Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 98 An Old House from the Republican Era
The eerie village was old and deserted, with no trace of any living people. All the buildings were dilapidated, and the walls were covered with cracks, as if they could collapse at any moment.

Also.

The village was incredibly dark, giving it an eerie and terrifying feel, as if it were a ghost village.

A winding dirt and gravel path stretched from the village all the way to the asphalt road. Li Hui, who had just gotten off the eerie bus, stepped directly onto this dirt and gravel path.

Shortly after he got off the bus, it started moving again and disappeared from Li Hui's sight in the blink of an eye.

Here.

There were six vengeful ghosts who got off the bus with him. Apart from the ghost that looked like a middle-aged woman with a slightly illusory appearance, all the other vengeful ghosts were forcibly removed from the bus.

Li Hui's ghostly aura enveloped them, and he took all the vengeful spirits off the car.

The reason we didn't take action against these vengeful spirits before was because we were afraid it would affect the route of the ghost bus, but now that we've reached our destination, we no longer have that concern.

It is worth mentioning that.

These vengeful ghosts didn't even require Li Hui to intervene, because they were already within his ghost realm from the very beginning. Seventy percent of the ghost painting's supernatural influence had corrupted them, making these vengeful ghosts a part of his ghost realm.

But there are exceptions.

For example, the ethereal, white-clad ghost vanished the moment it got off the bus, appearing quite abrupt. It disappeared right before Li Hui's eyes, and even his ghost domain couldn't find any trace of it.

Although Li Hui was somewhat surprised, he didn't think too much about it. In his opinion, the ghost got off at this stop, so its destination was obviously the same abandoned village. In that case, it meant that it hadn't really escaped.

While thinking.

The grayish ashes drifted and enveloped the village not far away.

That's when.

The scene in Li Hui's eyes had changed.

To be precise, two different scenes appeared in my eyes, one of which was the scene of a village, filled with desolation and ruin.

The other scene is quite the opposite.

It was also a village, but it was filled with a modern atmosphere.

The village is full of buildings, some two-story, some three-story, and some even Western-style villas.

Besides, the modern village was filled with all sorts of people, all busy with their own things, appearing vibrant and full of life, a stark contrast to the desolate village.

But these two very different and distinct scenes are intertwined and overlapped, giving people a very strange feeling.

This ability of the supernatural bus allowed Li Hui to see through the boundary between the supernatural world and the real world at this moment.

Every haunted place has a point of intersection with the real world. They seem unrelated, like two different worlds, but in reality, all it takes is a trigger for the scene of the haunted place to completely merge with the real world.

This is also the origin of the earliest paranormal events in the real world.

It was because the vengeful spirits from the haunted lands invaded the real world, and then paranormal events gradually began to erupt. This led to the emergence of ghost tamers, who then began to imprison the vengeful spirits…

While pondering, Li Hui followed the weed-covered dirt path into the village.

The entire village was shrouded in his ghostly domain. Logically, there shouldn't be any secrets in the village that could escape Li Hui's perception, but strangely, no trace of vengeful ghosts was found in his ghostly domain. It was as if this was just an ordinary, abandoned village.

But this is obviously impossible.

Putting aside the fact that this is a strange place clearly revealed by the human skin paper, how could a village located in such a supernatural place not have any vengeful ghosts? After all, the vengeful ghost who looked like a middle-aged woman just disappeared from his ghost realm, and it is very likely that it entered the village.

Thinking.

Li Hui continued to move forward.

The dull footsteps echoed around, bringing a touch of life to the abandoned village, but also revealing a strange sense of eeriness.

Before long, Li Hui entered the very center of the village.

During this time, he also entered several houses to investigate, but unfortunately, Li Hui did not find anything unusual in those houses. There were no traces of the supernatural in the houses, and they seemed very normal, no different from those abandoned old houses in the countryside in the real world.

"Could it be that the vengeful spirits in this village require some specific method to manifest?" Li Hui wondered to himself.

There are indeed many vengeful ghosts in this world that cannot be seen with the naked eye, or even in the Ghost Realm. They can only be seen through special means, such as the vengeful ghost on the red stool, or nightmares, ghost dreams, and so on.

