Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 37 Excessive Number of Ghost Slaves

Ghost painting world.

Li Hui walked straight towards the supermarket where the survivors were, hoping to get some useful information from them.

Before he could even get close, the two people inside the supermarket rushed out in terror and ran in the opposite direction from where Li Hui was. They looked very panicked, as if Li Hui were some kind of monster.

It was precisely their behavior that made Li Hui see things more clearly.

Both were women, probably in their early twenties, with messy hair and clothes, as if they hadn't washed or groomed themselves in a long time.

Both of them were carrying a lot of bread, mineral water, and other food items.

Because of the strenuous exercise, many of the things they were carrying had scattered, but the two of them did not stop to pick them up. Instead, they quickened their pace and ran deeper into the city along the street, soon disappearing around the next corner.

See this.

Li Hui's eyes flickered slightly. He did not choose to stop the two men from escaping, but instead quickened his pace to follow them.

Soon, Li Hui followed them to the front of an old-fashioned residential building. He saw with his own eyes that the two women had fled into the dimly lit building, where two pieces of bread and a bottle of mineral water were scattered in the stairwell.

"Who is Nana?"

As Li Hui approached, a woman's voice came from the old-fashioned residential building, but she spoke in Japanese.

His voice trembled noticeably, perhaps because of the intense running he had just done, or perhaps because he was too nervous and scared.

Standing in front of the old-style residential building, Li Hui frowned upon hearing the question coming from inside, then asked, "Can you understand Mandarin?"

He didn't know much about the language and culture of the island nation, but he could still understand some simple greetings, such as the question the other person had just asked him.

As Li Hui's voice rang out, the old-fashioned residential building fell silent instantly. However, just when Li Hui thought the other party couldn't understand him, another woman's voice rang out.

"You... are you Chinese?"

Compared to the previous questioning voice, the owner of the second voice seemed to be younger, with a soft and sweet voice. In Li Hui's words, this voice was simply a killer for male otaku.

“Very good, it seems some of you can speak Mandarin.”

Li Hui cut to the chase, saying, "I mean you no harm. The reason I'm following you is mainly to find out what's happening in this city. How long have you been here? Do you know the approximate range of the vengeful ghost?"

"Are you new here?"

The woman in the apartment building seemed quite surprised when she heard Li Hui's question.

After all, anyone who has lived here for a while would have a good understanding of the city and wouldn't ask such a question. Therefore, the woman guessed that Li Hui was probably a newcomer who had just arrived here, and another unlucky guy.

But then the woman had a feeling that something was wrong, because Li Hui had asked the right question about the ghost, which meant he knew that there were ghosts wandering around the city.

After thinking for a moment, the woman said, "My name is Igawa Sakuragiko. I studied at a university in China, so I can understand Chinese."

"My sister and I have been here for more than three months. At that time..."

"..."

“There are indeed terrifying ghosts wandering around this city. In your Chinese terms, they would be called vengeful spirits.”

"The ghost's area of ​​activity is..."

"..."

The woman inside the apartment building kept talking, while Li Hui listened quietly outside, not interrupting her, only asking a few questions when she mentioned some key information.

During this time.

The building's main gate remained tightly shut, showing no sign of opening.

.........

ten minutes later.

Li Hui, carrying his backpack, turned and left alone, heading straight down the street in another direction.

The conversation with the island woman was just a minor incident; the purpose was to gain a better understanding of the city, confirm the general area of ​​the vengeful spirit's activity, and it would be even better if we could learn about the vengeful spirit's killing patterns.

Unfortunately, the woman in that old-fashioned apartment building didn't seem to know much about it either.

According to the woman's own account, her name is Igawa Sakuragiko, and she and her sister have been living in this city in the painting for more than three months.

One day three months ago.

The ghost painting incident suddenly struck the island nation. The entire city's environment turned gray, and ashes from the paper kept falling from the sky.

Then something strange happened.

People kept dying in the city, and their deaths were bizarre and bloody. Most terrifyingly, Igawa Sakurako later saw people who had already died wandering around the city.

No, to be precise, their corpses were wandering the city, their expressions blank, their bodies covered in lividity, a truly horrifying sight.

Since then, Igawa Sakuragiko has been convinced that the city is haunted, and she and her sister have stayed away from that area.

In the days that followed, Sakurako Igawa discovered that there were fewer and fewer survivors in the city. By now, there were very few living people left in the city. So when they saw Li Hui in the supermarket, they immediately chose to run away.

