Chapter 34: The Survivors Beginning To Die
Li Yong left.
Chu He and the other three hurriedly entered the villa, their expressions panicked.
But seeing Lin Qian still sitting in front of the sofa, smoking, they immediately felt relieved.
Good, good.
The president is still alive.
They had just been terrified outside, afraid that a fight would break out inside.
Even more afraid that the next second they went in, the president would have changed.
Now seeing that Lin Qian was fine, they felt much more relieved.
“President… they…” Chu He hesitated a bit and looked toward the villa door.
Lin Qian waved his hand, “They came to put on a show for me, nothing serious, go do what you need to do.”
After saying that, without waiting for them to respond, Lin Qian stood up and went straight upstairs.
Leaving the four with bewildered expressions.
“The talks must have broken down…” Man Yue hesitated for a moment before guessing.
“Obviously, if the deal had been made, that International Police guy named Li Yong wouldn’t have left with a face ashen.” Yu Lin curled his lip and said.
Chu He didn’t speak, gazing upstairs, her eyes pondering something unknown.
……
“Interesting, Dawn Organization, that guy named Li Yong is very strong.”
Lin Qian stood by the window, looking at the city buildings in the distance.
“Threatening me?”
Lin Qian roughly assessed his current strength, and from his own feeling, his fierce ghost terror level was probably on par with that Li Yong.
Li Yong’s code name is Guardian of the Lamp.
From just now when they met, judging by the strong burnt smell on him.
His fierce ghost’s killing pattern very likely has to do with a lamp.
Which means it might also be related to ghost fire.
Lin Qian’s eyes narrowed slightly; if it’s related to ghost fire, then the probability that he has a ghost domain is not low.
“He was also wary of me but didn’t make a move, which means he wasn’t confident in taking me down.”
“Similarly, I wasn’t confident either.”
“I don’t know his killing pattern, but he knows some of my fierce ghost information.”
“This is a bit unfair.”
The current situation isn’t complicated.
Three, no, four forces all believe I have the method of controlling fierce ghosts.
But the other three are obviously still in the stage of guessing, suspecting, and testing.
While this Li Yong, the leader of Dawn Organization, was much more direct.
“I’m still too green; when I controlled the fierce ghost, I didn’t think about these things.”
Lin Qian remembered that back then he thought very simply: control the fierce ghost to suppress fierce ghost revival, then use it to intimidate Little Strong Club.
But he didn’t expect that he would be targeted because of this.
An innocent man with a jade gu gets into trouble because of it.
Anyone understands this principle.
Currently, I have something they need.
I can maneuver for a while temporarily, but if it drags on too long, the outcome will be very unfavorable to me.
“Either my own strength becomes so great that they dare not have other ideas, or I join Circle of Friends or Headquarters.”
Lin Qian stroked his chin; he felt the first option suited him very well.
But now, with his current strength…
It could only scare someone to death if he bragged about it.
In the original work’s later stages, a certain king brought more than a dozen ghosts out, and by a stroke of bad luck, ran into a filthy thing that went out without a ghost.
Then, he got taken down.
Really, no justice; a ghost herder going out without ghosts, is that normal?
This shows just how useless controlling many ghosts is.
It needs to be elite, terrifying!
Not pursuing quantity.
Lin Qian was very clear about his current situation.
His eyes flickered, “Currently, I’m too weak; explanations won’t clear things up.”
“Since that’s the case…”
Lin Qian thought of a very interesting method.
Don’t you want the method of controlling fierce ghosts?
Don’t you think I, Lin Qian, have it?
Fine, I have it, but you have to pay a price.
I won’t ask for much; just help me kill a few people.
Whoever brings back the other’s human head or ghost first, I’ll join them and help control fierce ghosts for free.
The more Lin Qian thought about it, the more feasible this plan seemed.
“Hey, I’m really freaking a genius!”
Lin Qian wasn’t worried at all that they would refuse; simple, if you don’t do it, someone else will.
His value is right here.
“However…”
Lin Qian’s gaze darkened, “My strength is too weak; I’m afraid that if they can’t solve the problem, they’ll come solve the me who raised the problem, and then things won’t be fun.”
Thinking of this, Lin Qian estimated the time.
The Huang Gang Village Incident should be happening in just these few days.
According to the original work’s timeline, Yang Jian knew he wouldn’t live long, so he wanted to get some retirement money for his mom, then go catch ghosts.
Catching ghosts would get him a reward of a few million, but Yang Jian learned from Yan Li how much ghosts could be sold for.
