Chapter 242: Lin Qian Goes All Out
3632, at the doorway.
Wei Jing stopped, his entire person appearing somewhat blurred.
But at this moment, his supernatural strength was at its peak.
3632, not the room where the Ghost Painting existed.
But the room where another ghost existed.
Which was the location of the ghost that enveloped the entire corridor in a restart.
Wei Jing stiffly reached out and grasped the door handle.
Supernatural power instantly enveloped the entire door.
*Creak~!*
The door was opened, temporarily isolated from the restart.
*Whoosh~!*
An eerie wind blew.
Wei Jing’s eyes narrowed slightly.
Inside the room, it was pitch black.
Nothing could be seen.
A ghost was inside?
Why couldn’t he see it?
Was it a ghost that normal means couldn’t see?
If so, then there might be trouble.
Wei Jing’s senses were extremely sharp now; he had thought of many things in an instant.
But suddenly, his brow furrowed.
The pressure on his body abruptly disappeared.
Wei Jing’s heart sank.
*Creak~!*
Footsteps sounded; Xu Zhou took another step.
The restart had ended!
Inside the room, in the darkness, a pair of pale eyes suddenly opened, devoid of any emotion, yet clearly visible in the darkness!
At the same time, a hand, accompanied by the darkness, reached out instantly.
Wei Jing didn’t even have a chance to react; his neck was immediately grabbed, and a notebook, open and covered in bloodstains, was thrust onto his face.
*Bang~!*
Wei Jing was directly pulled inside, and the door instantly closed.
Xu Zhou was stunned and looked back behind him in disbelief.
How did Wei Jing run to the front?
What’s going on!
Xu Zhou keenly sensed that something was wrong.
He quickly walked towards 3632.
He had only seen the door close just now and didn’t know what had happened.
But according to the plan, Wei Jing should have gone to the room where the Ghost Painting was, so why did he go to 3632?
Xu Zhou was a bit confused.
The closer Xu Zhou got to 3632, the more uneasy his premonition became.
The moment he stood completely at the doorway of 3632.
Xu Zhou seemed to understand something, his expression changing rapidly.
Without any hesitation, he turned and kicked open room 3631.
He rushed in directly.
Less than three seconds.
Xu Zhou rushed out holding an oil painting covered by a black cloth.
Xu Zhou merely glanced at 3632, turned, and ran downstairs.
Wei Jing must have met with an accident; if he hadn’t, Wei Jing would have come out himself.
If something happened, it’s fine too; the Ghost Painting is in my hands, as long as I walk out of this mansion.
Everything can be resolved; at worst, we’ll both perish.
Xu Zhou’s figure disappeared in the corridor in the blink of an eye.
And at the moment Xu Zhou disappeared.
Room 3632 slowly opened.
*Gasping~!*
A bellows-like breathing sound echoed in the corridor.
*Rustle~!*
The sound of pages turning accompanied the breathing.
*Tap, tap, tap~!*
An eerie wind accompanied the footsteps.
A pale hand reached out from the door and gripped the threshold.
Immediately after, an extremely bizarre face peeked out from the door instantly.
It seemed to be a drawn face.
Rather than a face, it was like a human face drawn by a child on the pages of an open notebook.
Eyes like messy scribbles, a mouth like jagged blackness.
“Something is missing.”
This being, whether human or ghost, looked up at the ceiling.
“I didn’t expect this to allow me to briefly come back to life.”
“The body is still quite usable.”
“Although something is missing, it seems the thing is above.”
The bizarre being, with its drawn mouth, curved into a creepy smile.
“There are quite a few good things.”
“It’s too wasteful for you little guys to have these things.”
It clenched its fist; an eye on its face, drawn messily, moved and looked at the floor.
“The Ghost Painting cannot be taken out for those two ghost abominations to play with.”
“I don’t want to die again.”
Xu Zhou, who was about to rush out of the mansion, suddenly froze in place.
He remained motionless, just standing there blankly.
He was only one step away from the mansion entrance!
Having dealt with Xu Zhou, this bizarre being raised its foot and disappeared into the corridor in a single step.
Upstairs.
Lin Qian looked at the Newspaper Ghost.
The Newspaper Ghost threw a Coffin Nail without hesitation.
Lin Qian caught it.
The three people and three ghosts had extremely solemn expressions.
“Lin Qian, you’ve brought a big problem. That ghost wouldn’t have ‘come back to life’ normally.”
The Newspaper Ghost’s raspy voice sounded.
Lin Qian ignored it, examining the Coffin Nail in his hand.
This was a real Coffin Nail, no doubt about it.
But the other party had just thrown it to him.
To say there was no backup plan would be impossible.
Lin Qian wanted to find the method the other party had left on the Coffin Nail.
But he found nothing.
Fang Shiming and Ye Zhen walked over.
