Chapter 57: Second Confrontation
Nothing more could be asked about the mansion’s situation.
Xu Zhou and these people didn’t have the guts to enter that mansion.
Only Xu Zhou dared to go outside that mansion and pull off a flashy stunt.
The stunt was flashy, but the person was unscrupulous.
Lin Qian asked again about the surrounding situation.
But there was no useful news.
Xu Zhou and these people were very timid, only daring to search for food in nearby buildings.
People upstairs were responsible for keeping watch; once a fierce ghost appeared on the street, they would notify in advance.
Relying on those things in the iron bucket, they had escaped death many times.
But unfortunately, they hadn’t discovered if there were any fierce ghosts residing around.
The only one was the ghost he encountered when coming over from there.
But they only knew where there was a ghost; as long as someone or a ghost passed by, they would be attacked.
They knew nothing else.
They didn’t dare to go there either.
And Lin Qian was the first person they had seen come over from there alive.
Timid, underfed, but wouldn’t die.
Bold, well-fed, but died quickly.
Lin Qian didn’t think much of these people’s survival method.
Inside the ghost painting, surviving was already pretty good.
Lin Qian asked another question, “After you controlled this ghost, did you feel any abnormality?”
“For example, the ghost being restless, or something around that makes you uneasy?”
Hearing this, Xu Zhou carefully sensed for a moment, then shook his head, “I didn’t feel the ghost being restless.”
“As for… something around that makes me uneasy…”
Lin Qian waited for Xu Zhou’s answer, but after a while, he found Xu Zhou staring straight at him.
His mouth twitched immediately, and he pointed at himself, “Me?”
Xu Zhou’s expression was serious, not like joking at all, and he nodded, “Yes, you!”
Lin Qian: …
An honest kid, but also a bit dim-witted.
“That doesn’t count.” Lin Qian rolled his eyes and said.
Xu Zhou immediately shook his head, “Then nothing.”
Undoubtedly, this was a talent.
If the other could leave the ghost painting alive, he wouldn’t mind letting him be vice president.
Of course, the premise was surviving.
When leaving, Lin Qian would tell them the method to leave the ghost painting; whether they could leave depended on their own ability and luck.
Lin Qian also confirmed one thing: only when he controlled the plundered fierce ghost would the supernatural revival speed up the closer he got to the source ghost.
Others wouldn’t.
“Get ready.”
Lin Qian touched his face.
After the faceless ghost crashed, he could use this ghost’s ability without any concern.
The faceless ghost’s ability was very strange.
It could peel off a person’s face skin, along with their memory.
As long as the peeled face skin was kept intact and put back on, it was equivalent to revival.
This was similar to the ability of Yang Jian’s newspaper-loving dad in the original work.
But unfortunately, he could only peel, not put back.
And the way to trigger this ability was very simple.
As long as you had a face and it saw you, it would trigger the killer ghost’s killing pattern.
This was the faceless person’s core fierce ghost.
Hearing this, Xu Zhou’s expression immediately became grave, and he nodded, “Leave it to us.”
Lin Qian didn’t speak, walked to the door, removed the chains, opened the iron door, and walked out.
“Fatty, you and Alice go observe; once you spot the previous situation, notify us immediately.”
Lin Qian quickly disappeared in the corridor.
And Xu Zhou immediately arranged for Fatty and Alice to be responsible for observation.
While he and Yuan Xue, as before, were responsible for closing and locking the door.
Clear division of labor.
Fatty and Alice had no objections at all—no, they didn’t dare to have any.
The other was already different from them.
Xu Zhou was a ghost controller now!
Lin Qian walked out of the dark old wooden building.
This wooden building was very safe, with no fierce ghost present.
But safety wasn’t absolute; the only truly safe place was the rooftop.
Lin Qian looked up toward the direction he came from, his gaze flickering.
That ghost’s killing pattern was very interesting and very useful to him.
Once controlled, his strength could directly rise to a terrifying level.
Even, he might be able to handle S-level supernatural events.
Of course, the premise was not encountering types like ghost messenger, starving ghost, or ghost painting supernatural events.
Too unsolvable; he still couldn’t handle them.
“Can’t get reckless; I can’t suppress that ghost; that ghost has at least four ghosts in its body.”
“And there’s also a female ghost on it.”
The other’s ability’s only weakness was that it had to get close to attack.
And that happened to be perfect, since he also needed to get close to plunder.
Lin Qian quickly walked toward that area.
