Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 278 Act individually
"You mean, Jiefang Road has disappeared?"

"All the pedestrians and buildings on the entire street have disappeared. The original Jiefang Road has become a wasteland, as if we have suddenly returned to the scene of the undeveloped area decades ago?"

Daifuku City.

The office on the top floor of Yintao Building.

Jiang Shangbai, who had just taken office as the city's head in Dafu City, heard some extremely bad news.

The person who brought this news was his assistant.

He continued, "Yes, Captain Jiang, the incident happened last night. Currently, staff members have been working with the police to cordon off the entire area, and we're just waiting for you to handle it."

no doubt.

Such a sudden and direct disappearance of an entire street is beyond the capabilities of ordinary people and can only be handled by a ghost tamer like Jiang Shangbai.

"Who was the previous head of Dafu City? Did similar situations occur in Dafu City during his tenure?"

suddenly.

Jiang Shangbai asked this question.

His appointment was too sudden and his start was too rushed. He didn't really learn much about Dafu City because he thought he would have plenty of time to learn about it after he took office.

However, what he didn't expect was that he had just taken office when he encountered a sudden supernatural event. This made Jiang Shangbai think of the person in charge of Dafu City before him and wonder if something similar had happened during his tenure.

Upon hearing Jiang Shangbai's question, the assistant replied immediately: "The person in charge of Dafu City before you took office was named Zhou Jia, but he suddenly disappeared a month ago."

"Disappeared?" Jiang Shangbai frowned, sensing that something was wrong.

A ghost tamer who can become the head of a large city should have relatively stable supernatural abilities. Although it is still impossible to say that they can get rid of the resurgence of vengeful ghosts, it is likely that they will rarely die suddenly.

The disappearance of a demon tamer can, to a large extent, be considered as death.

"So there are other deeper reasons behind Zhou Jia's sudden disappearance?" Jiang Shangbai wondered to himself.

At this moment, the assistant next to him said, "No similar paranormal events have occurred in Dafu City during Zhou Jia's tenure."

"The person in charge before Zhou Jia was named Zhang Quan, but I don't know much about Zhang Quan because I hadn't come to work in Dafu City at that time, so I don't know if any similar incidents occurred during his tenure."

Done.

The assistant looked at Jiang Shangbai cautiously, waiting for his next instruction.

He wasn't someone Jiang Shangbai brought from headquarters or Dajing City, but rather a local assistant to the person in charge in Dafu City. In other words, he had previously worked under Zhou Jia.

As the saying goes, there is one emperor and one courtier.

Zhao Lin was unaware of Jiang Shangbai's temperament, who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, so all he could do was carefully perform his duties.

“In that case, I’ll go check out the situation first, and then decide how to handle it,” Jiang Shangbai said, standing up.

Now that he has become the person in charge of Dafu City, he should be responsible for handling the city's paranormal events. Therefore, there is no way to avoid it, and he should take a look no matter what.

"Okay, Captain Jiang, the car is ready and parked downstairs." The assistant opened the office door with great awareness.

The two then walked out of the office one after the other and arrived at the entrance of Yintai Building, where several commercial vehicles were already parked, each of which looked expensive.

Jiang Shangbai didn't care about this. These kinds of physical objects no longer aroused his interest. He randomly chose a car and got in. As for the assistant, he sat in another business car.

soon.

The vehicle started and drove away from Yintai Building.

Jiefang Road is not far from Yintai Building; it only takes about ten minutes to drive there.

When Jiang Shangbai and his group arrived, they were greeted by a group of police officers armed with real guns who had cordoned off the area where Jiefang Road had originally been, and had also set up a long cordon around the area.

Inside the cordon was a wilderness, like a long-abandoned, uncultivated field in the countryside.

"This is... a ghost realm?"

Before Jiang Shangbai even got close, his face had already changed color.

