Chapter 56: Strange Phenomena In The Mansion
Very decisive.
And more decisive each time.
Lin Qian looked at Xu Zhou.
At this moment, Xu Zhou was emitting a chilling aura all over his body, and the face skin on his face had become extremely pale, but unless looked at closely, it was impossible to see that the other’s appearance had changed.
A rough glance showed Xu Zhou was still Xu Zhou, but a close look revealed that his face had become more feminine.
From the moment Xu Zhou put on the face skin, he had been observing him.
“The result is out. Ordinary people can easily control the crashed ghost without any discomfort.”
Xu Zhou controlled the ghost in a process that took no more than ten seconds, and within those ten seconds, he quickly learned the fierce ghost’s killing pattern and used it.
The crashed ghost could be controlled very quickly, and ordinary people could use it easily.
Lin Qian memorized this result.
“You seem to believe my words a lot.”
Lin Qian asked.
Xu Zhou felt the changes in his body.
He felt like he had endless power.
He seemed to no longer need to eat.
Although his stomach was still very hungry, he wouldn’t starve to death from hunger.
“We, we have no choice.”
Xu Zhou was silent for a moment, then showed a wry smile.
“Even if you were deceiving us just now, we would still bet on it.”
Lin Qian nodded. He glanced at the others; they didn’t feel sad or dissatisfied because of Xiao Shuai’s death.
There was even a hint of relief in their eyes.
It seemed like because there was one less person, they could eat a bit more.
They really had no choice.
In this ghostly place, mercy would get you killed.
“How long have you lived here?”
Lin Qian found a place to sit down, his gaze on that iron door.
“I’ve been here the longest, for half a year. They’ve been here at least three months, up to four months.”
Xu Zhou answered seriously.
Half a year…
Lin Qian realized in his heart; no wonder they were so decisive.
If it were him, he would be even more decisive.
Surviving half a year without going insane—this person was talented.
“Got it.”
Lin Qian pointed at the door, “What’s that thing on the door?”
Hearing this, Xu Zhou quickly answered, “The thing on the door was made by us using paper ash that fell from the sky, mixed with a white liquid obtained inside the building.”
“This thing can effectively block the ghost’s advance.”
“We smeared it on the iron door to block the fierce ghost from entering.”
“That iron chain is the same, made by mixing paper ash with those liquids and some bone ash found in a room on the ninth floor.”
“With these things, we haven’t been killed by ghosts.”
“That white liquid and bone ash are also very scarce in this building. They appear every day, but only a little bit each time.”
“We collected them for a long time before covering the entire iron door, then made those two iron chains.”
Xu Zhou spilled everything he knew like pouring beans from a bamboo tube.
Then he pointed to an iron bucket not far away, “There’s still some inside, what we’ve saved, only half a bucket left.”
Hearing this, Lin Qian became interested and went to the iron bucket, looking inside.
Inside were some white ashes mixed with some black particles.
Lin Qian reached in and grabbed a handful, immediately feeling that the ghost in his body had some supernatural suppressed.
“Paper ash, plus the building’s white liquid and bone ash, can suppress fierce ghosts?”
He was certain this stuff could save lives at critical moments.
When attacked by a ghost, throwing this out could at least make the ghost stay in place for a while.
And that moment was the opportunity to escape.
“When we went out to find food before and encountered a fierce ghost, we relied on this to escape.”
Xu Zhou said from the side.
Lin Qian nodded and stroked his chin, looking at the ashes, his gaze turning to the iron door.
He had a plan in mind.
He had always had an idea: if he plundered a ghost’s supernatural, pulled it out, then plundered again, would the plundered supernatural crash?
He already had the answer to this result.
The ghost on Xu Zhou was his experimental result.
Theoretically, it worked.
But if he pulled out the crashed ghost and stored it.
Then plundered that ghost again, repeating the process, could he eventually piece together the crashed ghost into a complete one and control it?
Theoretically, it worked.
Storing the ghost meant it wouldn’t target him to kill.
Because his body wouldn’t have the other’s puzzle piece, and his already crashed ghost wouldn’t be stimulated to revive because he had plundered the other’s supernatural.
“This can work.”
Although there was risk, as long as he plundered part of the supernatural and escaped here, that ghost would pose no danger to him.
What if the ghost didn’t leave?
Simple: pull out the ghost, plunder again, and crash it.
Lin Qian thought, his eyes flickering.
He already had a target: that fierce ghost with the extremely eerie killing pattern.
He fancied its ability to instantly appear in front of others.
