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Chapter 231 The Last Era of the Post Office, The Captain on the Fifth Floor (4k)

The final stop, the fifth floor of the Ghost Post Office, is incredibly important; it's key to a successful wedding.

Just as Lu Ming turned his gaze to the deep, dark staircase and was about to go upstairs first, a sudden noise came from the silent staircase.

Something rolled down the stairs. It was heavy, and it made a dull thud with each step it went down.

The thing finally came to a steady stop in front of Lu Ming's feet.

The people nearby also noticed something unusual. They couldn't see anything at all. The rolling thing seemed to be enveloped by solidified darkness that lingered for a long time.

Only Lu Ming ignored the supernatural influence and saw the true nature of this thing.

A large glass bottle contained a yellow liquid that was not clear but rather very turbid and had a fishy smell. Judging from the general impression, the liquid was probably used as a preservative.

Because the glass bottle contained a pale-faced but remarkably well-preserved human head.

The human head, with its eyes closed, rose and fell slowly in the liquid.

It can be determined that both the glass bottle and the human head inside it have been there for a long time.

Strangely, the human head placed inside the glass bottle showed no signs of decay, and the skin on its surface appeared perfectly intact.

"What is this thing? Why is a rotting human head rolling down from it?"

Lu Ming looked at the human head in the glass bottle, pondered for a moment, and ultimately remained silent.

He certainly knew what was in the glass bottle.

This is the corpse of the ghost post office manager.

Every manager of the Ghost Post Office met a bad end.

Thinking about it carefully, it's somewhat laughable to say that Luo Wensong, one of the Seven Elders of the Republic of China, fell to his death.

How could someone who had reached the pinnacle of the supernatural and controlled ghosts possibly fall to their death?

The same goes for the corpse in front of me.

If she were merely dismembered, it wouldn't be enough to kill her.

Therefore, there is only one explanation for the current situation.

That means this post office manager was dismantled.

"Let's ignore this for now and go upstairs."

Lu Ming made the decision directly and then went up the stairs to the fifth floor of the Ghost Post Office.

On his way upstairs, Lu Ming also found a glass bottle filled with yellow liquid, inside which was still a human corpse.

This time, however, it wasn't a human head, but a pale arm.

Whenever Lu Ming encountered these things, he would simply use his Ghost Domain to collect them with a thought.

The others didn't know his intentions, but they didn't dare to ask any more questions.

As the group continued forward.

They discovered that after reaching a certain set of steps, the old steps beneath their feet began to become dilapidated and broken.

Moreover, the wooden handrail next to it was also damaged.

The steps and handrails were incomplete, revealing pitted and uneven gaps, with handprints, teeth marks, and traces left by sharp weapons.

If you have a keener eye, you can see that the various marks on these steps are from different times, some left a few years ago, and some seem to have been there for decades.

The fact that they all performed the same action over such a long period of time suggests that all the messengers who came to the fifth floor were conveying a signal.

The fifth floor of the Ghost Post Office is dangerous, and they don't want any future messengers to go up there.

The last step was the most severely damaged, having completely collapsed and been destroyed.

"Is there anyone who doesn't want us to go up to the fifth floor?"

Li Yang's expression shifted slightly as he looked at Lu Ming and asked, "Captain, what should we do now?"

"Go straight upstairs."

Lu Ming gave the same answer.

This wasn't just a perfunctory response to Li Yang; he knew very well that the staircase leading to the fifth floor couldn't possibly have been deliberately damaged.

Everything that is now appearing before their eyes is an illusion created by the supernatural.

Even if the steps are destroyed, the supernatural phenomenon cannot be dispelled.

Further explanation would only waste time, so Lu Ming simply stepped forward. When his right foot stepped out and landed, Li Yang and Sun Rui discovered that there was indeed an invisible step above the collapsed staircase.

Lu Ming stood firmly on the steps without falling.

Soon, a wooden door appeared in front of him.

The wooden door was not completely closed or locked; it was half-closed and stood quietly at the end of the stairs.

The group passed through the wooden door and entered the fifth floor of the Ghost Post Office.

The environment here is still much the same as before, except that since this is the last floor, there is nothing else upstairs.

There is only a roof without windows, beneath which is a large hall surrounded by seven rooms.

The hall was empty at the moment, with only the faint yellow light flickering visibly.

It's normal that there are no messengers gathering on the fifth floor of the Ghost Post Office.

Because the messengers on the fifth floor take too long to deliver letters—a year between deliveries—most of the messengers never meet.

"Captain, we don't know much about this fifth floor, and finding other messengers here won't be an easy task."

"In my opinion, it would be better to use the resources of headquarters to find the messenger on the fifth floor and ask him for clarification."

Li Yang offered his suggestion with a glint in his eyes.

In dealing with paranormal events, besides having knowledge of the paranormal phenomena yourself, the most important thing is to obtain information about the haunted place in advance.

Although the headquarters suffered repeated losses under Lu Ming's command, in fact, the Ghost Riders headquarters still wielded considerable power in China.

Finding out someone's identity information can be done in a matter of minutes.

In situations like this, relying on headquarters is actually a more reliable decision.

However, Lu Ming did not adopt this suggestion, shaking his head and saying, "The messengers on the fifth floor do not enter the post office very often, and since they have the ability to come to the fifth floor, they will definitely keep their identities secret outside, so it is probably not easy to find them."

