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Chapter 139 Elder Qin Makes a Move (6k)

Soon, Lu Ming arrived at an old factory.

A similar paranormal event, codenamed "Ghost Painting," also occurred here.

Lu Ming was quite familiar with the murder patterns of the Ghost Painting, and he had also figured out some of the properties of the Ghost Painting in advance.

With his current strength, it wouldn't be difficult for him to imprison and take away a derivative ghost painting.

Perhaps because it was late, there were hardly any people in the old factory, and no lights were on, making it seem very eerie and creepy.

If you get closer, you'll find that the quiet surroundings are shrouded in a grayish hue, as if a layer of mist has covered the surface.

The faint ashes of paper kept falling from the sky. Unlike the ashes in the ghost realm of the mummy bride, these ashes carried a cold aura and covered the ground without dissipating immediately.

Everything visible to the naked eye lost its color; whatever its original color was, it had all turned into a hazy gray.

Lu Ming reached out and caught something that had fallen in front of him. He rubbed it gently with his hand, and a gray mark immediately appeared on his hand.

"This is the world of ghost paintings."

"The area covered by this derivative ghost domain is not large enough, and the harm it causes is still limited for the time being... Because the killing pattern of the ghost painting is not as direct as the starving ghost incident, the number of casualties in China is not high."

"But that doesn't mean this paranormal event wasn't terrifying enough."

"If we let the situation escalate without restraint, it will eventually become like in other countries, where the population of a city, or even an entire country, disappears into the ghost paintings and is slowly killed."

As Lu Ming pondered this, he walked into the factory.

Because there is a certain connection between vengeful spirits, the spirit tamer can sense the presence of vengeful spirits around them without any deliberate concealment.

It's similar to a crisis warning, but also different.

"That derivative ghost painting should be on the top floor of this old factory."

The sound of footsteps approached as Lu Ming walked up the stairs. The higher he went, the stronger his sense of the vengeful ghost became.

The entire corridor was pitch black, without a single ray of light.

The air also smelled of engine oil and rust.

Even if you have a flashlight, it won't be effective in this kind of place. No matter how powerful or effective the flashlight is, it won't be able to illuminate the darkness here.

After thinking for a moment, Lu Ming decided to take out a ghost candle and light it, just to be on the safe side.

Stab it! ! !

A sinister, dark light shot out from the top of the scarlet ghost candle.

There was no wind in the hallway, but the flames still flickered incessantly.

The ghost candle burned at an illogical rate, rapidly diminishing and shortening its length.

This indicates that there are ghosts in Lu Ming's vicinity.

Moreover, it was a terrifying and vengeful ghost.

Is it that painting?

"No, that's not right... I'm afraid it's not that simple."

Lu Ming frowned and began to think seriously.

The hallway was eerily quiet at that moment; there wasn't a sound.

Lu Ming did not move the moment the ghost candle was lit.

He noticed that for a very brief moment, a footstep upstairs stopped.

Lu Ming hadn't noticed before because the sound of those footsteps completely overlapped with his own.

Only in the instant of sudden stop will an echo be produced for a very short time due to the enclosed space.

"There's another ghost upstairs..."

At this time, still in the world of Ghost Painting, Lu Ming didn't believe that there were still people on the top floor of the factory.

That leaves only one possibility.

The footsteps above Lu Ming's head were made by a ghost.

"Thinking about it, it makes sense. The top floor is where the derivative ghost paintings are stored. Using the ghost paintings as an exit, it's normal for vengeful ghosts to come out of it."

"Or perhaps, a ghost tamer encountered the ghost painting on the top floor of this factory and, unfortunately, triggered its killing pattern. After being murdered, the ghost within the tamer escaped—any of these possibilities are possible..."

As a truly top-tier ghost tamer, there are very few ghost tamers that Lu Ming can be wary of.

But vengeful ghosts are different.

Ghosts cannot be killed.

Until the vengeful ghost understands its rules for killing, it can pose a threat to Lu Ming.

Moreover, among so many unknown vengeful spirits, there are one or two that can restrain Lu Ming in his current state by virtue of their own characteristics.

In short, one must be careful when dealing with vengeful ghosts.

Having figured this out, Lu Ming held up the ghost candle and stood still.

After he stood motionless in the stairwell, the ghost upstairs also stopped moving.

The ghost candle emitted an eerie flame, which grew shorter and shorter as time passed.

Under such circumstances, Lu Ming could not be sure how much time had passed.

It could be twenty seconds, or it could be only ten seconds.

The ghost candle was about to burn out completely, and no one knew whether the vengeful ghost upstairs would suddenly launch a supernatural attack on Lu Ming at the moment it burned out.

The first attack was the most dangerous.

