Chapter 123 Baishui Town, Strange Noodles
Chapter 123 Baishui Town, Strange Noodles
The ghost bride continued to comb her long hair with a wooden comb.
A strange scene appeared.
The hair that was originally tangled together, looking a little messy and had some split ends began to become smooth.
The wooden comb seems to have a magical power that can bring life back to things that have been combed.
Not long after, the ghost bride's long hair became flowing and smooth, with a sense of vitality, which did not look like the hair of a dead person at all.
This is a wooden comb that can restore vitality to people!
If used by a ghost rider, it might have an unexpected effect, and might even be able to prevent the erosion of resurrected evil spirits to a certain extent.
Perhaps this is something that the person who once controlled the ghost bride in the Republic of China used to comb her hair, and it can help her alleviate the revival of the evil ghost.
But now, for the ghost bride, apart from being able to restore her body to life and make her look better, the only function left is to increase the level of terror.
Zhang Hao looked in the direction of Ghost Lake. The other person also had long, flowing and smooth hair, which looked very strange.
"Let's not worry about that for now. Let's take this opportunity to control the Ghost Lake."
Zhang Hao did not continue to think about the problem of the wooden comb. A supernatural item like this, which has a complete set of puzzle pieces, cannot play its true role in a single situation.
Maybe when I complete more pieces of the puzzle in the future, I’ll be able to discover other effects of this thing.
This thing is a supernatural item, and may need to be used in conjunction with ghost scissors, ghost mirror, etc.
Speaking of which, the ghost mirror can revive the living, and the wooden comb can restore vitality, so perhaps they can really work together in a significant way.
Zhang Hao looked at the Ghost Lake and directly activated the ghost catcher's ability to capture evil ghosts.
In this situation of being controlled by the ghost, Guihu did not resist this seizure and was smoothly controlled.
If it was an originally intact ghost lake, perhaps they could still resist or even escape back into the lake.
In that situation, Zhang Hao didn't dare to go into the water easily, for fear that his abilities would be learned by Gui Hu.
But the Ghost Lake was unable to resist now, and Zhang Hao soon completely filled the position of Ghost Lake as a ghost catcher.
After Zhang Hao captured Ghost Lake, he was not satisfied.
Although the Ghost Lake is very terrifying, the horror it brings to Zhang Hao's body is not as great as when he completed the black and white portrait.
"It seems that this should be the flaw of this ability to grow infinitely."
Zhang Hao thought about it for a short while and quickly understood.
Unlimited growth is the unilateral control of evil spirits, not the completion of evil spirits.
The puzzle is about mutual need and being able to complement each other's missing abilities.
This kind of unilateral control only requires the supernatural power of another ghost and will not achieve the effect of complementary abilities.
Although this growth is unlimited, the growth brought by capturing a ghost is only plus one.
The puzzle pieces complement each other, bringing improvements far beyond the effect of one plus one equals two.
"But even so, it's still unsolvable enough."
Zhang Hao didn’t think too long about why the growth effect was not as good as the puzzle.
After all, being able to grow without limits is already strong enough.
"By the way, ma'am, these are the hairs on Ghost Lake's head."
Zhang Hao took out a piece of long hair, which he deliberately did not take away when he captured Ghost Lake, just to leave it for the ghost bride.
The bride looked at the long hair for a long time, and finally reached out and took it.
Although she has hair, it is not the hair of a ghost.
The long hair touched the ghost bride's palm, and the next moment, it began to wriggle and entwine around the ghost bride's scalp.
After a long time, the long hair on the ghost bride's head was replaced by this strange hair.
"The Ghost Lake has been dealt with. Now it's time to find a place to grow peacefully and let my wife grow."
After having a rough estimate of his own strength, Zhang Hao no longer had any idea of doing anything else.
After a quick look, Yang Jian and others had already left the lake.
