Chapter 84: Old Campus, Ghost Opera Incident
Seven or eight years ago, Xijiang University underwent a relocation.
During that relocation, Xijiang University abandoned many majors.
Among them was the drama major.
After Xijiang University relocated, the old campus that was left behind was originally planned to be demolished and rebuilt into staff dormitories.
But somehow, the demolition work on the old campus stopped shortly after it began.
It was then left idle, and up to now, the old campus still exists.
Zhang Han put down his mobile phone and looked at the gloomy old campus in front of him.
“Can’t contact Yu Lin, looks like he encountered a ghost.”
Zhang Han stopped dialing Yu Lin’s mobile phone.
Their mobile phones are not satellite positioning mobile phones, so they can’t be used in supernatural events.
He put away his mobile phone, “Let’s take a look first.”
The school isn’t big, just a bit larger than a normal high school.
The pale green ghost domain instantly unfolded, like water that had been left for many days and started turning green, covering the entire school.
The entire school was eerily quiet.
Zhang Han’s figure flickered within the ghost domain.
Teaching building, nothing.
Male and female dormitories, nothing.
Teachers’ dormitories, nothing.
Suddenly, Zhang Han’s expression darkened, and the ghost domain spread toward a direction, automatically parting like water encountering a stone.
This scene, he had seen it in Huang Gang Village; Yang Jian’s ghost domain was parted in the same way.
“Found it!”
“But this terror level…”
Zhang Han’s figure flickered and appeared at the place where the ghost domain parted.
In front of him was a gate.
The gate was covered in rust, and the chains on the door had been broken by someone unknown and casually discarded on the ground.
The ghost domain couldn’t enter inside, as if blocked by something.
It couldn’t enter through the gaps either; once it spread to the gaps, the ghost domain shrank back rapidly as if touching something terrifying.
“There’s gold inside the door…”
Zhang Han stepped out of the ghost domain, reached out to touch the gate, and the supernatural was blocked, unable to penetrate the door.
Obviously, there was gold inside the door; he scraped off a piece of rust, revealing a patch of gold underneath.
“Looks like the ghost is inside.”
A place that uses gold is definitely not simple.
Zhang Han’s expression grew serious; from the chains on the ground, Yu Lin had likely already gone inside.
Although there was gold inside the door, this door had been opened, and those gaps had no gold.
But his own ghost domain shrank back as if encountering a natural enemy when trying to enter.
Zhang Han knew clearly that it wasn’t the ghost domain encountering a natural enemy, but rather, the thing inside could suppress the ghost domain.
Is Yu Lin still alive?
When he confirmed that the thing inside could suppress the ghost domain, he knew this supernatural event wasn’t something simple to handle.
However, make him turn around and leave?
That’s obviously impossible.
Zhang Han touched his pocket, inside which was a small section of red candle.
Lighting the candle can block one fierce ghost attack.
This was given to them by their vice president, who split one ghost candle into several parts.
The purpose was simple, just to give them one chance to escape.
He retracted his ghost domain; since he knew the ghost inside could suppress the ghost domain, why bother keeping it open?
He placed both hands on the door and pushed hard.
Creak~!
The rusted door emitted a shrill sound.
Under this sound, the door was slowly pushed open.
The moment it opened, Zhang Han’s pupils contracted sharply.
“What a joke!”
With the door open, what appeared before his eyes was a corpse hanging in the doorway.
Black hemp rope tightly wrapped around the corpse’s neck.
The corpse hung limply in the air, its face iron-blue and black.
“Yu Lin!”
“How is that possible!”
Zhang Han widened his eyes; the one hanging there was actually Yu Lin!
The corpse in the doorway blocked most of the scene behind the door, and he had no time to peek.
Because at this moment, the corpse in the doorway suddenly opened its eyes, and a hoarse voice rang out, “Take me away!”
“You’re still alive!”
Zhang Han was startled but immediately relieved.
“Be careful!”
Suddenly, Yu Lin shouted anxiously.
He, who was hanging, couldn’t move, as if the fierce ghost was suppressed.
But he hadn’t died and could still speak, though his voice was extremely hoarse.
Be careful?
Be careful of what?
Zhang Han was stunned, then instantly understood everything.
A cold sensation abruptly appeared behind him, followed by the feeling of something directly looping around his neck.
Zhang Han’s expression darkened.
The tattoo exposed on his back moved strangely.
Immediately after, a pale ghost hand suddenly extended from his back, grabbing the thing looped around his neck.
In the instant of supernatural confrontation, Zhang Han squatted down and quickly retreated a few steps.
He looked up and discovered that what had just attacked him was a pitch-black hemp rope.
“Ghost Rope!”
“Be careful, this ghost’s terror level is very high!”