Their expressions were solemn.
“The ghost has revived?”
“What does that mean?”
Fang Shiming looked at the Newspaper Ghost.
Based on the current situation, they were in a temporary alliance.
Although they had never imagined that one day they would cooperate with three ghosts to confront an ‘accident’.
“It means very simply, within this mansion, there exists a ‘person’ who had already died, and they were extremely complete.”
“They had already died, and the contingency they left behind couldn’t support them to come back to life. Furthermore, I disrupted part of their arrangements, making it even more impossible for them to ‘revive’.”
“But now, they have unexpectedly ‘come back to life’.”
The Newspaper Ghost stared at Lin Qian, who was still examining the Coffin Nail.
It knew Lin Qian was looking for the backup plan it had left on the Coffin Nail.
He wanted to claim the Coffin Nail for himself.
But this was impossible; at least, Lin Qian’s current strength was not enough to achieve it.
“Ghost Messenger, Starving Ghost, the confrontation hasn’t been decided yet. If it ‘revived’, we must also find a way to counter the supernatural powers of the two ghosts outside the door.”
“Therefore, the other party’s strength will be reduced…”
The Newspaper Ghost suddenly looked behind Lin Qian, its words abruptly stopping.
Lin Qian’s eyes narrowed instantly, and he rotated the Coffin Nail in his hand, directly pointing it at his own neck to stab.
Just as the Coffin Nail was about to stab his neck, Lin Qian tilted his head slightly, and the Coffin Nail directly grazed his neck, shooting backward.
But the next moment, the Coffin Nail suddenly stopped.
Lin Qian’s pupils contracted slightly.
He caught it with his bare hands?
What was behind him?
*Rustle~!*
The sound of pages turning and a sharp, unfamiliar voice echoed.
“You have the smell of Zhang Bohua’s herbal medicine on you, and I don’t like it.”
The voice fell.
Lin Qian’s entire body floated strangely.
His limbs twisted, becoming extremely uncoordinated, as if he were a puppet being lifted.
*Thump~!*
The wall shook.
Ye Zhen looked grimly at the human-shaped indentation in the wall.
That was Lin Qian; Lin Qian had been embedded directly into the wall.
The skin on his body tore inch by inch, and blood trickled down the wall.
Fang Shiming looked with solemn horror at where Lin Qian had been standing.
There stood a being that could not be called human at all.
The Newspaper Ghost narrowed its eyes, and upon seeing the flipping notebook on the being’s face, it instantly understood.
It immediately understood how this ghost thing had ‘come back to life’.
It was Xu Zhou; if nothing unexpected happened, he had given this ghost thing a chance to ‘start over’.
“Scapegoat?”
“Yes, not bad, kid, you can’t control this ghost. Give it to me, and if you give it to me, I won’t be in this incomplete state anymore.”
This person looked at Ye Zhen, the pages turning faster.
He seemed to become excited.
Ye Zhen felt a chill run down his spine.
“And the Ghost Scissors…”
Fang Shiming was also noticed.
He glanced at Lin Qian, who was still bleeding from the wall.
What’s going on with Lin Qian, why isn’t he moving?
Was he instantly killed upon arrival?
The Newspaper Ghost, that woman, and ‘Xu Ming’ were all standing by, not exactly standing by, but rather not daring to act rashly.
This thing, whether human or ghost, gave off an extremely dangerous feeling.
“It seems my chance of getting out of here is quite high.”
The existence muttered to itself.
Suddenly, it instantly appeared beside the Newspaper Ghost, and the flipping notebook was thrust forcefully towards its face, covered by red newspaper.
“Little guy, you’ve been suppressing my face with great difficulty, why not let it out and return it to me?”
“Taking advantage of my ‘death’, disrupting my arrangements, and taking away my ghost, it seems you wanted my ability to restart time.”
The Newspaper Ghost’s face, covered by red newspaper, immediately began to writhe.
A terrifying, chilling cold spread throughout the Newspaper Ghost’s body.
But at this moment, that paper-faced being suddenly left.
The eyes drawn on it were scribbled and eerie, yet they gave off an extremely terrifying and chilling feeling.
Those eyes moved slightly, seemingly overlooking everyone.
“‘Accidents’ allowed me to live again, though it was very brief, so brief that it only lasted until the end of this ‘accident,’ but it makes no difference.”
“With a scapegoat, I can truly revive.”
“When I was alive, I searched for so long, yet I couldn’t even get any news about this ghost.”
“Now, as soon as I woke up, this thing is right in front of me. Tsk tsk, it seems even heaven doesn’t want me to die.”
“Blah, blah, blah, what kind of bird thing are you saying? Ye doesn’t understand.”
Ye Zhen stared intently at this bizarre entity.
From the moment it appeared, this ghostly thing started chattering non-stop.
