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Chapter 134 The Woman Who Stepped Out of the Painting (6.4k)

The two faces on the rattle drum look incredibly eerie. The mottled, yellowed drumhead seems to have transformed into the skin of a human face. The smiling face and the crying face appear out of nowhere, blending seamlessly into the drumhead.

Lu Ming used this rattle drum as a medium to trigger a special supernatural attack.

Shaking the rattle drum and letting the pellets hit the drumheads on both sides will produce laughter and crying sounds. Each flip adds to the effect, and the intensity of the ghostly laughter and crying will increase the next time it is triggered.

"It really works..."

"However, this thing's potential didn't meet my expectations, so it can't really be considered a supernatural weapon."

Lu Ming had always harbored the idea of ​​creating a supernatural weapon.

After all, we can't really bring up our wives every time we fight, just like Ye Zhen said, right?

Moreover, besides looking cool, supernatural weapons are also quite useful.

By combining various supernatural items according to one's own ideas, one can create a unique supernatural weapon. In this way, the rules of two, three, or more supernatural items become more complicated, making it difficult for ordinary people or other ghost tamers to figure out how to use them even if they get their hands on them.

"This matter cannot be rushed."

Lu Ming put the rattle away, and the ghostly smiling and ghostly crying faces disappeared from the drum surface, returning to his and his bride's faces.

At present, Lu Ming does not have suitable tools for making supernatural weapons, nor does he have a clear idea.

Creating supernatural weapons is not simply a matter of piecing together supernatural props; if it were just that, it would be meaningless.

The appropriate supernatural props must be combined to achieve a result greater than the sum of their parts.

"The most urgent task now is to go to Tai O City and find Ho Yuet Lin. This is the most effective way to resolve the ghost painting incident."

"We need to keep a close eye on Zhang Xianguang. Although Elder Qin is there, he won't act directly, but he might try something behind the scenes..."

This is just Lu Ming's personal speculation, and it may not necessarily happen, but it's always good to be prepared.

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the next day.

Outside a school.

The sky was overcast, and something resembling ash kept drifting down from mid-air, landing on the ground and piling up, forming a peculiar path leading to the school.

This road paved with ashes has a very unsettling feel to it; it seems as if something terrible will happen if you walk along it into the school.

This is a world of ghost paintings, where everything in sight has lost its color; apart from that, it is no different from the outside world.

Although the ghost messenger's ghost domain was strong, it was nothing in front of the ghost scene. When two vengeful ghosts with an S-level level of terror met, the ghost messenger's ghost domain was directly suppressed.

At the same time, the ghost painting incident began to break out on a large scale.

Professor Wang from headquarters summarized and analyzed the current situation.

There is more than one ghost painting. Simply dealing with a ghost painting incident that broke out in a certain place is not very useful, because there must be a so-called source ghost painting.

However, the headquarters has not been located yet.

A three-person team of demon tamers appeared outside the high school gates.

The leader had a cold expression and pale skin. His most striking feature was his several scarlet ghost eyes that stretched open his flesh and were constantly turning.

The two people beside him were also wearing the uniforms of headquarters managers. Judging from their calm expressions, they should be experienced ghost controllers.

They are Yang Jian with Ghost Eyes, Li Jun with Ghost Fire, and Chen Ping with Ghost Character.

Although there are only three people, this lineup is undoubtedly quite luxurious. Needless to say, the two ghost controllers are the best among those in charge. As for Yang Jian alone, he is a big shot who just handled an S-level paranormal incident. Recently, his popularity in the paranormal circle is second only to the ghost groom Lu Ming.

Sending such a team of ghost tamers to an ordinary high school might seem like overkill, but headquarters' real intention was to have Yang Jian and his team find the source of the ghost painting.

Even if we can't detain them all at once, we should at least find out some key information about the ghost paintings to lay the foundation for future detention.

The person in charge, named Chen Ping, said, "Let me make this clear first, there are no other requirements for teaming up with me. Just don't try to morally blackmail me with human lives... I've never denied that I'm a cold-blooded and selfish guy, or to put it bluntly, I have no morals, and no one can blackmail me."

