situation. I’ll go find the witch.”
With that, Luo Sheng quickly headed to the room where the witch was.
Meanwhile, Sun Ren went out with that person to check the situation.
On the deck now, the voices were chaotic, with many people shouting and demanding to dock.
The people responsible for maintaining order couldn’t hold them back at all.
Seeing this scene, Sun Ren frowned tightly.
“They all sensed the unease?”
“Yes, not just them; we felt it too.”
Hearing this, Sun Ren realized something was wrong.
The people on the deck were like animals sensing an impending disaster.
Each one terrified and uneasy, but unable to flee.
“Tell them we’ll dock immediately.”
“Yes.”
Sun Ren quickly scanned the deck, and when he saw Ye Zhen and the others, for some reason, he felt relieved.
They were all still there and hadn’t left, which meant nothing major should happen.
Suddenly, Sun Ren felt a chill down his spine.
A gaze met his.
Sun Ren quickly shifted his line of sight and rapidly left.
Ye Zhen tugged at the corner of his mouth: a clown jumping about.
He withdrew his gaze, feeling the unease his instinct brought him.
This accident was bigger than imagined.
The previous accidents had given no warning at all, but now, not only did he sense the danger, but others did too.
“Time to go.” Ye Zhen muttered.
“Wait a bit longer; the tsunami is still incubating.”
“Leaving now might trigger an even greater danger.”
Zhao Bai analyzed rationally; this tsunami was targeted only at Ye Zhen.
Who knew if, after Ye Zhen left, this accident would become even more terrifying.
From the scale of this incubating tsunami, the damage wouldn’t threaten Daao City.
But if Ye Zhen left early, that was uncertain.
They were only here to take out the ghost controllers on the ship; the rich people on board were just incidental.
Here, anyone participating in gambling, kill them and be done with it.
After all, who knew if their money was clean.
Of course, there were good people too, but only a small portion.
They didn’t have time to distinguish who was good or bad.
In the room.
Luo Sheng rushed in frantically.
“Witch, what happened? Everyone on the ship feels uneasy and panicky, as if something terrifying is about to occur.”
The witch was very calm. She looked at the Tarot Cards on the table, which had turned into The Tower.
“Fate has changed. The Tower descends, signifying disaster.”
“Disaster?”
Luo Sheng’s expression changed. If he heard ‘disaster’ from ordinary people, he wouldn’t care, as disasters in ordinary mouths basically posed no danger to ghost controllers.
But a disaster from the witch’s mouth was inevitably one that could kill even ghost controllers.
“What exactly happened? Why did it change from fate to disaster?”
Luo Sheng was very panicked; he had to be.
So many people on the ship couldn’t all die at once, right?
He was on the ship too.
His mind worked well; the possible disasters at sea were only a few kinds.
The Tower in the Tarot Cards foreshadowed disaster, which had to be not a normal disaster, but a natural disaster.
The natural disasters at sea were only a few kinds.
“Is it a tsunami?”
Luo Sheng hurriedly asked.
The witch shook her head, “Unclear.”
“Damn it, unclear again!”
“Forget it, I’m escaping.”
“Are you coming?”
Luo Sheng asked.
The witch slowly raised her head, “The change in fate means we are no longer favored by it.”
“So, cannot escape.”
“Damn it!”
“Fine, I don’t care about you. If you want to die, stay here. I’m escaping alone!”
With that, Luo Sheng ignored the witch and quickly left, planning to escape.
He walked out of the room, glanced at the sea surface, and saw it was calm.
Pitch black all around.
This didn’t look like a tsunami was coming at all.
Luo Sheng didn’t care anymore whether a tsunami would come; he wasn’t staying here any longer anyway.
He went to find Sun Ren and shared his idea.
Sun Ren supported it without any hesitation.
“Then let’s go.”
Although he had no Ghost Domain, he had a supernatural item that could briefly open one.
Using this item carried great risk and would attract a ghost’s attention, but now wasn’t the time to consider risks.
Luo Sheng took out a thing wrapped in yellow paper.
He directly peeled off the yellow paper.
A black-and-white eyeball appeared in his hand.
After waiting a moment, Sun Ren’s gaze left the eyeball and turned to Luo Sheng.
“Not leaving?”
Cold sweat broke out on Luo Sheng as he looked up at Sun Ren, “Ghost Domain cannot be opened!”
Sun Ren’s expression changed instantly.
