I open a restaurant in Mysterious Recovery

Chapter 544: Noon Transaction, Gengshen Year · Ghost Peddler

The person was sent back quickly, but it took some time before he was delivered to Wang Xiaoming's laboratory.

Wang Xiaoming knew very well the reason for this period of time, but he did not care. It was not because he was so reasonable, but because he knew that this was due to his status in the Peace Hotel, so he gave it more consideration.

But now, he doesn't care about these at all.

For him, he never liked those intrigues.

He had this kind of personality before he "died" once, and he still had this kind of personality after he "died" once. In fact, because of the erosion of the supernatural, he became even more indifferent to normal people, and his attention to these things decreased again.

As long as the research materials arrive, he will have no objections.

Yang Jian, Li Jun, Ah Hong, Lu Zhiwen, Fang Shiming.

There were five experimental subjects, which made Wang Xiaoming's dead eyes brighter. That was why Cao Yanhua felt a little uneasy and said jokingly, "Professor Wang must have done a lot of interesting experiments in the Peace Hotel these days, right? Whether it's ghosts or supernatural objects, there should be no shortage of them."

"The store manager is very supportive of my research, but there are limits. It cannot affect the normal operation of the store, so the materials I can research are not as many as I imagined. Moreover, the materials that Yang Jian and his team use are different from those in the store. At least in the store, I cannot analyze the supernatural properties of the white mist, or I will suffer backlash."

Wang Xiaoming didn't seem to understand what Cao Yanhua meant. As he spoke, he began to put on sterile protective clothing. "If the deputy minister has nothing else to do, then I will start."

In his current state, with the protection of the "store manager", this kind of research should not require protective clothing, but he put it on anyway.

Cao Yanhua said in a deep voice: "Anyway, thank you for troubling Professor Wang."

Watching Wang Xiaoming enter the laboratory, Zhao Jianguo on the side whispered: "Minister, isn't it inappropriate to hand over Li Jun and the others to Wang Xiaoming like this?"

"We have exhausted all our methods. There is no way to wake them up, right?" Cao Yanhua said in a dark tone. "Fortunately, they look dead, but there is no resurrection of evil spirits. This means that there is still spiritual power in their bodies that suppresses the ghosts they control. This spiritual power must be his power. After all, this happened in his place. Maybe this is a little punishment from him."

Zhao Jianguo nodded silently, obviously he thought the same.

When they got the news from Tong Qian and Guo Fan that Yang Jian and his men were all dead, they were completely panicked for a while and even felt like the sky had fallen.

But then I thought about it carefully, and realized that this was impossible.

Not to mention anything else, the white mist seed in Fang Shiming's body is the power of the "store manager", and the place where Yang Jian and others got into trouble also belongs to the "store manager's" territory.

In this case, how could Yang Jian and others really die?

The more likely possibility is that the "store manager" is dissatisfied with the actions of Yang Jian and others, so he did this. He first punished them and then asked them to take the people to the Peace Hotel for medical treatment to increase the revenue of the Peace Hotel.

Judging from the attitude that the "store manager" usually displays, the probability of this possibility is very high, at least 70%.

In this way, Cao Yanhua would not be too worried, and even the Dadong City, which had not yet appeared and was still in a state of disappearance, would have a certain degree of confidence.

He must be doing something and doesn't want to be disturbed.

Although this kind of thing is hidden, it will not affect the current situation, and there will be no situation where evil spirits revive and run rampant in the world.

Just like Taiping Ancient Town.

Although Yang Jian and others disappeared for a while after entering, they have reappeared now. As for whether any major changes have occurred inside, we will have to wait until tomorrow morning to find out.

Someone was left outside the laboratory to guard it and meet Wang Xiaoming's needs at any time. He also kept an eye on the laboratory and reported any news immediately. Cao Yanhua then led his men back to the command center.

Dadong City is still in a state of disappearance. Even if there is no way out now, but as the person in charge of the current headquarters, he absolutely cannot leave.

The time now was only about 11:50 in the evening.

Looking at the images on the big screen, Cao Yanhua said silently in his heart: "I hope everything will be fine."

……

"It's almost time to go."

Putting down the teacup, Lin Yuan glanced at Zhang Bohua, "Are you going to go with me, or are you going to stay here? Of course, the teleportation array costs money."

Zhang Bohua: “…”

He already knew it last time. He still had the money to spare. But when Lin Yuan asked him, he was not an ignorant person, so he shook his head and said, "No need. I'm old now. I need to rest more."

"Okay, after the game is over, we'll go back to the store." Lin Yuan stood up, took the numb Cao Yang away, and walked into the wall of white fog.

