Chapter 45: Playing Dead Li Yong
City Center Building, the eerie Ghost Domain enveloped the surrounding streets.
At this moment, inside the building.
Screams and desperate cries echoed inside the building.
Thump, thump thump.
The knocking sound suddenly rang out inside the building.
Darkness enveloped the entire building.
Top of the Building.
Li Yong, whose whole body was charred, leaned against the wall, with eerie green flames flickering under his charred skin.
“Boss, you… how are you doing?”
Not far from Li Yong, a middle-aged man with only an upper body struggled to lift his head and looked at the charred Li Yong, asking.
“I… I’m fine.”
Li Yong’s weak voice sounded, his pair of charred eyes slightly turning.
“How many of us are left… cough cough… alive?”
“Don’t know, I, I didn’t see them.”
“They should, should all be dead.” The middle-aged man’s voice was weak, suppressing his pain.
Hearing this, Li Yong chuckled, “Heaven wants Li Yong dead.”
Dawn Organization had a total of twelve Ghost Controllers, yet in one Supernatural Event, almost all were lost.
All of this was Lin Qian’s fault!
“B-Boss, I’m not going to make it, you, you take care, you must, must live on.”
Li Yong’s pupils trembled violently. He wanted to stand up, but with the Fierce Ghost restless inside him at this moment, his body was no longer under his control.
“You…”
From the darkness not far away came a suppressed painful grunt, followed by the sound of flesh crawling on the ground.
But soon, this sound disappeared.
Immediately after, a dull thud rang out.
The moment Li Yong heard this sound, his expression twisted.
The other party, to prevent his own Fierce Ghost Revival from harming him after death, actually chose to jump off the building.
“Hahaha!”
Li Yong suddenly burst into laughter, his smile mad, his expression ferocious.
A pair of charred eyes stared fixedly at the darkness ahead.
The other party seemed to have gone mad.
But suddenly, the other party’s mad laughter stopped.
“Lin Qian, I knew you would come. Come out, no need to hide.”
Li Yong suddenly looked toward the darkness beside him, his pair of charred eyes emitting eerie green firelight.
After his words fell, long silence followed.
“Hehe, Lin Qian, you’re even afraid of me now?”
“I really look down on you.”
Tap tap tap.
After Li Yong’s words fell, footsteps sounded from the darkness.
Immediately after, a young man wearing a eerie mask emerged from the darkness.
“How did you discover me?”
Lin Qian was somewhat puzzled. How did the other party discover him?
He was hiding in the Ghost Domain, so by logic, Li Yong shouldn’t be able to detect him.
But Li Yong had no intention of answering Lin Qian.
He looked at Lin Qian’s mask, a pair of eerie eyes, a terrifying mouth, the mask edges adorned with cloud patterns, a faint invisible black line at the brow center, and on both cheeks of the mask, a Red Thread connected from below that pair of eerie eyes.
The other party’s mask had changed appearance again.
“Your mask changed again. You’ve controlled another Fierce Ghost, right.”
Li Yong chuckled coldly, his heart filled with intense resentment.
Why, why was Lin Qian so blessed, possessing the method to control Fierce Ghost Revival, why was his own life so miserable.
In one Supernatural Event, targeted by two ghosts, why did all his subordinates die or get injured, while Lin Qian remained unscathed!
Why!
The charred smell on Li Yong’s body grew stronger.
The other party’s Fierce Ghost Revival was imminent.
But the other party seemed unwilling to just die like this.
The charred smell on him suddenly intensified, his charred skin bizarrely began to crack, and green flames seeped out from the cracked skin.
Li Yong’s expression immediately became pained and ferocious.
He gritted his teeth, his eyes seeping Ghost Fire, and his body stood up in a eerie posture.
Li Yong stared fixedly at Lin Qian, his appearance ferocious like a malevolent ghost.
“Lin Qian, this is all your fault!”
“Why did you refuse me! Why!”
Flames surged, Ghost Fire spreading from him like the raging waters of the Yellow River, burning toward Lin Qian.
“Die! Lin Qian, even if I die, I’ll drag you down with me!”
Flames enveloped Li Yong, the charred smell permeated, this spreading Ghost Fire seemed capable of igniting everything.
Lin Qian, hidden in the Ghost Domain, looked at the mad Li Yong with a calm mood.
“President, he’s gone mad.”
Ye Feng, standing behind Lin Qian, said indifferently.
“I can see that.”
A Ghost Controller on the verge of Fierce Ghost Revival, instead of suppressing his Fierce Ghost at this moment, was thinking of using the Fierce Ghost’s supernatural power to kill him.
He was indeed mad.
But this was also the most correct choice.
The other party knew very well that the moment he saw him appear, he absolutely could not live.
Lin Qian would not let him live.
Green flames enveloped the entire rooftop.
The flames emitted intense yin coldness, the entire rooftop ablaze with flames.
Lin Qian sensed the flames outside the Ghost Domain, “It’s gotten a bit weak.”
“President, not making a move?”
Ye Feng looked at the ferocious figure in the flames.
The other party had given up on survival, directly unleashing the Fierce Ghost’s supernatural power on a large scale, wanting to burn Lin Qian hiding in the Ghost Domain.