At this time, Zhang Hao no longer had the idea of chasing and killing Yang Jian. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but as he continued to control the evil spirits, Zhang Hao felt that he was becoming more and more like a real person.
"Madam, please include the Ghost Lake in the painting."
Although the Ghost Lake was controlled, the lake did not disappear but still exists there.
Zhang Hao controlled the source of the Ghost Lake, but only gained the ability to use the Ghost Lake. He can appear in the Ghost Lake at any time in the future.
He did not absorb all the lake water into his body.
"Next, let's go to that place."
Zhang Hao returned to the world of ghost paintings. As for the changes in himself, he thought of a special place - Baishui Town.
There, there was an old man with terrifying strength. He was an old man who had been on the road of controlling people with ghosts for a long time.
The long-term state of being controlled by a ghost has even made the old man's behavior not much different from that of a living person.
Zhang Hao doesn't want to restore his humanity, but that doesn't mean he doesn't want to solve his mental defects as a ghost.
He doesn't want to be imprisoned in the future because of a special supernatural item that affects his behavior when his strength rivals that of the Seven Elders.
Baishui Town is located near Dachang City. With Zhang Hao's current skills, it didn't take him too much time to successfully arrive here.
Although it was daytime, the sky over the town was dark and depressing, with thick dark clouds covering the entire town like an airtight lid.
It was sunny outside the town, but it was cloudy and rainy inside.
Even the temperature is very different.
The town of Baishui was shrouded in rain and clouds, and was filled with a damp chill mixed with an inexplicable chill.
If an ordinary person lives in this kind of climate, he will shiver even if he wears a thick cotton jacket.
Zhang Hao was walking on the road in the town. He stretched out his hand and lightly touched the rain in the town.
The rain felt particularly cold when it fell on my hands, and it felt unreal because it dissipated so quickly.
It's not evaporation or loss, it's like disappearing out of thin air.
"The impact is not strong. It looks like it is just an ordinary ghost, which makes the situation seem weird."
Zhang Hao didn't care about this rain. Although he didn't completely absorb the water in the Ghost Lake into his body, all the blood in his body was replaced by the lake water.
Zhang Hao led the ghost bride forward, and occasionally they came across some houses with half-open doors and darkness inside.
Zhang Hao looked towards one of the rooms and could only see a huge painting hanging on the wall of the lobby through a small gap.
At this moment, the portrait was covered with mold spots, which covered the portrait, adding a bit of weirdness to the original portrait.
As we went deeper into Baishui Town, a musty smell filled the air. Long-term soaking in rain had caused mold to grow in many houses.
And before I knew it, pedestrians started to appear on the road, and occasionally one or two people passed by.
The faces of those passers-by looked very abnormal, some were pale, and their bodies were covered with strange rain. It was unclear whether they were alive or dead.
It is obvious that Zhang Hao and the ghost bride would attract a lot of attention no matter where they appear.
But at this time, when Zhang Hao and the ghost bride were walking on the streets here, they didn't see anyone at all.
Zhang Hao stretched out his hand and stopped a middle-aged man who was walking towards him.
The middle-aged man was wearing a raincoat and rain boots. His body was wet, as if he had just been caught in the rain. His face was pale and his expression was a little dull.
Zhang Hao stretched out his hand to stop the other person, but the other person seemed to be completely unaware.
He continued walking on his own, with no change on his slightly pale face. Even when he bumped into Zhang Hao's hand, he just numbly got up and tried to keep walking forward.
"It seems that these are the so-called dead souls in Baishui Town."
Zhang Hao looked at these people thoughtfully, but quickly walked past them.
He didn't care whether these people could be resurrected or not, because it didn't mean anything to him.
Continuing to move forward, the city did not seem as scary as described in the original book. Zhang Hao had already walked around the entire city.
Nor was the strange old man found, let alone the ghost that could give rise to a whole world.
When Zhang Hao looked around thoughtfully.
Suddenly.
"Tsk! Tsk!"
There was a sound like electric current.