Zhang Bohua sat there and suddenly said loudly: "Boss, can you please not drag me into the game next time? I am old and need more sleep."

"Well, let's talk about it next time." Lin Yuan's voice came, and then disappeared completely.

Zhang Bohua sighed and murmured, "It seems that my existence is not the kind of casual pull into the game, but has an additional effect, otherwise he would not do such a meaningless thing. In the future, it is very likely that I will not be able to sleep well in the middle of the night. However, I should go. I didn't expect him to be so stingy. It's just that I didn't accept his invitation, but he didn't let me play. Oh!"

I saw the wall of white fog outside Taiping Ancient Town begin to dissipate rapidly in a very short time.

The pedestrians on Ghost Street also walked into some buildings, and even the shops closed quickly, making a series of muffled banging sounds.

In the blink of an eye, the whole street went from bustling to deserted, even silent.

Even the ground became wet, and the tea stall where he was working became covered in dust, looking deserted and dilapidated, as if decades had passed.

After Zhang Bohua finished complaining, his body quickly disappeared.

However, in the blink of an eye, everything on the ghost street of Taiping Ancient Town began to return to its real appearance, without the slightest difference.

Lin Yuan has also brought Cao Yang back to Dadong City.

Everything here is over. It is also the earliest time that the virtual game has ended. There is no way around it. It’s Lin Yuan’s fault for needing to manage the time.

Noon trading!

"The ghost peddler in reality has learned his lesson and basically avoids me. Even if Cao Yang is here, he probably won't come to my store. This guy should be like Zhang Youhong and Li Qingzhi, with a remnant soul left. Moreover, his remaining consciousness is even greater, and it is still affecting the ghost peddler's actions."

The remaining soul of Zhang Youhong is preserved in several of her most core supernatural objects.

The blood-red cheongsam, the red high-heeled shoes, and especially the faceless puppet, each of them retains a part of her soul, but these souls basically have no way of coming out.

It was at the Peace Hotel that Liu Qingqing took too many Chinese medicines, but in the end, they nourished these residual souls, allowing her to grow stronger so that she could appear in Liu Qingqing's mind, communicate with her, and even replace Liu Qingqing's consciousness and act in the outside world.

Not to mention Li Qingzhi's broken consciousness.

If it weren't for the final battle at the mysteriously revived Caesar Hotel, when Yang Jian burned down the mysterious place at the Caesar Hotel, the tall male corpse left behind by Li Qingzhi suddenly performed some actions that were clearly intelligent and purposeful, no one would have guessed that Li Qingzhi still had some consciousness left.

Even at the end, Yang Jian could only guess at best and had no way to confirm it.

In this world, the tall male corpse became an employee of the Peace Hotel, but unlike Liu Qingqing, he did not have the awareness of taking Chinese medicine to maintain his health, so the possible remaining consciousness of Li Qingzhi was still not reflected at all.

A few minutes passed in a flash, and finally midnight arrived, but everything around seemed normal, and there was no change.

Lin Yuan waited leisurely until a certain moment, his eyes suddenly lit up, "It's finally here! But I still have to restrict the White Mist Ghost Domain, otherwise it may not dare to come in."

Actively facing supernatural events is not something a normal ghost rider can do, not to mention that in this situation, he has to reduce his own supernatural strength.

But Lin Yuan did it.

For him, an overly terrifying spiritual power would hinder his next plan. Just like now, with the protection of the white fog ghost domain, the ghost peddler of the Gengshen year has clearly arrived, but he is just wandering outside and dares not come in.

This situation is clearly not much different from that of the haunted bus.

If Lin Yuan wanted to suppress the horror of the White Fog Ghost Domain, there was only one way, and that was... the shadow of the Peace Hotel appeared in the sky above Dadong City.

Not only that, the ghost lake, fish pond, horror manor, vegetable greenhouse and other puzzles also appeared and were constantly solidifying.

With the appearance of the Peace Hotel and its puzzle pieces, the white foggy ghostland that enveloped the entire Dadong City began to undergo some strange changes.

In the originally dead silent Dadong City, pedestrians began to appear on the streets.

They were all wearing clothes from decades ago. Their figures seemed a little illusory, but became more and more solid as the Peace Hotel appeared, as if they were walking out of memories.

This change is happening very quickly.

In just a few minutes, most of these people had become solidified, they were all living a normal life, and the Peace Hotel had also become solidified.