Just now, Xu Zhou had instantly appeared in front of Xiao Shuai.
But from an ordinary person’s perspective it was instant; in his view, he saw Xu Zhou run over.
Extremely fast.
So, inferring that ghost’s ability from this one, the other should be so fast even he couldn’t see it clearly, or else it was some other ability.
By dividing and consuming that ghost, Lin Qian was confident he could enter the mansion and find the fierce ghost that agitated his ghost performer.
However, the most important thing to do now wasn’t to go find that ghost to test his guess.
It was to experiment on himself.
“Can’t pull out the ghost performer; if pulled out, it would be big trouble, it might disappear the instant it’s pulled out.”
The ghost performer was extremely special; even with the ghost messenger’s suppression power, it might not be as fast as it escaping.
The killer ghost was even more untouchable; once it lost his control, unless he turned into a woman, it would be unsolvable.
The problem was, he wouldn’t turn into a woman.
Passing on those two ghosts, Lin Qian targeted the faceless ghost he had plundered from the faceless person.
This ghost wasn’t unsolvable.
Without hesitation, supernatural surged in his body, and he thrust his hand like a blade into his abdomen.
The ability activated, the wound tore open, but no blood flowed out.
Immediately after, a head was forcibly pulled out by him.
Xu Zhou’s pupils shrank sharply, and the others’ faces changed drastically.
“This…”
Lin Qian ignored their shocked and terrified expressions.
He remained calm, gripping the head and tearing continuously.
Then, the head was completely pulled out, followed by the neck, body, arm, and legs.
A complete, faceless ghost was thus pulled out of Lin Qian’s body.
They watched this horrifying scene and now realized the other might not be human at all.
Xu Zhou’s body trembled; after controlling a fierce ghost, could one no longer be considered human?
Lin Qian didn’t care about them.
The abdominal wound was just torn open like that.
Through the wound, one could even see the bloodless organs and intestines, and the abnormally colored bones.
He stared at the faceless fierce ghost in his hand; it lay motionless like a doll, letting Lin Qian hold it.
But this was an illusion; without the ghost messenger’s suppression, this ghost would instantly revive and start killing.
“Direct plunder?”
When he plundered before, the ghost messenger also suppressed the supernatural, but the plundered ghost wasn’t in a crashed state.
Plundering again would likely yield the same result.
Thinking this, Lin Qian reached out and grabbed the fierce ghost’s arm.
He yanked hard.
“Hm?”
Lin Qian’s gaze shifted slightly, “Can’t pull it off?”
He yanked again, this time using supernatural.
With a ripping sound, the arm came off.
Lin Qian frowned, looking at the arm in his hand, “This…”
This arm was just an arm, without any fierce ghost supernatural.
What he pulled off was merely the arm, not the ghost’s supernatural.
“Can’t disassemble the fierce ghost?”
Lin Qian realized; of course, with his current strength, he wasn’t qualified to split a fierce ghost’s supernatural.
“Bet on probability?”
Lin Qian put the arm back on the faceless ghost, then slightly loosened the suppression.
Instantly, the fierce ghost began to revive, coldness rampant, a corpse stench appearing, and the severed arm rapidly healing.
But right after the severed arm healed, Lin Qian suppressed this ghost again.
“Plunder.”
Without hesitation, he plundered this ghost once more.
Suddenly, a terrifying chill emanated from the fierce ghost.
Then, the fierce ghost’s body began to melt, turning into a puddle of liquid that merged into Lin Qian’s arm.
In the blink of an eye, the fierce ghost disappeared, but the wound in his abdomen didn’t heal again.
Lin Qian’s frown deepened, “Just as I thought, no crash.”
“Bet on probability?”
Lin Qian forcibly pulled the faceless ghost out of his body again.
Then forcibly controlled it again.
Failure, failure, still failure.
Ten times in a row, all failures.
Lin Qian’s expression grew more furrowed, while everyone present went from terrified to gradually numb watching this scene.
Continue.
Failure.
Failure.
Failure.
Failure…
Success!
Lin Qian’s spirits lifted; the faceless ghost finally crashed.
“Not easy.”
Twenty times in a row, all failures.
Lin Qian narrowed his eyes slightly, “For an A-grade fierce ghost, crashing it isn’t low difficulty.”
This success rate: one success in twenty tries.
What the probability was, Lin Qian couldn’t calculate.
“So, controlling and plundering an A-grade fierce ghost at once, crashing it depends purely on luck.”
Lin Qian checked himself; overall, he had four ghosts in his body. Excluding the ghost messenger, the other three were A-grade.