If Lu Ming can survive the first time, he will be able to find the ghost's pattern and take action to limit it.

Unfortunately, Lu Ming will not choose to withstand the first supernatural attack head-on.

He will not back down when it comes to taking risks.

However, if there are other ways to mitigate the risks, Lu Ming would never refuse to use them.

Just as the first scarlet ghost candle was about to burn out, Lu Ming lit the second ghost candle.

There wasn't even any spare time in between, and there wasn't a single opportunity to take advantage of it.

Lu Ming gave a stiff smile to the darkness above him: "Times have changed. I still have plenty of ghost candles."

To be honest, the red ghost candle can indeed be considered a strategic resource.

Regardless of the level of the resource, it is developed for human use.

Keeping ghost candles gathering dust in the headquarters warehouse instead of providing them to ghost controllers on the front lines to handle paranormal events is undoubtedly the most foolish thing to do.

After Lu Ming made the suggestion to Cao Yanhua, the headquarters quickly made the necessary changes.

Yang Jian and the others, who were assigned to deal with the derivative ghost painting incident, were given ghost candles in advance.

If you can successfully imprison the derivative ghost painting, there will be a new reward.

Needless to say, Lu Ming was even more so.

You can get ghost candles from Cao Yanhua by making up some ridiculous reasons.

As long as it's not too outrageous, Cao Yanhua generally won't refuse Lu Ming's requests.

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After a brief standoff, the sound of footsteps echoed again in the empty, dark corridor.

The ghost above Lu Ming's head left.

After glancing at the scarlet ghost candle and noticing that its burning speed had returned to normal, Lu Ming was certain that the unknown vengeful spirit had truly left.

About a minute later.

Lu Ming continued upstairs, holding the ghost candle.

Upon reaching the top floor, he discovered that the space was vast, and there was a huge conference table made of solid wood.

There were a few large sheets of white paper scattered on top, and they looked to be of very good quality.

Lu Ming remembered this kind of white paper because when he was a child, he had an uncle who worked on a construction site. The uncle would often give him some unused white paper to use as scrap paper when he did his homework.

"Would the ghost drawings be among these blank sheets of paper?"

After scanning the area, Lu Ming shook his head, denying the speculation, and turned his gaze to the walls on both sides.

In the dim light, Lu Ming saw a painting on the wall, a huge oil painting.

There were also crumpled canvases scattered on the ground, probably used to cover up the oil paintings.

There was a woman in a red dress in the picture. Lu Ming subconsciously thought that the woman was very beautiful, but in reality, the woman's features were blurry and indistinct, and only her hands were particularly clear.

The background behind the woman was gray and hazy, with fluffy objects drifting down from mid-air.

However, it is still possible to discern from the general outline that the background of the painting is the old factory where Lu Ming is currently located.

In a corner of the scene, there are two huddled corpses, covered in blood, which look out of place and out of place.

"These are two people who died here; their bodies have entered the ghost painting."

Clearing his mind of all distractions, Lu Ming was about to cover the oil painting with a cloth and then lock it up.

Just then, the white lights on the top floor of the factory suddenly came on.

The bright white light was so intense that it made you want to blink.

A chilling feeling rose up from Lu Ming's back.

The eerie oil painting that used to hang on the wall is gone.

It might have gotten mixed in with the pile of scattered white papers on the wooden table, or it might have appeared somewhere else.

Instead, there was an empty picture frame.

The picture frame, like a door frame, hung forlornly on the mottled wall.

Even through this picture frame, some strange sights can still be seen.

The painting depicts another place.

To be precise, it was a deserted, uninhabited area.

A straight dirt path stretched out into the distance, and grayish-white fluffy particles floated in the sky, like paper ash or haze.

A closer look reveals that the so-called dirt path is not dirt at all, but rather made of paper ash—there is more paper ash here than on the side, so the color appears darker.

"The red-clad female ghost in the painting is gone. Unlike usual, she didn't simply walk out of this derivative ghost painting..."

“But it’s only a matter of time before she finds me. I need to restrict her once, let her return to the painting, and then take this opportunity to lock her up along with the frame.”

The current situation is exactly as Lu Ming expected.

The ghost painting here is not the original ghost painting, but only a derivative ghost painting.

The female ghost that emerges from it is probably not too scary; Sadako could easily restrain her and restart the ghost.

However, Lu Ming's mood was somewhat heavy at this moment.

This is because he saw that the scene in the painting had changed.

tread!tread!tread!
A blurry, ghostly figure walked step by step along the path paved with ashes, making a jarring sound. "A very familiar aura..."

This is not the woman in the painting, but the vengeful ghost that Lu Ming encountered in the stairwell whose steps were in sync with his.

