I open a restaurant in Mysterious Recovery

Chapter 721 Desperate Struggle: The Right Person and the Wrong Path
"You're decisive, but too bad, this isn't your home turf."

Zhang Xianguang's lips curled slightly, and his eyes drooped slightly, clearly showing that he was about to laugh and cry at the same time.

With both the smiling and crying faces attacking simultaneously, it's difficult for anyone to completely avoid it, but that's about all Tong Qian can achieve.

Zhang Xianguang gently shook the white lantern in his hand.

The pale light seemed to come alive, swaying gently, making the meows of the two kittens on Tong Qian's shoulder extremely faint.

It wasn't to make the two kittens listless, but to make their voices seem as if they had been blown away by the wind.

Instead of laughter and crying, a series of mournful howls and wailing sounds rose from all around, completely drowning out the cries of the two kittens.

"I come!"

Liu Qingqing was somewhat annoyed by Tong Qian's impulsiveness; Zhang Xianguang in front of her was clearly not someone to be trifled with.

It would be very difficult for them to defeat Zhang Xiangguang with their strength, but Tong Qian acted like a brute and chose to take direct action, even in a place where her supernatural abilities were not completely effective.

Admittedly, this demonstrates loyalty to the "store manager," but it is a completely reckless and unwise act.

But now that she's already made her move, she won't hold back anymore.

Behind her, a futuristic portal suddenly appeared, revealing a space inside that was equally futuristic, resembling a laboratory.

As the sound of footsteps echoed, one after another exquisitely designed robots emerged from the portal.

These robots looked very new, probably newly made. Their steel bodies reflected a chilling light, and mysterious patterns could be faintly seen on them.

As they appeared, these mysterious patterns began to flow automatically, eventually becoming brighter and brighter, like a human-shaped light source.

The next moment, in this light, the robot's form began to change, transforming into people who also had a metallic sheen!

"Li Jun! Li Leping! Lu Zhiwen! Charge!"

Liu Qingqing's face was pale, devoid of any color, but her eyes were incredibly cold as she stared intently at Zhang Xianguang. From behind her, "Li Jun," "Li Leping," and "Lu Zhiwen," clearly in robot form, rushed out.

"Your skills are still not up to par."

Zhang Xianguang, still carrying the lantern, slowly retreated.

Despite holding a glowing lantern, his figure gradually dissipated, as if disappearing into the darkness. Instead, a dense cluster of eerie figures appeared in his place.

In Li Jun's line of sight, green will-o'-the-wisps burned, and when his gaze swept across the scene, green will-o'-the-wisps also appeared in reality.

Unfortunately, these will-o'-the-wisps could only burn outside of these ghost circles in front of them, and could not break through at all.

At the same time, a thick and pungent smoke rose into the air. In this smoke, "Li Leping" had entered a sleepwalking state and began searching for people.

He stopped when he got close enough, simply because he had found the person.

The confrontation begins now!
"No, your methods aren't enough," Tong Qian thought to herself, gritting her teeth.

Liu Qingqing said coldly, "I know without you reminding me."

She was secretly annoyed. Since Zhang Youhong's consciousness was separated, although she still had the red cheongsam, high heels, and the means to summon "robots," both her strength and the number of robots she could summon were greatly limited.

Like now.

She could only have the robots she summoned mimic Li Jun and the others, and their strength was also limited to 60%, not even reaching the level of the captain.

Otherwise, with three captains working together, they could at least break through the current obstacles without much trouble, instead of being helpless like they are now.

“Zhang Xianguang didn’t really attack us; he just stopped us from going to the old house and told us to hand over our power to Brother Yuan. So, I have an idea, but I don’t know if you dare to do it.”

Liu Qingqing gritted her teeth, then walked towards the group of ghosts in her high heels.

There's only one path right now, with dense forest on both sides. It's not that they can't go, but with Zhang Xianguang's methods, if they enter the dense forest, they'll probably encounter even more obstacles. It's better to stay on this not-so-wide path, where only a dozen or so ghosts can squeeze through.

