Chapter 69: Ghost In The Underground
Wang Xiaoqiang left and went to the storeroom to get two red ghost candles for Ye Feng.
“After not throwing a tantrum with his big brother, his brain has become sharp too.”
Lin Qian’s gaze shifted slightly.
“This supernatural event, was it sudden, or did someone deliberately cause it?”
He had just killed two Reform Society members with Wang Xiaoqiang not long ago, and within two days, a supernatural event with a ghost domain broke out.
What a coincidence.
Lin Qian suddenly stood up, “No, I have to go take a look.”
At this moment, Ye Feng had just driven his newly bought sports car towards Xijiang University.
And above him, a streak of firefly flashed by, leaving a faint trail in the sky.
Xijiang University.
A patch of green smog enveloped the entire university.
At this moment, inside the school.
In the dim corridor, a point of eerie green candlelight flickered.
Corpses with bizarre deaths lay in the corridor, sprawled in front of doors, and hung on windows.
“Too fast… the ghost killed too fast.”
The more Lu Lin walked, the more grave his expression became.
“Zhang Han, have you seen any living people?”
Zhang Han’s expression was equally grave, “No, from the first floor to the top floor, I haven’t seen any.”
Lu Lin knew he was asking a pointless question, but he still wanted to ask.
“My ghost domain is suppressed, I can’t open the ghost domain.”
“You didn’t send out this information.”
Lu Lin looked at the decayed mobile phone in Zhang Han’s hand, knowing it wasn’t Zhang Han’s fault.
The ghost here had an overly terrifying erosion on electronic devices.
“My satellite positioning mobile phone is also malfunctioning.”
Zhang Han looked at the severely decayed mobile phone that revealed gold.
The mobile phone could no longer be used; if not for the gold in it, even preserving it intact would be an issue.
Of course, not because of supernatural issues, but because there was no signal here.
Logically, satellite positioning mobile phones directly connect to satellites in the sky, using signals not from civilian channels.
There shouldn’t be a no-signal situation.
But the strange thing is right here, there is no signal.
“Trouble, hope the news you sent out gets taken seriously.”
Lu Lin looked at the appearing corpses, his mood becoming increasingly grave.
Dim corridor, student corpses with bizarre deaths scattered haphazardly.
A gloomy world.
This was just the supernatural event beginning.
Lu Lin was uncertain whether, at the instant they were engulfed by this sudden ghost domain, these students were already dead.
Or rather, all died instantly?
Unclear.
“Do you think Si Zeyuan is still alive?”
Lu Lin suddenly asked.
Zhang Han’s expression was grave as he subconsciously recalled the previous scene.
Lu Lin received a report from below.
Students at Xijiang University died inexplicably.
Deaths bizarre, suspected supernatural event.
At that time, he and Si Zeyuan were with Lu Lin investigating places that might have ghosts.
Upon receiving this report, they didn’t hesitate and came directly.
Unexpectedly, just as they arrived here and entered the school, the ghost domain erupted.
And at the instant they entered the ghost domain, they were attacked.
The three of them together didn’t even see the ghost’s shadow, and after enduring one supernatural attack, Si Zeyuan was dragged into the darkness.
They didn’t manage to grab Si Zeyuan.
Too fast.
After enduring one attack, Lu Lin unhesitatingly took out the ghost candle given by Professor Wang and lit it directly.
And at the moment of lighting, the ghost candle burst into flames once.
Clearly, the ghost had attacked them once.
Zhang Han touched his arm, his mood grave; there was a severe rot there that hadn’t recovered.
“Don’t know, from that ghost’s terror level, he might die.”
Zhang Han spoke conservatively.
Thanks to the ghost candle, they were safe now.
But Si Zeyuan without a ghost candle, would he be safe?
“There are no living people in this building.”
The two reached the end, looking at a corpse before them with rotten facial features, bloated body, exposing organs and white bones.
The corpse stench was thick enough to be pungent and stinging to the eyes.
All along the way, these kinds of corpses.
Deaths extremely miserable.
“I can’t detect the fierce ghost’s killing pattern from these corpses.”
Lu Lin looked at Zhang Han.
Zhang Han looked up at Lu Lin, “What do you plan to do?”
Lu Lin looked at the ghost candle, his expression gradually becoming firm:
“From the previous burst, the ghost candle can withstand at most three more attacks.”
