Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 86 The Mysterious Wardrobe
"here it is?"

In a daze.

Zhang Wei opened his eyes.

The first thing that caught his eye was a scene that felt very familiar to him—the playground of the No. 7 Middle School where he had studied for more than two years, and the teaching building not far away was even more memorable to him.

However, the internal environment of No. 7 Middle School was slightly different from what he remembered.

The whole world took on an eerie gray hue, with grayish things constantly falling from the sky, like ashes left behind after something had burned. There were many of them, densely packed, like a rain of paper ash.

"Why am I here?"

Zhang Wei, who had just woken up from 'deep sleep', was still a little dazed. The images from his dream were intertwined with his memories of reality, which prevented him from coming back to his senses immediately.

But this confusion quickly disappeared, and Zhang Wei finally realized what was happening.

He immediately touched his chest, and when he felt a cool sensation in his palm, Zhang Wei breathed a slight sigh of relief. But still somewhat uneasy, he took out the thing he was carrying in his pocket.

It was a small, golden box, with obvious signs that the lid had been opened.

"It happened!"

See this.

Zhang Wei's face turned extremely ugly.

This golden box was specially entrusted to Zhang Wei by Yang Jian before his departure, and Zhang Wei especially valued the contents inside, which he believed were of utmost importance.

"Brother Leg, I'm so sorry, I couldn't keep the things you asked me to safeguard..." Zhang Wei suddenly wailed, a hint of sorrow on his face.

talking.

He opened the gold box in his hand.

But when the box was opened and Zhang Wei saw the brown leather paper quietly placed inside, his words stopped abruptly, and the sorrow on his face vanished.

The way he shifted and controlled his emotions was very skillful, as if the person he had shown before was not Zhang Wei himself, but someone else.

"what's the situation?"

"Could it be that those people's target wasn't actually the human skin paper, and that Brother Leg put something else in this box, and what they took was that unknown thing?"

"Or is it really as that person said before, that he was just looking and had no intention of stealing the human skin paper?"

The human skin paper was still inside the gold box, a sight that clearly surprised Zhang Wei.

At this moment, he wanted to open the paper human skin in the box to take a look, but he was wary of the supernatural and was afraid that it would bring bad luck.

Especially Yang Jian's words before leaving, which sounded like he was entrusting his affairs to someone, deepened Zhang Wei's concerns.

After a moment's thought, reason prevailed, and Zhang Wei did not choose to open the human skin paper. Instead, he closed the gold box again and put it back in his pocket.

After doing all this, he got up and left quickly, heading towards the Guanjiang residential area.

Tatata!
Shortly after Zhang Wei left, No. 7 Middle School welcomed other people, several rescue workers from headquarters wearing work uniforms.

A hazy, ghostly aura enveloped the entire city of Dachang, but the rescue operation within the city was not affected. Headquarters staff continued to carry out the search and rescue mission in an orderly manner.

This was an order jointly issued by Wang Xiaoming and Zhao Jianguo.

They have basically determined the source of the ghost realm; it was not a sudden supernatural event, but rather Li Hui's personal behavior.

As for Li Hui's purpose in doing this, Zhao Jianguo and the others were unsure, but it was clear that this did not affect the search and rescue mission.

at the same time.

Li Hui, who was in a luxury villa in the city, also had the idea of ​​leaving.

Based on the information provided by the human skin paper and his own judgment, Yang Jian would need about two more days to be resurrected.

Furthermore, Li Hui's target this time was not Yang Jian; he was just passing by to take a look. His real destination was Guanjiang Residential Area.

Precisely.

It is a supernatural item found in an old house from the Republican era in the Guanjiang residential area.

next moment.

A hazy layer of paper ash drifted in the air.

Li Hui's figure vanished from the spot.

Even after he left, Yang Jian's resurrection ritual continued. He was completely absorbed by the ghost mirror, and his body gradually disappeared into the mirror.

The supernatural forces within the ghost mirror were constantly pulling at Yang Jian's corpse, vying for possession of the body with the headless ghostly figure within it. At this moment, the densely packed ghostly hands in the mirror also reached out to grab Yang Jian.

However, just as these ghostly hands were about to touch Yang Jian's corpse, many hideous cuts suddenly appeared on his body, as if his flesh had been ripped open by a vicious ghost with a gruesome weapon.

soon.

