Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 141 Tattoo Mutation, Supernatural Fusion?
"It doesn't matter if some people die in order to verify the results of this experiment, because it can save more people."

"If this experiment, which transforms ghost tamers into vengeful spirits with the consciousness of living beings, succeeds, then the problem of ghost tamers' vengeful spirits resurrecting will most likely be solved..."

Wang Xiaoming's tone was unexpectedly cold, as if his mention of "some people dying" wasn't about human lives at all, but rather something insignificant.

At this moment, he was so cold that it was frightening, like a robot without emotions.

But Li Jun fell silent upon hearing this and did not say anything more.

As Wang Xiaoming's personal bodyguard, Li Jun knew clearly what contributions and sacrifices this young man in his early twenties had made for the Ghost Riders headquarters, for their country, and even for all of humanity.

Quite literally.

If research proves that Wang Xiaoming's death can end the trend of the supernatural resurgence, then Li Jun believes that the person in front of him would choose to sacrifice himself without any hesitation!
That's why Wang Xiaoming likes to use 'value' to measure a person.

If someone is valuable enough, he'll do everything he can to train them, even if they're his father's killer or his wife's enemy. But if they're not valuable enough, Wang Xiaoming won't even give them a second glance. That's how realistic he is.

finally.

As if he had just thought of something, Li Jun asked, "Professor Wang, since this is to verify the research results, why not choose a place where there are no people? I'm afraid that Vice Minister Cao and the others will have objections to the current situation."

Upon hearing this, Wang Xiaoming replied without turning his head, "With your current intelligence, it's difficult for me to explain it clearly to you."

"As for the vice minister, he won't have any objections, and neither will those who sacrificed themselves for this experiment!"

While speaking, Wang Xiaoming continued to attend to his other research tasks, seemingly unconcerned about the situation outside the experimental building.

And this is indeed the case.

The human skin paper described the incident in great detail. According to Yang Jian, everything the human skin paper said was true, but there were some unknown traps hidden in the information.

If it were just information revealed by the human skin paper, Wang Xiaoming would have considered it carefully. But Li Hui had said that Wei Jing could succeed, which made Wang Xiaoming make up his mind.

As for casualties?

Actually, there weren't many staff members outside the research building at that moment; most of them were inside. After Wang Xiaoming carried the ghost coffin out, he had the research building sealed off.

Given the security level of the research building, as long as the passage is not opened, no evil spirits from the outside can invade; the supernatural will be isolated by the gold material.

.........

now.

The area outside the research building was pitch black.

In this pitch-black environment, a series of dull, stiff footsteps could be heard from time to time, followed by a scream.

The supernatural is spreading, and fear is growing.

The few remaining staff members huddled together, trembling. They now knew that the experimental base was haunted; the darkness that swallowed even light was clearly a manifestation of the supernatural.

As staff members of the Ghost Tamer Headquarters, they certainly had that much insight.

But it is precisely because of this that they are even more desperate.

Unlike some ignorant and angry ordinary people, as headquarters staff, they know better than anyone how powerless ordinary people are when faced with supernatural forces. Therefore, they can only pray in their hearts that they will not be targeted by vengeful ghosts, otherwise they will surely die!
"There's no need for everyone to be afraid. Professor Wang is right here in the experimental base. I saw him go in with my own eyes. He was accompanied by Li Jun, a powerful ghost tamer. I reckon he's probably already started taking action. The vengeful ghost will probably be dealt with and imprisoned soon!"

A staff member spoke from the darkness, saying things to reassure everyone not to be afraid, but his voice trembled slightly.

However, his words did have some effect; at least the desperate eyes of the people next to him revealed something called 'hope'.

under these circumstances.

Even a one in ten million chance of survival is magnified infinitely by these people, as if a drowning person has grasped at a straw and has a glimmer of hope to survive.

"Yes, yes, Wang Zhe is right. With Li Jun's strength, dealing with this newly resurrected vengeful ghost should be a piece of cake. The reason why the darkness hasn't faded yet is probably because Li Jun hasn't completely found the source of this vengeful ghost!"

At this point, someone spoke up in agreement.

For a moment, everyone's fear seemed to lessen. To an outsider, it would seem as if Li Jun was right beside them, protecting them.

