Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 157 Respective actions

"The superposition of three ghost domains, 21 slots for suppressing vengeful ghosts, and true infinite restart, similar to the 'infinite derivation' ability of ghost paintings, in addition to the abilities of those vengeful ghosts devoured by the ghost messengers and the starving ghosts..."

After some exploration and experimentation, Li Hui summarized the 60% of supernatural abilities he had replicated.

Leaving aside the ability to superimpose ghost domains and suppress vengeful spirits, the sheer number of ghost messengers and the supernatural abilities devoured by ghost messengers and starving ghosts alone is enough to make Li Hui's replica worthwhile.

After the experiment, the darkness in the room receded quickly, and the light in the room came back on. The supernatural phenomena belonging to the ghost messengers and the starving ghosts disappeared rapidly, but the dark and gloomy scene with paper ash constantly floating around did not improve.

obviously.

The eerie atmosphere of the ghost painting still lingered over the entire suite, preventing the vengeful spirit inside the coffin from going out of control; the ghost painting's power was intended to suppress the spirit.

"Next, we need to deal with the potential future problems..."

Thinking.

Li Hui focused his gaze on the red ghost coffin in front of him, or more precisely, on the terrifying ghost inside the coffin.

However, Li Hui frowned at just one glance.

The terrifying ghost inside the coffin, whose eyes had been tightly closed, slowly opened them. Its already pitch-black eyes became even darker, like two small black holes. However, a strange red dot appeared in the middle of its dark eyes.

It was the same crimson as the eerie red glow emanating from the phone tattoo.

Besides.

The original dark blue skin color was also changing rapidly; the skin on the ghost's body was turning black quickly, and the deathly blue color was fading away rapidly.

At the same time, wisps of black mist emanated from its body, filling the ghost coffin and attempting to spread outwards, but ultimately failed.

Under Li Hui's control.

The dense ashes that had been floating in the room suddenly fell down, scattering into the red ghost coffin and coming into contact with the inky darkness inside.

The moment the two came into contact, the darkness inside the ghost coffin began to disappear, returning to the body of the vengeful ghost.

Clearly, even if the ghost realms of the starving ghosts and the ghost messengers overlapped, their ghost realms still couldn't withstand the supernatural power of the ghost painting, and their ghost realms would be completely suppressed in an instant!

"Clap!"

next moment.

The suppressed vengeful spirit in the ghost realm immediately took action. It grabbed the two sides of the red ghost coffin with both hands, and sat up from the coffin in a strange posture.

Then, a sound of bones cracking came from inside the ghost's body, and under Li Hui's gaze, it stood up directly from the ghost coffin.

At the same time, Li Hui, who was standing in front of the ghost coffin, also began to act.

He threw a punch directly at the body of the vengeful ghost in front of him, carrying a bus and a terrifying supernatural power that was enough to suppress 21 vengeful ghosts, wanting to suppress the vengeful ghost in front of him as soon as possible.

"Wow~"

At this time.

The old shroud worn by the vengeful ghost began to flutter and rustle without wind. One corner of the shroud was strangely lifted up, blocking Li Hui's fist.

However, even the ghost shroud could not withstand Li Hui's terrifying attack. It was suppressed the moment it touched Li Hui's fist. The entire shroud seemed to fall silent and stop moving. It looked no different from an ordinary shroud, and all the supernatural elements seemed to disappear.

boom!
Without the ghost shroud blocking his way, Li Hui's fist landed squarely on the vengeful ghost in front of him.

The powerful force dented its chest, and the vengeful ghost was sent flying out of the red coffin, crashing into a corner of the living room where it remained motionless for a long time.

"Ok?"

Upon seeing this, Li Hui's expression shifted slightly, and his face became wary. He didn't believe that the ghost messengers or starving ghosts at this stage could be suppressed into silence by a single punch from him.

If there is no movement for half a day, it can only mean that an unknown change has occurred.

as predicted.

Just as Li Hui was about to approach the vengeful ghost to further suppress and eliminate it, the ghost stood up in a bizarre posture and then quickly pounced towards Li Hui.

At the same time, something even stranger happened.

A crimson light surged forth, enveloping the ghost's body. The ashes floating around the room were instantly swallowed up upon touching the red light, and then a hazy layer of ashes appeared around the ghost as well.