His words were ruthless, but neither Yang Jian nor Li Jun refuted him.

For a ghost tamer, resolving paranormal events is far more important than rescuing people from them.

Because a vengeful ghost can kill people much faster than a ghost tamer can save them.

To escalate a paranormal event for the sake of a few lives is a losing proposition.

Before carrying out a mission, Chen Ping would emphasize this very basic issue to his teammates, undoubtedly because he was afraid of being let down by his teammates in the past.

Li Jun said, "Alright, we're about to carry out the mission. Headquarters has temporarily grouped the three of us together. I'm familiar with Yang Jian, but there's basically no useful information in Chen Ping's file. I think we can exchange information beforehand to facilitate our cooperation later."

Li Jun thought he had made a good suggestion, but Chen Ping sneered and said, "Li Jun, don't try to use your position as the reserve captain to intimidate me. It's not your place to tell me what to do."

Those who control ghosts, especially those with strong abilities, tend to have a certain degree of arrogance.

Influenced by the supernatural, one's personality inevitably becomes withdrawn and difficult to communicate with.

Moreover, Chen Ping really disliked Li Jun's suggestion.

Yang Jian, who was standing to the side, said in a deep voice, "Alright, stop arguing. Li Jun is right. If you're still worried, just give us some basic information."

Chen Ping's gloomy expression changed several times. Although he was not afraid of trouble, Yang Jian's reputation was too great. Although he had not been a Ghost Tamer for long, no one dared to treat him as a newcomer anymore.

Left with no other choice, he could only say, "Chen Ping, the person in charge of DaS City, doesn't possess a Ghost Domain. The vengeful ghost he controls is named Ghost. As for his abilities..."

At this point, Chen Ping looked at Li Jun with a hint of provocation and reached out to swing his hand towards Li Jun's waist.

The next moment, half of Li Jun's satellite phone disappeared, leaving only a broken half. The other half was transferred away by a supernatural force similar to a ghost realm.

Yang Jian became somewhat interested.

"Is it a teleportation method similar to a ghost realm?"

"No... the satellite phone didn't just disappear; something new has appeared on the ground..."

Yang Jian looked at the open space in front of the two of them and saw that there was a bloody half of a tongue. Judging from its shape, it was obviously a human tongue. The bluish-white coating on the tongue contrasted sharply with the scarlet at the root of the tongue.

"Ghostly Chen Ping?!"

By referring to Chen Ping's code name in the paranormal community, Yang Jian had a general idea of ​​the paranormal abilities he could use.

After all, there are only wrong names, not wrong nicknames.

Chen Ping is able to break down the names of objects and convert them into real objects.

For example, he dissected the word "satellite phone" into the character "话" (huà), and then dissected the right half of "话" into the character "舌" (shé).

Correspondingly, after being disassembled, part of the original object will disappear.

If someone points a pistol at Chen Ping, he can make half of the pistol disappear, and then an arm will fall out of nowhere.

Unfortunately, most of the ghost tamers' sidearms are made of gold, and the supernatural cannot affect gold, so the ghost character in Chen Ping's name is no exception.

Li Jun, who was initially indignant, was utterly astonished by what he saw.

"Is this the character for 'ghost'?"

This ability is terrifying because it offers too many possibilities and puts the ghost tamer's creativity to the extreme.

If used properly at crucial moments, it can definitely play a huge role.

The only limitation is that if the things conjured out of thin air exceed Chen Ping's capacity to handle, he might directly cause the vengeful ghost to resurrect.

Without further ado, the three made some simple arrangements and then entered the school along the path paved with ashes.

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The students in grades 10, 11, and 12 at this high school are located in different buildings.

Yang Jian led Li Jun and Chen Ping into the first two buildings, one for the first year of high school and the other for the second year of high school. They found that the environment in both places was normal and there were no signs of the ghost drawing.

According to information previously provided by headquarters, there have been no casualties among students in these two grades, and all students have been evacuated.

"That painting isn't here."

