Thanks for the invitation, I just entered the chat group after traveling through Under One Person.

Chapter 76: Adventure in the Ghost World (V)
Based on his previous feelings, Song Shuhang deduced that these people had failed to resist the spiritual induction, interacted with the people in the market scene, and were subsequently assimilated. If he hadn't suppressed that feeling just now, the same fate would have happened to him.

There were still more than a dozen people who continued to move forward. Although they looked a little dazed, many of them, like Song Shuhang, stimulated their spirits by causing themselves pain and did not get hurt.

There are a few among them who did not use this method. Judging from their temperament, they should be serious elites with stronger spiritual attributes than ordinary people.

"Brother Yun, is there no way to save them?" Song Shuhang had just embarked on the path of cultivation and was essentially a simple and kind-hearted college student. He couldn't bear to see these people die at the hands of evil spirits.

Song Shuhang would not have any sympathy towards his enemies, but he did have some empathy for the unrelated passersby.

It's a pity... Su Yun shook his head: "The evil spirits in this world are not ordinary ghosts, they can't be saved. Unless..."

"Unless what?" Song Shuhang asked hurriedly, hearing the twist. He knew this was a world like hell. He didn't feel guilty about not being able to save anyone, but he knew there was a way out.

Su Yun stretched out his tone, looked at Song Shuhang and said with a smile: "Haven't you read the document? Becoming a ghost tamer, using the power of evil spirits to fight against evil spirits, can save people."

Song Shuhang: (д)
After learning about this plan, Song Shuhang no longer had any thoughts of being a good Samaritan and coming out to save people.

However, Su Yun silently glanced at Song Shuhang again, thinking that with Tyrant Song's luck, since he had come to this world, it was hard not to be connected to evil spirits. It must be that the scapegoat had been controlled by Ye Zhen, otherwise this evil spirit and Song Shuhang would probably be a perfect match.

"Then Brother Yun, why are we standing here now?" Song Shuhang scratched his head, puzzled.

"Ghosts kill people in a pattern. You should observe carefully why these people died and see if you can deduce the pattern of killing." Su Yun explained to Song Shuhang while opening the live broadcast room in the chat group.

Su Yun looked towards the live broadcast room opened by Rick, and what came into his sight was a picture:
Morty, who used to be full of youth, was now so thin that only his skeleton was left to support him. His skin was tightly attached to his cheekbones and was an unhealthy gray-yellow color. He looked like a falling leaf in autumn, fragile and weak.

Morty's eyes were sunken in his eye sockets, and his eyeballs were covered with tiny bloodshot veins.

Whenever he tried to speak, his lips would crack due to dryness, oozing traces of blood, and his voice was weak and hoarse, like a candle swaying in the wind, which could go out at any time.

Rick stretched out his hands and raised them high, as if he was making a greeting gesture to the live broadcast room.

Rick: convex (￣ー￣)convex

"Ahem~ Rick, what are you doing!" Morty couldn't help coughing twice, and asked, looking at Rick's strange behavior.

"Nothing, just a greeting to the idiot writer who brought us to this script. He didn't even give you a shot while you were stubbornly battling the sick ghost. It's obvious that this is a third-rate writer, only capable of producing subpar plots."

"There's no way to accurately portray your grandfather and me. We don't even dare to focus the camera on us. So, Morty, do you want to let loose a little? Like, give us a striptease?" Rick even gestured up and down in greeting, almost ready to dance. Due to censorship issues, Rick didn't take off his pants.

"But shouldn't I be the protagonist just now?" Morty said, "What a weird thing you have."

"These are all small problems. Let's go and find the friend in the coffin." Rick patted Morty's shoulder and asked him to continue into Huanggang Village.

The chat group also discussed Rick's recent efforts to help Morty control the sick ghost. Of course, Rick's recent actions were also a hot topic.

Quietly watching the show (group leader Cheng Yiyi): "Another conversation that breaks through the dimensional wall. This is very Lao Rui."

Tequila Girl (Er Qiao): "That's a good gesture. I've learned it."

Depressed Elementary School Student (Grayfield Ai): "By the way, if I do this, can that old thief Qingshan see it?"

Tequila Girl (Er Qiao): "I think it's uncertain. According to the classification of works in your world, it should not be allowed to be broadcast."

Quietly Watching the Show (Group Leader Cheng Yiyi): "So, no one wants to see Morty do a striptease?"

Depressed Elementary School Student (Grayfield Ai): "I don't want to."

Tequila Girl (Er Qiao): "Not impossible."

……

"Morty~ Those friends are looking forward to your dance performance." "I can see the messages in the group. Except for that big man in women's clothing, no one agrees! Ahem..." Morty walked on the village road with his aching body.

