Chapter 98: Stubborn Ye Zhen
Lin Qian did not answer.
Seeing that the other party had fallen into contemplation, Yan Li wisely did not ask any more questions.
He left on his own.
Although he did not know what the final result of Lin Qian and Yang Jian’s discussion was.
But it was obvious that this was not something he should worry about.
Whether to save or not depended entirely on Lin Qian’s own thoughts.
“Become an anomaly, or plunder fierce ghosts to make them crash, then continuously splice them into one terrifying crashed fierce ghost, thereby suppressing the three revived ghosts?”
Lin Qian pondered.
Indeed, the risk of becoming an anomaly was extremely high.
It was almost seeking a slim chance of survival in a certain death situation.
But the benefits obtained were immeasurable.
Walking his previous old path was, of course, the most stable method.
In the short term, no problems would arise.
His strength would also rapidly improve.
Moreover, it was very hard to kill him, because of ghost crash; even if supernatural was suppressed, as a ghost controller, he could live for a period of time.
Even with a body like his, as long as no fatal damage occurred, there was basically no problem.
But how to put it.
Lin Qian always felt that continuously plundering fierce ghosts and making them crash would lead to a big problem.
Up to now, Lin Qian had discovered that controlling crashed ghosts would not cause him to lose his emotions.
Only revived ghosts would do that.
This was also a benefit.
But he always felt this was abnormal.
Others controlling crashed fierce ghosts, the more the better, but he seemed to be different.
He always had a sense of unease.
Controlling too many crashed fierce ghosts, he might run into trouble himself.
Risk or stability, how should he choose?
Lin Qian looked up at the great sun gradually sinking toward the horizon.
He knew that the moment the sun set, the city under his feet would no longer light up with neon lights.
Darkness would bring despair again, making the living feel uneasy.
But…
Lin Qian turned his head and looked at the dim streets, at the engine that had been started, and at the flashlight searchlight that had lit up.
Even after this natural disaster, with Da Jiang City having less than one in ten survivors and almost fallen.
They had not given up on the rescue.
Lin Qian stood up.
Yang Jian had his own path to take, and he naturally had his own.
The old man’s appearance made him understand that he should walk his own path well and not interfere with others’ paths.
No matter how others’ paths turned out, they had nothing to do with him.
Thinking of this, Lin Qian found Wang Xiaoqiang.
“You’re leaving again?” Wang Xiaoqiang was stunned when he heard Lin Qian say he was leaving for a while.
He quickly pulled Lin Qian over. “This time you’re leaving, could it be that Da Jiang City is going to have some terrifying disaster again, and you feel you can’t handle it, so you’re going to improve your strength?”
Lin Qian’s face immediately darkened. “What are you thinking? With Da Jiang City’s current situation, what disaster could possibly happen?”
Wang Xiaoqiang looked at Lin Qian suspiciously. “Then what are you leaving for?”
“Da Jiang City is now in ruins and needs a powerful ghost controller like you to hold the fort and prevent accidents.”
“Moreover, our club now has only so few people, severely short of manpower.”
“Zhang Han and Yu Lin still don’t know if they can wake up.”
“Just relying on me, Ye Feng, Lu Lin, and Yan Li, what can we handle?”
“Not to mention there’s Manyue, with no news so far.”
“If you leave, I’m really panicking, President.”
Wang Xiaoqiang was collapsing. He had finally built up a career, thriving, and would definitely develop in the future, making his big brother look at him differently.
As a result, this supernatural event in Da Jiang City almost wiped out the club.
If Lin Qian hadn’t returned in time, he would have become a lone commander.
It was also thanks to Ye Feng controlling that old man’s ghost shouyi, and at the critical moment, using the ghost blood flowing from the death robe to protect them; otherwise, they would have been gone long ago.
“Calm down. This trip out is just to get an answer. Once I have the result, I’ll come back immediately.”
Hearing this, Wang Xiaoqiang frowned slightly. “Really?”
“Can this be fake?”
“Then swear, um, swear on that streetlight. If I can’t contact you, that streetlight…”
Crack~!
The decaying streetlight was already shaky, and with a gust of wind, it finally reached its limit and directly collapsed onto the ground.
Wang Xiaoqiang: “…”
Lin Qian: “…”
“It couldn’t really be that eerie, right?”
Wang Xiaoqiang swallowed.
Lin Qian rolled his eyes. “Cut the crap. This trip out is all about going and coming back quickly.”
