Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 83 The Former Mail Delivery Location
Black blood splattered everywhere, mixing with the soil in the field and seeping into it. The nearby green weeds were also stained black at this moment, and eventually withered and fell away.

The blood of starving ghosts contains terrifying supernatural power.

Even the weeds growing in this eerie place, enduring the onslaught of supernatural energy year after year, could not withstand the supernatural power in the blood of the starving ghost.

"The starving ghost has been dismembered once again, and the other vengeful spirit with the ability to restart hasn't appeared. Could it be that this imprisonment operation is about to succeed? And this place..."

Yang Xiao and others, who had been closely monitoring the situation, noticed the anomaly immediately.

The starving ghost was successfully dismembered, but the second terrifying vengeful ghost did not appear, which made them realize that something was wrong, especially the surrounding environment, which was extremely dark and exuded a cold and eerie atmosphere.

This kind of environment is not unfamiliar to them.

As messengers who once worked at the Ghost Post Office, they delivered a great many letters, almost every one of which was related to vengeful ghosts, including some that required them to enter and leave haunted places.

"But... how is that possible?"

"Is the terrifying ability to travel into supernatural places really something a living person can control? Even a ghost painting couldn't do that, could it?"

The boundless, dim environment and the endless, abandoned fields told everyone that they were indeed in a vast supernatural world, not just some haunted place. Li Hui had truly led everyone into a supernatural realm.

This ability shocked the group of dead souls, especially Yang Xiao, who was in the lead, and he even thought of a certain supernatural object.

That was a worn-out, old bus!

The bus's ability is very similar to the ability Li Hui is currently displaying. It can travel back and forth between the real world and supernatural places. Moreover, it is a ghost bus, and the passengers it carries are not ordinary living people, but real vengeful ghosts, which it takes to various supernatural places.

"So, this is the ability of the third vengeful ghost that Li Hui controls?" Some of the spirits had a different focus than the others.

They mentally counted the abilities Li Hui had demonstrated.

Among them, the ability of the ghost painting is well known, and there is also a certain ability to suppress vengeful ghosts. The level of terror of that ability to suppress supernatural beings is also very high. Then there is the ability to travel through supernatural places that has been shown this time.

He possesses three supernatural abilities, none of which are simple and all are extremely terrifying. Yet, his condition is remarkably good, with almost no signs of supernatural corruption. His health is similar to that of ordinary people who do not control vengeful spirits.

This caused a stir of jealousy among the departed souls, who were both shocked and amazed.

Back then, even after struggling in the Ghost Post Office and the paranormal world for so long, they were still troubled by the resurgence of vengeful spirits. Especially in the early stages of becoming ghost tamers, the vengeful spirits within their bodies would start to become restless after only using their abilities a couple of times.

The difference is quite obvious.

And on the other side.

Li Hui was naturally unaware of the thoughts in the minds of the dead souls; at this moment, he had already begun to imprison the starving ghosts.

Under the dismemberment of more than a dozen supernatural woodcutters, the starving ghost's body was cut into dozens of pieces, and even its head was split into several pieces, falling onto the muddy ground in the field.

"The best way is to separate them and imprison them as in the original story. Otherwise, if they are imprisoned together, the bodies of the hungry ghosts will re-coagulate and revive over time."

Li Hui looked to his side.

Beside him was a completely golden coffin, made of pure gold. In terms of money, making such a golden coffin would cost at least nine or even ten figures, which was extremely extravagant.

However, such a coffin would only be used as a container to imprison vengeful ghosts in this world, because only a special material like gold can resist the erosion of supernatural forces.

While thinking.

Li Hui opened the lid of the golden coffin and began to gather the body of the starving ghost. He selectively threw a portion of it into the golden coffin.

Those are different parts of the starving ghost's body.

Even if the hungry ghosts gradually revive in the coffin and reassemble, they will only form a bizarre shape, unable to even break out of the coffin, because its body is too severely mutilated. Li Hui didn't even throw its hands, feet, and a large part of its body into the coffin.