It hasn't gone far yet.

At this moment, the ghost was wandering and lingering in the world of the painting.

"It didn't notice me, perhaps because I was outside the frame, or perhaps because I hadn't triggered its killing pattern yet."

Lu Ming was pondering.

Another voice came.

This sound was different from the sound of a vengeful ghost stepping on ashes.

Instead, something fell from mid-air.

Lu Ming looked in the direction from which the sound came.

"This is... a copper coin?"

If it were just an ordinary copper coin, Lu Ming probably wouldn't care at all.

However, this copper coin is imbued with an eerie aura, clearly indicating that it is a special supernatural item.

In the original timeline, Sister Hong had given Yang Jian a rusty copper coin like this.

If you throw this copper coin out, any ghosts nearby will pick it up. It can attract evil spirits hiding in the shadows or interfere with their actions.

The moment the ghost bends down to pick up the money is the best time to restrain the vengeful spirit.

"Besides that... these copper coins aren't for the living, but for the dead. They might be used at funerals."

"We've been preparing all sorts of supernatural items for the wedding, and we can't forget about the funeral items either."

Lu Ming looked at the copper coin lying quietly on the ashes, his eyes gleaming, clearly tempted.

If the coin only had the purpose that Sister Hong mentioned, Lu Ming wouldn't have risked picking it up.

If we're talking about attracting vengeful spirits hidden in the shadows and creating an opportunity to imprison them, the corpse oil that Lu Mingcai brought back from Tai O City can also do that.

Moreover, the swaying ghostly figure gave him a sense of danger.

Even from a great distance, the ghost candle can burn out in just over ten seconds.

Thinking about it carefully, what's even more terrifying is that the ghost was carrying this copper coin that was tainted by the supernatural, and when the coin fell to the ground, it didn't even bend down to pick it up.

This shows that the coin is not very important to the ghost, and it also shows that the ghost broke the rules of the ghost coin, so the level of terror is probably quite high.

"No, this copper coin, which seems to be related to the funeral, is an unexpected find. It would be such a waste to give it up like this..."

"If we miss this opportunity, it will be difficult to get copper coins later."

After thinking for a while, Lu Ming finally decided to take the copper coins.

But while taking the copper coins, he didn't want to clash with that terrifying ghost—even if he could imprison it, it would probably take a lot of trouble, and such an action would only be risky and not beneficial.

"Judging from my previous encounter in the stairwell, this vengeful ghost is trying to overlap my footsteps, most likely using footsteps as a medium to kill... In that case, I must hide my footsteps..."

Lu Ming looked at the world within the picture frame.

The ground there is covered with paper ash, so entering would probably make a lot of noise.

If he could use his Ghost Domain, that would be fine, but the problem is that once he enters the world of Ghost Painting, Lu Ming's Ghost Domain will inevitably be suppressed. Only a very few beings like Li Jun can unleash their Ghost Domain within Ghost Painting.

"Time is running out. The red-clad female ghost who stepped out of the painting will soon come after me. When that happens, I'll have to deal with the ghost painting and won't have a chance to take the copper coins."

Lu Ming gritted his teeth and entered the world within the picture frame.

However, he did not enter directly in the usual way, but instead used a "ninja stealth technique" that he had heard of before.

This is a method used by island nation ninjas to conceal their footsteps when assassinating targets.

You need to squat down, place one palm down on the ground, step on the back of your hand with your foot, and repeat the above operation with the other hand, constantly alternating forward.

Although this method of movement is slow, it can effectively conceal one's footsteps, and one doesn't have to worry about stepping on branches or ashes on the ground.

As expected, Lu Ming entered the ghost painting world silently without triggering the vengeful ghost's killing rules.

Lu Ming took out a bullet made of gold and placed it where it entered the picture frame.

In the world of the ghost painting, the terrain may change at any time, but the supernatural cannot affect the gold. No matter how the world in the painting is turned upside down, the location of the gold bullet can always mark the correct exit.

Then, he crouched down and began to stealthily move according to the method he remembered.

Even louder than the footsteps was the cracking sound of Lu Ming's knees.

The noise did not attract the attention of the evil spirit, and Lu Ming successfully retrieved the copper coin lying on the ashes.

"I haven't felt this disheveled in a long time..."

"If it weren't for the fact that we're in the Ghost Painting World, and there's a red-clad female ghost chasing me, I would have definitely imprisoned you."

Thinking about this, Lu Ming felt somewhat depressed.

Fortunately, there was no one else present besides him.

Otherwise, the news of the famous ghost groom Lu Ming walking on the ground in such a strange way would probably have spread privately in the paranormal community.

The only person who would find this so-called ninja stealth technique cool is probably the chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) Ye Zhen.