"Damn the human skin paper, the information it reveals is incomplete. It only says that the evil spirits in this village are useful to me, but the description of the evil spirits is extremely vague."

For a while.

Li Hui had the feeling that he had been scammed by a human skin paper.

The information revealed to him by the human skin paper was that the vengeful ghost was in this village. At the time, he thought that as long as he entered this haunted place, he would be able to find the existence of the vengeful ghost, but now it seems that it is not that simple.

Not to mention the vengeful ghost revealed by the human skin paper, they didn't even notice the illusory female ghost that got off the ghost bus earlier.

"Huh? That's..."

However, just as Li Hui was mentally complaining about how ridiculous the human skin paper was, he suddenly stopped in his tracks, his brows furrowed, and his gaze fixed on what lay ahead.

In front of him stood a building.

It was a two-story old house, also in a very old style, like a building from the Republican era. The entire house was built of blue bricks, and much of the wood supporting the roof tiles had rotted away, causing a section of the roof to collapse.

In addition, the walls of the house were covered with moss, making it look very desolate and dilapidated, adding a touch of gloom to this old Republican-era house.

Overall, this dilapidated old house from the Republican era is almost no different from other wooden or mud houses in the village, with the same old style and the same dilapidated state.

But this is not the case.

Because in Li Hui's ghost realm, there was an empty space in front of him, and the dilapidated old house from the Republican era did not actually exist.

In other words, this is an ancient house that can be seen with the naked eye, but will not appear in the ghost realm.

This situation reminded Li Hui of the haunted place inside the Caesars Hotel.

That's a ghost hotel!

The eerie passageway connecting the Ghost Hotel and Caesars Hotel is also hidden from view within the Ghost Domain. The Ghost Domain must be closed to see the passageway before one can enter the Ghost Hotel.

"The vengeful ghost is inside this old house!"

Just as Li Hui was looking around the old house, he suddenly noticed a figure flash past the window on the second floor. The figure was so fast that even Li Hui couldn't make out the figure clearly.

If nothing unexpected happens, that fleeting figure is very likely the vengeful ghost mentioned on the parchment, which is also Li Hui's target for this trip.

After all, judging from the state of this deserted village, the older generation of ghost controllers who suppressed this supernatural place are most likely dead. Therefore, the probability that the figure is a vengeful ghost is greater than that of a ghost controller who survived from the Republican era.

Even if it really is from the Republican era, it is most likely a vengeful ghost that has been resurrected!
Thinking of this, Li Hui took a step forward and went straight to the front of the old-fashioned house. Then he raised his hand and pushed the closed door.

The door to the old house in front of him was tightly closed, so he couldn't use his Ghost Domain ability to teleport in directly. The seemingly ordinary building blocked his Ghost Domain's invasion and never appeared in the Ghost Domain. Therefore, he could only enter through the most primitive method of opening the door.

“Crack~!”

The gate of the old-fashioned house was just like the houses in the village that Li Hui had explored before. It didn't take much effort to enter from the outside; the gate opened with a gentle push.

The moment the door was pushed open, a cold, damp atmosphere rushed out, and there was a faint smell of decay in the air.

Furthermore, the environment inside the old house was dark and oppressive, with no light at all.

But Li Hui's expression remained unchanged. He first looked up and glanced at the lobby of the building a few times, and then stepped directly inside.

There weren't many things in the main hall on the first floor of the old house. There were only some badly rotten pieces of wood scattered on the floor. They looked like wooden furniture, but because they had been there for so long, they had all rotted away.

Compared to the houses Li Hui had previously explored, the furniture and facilities in this ancient house were even inferior to those houses. At least the tables and chairs in those houses were not completely rotten, and their degree of decay was far less than that of this ancient house.

Besides the lobby, there are three rooms on the first floor.

The door to the innermost room was open, and judging from the furnishings inside, it should be the kitchen. Li Hui could already see half of a stove, the kind used in the countryside for burning firewood.

The doors to the other two rooms were closed, and it was unclear what was inside, but they were probably either bedrooms or storage rooms.

