Chapter 68: Ghost messenger? Ghost painting? How could they be related?
Chapter 68: Ghost messenger? Ghost painting? How could they be related?
"So what are you trying to say?"
Yang Jian looked at Zhang Hao with a somewhat unfriendly expression.
"Where can we find external forces now? What can suppress such a huge ghost den?"
For some reason, today he instinctively felt a sense of rejection towards Jiang Shangbai in front of him.
However, because of the previous conflict with his friends, Yang Jian just thought that it was because he was a little unhappy with Jiang Shangbai.
Yang Jian has now obtained the third ghost and is able to open the fifth level of the ghost den. He can enter and exit the ghost den of the ghost catcher freely.
But he would not expose this matter casually.
"When something that can restrain the ghost messenger and the ghost den appears, it will naturally be able to fight against the ghost messenger's ghost den."
"In fact, there is a restrained relationship between the ghosts." Zhang Hao said in a cold voice.
"Referring to the case of the starving ghosts, Li Jun's ghost den could not be opened at all inside, and he couldn't even provide support, but you, Yang Jian, were able to use the ghost den inside."
"I don't think it's possible that Li Jun's ghost den can't compete with your ghost den, right?"
Hearing this, everyone looked surprised.
However, most ghost riders do not have ghost dens, so they did not speak.
"Professor Wang, what's your plan?" As one of the ghost riders in the ghost den, Li Leping did not rush to express his opinion.
Wang Xiaoming slowly said, "Because the source of the ghost messenger is this ghost area, if we want to imprison the ghost messenger, we must imprison this ghost area together with him."
"And judging from the current situation, as Jiang Shangbai said, it is impossible for the headquarters, or even the whole world, to detain an area of several kilometers at once."
"However, I have studied the ghost coffin and found a strange problem. Why is the ghost coffin so small inside, but it can hold such a large ghost area?"
"It is suppression. There is mutual suppression between the ghost realms."
It was Li Jun who spoke, his face stern, "If two ghosts with ghost domains appear together and form ghost domains at the same time, then the ghost domain of one ghost will definitely be suppressed."
"If the gap is too big, the other ghost won't even be able to form a ghost domain. I've encountered such a situation before."
Li Jun's words agreed with Jiang Shangbai's previous remarks. At the same time, the fact that two ghost riders who possessed ghost dens said so was enough to prove that the mutual restraint among ghost dens did exist.
"So Professor Wang's plan is to use another ghost domain to suppress the ghost messenger's ghost domain, thereby limiting the scope of its activities to the minimum, small enough to fit into a box?"
Li Leping immediately knew what Wang Xiaoming was going to say next.
"This is the only feasible solution. It just so happens that the Red and White Devils are also in the ghost den of the ghost catcher. As long as we can restrict the ghost den of the ghost catcher, we can restrict both ghosts at the same time."
Wang Xiaoming said: "What we need to do now is where to find something that can suppress the ghost messenger's ghost domain?"
“It’s almost impossible to find.”
Li Leping pondered for a moment and said, "The ghost messenger originally has the ability to suppress other ghosts. This is an unsolvable deadlock."
"At present, there is no ghost den that is strong enough to suppress the ghost messenger. Even Fang Shiming is only a ghost den that can tear the ghost messenger apart."
Zhang Hao saw this and knew that his chance to speak had come. "What if we change our target to other ghosts?"
"To deal with the ghosts in the ghost den, you don't need to get close to them. Just pass by them on the way."
Zhang Hao's words made everyone look at him.
"If it's her, then it's indeed a good choice. Even if it fails, the impact won't be big. At least the thing will be solved by the ghost." Wang Xiaoming nodded.
"If successful, then we can solve the problem of the ghost catcher's lair. At present, the ghost's killing pattern should have been restricted. Although it is still very dangerous, it is at least much easier to deal with than the ghost catcher and the red and white evil spirits."
"When two S-level supernatural events collide, there is a high probability that one of them can be solved."
