Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 70 The Dead vs. Li Qingzhi

There is a dark and deep corridor on the fourth floor of the Caesars Hotel.

A dark red carpet stretched along the floor to the depths of the corridor, on which black footprints could be clearly seen scattered haphazardly.

The footprints were both new and old.

The old seemed to have existed for a long time, but the new looked as if it had just been left behind a moment ago. This made Li Hui realize that Li Qingzhi, who had recently been resurrected by the vengeful ghost, had just passed by here.

The footprints on the carpet were formed from pools of black, stagnant fluid, emitting a nauseating stench of decay.

"Judging from the direction of these footprints, Li Qingzhi must have wandered deeper into the hotel."

Looking at the scene before him, Li Hui's eyes flickered, and he seemed to be thinking about something. Then he directly opened his Ghost Domain.

For a while.

Grayish paper ash kept falling, spreading rapidly in all directions from his body as the center.

soon.

A light, grayish rain of paper dust began to fall in the corridor.

Once you enter this supernatural passage, the Ghost Realm can be used. However, if you want to enter from the outside, you must close the Ghost Realm, because this passage is not visible within the Ghost Realm, and you cannot enter the passage while inside the Ghost Realm.

On both sides of this corridor stand rows of tightly closed doors, each exuding an inexplicable sense of strangeness.

These tightly closed doors give off an extremely eerie feeling, as if the doors will suddenly open at any moment and some terrifying ghost will rush out.

Besides.

The door also looked quite old, with a European style, and it seemed to have been there for many years. Even the paint on the door had peeled off quite a bit.

Each guest room has a brass room number hanging above its door, with numbers and style that are significantly different from the room numbers of other guest rooms in the real-world Caesars Hotel.

The bronze plaque on the door of the room closest to Li Hui has the number "1", which means that this is the first guest room in this eerie corridor.

1号客房的后面，走道两旁房门上的数字依次是2、3、4、5……以这种样式，一直延伸至走道深处。

The dense ashes of paper kept drifting and spreading in all directions, but they failed to penetrate into these rooms. An unknown supernatural rule neutralized the supernatural power of Li Hui's ghost domain, and the ashes were directly blocked outside the doors.

The restrictions on Li Hui's ghost domain went far beyond that. In addition to being unable to invade rooms, his ghost domain could not even penetrate walls, and the ashes could only drift in the corridor.

Seeing this, Li Hui was not surprised.

To be honest, he wasn't very interested in the other supernatural things in the room. He strode into the depths of the corridor, intending to find Li Qingzhi and then snatch the Ghost Chopping Knife.

As Li Hui walked, his feet did not touch the red carpet, remaining several centimeters off the ground, thus leaving no footprints on it.

Li Hui appeared very cautious at this moment.

The haunted corridor of the hotel is different from the Caesars Hotel in the real world. There is more than one vengeful ghost wandering in it, especially Li Qingzhi after his resurrection.

Although he guessed that Li Qingzhi was deep in the corridor at this moment, there are always exceptions. In the supernatural world, no one dares to be 100% sure that their judgment is correct.

Just to be on the safe side, Li Hui didn't plan to leave any footprints on the red carpet, so that even if his judgment was wrong, he wouldn't have to worry about Li Qingzhi stepping on them.

It should be noted that the old woodcutter's knife is still in Li Qingzhi's corpse's hands. If someone steps on the footprint, it will directly trigger the medium of the ghost woodcutter's knife.

The machete has the ability to dismember supernatural beings; even a real vengeful ghost can be dismembered.

After being slashed, Li Hui felt that he might die on the spot. The Ghost Chopping Knife could ignore the strength of the supernatural force. As long as it had a physical form, even an S-level terrifying ghost would be dismembered in an instant.

"Judging from the current timeline, the paranormal events at Caesars Hotel are only just beginning to emerge. Only the ghostly presence of the human head balloon incident has extended outside the haunted hotel, and it hasn't caused many casualties yet. Tong Qian, the person in charge of Z City, should be in Dachang City providing support at this time..."

Li Hui kept thinking as he walked.

He remembered that in the original novel, Tong Qian returned to Z City after the starving ghost incident in Dachang City ended. Then the human head balloon incident broke out, and Tong Qian was attacked by a vengeful ghost after entering the Caesar Hotel. She then lost contact with the outside world, which led to the later plot where Yang Jian and others came to Z City to provide support.

