Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 269 Burying the Supernatural and Taking Control of the Ghost Ship!
In the dark corridor of the ship's cabin, a terrifying man dressed in a captain's uniform, with a stiff, numb face and a face that was still rotting, was steadily approaching Li Hui.

The newcomer is the true source captain!
to be frank.

The captain's appearance at this moment was indeed somewhat unexpected for Li Hui, but upon closer reflection, it seemed to make perfect sense.

After all, no matter what, the captain is a real vengeful ghost, and any vengeful ghost must possess the instincts that belong to vengeful ghosts.

obviously.

The captain's current state is that his vengeful instincts have suppressed his intelligence, which is obviously a good thing for Li Hui. The fact that the other party has taken the initiative to appear will obviously save him a lot of trouble.

soon.

Coming to his senses, Li Hui stepped forward to greet the captain.

"The ghost ship is extremely terrifying. There are only two known methods to completely control it: one is to directly control a captain and let him pilot the ghost ship."

"The second method is to find a ship's rudder and then forcibly control the ghost ship, just like Old Qin did in the original story..."

Li Hui was recalling the plot of the original novel.

Ghost ships are special; they have many captains and helmsmen, but without a doubt, the captain who has come to us now is the strongest captain.

Only when it is dealt with will a new captain be born, and each subsequent captain will be weaker than the previous one.

To stop this situation and completely control the ghost ship, the only solution is to collect all the ship's rudders, thus preventing a new captain from taking the ghost ship away.

With Li Hui's current strength, this ghost ship poses no threat to him, so Li Hui has no need to worry.

After dealing with the strongest captain in front of them, there will be plenty of time to search for the hidden ship's rudders.

Tatata!
The captain opposite him walked with heavy, stiff steps, also heading towards Li Hui, and the distance between them was shrinking at a visible speed.

Soon they were less than three meters apart.

At this moment, the captain took the initiative, stretching out his cold, stiff hand and grabbing directly at Li Hui's shoulder.

Before the hand even got close, Li Hui already felt a chilling aura spreading over him. Clearly, the captain's seemingly ordinary grab was actually carrying a terrifying supernatural attack.

After all, it is a collection of many supernatural elements on the ghost ship, a manifestation of the ghost ship's supernatural power, and in a sense, the captain himself is a walking ghost ship.

That is why even the simplest action carries an extremely terrifying supernatural quality. What seems like an ordinary grab is as if it has been hit by a ghost ship. Ordinary ghosts and ghost tamers simply cannot withstand it.

However, faced with such an attack, Li Hui clearly could not sit idly by and wait to die.

His movements were swift; he swung the old woodcutter's knife at that moment, slashing at the captain's body while simultaneously reaching for the captain's neck with his other hand.

next moment.

The old machete in Li Hui's hand collided with the captain's palm, and a supernatural confrontation began between the two.

Suddenly.

A mournful, ghostly scream rang out, echoing through the narrow corridor.

The old machete, which was originally very powerful at dismembering the supernatural, failed to sever the captain's hand at this moment, and instead they were locked in a stalemate.

This is not a contest of strength, but a battle of the supernatural. If it were just the machete itself, it would obviously be insufficient to fight against the captain and would be suppressed. However, since the person wielding the machete is Li Hui, the outcome will naturally be different.

It was only a brief stalemate.

The result was thus achieved.

The rusty old machete had cut deep into the captain's flesh, but no blood flowed from the wound. The exposed flesh was black and was constantly writhing, a truly gruesome sight.

As time went on, the old machete continued to penetrate deeper, seemingly about to split the captain's body in two, though not very fast. This was clearly because the captain was too terrifying; after all, even coffin nails couldn't kill him in the original story.

However, this was not important, because Li Hui's second wave of attacks had already arrived.

"Clap!"

His other hand suddenly grabbed the captain's neck. It felt icy cold to the touch, as if he were grasping a block of ice. At the same time, a terrifying eeriness spread through him. The captain was resisting, but it was all in vain.

Li Hui is too powerful.

Even the current 'strongest captain' is no match for him and was completely suppressed by him in an instant.