He didn’t know where the ghost was, but he was certain that once he got close, it would target him.
Paper ash floated in the sky; Lin Qian swiftly shuttled through streets and alleys, heading toward the area where that ghost was at extreme speed.
On the rooftop, Fatty and Alice swallowed, staring deathly at the figure shuttling on the street below.
While Xu Zhou and Yuan Xue stared straight at the corridor.
“Xu Zhou, do you think we can leave here?” Yuan Xue suddenly asked.
Hearing this, Xu Zhou fell silent.
Could they leave?
He didn’t hold much hope.
But that young inhuman ghost controller had given him a hope.
As long as they got stronger, there was a chance to leave.
“You heard it; control fierce ghost, use ghost against ghost; as long as we’re strong enough, we have a chance.”
Xu Zhou said with a firm expression.
“I’ll do my utmost to find a way to get you all out.”
Yuan Xue looked at Xu Zhou, a bit of envy in her eyes, “Do you think I can control a ghost too?”
Hearing this, Xu Zhou instantly looked at Yuan Xue, was silent for a moment, then nodded, “In theory, yes.”
“But if that person doesn’t help you, you’ll have to gamble your life.”
“I don’t know how to control other ghosts, but it’s definitely different from the method for the ghost he gave me.”
“The ghost he gave me is like an item that lost its life but retained its ability; I can easily control and use it.”
“But other ghosts probably aren’t like that.”
“You should understand; if ghosts were that easy to control, so many people wouldn’t have died.”
Xu Zhou was very calm; he knew clearly that the ghost Lin Qian gave him was different from the ghosts he had seen.
Fundamentally different.
Hearing this, disappointment showed in Yuan Xue’s eyes; she lowered her head slightly, but soon lifted it, biting her lip, “There’s a chance, right?”
Xu Zhou knew what Yuan Xue was thinking and nodded, “Yes, but it’s hard; still, don’t give up.”
Hearing this, Yuan Xue said no more, just nodded, staring deathly at the corridor.
“They’ve engaged!” Fatty suddenly shouted.
Yuan Xue and Xu Zhou exchanged a glance, hurried to the iron door; Xu Zhou held the chains, licked his lips.
Lin Qian might return at any time.
Tap tap tap.
On the empty, silent street, Lin Qian only heard his own footsteps.
Paper ash piled on the ground, covering the surface.
The previous chaotic footprints had long been covered again.
But because of Lin Qian’s re-entry, a new set of footprints appeared on the street.
Lin Qian stayed vigilant around him; he knew the ghost was nearby, and it might have already quietly appeared behind him.
Lin Qian turned to look back, his pupils suddenly contracting.
Behind him, at some point, a new set of footprints had appeared.
The footprints appeared out of thin air and were rapidly approaching him.
In a blink, a middle-aged man in a black death robe, skin white to the bone, instantly appeared before him.
Thick corpse stench and bone-chilling cold accompanied this outstretched arm attacking him.
“Sneak attack again!”
Lin Qian’s body twisted into a strange posture; his arm directly twisted from behind, turning before his body.
Crack crack crack.
Bones rubbed, his arm making cracking sounds.
Two arms twisted into strange postures grabbed the oncoming arm.
A terrifying supernatural force invaded instantly, but because it was male, or possibly because the other hadn’t used the female fierce ghost ability.
This terrifying supernatural force was directly dodged by him.
“Plunder!”
The moment he touched the other, Lin Qian directly used the supernatural.
A strange chill emanated from Lin Qian, quickly covering this fierce ghost.
The chill flickered, then instantly disappeared.
Lin Qian’s gaze shifted; the moment his body turned, he delivered a powerful straight kick.
Bang~!
A sound like kicking a wall rang out; the fierce ghost flew back directly.
Lin Qian didn’t hesitate, running straight into the alley.
A few steps up the wall, he reached the top of the building.
Then, he moved his feet, leaping and running across house roofs.
“He’s coming!”
On the rooftop, seeing this, Fatty and Alice hurriedly shouted.
Xu Zhou and Yuan Xue tensed up, mustering full spirit, ready to receive Lin Qian and close the door.
Buildings inside the ghost painting were eerily inverted.
Upside down, tilted, sideways, all possible.
Lin Qian was sprinting on a rooftop one moment, the next on a wall, even on the foundation.
Complex terrain, no less rugged than mountain paths.
For a normal person, it was absolutely impossible to traverse such roads.