Hearing this, Cao Yang was slightly surprised and asked, "No way, you want to lure that ghost to Dajing City?"
He knew that Jiang Shangbai and Wang Xiaoming were trying to lure the source ghost of a previous S-level supernatural event to Dajing City.
Use the ghost's ghost domain to suppress the ghost catcher's den, and then get rid of the ghost catcher and the red and white evil spirits inside.
Even in the worst case scenario, the S-level ghost will at least be killed by the ghost catcher, which can be regarded as solving a major incident.
"Professor Wang, this idea is too crazy. It would be better to take out the coffin nails and give it a try. If you go wrong, the consequences will be unimaginable."
Thinking of the reputation of ghost paintings, Cao Yang couldn't help but feel a little worried.
"That was the world's first S-level supernatural event, a supernatural event that could not be solved even if several countries were destroyed."
"Once it occurs in our country, the damage it causes will be incalculable."
"I know, but if we have to release a ghost anyway, we might as well let the ghost outside give it a try." Wang Xiaoming said.
"At least it hasn't been imprisoned yet. If the starving ghost is imprisoned, the consequences of failure can be borne. Besides, there are three ghosts in total, including the Red and White Twins and the Ghost Messenger. The coffin nails can only be used once."
"I agree. At least we have determined the killing pattern of the ghost painting, and there is a way to avoid it." Zhang Hao stood up and said.
"But the rules of the ghost messenger and the red and white evil spirits are unsolvable. No matter which one grows up, it is impossible to solve the problem of summoning ghosts or catching ghosts."
After hearing Jiang Shangbai's words and Wang Xiaoming's agreement, Cao Yang had no choice but to nod and agree to the plan.
As several qualified captains agreed one after another, the meeting's plan was quickly concluded.
Attract the ghost painting, and use the ghost painting's ghost den to imprison the ghost catcher.
Zhang Hao watched everyone leave one after another and slowly walked outside.
But before leaving, he still looked back at the old man with the cane.
However, just this one glance caught the other person's attention.
After Zhang Hao looked at him, Mr. Qin kept looking at him until Zhang Hao left the meeting room and turned a corner, then he looked away.
"Did you really find me?" Zhang Hao kept thinking about various possibilities in his heart.
On the way out just now, many people looked back at Old Qin.
But no one was being stared at by the other.
"Strange guy, the ghost in his body has entered a state of near-death."
After Zhang Hao disappeared, Old Qin murmured something in a low voice.
“Is he in the future?”
"I see, is he dead? It seems he can't get out of his own way. What a pity. It's rare for all three ghosts to die."
Old Qin muttered to himself without saying anything.
He did not recognize Jiang Shangbai's situation. After all, Jiang Shangbai looked no different from a normal ghost rider.
Jiang Shangbai who walked out of the photo was not dead, but was still alive. In addition, he was controlling a fierce ghost, so he had a supernatural aura.
If there is any difference, it is that the ghost in Jiang Shangbai's body is in a state of near-death, which is very rare.
And the future Mr. Qin has no time to pay attention to people like Jiang Shangbai.
After all, the so-called 'Jiang Shangbai' should no longer appear in the eyes of the old man in front of him after attending this meeting.
"Is it finally starting?"
Zhang Hao knelt on the coffin, looking at the darkness of the sky with cold eyes.
His vision seemed to be able to see through the darkness and see what was happening beyond it.
The ghost bride knelt beside Zhang Hao, and at some point a pair of red scissors appeared in her hand.
There are many strange curses wrapped around the scissors, sticking to them like strands of hair.
At the same time, the situation in the mourning hall also changed.
The number of people in mourning in this mourning hall has increased from five to seventeen.
Each of these people was wearing white mourning clothes, had a sad look on their faces, and made sobbing sounds towards the coffin in the mourning hall.
After two days of confrontation, the ghost messenger underwent new changes.