As she moved forward, she left behind footprints, each only half-finished. From among these footprints, a rotting arm covered in lividity suddenly emerged.

With the arm braced against the ground and a little force applied, a highly decomposed corpse crawled out from the half-footprint of the high-heeled shoe.

When a body crawled out, the clear footprints instantly faded and became almost invisible.

As Liu Qingqing moved forward, she left one footprint after another, and the number of corpses crawling out from inside continued to increase. In the end, they even rushed in front of her and charged towards the group of ghosts blocking her way.

"Li Jun" and "Li Leping" unleashed their full power, relentlessly attacking the defensive line.

Lu Zhiwen had somehow emerged, holding a blood-dripping calligraphy brush in his hand, and gently touched it in Liu Qingqing's direction.

A chilling aura swept by, and it seemed as if something had appeared around Liu Qingqing's body, though it was invisible to the naked eye.

"You mean... Okay, let's do it together!"

Tong Qian instantly understood what Liu Qingqing meant. It wasn't that Liu Qingqing thought she could get past the group of vengeful ghosts on her own, but rather that she wanted to rely on the white mist seeds in their bodies, which made them impossible to kill, and that they could withstand the attacks of the vengeful ghosts.

As long as we can get through, it will all be worth it!
Their bodies might become riddled with holes, but they would definitely not die, and Zhang Xianguang would not dismember them to offend the "shop manager".

Unless Zhang Xianguang is 100% certain that the "shop manager" will die here.

Will the "store manager" die?
Liu Qingqing and Tong Qian were completely at ease, without the slightest worry. All they wanted was to immediately join the "store manager," hand over their strength to him, and lend him a helping hand!

"These two women are like madwomen."

Hidden in the shadows, Zhang Xianguang still carried the white lantern, his gaze calmly fixed on Liu Qingqing and Tong Qian, before gently swaying it.

One ghost after another emerged from the dense forest and eventually followed him.

give obituary notice!

We must properly report this loss, instead of giving up halfway or wasting time here.

As for whether Liu Qingqing and Tong Qian can break through, that's not Zhang Xianguang's concern. He has done everything he could. If they really have that determination, then let them be.

I just hope they won't regret it. "We've finally made it!"

Breaking through the blockade, Liu Qingqing didn't stop at all and quickly ran towards the old house. However, she was in very poor condition, especially her skin, which was completely bloodless.

His eyes were cold and numb, devoid of any expression other than anxiety and worry.

And the cheongsam she was wearing was originally the color of blood, and now those colors were flowing even more, as if blood was surging.

Liu Qingqing's movements at this moment were even more light and airy, not like a normal person walking, but more like a person without weight.

It was clear that Liu Qingqing was in very poor condition, and Tong Qian, who was following behind her, was in even worse condition.

Her face was not covered at all, yet it was shrouded in a shadow, making it difficult to see clearly... No, it wasn't a shadow, but rather more like two cat-shaped patterns etched on it.

However, since both cat-shaped patterns are pure black, they are not very noticeable at first glance.

The two kittens on her shoulder had disappeared, and she didn't know where they had gone. Also, there were many rotten parts on her exposed skin, and blood was flowing out.

Despite her severe injuries, she moved without slowing down at all, and instead overtook Liu Qingqing and ran ahead.

The two of them ran silently toward the old house.

Above the old house, the white fog had grown increasingly thick, and the Peace Hotel building had become somewhat blurry, not clearly visible through the mist.

The Peace Hotel seemed to be slowly descending. Originally, the bottom was still some distance from the old house, but now it looked as if it had landed on the top of the old house.

At this rate, it won't be long before the Peace Hotel is completely suppressed.

The two women ran very fast, but the road seemed to have no end. It only took them a few minutes to get there, but now more than ten minutes had passed. Even at twice the speed they had before, they still hadn't reached their destination.

"It's weird."

Liu Qingqing stopped in her tracks, and the spatial portal opened again, with another robot emerging.

