Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 182 Supernatural Reappearance
"Your body is also nearing its limit."

Inside an old house from the Republican era deep in the eerie old forest, two elderly men, Luo Qian and Zhang Dong, stood facing each other, greeting one another.

Both of them exuded a thick aura of decline, even deathly stillness, as if their days were numbered. Luo Qian, in particular, was in a state of near death, devoid of any vitality, resembling a corpse.

“Death is nothing; for people like us, death is a kind of relief.”

After listening to Luo Qian's words, Zhang Dong spoke calmly, showing no fear of death and even a hint of relief.

Seeing this, Luo Qian was not surprised. Instead, he nodded in agreement and said, "It's a pity that we have persevered for so long, but we have never seen that miracle happen and completely end the supernatural era. Our generation all failed. I don't know if future generations can do it."

“That day will come eventually.” Zhang Dong’s tone was authoritative and calm, his eyes flashing with a sharp light, as if he had thought of something.

"It's a pity I won't be able to see it."

Luo Qian shook his head, his face showing no regret, but rather a relaxed expression. His pupil-less, pitch-black eyes were filled with relief. He then said, "It's about time. Let's go and see the burial site we've already chosen."

The words fell.

Luo Qian was the first to walk out of the old house, his steps stiff and heavy, looking more and more like a walking corpse.

Seeing this, Zhang Dong's expression turned somewhat indifferent, and then he got up and followed.

And so, the two continued deeper into the muddy path outside the house. They walked for an unknown amount of time until the old trees around them began to thin out. Finally, they arrived at an open space.

The place is circular, with yellow mud on the ground, surrounded by old forests, and several graves are located in the open space.

The graves varied in age; some looked quite old, while others appeared to have been built a few years ago. Each grave had a tombstone with a name and a portrait, and an offering—a bowl of white rice in a blue-and-white porcelain bowl—was placed in front of each tombstone.

At this moment, Luo Qian, who was in the lead, began to examine the graves. The tombstone of the first grave depicted a man dressed in old clothes, who looked as if he had been dead for many years, and who was quite handsome.

The second tombstone features a portrait of a very beautiful woman with waist-length hair, a smiling face, and wearing a cheongsam. Because the portrait is black and white, it is impossible to tell what color the cheongsam actually is.

The portrait on the third grave is of a middle-aged man with a fierce expression, while the portrait on the fourth grave is of a woman with a gentle expression.

Furthermore, the most bizarre thing is...

As Luo Qian observed, the people in the portraits on the four tombstones responded strangely, all focusing their gazes on Luo Qian.

However, the eerie scene did not frighten Luo Qian. It seemed that he had expected this scene all along. He said, "I haven't been to this place for decades. Old friends, I, Luo Qian, have come to keep you company."

The words fell.

Luo Qian's gaze fell on the open space next to the fourth grave, where a black coffin had already been placed, and a rusty iron shovel was stuck next to it, which seemed to indicate that this was the location of the fifth grave.

A black coffin is a harbinger of great misfortune!

However, this was prepared by Luo Qian himself, which was just right to suppress the vengeful spirit within him. With Zhang Dong's presence, he could die in peace.

"Brother, I'm leaving the rest to you." Luo Qian seemed to have reached his limit and said to Zhang Dong beside him. After speaking, he pushed open the black coffin and lay down inside.

He had become even thinner and thinner, his face was yellow and black, and his eye sockets were deeply sunken. With his black eyes without pupils, he looked terrifying and frightening at first glance, like a real vengeful ghost or a dried-up corpse.

boom!
As Luo Qian lay in the coffin, he used his hands to forcefully close the coffin, which had been slightly ajar, and immediately a kind of supernatural phenomenon appeared, enveloping Luo Qian's entire body.

Seeing this, Zhang Dong picked up the shovel stuck in the ground and started digging next to Meng Xiaodong's grave.

In no time, a large pit was formed. Zhang Dong buried the black coffin, then filled it back with soil, and then installed the pre-carved tombstone with the four large characters "Tomb of Luo Qian" written on it.

After doing all this, Zhang Dong turned and left the open space, leaving only a new grave standing there, echoing the other four graves in the distance, as if announcing the end of an era.