After Zhang Hao killed many ghost riders, he and the bride summoned these ghosts to the vicinity of the mourning hall, and the resistance of the mourning hall to Zhang Hao was reduced.
And those evil spirits that were originally unable to enter the mourning hall were now able to enter.
What's even more strange is that in the dark ghost town outside, the outlines of some abandoned old houses began to appear.
Perhaps it won’t be long before some houses actually appear in the darkness outside.
"Then I can let them live in there. I can let these ghosts live in the house outside the mourning hall to help me suppress the ghost messenger."
"And when I need support from evil spirits, I can use the ghost summoning technique to summon them out to help me deal with the enemy." This is what Zhang Hao thought about the newly appeared house.
Perhaps one day, when he fills the house where the ghost catcher originated with evil spirits, he will be able to completely suppress the ghost catcher and control him.
By the way, in Zhang Hao's imagination, the ghost bride also has a red room.
From this perspective, the mourning hall derived from the ghost may, one day in the future, just correspond to the concept of the red room.
However, in order to reach that level, I don’t know how many evil spirits I need to add to the house outside.
suburb.
It was eerily quiet here tonight, and not a single vehicle had passed on the nearby asphalt road for hours.
Everything around seemed to have lost its sound, with only a few figures gathered under the dim street lights occasionally making sparse discussions.
The area within ten kilometers has already been blocked off, and no living person is allowed to set foot here, no one is an exception.
Because in the center of this blockade, a fierce ghost codenamed Ghost Messenger is wandering here, and any ordinary person passing by here may cause the Ghost Messenger to lose control.
Only those who can control evil spirits and become ghost riders are qualified to go deep into this seemingly ordinary, but actually extremely dangerous forbidden area.
And tonight, the operation against the ghost den where the ghost catcher is imprisoned is underway.
The atmosphere around was very depressing.
There are not many people in charge of this operation, only five in total.
Li Jun is one of them.
This operation requires the use of the ghost realm, and also needs a ghost rider who has had contact with ghosts to lead the team, so he is a very suitable candidate, but not the most suitable candidate.
The original candidate was to be Jiang Shangbai, but Jiang Shangbai refused on the grounds that he had been severely stimulated by the evil spirits in the ghost den.
The other three people were both men and women. They looked familiar. They were all top ghost riders who had attended the meeting at the headquarters before.
"Here they come." Suddenly, a man squatting on the ground smoking changed his expression, and his hoarse and low voice echoed around.
Almost at the same time, other people also received relevant information.
The evil spirit codenamed Ghost Painting Incident was successfully lured away and is moving towards this side.
Everything went just as planned.
Everyone's heart shuddered, and their almost sickly faces were filled with solemnity, because this signal meant that the action tonight would be unavoidable.
No one can be sure what kind of unknown changes will occur when two S-level supernatural events collide.
Although according to Professor Wang's inference, there is a high probability that one of the cases can be solved, he also said that there is a small probability that a chain reaction will be triggered, causing both incidents to get out of control at the same time, and the risk is very high.
Although people have made corresponding preparations for what might happen after losing control, it is always dangerous for people who actually come into contact with ghosts.
Li Jun stood straight under the street light, and kept repeating the same sentence regardless of whether the other people were listening or not;
"Everyone should remember that all the ghosts of us combined cannot defeat the Red and White Devils, so our goal is only to confirm whether the ghosts inside can escape after the ghost painting arrives."
"Don't worry, we will remember it."
Han Mo nodded. He was also one of the participants in this incident.
He has a strong ability to survive, and it is difficult to kill him as long as he can deal with the remains left after death.
Moreover, during this time away from Dajing City, he did not completely fail to grow.
As a person in charge with a strong sense of justice, he would often take the initiative to help when encountering supernatural events.
Although participating in supernatural events would shorten his lifespan, it also improved his strength, which in another way increased his vitality.
"I am quite surprised that Yang Jian did not participate in this operation. Compared with you, I prefer to partner with that ghost-eyed Yang Jian."
