Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 102 Strange Changes in the Old House
A hazy cloud of ashes drifted by, and a figure appeared in the bedroom on the second floor of the old house. It was a young man who looked to be about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, dressed in modern-style clothes.

"This is……?"

You can see it.

The sudden change in environment surprised the figure, and the expression on his face instantly became serious. However, after seeing Li Hui's figure clearly, the seriousness turned into surprise.

then.

Li Hui told the young man his general idea, wanting him to test the strange old man lying on the wooden bed.

"A vengeful ghost that the Ghost Realm cannot detect, just like this old house?"

Hear the words.

Zhang Zhao did not refuse.

Although he was puzzled as to why Li Hui had chosen him instead of Yang Xiao or other top figures, Zhang Zhao still followed Li Hui's instructions and walked towards the wooden bed.

It was a bed made entirely of black sandalwood.

The rest of the wooden bed was covered with a thick layer of dust, making it look like no one had used it. But at this moment, a strange old man was lying on the wooden bed, and there wasn't a speck of dust on his body. The whole thing looked very out of place and was completely out of place with the old wooden bed's dusty and dilapidated appearance.

As the distance closes.

The scene Zhang Zhao saw became even more vivid.

The old man's body was covered in lividity, his skin was loose and wrinkled, and his expression was peaceful, as if he were asleep. Although it was eerie, it was not scary.

"Could it be as Li Hui guessed, that this strange old man is the source of the supernatural phenomena in this old house from the Republican era?"

Zhang Zhao's face showed contemplation, along with a hint of doubt—curiosity about the unknown and a desire to know the final outcome.

Even though these souls were left behind by messengers who had delivered all the letters from the Ghost Post Office, there were still different levels among them. People like Yang Xiao were at the top level, while Zhang Zhao was not particularly outstanding among the souls. The reason he was able to successfully deliver all the letters and escape from the Ghost Post Office was largely due to luck.

It is precisely because of this.

Although Zhang Zhao was equally experienced in dealing with paranormal events, he was still far inferior to a true top expert like Yang Xiao. He was somewhat surprised that Li Hui used him instead of Yang Xiao and others.

Putting himself in Li Hui's shoes, Zhang Zhao would also prioritize having a top-tier individual like Yang Xiao cooperate with him, even though Yang Xiao is currently a wandering soul and does not possess the full supernatural abilities of his original body, his experience in handling supernatural events still remains.

"Ok?"

Sudden.

While Zhang Zhao was pondering, he noticed that the strange old man lying on the wooden bed had moved. Before he could take the initiative to test him, the old man sat up directly from the wooden bed.

The old man's body was very stiff, as if his joints were all frozen together. Because his body was so stiff, the old man's movements when he got up were like a robot's, very unnatural.

"Click, click, click..."

at the same time.

A series of sounds of bones colliding rang out.

At that moment, the strange old man slowly turned his head and looked towards Zhang Zhao's location. And at some point, the old man's tightly closed eyes also opened.

Those were terrifying eyes!

The old man's eyes had no pupils, only the whites of his eyes, which were a deathly white, and his gaze was cold, empty, and lifeless.

And it’s even more than that.

The eerie old man's eyes seemed to possess some unknown supernatural power. The moment Zhang Zhao was stared at by those eyes, he felt his thoughts freeze. This was not due to fear, but rather because he was under some kind of supernatural influence.

next moment.

A chilling aura also emanated from Zhang Zhao. Two shadows intertwined with darkness appeared beside him. One shadow lunged at the eerie old man on the wooden bed, while the other shadow overlapped with his own body.

This is the supernatural power he controls.

The unknown influence of the old man's gaze was only isolated the moment the shadowy figure overlapped with Zhang Zhao's body.

The other dark figure, however, missed its target.

The eerie old man seemed to have no physical form. The shadowy figure, intertwined and fused with darkness, passed right through his body without touching him. However, the dust piled up on the wooden bed was affected, with much of it being wiped away by the shadowy figure.