The patterns on his body flowed and eventually transformed into Yang Jian's likeness, with a scarlet ghost eye growing from between his brows, then a second, a third, a fourth...

Five ghostly eyes overlapped, and a scarlet light instantly enveloped the surroundings before converging together, like a sharp blade stabbing forward.

Yang Jian has already made great strides in the path of transforming into a rainbow in the Ghost Realm.

The superposition of five layers of ghost domains was enough to make his ghost eye ghost domain extremely long, but right now this ghost eye ghost domain seemed to be blocked by something, and only illuminated a few meters ahead before stopping.

On the contrary, the places that were illuminated, which were originally empty, have now become shrouded in mist.

"So that's how it is. Let's go!"

Liu Qingqing's eyes lit up with joy, and she immediately ran in that direction. Meanwhile, the area that "Yang Jian's" ghost eye and ghost domain could illuminate began to expand until it was large enough to accommodate a person.

Liu Qingqing was enveloped inside, then rushed through the wall of white mist that was illuminated and went straight inside.

Tong Qian is the same.

Subsequently, "Yang Jian" withdrew his Ghost Eye and Ghost Domain, and the robot's body began to change. In a very short time, it degenerated into a faceless puppet, eventually turning into a wisp of smoke and disappearing without a trace.

"came back!"

As she felt the dense fog, Liu Qingqing's complexion visibly regained its color, as if her previous deficit had been replenished.

But she showed no surprise. Instead, she called out to the white mist in front of her, "Brother Yuan! I'm back. Take my power if you need it!"

Tong Qian, who was standing to the side, was the same.

After entering the White Mist Ghost Domain, the damage she had suffered began to reverse, just like Ye Zhen's substitute death supernatural event, and she returned to normal in the blink of an eye.

Even the blackness covering her face began to fade, and finally, two small, jet-black kittens with smiling and crying faces appeared silently on her shoulders.

The two women's calls went unanswered, but they felt a sense of peace within them.

Inside the old house, Lin Yuan "looked" at everything in the Ghost Realm and couldn't help but laugh. In his field of vision, there were not only Liu Qingqing and Tong Qian who had just rushed in, but also Guo Fan who had returned even earlier.

"Even though I know it's a supernatural influence, it feels really good to be cared for."

Then he turned his head and looked at Zhang Dong, who was sitting up from the coffin with his eyes closed, and said, "You're not bad either. At least your son Zhang Xianguang still cares about you. But I don't know what you did in your life that made your own sister Zhang Youhong hate you so much. At the critical moment, instead of trying to stop Guo Fan, you took the initiative to bring him back."

That's right.

Guo Fan was brought back by Zhang Youhong on her own initiative; otherwise, with the strength of an ordinary person like him, it would have been impossible for him to break through Zhang Youhong's blockade and return.

Even Zhang Youhong herself has entered the White Mist Ghost Domain.

It's clear that Zhang Youhong brought Guo Fan back without much coercion, so it wasn't entirely due to supernatural influences, but rather partly due to her own will.

This made Lin Yuan curious. What kind of story happened decades or even a hundred years ago that would make Zhang Youhong do something like this... hate Zhang Dong?

But there's no need to rush.

In the future, he will have time to learn everything that happened, and what he needs to do now is not to fight against Zhang Dong... no, that is, it is indeed to fight against him.

Zhang Dong's strength is terrifying.

On that road during the Republic of China era, Zhang Dong reached its end early. If there were no lifespan limit, perhaps there would never have been a story of this era.

With Zhang Dong's strength, he was already capable of suppressing the entire world and the entire era.

Unfortunately, the path of humans controlling ghosts has its limits. It cannot break through the lifespan of the human body, which means that this path can only be normal within a specific time period. Looking at a larger time span, it becomes a limitation, or even a wrong path.

Nevertheless, Zhang Dong's strength and power cannot be denied.

Given Lin Yuan's current level, it would take him much longer to bring Zhang Dong back to the shop and integrate his power in an instant, which is why everything that happened tonight occurred.

(End of this chapter)