Chapter 77: Absolute Suppression, Control Of S-grade Fierce Ghost
“Phew~!”
The hot breath exhaled instantly turned into snow mist and drifted into the distance.
The faint candlelight struggled to protect a piece of pure land for everyone amid the wind and snow.
The wind and snow were blocked outside by the candlelight.
Looking at the half-remaining black candle, the man sighed.
“I don’t know if we can hold out until that bus arrives.”
“Just wait. Before the candle goes out, if the bus hasn’t come, we’ll stay here.”
A thin-faced woman rubbed her hands and exhaled hot breath.
“Be optimistic. We at least completed the task, only paying with the lives of two messengers.”
“Now we just need to wait for that bus to come, and we can go back alive.”
“Zhang Lin and the others, we don’t even know their situation yet. Their delivery difficulty is several times higher than ours.”
“Whether they can survive is still up in the air.”
A young man squatting roadside, gazing at the drifting snow beyond the candlelight, chuckled.
“You’re quite optimistic.”
The woman also squatted down, as if doing so could make her feel less cold.
“People just live day by day. Happy for a day or sad for a day, days pass like that anyway, and the end result is death either way.”
“You have to understand, no matter when, we’ll never be without a way out—we still have the path of death.”
The young man laughed at his own words.
Woman: …
Man: …
“You’re such a quitter.”
The woman shook her head, but thinking of how this person, after controlling a fierce ghost, learned he might only die from fierce ghost revival, and without hesitation jumped off the 20th floor.
His reason? He just wanted to see if he really could only die from fierce ghost revival.
A madman with bizarre thought processes.
“What’s wrong with quitting?”
“Anyway, it’s just getting by.” The young man said indifferently.
“Rich people have their way of living rich, poor people have their way of living poor.”
“It’s all the same.”
The man and woman both shook their heads, unable to refute.
With this guy around, the atmosphere would never get too heavy.
The candle burned and consumed, the wind and snow growing increasingly ferocious and terrifying.
As the candle burned, its effect gradually lost its power.
They felt increasingly cold.
Even they, who possessed ghosts, couldn’t resist this wind and snow—what this wind and snow was like goes without saying.
“Looks like we’re really going to die here.”
The candle grew shorter and shorter. The young man looked at the nearly burned-out candle, his gaze flickering slightly:
“Dying with you all isn’t actually bad. At least there’s a former beauty accompanying me—pretty good.”
“What do you mean ‘former beauty’?”
“Am I not beautiful now?” The woman looked at the young man resentfully.
The young man looked up, glanced at the woman, sized her up a few times, then shook his head in disgust. “Before controlling a ghost, you were definitely a beauty. After controlling a ghost, your chest has shrunk—this still counts as a beauty?”
“You’re at most a clothes rack.”
“You wanna die?!” The woman flew into a rage and punched the young man’s shoulder.
“Heh heh, aren’t we about to?” The young man chuckled.
The man looked at his two teammates still joking around, sighed, and gazed worriedly ahead at the road.
When would that bus come?
The candle was about to burn out completely.
They grew less and less hopeful. The young man had even found a comfortable position to lie down, waiting only for the candle to extinguish and the wind and snow to swallow him, turning him into an ice sculpture.
“Sigh… can’t wait any longer.” The man sighed, looking at the nearly burned-out candle, feeling extremely helpless inside.
But suddenly, a pale light emerged from the wind and snow.
The young man did a carp flip and stood up, eyes blazing.
The woman quickly stood up and let out a long breath.
It’s here!
That bus, finally here!
The wind and snow was roughly shoved aside, an old bus covered in ice crystals swaying along the snowy ground.
The three looked at this old bus, eyes full of expectation.
It’s here, the bus is here—they wouldn’t turn into ice sculptures!
“No… something’s off…” The young man frowned slightly. “Why do I feel like this bus might not make it out of this snowy region?”
“When we got off before, the bus wasn’t like this.”
“Could it be that after we got off, the bus has been shuttling here without ever leaving?”
In this snowy region that could freeze even ghosts, could this bus really take them out?
“Don’t talk nonsense.” The man immediately looked at the young man sternly.
The young man shrank his neck, raised his hands, and covered his mouth.
“He’s right. We still need to prepare for the bus stalling.”
The woman said gravely.
“I know.”
The man nodded.
Now, on the bus.
The bus window was covered in thick ice.
The cold seeped into the bus cabin through the bus window.
Zhang Liao and that middle-aged man were shivering from the cold, their lips frozen pale without color.
“Will we… be frozen to death on the bus?”