"What a joke! My attack had no effect on him? How is that possible?"

See this.

Zhang Zhao's face was full of surprise, even shock. The black shadow he had just seen was the result of his full strength. The seemingly ordinary black shadow actually possessed more than one kind of supernatural ability.

If it overlaps with itself, the shadow can negate the supernatural attacks it receives. If it attacks a vengeful ghost, the shadow will suppress the ghost. Ghosts that are not terrifying enough will even be suppressed to the point of dying on the spot!
But such a powerful supernatural attack couldn't even touch the old man's body. Doesn't that mean Zhang Zhao's abilities are ineffective against the old man?

This situation was hard for him to accept. If it was because the eerie old man was too terrifying and the shadowy figure couldn't suppress him, that would be one thing, but the fact that he couldn't even touch him was something Zhang Zhao couldn't understand.

He had never experienced anything like this before, whether it was delivering letters or encountering paranormal events in real life.

at the same time.

Li Hui, who was on the other side of the room, made a move the moment the old man got up.

His hand moved rapidly, and as Li Hui did this, the gray paper dust in the room gathered and eventually formed a figure that looked exactly like Li Hui.

Then, the old wood-chopping knife in Li Hui's hand disappeared and appeared in the hand of the figure. The figure then took a step and appeared strangely beside the wooden bed, swinging the wood-chopping knife at the old man sitting on the bed.

This is not over yet.

Soon, a second figure appeared in the bedroom, also holding a supernatural object in its hand.

It was that rusty coffin nail!
Previously, Li Hui had nailed the coffin nails to the manor lord's body, but before boarding the bus, he dismembered the manor lord's body, just like the other kings, and then pulled out the coffin nails.

Immediately afterward, as the gray ashes drifted by, the figure appeared on the other side of the wooden bed, the rusty coffin nail in its hand plunging towards the eerie old man's body.

Coffin nails and wood-chopping knives are both extremely terrifying supernatural items. The former has an almost unsolvable ability to suppress vengeful ghosts, while the latter's ability to dismember supernatural beings is equally terrifying!
Most vengeful spirits would be dealt with instantly by the combined attack of two supernatural objects, but there are always exceptions.

Before the rusty coffin nails and old wood-chopping knife could strike him, the eerie old man suddenly vanished without a trace, which seemed quite abrupt.

next moment.

The two supernatural items, the machete and the coffin nails, both failed to come to fruition.

"Disappeared?" Zhang Zhao's expression shifted slightly as he turned to look at Li Hui.

Even at such close range, Zhang Zhao couldn't figure out what was wrong with the old man, but he was certain that it wasn't through the power of the Ghost Domain. This was because Li Hui's Ghost Domain enveloped the entire old house, and other Ghost Domains would definitely be suppressed and would be impossible to use normally.

And on the other side.

Li Hui's brows furrowed as well.

He also couldn't discern how the old man had disappeared; the man's figure didn't appear in his ghost realm.

However, just as Li Hui was about to say something, what happened next made him shut up.

An unknown change occurred in the old house.

A chilling wind suddenly swept through his room. It wasn't strong, but it was unusually cold, and the dust that had accumulated on the old furniture was blown up and floated in the air.

Moreover, there seemed to be a strange crying sound mixed in with the cold wind, or like people talking in hushed tones, which seemed very eerie.

"Bang!"

Immediately afterwards, a loud bang came from the bedroom door, as if someone had kicked it hard. The door slammed against the door frame.

Tap, tap, tap...

Footsteps began to sound in the room. The sound was dull and stiff, unlike that of a living person. Instead, it sounded like a stiff corpse walking.

Not only in the second-floor bedroom where Li Hui and Zhang Zhao were, but the entire old house began to undergo a terrifying transformation at this moment.

First, there are the doors inside the old house.

Whether it was the bedroom on the second floor or the rooms on the first floor, all the doors that had not yet been opened were opened at this moment, as if an invisible hand had pushed these doors open.

Also.

