Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 187 A Place Where the Messengers Were Once Visited
"This place... is very similar to a strange place I visited before."

A spirit dressed in black and wearing a hat spoke, a hint of suspicion in his expression. His gaze swept back and forth between the dense darkness in front of him and the surrounding environment, as if he were confirming something.

"You mean you've been here before? And that paranormal events like those in 'ghost movies' happened in your time?"

One of the departed spirits asked in confusion.

Upon hearing this, the ghost who had spoken earlier replied, "The strange place I went to back then wasn't really related to other paranormal events, but rather to the mail delivery mission of the Ghost Post Office."

"I remember that I was a messenger on the third floor of the Ghost Post Office. The address of the last letter I delivered on the third floor was very similar to this place. The surroundings were desolate, with only a thick darkness. I fainted as soon as I entered that darkness. It was very strange. When I woke up, I was in a rural clinic. The delivery mission was completed, and that's how I got to the fourth floor of the Ghost Post Office."

At this point, the ghost paused for two seconds, as if recalling something or perhaps pondering it.

He then continued, "According to the people at the clinic, a villager found me unconscious by the roadside when he went to the market in town, and then brought me to the clinic."

"That mail delivery experience was quite special, one of the more bizarre experiences I've had among all my mail delivery missions. So even though decades have passed since that delivery, I still have a vivid memory of it. I remember the village was called Fengyin Village..."

As the spirit continues to recount his experiences, his mail-delivering missions after entering the Ghost Post Office are revealed.

Among the group of spirits who heard about his delivery experience, most of them remained calm, but three spirits showed expressions of surprise and uncertainty, as if the spirit's delivery experience reminded them of something, or that they had already confirmed something.

Then, one of the three, a middle-aged woman wearing an old floral cotton-padded jacket, asked, "Do you still remember the address of the letter you sent back then?"

Sanjing Road, Yuqu District, Hangzhou.

Without hesitation, the man recounting his mail delivery experience said, "The delivery address that time was different from all my other delivery locations. It was a bus stop on Sanjing Road. The address on the envelope indicated that I should take the 415 bus on Sanjing Road at 9 p.m., stop for three stops, and then deliver the letter to complete the task."

Upon hearing this, the three ghosts, who had been looking strangely at each other, revealed an expression of 'I knew it', and their conviction deepened.

It's not just them.

Even Li Hui, who was standing in front of the group of dead souls, couldn't help but turn his head to look over when he heard the man's story of delivering the message, and even his hand movements slowed down a bit.

If it were just that the delivery location was similar to where they were, it wouldn't be a big deal. But if this involves a paranormal bus, then the situation is completely different.

Because the paranormal bus only travels between the real paranormal world and reality, if this place was once a stop for the paranormal bus, then this paranormal space is definitely more than just a 'black and white world on TV'.

"Do you still remember some of the details of delivering the letter back then?" Li Hui asked.

As he said this, he also stopped waving.

The fact that they haven't been able to summon even a single vengeful ghost from that darkness for so long proves that continuing to summon them is pointless. It's very likely that the eerie atmosphere here is just a facade, and the vengeful ghost has already left.

Considering that this place was likely a mail delivery point of the former Ghost Post Office, where messengers delivered mail decades ago, it is not surprising that the vengeful ghost left.

"There don't seem to be any details."

The ghost, who appeared to be in his thirties, continued with a somewhat embarrassed expression: "At that time, I had only recently begun to wield supernatural power, and my own strength was not very strong. After entering that darkness, I immediately lost consciousness, and even the mission of delivering the message was completed in a daze."

"Looking back now, apart from the somewhat bizarre experience, there's nothing special about it. If I had to say something, it would be that I woke up and found myself directly in the real world without being attacked by any vengeful ghosts, which is the most illogical point."

Upon hearing this, Li Hui did not show any dissatisfaction. After all, the relevant information had already been given by the deceased, and he was just trying his luck.

But at this moment.

The middle-aged woman in the old floral cotton-padded jacket who had spoken earlier said, "I think I've been here before."

Before Li Hui could ask, she continued, "When I was a messenger, I once delivered a letter to Fengyin Village. The specific address was an ancient tomb in the back mountain of Fengyin Village."

"The delivery of the letter went smoothly without any supernatural attacks. However, when we put the letter into the coffin in the ancient tomb and left the tomb, we encountered a strange phenomenon. The area outside the ancient tomb was no longer the back mountain of Fengyin Village, but an open space. In the middle of the open space was a dense darkness, which was very similar to the scene we are in now."

"Later, I left that eerie place through the Ghost Post Office's passage and returned to the Ghost Post Office. When I first arrived here, I had a feeling of familiarity, but I wasn't sure. It wasn't until Yue Ming talked about his mail delivery experience and the later Fengyin Village that I dared to be completely sure."

At this moment, another ghost spoke up: "I think I also know something about this place."

"I don't know if it's a coincidence or what, but I am the person from Fengyin Village that they were talking about."

The speaker was a middle-aged man with dark skin, ordinary appearance, and old, simple clothes, resembling a country farmer.

"I don't know if there are any ancient tombs in the mountains behind our village, but I do know about this darkness, because almost everyone in our village has disappeared into this eerie darkness!"

“There’s always been a rumor in our village that the entire village doesn’t actually exist in the real world, but rather lives in a special space. At first, I just listened to this rumor as a story, until one day, a darkness suddenly appeared and enveloped the whole village…”

"I remember it very clearly. The sky suddenly darkened at noon, and the whole village was shrouded in darkness. I was in the village at the time, and after the darkness appeared, I felt dizzy and disoriented. I don't know how much time passed, but when I regained consciousness, I was the only person left in the whole village!"

"That's not quite right either."