“We held the ghost candle all the way here without being attacked, which means the fierce ghost’s killing pattern hasn’t reached an extremely eerie level.”
“We’ve endured that ghost’s attack once, how did it feel?”
Zhang Han: “Very terrifying, if I hadn’t controlled a dormant ghost, that attack would have directly caused my fierce ghost revival.”
“Even I, who has controlled three ghosts, struggled enduring that attack.”
Lu Lin nodded, “My situation is very bad, that previous attack accelerated my fierce ghost revival.”
“I originally had two months left to live, now only one month.”
Zhang Han’s pupils shrank, looking at Lu Lin whose face was eerily green under the candlelight, “Just one attack!”
Lu Lin was somewhat silent; the fact was just that.
When he took office as the person in charge of Da Jiang City, his fierce ghost revival was already imminent.
He came here because the higher-ups wanted him to use Lin Qian to control a second ghost and delay the fierce ghost revival.
The ghost he controlled was very terrifying; according to Professor Wang’s estimate, once his fierce ghost revival happened, it would be at least an A-level supernatural event.
The more terrifying the fierce ghost, the faster the revival, so he, who had just become a ghost controller less than half a year ago, was already near death.
“The ghost is too terrifying, so I plan to give it a shot.”
Lu Lin said.
“Give it a shot?”
“How?” Zhang Han was puzzled.
“Try to detain the fierce ghost here.”
“Find that ghost, attempt to detain it once; if it fails, we wait for reinforcements.”
Lu Lin said seriously.
Looking at Lu Lin’s firm expression, Zhang Han was silent for a moment, then nodded, “Good!”
He, who had controlled three ghosts, had the qualification to accompany Lu Lin in attempting a detention.
Seeing Zhang Han agree, Lu Lin nodded, said nothing more, held the ghost candle, and led the way ahead.
Inside a teaching building.
“I told you, Jiang Yue is acting strange, strange!”
“You wouldn’t believe me, now we’re all gonna die!”
On a staircase, over a dozen students gathered together, expressions despairing and helpless.
One disheveled girl pointed at several boys, angrily scolding.
Several men listened to the girl’s angry scolding, not daring to look at her.
“Stop arguing, they didn’t want this either.” A girl in the crowd spoke up.
Originally meant to mediate, but the girl exploded upon hearing it, “Green tea bitch, shut up!”
“They didn’t want this?”
“You lapdogs, even if I said Jiang Yue was eating shit in front of them, they’d think it was shit-flavored chocolate!”
“Still didn’t want this, I made it very clear, Jiang Yue is abnormal, abnormal, I showed evidence, and you all chose not to believe.”
“I’m just baffled, what’s so good about Jiang Yue? Worth you protecting her like this?”
“Enough!”
Amid the shrew-like scolding and filthy language, one boy finally couldn’t hold back.
“Don’t go crazy here, you think we wanted this?”
“Our top priority now isn’t discussing who was right or wrong, but finding a way to escape!”
“Do you want to die? Do you all want to die?”
“No, none of you want to die, and neither do I!”
The boy pointed to the stairs below, “We’ve gone down dozens of floors, still on the stairs.”
“Obviously, we’ve encountered a ghost wall.”
“We should be thinking how to break the ghost wall, not listening to you scolding!”
Gazes converged; in the dim environment, the boy seemed to glow at this moment.
“Zhao Yuan, move the flashlight off my face!”
The boy suddenly looked at a boy.
The boy called Zhao Yuan said oh oh twice and quickly moved the flashlight away.
The boy stopped glowing.
“Break the ghost wall, how?”
The scolding girl had calmed down now, breathing heavily.
But soon she stopped this action.
Stinky, too stinky.
It wasn’t this stinky before.
Why is it so stinky now?
After asking this, the girl’s gaze wandered, searching for the source of the stench.
Hearing the girl’s question, the boy also realized this:
“Does anyone know how to break the ghost wall?”
Everyone was silent, looking at others.
Clearly, in this era that worships science, these science-believing students had no idea how to break a ghost wall.
Perhaps they had learned some, but now, under terror, they had long forgotten.
But at the moment the boy was disappointed, a voice rang out:
“I know.”