But this process of turning virtual into real stopped, as if stuck there, and some strange changes occurred.

until……

call!
got windy!
In Dadong City, which looked like a scene from an old movie, a cool breeze suddenly blew. The wind was so strong that it blew all over Dadong City and made the fog in Dadong City flow. Lin Yuan looked up and could clearly feel that something was approaching, and it was approaching very quickly, but even in the white fog ghost area, he still couldn't see the existence of that thing.

Ding!Ding!
At the same time, a strange bell sounded, like the tinkling of a wind chime being blown, and the sound was getting closer and closer at a very fast speed, and it had already come to not far in front of Lin Yuan.

"almost."

Lin Yuan murmured softly, and his body suddenly turned into a ball of mist and dissipated. Then the mist around him began to flow into Cao Yang's body.

In the blink of an eye, the fog disappeared.

Dadong City has become real again. Compared to before, it is like the difference between an old movie and a movie set. It has become extremely vivid and real.

But Cao Yang's body became illusory, as if it did not belong to this world and was about to be expelled from it at any time.

His eyes were no longer blank, but had turned into a thick white mist, with mist-like tassels at the corners of his eyes, constantly dissipating outwards.

Cao Yang... No, it should be Lin Yuan!

Just like he had invaded Lu Zhiwen's body before, using the medium connection between Lu Zhiwen and the haunted bus to invade from Taiping Ancient Town to the Gengshen Year decades ago.

Now, he also invaded from Dadong City to the Gengshen year several decades ago through the trading medium between Cao Yang and the ghost peddler.

In the same era, there should be no need for multiple invasions.

Because as long as there is a medium, Lin Yuan will be able to imprint the Peace Hotel and his own traces into this era, and time will no longer be a problem.

However, Lin Yuan is not a person who likes to waste.

And when he invaded Cao Yang's body, he was finally able to see a strange person appearing ten meters in front of him.

He was wearing a gray-green cloth robe and looked skinny.

His brown skin was stuck to his muscles, like a long-dried corpse. He was also carrying a shoulder pole with two wooden boxes hanging on both ends.

The wind chime that makes the sound is hung on the wooden box in front.

This is a peddler from the Republic of China period, but he is no longer a living person, but a dead person.

Lin Yuan could see clearly in his misty eyes that the peddler's face was wrapped in a piece of black cloth. The cloth was wrapped tightly and stuck to his skin. He could not see the outline of his facial features and could only make out the shape of a head.

Ghost peddler!
It is here to collect the goods.

But when it came in front of Lin Yuan, it did not attack immediately. Although it did not move, Lin Yuan could clearly feel that it seemed a little confused.

Lin Yuan was just about to do something, but the ghost peddler suddenly turned around and was about to leave carrying the shoulder pole and the cargo box.

This action made Lin Yuan stunned for a moment, and with the ghost peddler's actions, the surrounding Dadong City began to change from reality to the movie world and virtual world.

It is clear that this medium is being virtualized, so much so that Lin Yuan is also being excluded by this era.

Lin Yuan was so angry that he laughed. "Good fellow! You are not going to collect the future trade goods, and are going to wait until my time to take Cao Yang's life? Since you are here, then stay, don't make me make another trip!"

Lin Yuan took a step forward, and the shadow of the Peace Hotel appeared again in the sky above Dadong City, and the feeling of being excluded by this era disappeared again.

The ghost peddler paused as he was leaving, turned around and seemed to be staring at Lin Yuan.

The next moment, a calm young voice sounded, "Brother, are you being too unruly? Do you really think that there is no one in my Great East City?"

The voice was very far away at first, but when the last word fell, it was already near Lin Yuan.

Mr. and Mrs. Wang Lu!

The couple looked at Lin Yuan and the ghost peddler calmly, but their eyes were full of solemnity and fear, but this solemnity and fear were more directed at the ghost peddler.

As for Lin Yuan?

Apart from the initial glance, he hadn't paid much attention to it. "Did you make a deal with this thing?"

Lin Yuan looked at the couple with interest, and said with a smile: "I guess so. Are you two going to help me get rid of this ghost?"

"It's quite terrifying, and I clearly saw it getting ready to leave just now. Did you use some means to stop it from leaving? I advise you not to confront it head-on, otherwise even if you win, it will leave loopholes for others. This world is not as safe as you think." Wang Lu said lightly.

Lin Yuan nodded. "Thanks for the reminder. I thought you were afraid that I would take action in Dadong City and hurt the people here."

Wang Lu frowned, looking at the "ungrateful" young man in front of him, his tone turned cold, "No matter where you are from, whether you know the rules of Dadong City or not, I have to remind you now, if you fight here, don't blame my husband and I for being rude."

"I thought you would just do it. After all, the second generation of the Wang family doesn't have a very good reputation in the circle."

