Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 173 Abandoning the Process?

"This is……?"

When Ye Zhen saw the unusual thing about Li Hui, he was completely stunned.

At that moment, Li Hui's palm was emitting a scarlet light.

At first, the light was not obvious, but as time went by, the red light quickly became brighter, illuminating everything around it and extending outwards, as if it wanted to envelop the body of the vengeful ghost that Li Hui was holding in his hand.

Ye Zhen was quite familiar with this red light.

Ye Zhen had seen this red light before during the ghost painting incident in Dahai City. At that time, the red light passed over him and directly enveloped the body of the female ghost in the painting. After that, Li Hui strangely took control of the supernatural power of the ghost painting.

"So Li Hui intends to control the supernatural power of this vengeful ghost?" Ye Zhen's eyes flickered as he thought to himself.

at the same time.

On the other side, Li Leping and Cao Yang also noticed the abnormality on Li Hui. As they watched the eerie red light cover the female ghost's body, the two of them secretly began to speculate.

Unlike Ye Zhen.

Li Leping and Cao Yang were unaware of the strange red light before, but judging from the current situation, they felt that Li Hui was very likely trying to control the vengeful ghost, just like Ye Zhen before, except that Li Hui's method of 'controlling' was something they had never seen before.

"Will he succeed?"

After confirming that the eerie red light on Li Hui's body was the supernatural power of the other vengeful spirits he was controlling, Li Leping and Cao Yang became curious about the outcome of Li Hui's control.

For a while.

A deathly silence fell over the scene.

Neither Li Leping nor Cao Yang, nor Ye Zhen, who was somewhat familiar with the eerie red light, spoke. Instead, they quietly watched everything, observing Li Hui's supernatural ability to 'control' the vengeful ghost.

Time passes minute by minute...

Li Leping and the others, who hadn't been keeping track of time, didn't know exactly how much time had passed, but estimated it to be only about ten seconds. The eerie red light that had enveloped the ghost's body began to gradually fade and returned to Li Hui.

"Did it fail?"

Seeing that the female ghost in Li Hui's hand did not change at all, not only did it not disappear like Ye Zhen had forcibly controlled the vengeful ghost before, but even the eerie aura on the vengeful ghost did not diminish in the slightest, Li Leping and the other two could not help but think that Li Hui had probably failed to control that vengeful ghost.

Li Leping and Cao Yang didn't seem to think much of it, since controlling a vengeful ghost has a high failure rate, and they didn't know how terrifying the eerie red light was before. Only Ye Zhen, who knew something about the red light, was very surprised.

"How is this possible? Li Hui's red light can even control the supernatural ghosts in the painting, so how could he not control this vengeful ghost?"

Ye Zhen looked incredulous, seemingly unable to understand Li Hui's 'failure'.

In Ye Zhen's view, if even he himself could successfully control a vengeful ghost, Li Hui should have absolutely no chance of failing.

the other side.

Li Hui was completely unaware of the thoughts swirling in Li Leping's mind; at that moment, his gaze was fixed on the cell phone tattoo on the back of his hand.

With nearly twenty seconds to replicate, he was able to perfectly replicate the supernatural intensity of the female ghost in front of him.

It is no exaggeration to say that Li Hui at this point already possessed all the supernatural abilities of the vengeful ghost from the Ghost Temple.

The level of supernatural power was exactly the same as when he completely controlled the Ghost Temple, and it was even similar to the kind of 'perfect control' where there were almost no side effects when using supernatural power!
At this moment, the screen interface of the phone tattoo on the back of Li Hui's hand underwent a significant change.

Originally, four out of the six boxes already contained items, leaving only two empty boxes. However, now only the fourth and fifth boxes contain items, while the other boxes are all empty.

The fourth frame contains a black coffin, and inside the coffin, one can vaguely see a human figure lying. Clearly, it is a supernatural entity belonging to a ghost messenger and a starving ghost.

The fifth box contains a somewhat surreal, dilapidated temple. In the front courtyard of the temple, there is an ancient well, from which a layer of hazy gloom emanates.

"Have the supernatural phenomena of the ghost messengers and the starving ghosts already swallowed up the supernatural phenomena of the bus in the first frame, the ghost painting in the second frame, and the ghost bride in the third frame?"

Li Hui first glanced at the ghost temple in the fifth frame, then focused his gaze on the three empty frames in front, a strange expression appearing on his face.