Zhang Liao looked at Lin Qian.
Lin Qian frowned tightly, looking at the thickening ice on the bus window.
“Prepare to get off. Remember, once the bus stops and the lights inside go out, don’t hesitate—get off immediately.”
“Otherwise, you’ll definitely die.”
The bus’s situation was clearly off.
He guessed this snowy region was attacking the bus. Once the bus reached its limit, it would definitely stall and then restart.
By then, they must get off.
Even if getting off meant death, they must.
Staying on the bus was certain death, but getting off might not be.
“Huh? Get off?”
Zhang Liao’s expression changed. The fate of that woman thrown off the bus was still fresh in mind.
Getting off wasn’t seeking death?
But he heard staying on the bus meant certain death.
Zhang Liao thought for a moment—better to get off.
Getting off might not mean death.
But crucially, he had to see what Lin Qian did.
That man also heard Lin Qian’s words, his gaze flickering slightly, feeling somewhat disdainful inside.
Get off?
Heh, getting off was seeking death.
The bus was safe.
He wasn’t getting off.
This guy could only fool that student.
Suddenly, the bus veered right.
Crack crack crack~!
A eerie sound suddenly rang out.
Lin Qian’s heart sank, thinking it was bad.
Before he could think further, the bus made a sharp brake and stopped in place.
Immediately after, the bus door opened without warning.
Wind and snow poured in, rushing straight into the bus cabin.
Lin Qian abruptly stood up as bone-chilling cold invaded.
That eerie female ghost also stood up, cold air rising from her body as ice crystals began to spread.
“It’s you!”
Light flickered on Lin Qian’s body, flashing a few times before the ghost domain activated.
“This wind and snow can actually suppress the ghost domain!”
Lin Qian’s figure instantly appeared in front of the female ghost preparing to get off.
He grabbed the female ghost’s neck, the ghost messenger’s supernatural power suppressing down directly, forcibly suppressing her.
Without any hesitation, Lin Qian directly used plunder.
Eerie mist spread, turning into a sharp knife that slashed into the fierce ghost’s body.
Lin Qian immediately felt an additional fierce ghost inside him.
But he still had a ghost in his hand.
Lin Qian didn’t dare delay, carrying the fierce ghost as he activated the ghost domain and got off.
Inside the bus cabin, the stunned Zhang Liao quickly came to his senses and rushed off the bus.
Zhang Liao charged into the wind and snow with one step, but the other’s figure disappeared the instant he entered the wind and snow.
That middle-aged man looked hesitantly at the wind and snow outside.
Both had gotten off, even that eerie female ghost was gone.
All this indicated the bus wasn’t safe.
The man hesitated endlessly, finally gritted his teeth, stood up, and rushed toward the bus door.
But the next moment, the bus door slammed shut, and the man’s pupils trembled.
Inside the bus, the lights began extinguishing from the front door.
Darkness assaulted, the man widened his eyes and pounded the bus door forcefully.
“No!”
Darkness instantly swallowed the man.
Bang bang bang—the pounding on the bus door vanished instantly.
The blizzard raged, Lin Qian gripped the fierce ghost in his hand tightly.
Ice crystals spread from his hand along his arm.
“Damn it, control for me!”
Lin Qian had pushed plunder to its limit but still couldn’t plunder this fierce ghost again.
He had already plundered half of this ghost’s supernatural power.
This was definitely an S-grade fierce ghost.
The opponent’s ability and killing pattern were simple: if the opponent’s body temperature was higher than its own, it triggered the killing pattern.
Then freezing them into an ice sculpture.
The half supernatural power he plundered already exceeded the killer ghost’s current terror level.
Lin Qian didn’t dare use the ghost messenger to suppress the rapidly reviving ghost inside him.
Instead, the killer ghost and ghost performer tightly suppressed and countered the ice ghost inside him, which was desperately reviving outside due to the puzzle piece!
The ghost messenger’s remaining quota was used to suppress the remaining ice ghost puzzle piece in his hand.
The ghost domain flickered repeatedly as the outside wind and snow continuously eroded it.
Lin Qian knew if he couldn’t fully plunder this ghost before the ghost domain was suppressed, he absolutely couldn’t hold out until the bus restarted.
“Hurry up!”
Lin Qian kept activating the plunder ability on the fierce ghost in his hand.
Black mist continuously emerged from Lin Qian’s body.
Then it enveloped the fierce ghost.
The mist carried a thick burnt stench, assaulting Lin Qian’s senses.
More and more black mist, completely enveloping the female ghost.