Then Li Hui waved his hand, and with this action, paper ash filled the air, and the remaining body parts of the starving ghosts gradually floated up from the field, then turned into a series of cold and gloomy oil paintings.

Each painting was almost identical in size, depicting patches of bluish-black flesh. Under Li Hui's control, these oil paintings gradually disappeared from view.

Due to a shortage of gold containers, Li Hui could only use this method to imprison the starving ghosts for the time being.

It is obviously not advisable to stuff the hungry ghost completely into the coffin. Once resurrected, it is fully capable of escaping from the golden coffin, and this is not without precedent.

Besides.

Li Hui didn't dare to confine the entire body of the starving ghost in an oil painting, mainly because the characteristics of the starving ghost were too terrifying. It could devour all supernatural beings and instantly control the supernatural abilities it devoured.

If the resurrected hungry ghost were to devour the painting that imprisoned it, it might acquire the painting's abilities, increasing its terror to several levels—something Li Hui desperately wanted to avoid.

The purpose of keeping the hungry ghost by one's side is to replicate its supernatural abilities later, not to let it devour one's own supernatural powers.

Therefore, in Li Hui's view, separating the prisoners into different groups is the safest method, at least for now.

After all the oil paintings disappeared into the depths of the ghost realm, Li Hui closed the golden coffin next to him again. Then, with a thought, a strange oil painting floated in front of him.

The oil painting's frame is carved with old, worn patterns and painted with mottled red paint. The background of the painting is a wooden house shaped like a skull, its interior dimly lit, with a tall figure vaguely visible standing in the darkness inside the doorway.

Subsequently, under Li Hui's control, the golden coffin beside him gradually disappeared into the eerie oil painting and was finally placed in a room on the second floor of the old wooden house.

After doing all this, Li Hui turned his gaze to the old house in the middle of the field.

They had been in this haunted place for a short time, but not too long either. During this time, there were no unusual sounds coming from inside the old house. It seemed to be just an ordinary abandoned old house, without any supernatural features.

But this is obviously impossible.

The buildings located in such eerie places were mostly built by ghost tamers, and their own strength was generally quite good. They were very likely ghost tamers from the Republican era.

"I feel like I've been here before!"

Then, as Li Hui was observing, one of the spirits spoke up, a thoughtful expression on her face, as if she was trying to recall something.

"You mean, you once came to this haunted place to deliver a message?" Li Hui asked, his gaze fixed on the woman.

"Yes."

The woman recalled, "That was about twenty years ago. I've forgotten exactly how long, but I remember it was the second letter I delivered after I went up to the fifth floor. The address was here. We got into this place by taking a bus."

"There were three other messengers who were with me on the mission. They were all my teammates, but in the end, I was the only one who survived. The other three died."

"There was a red coffin in the lobby on the first floor of that old house. Our mission was to deliver the letters to the owner of that coffin."

The woman continued, "After entering the house, we looked around cautiously, but we didn't find anything unusual. The strangest thing was the red coffin in the hall."

"The coffin was closed at the time. We thought we could just pry it open, put the letter in the coffin owner's hand, and leave through the ghost post office."

At this point, the woman's expression became somewhat unnatural, but after pausing for two seconds, she continued:

"To our surprise, the coffin was empty when it was opened. But just as we were wondering what was going on, the attack of the vengeful ghost began. It was a ghost that could not be seen with the naked eye under normal circumstances, and it was extremely terrifying."

“One of my teammates was instantly killed by the vengeful ghost without any ability to resist. You have to understand that at that time his overall ability was no worse than mine. He was also controlling two vengeful ghosts. But even so, he still died on the spot under the attack of that vengeful ghost.”

"..."

According to the woman's account, Li Hui and the others quickly figured out what had happened. According to the woman, the vengeful ghost in the old house could only be seen by turning the body upside down.

To put it simply, it requires standing upside down.

The killing patterns of vengeful ghosts are also related to this.