Among them, the ghost performer that used two crashed ghosts as puzzle pieces had much higher terror level, then the killer ghost that he got from headquarters, and finally this faceless ghost.
Three A-grade fierce ghosts, and part of the ghost messenger’s supernatural.
With the faceless ghost crashed, the ghost messenger had an open suppression quota.
Lin Qian stroked his chin; he could go after that ghost now.
Thinking this, he looked at Xu Zhou.
At this moment, Xu Zhou was silently watching him, and not just him—the others were too.
“What’s wrong?”
Lin Qian was somewhat puzzled.
Xu Zhou swallowed, looking at the wound in Lin Qian’s abdomen where organs, intestines were clearly visible.
“N-No, nothing…”
“You, like this… are you okay?”
Xu Zhou pointed at Lin Qian’s abdomen, asking with some worry.
Lin Qian glanced at it and waved his hand, “Just a minor fatal wound, small problem.”
“Now, I need to do something.”
“You all help out; it only tests your hand speed.”
“If your hand speed meets the standard, there won’t be much danger, but if you’re slow, the danger will be significant.”
Just a minor fatal wound?
Small problem?
Xu Zhou didn’t know how to evaluate it in his heart.
But hearing Lin Qian’s words, he immediately perked up, “You say.”
They had helped Lin Qian once, and Lin Qian told them the ghost’s function and how to deal with ghosts, then gave them a ghost.
That help, not even a life-saving favor, had already been repaid, even with extra.
He had already experienced the value of a ghost.
He had never felt his condition so good.
Although his flesh was turning ice-cold, and his heartbeats were slowly decreasing.
But he was alive, alive in an increasingly non-human state.
What the final form would be, he had seen: the same as the person in front of him.
A body that was already a corpse, yet still alive.
Lin Qian explained his idea.
The gist was that he was going to provoke the fierce ghost chasing him.
Just like before, they would be upstairs, and when they saw him start to escape, they would prepare to receive him.
No need to be downstairs; upstairs would do.
As long as they blocked that ghost at the doorway.
“Any problems?”
After speaking, Lin Qian looked at the dazed Xu Zhou and asked puzzledly.
Xu Zhou swallowed, “We… we have no problem here, but you…”
“As long as you have no problem.”
“I said, even without you, I can survive just fine, just a bit more trouble.”
Xu Zhou didn’t know what to say and could only nod.
“How many attacks can this iron door block?”
Lin Qian looked at the iron door and asked.
He didn’t want it to be useless after just one or two times.
“Seven times, at most seven. Then we have to reapply that stuff, or the fierce ghost will come in.” Xu Zhou quickly said, “Today is the first time; we can still withstand six more attacks.”
Hearing this, Lin Qian nodded.
Six times, enough.
The stuff they made up was somewhat effective.
It could even block that level of fierce ghost.
“How much do you know about that mansion?”
After confirming it could block six attacks, Lin Qian wasn’t in a hurry to trouble that ghost.
He needed to ask about his target first.
Hearing this question, Xu Zhou shook his head, “We haven’t been to that mansion, so we don’t know much.”
“But that mansion has a very strange thing.”
Lin Qian was a bit surprised: “A strange thing?”
Xu Zhou nodded, “Every three days, someone jumps down from upstairs in that mansion and falls to death.”
“At most ten minutes, the corpse disappears.”
Lin Qian frowned slightly, looking at the mansion, “Every three days someone jumps down and falls to death?”
“You’re sure it’s a person?”
“Certain!” Xu Zhou’s expression was extremely firm; “It’s a person. Once I tried to get close to that mansion and put some collected mattresses on the ground.”
“That person fell onto the mattress. Though I didn’t save him, he was only seriously injured.”
“While he wasn’t dead yet, I checked and confirmed he was alive.”
“I wanted to get some news, but he couldn’t say anything, and he tried to strangle me.”
Lin Qian’s mouth twitched slightly; if it were him, he’d want to strangle Xu Zhou too.
It could have been a direct fatal fall, but this guy insistently put cushions on the ground, not letting the other die instantly.
Seeing Lin Qian’s expression, Xu Zhou realized why and awkwardly touched his nose.
“After that one time, I never did it again.”
Xu Zhou explained.
Lin Qian was speechless; you wanted to do this kind of thing more than once?
But now wasn’t the time to talk about that.
He gazed at the eerie mansion; it might be far more dangerous than he imagined.
“First improve my own strength; it’s rare to come to the ghost painting once.”
