Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 93 Gravedigger

After Simon's death, his old double-barreled shotgun naturally fell into Li Hui's hands.

The shotgun looked very old-fashioned, and judging from its appearance alone, one would seriously doubt whether it could still be used properly.

However, for supernatural items, the age of the item does not affect its ability. Even if it is just old and shows signs of corrosion, and even if this hunting rifle is corroded down to just the stock, it can still be used.

And the shotgun was quite capable.

It can even suppress real vengeful ghosts, so dealing with ghost tamers is even easier.

However, its drawbacks are equally obvious.

The bullets used for attack need to be made by oneself, and the raw materials for making bullets are real vengeful ghosts. Furthermore, there is a risk of the shotgun exploding during use. If the vengeful ghosts escape, they will affect the person closest to the shotgun, namely the user of the shotgun.

Also.

The shotgun is best used in conjunction with the Ghost Domain.

"Use Ghost Domain to lock onto the target, that way you can hit them with one shot and leave them nowhere to escape," Li Hui thought to himself as he fiddled with his hunting rifle.

The best example is Simon from before.

His ghost domain was completely suppressed by the supernatural power of Li Hui's seventy percent ghost painting. He couldn't even open the ghost domain, let alone use it normally, which rendered the shotgun useless.

A ghost tamer with a ghost domain wouldn't be foolish enough to stand still and let someone aim at them without hitting them; the shotgun would then become useless.

With the shotgun almost useless, Simon, relying solely on himself and the supernatural being he controlled, was clearly no match for Li Hui and the group of dead souls.

So, unsurprisingly, he was killed.

But in his final moments, Simon's last shred of sanity drove him completely insane, and he wanted to drag Li Hui and everyone else down with him.

At that moment, he directly shredded all the strips of cloth he was carrying. Among those black, tattered strips of cloth were vengeful ghosts, which were actually bullets from an old hunting rifle!
Simon had prepared a considerable number of bullets for the shotgun, enough for more than twenty vengeful spirits. The moment the black rag shattered, all the vengeful spirits trapped within it were released.

That was an irreversible phenomenon, and even Li Hui was powerless to prevent the vengeful ghost from escaping.

More than twenty vengeful ghosts revived and erupted simultaneously, creating an extremely terrifying scene. Everyone on the street could become a target of the ghosts' attacks, making the situation extremely dangerous.

But that only applies to other people.

Most ghost tamers would be in mortal danger when facing more than twenty vengeful ghosts, but this definitely did not apply to Li Hui himself.

Amidst the drifting ashes of paper, the freed vengeful spirits were transferred to other parts of the city. Simon was then suppressed, his supernatural abilities fell silent, and his body was subsequently dismembered into several pieces and imprisoned in different oil paintings.

Those floating oil paintings are also part of Li Hui's ghost realm.

Rather than saying that the bodies of the painter, Simon, and other kings were separated and imprisoned separately, it would be more accurate to say that their bodies were separated and placed in different areas of the ghost realm.

The purpose of this was to prevent their dismembered bodies from coming back together, thus avoiding any possibility of regeneration. However, their supernatural abilities were absorbed into Li Hui's ghost realm.

The ghost realm in Ghost Painting is very special.

It's like a real-life painting.

Furthermore, the more modern scenes are integrated into the Ghost Realm, the more complete this world in the painting will become, and the more complex the scenes within it will be. At the same time, the more vengeful ghosts are imprisoned in the Ghost Realm, the higher the overall level of terror of the Ghost Realm will be.

"We've dealt with most of the people you pulled into the ghost realm. What about the one who escaped earlier? Should we go after him?"

suddenly.

Yang Xiao said to Li Hui, "With the Ghost Domain under your control, if you are determined to find that person, there is a high probability that they will not be able to escape."

Previously, Li Hui's ghost domain made no attempt to conceal itself, spreading outwards to the outskirts of Dachang City. This not only attracted the attention of Zhao Jianguo and Ye Zhen, but also the spirits within the ghost domain, including Yang Xiao, who discovered the gravediggers who abandoned their teammates and fled.

"no need."

Li Hui responded: "He's nothing but a clown. Even with six other teammates by my side, they don't dare to face my trash. He's not worth my time."

Moreover, Li Hui felt...

That person has most likely already fled abroad.

Although Li Hui had not been able to determine the gravedigger's identity from his physical characteristics, he recognized him when the gravedigger displayed his supernatural abilities and escaped through a black pit.

The only top-tier ghost tamer in the entire King Organization who can break through the supernatural blockade of the Ghost Painting and whose ability is the Black Pit is the King himself, codenamed 'The Gravedigger'.