Watching Li Yong struggling in the flames, Ye Feng suddenly thought of a joke: someone trying to set fire to burn a Ghost Controller hiding in a Ghost Domain.
Hehe, this joke was a bit cold.
Alright, Ye Feng admitted it was a boring joke.
Lin Qian did not answer Ye Feng’s question; he stared at Li Yong burning in the Ghost Fire.
In this situation, he didn’t even need to act; the other party would die from Fierce Ghost Revival on his own.
Sure enough, the next moment, Li Yong in the center of the Ghost Fire suddenly collapsed to the ground, his skin burned pitch black, already charred.
The yin coldness deepened, the Ghost Fire burning even more fiercely.
Li Yong, dead?
“He’s dead.” Ye Feng knew the moment Li Yong fell that the other party was dead.
Died from Fierce Ghost Revival.
Lin Qian was still somewhat puzzled; the supernatural power the other party displayed shouldn’t have been this low.
But suddenly, Li Yong’s fallen corpse erupted with terrifying supernatural power, the surrounding flames shooting skyward.
Ye Feng’s heart jolted. Good grief, Li Yong was dead, the Revived Ghost fully revived, and the Terror Level was actually this high.
Dense mist appeared, rising from the flames, the mist rapidly spreading.
When this mist appeared, Lin Qian keenly felt his Ghost Domain being suppressed.
“Ghost Domain.”
Li Yong was dead, yet his Revived Ghost had produced a Ghost Domain.
Watching the increasingly dense mist, Lin Qian brought Ye Feng and instantly appeared in the distance, away from the range covered by the Ghost Fire.
“Lucky we didn’t act, or we’d definitely be caught off guard.” Ye Feng said with lingering fear.
No one would have thought a ghost’s revival could be this terrifying.
Even inside the Ghost Domain, he felt a trace of dread.
Moreover, from that final outburst just now, it was clear Li Yong hadn’t fully died yet; he was waiting for them to check or deliver the finishing blow.
Then to catch them off guard.
But evidently, the other party underestimated their vigilance.
Of course, the other party probably hadn’t considered who would be dumb enough to check if he was dead while facing a Ghost Fire assault.
Lin Qian’s eyes turned slightly, and suddenly he thought of something, “Why is Li Yong’s code name Guardian of the Lamp?”
Ye Feng was stunned, then shook his head, “No idea.”
Lin Qian nodded, “No idea is right.”
Then, the mouth on the mask suddenly cracked open, and an eerie wind sound arose.
On the rooftop, the flames were suddenly stirred by the wind.
Yin wind howled, blowing toward the dead Li Yong on the rooftop.
But at the instant the yin wind swept over, the Ghost Fire suddenly formed a wall of fire.
Directly blocking the yin wind’s invasion.
The Ghost Fire swayed violently, and from within the flames, a cold voice rang out, “How did you know?”
Ye Feng’s pupils shrank, “How is this possible! Still alive!”
Lin Qian stared at that wall of fire; in the flames, a figure slowly stood up.
A body emitting flames once again stood in the flames.
The other party’s skin peeled off in chunks, revealing pale but crack-filled skin beneath.
The skin was nearly transparent, and in his chest cavity was clearly a rusty, burning Lamp.
“Lin Qian, you’re the first person I haven’t fooled, and you’ll be the last.”
Li Yong was reborn in fire, revealing his true form.
His code name was Guardian of the Lamp. What was a Guardian of the Lamp?
Simple: as long as the Lamp in his chest cavity doesn’t go out, he won’t die!
The flames retracted instantly, all surging into Li Yong’s body.
Mist spread, and Lin Qian and Ye Feng’s true figures appeared.
The moment Lin Qian appeared, a terrifying supernatural power suddenly crashed toward Lin Qian’s Ghost Domain.
It was another Ghost Domain!
Lin Qian’s heart sank. Good grief, the other party actually had two Ghost Domains!
“You’re talented, but unfortunately, not for my use.”
“Lin Qian, I’ve waited a long time for you to come back.”
“You know, when I learned you escaped Da Jiang City, I regretted it to the extreme.”
“I thought then, maybe I should have killed you on the spot when we met.”
“But I was too cautious at the time, afraid you weren’t as I knew, controlling only two or three ghosts.”
“Moreover, I feared you escaping; after all, your life-preserving methods are too bizarre.”
“Once I fought you and you escaped, I’d have endless troubles.”
“After all, the things on you, placed anywhere, could build a terrifying force, enough to make those major forces go mad.”
Li Yong walked toward Lin Qian.
A pair of narrow eyes flickering with green Ghost Fire narrowed slightly.
“So, I thought about how to get you to come back.”
“I racked my brains and finally saw an opportunity.”
“Yes, that ghost that attacked me.”
“When I saw that ghost attack once and kill three members, I surprisingly discovered that its Killing Pattern was just like yours—no, not just like, exactly the same.”
“At that moment, I was certain the ghost on you originated from it.”
“So, I concluded you knew this ghost’s Terror Level and that I might suffer a loss.”