After awkwardly returning the way he came using the "Ninja Stealth Technique," Lu Ming breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, I got the ghost copper coins, which is an unexpected bonus."

The surface of the ghost copper coin is covered in rust, and it feels extremely cold to the touch. Just holding it in your palm gives you the creeps.

Having just left the world framed by the painting, without the ghostly perception of surrounding objects, everything was pitch black and indistinct.

Lu Mingcai stood up from his crouching position.

The next moment, a cold touch came from my face.

A woman's hands appeared out of nowhere and touched Lu Ming's face.

Lu Ming was greatly alarmed.

What a joke!
How could it be such a coincidence?

I just came out of the ghost painting, and then the woman in the painting suddenly appeared in my face?
Surprised as he was, Lu Ming reacted quickly. Before the chilling feeling could invade him, he used [Misfortune Transfer] to transfer the supernatural attack back to the female ghost.

It was just a derivative ghost painting, so Lu Ming didn't find it too difficult to deal with.

I was only really startled at the very beginning.

Soon, the female ghost in the red dress was suppressed by Lu Ming and returned to the oil painting after restarting.

The attack by the vengeful ghost has finally come to an end.

This time, Lu Ming did not hesitate. He quickly pulled up the white cloth, covered the oil painting, and then put it into the gold container that had been prepared beforehand.

This derivative oil painting was thus confiscated and imprisoned by Lu Ming.

The gloomy and gloomy feeling vanished, and the fluffy objects in the air were blown by the night breeze.

The hazy feeling disappeared, and everything in sight returned to normal.

The operation to imprison the derivative ghost paintings may have taken a long time, but in reality, very little time has passed in the outside world.

That's how paranormal events are; no matter the final outcome, the battle against the supernatural can be won in an instant.

With the golden container containing the derivative ghost paintings, Lu Ming quickly returned to his old residential area.

Preparations are complete; now it's time for He Yuelian, or rather, the ghost bride, to control the ghost painting.

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the other side.

I don't know where it is.

A man with meticulously combed hair and neat clothes, but whose style was completely out of place with modern people, appeared under the street lamp.

Nobody knows what happened here.

The ghost tamer named Zhang Xianguang had lost his usual composure, his face becoming somewhat gloomy, as if he were pondering something.

In this new era, there are probably very few people who know him anymore.

Zhang Xianguang, a native of Shuangqiao Town, Dahan City, was born in 1942 and is still alive today.

More famous than Zhang Xianguang was his father, Zhang Dong, the head of the Seven Elders of the Republic of China.

Few people know that, like his father, Zhang Xianguang also had a legendary life.

He gave almost everything for a plan that could potentially change the fate of humanity.

He possessed powerful supernatural abilities, yet unlike those who indulged in debauchery and squandered their short lives, he did not live a life of unbridled pleasure.

Zhang Xianguang's goal from beginning to end has only been one thing: to change the fate of humanity and separate them from this war against the vengeful ghosts.

In order to achieve his ultimate goal, he secretly controlled He Yuelian's entire life.

In order to have the ability to fight Yang Xiaotian in his dreams, this old man even practiced martial arts.

In order to achieve immortality by using his identity as the post office manager, he entered the Ghost Post Office three times. After passing the first time, he left behind his own portrait. After passing the second time, he resurrected himself in the portrait. After passing the third time, Zhang Xianguang made his original body the manager of the post office and gave the supernatural power to his clone outside.

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But all the careful planning over the years is about to be ruined by a junior.

That junior named Lu Ming seems to have seen through everything about Zhang Xianguang. He took He Yuelian away, and now he wants to take away Guihua.

Lu Ming easily dodged even the traps secretly set by Zhang Xianguang.

This is simply unbelievable.

To be honest, Zhang Xianguang greatly admired Lu Ming, this younger generation.

While his character is admirable, his bottom line must never be crossed.

"I am a remnant of the older generation of the Communist Party. The new era has no ship left to carry me; my life and death are irrelevant..."

"but."

"The Peach Blossom Spring Project must be implemented; it is a matter of great importance concerning the fate of humanity."

"Even if Elder Qin were still alive, it wouldn't make a difference. Lu Ming either has to die or hand over the Ghost Painting."

Zhang Xianguang's expression gradually calmed down, revealing an absolute composure that reflected his confidence.

A rusty old broadsword appeared in his hand.

Dragging the large sword, Zhang Xianguang slowly walked into the darkness, his figure gradually becoming blurry.

Just then, an old but extremely imposing voice came from somewhere.

"Do you think that even I can't stop you?"

"Stop it."

"He is right, you are wrong."

　Still 10,000 a day, keep it up!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)