One after another, scarlet eyes emerged from Yang Jian's flesh, emitting an eerie red light that was very conspicuous and so intense it looked as if fresh blood was about to drip down.

Then the red light shone into the ghost mirror, and the terrifying hands seemed to be scalded the moment they touched the red light, and all the ghost hands withdrew.

This red light is a supernatural manifestation of the Ghost Eye. The area covered by the red light is the Ghost Eye's ghostly domain. However, at this moment, the one controlling the Ghost Eye is not Yang Jian himself, but the ghostly shadow within his body.

The headless ghost took over Yang Jian's corpse, which was equivalent to taking over the ghost inside his body.

It stands to reason.

The effect of a vengeful ghost controlling other vengeful ghosts is extremely terrifying, but the red light emitted by the ghost eyes only lasted for less than a second before disappearing again. At the same time, all the ghost eyes on Yang Jian's body closed at that moment.

The scene was as if the ghost's eyes had seen something extremely terrifying, affecting its own supernatural abilities, making it impossible to even simply open its eyes.

What suppresses the Ghost Eye is not the Ghost Mirror, but the Ghost Painting Supernatural Power controlled by Li Hui!
Although he had already left, the gray ghost realm covered the entire city, and this villa in the city center was no exception. Although the amount of paper ash that fell was not large, it was enough to suppress the ghost eye in Yang Jian's body.

Without the help of the Ghost Eye's supernatural power, Yang Jian's corpse sank into the Ghost Mirror at a faster pace. If this continued, his corpse might be completely inside the Ghost Mirror in less than two days.

Perhaps even Li Hui didn't realize that his unintentional action had accelerated Yang Jian's resurrection.

But even if I knew, it wouldn't matter.

Li Hui had no intention of preventing Yang Jian's resurrection, and he had already dealt with the Starving Ghost incident. Whether Yang Jian was resurrected sooner or later didn't really make a difference.

At this moment, Li Hui had arrived deep into the Guanjiang residential area. Looking up, he saw rows of very dense high-rise buildings, most of which had been completed, with only a small part of the construction still ongoing.

However, due to the starving ghost incident, the construction site has long been shut down, and there is not a single person in sight.

In this area filled with high-rise buildings, there is a building that stands out from the others.

It was an old-fashioned two-story building. It was clear that the house had been recently renovated, with an outer wall added and the roof seemingly repaired as well.

But under the cover of the ghostly realm, the most authentic side of the house was revealed to Li Hui.

It was an old-fashioned building constructed of blue bricks, exuding a strong Republican-era style.

The house is mainly constructed of blue bricks, and some parts have already collapsed. Some of the wooden supports for the roof tiles have also rotted. If it hadn't been recently renovated, the house might have collapsed at any time.

"This is it."

Upon seeing this, Li Hui's gaze flickered slightly, and then he took a step forward. Under the influence of the ghost domain, he directly entered the interior of that building.

The interior of the old-fashioned building was not small, but there was nothing noteworthy on the first floor. The lobby was filled with old farm tools, some of which were already rotten. They were not supernatural items. Li Hui glanced at them briefly after entering before going up to the second floor.

The second floor was darker and damper. At the end of the corridor was a blue brick wall, but there were three rooms next to this corridor, and each room had a different door.

The door to the first room looked like a heavy iron door, but Li Hui knew it was actually a golden door, just covered with a layer of iron to deceive people.

The second room has a copper door covered in patina. There is no doorknob, and the door looks incredibly heavy, blending into the surrounding walls.

The door to the third room was made of wood, and it had been opened, revealing the scene inside to Li Hui.

There weren't many things in the room, just some wooden furniture scattered on the floor, such as wooden stools and wooden tables, most of which were almost completely rotten. Obviously, these pieces of furniture were just ordinary objects and not supernatural items.

Actually.

Only two supernatural items were ever displayed in this old building. One of them was the ghost mirror that was previously placed in the third room, but Yang Jian has now moved it out.

The other supernatural artifact was the ghost cabinet inside the bronze door in the second room, which was also Li Hui's target for this trip.

As for that golden gate...

What's behind that door can no longer be considered a vengeful ghost or a supernatural object; it's the entrance to the entire supernatural world, and also the most dangerous of the three rooms.