“Of course, even so, you might not come back.”
“But luckily, I received a curse call from a Fierce Ghost, and as expected, that ghost came for me.”
“Also by luck, that ghost collided with another ghost.”
“The appearance of two ghosts gave me hope.”
Li Yong reached out, mist instantly enveloping the surroundings, and then, between the firelight reflections, Li Yong’s second Ghost Domain appeared.
Under the firelight, the shadows formed the Ghost Domain!
The two Ghost Domains invaded Lin Qian’s Ghost Domain.
Lin Qian did not act rashly; he wanted to see how far this guy’s imagination had gone.
“Those two ghosts gave me hope to trick you back.”
“So, I directly pretended to be attacked by those two ghosts, on the verge of Fierce Ghost Revival.”
“Then, let all my members know about it.”
“Of course I knew your club’s Secretary was inciting my members to defect, and I knew he would rebel.”
“After all, back then, I did the same to scheme against the other side.”
“Sure enough, he rebelled and informed Chu He of my situation.”
“As your secretary, you’d definitely learn of such news first.”
“Then rush back to reap the benefits.”
“Facts prove I was right.”
Li Yong looked at Lin Qian with a mischievous expression, “Lin Qian, you still have a chance to choose now. Join me, and I’ll grant you life.”
Lin Qian: …
Ye Feng’s mouth twitched slightly, “President, confirmed, this guy’s a drama queen.”
He knew very well Lin Qian had no such thoughts at all.
He hadn’t received any call from Chu He midway because Lin Qian’s Mobile Phone was long broken.
His phone number had also been changed due to the Ghost Knocking’s curse.
“I can see that.”
The other party’s deductions were all for naught.
Lin Qian shook his head, “You’ve obviously got one thing wrong.”
“I came back not to reap the benefits, but simply to take you out, even if you were in good condition.”
With that, Lin Qian stepped out of the Ghost Domain.
Li Yong’s pupils shrank slightly.
The next moment, white Mist instantly rose around them, followed by an even more terrifying Ghost Domain descending, directly within the Knocking Ghost’s Ghost Domain, enveloping the entire building.
White Mist filled the entire Rooftop, the drifting mist instantly eroded.
Li Yong’s pupils trembled, the flames on his body also quivering.
Sizzle~!
He discovered in terror that the flames on his body were actually extinguishing.
“You schemed against me!” Li Yong shouted in shock and anger.
“Hehe.”
Lin Qian sneered, too lazy to waste words with the other party.
His Body remained in place, unmoving, but Li Yong suddenly felt a yin coldness appear abruptly behind him.
His face darkened, his Arm twisting into a eerie posture, reaching behind, grabbing an arm attacking him.
The moment he grabbed the arm, Li Yong laughed loudly, “Lin Qian, your biggest mistake was letting me touch you!”
The next moment, terrifying flames instantly ignited the arm behind him.
Lin Qian, standing in front of Li Yong, was puzzled. When did the other party touch him?
You touched me?
Flames instantly devoured the figure behind Li Yong.
The figure emitted terrifying yin coldness.
When Lin Qian saw clearly who attacked Li Yong, a trace of gravity appeared in Lin Qian’s eyes.
“President.” Ye Feng walked solemnly to Lin Qian’s side, hand on his own zipper, eyes fixed on Li Yong’s back.
There, an Old Man, expression numb and deathly still, wearing a Black Long Gown, skin covered in corpse spots.
Li Yong was still laughing maniacally, terrifying supernatural power crushing toward the old man behind him.
But he didn’t turn to look, instead facing the solemn Lin Qian, “Feeling anxious now?”
“My flames can follow supernatural attacks to the main body. You think I didn’t grab you?”
“Hahaha, wrong! As long as you attack me, I can follow your supernatural power to your main body!”
“Lin Qian, you’ll watch your Body wither bit by bit, your Body burned into Corpse oil, becoming my life-extending medicine!”
Lin Qian and Ye Feng slowly retreated, expressions increasingly grave.
“My Ghost Domain is being suppressed.”
Lin Qian said to Ye Feng, “You can’t participate in the next confrontation. I’ll send you out.”
“I’ll also send some survivors out. Keep an eye on them; see if those survivors attract Fierce Ghosts. If they do, leave immediately.”
Ye Feng nodded, “President, be careful.”
He knew very well he couldn’t help; though he controlled two ghosts, from the supernatural power he just felt, he might die.
Li Yong hadn’t realized yet; once he did, the other party would likely drag someone down with him.
The Ghost Domain flickered, and Lin Qian directly sent Ye Feng away.
Ye Feng couldn’t handle this scene.
Moreover, there was another presence watching him here.
A Ghost Controller, not a ghost!
And a ghost was getting closer to him.
Lin Qian stayed vigilant around him; today’s events were getting more and more interesting.
Lin Qian’s eyes turned slightly, and suddenly, he was stunned. He saw an Old Man with a complex expression.
The Old Man noticed him looking and simply stopped hiding his figure.
He walked out from the Darkness.
The moment the Old Man emerged from the Darkness, he said, “Nearly caused a big mistake.”
Directly leaving Lin Qian speechless.