At present, the vengeful ghosts in the haunted hotel are still trapped inside the hotel. Therefore, the deeper you go into the corridor, the more dangerous it becomes, because the terrifying vengeful ghosts are basically lingering in the depths of the haunted hotel.

As Li Hui followed Li Qingzhi deeper into the hotel, the surrounding scenery became increasingly bizarre.

There was a distinct musty smell in the air, mixed with a faint stench of corpses. Li Hui guessed that it was seeping from a nearby room, but he obviously wouldn't look for the source of the stench, and even hoped that the supernatural force wouldn't seep into the hallway outside the room.

Currently, there is no benefit to dealing with other vengeful ghosts.

Even if Li Hui was confident that he could suppress the vengeful ghosts in the surrounding rooms, it wouldn't really make much difference. At most, it would just add a few more vengeful ghosts to his ghost realm.

Compared to that, it would be better to first seize the old wood-chopping knife from Li Qingzhi's hand.

Once he gets his hands on the machete, he can turn around and deal with other supernatural beings. Moreover, Li Hui has his own unique insights and methods for using the machete.

The interior of the ghost hotel felt very oppressive. The narrow corridors were mostly walls with only a series of maze-like crossroads. It was gloomy and dark, with the only light coming from the European-style door lamps hanging next to the guest room doors.

The porch lights are yellowish and very dim, and not every porch light is on; only some are lit while others are off.

Following the footprints on the carpet, Li Hui walked forward for about five or six minutes. The surrounding scenery became even more bizarre, with dark red bloodstains remaining on the ground and walls.

Besides.

Two guest rooms at the front of the corridor had their doors open, and the rooms inside were extremely dark. One of the guest rooms had a light on, while the other room was dark.

Li Hui glanced at the room numbers. The room with the light on was numbered '113', and the other room was numbered '115'.

In addition, a strange corpse was lying across the middle of the passageway.

The body was broken in two, as if it had been cleaved in two by some sharp weapon, but strangely, no blood flowed out. The wound on the corpse was charred black, as if the blood had been burned and evaporated.

"Click-clack, click-clack-clack~"

Under Li Hui's gaze, the corpse, broken in two, moved strangely, making a sound as if its joints and bones were twisting.

"That corpse was a vengeful ghost. It must have encountered Li Qingzhi in the corridor, which triggered a pattern that caused it to be dismembered in two. But because vengeful ghosts don't die, the corpse gradually began to revive after a period of dormancy..."

Li Hui secretly guessed and roughly reconstructed the course of events in his mind.

next moment.

Before the vengeful ghost had fully recovered its supernatural powers and regained its ability to move, Li Hui made his move.

The process was entirely predictable.

In the blink of an eye, a portrait appeared on the spot, with the background being the corridor in front of them, and a terrifying figure lying in the middle of the corridor.

It was a emaciated person whose gender was indistinguishable. The body was broken in two, the expression on the face was distorted and terrifying, and the hands were outstretched as if they would crawl out of the oil painting at any moment. The overall style of the painting was dark and eerie.

Then, with a thought, the oil painting that was floating in the corridor disappeared instantly and was stored deep in the Ghost Realm.

Then Li Hui turned his attention back to the two guest rooms with their doors open.

Tatata!
Just as Li Hui was looking around the two rooms, a series of slightly muffled and stiff footsteps came from around the corner not far ahead.

Then a figure came into Li Hui's view.

It was a tall man, but he was not alive; he was a highly decomposed corpse, emitting a strong stench of decay. Corpse fluid seeped down his tattered clothes and dripped onto the ground, forming black footprints.

The tall, decaying male corpse was still clutching a knife tightly in its hand.

The knife looked somewhat like the kind used for chopping firewood in the old rural areas, a common agricultural tool. However, the knife in the man's hand was heavily rusted, covered in dirt and black stains, as if formed from congealed blood.

"Got you!"

Upon seeing the tall, rotting male corpse, Li Hui's eyes lit up, but he did not rush forward. Instead, he quickly retreated.

The amount of paper ash floating around increased, and in an instant, it piled up into a thick layer of ash on the ground.

At this moment, Li Hui activated 70% of the ghost painting's supernatural power to its maximum, hiding himself in the deepest part of the hazy ghost realm. The 30% of the bus's supernatural power also enveloped him, isolating him from the invasion of external supernatural forces.

Facing Li Qingzhi, who had been resurrected by the vengeful ghost, Li Hui was on high alert, showing no sign of underestimating him and displaying great caution and respect.

Almost the instant Li Hui retreated rapidly, a huge portrait, taller than a person, stood horizontally in the middle of the corridor, completely blocking the passageway.