“According to folklore, there are five methods to break a ghost wall: spitting, boy urine, tongue tip blood, scolding, and incantation and ritual.”
“The last one we won’t consider, we don’t have incantation or ritual to break the ghost wall.”
As the words fell, everyone’s gazes turned in one direction.
There, a slightly chubby girl with large black-framed glasses stood in the crowd.
Feeling the gazes, the girl was a bit nervous.
“I, I don’t know if it will work, these are things I read in books.”
“Better than no method!”
In this situation, they had no choice.
Thus, a bizarre scene appeared: boys and girls began scolding and spitting respectively.
Some boys unhesitatingly pulled down their pants and urinated on the stairs.
Now, they had nothing to be embarrassed about.
Showing their dicks to others was nothing compared to dying here.
The girls didn’t mind either.
Angry scolding voices echoed in the corridor.
But suddenly.
A puzzled voice rang out:
“How many of us are there in total?”
The scolding stopped amid this puzzled voice.
“What do you mean how many?”
A boy who had just squeezed out some urine suddenly paused and looked at the speaking girl, puzzled.
“Who remembers?”
“Anyway, we just followed and ran.”
“Yeah, who pays attention to that?”
The boy looked at the speaking girl, “What did you notice?”
The girl’s expression was grave:
“Everyone report your names first, I suspect a ghost has mixed in among us.”
Hearing this, everyone was shocked.
What a joke!
The crowd instantly became agitated, moving away from those around them.
“You’re not joking, right…” The boy swallowed, his expression tense.
“Haven’t you noticed the surroundings getting stinkier?”
“There wasn’t this stench before.” The girl said gravely.
Hearing this, everyone finally reacted.
“Yeah, I noticed too, thought it was just me.”
“Me too.”
“Coincidentally, I thought my nose was the problem.”
Discussion voices arose immediately.
“Everyone report your names, see if we all recognize each other.”
“Me first, Li Zixing.”
“Wang Yue.”
“Liu Wang.”
“Zhang Tao.”
“Li Xiang.”
“Zhou Hao…”
Voices rang out one by one.
They supervised each other, checking for anyone they didn’t recognize.
Though not in the same class, they took classes in the same room, and the teacher took roll call.
They more or less knew each other.
Soon, names were reported.
Almost instantly, everyone’s gazes turned to a girl.
This girl hid in the corner, head down, looking at her toes.
Disheveled hair covered her entire face, making her appearance unclear.
“Why didn’t you report your name?”
A boy asked.
No answer, as if the girl hadn’t heard.
Always head down.
The leading girl and boy saw this, their backs gradually chilling.
Suddenly, someone pointed at the head-down girl in terror, shouting:
“Xu Xuejiao, aren’t you dead? How can you be here!”
“No, you’re not Xu Xuejiao, I saw you die with my own eyes!”
“You’re a ghost! A ghost!”
A terrified voice came from a girl.
The girl looked at her with extreme terror.
Everyone felt chills at this moment.
“Run!”
The boy shouted and led the way downstairs.
The shout woke everyone.
They all ran downward.
Da da da, urgent footsteps sounded.
And that head-down girl, at the moment her name was called, blankly lifted her head, somewhat dazed.
But when the girl said she was a ghost, her blank and dazed expression instantly turned dead and numb.
A thicker corpse stench swept toward the surroundings.
Suddenly, a terrifying scene appeared: a girl running last suddenly fell to the ground.
Rolled down the stairs.
Thud.
The girl rolled onto the ground.
When she stopped, her whole body was highly rotted, body bloated, organs and bones visible.
“Ah!”
Screams rang out, fading into the distance.
Da da da~!
The numb ‘girl’ slowly walked toward the stairs below.
Corpse stench began to spread.
Thud, thud~!
Continuous thuds from falling to the ground sounded from below.
Screams became increasingly terrifying.
In the teaching building, on the first floor corridor, Zhang Han and Lu Lin who had just come down from the third floor suddenly looked down at their feet.
Their pupils shrank, “Underground?!!”
What a joke!
How could screams come from underground, how could there be people underground?
“It’s the ghost domain.” Lu Lin gravely looked up at Zhang Han.
“The ghost domain changed the environment, someone is still alive, but underground!”
“The ghost is also underground!”
After saying this, the two fell completely silent.
Ghost underground, how to deal with that?