At the same time, everyone noticed that the muffled footsteps in the darkness suddenly disappeared, as if the vengeful ghost had left.

However, before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, Wang Zhe, who was about to back away and hide behind a few people, suddenly stopped. He felt his body bump into something cold and stiff.

"No, it can't be..."

Instant time.

Wang Zhe felt a chill rush straight to the top of his head. His eyes widened, and fear forced him to turn his head to look behind him, while simultaneously raising the flashlight he was holding and shining it behind him.

Under the faint light that had been swallowed by darkness and reduced to a single sliver, a cold, stiff, and terrifying figure stood behind him. Those empty, lifeless, and frightening eyes stared at him without blinking, appearing exceptionally terrifying in the beam of the flashlight!
pat!

At the same time, a cold hand slowly rose and gradually covered Wang Zhe's face... The force was great, and Wang Zhe felt that the bones in his face were being crushed.

"Ah~!"

next moment.

A piercing scream rang out.

Then, several identical screams rang out in the darkness, and then the entire area outside the base fell silent instantly.

But this tranquility was soon broken again.

Tap tap, tap tap tap!

The dull, stiff footsteps sounded and gradually disappeared into the distance. At this moment, the vengeful ghost was leaving, and at the same time, the inky darkness was also shifting and spreading into the distance as the vengeful ghost departed.

If someone familiar with the surrounding layout were present at this moment, they would realize that the vengeful ghost had departed in the direction of the headquarters training base...

at the same time.

Dazhou City.

Outside the central building.

A young man appeared out of nowhere, standing on the open ground outside the building, his gaze sweeping around as if he were confirming something.

"Back to the real world. Sure enough, before Zhang Dong died, his supernatural abilities were active skills, but after his death they became passive skills. It's easy to get in but hard to get out. In the original story, Yang Jian didn't dare to enter that old house. He only dared to set a trap to lure the captain in."

As Li Hui looked at the towering skyscrapers and bustling streets of the modern city, he thought to himself.

Is the captain, who is the embodiment of a ghost ship, capable of breaking down the boundaries between reality and the supernatural?

Li Hui thought it was true; in the original story, he did indeed do just that. Gray fog filled the air, and the ghost ship broke through the boundary, sailing into the illusion, but Zhang Dong instantly erased the supernatural phenomenon.

At the same time, the captain didn't even have a chance to escape. His body was gradually erased, eventually turning into a wooden ship's rudder that remained forever in that old house from the Republican era.

As he pondered, Li Hui looked back.

The bus was suddenly filled with supernatural power. The 'Central Building' behind him disappeared rapidly in his eyes and was replaced by the old house where Zhang Dong was.

The mummified bride, her wedding dress a blood-red stain, still stood at the exit of the old house's corridor. Zhang Dong, who was in the hall, seemed to sense something as well, and his eyes, which had been slightly closed, suddenly opened, looking towards where Li Hui was.

next moment.

Their eyes met, and then Li Hui's vision blurred. The scene of the old house suddenly disappeared, and the scene in his sight transformed back into a modern building.

Seeing this, Li Hui didn't take it seriously and made up his mind to leave. Then, a gray ghost domain emerged and spread in all directions.

"Huh? This is..."

suddenly.

Li Hui's expression suddenly changed.

His gaze immediately fell on the back of his hand, or more precisely, on the Android phone-shaped tattoo on the back of his hand.

Suddenly, the contents of the second and third boxes out of the six boxes on the phone screen began to change.

Both boxes contain Li Hui's replicated supernatural abilities: the '70% Ghost Painting' supernatural ability and the 'Complete Mummified Bride' supernatural ability.

The scenes presented within the frames were a bizarre oil painting and a figure dressed in a red wedding gown and a red veil, resembling a bride about to be married. However, her exposed hands were dry and stiff, and her dark brown skin tightly wrapped her bones, making her look like a terrifying mummified corpse.

These were originally two supernatural phenomena that Li Hui had replicated, but at this moment, there seemed to be a subtle tendency for them to merge together.

The oil painting in the second frame gradually became ethereal at this moment, while the outline of a portrait was faintly emerging behind the mummified bride in the third frame.