A person standing upright not only cannot see the vengeful ghost, but will also directly trigger the vengeful ghost's killing pattern, thus being targeted and attacked by the vengeful ghost. Conversely, a person standing upside down will not trigger the vengeful ghost's killing pattern.

The woman was able to complete her mission because she fell down the stairs while escaping and inadvertently found herself upside down. This allowed her to not only see the vengeful ghost but also avoid its killing patterns.

Even the subsequent mail delivery missions were completed while walking upside down. Ultimately, guided back to the post office by the ghostly spirits of the Ghost Post Office, he became the sole survivor of that four-person mail delivery mission.

"So, the owner of that old house died twenty years ago, or even earlier. He just lay in that lipstick-red coffin until the messengers entered the old house and opened the coffin, at which point he was fully revived, and the vengeful ghost began to kill..."

Based on the woman's statement, Li Hui made a mental summary.

At first glance...

The ghost in that old house seemed unremarkable, but that was because the woman had revealed the ghost's patterns of behavior, giving them a kind of God-like perspective.

If people were unaware of this, that vengeful ghost would be a nightmare for many.

Li Hui could foresee that when that vengeful ghost appeared in the city of the real world, everyone would probably die, because ordinary people walk upright normally, which would also trigger the vengeful ghost's killing pattern.

What's most terrifying is the sheer terror of that vengeful ghost. According to the woman, even a ghost tamer who controls two vengeful ghosts would be instantly killed without any ability to resist.

It's important to understand that many of the city's leaders at this stage are only controlling a single vengeful spirit, and even their normal actions trigger that spirit's killing patterns...

"Shall we go in and investigate that old house?"

A spirit asked Li Hui.

Upon hearing this, Li Hui's eyes flickered slightly. After pondering for a moment, he said, "There's no need. The vengeful ghost in that old house might be maintaining some kind of balance. Even if imprisoning it wouldn't do me any good, it might even cause this haunted place to go out of control."

This is indeed Li Hui's true inner thought.

Many of the things done by ghost tamers during the Republic of China era had profound meanings, especially those who were stationed in a haunted place.

The fact that the owner of that old house placed his coffin in the first-floor hall must have been for a reason, and that it had been released by the messenger more than twenty years ago. The fact that this haunted place still showed no signs of going out of control made Li Hui feel that his guess was becoming more and more correct.

Li Hui would never believe that there were no other vengeful ghosts in such a haunted place. Otherwise, the ghost-controlling person who was suspected to be from the Republican era would not have needed to build a house here and even make clear arrangements for his own funeral.

"Let's go back to the real world first. Although the matter of the starving ghosts has been resolved, my real goal has not yet been achieved."

As he spoke, a chilling aura emanated from Li Hui.

Under the influence of the bus's supernatural power, the scene before Li Hui's eyes changed. The boundless fields disappeared, and the scene that appeared in Li Hui's eyes became the Seventh Middle School of Dachang City.

It can be determined by the approximate location.

The house in the haunted place overlaps with a school building in the real world, but they are located in two different spaces.

Under Li Hui's control.

The boundary between the supernatural realm and the real world was broken once again. The hazy ashes of paper invaded the real world, and then the ghost realm, along with a group of dead souls, returned to Dachang City.

But Li Hui did not leave immediately. Instead, he did as the woman had instructed, turned his body upside down, and looked at the old house in the middle of the field.

From this inverted perspective, the scene before Li Hui changed drastically, and things that were not visible from a normal perspective were now presented to him.

Those were eerie figures.

They have human outlines, but they are blurry and indistinct, making it impossible to see their specific appearance. They seem as if they were formed from black mist, appearing unreal.

There are many figures.

Starting from the field in front of Li Hui, and extending all the way to the vicinity of that old house, they were all in the same position as Li Hui at this moment, head down, feet up, hands supporting them in the field, completely upside down.

From a distance, they look like black wooden stakes stuck upside down in the fields, which looks very strange.

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P.S.: Just a little spoiler, this involves a later dungeon. And while I'm at it, please give me your monthly votes and recommendation votes! ξ(＞)
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