“Take me away directly, this ghost isn’t the most important!”
Yu Lin quickly said.
After hearing Yu Lin’s words, Zhang Han instantly gave up the idea of detaining the ghost rope.
Without any hesitation, a cold aura spread over his body, terrifying supernatural forces bred, and three arms immediately extended from his back, one of which went straight for the ghost rope hanging around Yu Lin’s neck.
The other two grabbed at the ghost rope that attacked him.
Terrifying supernatural confrontation.
The three extended arms were extremely fast, reaching their targets in an instant.
The ghost rope around Yu Lin’s neck was yanked off.
Yu Lin immediately felt the fierce ghost in his body begin to revive.
Without hesitation, before even landing, he lunged toward the doorway, “Run! The terrifying one is coming!”
As if to verify Yu Lin’s words, a strange opera singing voice suddenly rang out.
Zhang Han’s expression changed; the moment this strange opera singing voice started, the expression on his face began to uncontrollably want to cry.
“Fuck!”
He didn’t dare hesitate, turned around and retreated out of the door, while at the same time, the ghost hand on his back reached toward Yu Lin, grabbed Yu Lin’s neck, and directly pulled him out of the door.
Then, he quickly closed the door.
The three hands grasping the ghost rope retracted rapidly the moment the door closed.
In the instant the door closed, Zhang Han’s pupils widened, staring intently at the scene inside.
He saw it, an extremely terrifying scene!
Inside, someone was singing opera on an old opera stage!
Not just one person!
Countless people!
Those seemed like they should all be people!
Ghost domain opened, and Zhang Han directly took Yu Lin to appear outside the school.
Zhang Han retracted the supernatural.
“Cough cough~!”
“Zhang Han, you nearly choked me to death!”
Yu Lin clutched his neck; originally from the ghost rope attack, there was a deadly blue strangulation mark on his neck, and now because of Zhang Han, a black handprint appeared directly on his neck.
“Don’t mess around, it didn’t hang you to death, and I could choke you?”
Zhang Han’s expression was serious, “Tell me, how did it happen? Why were you hanging there?”
“What’s the situation with those ‘people’ on the opera stage?”
While asking, he looked at the closed door through the ghost domain.
As the door closed, the supernatural seemed to be isolated inside.
The ghost inside didn’t seem to intend to come out.
This made him slightly relieved.
They hadn’t fully triggered the opponent’s killing pattern just now, otherwise the opponent wouldn’t be stopped by just a door that wasn’t closed.
Even if there was gold inside the door.
“Don’t mention it; if my brain had been a bit slower, I would’ve died inside.”
Yu Lin rubbed his neck, his expression still somewhat horrified.
“Damn, my luck is really bad; finally encountered a supernatural event with a bit of challenge, and it starts at this difficulty.”
Feeling the supernatural in his body recovering, Yu Lin relaxed a bit in his heart.
He moved his somewhat stiff neck, his eyes somewhat gloomy; luckily the two ghosts he controlled later were dormant, otherwise he would’ve definitely died inside.
Zhang Han frowned at Yu Lin, “Stop complaining, hurry up and explain; if the situation is bad, I can call for help.”
Yu Lin also knew the severity of the trouble and didn’t dawdle.
“The ghost rope at the doorway was the ghost from the supernatural event I handled last time; after detaining it, I didn’t go back and came straight here; that ghost was autonomously revived by me.”
“Terror level around B-grade.”
“Detainment method: find the main body and it can be easily detained.”
Hearing this, Zhang Han understood why he felt he could easily suppress that ghost; turns out the terror level was only B-grade.
“You autonomously revived it? Why?”
“Why else? Of course to dodge the fierce ghost attack from the opera stage.”
Yu Lin plopped down on the roadside, his expression gloomy.
“All on the opera stage are ghosts? Or ghost slaves?”
Zhang Han’s eyes flickered as he hurriedly asked.
“Ghost slaves and ghosts.”
Yu Lin’s expression was serious, “There’s a real ghost on the opera stage; I still haven’t figured out its killing pattern.”
“I only know that when the singing voice starts, laughing might kill you, crying might also kill you.”
“If you keep a blank expression, your face will uncontrollably make an expression, maybe laughing, maybe crying.”
“On the opera stage, aside from one real ghost, the rest are ghost slaves, all turned from those missing people.”
“Apart from those on the opera stage, there are also missing people in the audience seats below the stage, but those people don’t seem to have turned into ghost slaves.”
“Killing pattern unknown, but terror level extremely high.”
Yu Lin narrowed his eyes slightly, “I used my ghost candle; it was because of that ghost candle that I had the chance to release the ghost rope to hang myself up, and that’s how I survived.”
Hearing Yu Lin’s account, Zhang Han knew that the two of them probably couldn’t handle this.