The middle-aged man continued, "Because I could clearly feel that there was an extra 'person' inside my body. Yes, that's how I became a Ghost Tamer. Later, for some reason, I entered the Ghost Post Office."

"I still don't know where those villagers are now, because even if they died, it's impossible for them to just vanish without leaving a trace, without even a body."

Speaking of which.

The dark-skinned middle-aged man seemed to recall some painful experience; his face turned extremely ugly, and he exuded a chilling aura. Wisps of black mist continuously emerged and surrounded his body, making him appear like a true vengeful ghost.

Meanwhile, Li Hui's expression became extremely strange after listening to the man's story.

A strange and intense darkness, a small village in reality, is somehow connected to the three messengers from the Ghost Post Office, and their original bodies have all successfully escaped the Ghost Post Office. This matter seems bizarre and unbelievable no matter how you look at it.

In fact, there were more than three souls who had interacted with Fengyin Village, or more accurately, with this darkness, because Li Hui had seen more than just the three of them with strange expressions on their faces.

However, since the other spirits did not intend to recount their experiences, Li Hui did not intend to ask them either.

Because the vengeful spirit here has most likely already left, or even been controlled by the dark-skinned middle-aged man himself. After all, the black mist surrounding his body is very similar to the dense darkness in front of him!
Li Hui then asked the three of them several key questions, and finally gained a more accurate understanding of the matter.

First, Yue Ming, the first ghost to recount his experience, delivered a letter to that dense darkness about thirty years ago. The woman in the old cotton-padded jacket with floral patterns also delivered a letter to Fengyin Village in the same year and subsequently encountered supernatural phenomena.

Although both of them delivered letters thirty years ago, they were not messengers on the same floor. Yue Ming was a messenger on the third floor and was promoted to the fourth floor of the post office after delivering that letter, while the woman in the floral cotton-padded jacket delivered the first letter she delivered when she went up to the second floor.

Furthermore, it seems that the two delivered the letters on different days, but because so much time has passed, neither of them can remember the exact order of delivery.

As for Zhou Qing, the dark-skinned middle-aged man, he became a Ghost Tamer twenty-nine years ago.

From this we can infer.

A few months after Yue Ming and the middle-aged woman delivered the letter, a supernatural event broke out in Fengyin Village. A strange darkness emerged and enveloped the entire village. In the end, all the villagers disappeared except for Zhou Qing, who became a ghost tamer.

"What kind of supernatural abilities did the vengeful spirit you were controlling have?" Yang Xiao asked the dark-skinned middle-aged man.

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man replied, "At that time, I had almost no concept of ghost tamers. It wasn't until I gradually came into contact with the paranormal community that I began to understand. I called that vengeful ghost 'Mist Ghost'."

"The Mist Ghost's ability is quite practical. The black mist it emits can shield the senses of the living and even vengeful ghosts. Enveloping oneself in the mist can prevent one from being targeted by vengeful ghosts. Living people who inhale the black mist will suffer physical harm or even die directly. In addition, vengeful ghosts will also be suppressed to a certain extent when shrouded in the black mist. The specific degree of suppression depends on the terror level of the vengeful ghost."

"It is indeed a rather practical supernatural phenomenon." Yang Xiao nodded after listening.

Regardless of the level of terror, the mere fact that the fog envelops one can prevent one from being targeted by vengeful ghosts. This alone is enough to greatly increase a ghost tamer's survival rate when encountering paranormal events.

After all, for most people, surviving a paranormal event is the most difficult problem. Only by surviving and not being killed by a vengeful ghost can they be qualified to consider their next move.

Think of this.

Just as Yang Xiaogang was about to say something more, he noticed that the surrounding environment was changing rapidly. His vision was becoming blurry, everything around him was being distorted, and all he could see was a hazy gray scene.

obviously.

This is Li Hui's ghost realm moving.

From an outside perspective, Li Hui and the others could be seen moving in a strange manner, with the hazy ghostly domain spreading towards the darkness in the middle of the open space.

Regardless of whether there are still evil spirits in that darkness, now that such a strange place has been discovered, Li Hui is determined to explore it no matter what.

But the outcome was destined to disappoint him.

The dense darkness seemed to have long since disappeared, and the environment just looked rather eerie. Li Hui's ghost domain extended without encountering any obstruction, and his ghost domain also had no effect on this darkness, as if this darkness was not a manifestation of any kind of supernatural phenomenon.

the most important is.

Li Hui did not detect any supernatural signs in this darkness. Even the ghost-summoning ritual of the 100% mummified bride failed to summon any vengeful spirits. Yang Xiao's ghost dream and the other supernatural phenomena of the deceased also did not find anything amiss here.

Ultimately, having gained nothing, Li Hui chose to leave.

The hazy ghost realm spread outwards, carrying the people within it with it at great speed. The constantly falling ashes of paper brought a different color to this seemingly faded supernatural space, eventually settling down and covering the ground of this eerie space.

Although no trace of the second vengeful ghost was found in that dense darkness, Li Hui did not give up the idea of ​​searching for the source of the vengeful ghost in this supernatural space.

However, what Li Hui didn't know was...

After his ghostly domain left, the darkness that had been situated on the open ground began to change.

The original pitch-black darkness began to diversify at this moment. The endless darkness gradually dissipated, and many buildings began to appear.

They were rows of slightly old houses, not a small number, numbering in the dozens or even hundreds, most of which were brick and tile houses, just like the old houses in the countryside.

Dozens or even hundreds of old-fashioned houses have come together to form a small village. If Yue Ming, Zhou Qing, and the other ghosts were here, they would definitely recognize the village, especially Zhou Qing, who would be very familiar with the village formed by these houses.

Because this village is none other than Fengyin Village!
(End of this chapter)