The person who spoke was a woman wearing heavy makeup.
"I heard that his ghost domain was further improved after he got the third ghost. Maybe he can enter and exit the ghost's lair. I don't think you can do that, Li Jun."
The blush on the woman's face was oddly bright, as if the blood was about to drip down.
"Ghost Eye Yang Jian? Hey, that guy is a rookie. The headquarters is very worried about him. The more important the matter, the less likely he is to be involved. If he forms a team, it will most likely cause trouble."
The last man sneered as he leaned against a nearby flickering streetlight.
"Yang Jian has just experienced the ghost messenger incident, so he may not want to participate." Han Mo waved his hand.
"It's true. After these guys came into contact with the ghost messenger, they all became very afraid of him."
Time to speak.
The quiet surroundings gradually began to become gray, and some faint objects kept falling from the sky.
It was like a thick gray fog, or like a bunch of cold air. In just a blink of an eye, everything around was covered by the gray substance, and everything visible to the naked eye changed.
There was no color here, even the dim and yellow street lights were now gray, and the inside was also filled with this stuff.
Han Mo reached out and took a ball of something that fell in front of him, rubbed it gently in his hand, leaving a gray mark on his palm.
"Is this... paper ash?" Han Mo exclaimed, finding it a little unbelievable.
Originally, all this grayness was formed by the ashes left after something burned.
"This is a ghostland of ghost paintings."
Li Jun frowned deeply: "It seems that Liu San's efficiency is much faster than expected. He successfully attracted the ghost painting."
"According to our previous judgment, there is no painting nearby, and we have never seen any paintings. There is a high probability that we can avoid becoming the target of ghost paintings."
"At the same time, this ghost area is likely to suppress the ghost messenger, so everyone should be prepared in advance."
Looking at the ashes falling around him, the world around him has completely changed. For some reason, Li Jun felt heavier than ever.
The ghost has not appeared yet.
But the ghost domain that just covered it already revealed an atmosphere of despair like the end of the world.
There is no life or living thing in this gray world. There is only deathly silence and ashes that seem to never end.
In the distance, at least ten miles away from here, Feng Quan looked at the paper ashes falling from the sky and his pupils shrank instinctively.
This scene is inexplicably familiar, as if I have seen it somewhere.
"Where exactly is it?" Feng Quan pondered.
"Feng Quan? What's wrong?" Yang Jian was a little confused when he saw Feng Quan's appearance.
"I remember seeing something similar when I was dealing with the Red and White Devils."
Feng Quan's words made Yang Jian frown, and he instinctively had a bad premonition.
“You mean, when you were dealing with the Red and White Devils, paper ashes fell from the sky?” Yang Jian said in a serious tone.
"No, no, no, Brother Tui, you misunderstood." Feng Quan shook his head hurriedly.
"There was no paper ash left around the Red and White Devils. What fell around them were paper money and paper copper coins."
"I just think that these two things are somewhat similar. There is a huge difference between paper ash and paper copper coins, right?" Feng Quan said.
"Could it be possible that the three S-level supernatural events are related to each other?"
After saying this, Feng Quan seemed to feel that his words were too naive and joked.
"It's impossible that the source of this ghost painting that appeared from abroad and is the first S-level supernatural event in the country can be the same as the ghost messenger, and the red and white evil spirits are a puzzle piece, right?"
"This is too funny. How is it possible? One is a painting, one is a coffin, and one is a red and white evil spirit. How could they be related?"
The more Feng Quan laughed, the lower his voice became.
Because the more he talked, the more he realized that these things seemed to be somewhat related.
People attending funerals often leave behind portraits, and people getting married often take photos as a memorial. In the past, when there were no cameras, things were recorded through painting.
Listening to Feng Quan's increasingly low voice, Yang Jian felt a little uneasy.
Originally, he just wanted to see how terrifying the so-called ghost paintings were.
But after hearing Feng Quan's words, his indifferent attitude slowly faded.
(End of this chapter)