Mysterious Resurrection: What If

Chapter 3 Out of Control (Part 3)

Within the dark blue-green ghost realm.

Somewhere in headquarters.

"That old Qin actually managed to stop the starving ghost, but finding the ghost in this ghost realm will be difficult, let alone imprisoning it."

A sallow-faced, gloomy paper figure walks through a narrow passage, holding a burning white ghost candle in its hand.

"Anyway, Wang Xiaoming's task for me was just to find the starving ghost; whether I can imprison him or not depends on that old Qin..."

Suddenly, the lights at the end of the narrow passage began to flicker.

With a 'bang!', the light bulbs went out one by one from a distance, heading towards Liu San's direction.

"You're here so soon?"

Suddenly! The speed at which the light bulb went out accelerated dramatically, bang bang bang bang bang! The sound of the light bulb exploding was like firecrackers exploding wildly. With each light bulb going out, a figure stood below, rushing towards Liu San with the darkness.

The next second, darkness engulfed Liu San.
Inside the meeting room, Liu San pointed to an area on the map.

"Found it, it's in this area. But you need to be quick. The hungry ghost hasn't completely devoured the coffin nails yet, but it's almost there. The coffin nails are restricting it less and less. Once it's fully adapted to the coffin nails, I won't be able to help you anymore. I can't be sure if the hungry ghost with the coffin nails will gain the same ability after eating my paper doll. I can't take that risk. Goodbye."

Wang Xiaoming watched the paper figure slowly dissipate, pondered for a moment, and continued analyzing the information on the computer in front of him.

The scene shifts to somewhere in headquarters.

The dark, viscous substance seemed almost solid, and a strong stench of decay permeated the air. Corpses were everywhere. The atmosphere was chilling, bone-deep, and filled with a sinister atmosphere.

Wang Chaling leaned against the wall, his gold-rimmed glasses lying to the side. His entire left arm was gone, and thick, dark blue-green viscous fluid was still oozing from the wound, as if it had been forcibly torn off by something.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Wang Chaling kept spitting out blood.

"A starving ghost with coffin nails is terrifying. I shouldn't be here..."

Suddenly, the darkest, thickest part of the dark blue-green liquid began to churn, and a chilling aura swept over him, instantly engulfing Wang Chaling.

Wang Chaling cried out hoarsely, "Grandpa and Grandma, please help me block this attack!"

The two lifeless, black-and-white old men behind him suddenly moved. Their cold, ethereal figures flickered and appeared one after the other beside Wang Chaling, protecting him.

Tap tap tap..
A series of leather shoes clattered on the ground beside Wang Chaling, then stopped behind him.

"He's approaching me... Has he stopped behind me...?"

Although Wang Chaling can't see anything now, he can vaguely tell from the footsteps that the thing is less than ten meters away from him.

Footsteps sounded again. At three-five meters, Wang Chaling could already smell the stench of a corpse that had been sitting for days, as if he could reach out and touch the ghost's body.
"Should we do it...? But if I lose my grandparents' protection, I might be killed by this ghost instantly... Or should we let Mom try again..."

Wang Chaling stared at his severed hand, cold sweat pouring down his face. Only the Wang family of that generation could withstand the starving ghost, and this severed hand was the best proof of that.

The footsteps suddenly stopped a meter away, as if the ghost was standing right behind Wang Chaling.

Should we take action?
He was hesitating and thinking.

However, there were no starving ghosts behind Wang Chaling, only a pair of strange leather shoes standing there.

The real ghost stood before Wang Chaling, staring intently at him.

Just as Wang Chaling was about to make his move and turned around, a rotting hand, reeking of decay, suddenly reached in front of him and aimed straight for his neck. The old man blocking his way didn't move at all, standing frozen in place as if his computer had crashed.

Before Wang Chaling could react, the old man behind him grabbed the hand first. Before he could even be surprised, a rotting head split open, revealing a set of dark, ferocious teeth, and bit down on Wang Chaling's head.

Just as the rotting human head was about to bite into his head, Wang Chaling suddenly pulled out a ghost candle and blocked the black, ferocious teeth.

Wang Chaling wanted to light the ghost candle, but as an ordinary person, he had lost too much blood from a broken arm and his consciousness was beginning to blur, so this was the only thing he could do.

"Hopefully this will work... Hold on until reinforcements arrive, and we'll win..."

But to Wang Chaling's astonishment, the hungry ghost's other rotting hand slowly stabbed towards the old man blocking its way. The instant it pierced the old man's body, his movements suddenly slowed dramatically, while his rotting head rapidly devoured the red ghost candle.

Despair spread through Wang Chaling's heart, and in just a moment, the two vengeful ghosts of the Wang family generation were restrained.

"Ha, so this is the starving ghost who has completely mastered the coffin nail? I guess I'm still not suited for this path." Wang Chaling looked at the black, ferocious teeth, his eyes filled with despair.

In dire straits, just as Wang Chaling was about to make up his mind to do something...

Suddenly, a memory that did not belong to Wang Chaling surfaced in his mind.

He seemed to have been here before, but in his memory, this place didn't have any starving ghosts. He was standing here just like today, but there was one more person present in his memory.

A man named Shen Lin, in my memory, stood in front of Wang Chaling, in the spot where the starving ghost should have been.

Suddenly, Wang Chaling opened his eyes.

A strange thing happened. Wang Chaling looked at the man in front of him, who was dressed casually and looked quite relaxed. The man even smiled and greeted him.

"Thank goodness, I made it in time. If it weren't for that momentary balance between the starving ghost and the two old men behind you, I really wouldn't have been able to get in here. Let me introduce myself, my name is Shen Lin, one of the headquarters' designated team leaders."

Wang Chaling stared at the man before him in disbelief. "Consciousness?...Does it not exist in reality? Such an unbelievable ability."

"Everyone has their own different experiences. Compared to my abilities, those two old people behind you are the real terror."

Shen Lin waved his hand, looking at the two lifeless, black-and-white old men behind Wang Chaling with fear in his eyes.

"However, you are timid and hesitant, and you haven't made full use of their value. If you continue to hesitate like this, I will abandon you without hesitation."

After saying that, Shen Lin turned to look at the dark, bluish-green depths.

"Wow, here it comes again."

As soon as Shen Lin finished speaking, the viscous, dark blue aura rushed towards them again, seemingly even more dangerous than before. Sensing this chilling aura, the hairs on both of them stood on end.

"Wang Chaling, you only have one chance. I will shield you from this attack. You just need to do what you are supposed to do. Even if I die, I will die before you."

Shen Lin stared solemnly at the very center of the dark blue-green area, where a man with a completely dark blue-green body stood stiffly.

"Captain Shen, I owe you a favor. Since you've decided to risk your life, I will certainly do the same without reservation. However, the file indicates that the Hungry Ghost may possess the ability to restart. Be careful..."

Wang Chaling's expression hardened as the figure of the second generation of the Wang family slowly overlapped with his own.

"Don't worry, I'm prepared. Besides, who in their right mind would trust a file? Do you trust files?"

"I don't believe it either."

The two men exchanged a smile and said nothing more.

(End of this chapter)