A neon sign on a store in a surrounding building suddenly flickered, lighting up the dark environment.
The colorful light spread out, slightly dispelling the darkness, making the Baishui Town not so pitch dark after all.
The rain continued to fall from the sky.
However, on the rain-covered street, one figure after another gradually turned from illusion to reality, appearing before my eyes in just a short moment. One, two, three... densely packed figures appeared.
Soon, the streets in the rain were filled with people. These people were standing at a certain distance from each other, with their heads slightly lowered, walking on the road in the rain.
In the quiet and dim environment, there were slightly noisy footsteps.
"I see. Does that mean we have to wait until a certain time for the horror in Baishui Town to truly unfold?"
The memory belonging to Zhang Hao did not pay much attention to Baishui Town.
All we know is that there are undead in Baishui Town, there is an old man who controls people with ghosts, and there is also a terrifying ghost that can give rise to Zhang Dong.
"Crench."
When Zhang Hao was thinking.
The door of the street shop next to me slowly opened at this moment. The shop was pitch dark, but I could vaguely hear some strange noises coming from inside.
More than just a street store.
On the entire street, more than half of the shops were open. In addition, yellow lights were lit in the windows of some buildings.
The previously deserted Baishui Town suddenly became lively at night.
"The entire county seems to be constructed by the supernatural. There is no normal place. It only invades the real world at night."
Zhang Hao made a simple judgment about Baishui Town. He thought that his current location might no longer be in reality, but in some mysterious place.
Night is just an opportunity for the mysterious county to invade Baishui Town.
"Ok?"
Just as Zhang Hao was about to move forward, he suddenly paused and felt a sense of being watched.
After completing the ghost eye, Zhang Hao's perception of vision improved a lot, so he immediately noticed the abnormality.
He lowered his head and saw a pair of bloodshot eyes, almost cracked at the corners, staring at him through the gap in the manhole cover.
“Even this manhole cover is a ghost?”
Zhang Hao stared at the manhole cover and reached out to lift it up.
As the manhole cover was lifted, a sound was heard in the sewer, as if something was moving.
Soon, an arm covered with scratches, bruises and rotten wounds stretched out from under the manhole cover and grabbed Zhang Hao.
However, just as the arm was about to touch Zhang Hao, it stopped strangely.
It was suppressed.
Although Zhang Hao had reduced the distance of mindless suppression to avoid causing certain changes after realizing that this place was a spiritual place, the ghost was too close.
After suppressing the ghost, Zhang Hao didn't think much about it and directly controlled it as a puzzle.
The reason for being vigilant is that it is still weak and is a young seedling that cannot be destroyed.
Now, he has control over the ghost catcher and part of the ghost lake, plus the original supernatural powers, so he doesn't have to worry too much.
The ghost bride restarted, the ghost painting restarted, the ghost den restarted, the memory restarted, the portrait restarted, the lake restarted, he now has the ability to restart a total of six levels.
In addition, now that he has turned into a ghost cave, he can even restart the time of the ghost cave. It can be said that he no longer has too many concerns.
The only ones who can still be enemies are probably Zhang Dong and Zhang Baihua.
Walking through the streets of this strange county, he was not unfamiliar with this situation.
Compared with the number of evil spirits encountered in that strange city last time, there are not too many ghosts in this strange county town.
However, compared to the ghosts in the weird city that are bound by taboo rules, the evil ghosts here seem more chaotic.
Just as Zhang Hao looked at the shops on both sides of the street.
The door of a hotel with a neon sign and four words on it opened, and there was a bar at the entrance of the hotel.
There was someone standing behind the bar, a woman.
The woman's hair was wet, as if she had just been caught in the rain, her skin was pale, and she stood there motionless like a corpse.
It seemed that Zhang Hao outside attracted the woman's attention. She turned her head and looked at Zhang Hao strangely.
At this moment, you can see clearly that the other half of the woman's face seems to be melting.