That's a ghost painting, a supernatural thing.

At this moment, the vengeful ghost displayed the supernatural power of the ghost painting, devouring and replicating this supernatural phenomenon.

"The combination of a starving ghost and a ghost messenger can produce such a change? While I replicated its supernatural abilities, it also devoured the supernatural power belonging to the phone tattoo?" At this moment, Li Hui frowned deeply.

However, he quickly realized that after his previous visit to the old house, he had confirmed that the phone tattoo was a vengeful ghost, and that eerie red light that could replicate other supernatural phenomena was a manifestation of supernatural power.

Whether they are starving ghosts or ghost messengers, they all have the ability to devour other vengeful ghosts and then use the supernatural power that they have devoured. So once Li Hui thought about it this way, he was no longer surprised.

.........

at the same time.

Tai O City.

On the top floor of a building in the city, a man and a woman, both around fifty years old, stood side by side, their eyes scanning the bustling city as if searching for something.

"Zhang Ying, are you sure you didn't hear wrong? Zhang Xianguang asked you to go to such lengths to find me to work together, just so you could kidnap an ordinary woman from Da'ao City and take her to Shuangqiao Town?"

The man among the two spoke up.

His name is Du Hong, a top-notch ghost tamer. He used to be a messenger for the Ghost Post Office. After successfully delivering all the letters from the first to the fifth floor, he left the Ghost Post Office. Finally, when faced with the problem of the resurgence of vengeful ghosts, he met Zhang Xianguang, who was still active outside at the time, and thus became Zhang Xianguang's teammate.

Zhang Ying, who was standing next to her, was in the same situation.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Ying said, "There's no mistake. Zhang Xianguang's original words were that I should go with you to bring that woman named He Yuelian back to Shuangqiao Town. And that woman is not ordinary at all. You'll know the details after you see this photo."

talking.

Zhang Ying handed a photo to Du Hong.

"This is……"

Du Hong glanced at the photo briefly, then his expression changed drastically. He said incredulously, "This is the woman in that haunted painting. Is the woman Zhang Xianguang asked us to capture related to that ghost painting from abroad?"

The photo showed a woman with near-perfect looks, so beautiful it seemed unreal, even a little eerie.

As a veteran in the paranormal community, Du Hong was no stranger to the ghost painting. In fact, back in his time, the terrifying ghost painting had not yet been completely introduced abroad. He had come into contact with the ghost painting before, so he recognized it at a glance.

"Yes, you're not mistaken. The woman in this photo looks exactly like the woman in that ghost painting."

Zhang Ying continued, "This is not an accident. A woman who is vaguely connected to that ominous painting cannot be too cautious. However, Zhang Xianguang said before I set off that at this moment, that woman is just an ordinary person."

At this point, Zhang Ying's face showed a hint of surprise, and her eyes showed a thoughtful expression, but she quickly returned to normal.

"It seems Zhang Xianguang has big plans this time, even eyeing that ominous painting..."

Du Hong said with a complicated expression, but he did not intend to give up the operation. Instead, he took the initiative to ask the two of them what to do next.

"There's no need for that much trouble. The woman in the photo is named He Yuelian. She is the daughter of the He family behind Daxing Entertainment City. The entire He family are ordinary people. There are no ghost tamers among them. Even the person in charge of Da'ao City is of average strength. There's nothing special to pay attention to."

Zhang Ying spoke first.

Then the two began their operation.

soon.

In the opulent entertainment complex, Zhang Ying and Du Hong walked over as if no one else was there. The surrounding crowd seemed not to see them at all, either not paying any attention to them or not.

The two soon arrived at the entrance of a VIP room in the entertainment center.

According to the information Zhang Ying had previously obtained, He Yuelian was currently in the VIP room in front of them.

"Crack!"

Just then, the door in front of them was opened, and a woman in a dress and high heels walked out. She was both sexy and innocent, and incredibly beautiful.

"Who are you two?"

Looking at Du Hong and Zhang Ying in front of her, He Yuelian frowned slightly, her eyes filled with inquiry, as if she was wondering about their identities.

However, Zhang Ying remained silent in the face of He Yuelian's doubts, her gaze sweeping over her. It was Du Hong who spoke up.