But even so, the ice ghost wasn’t fully plundered.
“Damn it, is the probability this low?”
Lin Qian looked up at the flickering ghost domain—snowflakes had already drifted inside.
Cold air rapidly approached.
His body temperature was definitely lower than the outside.
As long as he was exposed outside, he’d definitely be frozen.
Unless he gave up this ghost and used the ghost messenger to suppress the ghost inside him.
But with an S-grade fierce ghost right in front of him, how could he give it up?
Joking aside, he seized the moment when the bus stalled and the fierce ghost anxiously got off without attacking him to strike first.
That’s how he took this ghost.
Anywhere outside, he’d be instantly frozen.
No joke.
An S-grade female ghost attacking him—he’d be done for.
The ghost domain flickered as the heavy snow suppressed down.
Suddenly, the ghost domain completely vanished.
Wind and snow poured in, instantly swallowing Lin Qian.
Lin Qian narrowed his eyes slightly, and the next moment, the fierce ghost in his hand vanished instantly.
Immediately after, an eerie scene appeared.
A snow-white shadow suddenly appeared under his feet.
The shadow instantly stood up and reached for Lin Qian.
“Lie back down!”
The ghost messenger’s supernatural power instantly suppressed it.
All three quotas used up.
Absolute suppression power directly suppressed that rebellious shadow.
S-grade ice ghost, fully controlled successfully.
His body temperature rapidly dropped to an extremely eerie degree.
Lin Qian looked around—he was now in the wind and snow.
He reached into the snow, grabbed, and immediately pulled up an ice sculpture.
“Still alive for now.”
Lin Qian carried the ice sculpture to the front of the bus, waiting for it to restart.
“Ghost messenger quotas are used up.”
Lin Qian clenched his fist—mindlessly suppressing three fierce ghosts with quotas was too limiting.
Now, the ghost messenger suppressed the ghost performer, killer ghost, and the newly controlled S-grade fierce ghost ice ghost.
Three reviving ghosts.
And one crashed ghost not controlled as a puzzle piece.
It was that faceless person’s faceless ghost.
Now he had controlled a total of five ghosts.
Among them, the newly controlled ice ghost was the most terrifying. Don’t think controlling it was easy—that was mainly thanks to the ghost messenger’s absolute suppression power.
Mindlessly suppressing fierce ghosts.
This ability was simply unbeatable.
“Now… I should be able to go toe-to-toe with the old man from Taiping Ancient Town.”
Even if they all ganged up with abilities countering his ghost performer and faceless ghost, they couldn’t counter the killer ghost and ice ghost.
“After completing the ghost performer’s puzzle piece, I’ll head to Taiping Ancient Town.”
Wind and snow swept, clothes flapping loudly.
But because his body temperature was lower than the wind and snow’s, he wasn’t attacked by it.
He could confirm the ice ghost he controlled was one of the sources here.
Otherwise, it wouldn’t be like this.
“An S-grade ice ghost isn’t even the true source—this place very likely has a terrifying Republic of China old man who’s already split his own puzzle pieces.”
Lin Qian guessed inwardly, knowing he couldn’t stay here long.
The snow-white shadow, with long hair draped, lay in the snow.
Long hair fluttering, Lin Qian glanced down—this control wasn’t inside his body, but outside.
After fully plundering this fierce ghost, the half ice ghost inside instantly completed the puzzle, then was forcibly pulled out and replaced as his shadow.
Perhaps this ghost was inherently a shadow.
The bus was quickly engulfed by wind and snow—in the blink of an eye, the entire bus was buried by heavy snow.
But Lin Qian had no worries about the bus at all.
It had restart—once it restarted, this wind and snow would be nothing.
Just like, you snow on me for two or three years, I laugh at your snow being light again.
That described the bus right now.
“…”
“You think, against this guy, what are our odds of winning?”
Not far from the bus, candlelight flickered as the woman asked.
“One to nine.” The young man stroked his chin and said.
“That low?” The woman was stunned.
“No, I don’t mean us one, him nine—but him one minute, we die nine times.”
The young man added.
“You’re good with words—don’t speak next time.” The woman rolled her eyes.
“Be careful. If we hold out until the bus restarts, once on board, absolutely don’t offend this person.”
“This person is very terrifying.” The man said gravely.
Completely resisting the blizzard’s erosion with his own power wasn’t something just anyone could do.
At least, they couldn’t.
Amid the wind and snow, that young person’s figure faintly appeared.
But suddenly, that young man moved slightly and turned to look in their direction.
The three’s hearts jolted—had he discovered them?