Li Hui had no intention of opening the two doors to go inside and take a look. Instead, he focused his attention on the staircase leading to the second floor.

The figure he had seen earlier flashed past the second-floor window. Then, Li Hui used his Ghost Domain ability to teleport to the front of the old house and pushed the door open, moving at an extremely fast speed.

If nothing unexpected happens, the owner of that figure should still be on the second floor at this moment.

Unless the other party also used the Ghost Domain ability to move, it would be impossible for them to go down to the first floor in such a short time and hide in a room on the first floor.

The staircase in the old house is not made of cement, but of wood, and many of the steps are rotten, making one wonder if one might fall down if one steps on them.

However, Li Hui did not intend to walk up step by step. Just like the eerie passage leading to the haunted hotel in the Caesars Grand Hotel, the use of the Ghost Domain would not be affected after entering this old house.

The grayish paper dust kept falling and quickly spread to every corner of the old house. At the same time, a portrait appeared in front of Li Hui. It was the oil painting where Yang Xiao and the others were.

Immediately afterward, Li Hui had a thought, and the portrait began to gradually become illusory. On the contrary, Yang Xiao and the others in the portrait became more realistic. Finally, the oil painting disappeared, and Yang Xiao and the others appeared in the first-floor hall of this old house.

"here it is?"

Yang Xiao, who was in the lead, turned his gaze to Li Hui, his eyes questioning.

Then Li Hui gave a brief, truncated account of the situation and revealed his purpose: he wanted Yang Xiao and the others to explore the old house, not just the two closed rooms in the first-floor hall, but also the second floor and other areas.

"An unknown, haunted place? An old, dilapidated house that even the ghost realm of ghost paintings cannot invade, and a Republican-era building that can only be seen with the eyes, not revealed within the ghost realm..."

Yang Xiao's eyes flickered slightly, and he quickly understood the meaning behind Li Hui's words, as well as Li Hui's true purpose in using these dead souls.

Perhaps in terms of pure strength, they are no match for Li Hui.

However, when it comes to experience dealing with the supernatural, Li Hui is clearly no match for these ghosts. With their help, Li Hui can obtain what he wants in the shortest amount of time, and the secrets of this ancient house will be discovered in the shortest possible time.

"Okay, I know."

Yang Xiaoying said.

The other spirits naturally had no objections.

Soon, everyone began their operation. The thirty-odd undead souls dispersed in twos and threes and began to explore the ancient house.

Li Hui then arrived at the second floor of the old house.

The layout of this floor is not much different from that of the first floor.

It also consisted of a large hall with three rooms, and all three room doors were closed.

"Did that vengeful ghost enter one of the rooms?"

The second-floor lobby was empty, without any furniture. Similarly, Li Hui, who went up to the second floor, did not find the figure that had flashed past the window of the second-floor lobby earlier.

The second floor of the old house was equally eerie, isolating it from the supernatural realm. Even though ashes filled the air throughout the old house, they could not truly penetrate the tightly closed bedrooms, and no one knew what was behind those doors.

Tatata!
Li Hui took a step and walked towards the door of the room closest to him.

Now that the figure had disappeared, he prepared to check each room one by one, since there were only three rooms on the second floor in total.

The bedroom door was painted a brownish-red color, but at this moment, the paint had peeled off in many places, leaving it mottled and unsightly, clearly due to its age.

"Clap!"

Li Hui reached out and grabbed the rusty doorknob, then slowly and forcefully turned it, trying to open the door in front of him.

However, the lock seemed to be completely rusted shut. Li Hui felt a huge resistance when he tried to turn it, but he didn't care. He increased the force in his hand and continued to turn the doorknob.

"Kakaka..."

With the addition of supernatural power from the bus, Li Hui displayed terrifying power that no living person should possess. In an instant, the doorknob on the door began to bend irregularly and gradually deform.

Despite the rusty door handle being twisted to an extreme degree, it still did not break or shatter.

It seemed that some kind of supernatural force was maintaining this incredible phenomenon, but strangely, Li Hui did not sense any trace of supernatural force, as if the door in front of him was completely normal.

(End of this chapter)