And as time goes by, the image of the picture frame behind the mummified bride is gradually becoming clearer. It is the ghost painting in the second frame. However, the speed of this supernatural transfer is very slow, but if this trend continues, there will eventually be a moment when the two supernatural phenomena completely overlap.

"Could it be that by replicating each other's supernatural puzzle pieces, the supernatural forces in these different frames will gradually merge into the same frame?"

Li Hui was very surprised to see this scene, and at the same time, more questions arose in his mind.

He was curious: when the ghostly painting and the mummified bride completely overlapped, and the ghostly painting in the second frame moved behind the mummified bride in the third frame, what would happen to the second frame?

Is the space left over to be used to replicate other supernatural powers, or will these two frames eventually become one?
Another question is how the puzzle pieces are calculated. Are the vengeful spirits that were controlled by the same ghost tamer considered the same puzzle piece, or are they considered the vengeful spirits themselves?
It's important to know that the Ghost Painting and the Mummified Bride were originally two completely different supernatural phenomena. If it weren't for a top ghost master during the Republic of China era who controlled them, the two might not have become pieces of each other's puzzle!

"It seems necessary to conduct an experiment in this area next..."

Thinking.

Li Hui's gaze fell upon an old wooden house deep within his ghost realm. Inside that house were not only a vengeful ghost, but also a coffin made of gold.

Inside the coffin was a part of the hungry ghost's body, but it was incomplete. This is why it could not break out of the coffin after being resurrected.

"If the starving ghost were to devour the ghost messengers, or if the starving ghost were dismembered and then given to the ghost messengers to contain, what would the resulting supernatural event be like?"

Think of this.

Li Hui immediately became eager to try.

He even wondered if, if the two were to become part of each other, and then after being separated and copied, would their simple supernatural aspects also be defined as pieces of each other's puzzle, like the ghost painting and the mummified bride?

of course.

This was just one of Li Hui's ideas. In reality, if the starving ghost and the ghost messenger were really cultivated into a vengeful ghost, he would not dismember it and replicate it separately, but would instead create a whole copy.

As for the research on their puzzle pieces, Li Hui had other goals...

"It's time to go back to Dajing City."

Li Hui's gaze shifted slightly, and as this thought arose, the hazy ghost domain instantly extended in a straight line, spreading towards the direction of Dajing City.

Then, a flash of light appeared in the ghostly realm, and Li Hui's figure disappeared from the spot.

Throughout the entire process, neither the ordinary citizens of the city, nor even the city's leaders and other ghost-controlling individuals, noticed Li Hui's arrival or departure.

After his ghost domain was hidden, the ghost tamers in Dazhou City were unable to see through Li Hui's disguise. At most, they could sense something was wrong, but they didn't know what was wrong.

Grayish paper ash kept falling from the sky. At this moment, Li Hui was not in a hurry to travel. Just like when he first went to Dajing City, he used his Ghost Domain ability to copy the cities he passed along the way and turn them into a scene in his Ghost Domain.

The only difference is that he wasn't as high-profile this time as he was last time. Last time, he directly revealed his ghostly domain, and the scene made the leaders of every city he passed through tremble with fear, thinking that an S-level supernatural event had occurred in their city.

This time, however, he was much more low-key, hiding his ghost realm.

In this situation, the city's leaders would generally not be able to detect anything unusual. Even if a few powerful ghost controllers sensed something amiss, they still wouldn't be able to see through his ghost domain; at most, they would just be a little paranoid.

Besides replicating those modern urban environments, Li Hui also wanted to see if his constant use of ghost paintings could accelerate the fusion of the supernatural elements within the two frameworks.

After all, the changes to the phone screen only began when he returned to the real world and used the Ghost Domain to travel.

However, after trying, the result disappointed Li Hui.

His actions did not speed up the supernatural overlap between the two frames; the fusion between them remained as slow as before.

Furthermore, given the current strength and range of Li Hui's Ghost Domain, even if he wasn't traveling at full speed, the Ghost Domain's straight-line spread allowed him to quickly enter the jurisdiction of Dajing City.

Li Hui then went straight back to the presidential suite on the top floor of the Ping An Hotel.

His room was no different from when he left; if anything, it was cleaner, as if staff had come in to clean it while he was away.

(End of this chapter)