Each grave here holds a piece of an unknown past.

One can imagine that the people buried in these graves once experienced a thrilling yet terrifying supernatural event together, but in the end, they could not withstand the erosion of time and various accidents, and eventually they all died...

.........

Dahang City.

Zhoujia Village.

A hazy, ghostly aura rapidly spread from afar, enveloping the entire village. Then, the ghostly aura flashed, and Li Hui and his group appeared on the village road.

"This is it."

The entire street was now cordoned off with police tape, and in the middle of the cordon lay three bodies that had not yet been disposed of.

The two men and one woman were the three headquarters staff members who had come to Zhoujia Village to investigate, encountered a supernatural situation, and died in the ghost movie incident.

It seems that because Li Hui said he was coming, the scene was well protected. The three bodies were hardly moved. In fact, out of fear of any supernatural remnants, the surrounding residents were evacuated to other places. As a result, Zhoujia Village was very quiet, with only a few staff members standing guard nearby.

"They did indeed die from a supernatural attack. All three of their bodies had residual supernatural power, but they were not vengeful ghosts, or even ghost slaves; they were just corpses with some supernatural power."

Before Li Hui could speak, Yang Xiao, who was standing to the side, gave his opinion first.

Li Hui neither confirmed nor denied this, and immediately began checking the three people's phones.

According to the information provided by Zhang Xue, the supernatural event in the ghost movie incident must have originated from the three people's phones, after which they were killed by the vengeful ghost.

However, after only glancing at them for a moment, Li Hui threw the three cell phones aside and began examining the corpses, trying to find clues on them.

Clearly, Li Hui found nothing unusual on the phones of Team Leader Wang and the other two; they were just ordinary phones with no supernatural phenomena whatsoever.

"I wonder if this ghost movie incident was just a coincidence? Or is it related to this area? Could it be that the three of us just happened to encounter the ghost movie's supernatural influence spreading to this village?" Li Hui frowned slightly, thinking to himself.

Such a formless, indiscriminately filmed ghost that spreads supernatural curses is indeed difficult to deal with because its source is hard to find.

Take the case of ghost calls from abroad, for example. These indiscriminate killings around the world seem to have gone unpunished until now. The reason for this is that the source is difficult to pinpoint, and the supernatural curse of certain death is spread by making phone calls.

"Dingling bell~"

While thinking.

The ringing of the phone interrupted Li Hui's thoughts. He took out the satellite positioning phone issued by headquarters and saw that the caller ID showed Zhang Lei's number.

"It seems Zhang Lei has almost finished dealing with things on his end." Although he hadn't answered the call yet, Li Hui had a vague idea of ​​why Zhang Lei had made the call.

as predicted.

Just as Li Hui pressed the answer button, Zhang Lei's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Team Leader Li, headquarters has approved my request to transfer to Dahang City. What is the current situation in Dahang City? If you are busy, I can come to Dahang City to take up my post first, and then go back to Xiaoquan City to handle some final work."

"In that case, you should come to Hangzhou first. I'm busy with two things here, and you can help me with some things when you come."

Upon hearing this, Li Hui didn't stand on ceremony and immediately called Zhang Lei over.

"Okay, Captain Li, I'll be off right away," Zhang Lei replied on the other end of the phone, demonstrating strong obedience to Li Hui's orders.

"..."

The two chatted for a few more minutes before Li Hui hung up the phone.

At the same time, at the Ping An Hotel in Dajing City, Zhang Lei, who had already packed his luggage, immediately boarded a private car to the airport, preparing to take the next available flight to Hangzhou.

the other side.

Li Hui, having tucked the brick-shaped GPS phone back into his pocket, shifted his gaze from the corpses of Team Leader Wang and the other two to other directions.

At this moment, a hazy ghostly realm enveloped the entire village, and Li Hui could see everything in the village. In Li Hui's eyes, the entire Zhoujia Village had no secrets left.

However, the sight of paper ash floating everywhere is something that ordinary people cannot see. In the eyes of ordinary people, Zhoujia Village is still the same village as before, and the environment has not changed at all, because ordinary people cannot see the true nature of the supernatural, let alone Li Hui's ghost domain.