And at that moment, a sound suddenly rang out outside the cruise ship.
The water surged violently, and both hurriedly looked.
The originally calm water surface suddenly shook dramatically.
In just moments, the water surface became extremely turbulent.
No, not right.
Luo Sheng swallowed, “Sea… tsunami!”
As if to verify his words, the water surface began surging toward the distance.
Seeing this, Luo Sheng and Sun Ren didn’t hesitate and turned to run.
Two splashes.
Both jumped down directly.
At this moment, a twenty-meter-plus wave rolled up, crashing toward the cruise ship.
In the air, inside the Ghost Domain.
Several people watched this scene, their expressions grave.
“President, supernatural, very terrifying supernatural.”
Zhao Bai was full of lingering fear.
Lin Qian’s gaze fell on the tsunami.
It was his first time encountering a tsunami; he had no experience.
“Lin Qian, it seems that after being out of that ghost’s attention for a long time, the next accident will be extremely terrifying.”
“Or, every time we dodge an accident, the next one will be even more terrifying than the last.”
Ye Zhen stroked his chin, “Feels like that’s the case.”
Compared to the previous accidents, this one was several times more terrifying.
On the cruise ship, the sound of the tsunami was enormous.
No one could fail to hear it.
Everyone saw the towering waves.
“Run!”
“Run fast! Tsunami’s coming!”
Someone shouted.
The deck quickly descended into chaos.
But soon someone realized, run?
How to run?
They were on a ship.
Unless jumping into the sea.
But this was a tsunami; jumping into the sea during a tsunami meant dying faster.
“No hope.”
Someone said calmly.
Some even leisurely poured themselves a glass of wine.
This person looked at the chips on the table and the panicked screaming crowd around.
Suddenly felt that living had no meaning.
Despair bred screams.
The tsunami came without surprise, directly submerging and capsizing the cruise ship.
This was a natural disaster, not the kind in movies where under disaster people could still flirt, confess love, and bid tearful farewells.
There was no time for that.
The cruise ship capsized.
Everyone was instantly swept into the seawater.
“Damn it!”
Luo Sheng and Sun Ren, who had jumped into the sea early, knew the moment they left the cruise ship that they shouldn’t have jumped.
The moment they touched the seawater, the supernatural in their bodies was directly suppressed.
It was as if an extremely terrifying fierce ghost existed in the seawater; touching it would suppress the supernatural.
The cruise ship was flipped, and the terrifying waves crashed toward them.
“Luo Sheng, damn it!”
Sun Ren’s face was pale, his eyes full of terror.
The tsunami crashed down with no surprises; both were directly swept into it.
The tsunami surged toward the shore.
Inside the Ghost Domain, A Wu watched this scene, his expression complex.
If nothing unexpected happened, the number of survivors would absolutely not exceed five.
Meanwhile, abroad, in a church.
A priest was listening to confessions of sin.
But suddenly, his eyes narrowed, and a eerie scene appeared in his eyes.
It was a female corpse floating on the sea surface.
On the sea surface, besides this female corpse, there were many other corpses.
The priest’s eyes moved, and he stood up, “The disaster under The Tower; even the witch cannot escape?”
“Hope it’s in time.”
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“Tsunami, how can a place like Daao City have a tsunami?”
The tsunami surged toward the shore; the first to discover it were the victims.
But not all were victims.
On top of a high-rise building, a refined woman gazed toward the seaside.
The tsunami couldn’t reach here and wouldn’t cause too serious damage even to the shore.
The losses would only be to those hotels.
“I heard there’s a cruise ship gambling game today. This tsunami came at a really bad time.”
The woman shook her head, turned, lay on the sofa, and lazily watched the tsunami unfold.
People would die; that was very normal.
As long as it wasn’t herself, it was fine.
Treating a natural disaster as a rare spectacle was the mentality of most at the top.
The tsunami’s scale wasn’t large enough; it couldn’t even reach the city center.
“Natural disasters are indeed the most dangerous things.”
Fang Shiming sighed.
If even ghost controllers couldn’t resist natural disasters, it was even more dangerous and terrifying.
This accident made them realize how dangerous the ghost watching them was.
“Stop sighing. Think of a way to deal with this ghost instead.”
Ye Zhen crossed his arms, “Take us to the shore and see if there are any survivors.”
Zhao Bai looked toward Lin Qian upon hearing this.
Lin Qian nodded.
Inside the Ghost Painting.