Yang Jian came to this conclusion and then entered the building where the senior students were located.

At first, no major problems were found, until the three of them entered the stairwell and went upstairs, Yang Jian suddenly found that the ghost eye on his forehead was becoming more and more uneasy.

"There are five classes on each floor, and this school building has four floors in total. The higher you go, the stronger the supernatural influence becomes... Clearly, the painting is upstairs..."

A chilling feeling came over him, abruptly interrupting Yang Jian's thoughts.

The ghost eyes on his forehead and arms suddenly closed, as if some extremely terrifying being was upstairs, making the ghost eyes dare not look directly at him.

Yang Jian took out a ghost candle, lit the scarlet candle, and the eerie ghost fire began to flicker.

The ghost candle burned very quickly, to an abnormal degree, and would go out completely in about ten seconds.

Since the ghost groom Lu Ming invaded the headquarters some time ago, the headquarters' attitude towards the ghost tamers on the front line has changed.

Before this operation, each of the three ghost tamers was assigned a red ghost candle.

After witnessing this change firsthand, Yang Jian came to understand Lu Ming's actions.

The loss of a few Ghost Masters and a captain of the same rank as Zhao Jianguo could bring about such a significant change to headquarters, which is undoubtedly a worthwhile trade-off.

Regardless of Lu Ming's original intentions, objectively speaking, the current situation is entirely due to him.

Thinking of Lu Ming, Yang Jian recalled the time when they faced each other, when paper ash was constantly falling from Lu Ming's ghost realm.

However, the paranormal events here are unlikely to be related to him.

The ghost painting incident had been documented abroad long ago, back when Lu Ming had not yet become a ghost tamer.

Sizzle!!

With a hum of electricity, the motion-activated lights in the hallway flickered on and off, and then the entire hallway was plunged into darkness.

Yang Jian could feel that his Ghost Eye and Ghost Domain were being suppressed. He was now like Chen Ping, essentially a Ghost Master who couldn't use his Ghost Domain.

Not only Yang Jian, but Li Jun also sensed something was wrong. Although his Ghost Domain was not suppressed, he still felt a very uncomfortable feeling.

Yang Jian's heart sank.

Without the Ghost Realm, many things would be restricted.

It can be said that Ghost Domain is his most useful life-saving ability so far, and its sudden disabling is bound to make him feel uneasy.

"On the bright side, it's not entirely a bad thing... After the Ghost Eye was suppressed, I gained an extra suppression slot, which could save my life."

Li Jun looked at Yang Jian, his expression grim, and asked, "Yang Jian, do you know the specifics of the situation? Why is the sense of oppression so strong even before the vengeful ghost has appeared?"

"The ghost painting is reviving. Initially, this ghost only killed one person at a time, but now it has begun to affect the environment... The ghost painting has invaded reality, which is not a good sign."

"Then what should we do now?"

At this critical juncture, both Li Jun and Chen Ping could only place their hopes on Yang Jian.

Of the three ghost controllers here, only Yang Jian has handled S-level paranormal events.

In other words, now is not the time to show off.

If any decision is made wrong, they will all die here.

"Continue upstairs."

"What's shrouding this high school is ultimately just a fake ghost painting, a supernatural derivative. It can be solved by imprisoning it in a woven bag made of gold... The plan to find the original ghost painting through this derivative one may have to be put on hold for now."

The mission assigned to the three by headquarters this time was to investigate the origin of the ghost paintings. According to Wang Xiaoming's guess, each derivative ghost painting is equivalent to an entrance.

Through this portal, there is a chance to find the source of the ghost drawing and imprison it.

But the horror of the ghost painting still exceeded Yang Jian's imagination.

The original plan was suspended, a new plan was implemented, and the derivative ghost paintings were imprisoned.

The three of them walked up the steps to the fourth floor.

Yang Jian was very nervous, and Chen Ping and Li Jun were no better off.

After all, even Yang Jian, who had handled S-level paranormal events, wasn't confident in imprisoning Guihua.