To put it bluntly, given the current strength of his Ghost Domain, if he were to intentionally conceal it, not only ordinary people, but even most Ghost Masters would be unable to see through his Ghost Domain disguise.

“Since the supernatural events from the ghost movie have appeared in this village, once they happen, they will inevitably happen again. It’s impossible for them to remain silent forever. As long as the supernatural events from the ghost movie reappear in Zhoujia Village, I will be able to detect them immediately.”

Li Hui's ghostly aura enveloped the entire village, not simply to investigate the situation in Zhoujia Village, but to be able to detect any supernatural occurrences during the re-enactment of ghost movie events.

And that's not all.

Li Hui's ghost domain covered not only Zhoujia Village, but also an astonishingly large area, encompassing several surrounding villages and a large part of the city.

In this situation, as long as a supernatural event resembling a ghost movie occurs in Li Hui's ghost realm, he will be able to detect it immediately.

"It seems my guess was right. All the vengeful ghosts have a certain potential for growth, and the vengeful ghost that was the source of the ghost movie incident is no exception. The area where the entire supernatural event broke out is no longer limited to the urban area of ​​Dahang City, but is constantly spreading outwards."

“It has spread from the city center to the surrounding countryside. If it is not dealt with, the supernatural phenomena of the ghost movie incident will continue to spread outwards, and the supernatural power will gradually affect other cities in the surrounding area, and even the whole country and the world.” Li Hui thought to himself.

But at this moment.

As if sensing something, Li Hui suddenly looked into the distance.

at the same time.

Shaojia Village is next to Zhoujia Village.

At the home of village chief Shaofeng, the family was enjoying a happy lunch, with the children's favorite cartoon playing on a huge LCD TV.

"Old Shao, the workers in our factory have been talking about it these past few days. They're saying that some strange things have been happening in the city lately, and they're making it sound quite real. Is it true?"

During a break from their meal, Shao Feng's wife, Zhou Lihua, looked at her husband with a puzzled expression and asked him a question.

Upon hearing this, Shao Feng frowned and said, "How could some unfounded rumors be true? What era are we living in that people still believe in such things? We should advocate believing in science and have less contact with those feudal and superstitious people in the future. They don't do their jobs well and just talk nonsense all day long."

"I'm just talking about it at home. I've never participated in any discussions outside. I know it would be bad if this got out. Do you really think I'm stupid?"

Zhou Lihua smiled dismissively, put a piece of meat in her ten-year-old son's bowl, and continued, "Eat quickly, then go do your homework. All you do all day is watch TV; you'll go blind from watching it all day."

After saying that, Zhou Lihua picked up the TV remote, intending to pause the cartoon that was playing so that her son could eat his meal in peace.

However, even after she pressed the pause button, the TV screen did not stop playing; instead, it suddenly switched from the animated film to a black-and-white documentary.

Seeing this, Zhou Lihua didn't care and thought she had pressed the wrong button.

After carefully checking the buttons on the remote control, I pressed the pause button again, but the video playing on the TV did not pause and continued to play.

"Huh? Why can't I pause it? Are the batteries in the remote dead? That shouldn't be the case, I just changed the batteries two days ago."

Zhou Lihua patted the remote control in her hand with some doubt, and before she could continue operating it, the scene playing on the TV startled her.

Suddenly, without anyone noticing, three people—two men and one woman—appeared on the television screen.

Their joints were twisted, their faces were grotesque and terrifying, their eye sockets were sunken, their eyeballs were bulging and filled with blood vessels, and their bodies were covered in blood.

"Lele, did you secretly watch horror movies behind Mommy's back?"

Even then, Zhou Lihua still thought she had accidentally clicked on a video from the past. However, Shao Feng at the dinner table sensed something was wrong. He frowned, looked terrified, and stared at the scene playing on the TV screen as if he had thought of something terrible.

Furthermore, he didn't know if it was just his imagination, but he felt that the light in the room had dimmed and the temperature had dropped a lot, as if there was an ice block stuck to his back.

(End of this chapter)