Don't follow the rules

Chapter 564 The Church of the Cross (Twenty-Seven)
"Are we surrounded now? How do we get out?" Ning Yao asked, somewhat troubled.

Chunyu Kong glanced at him with a hint of surprise: "You're asking me? I thought you had a lot of bad ideas."

Ning Yao objected: "How can you call it a bad idea? At the very least, it should be a 'cunning idea'!"

"Considering all the solutions you've contributed in past incidents, you truly deserve the title of 'ghost'," Chunyu Kong paused for a moment, "We're all colleagues, so let's try not to hurt anyone."

Ning Yao chuckled and retreated into the shadows: "We'll have to see if they know what's good for them."

Suddenly, the poisonous fog overhead surged up, mixed with a swarm of bewildered evil spirits like headless flies, and rushed out of the door like a dark cloud pressing down on the city.

However, the reaction of the team outside the door was beyond Ning Yao's expectations. The entire team not only did not panic in the slightest, but also did not communicate with each other. Ning Yao did not even catch any sound of a commander giving orders. Instead, they uniformly and very well-trainedly pulled down the visors on their helmets.

"What is that?" Ning Yao popped out again.

Chunyu Kong explained: "The night vision device improved by the association not only has the most basic thermal imaging function, but can also further distinguish between spirits, living people and inanimate heat sources—that is to say, the hot black smoke you blew out cannot obstruct their vision at all."

Sure enough, as soon as Chunyu Kong finished speaking, the team outside raised their guns and unleashed a barrage of fire at the evil spirit in the black smoke. Instantly, the entire building was filled with shrill screams.

Inside the warehouse, the evil spirits that hadn't yet managed to escape seemed to be terrified by the screams of their kind. In their panic, they even ignored Ning Yao's black mist's containment and frantically fled with their heads in their hands.

"Oh no, stop them!"

The desperate evil spirits had no way to escape. Going forward meant facing a hail of bullets outside the warehouse that could kill spirits; retreating meant the warehouse itself had no other exit. So, driven by their survival instincts, they all made the same choice: to possess others.

Of course, Ning Yao and Chunyu, who looked very intimidating, were excluded, and all the other living people in the warehouse had been evacuated. The only one who was easy to deal with was Geng Xun, whose hands and feet were bound.

pia!

Ning Yao raised his hand and smashed one of the evil spirits that rushed towards Geng Xun, but this attack was just a drop in the ocean. Even if all eight tentacles were used, it would not be enough to stop the tide of evil spirits that surged in and penetrated everywhere.

"Brother Kong, I've missed so much, come help me!" Ning Yao released the tentacles binding Geng Xun and asked Chunyu Kong for help, but when he turned around, he saw Kong standing to the side arrogantly raising his middle finger.

Ning Yao instantly perked up: "Wow! An international gesture of goodwill? But can they even understand it? And will cursing them do any good? If it did, I'd curse them too, and I'd have a few more hands to spare."

Chunyu Kong: "Shut your dog mouth! This is the protective spirit official seal."

Ning Yao: "Oh, okay."

Chunyu Kong composed himself after his earlier outburst and continued the incantation: "Bright Yin and Yang, the sun rises in the east, the spirit official is here, sweeping away all misfortune..."

Golden runes gradually appeared in the air, floating and spinning rapidly around Geng Xun, so fast that only golden afterimages remained. These afterimages coalesced into a semi-transparent spherical shield, instantly killing any evil spirits that approached. This made the evil spirits quite wary, and they all retreated, effectively blocking the possession.

Before the two could even catch their breath, Ning Yao noticed something amiss. "Something's not right," Ning Yao grabbed Chunyu Kong's arm, "Brother Kong, look, why does Grandpa Geng's face look a little unpleasant?"

Although Geng Xun has become a ghost, he still retains a human form and basic facial features. Judging from the degree of distortion in his expression, he seems to be suffering some kind of great pain.

Chunyu Kong and Ning Yao looked at each other in bewilderment.

Ning Yao pointed to the arrogantly spinning incantation in mid-air and questioned, "Your protective incantation can distinguish between friend and foe, right?"

Chunyu Kong slightly shifted his gaze, answering somewhat guiltily: "The initial purpose of developing the protective spell was to protect the target from evil spirits. Theoretically, its main characteristic is only 'protection,' and we didn't add any additional exorcism effects... However, I remember that the spell development team didn't conduct any other specific experiments for this purpose, and the spell seems to say 'sweep away all misfortune'..."

The two paused for a second.

"Grandpa, stop! Stop!"

"Stop! Stop! Stop!!!"

The golden incantation, now devoid of spiritual power, suddenly dimmed, its spinning speed abruptly halting. But just as they were busy revoking the protective spell, the evil spirits that had been lurking nearby seized the opportunity, completely engulfing Geng Xun in an instant.

Those who frequently encounter ghosts know that ghosts can possess people very quickly, especially when the possessed person (the ghost) has no will to resist. Evil spirits are clearly adept at this, and merging into Geng Xun's body is as easy as dripping water onto a dry sponge.

"So, did we team up to kill Grandpa Geng?" Ning Yao asked in a low voice.

"No, he was already dead. He's just possessed by an evil spirit. It shouldn't be too bad, right?" Chunyu's voice was even softer and lacked confidence as he retorted.

howl--!
Geng Xun suddenly let out a roar that was not human, and the frenzied sound wave dispersed the surrounding poisonous smoke, clearing a space inside the warehouse. Even the guards who were itching to attack outside quickly restrained their steps.

Originally, the demonized Geng Xun looked like a charred, muscular giant, or, in American comic book style, a charred version of Venom. But after being infused with a whole tank of evil spirits, he began to deviate from his human form—his neck and back were stretched by the mutated bones, his charred skin cracked inch by inch, oozing viscous asphalt; the sudden elongation of his upper body caused him to lose his balance, and he involuntarily fell forward, landing on all fours, breathing out the panting of a wild beast.

“Aircraft Bro, is this what you meant by ‘not too bad’?” Ning Yao covered his face. “I can hardly imagine anything worse than this.”

Before Chunyu Kong could even speak, Geng Xun immediately demonstrated to Ning Yao what a 'worse' situation was.

Geng Xun slightly lowered his hind legs, then exerted force with his thighs, and his whole body sprang out like a leaping frog, passing over Ning Yao and Chunyu Kong's heads, and landing in the guard's encirclement.

"Oh no! We absolutely cannot let him hurt anyone! If a ghost in the association goes out of control and injures someone, it's a death sentence without trial or objection; they'll be shot on the spot! Stop him!"

Chunyu Kongfei flew forward and scattered a handful of soybeans. The next second, countless bald soldiers emerged, forming a human wall to block Geng Xun's rampage and force back the guards' encirclement.

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