LRAB Chapter 101 The Starving Ghost Incident Erupts Again
Chapter 101 The Starving Ghost Incident Erupts Again
Just as Sun Rui and his group entered Huanggang Village, the Ping An Building was not yet shrouded in darkness.
But in the conference room on the top floor, the atmosphere was silent.
Jiang Shangbai was holding a dead man's head in his hands. He and He Tianxiong were the only two ghost tamers left in the entire conference room.
"Was that ghost in the funeral shroud just now a starving ghost?" He Tianxiong asked, still somewhat shaken.
"I guess so. What exactly is headquarters doing? They can even release an S-class vengeful ghost," Jiang Shangbai said grimly.
If it weren't for the dead man's head in his hand, perhaps he and He Tianxiong wouldn't have survived.
The meeting room was in a mess, with all sorts of dismembered limbs lying on the floor.
"Damn it, Liu Xiaochun was commanding two vengeful ghosts, yet he was swallowed whole by that starving ghost. Can this thing really be imprisoned?" He Tianxiong said.
The Liu Xiaochun he mentioned was a ghost tamer in his WeChat Moments, who had commanded two vengeful ghosts. Unexpectedly, he was killed by a starving ghost in a single encounter.
"Even President Fang is dead, let's think about how to escape," Jiang Shangbai said, rubbing his temples.
Just now, when the starving ghost attacked, he watched helplessly as Fang Shiming was devoured by it, without any ability to resist.
Meanwhile, on a certain floor underground in the Ping An Building.
There is a safe house here.
The golden door was covered in dust, as if it hadn't been opened in a long time.
The next moment, the door was slowly pushed open.
A sudden stench of decay wafted from the safe house, as if it had been building up for a long time.
"Did I actually die once?" Fang Shiming said slowly.
Fang Shiming, who had supposedly died at the hands of the starving ghost, miraculously came back to life.
To be precise, he didn't come back to life, because only the image in the photograph died.
"The person in the photo was able to block most supernatural forces, yet I still died. It seems this matter is quite troublesome." Fang Shiming stretched his withered body.
Unlike the body that had been walking outside before, this body was emaciated, like a dried-up corpse.
At that moment, a gust of wind blew by, and Fang Shiming disappeared in front of the safe house.
In just a moment, he arrived in the conference room.
"Fang...Mr. Fang?"
The two people in the meeting room were startled when they saw the person's face clearly.
"Now it's just the two of you left?" Fang Shiming said coldly.
"The hungry ghost was released by headquarters for some reason and attacked us," Jiang Shangbai explained.
"Starving ghost..." Fang Shiming chewed on these three words.
At the same time, he walked towards one direction of the conference room.
Neither of them understood what he was doing.
Suddenly, he stopped, reached out a hand, and touched the ground.
The next moment, a shattered photograph appeared on the ground.
There was a young man above who looked exactly like Fang Shiming.
He picked up the shattered photograph and stuck it to his forehead.
A flood of inexplicable memories rushed into his mind.
"So that's how it is... Did Sun Rui discover the anomaly at headquarters so early? My clone underestimated this paranormal event." Fang Shiming said.
Through his clone's memories, he learned that he had noticed this change long ago, but hadn't paid much attention to it.
"Mr. Fang, why don't we leave Dajinjing City? The Starving Ghosts are just too terrifying," He Tianxiong said.
Fang Shiming didn't speak, but shook his head and looked out the French windows.
Jiang Shangbai seemed to realize something and suddenly turned around.
The sky outside darkened in an instant, and a bluish-black haze quickly spread across it.
"This is the ghost realm of the starving ghosts," Jiang Shangbai said. "Damn it, how could it be so fast? I was clearly sent to such a far distance just now."
Just now, he used the dead man's head left behind by Wu Yun to slightly control the starving ghost, and then used his own ghost domain to send the starving ghost away.
Wu Yun is also a ghost tamer in the circle of friends. Jiang Shangbai had worked with him before. The fierce ghosts he targeted would be instantly suppressed, and he was always successful.
However, this time, facing the hungry ghost only slowed its approach. If he hadn't used the Ghost Domain to send that thing away, he and He Tianxiong wouldn't have survived.
"The headquarters has fallen, yet Elder Qin didn't intervene. There's something fishy going on here," Fang Shiming thought to himself.
"Mr. Fang, what should we do now?" Jiang Shangbai asked, as he had no confidence in dealing with the starving ghost.
"Prepare some supernatural items and go to headquarters to take a look," Fang Shiming said.
He wanted to go and see what the current situation was like at headquarters.
Jiang Shangbai nodded and went with He Tianxiong to prepare the supernatural items.
The reason they can establish themselves in the paranormal community is naturally because they have some special skills.
After the two of them left, Fang Shiming also disappeared into the Ping An Building.
He didn't go too far, but came to an unfamiliar street.
"Just now I sensed the ghostly domain of another vengeful spirit here, and my ghostly wind couldn't penetrate it," Fang Shiming muttered to himself.
At first, I thought the deaths were caused by the vengeful ghosts here, but now it seems that's not the case.
"The headquarters has fallen. It seems that the vengeful spirits here were also released by someone. According to the information I have so far, that ghost domain seems to be the ghost in that ghost coffin," Fang Shiming analyzed.
Then he shook his head and left.
He's currently focused on the starving ghosts; other ghosts aren't on his radar.
In the darkness that Fang Shiming could not see through, Sun Rui and his group had already approached the village's mourning hall.
"According to Yang Jian, he encountered a ghost messenger in Huanggang Village before, right here in this mourning hall. I don't know if it's still here now," Sun Rui said.
"Now that we've decided on the method, we still have to take the risks," Cao Yang said.
Sun Rui nodded.
He just suggested a method: to use Yang Jian's ghost newspaper to modify the ghost messenger's memory, making the ghost messenger misjudge the number of vengeful ghosts he was suppressing, thus allowing the ghost messenger to return to the ghost coffin.
Meanwhile, taking advantage of the fact that the ghost messengers had not come out again, they moved the ghost coffin to a safe house and imprisoned it.
Everyone agreed to this method.
Of course, this method was not his own, but rather the method he remembered Yang Jian using to handle the ghost messenger incident for the second time.
"I just don't know if other changes will happen," Sun Rui thought to himself.
"Let's do it. If we delay any longer, I'm afraid something might go wrong," Yang Jian said.
He had a feeling of unease, as if something bad was about to happen.
Sun Rui nodded without further hesitation.
The first step in this plan is to figure out the location of the ghost messengers and the number they need to suppress.
Sun Rui, carrying a lantern, led the group inside.
The fire-lit disc player dispelled the surrounding darkness, revealing the entire layout of the mourning hall.
A black coffin lay quietly in the center of the mourning hall.
In front of the coffin, a portrait of the deceased was quietly placed on the table.
The man in the portrait was very handsome, but his face was very pale, making him look somewhat unhealthy.
"Wait a minute, don't you guys think the man in this portrait looks a bit like Guo Fan?" Sun Rui stopped and said.
Upon hearing this, everyone looked closely.
Guo Fan?
"It looks a bit like... According to the information I got in Huanggang Village, the people in this photo should be a composite of people killed by the ghost messengers," Yang Jian said.
"So, with Guo Fan dead, the number of ghost messengers being suppressed is at least six," Cao Yang said.
Sun Rui did not answer them.
He knew that Guo Fan could manipulate consciousness through the spirit tablet he controlled, so was he really killed so easily?
In other words, could the ghost messengers now already possess Guo Fan's consciousness?