The scene in each room was dim, with a faint chill spreading, as if countless vengeful ghosts were hiding in the darkness.

"What's happening here?"

"The vengeful spirits inside the old house have all started to move. Has someone triggered some kind of supernatural rule in the old house, or what?"

"..."

The unusual appearance of the old house immediately attracted the attention of the other spirits.

They all stopped exploring and gathered together to discuss the changes inside the old house. Even the spirits that had entered the rooms to search all withdrew at this moment, including Yang Xiao and others.

When the spirits gathered, they discovered that there were far fewer of them. For example, Yang Xiao realized that Xiao Chengtai, who had been with him, had not come out of the room as he had expected.

"Is it haunted by a vengeful ghost?" Yang Xiao's gaze shifted slightly as he looked towards the room he and Xiao Chengtai had previously explored.

There was a strange red coffin in the room, its color as bright as blood, making it immediately noticeable that something was wrong.

The most terrifying thing was that the coffin lid was opened, and the vengeful ghost inside left the coffin and wandered around the room.

As soon as Yang Xiao and Xiao Chengtai entered the room, the door was closed, plunging the room into complete darkness. Then, footsteps could be heard from inside. Xiao Chengtai then cooperated with Yang Xiao to try and locate the ghost, but as soon as he began to move, he vanished.

Yang Xiao tried to find Xiao Chengtai's whereabouts, but he could never find him. It was as if he had vanished into thin air without leaving any trace.

Something unusual had happened inside the old house. The room door opened by itself, and after Yang Xiao came out to check on everyone, he immediately turned his attention back to that room.

The room that Yang Xiao explored was very strange.

From the outside, the room's interior is dimly lit, but you can still make out the general layout. However, once you enter the room, it becomes completely dark, pitch black, and you can't see your hand in front of your face...

"No?"

In Yang Xiao's view, the room contained only the coffin and an old wooden cabinet. There was nothing else. He could not find Xiao Chengtai, nor could he see the vengeful ghost.

"Is the eerie paranormal manifestation inside that red coffin, or inside that wooden cabinet?"

There were only two items in the entire room, and the only things that could fit a person were a coffin and a wooden cabinet, so Yang Xiao guessed that Xiao Chengtai must be inside one of those two items.

"The vengeful ghost is about to emerge from the room."

Sudden.

One of the dead said this.

At the same time, Yang Xiao and the others soon realized that this was indeed the case. There were three rooms in the lobby on the first floor. Apart from the small room at the far end that resembled a kitchen, footsteps could be heard coming from the other two rooms at this moment.

The footsteps sounded dull and stiff, but the frequencies of the footsteps coming from the two rooms were clearly different, which meant that these were two completely different vengeful ghosts.

Even over time.

Faint noises could be heard coming from the small kitchen at the far end of the first-floor lobby; it was the sound of someone crawling.

Besides.

The environment inside the old house grew increasingly dark, a chilling aura emanated from it, and the temperature inside the house suddenly dropped significantly.

And at the same time.

The scene in Li Hui's room became even more bizarre.

In an instant, the entire bedroom seemed to have undergone a long period of time, becoming even more dilapidated. The tiles on the walls completely fell off, and the already old furniture was completely rotten, leaving only the dressing table in the room relatively intact.

A figure was faintly reflected in the bronze mirror on the dressing table.

The figure was neither Li Hui and Zhang Zhao in the room, nor the middle-aged woman in white, but the strange old man who had just disappeared from the wooden bed.

The eerie old man reflected in the bronze mirror was not far from Li Hui's location, and the old man was still walking, further reducing the distance between them.

If this trend continues...

It's likely that the strange old man will be able to reach Li Hui's side soon.

"Are they targeting me?"

However, Li Hui had already noticed the strange old man's movements.

His gaze was constantly scanning the surrounding scenery, especially the obviously abnormal dressing table next to him, which was Li Hui's main focus. Li Hui had already noticed it the moment the strange old man's figure appeared.

Happy Holidays

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