But Lin Qian wasn’t normal, and the straight line was the shortest between two points.
Lin Qian’s speed suddenly increased; in a few breaths, he saw that old wooden building.
And saw the open room door.
Ten-story wooden building; looking at its structure, Lin Qian’s eyes flickered slightly, but he gave up the idea of climbing up directly from outside.
Better not pull off flashy stunts.
This wooden building wasn’t a normal building.
Climbing up from outside might cause problems.
Lin Qian timed it, jumped down from the rooftop to the street in one step.
And at that moment, a white-to-the-bone arm suddenly grabbed at his head.
Lin Qian’s heart chilled, “Such fast speed.”
Feeling the chill heading straight for his head, Lin Qian rolled forward quickly, then stood up swiftly, turned, grabbed that arm, and threw a fierce back slam.
Chill contacted the body, supernatural flowed down.
Killer ghost’s ability passively triggered.
Lin Qian steeled himself; before the back slam finished, he forcibly interrupted, then used a posture no normal person could, a knee strike.
Terrifying supernatural instantly suppressed.
Lin Qian’s hand curved, grabbing the other’s face skin.
With a light grab, a face skin was directly peeled off.
The fierce ghost slid on the ground.
Lin Qian rushed straight into the wooden building, thump thump thump~!
Sounds of stepping on the old wooden stairs rang out continuously.
In an instant, Lin Qian reached the seventh floor.
And that fierce ghost, knocked flying and face-peeled by Lin Qian, stood up, and the moment it stood, it disappeared from the spot.
On the stairs, new footprints appeared in a blink, spreading upward.
“Close the door!”
Lin Qian instantly rushed onto the rooftop.
Xu Zhou and Yuan Xue directly closed the iron door, then Xu Zhou quickly wrapped the chains around it.
They hurriedly retreated right after.
And at the moment they retreated.
The iron door made a loud bang, the entire door shaking violently.
A strange faceless person stood just like that before the iron door.
Xu Zhou swallowed, Yuan Xue’s face pale white, palms full of sweat.
Lin Qian stood firm, slowly looking up at that fierce ghost.
He glanced at the face skin in his hand; it was a middle-aged man’s face skin.
Features intact, expression dead and numb.
Lin Qian directly chose to plunder it.
The weak supernatural, under the ghost messenger’s firm suppression, directly crashed.
Fierce ghost crashed; Lin Qian wasn’t surprised; this face skin’s terror level was very low.
At most C-level terror level, even lower.
“Interesting.”
He obtained this face skin’s killing pattern.
Only one: hiding.
Hide one’s existence, not seen by fierce ghosts, but can only hide one face skin.
He pulled the face skin from his body, then casually put it into the gold pocket.
He began checking the supernatural he plundered this time.
Terror level still not high, around B-level; ability was walking without sound, killing pattern was being attacked if walking made sound.
“This ability…”
No wonder when he ran earlier, there were no footsteps; only when entering the wooden building did footsteps appear.
“The wooden building seems to reveal fierce ghosts.”
Lin Qian seemed to have obtained intel about this wooden building.
Lin Qian pulled out this just-plundered ghost, then directly used supernatural on it.
Under absolute suppression power, this ghost was no different from crashed.
Plus extremely low terror level, this ghost was directly crashed by him.
After crashing it, Lin Qian pulled this ghost out again.
And the moment he pulled out the crashed fierce ghost, the banging on the iron door actually quieted a lot.
Lin Qian understood, his gaze falling on the fierce ghost standing at the doorway.
“The first time it chased me so closely, probably mostly not because I triggered the killing pattern, but because I took part of your supernatural.”
“The second time, it was because I controlled your supernatural on me, making you chase even tighter.”
The first time, the other hadn’t caught up midway.
This explained many things.
The fierce ghost’s door-banging was terrifying, but at this moment, the thing in Lin Qian’s hand made them unable to care about the fierce ghost banging.
It was a ghost, a ghost held by Lin Qian, and just now, he had put a ghost face on the small bag at his waist.
They remembered, the ghost Xu Zhou controlled came from there.
Now, he put a ghost in…
Didn’t this mean…
Yuan Xue, Fatty, and Alice’s gazes flickered.
Even that foreign little boy stared deathly at Lin Qian.
Xu Zhou’s eyes held no other emotions, only a trace of worry; looking at his companions, he hoped inwardly they wouldn’t do anything stupid.
Some things, if given to you, are yours; if not, don’t even think about it.
