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Chapter 154 Two Perfect Puzzle Pieces (5.4k)

Upon hearing that Lu Ming intended to open the two golden containers on the spot, Mishima's expression changed.

Putting aside the C-level vengeful ghost, this vengeful ghost, whose level of danger is rated as A, will take a lot of effort to contain.

There is a high probability that some of the ghost tamers will die in it.

If the follow-up handling is not in place, it could even develop into a paranormal event affecting countless people.

"Mr. Lu, this..."

Seeing the hesitation on Mishima's face, Lu Ming gave a stiff smile, saying with a playful tone, "What? President Mishima doesn't trust me?"

“Of course not, Mr. Lu… If you are confident that you can re-lock these two vengeful ghosts, then please do so.”

Mishima ultimately gritted his teeth and made this decision.

If the person making the request wasn't Lu Ming, but another ghost tamer, Mishima would have to try to persuade him again.

After all, the risk of doing so is too high.

Island nations today cannot afford to take that risk.

But since Lu Ming had just resolved the S-rank Ghost Temple incident, Mishima could still barely trust him for once.

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Click!

As Lu Ming pulled the latch, the golden box containing the ghost in the mirror was opened.

Sure enough, there was a mirror inside, just like the one in the photo.

The mirror lay quietly in the golden box, its surface facing upwards. Looking at it from the side, everything was foggy and nothing could be seen clearly.

"There's nothing particularly special about it yet."

With that thought in mind, Lu Ming brought the ghost bride into reality.

Sadako's supernatural power is fighting against the Ghost Well. Before fully integrating with the Ghost Well, Lu Ming cannot use this supernatural power.

The moment the ghost bride appeared, the surrounding air grew colder. Although there was no wind, the large red veil on her head swayed slightly, vaguely revealing half of her flawless, exquisite face and crimson lips.

"Is this... another ghost of Mr. Lu?"

When Lu Ming used the supernatural projector in the banquet hall, Sadako's arm briefly appeared in reality to help Lu Ming crank the projector's handle.

When Yamazaki died, Sadako's arms grew wildly from his eye sockets and throat.

Mishima was deeply impressed by that scene.

He was certain that the arm that appeared back then was definitely not the one on the female ghost now.

The ghost's fingernails were black and long, incredibly terrifying, while the hand Lu Ming was holding was undoubtedly much smaller and looked more like that of a living person.

"He actually controlled so many terrifying ghosts... These ghosts were all extremely well-preserved. This ghost was unlike any I had ever seen before. No wonder he was able to resolve the Ghost Temple incident all by himself. It's no wonder Yamazaki died at his hands."

Over there, President Mishima was still looking at Lu Ming with suspicion.

Lu Ming completely ignored Mishima's thoughts.

To avoid direct contact with the supernatural, he had the ghost bride take the Ghost Mirror out of the golden box.

The ghost bride nodded almost imperceptibly and took out the mirror as Lu Ming had requested.

呲呲!

The lights in the underground passage flickered rapidly before going out completely.

President Mishima and the exorcist staff responsible for retrieving the vengeful spirit felt a chill in the darkness, and their nerves involuntarily tensed up.

However, darkness could not block Lu Ming's supernatural perception.

After the ghost bride raised the eerie mirror, Lu Ming clearly saw that the mirror reflected the bride's face, which was covered by a veil.

It looks similar to a regular mirror; you can't tell much difference.

The only odd thing was that the bride's face was initially blurred, like something seen when the view is out of focus.

As time passed, the figure in the mirror gradually became clearer until it looked exactly like the bride, with no difference whatsoever.

The moment the ghost bride in the mirror completely overlapped with the ghost bride that Lu Ming was holding hands with, a bizarre scene unfolded.

The already chilly air in the underground passage became even colder, giving the impression that a great terror was about to descend upon the place.

The clear figures of Lu Ming and the ghost bride in reality gradually became blurred.

It was as if the changes that had just occurred in the mirror had been reversed.

In the end, the two figures completely blurred, leaving only faint outlines in place.

In Lu Ming's perception, after a moment of confusion, he came to his senses and found himself in a brand new world.

This place is somewhere in an island nation, the streets are deserted, and the whole world seems to consist only of Lu Ming and the ghost bride.

"Is this the world in the mirror?"