Jiang Shangbai had heard from his assistant that the entire street had suddenly disappeared, and the original site had been transformed back to its undeveloped state decades ago. At that time, Jiang Shangbai already had some suspicions, believing that the supernatural phenomena of the Ghost Realm had changed the surrounding environment and landscape.

At that time, he wasn't entirely sure, since other supernatural phenomena could also affect the surrounding environment.

However, now that he has personally arrived at the scene, Jiang Shangbai is completely certain that a vengeful ghost with a ghostly domain has appeared in Dafu City!
The extent of this vengeful ghost's terror is currently unknown, but given its ability to alter the real world and possess ghostly domain powers, its terror and harm must be considerable.

"This is really bad. I encountered this on my very first day in office. I'm incredibly unlucky. I wonder if Li Jun on the other side is in the same situation as me."

Jiang Shangbai silently complained to himself.

But despite his complaints, things still needed to be done. He immediately stepped forward, instructed that no civilians should be allowed to approach the area, and then walked alone inside the cordon.

Tatata!
The soil underfoot was very soft, and the feel of stepping on it was very realistic, as if we had really returned to the barren fields of decades ago, unlike any ordinary scene change.

"It seems the vengeful ghost in this incident is quite extraordinary. If I were to define it, I would at least class A or higher." Jiang Shangbai's face darkened immediately upon realizing this.

However, he did not back down and continued to take action.

A thick, cold, and eerie black mist immediately emanated from his body.

This is his ghost realm.

As soon as the Black Mist Ghost Domain appeared, it began to spread in all directions, but at a slow speed, clearly due to unknown supernatural influences.

"As expected, my judgment was correct. There is a ghost realm here, and it is quite terrifying. But fortunately, it is not enough to completely suppress my ghost realm, so I can successfully invade it."

Jiang Shangbai thought to himself.

At the same time, the fog spread even faster, and it gradually became more solid and dense, as if it had formed a liquid, like a ball of ink.

Clearly, Jiang Shangbai had brought his Ghost Domain to its fullest potential at this moment.

under these circumstances.

His surroundings began to change.

The original wilderness scene began to disappear, and the image of a modern street began to emerge, with the soft mud underfoot turning into a cement road.

Jiang Shangbai invaded this modern city street, which was shrouded in the ghost domains of other vengeful ghosts, using his own ghost domain.

The ghost's domain was extremely terrifying. Jiang Shangbai's own domain strength was simply insufficient to completely suppress it. However, if he were to invade it using his own domain, he could do so.

soon.

The surrounding light was distorted, and Jiang Shangbai's figure began to appear illusory. On the contrary, the modern city street became more and more real in his eyes.

After a while.

Jiang Shangbai stood firmly on this street that had vanished from the real world.

Next to him stood a road sign with the three large characters "Jiefang Road" prominently displayed, and behind the sign was a street lamp, but the light it emitted was an eerie red.

It wasn't just this one street lamp; the entire street was lit up in red, as vivid as blood, making everything around it appear extremely eerie and giving people a very strange feeling.

The strangest thing is.

The assistant had clearly said that all the residents on the street had disappeared along with the entire Jiefang Road, but now Jiang Shangbai couldn't see a single person. The entire street was deathly silent, as if he were the only one there.

"It's a very strange paranormal phenomenon. After entering this street, my ghost domain was suppressed and could not be used normally at all, so I had to find it through other methods."

Jiang Shangbai's gaze swept around, finally settling on the place where the red light was most intense—a song and dance theater.

Even though there weren't many streetlights near the theater, the theater itself was the place where the red light was most concentrated. From a distance, it looked like a theater that had been soaked in blood, as if it were the source of all this.

Tatata!
Dull footsteps sounded.

As Jiang Shangbai walked, his shoes suddenly disappeared, revealing his feet underneath.

His feet looked no different from anyone else's, but Jiang Shangbai was not actually walking on the street of Jiefang Road, but walking in the air.