“Estimate the ghost’s terror level.”
Zhang Han said.
“…”
“You’re putting me in a tough spot.”
Yu Lin looked at Zhang Han seriously: “The most terrifying supernatural event I’ve handled so far is that ghost rope.”
“I haven’t encountered other levels of supernatural events.”
“I don’t even know if my current strength can handle an A-grade supernatural event.”
“How am I supposed to estimate?”
“I only know I triggered the opponent’s killing pattern once, and the fierce ghost in my body instantly went dormant; if I hadn’t lit the ghost candle at the critical moment, I might’ve died.”
“…”
Zhang Han: “Uh…”
Yu Lin was indeed a bit weak; he could suppress all the opponent’s fierce ghosts in one attack.
“Feels like it should be an A-grade supernatural event.”
“But if it’s just an A-grade supernatural event, it couldn’t give me this much pressure.”
“Moreover, if it’s just A-grade, the opponent couldn’t suppress my ghost domain.”
Hearing Zhang Han’s words, Yu Lin’s pupils slightly contracted in shock, “You’re not rating this supernatural event as S-grade, are you?”
“I know my own level; if it’s S-grade, I’d be dead by now, unable to withstand even one attack.”
Zhang Han’s eyes flickered: “What if that ghost hasn’t fully revived yet?”
“Huh?”
“Impossible, right?” Yu Lin immediately stood up, his eyes full of disbelief.
“Regardless, the two of us can’t handle it; call for help.”
Zhang Han took out his mobile phone; he knew his limits and couldn’t handle this supernatural event alone.
Just one contact made him realize this supernatural event was extraordinary.
Even if it turned out to be just a slightly terrifying A-grade supernatural event, he’d at most get teased a bit.
But if he feared teasing and handled it alone, causing losses, that would be a big sin.
But soon he found his mobile phone was scrapped.
No choice, he had to ‘borrow’ a mobile phone from someone else.
Yu Lin looked at the mobile phone that suddenly appeared in Zhang Han’s hand and was instantly envious.
He wasn’t envious of the other’s mobile phone, but of the other having a ghost domain.
“Damn, you guys with ghost domains are way too convenient!”
Zhang Han looked at the jealous Yu Lin, “If you guys had any use, it wouldn’t be that you’re completely useless.”
“…”
“Your words are a bit hurtful; how are we completely useless?”
Yu Lin was unconvinced.
Zhang Han kept operating the phone and continued, “This isn’t me saying it; it’s what the president said, verbatim.”
“…”
“No problem then, the president is right.” Yu Lin fell silent, saying bitterly.
Zhang Han didn’t speak because the call had connected.
Da Jiang City, Desolate Club.
“You mean Yu Lin would’ve died inside without you saving him?”
“Yes, I feel this ghost is very terrifying; it gives me a lot of pressure.”
Hearing this, Wang Xiaoqiang’s eyes narrowed slightly; for Zhang Han, who could handle A-grade supernatural events, to feel great pressure, this was obviously not an ordinary supernatural event.
“The fierce ghost has no ghost domain but can suppress ghost domain, right?”
“Right.”
“I had just entered the door, and the ghost domain couldn’t be opened anymore; only after retreating could I open the ghost domain.”
Wang Xiaoqiang nodded, “Understood, wait three hours, we’ll come over; keep watch, and tell me immediately if that ghost comes out.”
His intuition told him this ghost’s terror was more than just A-grade.
“Ye Feng will be back in a bit.”
“Yan Li…”
Wang Xiaoqiang hung up the phone; Yan Li, who had resolved fierce ghost revival, would also be a big help.
Just not sure if the other would be sensible.
Giving him an A-grade fierce ghost to balance supernatural revival wasn’t their generosity.
They weren’t a charity.
If Yan Li wasn’t sensible, then sorry.
Lin Qian probably wouldn’t let Yan Li just take a ghost and leave either.
“Trouble.”
Wang Xiaoqiang rubbed his brow; the situation in Da Jiang City seemed well contained on the surface, but they all knew it was just that—surface level.
The real crisis was still incubating; all they were doing was trying to reduce the terror level when this crisis arrived.
“Now I get why Lin Qian doesn’t want to manage things.”
Wang Xiaoqiang sighed.
A truly powerful club really has a lot of troubles.
The things he had to worry about were much more than when he was at Little Strong Club.
And they were all on the supernatural level.
Completely different from the small skirmishes before.
“Lin Qian, hurry back; without high-end combat power, I’m a bit panicked.” Wang Xiaoqiang muttered to himself.
“…”
“…”
“Achoo~!”
“Which idiot is chanting my name for no reason?” Lin Qian rubbed his nose and looked ahead, his eyes flickering slightly:
“Two more stops, almost there.”