Lu Ming had extensive experience dealing with paranormal events and quickly realized that he had most likely entered the mirror world.

He immediately pulled out a bullet made of gold and threw it at the spot where he was standing.

This is a lesson learned from the ghost drawing incident.

In this special haunted place, the supernatural can affect the terrain, and only gold, which cannot be affected by the supernatural, can be used to make effective markings.

However, after throwing the golden bullets on the ground, Lu Ming realized that it didn't seem to be of much use.

Unlike the ghost world, the world in the mirror does not have a definite entrance or exit.

Rather than saying that Lu Ming and the ghost bride entered the mirror world, it would be more accurate to say that they were replaced here by the image in the mirror.

The only thing that triggers the killing pattern of the ghost in the mirror is the ghost bride, but because of the hand-holding curse, Lu Ming and the ghost bride will not be separated unless the curse of the ghost in the mirror is stronger than the hand-holding curse.

This is obviously impossible.

"Is the only way to break through the restrictions is by forcefully using the Ghost Domain?"

Lu Ming then tried using the Ghost Domain.

Although the Ghost Painting Ghost Domain he can currently use has not yet reached its peak strength, it is still no problem to cover an entire city or a small country with the world in the painting.

Using this level of ghostly energy to break through the mirror world proved effective.

However, something greatly slowed down the speed of the Ghost Realm's counter-invasion.

"It seems that even a powerful Ghost Master in the Ghost Realm will need to put in a lot of effort to leave the Mirror World."

This explains why everyone who looked in this mirror died.

Among the exorcists in the exorcism society, only a very small minority possess ghost domains, let alone those who use ghost domains to invade reality from the mirror world.

"Moreover... everything I can see is a mirror image; it's a very peculiar world."

In the mirror world, all objects exist in a mirror image: cars parked on the street, billboards of shops downstairs, and even directional arrows on road signs are all upside down.

In the distance, several dark dots appeared faintly.

As they swayed closer, they realized that these were actually several ghost servants born from supernatural forces.

His steps were stiff and slow; each step he took was like an old machine, pausing for a moment.

As Lu Ming pondered this, he tried to move forward and get closer to the ghost slaves who were approaching from afar.

But as soon as he lifted his foot, Lu Ming noticed something was wrong.

He was clearly walking forward, but his body actually moved one step backward.

Lu Ming was shocked; this was the first time he had encountered such a situation.

Keep trying, take a step to the left.

Sure enough, Lu Ming and the ghost bride didn't go to the left; instead, they took a step to the right...

"How is this possible? It's simply unbelievable."

"It's one thing for objects to appear as mirror images in the mirror world, but how come their movement has also been altered?!"

"The body's instincts are hard to overcome, especially in dangerous and tense situations. Even a ghost tamer, if pulled into the mirror world, will only face death..."

Thinking about this, Lu Ming realized that the strangeness and peculiarity of this ghost had exceeded his imagination.

It is extremely dangerous, but it also represents countless possibilities.

If Lu Ming could eventually control the ghost in the mirror, he could not only use the mirror as a tool to help Sadako achieve her superimposed abilities, but also try to combine it with the ghost paintings, creating a world of ghost paintings and a world within the mirror...
A smile appeared on Lu Ming's pale face.

"A very interesting ghost. It seems I wasn't wrong about him."

The demon slaves from afar are getting closer step by step.

At this moment, the world in the mirror finally showed some unusual changes. Flocculent paper dust drifted in from somewhere, turning the area it passed through into a hazy gray.

The ghost painting has finally invaded reality from the mirror world.

Lu Ming had no intention of staying in this place for long. With a thought, he led the ghost bride back to reality through the ghost painting and ghost realm.

The mirrored scenery in front of me disappeared.

Control over the body has returned to normal.

Lu Ming and the ghost bride returned to the dark and cold underground passage.

The eerie mirror is still in the hands of the ghost bride.

Lu Ming and the ghost bride's figures in reality went from blurry to clear, while the ghost bride in the mirror went from clear to blurry again.

Not far from them, Mishima, the president of the exorcism organization, and some staff members were watching them with tense expressions.

"Good stuff, I'll take it out and study it again when I have the chance."

Lu Ming and the ghost bride are of one mind.

Before he could even speak, the bride understood his meaning and proactively placed the mirror back into the gold box in front of her, locking it with a click.