Then he made connections and unexpectedly learned the method of delaying fierce ghost revival.
But the condition for obtaining this method was to handle a supernatural event, namely the Huang Gang Village Incident.
Lin Qian had already forgotten how Yang Jian learned that controlling a second ghost could delay fierce ghost revival.
It seemed to be because of human skin paper, or someone leaked it?
Anyway, these details didn’t seem important.
It was just a matter of these few days.
Lin Qian thought.
In Da Jiang City, inside the City Center Building.
Li Yong’s face was gloomy, “What a Lin Qian, you’ve got guts.”
“Go, notify our people to move into Da Jiang City. I want to see if you, having controlled three ghosts, can take out our ten ghost controllers at once.”
“Boss… this…”
The middle-aged man’s face changed immediately, and he hurriedly advised, “If we move in like this, won’t it…”
Li Yong raised his eyes, a pair of charred black eyes coldly staring at the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man swallowed, “Yes… Boss, I’ll go notify them right now.”
Li Yong didn’t speak but withdrew his gaze.
“Lin Qian ah Lin Qian, you won’t drink the toast but prefer the forfeit, huh? I said it, what I can’t get, no one else can have!”
Li Yong’s expression was ferocious and ruthless; even if he didn’t get what he wanted in the end, Black Eight Club’s four ghost controllers with a total of seven ghosts would still let him make a fortune!
……
Under the night sky, the city at three or four in the morning had long fallen into deep sleep.
In a high-end residential community, all lights were out.
But only one household on the fifteenth floor still had lights on.
Brightly lit, not just lights on, but every light in all rooms that could be turned on was on.
Yet even so, it seemed insufficient to let the woman hiding in the bedroom sleep peacefully.
The woman leaned wearily against the headboard, her eyes struggling with fatigue, but the moment her eyelids covered her eyeballs and swallowed her line of sight, she suddenly jolted awake, her eyelids snapping open instantly.
Just that instant of falling into darkness filled her eyes with terror and unease.
She vigilantly looked around, as if in this brightly lit room, some terrifying thing was hiding, ready to appear at any moment and make her die in despair.
The woman swallowed, scanned her surroundings, and only after finding no danger did she slowly relax.
But she still didn’t dare close her eyes to sleep, even though she hadn’t slept for two days.
For some reason, the woman was extremely afraid of darkness, so afraid that she didn’t dare let a shred of darkness appear in the room.
Good thing her bed was a floor-level bed; otherwise, she probably would have used a flashlight or bedside lamp to illuminate under the bed.
No doubt, from the wardrobe pulled open to expose its interior, she was absolutely capable of doing such a thing.
The woman’s upper and lower eyelids were fighting for control, but soon the lower ones would seize power.
The woman was like a child emperor, struggling against the difficult task of eyelids covering eyeballs.
Time passed in this silent struggle.
But she didn’t know how long had passed.
The woman suddenly jolted awake, her pupils contracting sharply, the terror in her eyes about to erupt!
Thump~ thump thump~!
The room door was knocked on, and the woman instinctively hugged the quilt tight.
Thump~ thump thump!
The knocking came from the front door, the sound muffled and feeble.
As if the knocker’s hand was very stiff.
The woman’s pupils widened, her body trembling uncontrollably.
“Who… who is it!”
The knocking stopped abruptly.
After a long time, the knocking didn’t resume.
The woman breathed a sigh of relief.
But suddenly she became terrified again.
How is this possible!
With her just now hoarse and weak voice, how could it possibly carry out of the bedroom, let alone to the front door!
She remembered the bedroom had soundproofing cotton installed, with very good sound insulation!
How could the person knocking hear it?
But clearly, the other party had heard.
And she had heard the knocking…
The more the woman thought, the more terrified she became, her eyes fixed on the room door, the unease in them growing denser.
Outside the door, in the bedroom, it was deathly quiet.
As if nothing was there, like the knocking she just heard was an auditory hallucination.
She didn’t know how long had passed, but there was no movement at the room door for a long time.
“Is it an auditory hallucination from not sleeping for too long?”
The woman muttered to herself.
Thump.
Thump.
Thump.
Thump, thump thump.
The woman’s expression stiffened, her mouth agape, her eyes filled only with terror.
Creak~!
The bedroom door slowly opened, darkness seeping in from outside.
Sizzle sizzle sizzle.
The lights in the bedroom flickered strangely.
Light and darkness alternated.
Darkness infiltrated, gloom arrived.
The tipping point arrived abruptly.