Seeing Lin Qian insist, Wang Xiaoqiang sighed. “Alright, go early and come back early. With you here, Da Jiang City is stable; without you, everyone feels uneasy.”
“Don’t worry, it won’t take long.”
Lin Qian nodded.
“By the way, how to deal with those five things from the Reform Society?”
Wang Xiaoqiang suddenly asked.
Lin Qian stroked his chin. Those five people…
To be honest, he really hadn’t thought about how to deal with them.
“Keep them for now. When I come back, I’ll make them dormant, then you guys pick and divide them up.”
Hearing it was the same as before, Wang Xiaoqiang nodded. “Alright.”
“Then I’m off.”
Lin Qian said no more, and his figure instantly disappeared from the spot.
Wang Xiaoqiang looked at the disappearing Lin Qian, sighed, and shook his head. His own president was still a bit unreliable.
Couldn’t stay idle.
But fortunately, compared to the Supernatural Forum’s president, his own president was much better.
Da Chang City.
Outside.
Whoosh~!
Ye Zhen wiped the rotten flesh from his face, revealing cyan-black skin.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, his expression somewhat numb.
“Incomprehensible method. Every time substitute death is about to activate, I seem to return to the origin point.”
“Can’t even get close?”
Ye Zhen stared at the two figures under the streetlight.
The streetlight’s dim light dispersed some of the darkness.
The man sitting under the streetlight looked up calmly at Ye Zhen.
Throughout, the other party had not spoken, showed no intention of communicating, just sat there, looking at him indifferently.
This made Ye Zhen extremely furious.
But he had no way to deal with the other party.
Whenever he got close, he would encounter extremely eerie things: supernatural, body, all returned to the original position, just like when he first arrived here and encountered this thing.
His attacks couldn’t reach the other party, but the other party’s attacks could reach him.
Wasn’t this cheating?
Ye Zhen was extremely angry, but deep down he knew clearly that if he couldn’t crack this method, he couldn’t take down the other party.
Then he’d just stall like this; sooner or later he’d find a way to crack this eerie ability.
Suddenly, Ye Zhen looked up at the sky, a streak of firefly flashed by.
Ye Zhen narrowed his eyes, but the next moment, he seemed to think of something.
Supernatural suddenly erupted.
That streak of firefly suddenly turned around.
Immediately after, a eerie young man appeared beside Ye Zhen.
Ye Zhen narrowed his eyes and licked his lips.
“Lin Qian, Ye is in a bit of trouble. Lend a hand?”
The young man who appeared focused his gaze, looking at the man under the streetlight and the figure in the streetlight’s dim light.
“Ye Zhen, this trouble of yours isn’t just a little bit simple.”
Lin Qian wanted to slip away.
No joke, right now, he’d rather fight Ye Zhen to the death than face that thing under the streetlight.
“The trouble is indeed not small. The opponent’s ability is very eerie. I can’t get close; as soon as I do, I return to the origin point. My supernatural can’t attack the opponent either; as soon as I make a move, I return to the origin point, supernatural included.”
Ye Zhen rubbed his face, his eyes filled with extreme ferocity.
Hearing this, Lin Qian’s mouth twitched slightly. Good grief, not even pretending anymore; Ye Zhen restarts with one move—what’s the point?
In terms of terror level, current Ye Zhen couldn’t compare to the opponent, but as long as the opponent didn’t restart, letting Ye Zhen unleash supernatural, at most thirty substitute deaths, the opponent would directly go dormant.
As expected of a ghost with wisdom; facing Ye Zhen, it directly used the optimal solution.
“Ye Zhen, I can’t help with this at all.”
Lin Qian said after a moment of silence.
The man under the streetlight just quietly watched them.
For the newly appeared ghost controller, though somewhat surprised, he didn’t care at all.
“We team up and can’t take down the opponent?” Ye Zhen couldn’t believe it and frowned at Lin Qian.
“Can you crack the opponent’s method?” Lin Qian countered.
“Can’t see through it, but after a few more confrontations, I will.”
“Once I see through it, I’ll have a way to handle it.” Ye Zhen said confidently and seriously.
Lin Qian: “…”
How did he not know Ye Zhen was this fierce, able to figure out a way to crack restart?
If he remembered correctly, facing restart, unless you had an ability to counter restart, you could only compete in restarts with the opponent, seeing who couldn’t hold out first and lost.
It was like that in the original work.
But to compete in restart with the opponent, you needed a restart ability first.
His and Ye Zhen’s current most terrifying abilities were merely supernatural overlay.
Ye Zhen was a bit fiercer, with substitute death overlay.