That person wasn't particularly strong, but his ability to escape was top-notch; even Ghost Painting's Ghost Domain couldn't stop him, which speaks volumes.

The only thing Li Hui couldn't understand was why the gravedigger would betray his teammates.

With his abilities, he could have easily escaped with the kings beside him. Li Hui's ghost realm couldn't have stopped him at all. Even He Yuelian, who mastered the complete ghost painting later in the original story, couldn't stop the gravedigger.

"Alright, things in Dachang City are over, it's time to leave." Thinking this, Li Hui moved his hand.

As he did this, the oil paintings floating on the street instantly drifted to various parts of the ghost realm, and the entire city's landscape rapidly changed.

The city was rapidly shrinking, and Li Hui's location was also changing. He detached himself from the city in the painting and appeared on the outskirts of Dachang City in the real world.

The group of dead souls did not appear with him in this outskirts; instead, Ye Zhen appeared beside him.

At this moment, Ye Zhen was holding the corpse of the woman codenamed 'Lady'. Her body was covered with cracks, dense and numerous, and her entire upper body was severely deformed, with her body sunken in, as if she had been hit by some kind of heavy hammer.

Moreover, the terrifying woman's own supernatural abilities had fallen into silence, like a vengeful ghost that had crashed. Under Ye Zhen's suppression, her injuries could not be healed at all.

"Xiao Li, it's you!"

The sudden change in scenery caught Ye Zhen off guard, but after seeing Li Hui standing to the side, he said excitedly, "Very good. Your safe appearance means that everyone else is dead. You truly are the person I have my eye on."

As he spoke, Ye Zhen looked at Li Hui's front.

At this moment, a huge portrait, more than a person tall, was floating in front of Li Hui.

The scene in the painting is the city they had stayed in before. The whole painting is lifelike, and every street in the city is clearly visible, but the style of the painting is slightly dark.

You can clearly see various vengeful ghosts emerging in the city portrait, wandering around the city as if searching for their targets to kill.

"It seems your strength has increased a lot after you mastered the supernatural power of the Ghost Painting. Let's have a fight and compete for the title of number one!"

Ye Zhen continued, "If you defeat me, then I, Ye, will acknowledge you as the strongest, and from now on you will be number one and I will be number two. Otherwise, my position will remain unshakable!"

Hear the words.

Li Hui's face darkened visibly, not from anger, but from utter speechlessness. He felt helpless about Ye Zhen's chuunibyou (delusional) personality and was also a little curious about how his subordinates tolerated this chuunibyou.

You know, being a bit immature for a short time is fine, but being immature all the time is unbearable.
Li Hui immediately and without hesitation rejected Ye Zhen's childish request, and used another person as a shield:

"As far as I know, the person in charge of Da Dong City is quite powerful, especially the vengeful spirits he controls, which are extremely terrifying. Even now, I don't have much confidence in defeating him. If you really want to fight someone, you can go find him."

He revealed some information about Wang Chaling to Ye Zhen, wanting him to cause trouble for the third generation of the Wang family.

It wasn't that he had a grudge against Wang Chaling, nor that he disliked Wang Chaling; it was simply because he was the most suitable person to be Ye Zhen's 'opponent' at this stage.

Moreover, Li Hui had already anticipated the outcome of their fight. It was certain that Ye Zhen would be brutally defeated by Wang Yidai, but with a scapegoat, he wouldn't be killed outright. The fight would likely end in a draw, which would be in line with the original purpose of the exchange.

the most important is.

Ye Zhen's sparring with Wang Chaling was actually beneficial to him, as the severe abuse he suffered could help him further develop his ability to become a scapegoat.

To be honest, Ye Zhen is more special than any other ghost tamer in the original work.

From beginning to end, he basically didn't increase the number of supernatural entities he possessed. The difference between the early and late stages was that he forged a supernatural item, gained a pet, and improved his ability to use scapegoats. Other than that, there wasn't much change. His attack methods were just a few: punching, wielding a sword, or using scapegoats...

"The person in charge of Da Dong City?" Ye Zhen pondered for a moment before asking.
"That's fine. I imagine you just fought against many opponents, and you must have exhausted yourself. It would be a bit unfair to win against you now, and it wouldn't show my invincible prowess. So let me go and defeat that person in charge of Da Dong City first, and then I'll settle things with you!"

But then Ye Zhen's expression softened, and he said, "However, the trip to Da Dong City will need to be postponed by a few days. I discovered something during my battle with those foreign ghost tamers: they all possess supernatural items."