It was a portrait.

There are more than thirty figures standing in the painting. They seem to have life of their own, all turning their heads to look at the other side of the corridor.

“The old machete that the tall male corpse is holding is my target this time. Go and get it for me.”

Li Hui's voice rang out, echoing in the corridor and reaching the ears of the ghosts in the oil painting.

"Is this the interior of the haunted hotel? And that male corpse is the hotel owner, a top ghost tamer from the Republic of China era?" Someone curiously looked at Li Qingzhi, wanting to see just how extraordinary a top ghost tamer from the Republic of China era was.

"They've started ordering us around so quickly?"

Some people were dissatisfied with Li Hui's commanding tone, but they didn't say anything because they knew very well that there was no such thing as a free lunch. Since they had chosen to "cooperate" with Li Hui and thus escape the Ghost Post Office, this situation was bound to happen.

"Yang Xiao, you will lead the team of the dead. That old woodcutter's knife is related to the vengeful ghost in Dachang City. Only by seizing it can the subsequent support mission to Dachang City begin."

As Li Hui finished speaking...

The oil painting faded away.

The figures in the painting all appeared in the corridor, or more precisely, in Li Hui's ghost realm.

Space was distorted at this moment, so the slightly narrow passageway could accommodate many people at the same time, and their movements were not hindered.

"I'll go first. I want to see how the so-called top ghost tamers of the Republic of China era are different from those of our time."

The speaker was a young man, about twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, with a very ordinary appearance, and dressed in clothes in the style of the 1950s or 1960s.

As he spoke, the man walked directly across the crowd toward the tall male corpse.

As he moved, the man's body instantly exuded a chilling aura, his skin rapidly turning pale and bloodless, making him appear as if he had transformed into a vengeful ghost.

Tatata!
The man rushed toward Li Qingzhi's corpse, while the tall male corpse on the other side did not react at all, as if it had not seen the man, or as if some kind of pattern of its had not yet been triggered.

"It's time to make contact."

Under everyone's watchful eyes, the young man got very close to the tall male corpse; the man even reached out his hand and grabbed the old wood-chopping knife in the corpse's hand.

"Can we successfully snatch it?"

All the spirits watched this scene with curiosity. Since someone was willing to take the lead in testing the power of the vengeful ghost, they were happy to oblige the man's actions.

Among the crowd, only Yang Xiao, who was standing at the front, and Li Hui, who was hidden behind the crowd, frowned slightly. The former had vaguely sensed something was wrong, while the latter had already guessed the fate of the young man.

However, Li Hui didn't intend to offer any advice. Letting these wandering souls learn a lesson, broaden their horizons, and show them that there are always people more powerful than themselves, and ghosts more powerful than ghosts.

Most importantly, these spirits do not die in the world within the painting, so Li Hui is not worried about losing a spirit.

Bang~!
the other side.

The man successfully grasped the machete in the tall male corpse's hand, a process so smooth that even he himself found it somewhat unbelievable.

"So much for being a top ghost tamer during the Republic of China era, with this kind of performance, I..."

The man kept talking while trying to snatch the wood-chopping knife, but he quickly realized something was wrong and stopped talking.

No matter how much force the man exerted, the old woodcutter's knife in the tall male corpse's hand remained unmoved. The corpse even turned its head to look at the young man.

next moment.

The tall male corpse's hand twitched slightly.

puff!
The young man's body instantly snapped in two, cut in half at the waist, and his upper body fell to the ground with a thud.

After doing all this, the tall male corpse acted as if nothing had happened, continuing to move forward with stiff, heavy steps, completely ignoring the young man lying on the ground.

"What's going on? The male corpse only moved his hand slightly, and Zhang Jiang's body was directly dismembered in two?"

Some people in the crowd were quite surprised.

The reversal happened so fast that they were all caught off guard.

"okay."

At this moment, Li Hui spoke up: "This vengeful ghost is not as simple as you think. Everyone, don't hesitate, attack together and try to suppress it in the shortest possible time!"

To be honest, Li Hui didn't expect the ghosts to be able to suppress Li Qingzhi, but as long as they could hold him off and eventually snatch the old woodcutter's knife with his help, that would be enough.

"Everyone be careful of the machete in the male corpse's hand. That knife can dismember supernatural beings. Zhang Jiang was probably dismembered by that machete."

At this point, Yang Xiao also figured out something and spoke up to remind everyone.

talking.

He started taking action himself.

(End of this chapter)