The terrifying supernatural phenomenon disappeared, and the captain himself fell into silence. Even the woodcutter's axe, which had been progressing slowly, suddenly cut into the captain's body, almost splitting him in two.

"Clang," "Bang," "Screech"...

Almost the instant the captain was suppressed by Li Hui, the entire ghost ship began to change. A series of unusual noises rang out, as if some rules on the ship had changed. Some vengeful ghosts that had not yet completely merged with the ghost ship broke free from their restraints at this moment.

Take the passageway inside the cabin where Li Hui is currently located, for example. There are sounds coming from the rooms on both sides, and several room doors have even been opened at this time.

The surrounding temperature suddenly dropped.

At this moment, a cold wind swept through the entire cabin. The wind was not strong, but it was very noticeable. It seemed to carry many eerie sounds, like someone whispering or countless vengeful ghosts screaming.

If an ordinary person encountered this situation, they would probably be scared out of their wits instantly. But for Li Hui, the scene in front of him was not worth his attention at all. His expression was extremely calm, and there was even a hint of joy in his eyes.

He had originally planned to clean up the remaining supernatural elements on the ghost ship, but now that these vengeful spirits had come out on their own, it was obviously a good thing for him.

"That solves the problem all at once."

Li Hui's eyes flickered slightly.

next moment.

The ghost ship's own supernatural influence was broken, and a more terrifying and powerful supernatural force took over the area.

The already dim light vanished instantly, and everything around them changed. The entire ghost ship was pulled into an endless graveyard, now located in the center of the graveyard, its hull covered in cold, damp earth.

At the same time, under the supernatural influence of this grave soil, some figures that were originally invisible to the naked eye were revealed.

There are many.

Some of them were supernatural phenomena, but many more were real, the vengeful ghosts that had been wandering on the ghost ship, all of which revealed themselves before Li Hui at this moment.

"The ghost ship is already terrifying enough, but if it were given more time to 'digest' all these vengeful spirits, it would be even more terrifying. But that's unnecessary now; the ghost ship is fine as it is."

Li Hui's eyes flickered.

Those idiots in the King's Organization never knew until their deaths that they had been manipulated by a vengeful ghost. They were not only provoked into fighting against the Ghost Masters' headquarters, but also helped the Ghost Ship grow stronger.

Because ghost ships can 'digest' the ghosts on board, merging them with those vengeful spirits. This digestion and fusion goes beyond the scope of ordinary 'ghost puzzles,' making it even more terrifying.

To put it simply...

The ghost ship is somewhat similar to the starving ghost and the ghost messenger in some ways. All the vengeful ghosts can become pieces of your puzzle and become part of your supernatural existence. However, the ghost ship is not as thorough as the starving ghost and the ghost messenger. It takes a considerable amount of time to integrate the vengeful ghosts on the ship.

The reason why there are still so many vengeful ghosts on the ghost ship is ultimately because they haven't been on the ship long enough to become pieces of the puzzle and be absorbed by the ghost ship.

However, since Li Hui is now planning to bury these vengeful ghosts, the ghost ship will naturally have no chance to continue digesting them into puzzle pieces.

moment.

The surrounding grave mounds were sunken and covered with black, filthy soil, meant to bury all these terrifying ghosts.

Immediately, mounds of graves began to rise.

The scene was quite shocking. In just a short while, countless vengeful ghosts were successfully buried by Li Hui, and they had no ability to resist. The remaining vengeful ghosts were also half buried in the soil, unable to move, and it was only a matter of time before they were completely buried.

Li Hui's strength is too great.

This time, he didn't just use the supernatural power of Luo Qian's grave soil; he used almost all of his own supernatural powers.

This graveyard is a combination of all his ghostly abilities, and the stinking, dirty, black soil also possesses the supernatural qualities of a ghost bus, ghost messengers... and even the ghost ship that was just replicated!

After all, his ghost realm could previously be affected by the ghost ship's supernatural power, but after successfully replicating the ghost ship's supernatural power, he was able to control the ghost ship in return.