呲呲!

Another hissing sound rang out.

After the ghost in the mirror was imprisoned again, the cold atmosphere of the underground passage dissipated considerably, and it became bright again.

"Mr. Lu...?"

President Mishima seemed quite surprised by Lu Ming and the ghost bride's return.

Because the exorcism society had conducted many experiments, all of which ended in failure; no one could emerge alive from that mirror. But Lu Ming did it.

"I've finished examining the A-level vengeful ghost codenamed 'Mirror Ghost.' Now it's this C-level vengeful ghost's turn. It should be done soon. You all stay here and don't disturb me."

After saying that, Lu Ming put the gold box aside and opened the gold body bag next to it.

Upon opening the bag, before even seeing what was inside, a foul, rotten smell wafted out.

Just as Lu Ming had expected, like Gao Zhiqiang's deceitful ghost, the corpse in the body bag only had a blurry human outline, and did not seem to be a real object.

The humanoid silhouette was actually the corpse of an islander possessed by a demon.

This islander was very unlucky. Although he was possessed by a ghost, he did not become a ghost tamer and died directly.

In fact, this is the most common situation in paranormal events.

The probability of accidentally becoming a ghost tamer is extremely low.

The ghost lay quietly on the ground, showing no signs of reviving.

However, just to be on the safe side, Lu Ming still used the Ghost Domain to isolate the space, keeping Mishima and the other staff members outside.

One reason is to protect them from being killed by unknown supernatural forces.

On the other hand, it also serves to keep the supernatural aspects of vengeful ghosts a secret.

The fewer people who know about these two ghosts, the better.

In the hazy, ghostly realm, a misty fog appeared out of nowhere.

However, this was not an effect caused by Lu Ming's ghostly mist.

"This thing has already been revived. The reason it's lying motionless in the body bag is because it launched a supernatural attack without needing to do anything."

Fog is its killing medium.

Lu Ming's purpose in contacting this vengeful ghost was to figure out exactly what the ghost's supernatural abilities were.

A rash action could be quite dangerous.

But this is also a necessary step in order to understand the supernatural aspects of vengeful ghosts.

Therefore, Lu Ming did not deliberately avoid the approaching fog.

The moment the eerie mist touched Lu Ming's skin, the supernatural had already seeped into his body.

Lu Ming's skin began to develop lividity, and he seemed to have turned into a real corpse.

"This level of erosion isn't too strong; it's well within acceptable limits... If it can only go this far, then it's not unfair that this unnamed ghost is classified as a C-level."

As Lu Mingcai was thinking this, a crazy idea suddenly arose in his mind.

I am a ghost.

This conclusion is absurd and cannot withstand scrutiny.

However, once this seed was planted in Lu Ming's heart, it began to take root and sprout.

After repeated exposure, Lu Ming finally accepted this fact.

"I am a ghost."

Subsequently, the lividity on his body surface became more concentrated, allowing the supernatural to erode his body, abandoning all resistance and defense.

Because he was just a ghost.

Ghosts cannot be killed.

Lu Ming's eyes began to become empty and numb, and the sparkle in them gradually disappeared.

As time goes by, the idea that "I am a ghost" continues to grow stronger, and one day, Lu Ming will become a true vengeful ghost.

at this time.

Another cold voice came from behind.

It was as if she was speaking without any emotion or fluctuation of feeling; one could only tell that it was a woman speaking.

"You're not a ghost, I am."

Boom!
Lu Ming's head buzzed, and his consciousness finally cleared a bit.

"I'm definitely not a ghost. How could I be a ghost?"

"That absurd thought just now was instilled in me by this nameless vengeful ghost... I was only focused on the fog that my eyes could see, but I ignored the mental images."

"We were still too careless."

After multiple upgrades, Lu Ming's mental strength had reached a considerably powerful level.

This kind of psychological impact shouldn't be a big problem as long as you take precautions or offer a warning like the ghost bride did.

The reason they got infected was entirely due to Lu Ming's carelessness.

"It can even bewitch the mind and kill the target silently through subconscious suggestion."

"Those who control ghosts, influenced by the suggestion just now, will become true vengeful spirits, while ordinary people will become mindless ghost slaves..."

"As for whether there are any other uses, it is currently unknown."

The supernatural confrontation was completed in an instant.