That's not quite right. To be precise, in the shadows beneath his feet, a pair of feet, resembling the soles of a dead person, emerged. These soles were covered in lividity, eerie and cold, and took his place on the ground.

This has resulted in Jiang Shangbai being like he's walking on stilts; his feet aren't touching the ground, but are suspended in mid-air, yet he can still walk normally.

Because a pair of feet, like those of a vengeful ghost, were taking steps for him.

This ghost is very special.

If those dead-like feet were to step on someone while walking, the living person would surely die. Even a ghost tamer might not be able to stop the ghost from stepping on them.

Most importantly, these ghost feet can touch real ghosts.

Jiang Shangbai has used his terrifying feet to stomp on ghosts in many supernatural events. The ghosts that are stomped on will be frozen for a few seconds to tens of seconds, or even a few minutes, as if they have crashed.

During that time, ghosts are unable to move, and if they cooperate well, they can even resolve a troublesome paranormal event instantly.

"If I'm not mistaken, the vengeful ghost should be inside that theater." Jiang Shangbai's gaze was fixed on the theater in front of him.

Obviously.

At this moment, Jiang Shangbai was prepared to face the vengeful ghost at any time. As soon as he saw the vengeful ghost appear, he would not hesitate to stomp on it and try to deal with the supernatural event in the shortest possible time.

Although the vengeful ghost in this paranormal incident has already shown signs of being extraordinary, Jiang Shangbai, as one of the team leaders of the headquarters, the leader of the circle of friends, and the person in charge of Dafu City, is still confident that he can handle it.

After all, even the weakest captain is still a captain.

Even though his strength ranks last among the captains at headquarters, it doesn't mean Jiang Shangbai is weak. Rather, it's because the other captains are too strong, which makes him seem somewhat inferior to them.

Tap, tap, tap...

Just as Jiang Shangbai reached the gate of the theater and was about to enter, Wang Chaling, far away in Dadong City, also began his operation.

He carried the terrifying spirits of his grandparents, completely ignoring the warnings coming from the Wang family's ancestral home, and forcefully barged into the old Wang family mansion.

boom!
The old mansion's main gate was forcibly opened from the outside, and darkness instantly spread into the mansion's first-floor hall.

Then, a terrifying old man, his entire body painted in black and white, resembling a giant portrait of a deceased man, entered the old house. Behind him followed the spirits of Wang Chaling and his grandmother.

Several people in the lobby on the first floor couldn't help but take several steps back upon seeing this.

Because they all recognized that the man in front of them was Wang Chaling, the person in charge of Da Dong City and one of the captains of the Ghost Tamer Headquarters.

"Wang Chaling, do you really dare to come in?"

A thin man with a sinister voice suddenly spoke up in the hall. He was the one who had mocked Wang Chaling for overestimating himself and saying that he was just putting on an act and would never actually break in. But in the blink of an eye, the other party had actually entered.

“This is the ancestral home of my Wang family. What wouldn’t I dare to come here?” Wang Chaling glanced at the man and said in a cold tone.

"On the contrary, it is you who have occupied our Wang family's old house for so long, it is time to return it now."

"I'm giving you a chance. Within ten breaths, anyone who wants to leave the Survival Guild should leave immediately. Anyone who is still here after ten breaths is going to war with me, Wang Chaling."

As soon as Wang Chaling finished speaking, the hall erupted in chaos, with many people displaying conflicted expressions.

However, before they could make a choice, a white-haired man standing on the third-floor corridor of the old house, with half of his body sticking out, spoke up.

"Do it! Kill him!"

His tone was icy, and his very first words were a death sentence for Wang Chaling.

As soon as the man finished speaking, the commotion in the hall subsided, and everyone looked at Wang Chaling with hostility, which showed that he held a high position in their hearts.

"Since I gave you a chance, and you didn't cherish it, then you can't blame me."

See this.

Wang Chaling's expression also turned cold, and he said:

"Grandpa, kill them all for me, leave no one alive!"

(End of this chapter)