Morty could barely endure this pain, after all, he had suffered more serious injuries when adventuring with Lao Rui.

Su Yun also knew how Moti controlled the sick ghost. This ghost was called the sick ghost because of the characteristic coughing sound. The ghost's killing method was to dissolve the body, and the killing pattern was that anyone who heard the cough could become its target.

Does this killing pattern sound familiar? Yes, the sick ghost controlled by Sun Rui, the head of Dahan City and codenamed "Sick Ghost," follows a similar pattern. Anyone who hears the cough will contract a supernatural illness and quickly die. The ghost will also contract the disease and be suppressed.

There is reason to suspect that this ghost is actually one of the sick ghost puzzle pieces. Sun Rui's ghost used the disease to suppress and weaken the evil ghost, and this ghost dissolved its body. The ghost messenger pieced together the most perfect body and thought it was dissolved by Feng Quan's ghost.

The old woman is a carrier of ghosts. When Morty gets close, the killing pattern is triggered and he will be killed. Rick destroyed the old woman's body after Morty triggered the killing pattern.

Without the carrier, Rick is protected by gold, so the only remaining carrier is Morty. The power of the sick ghost begins to dissolve Morty's body, and Rick uses potions to repair his body.

As they continued to pull, the ghost's supernatural power gradually merged into Morty's body. Morty successfully controlled the evil ghost. Su Yun didn't see the whole scene, but he could imagine that the process was not a pleasant one.

When they return, I'm afraid there will be another painful memory of Morty added to the memory bank.

"Brother Yun, a ghost! A ghost has appeared!" Song Shuhang wasn't as relaxed as Su Yun, still focused on watching the live broadcast in the group chat. He was completely focused, observing the patterns of death, but to no avail. He didn't see any patterns, but the ghost had appeared.

A figure appeared behind a male survivor. This evil spirit was tall and twisted, its skin an unnatural paleness, covered in scars and cracks of varying depths. Its eyes were sunken, but within their sockets burned two dark green lights, devoid of any life.

There was a strange smile on the corner of his mouth, and in that smile there was only a heart-pounding chill and the breath of death.

His hair was stained with dried blood and dirt, revealing a sickening smell of decay. He wore a tattered garment, riddled with holes from the erosion of time, and fluttered in the wind like a dead leaf ready to break at any moment.

There was a black mass wrapped around the feet of this evil ghost. Looking closely, it was clearly a ball of black mist compressed into a ball.

This evil ghost possesses a black fog ghost domain, but in this mysterious place, its ghost domain is severely suppressed and can hardly be used.

But it is still possible to cover oneself in it, which is why they could not see the evil spirit when they looked over just now.

"No!" The man who was targeted by the evil spirit screamed, his life force dissipated, his face turned pale, and he fell to the street.

This man was one of the people with extraordinary temperament just now. Song Shuhang saw that after killing this man, the evil spirit targeted another man. He still had some impression of that guy.

He'd heard this man mentioned before when they were discussing him. He seemed to be the boss of a company. He looked young and modest, not the kind of rich second-generation who would live off the fat of the land and inherit some of the family fortune.

"It doesn't seem like they're targeting randomly. What do these two people have in common? Being men? That definitely can't be the reason." Song Shuhang suppressed his body's instinctive fear of the evil spirit, and his brain quickly thought about the evil spirit's killing pattern.

These people are all making moves to run away, which shows that it is not the behavior that triggers the killing pattern, but some characteristic.

There are different types of killing patterns for evil spirits. The most common one is a certain behavior, such as touching, hearing, seeing, etc., which are all triggered on the spot.

Another possibility is that a certain characteristic matches the ghost's killing pattern. Su Yun knows of a ghost that has the appearance of a shadow representing a teenager, a young adult, and an old man. As long as the shadow matches, the killing pattern will be triggered.

The people killed by the evil spirits we see now are not only men, but also women, but the death rate of men is higher than that of women. This has nothing to do with the gender ratio of the people involved in the supernatural place, but is definitely related to the killing pattern of this evil spirit.

That is, among these people, the proportion of men who trigger the killing pattern is greater than that of women. In other words, when it comes to things that trigger the evil spirit's killing pattern, men are more likely to do so than women.

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PS: Originally this chapter revolved around Rick Morty, but after trying to write it, I felt that Rick was not easy to write. The scale of this anime is a bit large, and it is not suitable to be written into it. If the scale is reduced, it will destroy the character setting.

So I decided to give it a different dimension and focus on the protagonist, Tyrant Song. Incidentally, the Ghost World Adventure chapter is about 15 to 20 chapters long.

(End of this chapter)