While his was just pure supernatural overlay, though with a stacked supernatural method involving consciousness attacks.
But the opponent just restarts and resets you to factory settings.
“Then you figure it out slowly. I have things to do, so I’ll head out first.”
Lin Qian said, preparing to leave.
Ye Zhen grabbed Lin Qian’s arm. “Ye refuses to accept this!”
He looked at Lin Qian extremely seriously.
“I’m actually very accepting.” Lin Qian said after a moment of silence.
He was very accepting; honestly, really.
“No, Lin Qian, you haven’t even made a move, and you’re already accepting?”
Ye Zhen was stunned, incredulous, pointing at the streetlight below. “That damn ghost slave, just looking at it pisses me off.”
“So what if the ability is eerie? The two of us team up, invincible under heaven!”
“…”
Lin Qian was silent for a moment, then reached out to pry Ye Zhen’s arm while saying, “Don’t drag me into your bragging. I really have things to do.”
“What things?” Ye Zhen gripped Lin Qian tightly.
“Never mind that. I just have things anyway.”
“How about this: you stall first. Once I finish my business and come back, we’ll give it a try together?”
Lin Qian asked in a negotiating tone.
“Really?” Ye Zhen frowned, seemingly doubting Lin Qian’s character.
“My word is my bond.”
Ye Zhen: “No taking it back even with four horses!”
“Good, Ye will stall here and wait for you to come back and team up for a try!”
With that, Ye Zhen released Lin Qian’s hand.
Lin Qian looked at his blackened arm and was silent for a moment before his figure slowly disappeared.
But at the moment he disappeared, a terrifying supernatural instantly covered over.
Ye Zhen’s face turned cold. “You rat dare!”
Supernatural erupted, fully blocking the opponent while Ye Zhen instantly launched a supernatural attack.
But the next moment, the surroundings returned to calm. Ye Zhen stood unharmed in place, position unchanged.
This method again.
Ye Zhen was already used to it.
He’d stall first and wait for Lin Qian to finish his business and return.
Da Chang City, the cyan-black smog suddenly rippled.
In an instant, it tore open a thumb-sized gap.
But soon, the gap healed.
Inside Da Chang City.
Lin Qian looked up at the healed gap. “This ghost domain strength… the starving ghost’s terror level is really high.”
His pure ghost domain invasion couldn’t invade at all; he had forcibly torn the ghost domain by overlaying supernatural to get in.
“Starving ghost…”
“Unfortunately, I have no ideas for the starving ghost.”
Controlling the starving ghost was undoubtedly a stable method of becoming a god.
But how to do it?
That was the question.
The starving ghost was the only key to becoming an era.
But first, one thing to know: even Yang Jian didn’t use the starving ghost for the final plan, but the ghost child.
Lin Qian’s figure rapidly flickered within Da Chang City.
On the dim streets, figures loomed.
Here was still shrouded in despair.
But compared to Da Jiang City’s empty scenes, this was still better.
Guan Jiang Residential Community.
Lin Qian appeared in front of an old Republic of China old house.
It had been renovated here, done quite well: outer walls added, rooftop repaired, collapsed walls reinforced, inside and out cleaned thoroughly.
No doubt, this was arranged by Yang Jian.
Lin Qian glanced around and went up the stairs to this dim second floor.
Despite being repainted, without the damp, rotten smell, the eerie architectural structure still made this passage very dark.
Lin Qian stopped in front of the large door on the second floor.
In front of him was a brass door, not prone to rust, extremely thick and heavy, no keyhole, the entire door sealed shut, as if the builder back then didn’t want this door opened casually.
This was the middle door.
Lin Qian glanced at the wooden door next to it, unlocked, clearly someone had already entered.
He didn’t care.
He directly activated ghost domain and passed through the thick door in front of him, entering the second secret room.
Though pitch black, a mask appeared on his face, a pair of ghost eyes emerged, allowing him to see everything in the darkness.
There was no danger here.
This was just a small room, with only an old cupboard inside, paint peeled off, revealing the wooden color, gray and outdated.
Besides that, there was a small table.
On the table, someone had carved a line of words with a knife.
“You will have everything and lose everything. Be sure to be cautious.”
The handwriting was very neat, carved deeply, looking like a warning and the only clue left by the original owner here.
Lin Qian narrowed his eyes slightly, moved his gaze from the words on the table, and looked at the old, paint-peeled, gray, outdated cupboard.
He lightly uttered two words, stating its name: “Ghost Cabinet.”