Lin Yuan's words instantly darkened the faces of Wang Lu and his wife. Seeing that the young couple was about to fight, Lin Yuan quickly said, "No more joking. Can I ask you a question? If the three generations of the Wang family have been looking for opportunities to deny the bloodline inheritance of the Wang family, believing that this is a curse that should not have appeared, and are looking for opportunities to erase this, and even thought of using the method of infinite restart, what would you do?"

Not many words, but they reveal a lot of information.

Three generations of the Wang family?

They are the second generation of the Wang family, and the third generation is not even an embryo now, with no signs of birth at all.

Who could be Lin Yuan, who mentioned the three generations of the Wang family and even described them in such detail, as if he had really seen a three-generation person who denied the Wang family inheritance?

"I know you have a lot of questions to ask, but don't worry, I'll put this guy away first, and then we can have a good chat."

After Lin Yuan finished speaking, he ignored Wang Lu and his wife and turned to walk towards the ghost peddler.

"Can you trust his words?" The woman glanced at Wang Lu and didn't say anything, but her voice rang in Wang Lu's mind.

Wang Lu also did not speak. It seemed that they had a very special way of communicating with each other. They could communicate like normal people without speaking.

He looked at Lin Yuan with a serious expression. "Before, I just thought that he was a young man who didn't know how high the sky was and how deep the earth was. He thought that the older generation had stopped making any moves, so he wanted to do something to prove his strength. He even ignored my Wang family in Dadong City. But if he is really sure that he can catch the peddler, then his strength needs to be re-evaluated."

The woman nodded slightly. "You are right. The peddler is from the same generation as my parents. Even if we ask my parents to take action, it is unlikely that we can take him down. If this man really has that ability, then we should be careful. As for what he said... I think there is some truth in it. Let's see what he says when the time comes."

Strength is always the best support.

As long as you demonstrate enough strength, no matter how ridiculous what you say is, people will be willing to listen to it more, at least they won't just treat it as nonsense.

Lin Yuan didn't care about these, he cared more about the ghost peddler.

The origin of the Ghost Peddler is very mysterious. Some people say that it is just a manifestation of the supernatural and its essence is actually a supernatural object, not a person.

Some people say that it was a top ghost rider during the Republic of China period, and its strength was second only to Zhang Dong, a god on earth.

Just because he failed in challenging Zhang Dong and was almost beaten to the point of reviving an evil spirit, he lost all face and spent the rest of his life collecting evil spirits and stacking supernatural powers in the hope of avenging himself in the future!
Unfortunately, he was unable to catch up with Zhang Dong until he died when the evil spirit resurrected. The ghost peddler he turned into after his death also acted according to the rules he had in his lifetime, holding a list of goods that was updated at any time, looking for people to buy evil spirits.

No matter where he came from, it didn't matter to Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan is not the kind of person who wants to get to the bottom of everything. He will not dwell on trivial matters, and he does not have obsessive-compulsive disorder. All he wants is the ghost peddler itself!

The peddler wanted to leave.

Although Cao Yang triggered the media, Cao Yang himself belongs to forty years later, not now.

Therefore, it is not a big problem for the ghost peddler to wait forty years before taking Cao Yang away. It’s a pity that now that it has come, how can Lin Yuan let it go?
It wasn't like the first time they met, Lin Yuan hadn't fully woken up yet, and only had the consciousness of a normal person as a store manager, how could he let such a large piece of food go!
So, under the vigilant and curious eyes of Wang Lu and his wife, Lin Yuan walked up to the ghost peddler.

Lin Yuan did not make any unnecessary movements. He just patted the ghost peddler on the shoulder. The ghost peddler did not give any room for resistance and just followed Lin Yuan obediently.

So simple?
How can it be!

Wang Lu's heart was shocked. He clearly remembered that when he was a child, he had seen his parents fighting with a peddler. The scene was like a battle between gods and demons, and he still remembered it vividly.

But now?

The ghost peddler was as obedient as an... honest man. He followed the young man without any resistance?
Lin Yuan glanced at Wang Lu and his wife, and suddenly laughed, "There are some discrepancies in the history I chose. In order not to affect my reputation, I have to trouble you."

"What?" Wang Lu subconsciously took a step back. He felt that Lin Yuan was about to attack him.

It was also at this step that two ghosts of the Wang family generation appeared and stood in front of Wang Lu and his wife, clearly being on guard against Lin Yuan.

In fact, if Lin Yuan had not subdued the ghost peddler so easily, Wang Lu would have already taken action instead of just being on guard.

Lin Yuan glanced at the two dead souls and suddenly asked, "Do you usually write a diary?"

(End of this chapter)