The disappearance of the items in the first three boxes did not mean that the three supernatural forces were no longer under Li Hui's control, but rather that the ghost messengers in the fourth box had 'swallowed' them all.

This situation is not difficult to understand.

Because Li Hui was replicating the ghost messengers and the starving ghosts, rather than directly controlling them, the ghost messengers' ability to devour vengeful spirits was only reflected within the frame of the phone tattoo. They devoured all the other spirits that Li Hui had replicated, which could be considered a disguised form of 'eating ghosts'.

This is undoubtedly a good thing for Li Hui.

Because under these circumstances, every time Li Hui replicates a supernatural phenomenon, it will be devoured by the ghost messenger supernatural phenomenon in the fourth frame. Therefore, the other frames of the phone tattoo will never be 'full', which means that he can replicate supernatural phenomena indefinitely.

Think of this.

Li Hui looked up at Ye Zhen beside him, his expression unreadable, as if he were deep in thought.

to be frank.

Li Hui had been coveting Ye Zhen's ability to take the fall for him for a long time. One of the reasons he stayed in Dahai City for so long was because of the substitute inside Ye Zhen's body.

However, at that time, Li Hui had not yet fully mastered the phone tattoo, and replicating the supernatural was entirely passive. Fortunately, the phone tattoo did not betray Li Hui at the time, and the second ability he replicated was a ghost drawing supernatural power with 70% strength...

.........

China.

Dasa City.

The city, which had been sealed off by the ghostly realm, returned to normal. The sky cleared, and sunlight streamed through the clouds, bringing a touch of warmth to the 'lifeless' city.

At this time, Xia Yu, the city's head, was organizing the headquarters staff to carry out the final work, searching for the wounded and disposing of the bodies, while also being wary of any possible supernatural occurrences left behind in the shadows.

While finishing up the work, Xia Yu's gaze drifted to the other side of the city streets.

The once empty road was now blocked by a dilapidated temple. Fortunately, no supernatural phenomena continued to spread from the temple, and a figure was wandering around the temple, seemingly searching for hidden dangers.

As far as Xia Yu knows.

The person wandering in the temple seemed to be named Wei Jing, who was also one of the powerful ghost tamers sent by headquarters to provide support.

After the strange mummified corpse was suppressed, the other support personnel disappeared into the main hall of the temple, leaving only Wei Jing behind.

Xia Yu was still a little confused at the time, not understanding why Wei Jing did not act with the other support personnel. It wasn't until later that he learned that Wei Jing wanted to help him finish the work and believed in the strength of the others, thinking that Li Hui and the others were capable of handling any emergencies. That's why he didn't follow them into the supernatural passage in the main hall of the temple.

Just as Xia Yu was deep in thought, Wei Jing, who was in the dilapidated temple, saw that Li Hui and the others had not made any move after entering the passage. He couldn't help but take out his satellite positioning phone and report the situation to the Ghost Tamer headquarters.

soon.

The call was answered.

After a brief greeting, Wei Jing reported everything he knew.

"..."

"You mean, after the mummified ghost was suppressed, Li Hui and the others entered the main hall of the temple, and then they all disappeared after stepping into that eerie passage and haven't come out since, and even Li Hui's ghost domain disappeared along with it?"

On the other end of the phone, in the office of the head of the call center at the Ghost Tamer headquarters, Zhao Jianguo frowned deeply after listening to Wei Jing's description.

"Yes, Captain Zhao."

Wei Jing said, "Not only that, I tried to share my location by turning on my phone's location services, but the only signals around me were from Xia Yu, the person in charge of Dasa City, and a phone that was lost on a street, I don't know if it was Cao Yang or Li Leping. There were no other satellite positioning phone signals around me."

"You were there at the time, what's your opinion on this?" Zhao Jianguo continued to ask Wei Jing for his opinion over the phone.

Upon hearing this, Wei Jing said, "Captain Zhao, based on the current situation, I suspect that the other side of that passage is some kind of supernatural place. When Li Hui and the others entered the passage, it was equivalent to stepping into that supernatural place, which is why their satellite positioning mobile phones were blocked."

"Okay, I understand the information you provided. Stay in Dasa City for now and don't act rashly. Don't step into that supernatural passage until you've confirmed the situation of Li Hui and the others. I'll try to contact Li Hui and the others."

"That's what Zhao Jianguo said on the other end of the phone."

at the same time.