Because at the time, they weren't sure whether Li Hui was a human or a ghost.

.........

"That woman is hiding a lot of things."

Walking down the street, Li Hui kept pondering the words of the person who called herself 'Igawa Sakurako' in his mind, his expression calm.

He wasn't stupid; he could sense the woman in the apartment building was wary of him, which was evident from the fact that the building's main door hadn't been opened.

Moreover, the fact that the two sisters were able to survive in this godforsaken place for more than three months proves that they are not simple people. Because a stupid person would have died long ago, so how could they not be wary of a stranger like themselves?

after all……

In such a haunted place, everyone lives in despair. The human heart may be more terrifying than a vengeful ghost!
Therefore, Li Hui felt that even the name 'Igawa Sakuragiko' was probably fake, and most of what the other party said was unreliable.

But one thing Li Hui was certain of was the area where the vengeful ghost operated.

Because there is no need to lie.

However, Li Hui had no idea how much important information the other party had concealed.

But that's not important. Knowing the general area where the vengeful ghost is active is enough. The vengeful ghost and the exit are related. If you find the vengeful ghost, you will have a high chance of finding the ghost painting exit with this city as the background.

According to the woman, the area where she saw the vengeful ghost was located in the east of the city. Shortly after the ghost painting incident, a wooden building appeared in the east of the city.

Many people went inside to explore the suddenly appearing wooden building, but none of them came out alive; they all died inside.

Li Hui specifically asked how she determined that those people died in the wooden building, and Igawa Sakurako said that she herself had seen some of the bodies appear.

The corpse was extremely horrific, no different from those terrifying corpses that were killed by vengeful ghosts and then appeared to roam the city.

This indirectly suggests that the vengeful ghost in that wooden building is the same one that killed the residents later.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the residents who died later were killed by the demon servants.

Tatata!
As Li Hui moved forward, he got closer and closer to the eastern part of the haunted city that 'Igawa Sakurako' had mentioned, and at the same time, he noticed that the surrounding environment was becoming increasingly dark.

Li Hui even saw figures flashing by in the buildings on both sides of the road, and it seemed that people were walking inside. In a quick glance, Li Hui could make out the appearance of one of the figures.

His expression was blank, his eyes were empty, cold, and lifeless, and his exposed skin was covered with lividity. His whole body was deathly still, carrying a cold and eerie aura.

Those figures were all ghost slaves!
a large amount.

Li Hui roughly counted, and in the few steps he had just taken, he saw no fewer than ten moving corpses in the buildings on both sides of the road. Even if there were multiple bodies, the number was still more than five or six.

There were more than three ghost slaves in each building, and that night there were at least thirty or forty buildings on both sides of the road.

As he went deeper, the number of ghost slaves in the buildings also increased dramatically. At first, there were three or four walking corpses in a building, but now there are five or six in each building, and this number is still increasing.

At the same time, a strange building at the end of the road also came into Li Hui's view.

It was a two-story wooden house shrouded in darkness, seemingly abandoned for a long time. The exposed parts of the house looked dilapidated, most of the planks were damp and moldy, some were covered with moss, and some were even completely rotten.

The style of the wooden house was similar to the documentaries Li Hui had seen on Earth before. It was not a modern style, but rather something from the 1920s or 30s.

The interior of the wooden house is even more eerie and terrifying.

Someone was moving in the darkness, their figure appearing and disappearing, making it difficult to see clearly and giving off a chilling and eerie feeling.

"Is it a vengeful ghost or a ghost servant?"

Li Hui took a look. The figure was hidden in the darkness, and he couldn't see the face clearly, but judging from the outline of the figure, the person was unusually tall, probably over two meters tall.

In island nations, a height of over two meters is already considered that of a 'little giant'.

"crunch~"

"Bang!"

As Li Hui approached, it was as if some terrifying rule had been triggered, and the doors of all the buildings on both sides of the road were opened at that moment.

The interiors of those buildings were unusually dark, and figures stood inside the doors—the ghost slaves that Li Hui had seen earlier.

Tap, tap, tap...

next moment.

Dense and muffled footsteps sounded, and one by one, terrifying-looking, expressionless ghost servants emerged from the building and gradually walked towards Li Hui's location.

The atmosphere was cold and eerie... the temperature on the street seemed to drop dramatically at that moment.

(End of this chapter)