The flesh on his face was falling off, his eyes were lifeless, but there was a slight smile at the corner of his mouth.
The expression on the whole face seemed to have been set long ago, appearing weird and scary.
"This appears to be an inn."
Zhang Hao frowned and looked at the sign at the door of the hotel that read "Stay for Three Yuan".
These four words brought back some not-so-good memories.
"You still know how to make money, is this another ghost newspaper?"
"But accommodation is meaningless to me. There are no ghosts wandering around this city that are dangerous enough to me."
Zhang Hao turned around and had no intention of entering the hotel.
It’s not that he doesn’t have money. The Boss Liu who killed Taiping Ancient Town before seems to be a very wealthy ghost rider.
Zhang Hao took a handful of ghost money from him, a total of twenty yuan.
Keep going.
There are new neon lights flashing again.
There are two words written on the neon sign: Noodle House.
The noodle shop is not big, with only seven tables inside. There is only a set of bowls and chopsticks on each table. The bowls and chopsticks are a little faded, as if they were placed on a grave and exposed to wind and sun, and they look a little pale.
In front of the table was an old bench painted with black paint, which reminded people of the black paint on coffins.
The kitchen of the noodle shop could not be seen clearly as it was shrouded in darkness, but the sound of a kitchen knife chopping on a chopping board could be faintly heard.
The sound is dull and rhythmic
Compared with the previous hotel, this noodle shop caught Zhang Hao's attention.
A noodle shop should have food. In a place like this, the target customers are obviously evil spirits, so what is the food?
Is it a ghost? Or a person? Or some special supernatural object?
With a little curiosity, Zhang Hao slowly walked towards the noodle shop.
"A small bowl of noodles costs three yuan, and a large bowl of noodles costs four yuan."
There is a price list posted near the cash register in the store.
At the cashier counter, there stood a middle-aged ghost with thin, gray skin and lifeless and numb eyes.
Zhang Hao looked towards the kitchen of the noodle shop. Although it was dark inside, he could barely make out a single figure.
It seems that the ghost at the bar might be the owner of this noodle shop.
It's hard to imagine that in such a weird-looking noodle shop, the owner doesn't behave like an intelligent person.
Zhang Hao took a look, took out two three-yuan bills, walked over, and handed the two banknotes to the evil spirit who was suspected to be the owner of the noodle shop.
The other party took the two banknotes and put them into the cabinet at the bar.
At the same time, the kitchen door suddenly closed at this time.
The sound of chopping vegetables coming from the kitchen became more rapid and louder at this time.
It seemed that after receiving the money, the chef inside started working.
"I wonder what effect these foods will have. Is this some kind of puzzle?"
Zhang Hao looked at the tightly closed kitchen door. The sound of cutting vegetables coming from inside became particularly mysterious at this moment, which made people curious about what the chef was chopping.
About ten minutes later, there was a noise at the cash register.
The middle-aged ghost stood up and reached for the food outlet behind him.
There was clearly nothing there, but when the ghost put his hand on the food outlet, a bowl of noodles appeared in his hand.
It walked over with the bowl of noodles, placed the noodles on the table in front of Zhang Hao and the ghost bride, and then went to get the second bowl.
Zhang Hao looked at the noodles in the bowl. The noodles looked a little strange, actually black, and the noodle soup also looked bright red.
There was black noodles and red soup, and nothing else in the bowl.
But this bowl exudes a strange aroma that makes people feel hungry.
Even though Zhang Hao was a ghost and had long lost his appetite and hunger, he still couldn't help feeling hungry and wanting to eat.
"Ma'am, you eat first."
Zhang Hao handed the noodles to the ghost bride. Although the feeling of hunger was strong, it was not enough to make Zhang Hao completely lose the ability to resist.
The ghost bride took the noodles, picked up her chopsticks and started eating.
Apparently, this kind of noodles also made the ghost bride feel hungry.
(End of this chapter)