In the case of the ghost temple incident in the island nation.

"Dingling bell~"

A cell phone ringing interrupted Li Hui and the others' thoughts.

Li Hui took out his phone and saw that the caller was the landline number of the Ghost Riders headquarters. He then pressed the answer button.

Almost the instant the call was connected, Zhao Jianguo's voice came from the other end: "Li Hui, where are you now?"

"Island nation!"

Li Hui didn't hide anything and told them about their experiences and location. "Just like your previous guess, the mummified corpse incident at the ghost temple in Dasa City is indeed related to the S-class haunted temple in the island nation."

"The eerie passage in the main hall of that temple in Dasa City leads directly to the haunted temple in the island nation. After we came out of that passage, we found ourselves in the midst of the real haunted temple incident..."

As Li Hui recounted his experiences, Zhao Jianguo gradually came to know his general journey from leaving the supernatural passage to the present.

"You mean the vengeful spirits in the ghost temple are almost impossible to suppress, and the ancient well, as the source, can even completely ignore the influence of your ghost domain?"

Zhao Jianguo continued on the other end of the phone: "Since it cannot be suppressed, then we can simply leave it alone. After all, the ghost temple incident broke out in Japan, not China. However, the ghost temple in Dasa City needs to be dealt with properly to prevent the real ghost temple from being brought to China."

You can hear it.

After learning that this S-class paranormal incident in the island nation was so troublesome, Zhao Jianguo felt no worry at all; on the contrary, he felt a sense of schadenfreude.

of course.

Zhao Jianguo's schadenfreude wasn't because Li Hui and the others were involved in the ghost temple incident, but because the supernatural event had occurred in an island nation...

"Aren't we going to do anything about it? Let the vengeful spirit develop on its own, and even if the island nation is completely overrun because of it, it won't concern us at all?"

After listening to Zhao Jianguo's description, Li Hui had a deeper understanding of this paranormal event, and even thought that Zhao Jianguo's idea was good.

Before this, Li Hui had never even considered leaving it alone. It wasn't that he was so great that he wanted to get rid of the vengeful ghost just because he saw it; rather, his mind was already preoccupied with the idea of ​​imprisoning the ghost.

It wasn't until Zhao Jianguo reminded him that Li Hui came to his senses and realized where he and his companions were.

They could completely ignore the Ghost Temple now, or even secretly fuel its flames, making its outbreak even more thorough and out of control.

"Okay, I know what to do."

The words fell.

Li Hui then hung up the call.

Then he glanced at Cao Yang and the other two behind him. Seeing that they were also looking at him with strange expressions, Li Hui immediately knew that they had also heard what Zhao Jianguo had just said.

But this is normal.

After all, the surroundings were deathly silent, with only the sound of his conversation with Zhao Jianguo. In addition, Cao Yang and the others were not far from him, so it was not surprising that they heard the content of his conversation with Zhao Jianguo.

"What do you think?"

Li Hui asked Cao Yang and the other two.

Upon hearing this, the expressions on the three men's faces changed slightly, but Cao Yang was the first to speak: "I think Captain Zhao was right. As the saying goes, 'Those who are not our citizens will surely have different hearts.'"

"If the roles were reversed, and a Japanese ghost tamer encountered a supernatural event in China, he probably wouldn't even be able to deal with the vengeful ghost; it would be considered a good deed if he didn't take advantage of the situation."

"I also think Captain Zhao is right!"

At this moment, Li Leping also chimed in: "Putting aside everything else, just take the 'ghost temple mummies incident' in Dasa City. Although it seems to be just a coincidence, it's possible that there are really Japanese ghost tamers secretly pushing things along."

Hearing Cao Yang and Li Leping's words, Li Hui's already firm idea became even more resolute.

As for Ye Zhen...

He never intended to express his own opinion.

That's when.

Bubbling sounds began to emanate from the ancient well beside Li Hui. Upon hearing the noise, Li Hui's gaze sharpened as he looked into the dark and gloomy interior of the well.

Under his gaze.

A vengeful ghost floated up from the black water at the bottom of the well once again. It had a pale complexion, was wrapped in a white cloth, and had long, loose hair that covered its face. From its appearance, it was exactly the same as the previous female ghost, with almost no difference.

at the same time.

Outside the Demon Realm, Yamazaki and the others also began to take action...

.........

(End of this chapter)