“Ah!”
A shrill, piercing scream rang out, followed by the bedroom lights instantly extinguishing.
……
Da Jiang City, eight in the morning.
Inside a high-end apartment residential community.
Outside 3131, warning lines were set up.
In the apartment room, Li Yong frowned tightly, gazing at the bloody scene on the bed.
“The deceased is a survivor of the last supernatural event, name Dai Mei, twenty-five years old this year.”
Li Yong waved to fan away the bloody smell at his nose, took the file, stepped around the blood on the ground, walked to the window, and yanked open the curtains.
Bright, scorching sunlight poured into the room.
Li Yong turned back, skimmed through the file briefly, then looked at the horrific bloody scene on the bed.
The bedding on the bed was completely soaked in blood, turned dark red.
The bloody smell was turning into a mix of corpse stench and fishy odor.
On the bed, a woman, a faceless woman, curled up against the headboard.
Chest torn open, belly ripped apart.
Internal organs mixed with intestines exposed, already rotting.
That faceless visage had shriveled eyeballs drooping on the face, yellowed blackened teeth splattered with blood on the gums.
The rest of the teeth had long fallen into the torn-open chest cavity.
Li Yong’s eyes flickered; the deceased’s skin was deathly pale, bloodless, with black spots growing on the skin.
No need to check; he could tell at a glance it was corpse spots.
“Detective Li, this is the forensic doctor’s preliminary conclusion, but without dissection and detailed examination, it might not be entirely accurate.”
A middle-aged man walked in holding a test report.
Li Yong waved it off, indicating he didn’t need to see it, “How long has the forensic doctor determined the deceased has been dead?”
“At least three months.”
“Three months?” Li Yong tilted his head slightly, looking at the middle-aged man.
“Detective Li, I know what you want to say: the deceased was still giving a statement at the police station the day before yesterday. But no way around it, that’s the forensic doctor’s test result.”
“From all the checks, the deceased has indeed been dead for three months.” The middle-aged man said helplessly.
Li Yong nodded, “So you conclude this is a supernatural event?”
The middle-aged man nodded without hesitation, “Yes, Detective Li.”
Hearing this, Li Yong looked at the miserably dead corpse on the bed, “Your conclusion is correct; this is indeed a supernatural event.”
“I’ll take this case.”
Hearing this, the middle-aged man immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
“Collect the corpse; by this afternoon at the latest, it must be incinerated.”
“Understood!” The middle-aged man agreed promptly.
Li Yong didn’t speak, giving the corpse on the bed a deep look.
This was his third day on the job.
His subordinates hadn’t even infiltrated Da Jiang City yet, and a supernatural event occurred.
“Targeted killing…”
“This ghost’s harm level shouldn’t be high.”
Li Yong walked out of the bedroom, “Survivors from supernatural events all carry supernatural taint, high probability of being targeted by ghosts.”
“But isn’t this a bit too coincidental?”
Were these survivors’ luck really that bad?
He didn’t believe it.
Thinking of something, Li Yong instructed the middle-aged man following him, “Go investigate the deceased’s recent appearances, see where she’s been, if she’s offended anyone.”
“Got it, I’ll arrange for people to investigate right away.”
The middle-aged man nodded in agreement.
“Also, round up all the survivors from the last supernatural event again, keep them under unified custody.”
“This event could cause significant harm.” Li Yong said gravely.
Hearing this, the middle-aged man’s expression changed, “Got it, I’ll arrange now to gather those survivors again.”
“Notify me directly of any situation; I’ll rush over quickly.”
Li Yong nodded; as an International Police detective, he still needed to do the necessary formalities.
The middle-aged man could only nod, no right to refuse.
……
Black Eight Club.
Lin Qian gazed out the window, somewhat lost in thought.
After an unknown time, he suddenly snapped back, his expression somewhat gloomy.
“One of my mediums died.”
“No, the third one.”
Lin Qian looked up in a certain direction, his eyes thoughtful.
Outside a hotel.
A crowd gathered, buzzing with discussion.
They looked at the open ground outside the hotel, pointing and gesturing.
Occasionally looking up at the hotel’s top floor.
Some called the police and 120.
Others felt it unlucky, spat, and left quickly.
And at this moment, the hotel manager who rushed out in a panic saw the scene in front of the hotel, rolled his eyes, and fainted directly.
Soon, 120 and 110 arrived one after another.
Before long, three ‘people’ were carried onto the ambulance.
The crowd was dispersed, and the police began taking statements and filing the case.