Is this paranormal event codenamed "Ghost Painting" even more terrifying than the "Starving Ghost" incident in Dachang City?
The fourth floor was dimly lit, and the deep corridor exuded a chilling atmosphere.

Structurally, this floor houses classes 36 through 30 of the senior year.

There is also a toilet near the stairwell.

Just then, a series of hurried footsteps sounded.

Tatata! ! !
If you listen carefully, you'll notice that the footsteps are very fragmented, indicating that they are coming from two people.

Is a ghost coming?

Li Jun and Chen Ping were both startled and looked in the direction of the footsteps. The former was even prepared to fight for the resurrection of a vengeful ghost.

This is not an exaggeration.

Even Li Jun, the reserve captain, had no chance of survival if he encountered the source of the evil spirit in the ghost painting.

The footsteps drew closer, and two figures emerged from the restroom.

After recognizing the two people emerging from the restroom, the three of them frowned.

Because these weren't vengeful ghosts at all, but two living people.

A boy and a girl, both wearing high school uniforms, were hiding inside, doing who-knows-what.

Everyone else was dead, but these two guys escaped by hiding in the toilet.

Yang Jian couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, "When I was in my senior year of high school, I didn't play around this wildly. At most, I'd discuss resources with Zhang Wei..."

Li Jun asked in confusion, "Captain Yang, aren't you a senior in high school this year and haven't graduated yet?"

"Ahem, these are not important."

Yang Jian waved his hand.

If Li Jun hadn't reminded him, he might have easily forgotten that he was actually just a senior high school student who hadn't graduated yet.

Yang Jian said to the panicked young couple in front of him, "We are international security personnel responsible for handling special incidents. This area is under our control. You can leave the school by going down the stairwell."

Since the target audience was ordinary people in the school, who certainly hadn't heard of the headquarters or the existence of paranormal events, Yang Jian didn't bother with any of that nonsense and simply fabricated an identity as an international security guard for himself.

To be honest, his authority is far greater than that of international security.

After saying that, the group looked up at the stairwell they had come from.

The ghost paintings haven't invaded the first and second floors yet, and the third floor isn't greatly affected either.

But when the group looked over, they discovered a strange scene.

The stairwell that Yang Jian and the others had come up to had vanished, replaced by complete darkness.

Nobody knows what will happen if you go inside.

Yang Jian couldn't help but shudder as unpleasant memories resurfaced.

"The situation here is somewhat similar to that of No. 7 Middle School; no matter which way you go, you can't find your way out, it's like being trapped in a maze..."

"No, they're not exactly the same."

"The ghost paintings now are even more terrifying. When facing the ghost domain of the knocking ghost, I could at least use my superimposed ghost eyes to fight back. But against the ghost domain of the ghost paintings, let alone invading, I can't even open my ghost eyes or expand the ghost domain..."

Yang Jian abandoned his idea of ​​sending the two away first and asked, "Tell me in detail what happened."

The girl in the school uniform was so frightened that she could barely speak, stammering and fidgeting.

The boy was slightly better, but his voice still trembled as he explained.

According to him, they were all students in Class 36 of Senior High School.

During the long break, a strange portrait suddenly appeared in the classroom. No one knew who brought it, and the entire grade was drawn to see what was going on. The two of them took this opportunity to slip away and find a secluded corner…

No one expected that something would happen so suddenly, so they had no choice but to hide in the toilet.

At this point, the boy recalled: "The painting looked hazy, and the background should be our school... but I can't be sure... In front of the school background, there was a woman wearing red clothes."

"I'm not sure if it's just my imagination, but the figure of the woman in red in the ghost painting is very blurry, only her hands are clear."

Upon hearing this, Yang Jian realized something.

A woman in red?
Is it related to the ghost bride who is holding hands with Lu Ming?
But before he could ask any more questions, the sound of footsteps began again.

This time, however, it's in a different direction.

In the pitch-black stairwell, a vague human figure could be seen faintly.

A ghost has appeared!!!
Just as the boy said, this vengeful ghost was wearing red clothes, but its figure was so blurry that it was impossible to see clearly, as if it did not actually exist.