"It's truly unbelievable; she actually looks exactly like the woman in that ghost painting." As soon as he finished speaking, Du Hong moved instantly and disappeared from sight.

The next moment, he appeared in front of the woman, the surrounding lights flickering and hissing, and supernatural forces interfered with everything around him.

A cold, stiff hand grabbed He Yuelian's neck and lifted her up, the force almost crushing her neck.

"Cough, cough cough... Let go, let go..."

Instantly, He Yuelian's face turned red. She tried to struggle, but her whole body had lost sensation and she was unable to resist.

"Is this the legendary Ghost Master? But why would he attack me out of the blue?"

He Yuelian endured the suffocating feeling, begging for mercy while sizing up the middle-aged man in front of her.

The more she looked at him, the more flustered He Yuelian became.

Cold and numb, Du Hong gave He Yuelian an unprecedented sense of oppression, making her feel as if she was not facing a person, but a vengeful ghost, no, even more terrifying than a vengeful ghost.

"Don't resist!"

Du Hong's actions were very rough, showing no mercy whatsoever. He grabbed He Yuelian by the neck and tried to pull her out, saying as he did so:
"If you obey, you will be safe and we will not do anything to you for the time being. But if you disobey and resist, I cannot guarantee that something might happen to you."

The voice just fell.

He Yuelian's resistance grew weaker and weaker. It wasn't the kind of powerless resistance that made her suffocate and faint, but rather that she seemed to have resigned herself to her fate, feeling that she simply couldn't break free from the hands of a ghost tamer like Du Hong.

soon.

Du Hong and Zhang Ying took He Yuelian with them and left Daxing Entertainment City. Nothing unexpected happened during this time. An unknown supernatural phenomenon affected the vision of the people around them. All the staff of the entertainment city seemed not to have seen Zhang Ying and the others taking He Yuelian with them.

"Zhang Xianguang asked you to notify me to act together, so where are his men? Are they waiting for us in Shuangqiao Town right now?"

After leaving the entertainment center, Du Hong asked Zhang Ying a question. As for He Yuelian, she had already fainted and was being carried on Du Hong's shoulder.

“I don’t know much about Zhang Xianguang’s whereabouts either. He contacted me not long ago and asked me to find you to take He Yuelian to Shuangqiao Town. But according to what Zhang Xianguang said at the time, it seems that he was going to a supernatural place.”

Zhang Ying said thoughtfully, "And this time Zhang Xianguang's operation was very large. He not only found me, but it seems that Song Xinhai, Nie Yingping, Zhang Xian, and Wang Han were also assigned tasks by Zhang Xianguang."

"Is this so..."

Upon hearing this, Du Hong nodded and said nothing more. Then, the light of the ghost domain surged forth, carrying Zhang Ying and He Yuelian together, and they quickly headed towards Shuangqiao Town.

at the same time.

An unknown, haunted place.

As the old bus began to slow down, Zhang Xianguang, who was sitting in the middle seat of the carriage, looked up at the window and a look of nostalgia appeared on his face when he saw the strange scene outside.

Outside the car window, a dark and gloomy world stretched out, filled with eeriness and coldness—a world of the supernatural!

To the left of the road is a wasteland, and to the right, where the eerie bus is about to stop, is a gloomy old forest.

A winding forest path runs through the entire grove, with a highway on one side and extending to the front of a wooden old house from the Republican era deep in the forest on the other.

The old house looks rather dilapidated and seems to have been abandoned for a long time. There are two lanterns emitting red light hanging in front of the old house.

Red lanterns, which are meant to symbolize joy and celebration, are hanging in front of such an old and dilapidated house. Instead of reflecting their original meaning, they give people an extremely gloomy and eerie feeling.

"Is this here?"

Someone in the carriage was asking Zhang Xianguang a question.

His name was Nie Yingping, and he was also a member of Zhang Xianguang's team, and a true confidant of Zhang Xianguang.

The two of them arrived here on a supernatural bus with only one purpose: to take a mummified bride out of this haunted place and back to Shuangqiao Town in the real world.

As for the other three members of Zhang Xianguang's team, Song Xinhai, Zhang Xian, and Wang Han, they took on other tasks.

It will attract the real ghost painting...

.........

(End of this chapter)