This annoyed Ye Zhen greatly.
But Ye Zhen also understood one thing: this thing was very strong, very terrifying.
It was absolutely not a normal ghost or ghost controller.
One couldn’t look at it in such a way.
“Very well, every controller of a scapegoat seems to have this kind of temper.”
The being didn’t seem angry and instead said this.
“Alright, enough nonsense, those two ghost things outside are about to finish.”
“I’ll get rid of you two quickly and fill in what I’m missing, so I can deal with them.”
“At that time…”
It didn’t say what would happen at that time.
Fang Shiming’s soul almost flew out of his body.
But in the next moment, a black spear suddenly pierced its chest.
It was slowly lifted up.
The turning pages at that moment paused, then rapidly flipped.
As the pages turned, the scribbled face and eyes continuously shifted position.
“Old man, do you know that your casual strike almost killed me?”
A blood-soaked mask slowly revealed itself from behind it.
“You… you’re not right!”
It said in disbelief.
“Run!”
The Newspaper Ghost suddenly said.
In the next moment, the three ghosts instantly vanished from their spots.
It was as if a Ghost Domain had been activated.
But this was absolutely not the ability of a Ghost Domain.
Ye Zhen and Fang Shiming had just reacted and wanted to stop it, but it was already too late.
“What’s going on?”
Ye Zhen was completely bewildered.
What on earth had happened?
How did Lin Qian suddenly display such power and defeat this ghost?
And then, the three ghosts, led by the Newspaper Ghost, actually fled?
They abandoned the coffin nails?
Were they that decisive?
Fang Shiming stared at Lin Qian, who was covered in blood, but beneath the blood, black mist could be clearly seen writhing.
“Lin Qian, are you… are you okay?”
“I’m alright, just almost killed by that old man’s casual move.”
‘Lin Qian’ said indifferently.
“What’s your situation now?” Fang Shiming asked hesitantly, feeling that Lin Qian was very strange now, yet also somewhat familiar.
“Just used a trump card.”
“No, this isn’t right!”
“This isn’t the strength a kid like you should have!”
“Noisy!”
A bloodied arm was raised, grabbing the opponent’s head.
In the next moment, the opponent’s supernatural power instantly became still.
*Patta~!*
A notebook fell to the ground.
A corpse, faceless but extremely terrifying, appeared before them.
The corpse’s raised arm fell powerlessly.
Lin Qian tightly gripped the ghost’s head, and the next second, it vanished.
The spear that had pierced the Fierce Ghost instantly turned into a coffin nail.
Lin Qian’s figure flickered.
He recovered to normal.
Lin Qian squinted slightly, squatted down, and picked up the notebook.
He flipped through the notebook, seemingly searching for something.
Soon, Fang Shiming and Ye Zhen saw a face.
A face drawn on a page of the notebook.
“This… is Wei Jing?” Fang Shiming exclaimed in surprise.
Lin Qian didn’t speak, directly tore off the page with Wei Jing’s face drawn on it, and put it away.
“No, this notebook…”
Ye Zhen instinctively wanted to make a move.
But it was already too late.
The notebook instantly disappeared from its spot.
Lin Qian’s movement stiffened slightly, seemingly surprised as well.
“Interesting.”
He muttered to himself.
Then he stood up.
“Couldn’t stop it?”
Fang Shiming asked.
Although he didn’t know what had happened to Lin Qian, as Lin Qian stood up, the familiar Lin Qian had returned.
Lin Qian shook his head: “A troublesome thing, difficult to stop.”
“However, it left behind a problem.”
Saying this, he looked at the coffin nail in his hand, and the mask on his face slowly receded, revealing a solemn expression.
“What’s wrong?”
Ye Zhen asked with a frown.
He thought it would be a bloody battle, but it ended in the blink of an eye.
Three ghosts fled.
The being that appeared due to an ‘accident’ was dealt with by Lin Qian.
They seemed to have lost nothing.
“It’s fine, we can prepare to leave.”
Lin Qian said, putting away his solemn expression.
“We can leave? Was the accident ghost dealt with?”
Fang Shiming asked.
“Dealt with, suppressed it incidentally, it’s downstairs, but it’s constantly in a state of revival, making it difficult to control.”
“Even you can’t?” Fang Shiming asked, confused.
Lin Qian shook his head, “It’s very troublesome, I cannot control this ghost.”
Hearing this, Fang Shiming wisely didn’t ask further.
Ye Zhen’s eyes flickered, “Then let me control it.”
Lin Qian looked at Fang Shiming upon hearing this.
Fang Shiming thought for a moment, “Sure, something you find troublesome, I don’t want to touch at all.”
The ownership of an extremely terrifying Fierce Ghost was thus casually decided.
Ye Zhen obtained this Fierce Ghost codenamed ‘Accident.’
And at this moment, downstairs.