Her pale, bloodless hands stood out starkly against the backdrop of her figure.

Although he couldn't see anything clearly or be completely sure, the female ghost inexplicably reminded Yang Jian of his deal with the ghost cabinet.

The mummified bride being led by Lu Ming.

The woman in the ghost painting.

The woman the ghost cabinet is looking for.

Are they the same ghost?
Yang Jian still had many unanswered questions, but there was no time to think about them now.

Because the ghost was already standing in front of him.

Their actions just now inadvertently triggered the ghost's killing pattern, so the ghost appeared out of nowhere without warning.

Yang Jian now only has two choices.

Either confront the ghost directly.

Either restrict the creation of supernatural drawings in the classroom.

Yang Jian made the arrangements in just a moment.

"Li Jun, you and Chen Ping go to the classroom and lock up the ghost painting. I'll hold this ghost off here."

Regardless of their other thoughts, now was not the time to argue. Li Jun and Chen Ping followed Yang Jian's instructions and turned to run towards a classroom.

Yang Jian then walked towards the ghost.

The boy and girl in high school uniforms looked terrified. Seeing Yang Jian's actions, the boy said uneasily, "What is he going to do? The thing that came out of the hallway is the same as the one in the painting. It's definitely a ghost!"

The next moment, something even more terrifying happened.

Yang Jian seemed oblivious to danger. He approached the woman in red and reached out to hold her exposed pale hands.

The vengeful ghost, which had been approaching this way, suddenly stopped moving and stood frozen in place.

Suppression has been established.

Thanks to Lu Ming's reminder, Yang Jian did not waste the Ghost Hand's suppression quota while at headquarters.

Now it has indeed come in handy.

The paranormal events that occurred at this school did not originate from the ghost paintings.

The red-clad female ghost in front of them was not the source of the ghost painting, so it wasn't particularly terrifying. It was normal for her to be suppressed by the ghost hand.

The next moment, the ghost's form disintegrated and disappeared, turning into grayish-white paper ash that scattered in all directions.

"Was the paranormal incident resolved just like that?"

A question arose in Yang Jian's mind.

Because the surrounding ghost realm has not disappeared.

"it's complicated."

Yang Jian's unease grew heavier and heavier, so he had no choice but to take out his phone and call headquarters to request reinforcements.

Of the ghost controllers that headquarters can call upon, only a handful can be of assistance in the Ghost Painting incident.

But Yang Jian thought of a candidate who would never make a mistake.

Lu Ming, the ghost groom.

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the other side.

Li Jun and Chen Ping arrived at Class 36 of the senior year, which was mentioned earlier.

The classroom door was tightly closed, and even the windows were locked; no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't break them open.

Chen Ping used the supernatural power of the word "ghost," and half of the classroom window disappeared, replaced by a faceless corpse.

The "door" of the window was dismantled, leaving a "corpse" inside.

The two hurried into the classroom.

With Ghost Eye Yang Jian holding them back in the corridor, they don't need to worry too much and should be safe for now.

"There it is! The graffiti is there!"

Suddenly, Chen Ping, with his sharp eyes, noticed a painting on a table that looked like a ghost painting.

Li Jun and Chen Ping rushed over together.

The content of the painting was almost identical to the description given by the boy earlier, except that the blurry figure was missing.

Li Jun looked at the surface of the ghost painting but found nothing unusual.

This is just an ordinary oil painting, with a smooth and flat surface, and the background is their school.

"While Yang Jian is keeping the ghost occupied, quickly imprison this ghost painting. If we miss this opportunity, it will be hard to find another one..."

Li Jun nodded, took out the gold woven bag he had prepared beforehand, and planned to put the ghost painting inside.

But when his hand touched the ghost painting, a person appeared in the empty space in the ghost painting.

A woman with a blurred face, wearing a red dress.

Her pale, porcelain-like hands had already emerged from the ghost painting, hanging in mid-air, and then she suddenly exerted force and grabbed Li Jun.

　Everyone understands what the security guard meant, I don't want to be interrogated qwq
　　
　
(End of this chapter)