"I, Ye, am invincible in this world. How can I lose to others in this aspect? So I have decided to return to Dahai City first and forge a peerless sword of my own!"

"Ok?"

Upon hearing this, Li Hui glanced at Ye Zhen with slight surprise. He hadn't expected that Ye Zhen would start having the idea of ​​creating supernatural items at this time, and that he would likely succeed.

However, Li Hui was only slightly surprised; whether Ye Zhen forged supernatural items or not didn't affect him much.

The two then exchanged a few more words, but Li Hui couldn't stand Ye Zhen's delusional behavior any longer, so he made up an excuse and left. Amidst the drifting gray ashes, he vanished from the spot.

Immediately afterwards, Ye Zhen also left. The ghost domain enveloped his body, and he transformed into a beam of light and disappeared into the sky.

at the same time.

A strange figure appeared in the dense forest of the hills on the outskirts of the city.

It was a man whose entire body was hidden in darkness, and one could vaguely see that the skin on his palms was an eerie black. He was a gravedigger from the King's organization.

In reality, he had never left. He had simply broken through the blockade of Li Hui's Ghost Domain and was hiding in the shadows, looking for an opportunity to ambush Li Hui and his group, or to rescue his teammates from the Ghost Domain.

No one expected Li Hui to act so quickly. Before he could even begin, the kings who had been pulled into the ghost realm were killed one after another.

Of course, this was also because Li Hui's displayed strength shocked him, and he felt that if he made a move, there was a high probability that he would also be killed. After some hesitation, he didn't even have the chance to save people.

"Damn it, this is troublesome. The loss of six kings will have a significant impact on subsequent operations, especially the ghost ship project codenamed 'Noah's Ark'!"

"Moreover, the fact that there is such a powerful ghost tamer in the East is perhaps only something the captain can rival..."

The gravedigger was quickly considering his next move, and also figuring out which members of the King's organization would benefit him the most once he returned.

"It seems my senses were right; there really is a rat hiding nearby!"

However, just as the gravedigger was pondering, a man's voice suddenly came from behind him.

moment.

The gravedigger's body stiffened.

He then quickly turned around and looked behind him.

A handsome young man dressed in strange, tattered clothes stood not far behind him, holding a horribly deformed corpse in his hand.

"Ye Zhen?"

"You didn't leave?" The gravedigger frowned after seeing the young man's face clearly, wondering how the other man had found him.

His supernatural disguise is very special.

In the gravedigger's view, even the man who controlled the ghost painting was fooled by him and left directly, but he did not expect Ye Zhen to still be waiting here, and the other party's previous behavior seemed to be a trick to lure him out.

"You think you can evade my senses, you little rat?"

Ye Zhen shouted, "I thought you had already dug a tunnel and left, but I didn't expect you to dare to sneak back. This is simply disrespectful to me, Ye Zhen, and you're practically courting death!"

The words fell.

Ye Zhen strode toward the gravedigger.

"If that person comes along, I might be a little wary, but if it's just you, Ye Zhen, then sleep here forever!"

Ye Zhen's appearance did catch the gravedigger off guard, but it was not enough to alarm him or make him want to kill Ye Zhen.

"You think you can kill me, Ye? You're utterly ignorant and arrogant!"

Ye Zhen looked at the gravedigger with disdain.

But in the next moment, as he was moving forward, one of his feet suddenly slipped, and then a terrifying pulling force came from that foot.

"What the hell is this?"

Ye Zhen looked down and saw that there was a pit in front of him. It looked like it had been dug by man, but it was pitch black inside and bottomless.

What was most chilling was that at that moment, a dirty, withered, and cold hand was gripping his ankle in the pit, pulling him down with tremendous force, a manifestation of some kind of supernatural phenomenon.

"You think you can drag me down with your ghostly appearance?" Ye Zhen raised his foot to resist, trying to break free from the hand.

Before he could completely break free, the gravedigger on the other side had disappeared without him noticing.

at the same time.

One after another, pitch-black, cold, stiff hands emerged from the bottomless, dark pit in front of Ye Zhen, covering his entire body in an instant.

Immediately afterward, the hands exerted force simultaneously, and Ye Zhen's body suddenly leaned forward, as if he were really about to be pulled into the pit.

"presumptuous!"

"This little brat thinks he can drag me into this mess!"

A chilling aura emanated from Ye Zhen, and he opened his own ghost domain. However, before he could retreat, the gravedigger's figure appeared eerily behind him, dragging him down into the pit.

(End of this chapter)