Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 44 The Red Light Reappears
"Truly pathetic. This mere brat dared to spy on me before. I thought he was so capable, but I didn't expect him to be so weak. He couldn't even withstand a single punch from me, Ye."

"They were quite good at hide-and-seek, hiding here and there in the church, wasting a lot of my time, but in the end they couldn't stump me, Ye, and I found them."

Walking on the city streets, Ye Zhen recalled his experience after entering the church.

At first, the vengeful ghost stood in the darkness inside the church door, spying on Ye Zhen as he passed by on the street, before he was discovered.

However, the moment Ye Zhen entered the church, the vengeful ghost suddenly disappeared. But Ye Zhen did not leave because of this. Instead, he prepared to catch the vengeful ghost that dared to spy on him.

After a thorough search, he finally found the ghost's figure in a room on the second floor of the church.

It was the body of a middle-aged man with distinctly European features. His body was cold, stiff, and lifeless, with many parts already beginning to decompose.

Without saying a word, Ye Zhen threw a punch at the vengeful ghost.

Without any surprises, the vengeful ghost was sent flying by Ye Zhen, its supernatural power suppressed and its body unable to move.

Then, through Ye Zhen's actions, he managed to imprison the tall, fierce ghost inside a small gold foil bag.

It was during this process that Ye Zhen discovered the peculiarity of the leather shoes on the ghost's feet. After some experimentation, he confirmed that the shoes were indeed supernatural items.

Ye Zhen immediately put on the leather shoes, not caring at all that they had been taken from the ghost's feet.

Strange to say.

The shoes were supposed to be larger than Ye Zhen's feet, but when he put them on, they fit perfectly, as if they were made for him.

"Ok?"

"Have you moved to another city?"

While pondering, Ye Zhen noticed that the architectural style of the buildings on both sides of the road had changed from the original European style to an island nation style.

Ye Zhen, who is a big fan of anime and watching series, is certain that this is a modern city with an island-style atmosphere, but it looks very desolate and there are no living people in sight, just like a dead city.

"It seems there are vengeful ghosts in this city as well."

Having traversed the initial street and the European-style city with its church, Ye Zhen had begun to vaguely grasp some of the rules of the Ghost Painting World.

"If that's the case, doesn't that mean there might be supernatural items in this city, like the leather shoes I'm wearing..."

Think of this.

Ye Zhen immediately became eager to act.

To others, places where vengeful ghosts exist are extremely dangerous, and a slight misstep could cost them their lives. But to Ye Zhen at this moment, the Ghost Painting is like a world full of treasures.

Each city in the painting is haunted by vengeful spirits, and there's a possibility that supernatural items might exist there as well, which instantly ignited Ye Zhen's adventurous and treasure-hunting instincts.

He completely ignored the potential dangers involved.

joke.

He, Ye, is invincible in the world, so why would he fear those mere ghosts?

Ye Zhen then changed direction and instead of continuing down the main street, he entered a secluded alley.

Just now, he saw a figure flash by in this alley.

Although it was just a fleeting glance, Ye Zhen saw it clearly. The figure had a blank expression, with no trace of the emotions a living person should have. The exposed skin was covered with lividity, and the body appeared very stiff when walking.

Based on Ye Zhen's experience.

That figure was a corpse!
He wasn't sure if it was a vengeful ghost, but even if it wasn't, it was related to the supernatural and could be a ghost servant.

The appearance of the figure pointed Ye Zhen in the right direction; if he followed the alley deeper, he might find the real vengeful ghost.

Tatata!
Ye Zhen moved very fast; his leather shoes made crisp footsteps as they touched the alley floor, echoing around him.

He soon arrived at the depths of the alley.

A bizarre scene came into Ye Zhen's view.

The road was lined with rows of residential buildings, with shadowy figures inside, creating a sinister and terrifying atmosphere, as if a vengeful ghost was wandering around in each building.

At the end of the alley, there is an even more bizarre and strange wooden building.

That's why the wooden house was considered eerie.

The house's overall shape resembles a giant head, with the two windows on the second floor like two eyes and the closed door like a closed mouth.

Bang~

Crunch!

As Ye Zhen continued to delve deeper, some kind of supernatural rule was triggered. The doors of all the buildings on both sides of the road opened at the same time, and the figures that had been wandering inside the buildings all walked out through the open doors.

There were many people.

A quick glance revealed at least dozens, if not hundreds, of them, all of whom immediately surrounded Ye Zhen's location.

at the same time.

Wooden house interior.

Li Hui faced an even more dangerous situation, as the vengeful ghosts in the wooden house were all targeting him, and there was more than one of them.

Besides the eerie shadow and the horrifying, twisted corpse, there was also an unseen vengeful ghost circling around him in the shadows, its heavy, stiff footsteps echoing continuously in the lobby of the wooden house.

"boom!"

Faced with the 'siege' of several vengeful ghosts, Li Hui did not sit idly by and wait for death. Instead, he took the initiative and threw a punch at the dark figure in front of him.

This time, the eerie black shadow did not dissipate into black mist like the previous ones; Li Hui's fist delivered a real sense of impact.

A punch imbued with the eerie power of a bus sent the strange black shadow flying, crashing into the wooden wall behind it.

In an instant.

The supernatural power inherent in the shadowy figure was suppressed, and its body lay motionless on the ground, completely plunging into silence.

Unexpectedly, the other two dark figures did not disappear or lose their ability to move; instead, they continued to surround Li Hui's location.

"That dark figure isn't the source?" Li Hui looked at the dark figure lying on the ground, its own supernatural power now dormant, with a puzzled expression.

He was certain that the black shadow he had just knocked away was a real vengeful ghost, fundamentally different from the dozen or so black shadows that had disappeared earlier.

In his mind, once the source of the vengeful spirit was suppressed, the other shadowy figures, who were similar to 'ghost slaves', should also fall silent and wouldn't be able to move anymore.

But now that the vengeful ghost has been suppressed, the remaining shadowy figures still have the ability to move, which really surprised him.

However, now was not the time to dwell on these issues. Li Hui reacted quickly, immediately turning around and walking towards the terrifying male corpse, intending to suppress it before figuring out how to deal with the invisible vengeful ghost.

However, what Li Hui didn't notice was...

In the dimly lit environment, the phone tattoo on the back of his hand suddenly glowed with a scarlet light.

The light was initially very faint, but as time went on, its brightness increased rapidly, dispelling the surrounding darkness.

"Ok?"

"This is……"

Upon seeing this, Li Hui stopped in his tracks and immediately focused his attention on the cell phone tattoo on the back of his hand.

The screen of the mobile phone tattoo app has six frames, only the first of which contains a bus image, but it looks somewhat unreal.

Apart from that, the other four boxes were all empty.

The reason it's described as four is because there's something inside the second box right now—a scarlet light.

The light was increasing at a visible rate, illuminating everything around it and then spreading in all directions.

At the same time, the environment outside the wooden house was also changing. Countless pieces of paper ash kept falling from the sky, and the whole world turned into a gray haze at this moment.

A woman dressed in blood-red robes, her face shrouded in mist, making it impossible to discern her features, appeared at the other end of the alley.

The source of the ghost drawing has arrived at this moment!

.........

I'm just guessing here, but the protagonist is probably going to replicate the second type of supernatural event.

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