In this situation, the surrounding evil spirits would have no chance of resisting.

Not to mention the ordinary ghosts on the ghost ship, even the ghost ship itself was suppressed at this moment. The supernatural was dormant and was pulled into the graveyard that Li Hui's ghost domain had transformed into. The ship's hull was covered with cold grave soil.

Quite literally.

If Li Hui were willing, he could try to bury the entire ghost ship at this point, but he would have to suppress it constantly afterward, otherwise the ghostly presence of 60% of the grave soil alone would obviously not be enough to completely imprison the ghost ship.

"almost."

Li Hui glanced around and found that the vengeful ghosts were no longer visible; instead, there were old graves of varying sizes.

Then Li Hui waved his hand.

The surrounding scenery changed again.

The ghost ship returned to the real sea. Li Hui was standing in the passageway of the ghost ship. The endless graveyard scene, along with all the burial mounds, had all disappeared without a trace of soil.

"Now we can move on to the next step."

Li Hui's gaze was fixed on the captain in his hands. The captain was motionless and silent, and even the wounds inflicted by the old machete showed no signs of healing.

"To control the ghost ship, the rudder is one part, and your own strength is another. I won't erase Zhang Dong, but I can make you turn back into your original rudder in the simplest way."

Li Hui looked thoughtful, then dragged the captain's body into a nearby room.

After a while.

A series of muffled knocking sounds came from inside the house. The sounds were loud and very rhythmic, one after another.

After about five or six minutes, the knocking stopped completely. Then Li Hui walked out of the room alone, with no sign of the captain behind him. In his hand, he held an old ship's wheel.

obviously.

In those five or six minutes, Li Hui managed to get the captain back to the helm in his own way.

This ship's rudder is the captain's own body, and also a manifestation of the ghost ship's own supernatural nature; it is a combination of many kinds of supernatural phenomena.

"With my current knowledge of the supernatural, plus this ship's rudder, I can already have basic control over the ghost ship and make it move, but it's not enough. I need to find all the remaining rudders to prevent the birth of a new captain!"

As thoughts raced through his mind, various inexplicable supernatural phenomena began to appear around Li Hui.

Suddenly, several illusory figures appeared around him. Their appearances were unclear, but their outlines revealed that they were all Li Hui.

Then these illusory figures gathered around Li Hui, and Li Hui's eyes flickered as he listened intently.

After a while.

These illusory figures disappeared one after another.

Immediately after these figures disappeared, Li Hui took action. He took a step forward and vanished from his spot, appearing a moment later in a corner of a room deep inside the ship's cabin.

In the corner of the room, on the floor, lay an old wooden ship's wheel. The wheel was slightly damaged, as if a small piece had been deliberately cut off.

"This is the ship's rudder that Ye Zhen obtained through that strange doll in the original story. It turns out that the captain hid it here."

Li Hui bent down and picked up the broken wooden ship's wheel from the ground.

His figure then disappeared from the spot again, and when he reappeared, he was in another room inside the ship's cabin.

Same as before.

There was another ship's wheel in this room, but it was more damaged than the one in the previous room, and far less intact than the one the captain had transformed into. However, Li Hui still put it away.

Then Li Hui arrived at the location of the third rudder, followed by the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh rudders...

And so the cycle continues.

It only took a short while.

Li Hui collected twenty ship rudders.

If we include the captain who infiltrated the King's organization and was initially dealt with, then he has a total of twenty-one rudders, which are all the rudders currently on the ghost ship.

"Alright, now we can really try piloting the ghost ship."

Li Hui waved his hand, throwing all twenty ship rudders except the one that was intact into an oil painting.

After doing all this, Li Hui arrived at the control room of the ghost ship.

The control room was dark and dimly lit, with only a few dilapidated chairs. The control console itself had long been abandoned, but all the basic equipment was complete, with no missing parts. The only thing missing was the ship's rudder.

next moment.

Li Hui installed the ship's rudder he was holding onto it.

Then Li Hui gripped the rudder with both hands and began to try to control the boat.

(End of this chapter)