After the mist that served as the medium was dispelled, Lu Ming hurriedly stepped forward, closed the golden body bag, and sealed the nameless vengeful ghost back into its place.

If we say that there are many possibilities for the ghost in the mirror, it has a very obvious use.

Therefore, the ghost in the body bag is the perfect piece of the puzzle for a malevolent spirit.

If Lu Ming were to eventually control a vengeful ghost at the level of consciousness, he would definitely consider incorporating this ghost as a puzzle piece.

The ghostly aura that had isolated the space dissipated, and in President Mishima's eyes, Lu Ming and the ghost bride reappeared.

In front of him lay a locked gold box and a gold body bag.

Seeing this, Mishima breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Ming finally finished inspecting the goods.

"Mr. Lu is indeed skilled at dealing with vengeful ghosts, with a very high success rate... If we could really keep him in our exorcism society, that would be a wonderful thing."

Before Lu Ming came to the island nation, his agreement with Mishima was that in exchange for handling the Ghost Temple incident, Mishima would give him fifty tons of gold and allow him to choose two vengeful ghosts at will.

Now that the ghosts have been chosen, fifty tons of gold were sent by Mishima to the Furen Building in Dachang City, China, before the operation even began, and were received and inspected by Li Yao, Lu Ming's secretary.

After a brief handover, Lu Ming boarded a flight back to China.

A few hours later.

As soon as he got off the plane, Lu Ming received several calls from Ye Zhen.

Lu Ming roughly guessed what he wanted to talk about, and too lazy to deal with this chuunibyou patient, he didn't answer any of his calls and temporarily blacklisted him.

But then another phone call rang.

The caller's name is displayed on the phone screen.

Yang Jian.

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Dachang City.

Guanjiang Residential Area.

Yang Jian looked at Wang Shanshan in front of him with a troubled expression.

At this moment, Wang Shanshan's belly was swollen, and there were bluish-black vein-like lines on the surface of her skin.

If someone who didn't know the situation saw this, they would probably think Wang Shanshan was pregnant.

That was indeed the case, but she was carrying not a human, but a ghost.

Yang Jian's scarlet ghost eye on his forehead stretched open his skin and flesh, emitting a faint red light. The red light condensed into a thin line and looked towards Wang Shanshan's abdomen.

Through the skin and flesh, Yang Jian deliberately saw that there was a baby-shaped thing inside Wang Shanshan's belly.

Strangely, the baby seemed to sense the ghost's gaze and slowly opened its eyes.

The baby's eyes emitted a faint red light, somewhat similar to Yang Jian's ghost eyes, giving it a very familiar feel.

This ghost baby was left inside Wang Shanshan's body during the starving ghost incident.

With the starving ghosts restrained and the source of the curse extinguished, the ghost infant that should have died inside Wang Shanshan's body survived in a completely new way because of the ghost slave mark that Yang Jian left on Wang Shanshan's body.

The concept of ghost babies and starving ghosts is no longer related.

The one who truly prolonged the life of the ghost infant was Yang Jian.

As Wang Shanshan's belly grew larger, she found Yang Jian. This couldn't go on; she had to get the thing out as soon as possible, or she, the mother who was giving birth to the vengeful ghost, would definitely die.

Yang Jian was also somewhat troubled by his current situation.

He was unsure how to deal with the ghost.

If we can successfully take control, that would be an incredible achievement.

However, if not handled properly, it could trigger a terrifying supernatural event in Dachang City, and if left unchecked, it could even lead to the emergence of another starving ghost.

Yang Jian pondered for a long time but couldn't think of a good way to control the ghost baby.

Then he remembered someone.

Lu Ming had just finished resolving the S-level ghost temple incident in the island nation.

He knew many things that Yang Jian did not, and sometimes he appeared even more mysterious than the human skin paper.

Moreover, Lu Ming wouldn't be like a piece of paper, burying terrible traps in his truthful words.

"Let's ask Lu Ming about the situation."

With that thought in mind, Yang Jian dialed Lu Ming's phone number.

The first few times, it was a busy signal.

Finally, on the last attempt, the call was answered.

The situation was urgent, so Yang Jian didn't beat around the bush and went straight to the point: "Lu Ming, I have a female classmate named Wang Shanshan, and she's pregnant now..."

(End of this chapter)