This can be seen from the arrangement of the doors in the three rooms: the golden door, the bronze door, and the wooden door, with the level of danger decreasing in that order. This also shows that the ghost mirror is the least dangerous, while the supernatural world behind the golden door is the most dangerous.

"Compared to the paper parchment, the ghost chest was perhaps more helpful to me. Most importantly, its trading rules did not bind me."

Thinking.

Li Hui walked directly into the second room, surrounded by ashes, and he passed right through the bronze door.

In this world, only gold can resist the invasion of supernatural forces; copper cannot stop the invasion of ghostly realms...

After entering the room, Li Hui quickly looked around.

The first thing that caught his eye was an old cabinet with peeling paint, revealing the color of the wood underneath. The overall style was gloomy and outdated.

Besides that, there was a small table next to the wooden cabinet, on which someone had carved a line of words: "You will have everything, and you will lose everything. Be careful!"

The handwriting was neat and precise, appearing as a warning and the only clue left by the original owner.

Li Hui didn't pay any attention to this.

He walked straight to the wooden cabinet that stood in the center of the room.

The cabinet is divided into two layers. The first layer is a wooden lattice window. The horizontal and vertical wooden strips form many square holes on the cabinet door. It is pitch black inside, and it is impossible to see what is hidden behind the cabinet door.

The lower shelf resembled a cabinet, but the doors were tightly closed, so the interior was also completely hidden.

As Li Hui approached, he pulled out paper and pen from his pocket, which he had prepared beforehand and had grabbed from a stationery store.

"..."

Then Li Hui wrote a message on a piece of paper, tore it off, and prepared to stuff it into the cabinet door above the ghost cabinet.

However, before Li Hui could completely stuff the paper into the gap in the cabinet door, he felt as if the other end of the paper was being grabbed by something, and that something was pulling the paper in forcefully.

next moment.

Li Hui voluntarily let go.

The paper instantly disappeared into the cabinet and vanished into the darkness.

But less than ten seconds later, the paper mysteriously fell out from the gap under the cabinet.

Besides what Li Hui had just written, a line of crooked black writing appeared below the white paper...

at the same time.

the other side.

A vast ghost domain spread out from the territory of Dahai City and moved rapidly toward the direction of Dachang City.

This is a gloomy ghost realm filled with a cold and eerie atmosphere. Within this ghost realm, six figures can be faintly seen. Five of them are standing upright, while the last one is being carried on the shoulder of one of the five.

"The twins just sent word that the S-level paranormal incident in Dachang City has been dealt with. The one who imprisoned the vengeful ghost should be the man who controlled the ghost painting."

A voice could be heard coming from the gloomy, ghostly realm.

The speaker was a man wearing a cowboy hat and with a stubble beard.

It was the King, codenamed 'Cowboy' of the King Organization, whose real name was Simon, and who also owned this gloomy, ghostly realm.

He had distinctly European features, and his pale green eyes stood out starkly against the gloomy backdrop.

"That person actually faced an S-rank ghost all by himself, so he must have been quite exhausted. This is the best time for us to hunt him down."

At this moment, the owner of the terrifying manor also spoke up.

As he spoke, the manor owner glanced at the figure on his shoulder and said, "That person is probably similar to Ye Zhen. He is powerless to resist the hunt of us kings. The only thing we need to be careful of is his Ghost Domain. We must make sure he doesn't get away."

"Don't worry, he can't get away!"

The painter's voice then rang out, his words filled with strong confidence.

However, what none of the five noticed was that Ye Zhen, who should have died, had his eyes open and blinked rhythmically from time to time, just like a normal living person.

The supernatural power of the scapegoat made Ye Zhen fearless of death. The reason he didn't immediately take action against the kings was because he heard that they had other accomplices in Dachang City. So Ye Zhen planned to use their scheme against them and wipe them out in one fell swoop.

Besides.

Ye Zhen overheard the five people's conversation and realized they wanted to take action against Li Hui. This greatly piqued Ye Zhen's interest, as he also wanted to know how powerful Li Hui would be after mastering the Ghost Painting supernatural power, and whether his invincible title was truly about to change hands.

While thinking.

He closed his eyes again.
.........

(End of this chapter)