"The most important thing is that there's no need to make it so complicated."

The ghost post office had been operating normally for decades, or even longer.

After the supernatural events fully erupted, like many other supernatural places, the rules of the Ghost Post Office became disordered and began to develop in a direction of being out of control and unstable.

However, none of this has anything to do with Lu Ming.

There are too many out-of-control supernatural places; he can't possibly take care of them all.

All Lu Ming wanted to do now was to get the red envelope back, tear it up, ward off the terrifying supernatural attack, and then head to Zhang Dong's old house.

But this time it didn't go as smoothly as before. At six o'clock in the evening, the ghost post office turned off its lights on time.

Silent all night.

The next morning, Lu Ming and his two companions searched the entire Ghost Post Office but found no new envelopes.

"The post office has no delivery assignments. For normal couriers, nothing has changed, but for us, this is an anomaly."

It had already been confirmed that Lu Ming would receive a new red envelope every time he went up to the next floor.

But now the Ghost Post Office refuses to assign tasks to Lu Ming.

After a moment's thought, Lu Ming understood the key point.

“Except for the sixth floor where the manager is located, the fifth floor is the last floor of the Ghost Post Office. If the red envelopes are still easily placed in the lobby and I find them and tear them up, then all the messengers on the fifth floor will be able to leave the post office.”

The Ghost Post Office is essentially a selection process for messengers, so it's normal that it wouldn't allow such a thing to happen.

Sun Rui, leaning on a golden cane, slowly surveyed the fifth floor.

The fifth floor of the post office was covered with oil paintings.

All the oil paintings seem to be the work of one person and belong to the same style.

Dark, oppressive, gloomy.

It's clearly a normal landscape painting, yet it exudes an eerie feeling that sends chills down your spine.

Of course, apart from normal landscape paintings, most of the rest are portraits.

The portraits vary in age, and the clothing and decorations depicted in them also differ greatly.

Some of the portraits depict clothing styles reminiscent of the 1970s and 80s, while others appear modern, and still others are even older, wearing long gowns that suggest they are from the Republican era.

The portraits include men and women, old people and young people, each with different appearances and expressions.

Sun Rui didn't know the purpose of these oil paintings and thought they were just simple decorations.

But Lu Ming knew very well that these oil paintings were very realistic. It was clear that they were not drawn randomly out of thin air, but based on real people as references.

In fact, the people in these oil paintings are messengers from the ghost post office that have already passed through customs.

After clearing the Ghost Post Office, you can choose to leave a portrait of yourself on the fifth floor of the post office, or you can revive a character from the portrait.

At this moment, Sun Rui seemed to suddenly remember something and said, "Captain Lu, a few days ago after leaving the post office, I went to headquarters. Several high-ranking officials there confided in me that a captain had entered the post office before, and they even created a corresponding file. If I remember correctly, the captain they were talking about entered the fifth floor of the post office..."

"How about we try contacting the captain and asking him what's going on?"

The Ghost Tamer who was able to successfully reach the fifth floor must be extremely powerful; no wonder he was selected for the headquarters' captain program.

Of course, they can't compare to a speedrunning monster like Lu Ming.

"No need. I already know the information about the captain you mentioned, so I can't be of any help."

Lu Ming knew who Sun Rui was talking about.

He Yin'er, the leader of the spirit summoners in Taiping Ancient Town.

He Yin'er did indeed enter the Ghost Post Office, and even sank into the Ghost Lake as a result, but it was definitely impossible to get her to help with anything.

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Time flies.

About a week later.

Still no red envelope appeared.

The ghost post office seems to have returned to normal after its previous anomalies and has begun distributing mail at a normal frequency.

"If the post office keeps refusing to assign me the red letter mission, then I have no choice but to do as Li Yang said: find a way to go outside and locate the messengers on the fifth floor, and steal the letters they're carrying..."

With Lu Ming's current strength, no matter how strong the messenger on the fifth floor is, he poses no threat to him.

It would be almost effortless to snatch the envelopes from their hands.

The problem is that there are very few messengers on the fifth floor, and it's not enough to just find a messenger; you also have to find the messenger who has already received the third letter to go upstairs.

This makes the probability of the plan succeeding very low.

Even if they eventually manage to collect all the letters for going upstairs, it will take a lot of time and be very inefficient, which goes against Lu Ming's original intention of speeding up the process.

At this point, Lu Ming realized that simply waiting like this was definitely not an option.

If things were to proceed at the normal frequency, and the post office only assigned Lu Ming a mail delivery task six months later, and even then it would only be the most basic mail delivery task, then it would be too late by then.

Forget about holding a wedding, all of Lu Ming's plans will be disrupted.

“Since all of this is related to Zhang Dong, he won’t let this happen.”

"The current anomaly should only be temporary..."

"Of course, I can't just sit here and wait without doing anything. I need to do something to trigger some kind of supernatural condition before the red envelope will have a chance to appear."

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Faced with the current predicament, Lu Ming has not yet found a way to break the deadlock.

But no problem.

Forty-five days have passed since I arrived in the mysterious world of revival, and before I knew it, it was time to return to the God Realm.

Lu Ming gained a lot in the mysterious world of revival this time. As planned, he obtained a supernatural weapon, and made it a thing of the sort that exceeded his expectations.

What Lu Ming now controls is not the black umbrella, nor even the golden umbrella, but a blood-stained red umbrella.

He originally thought that this supernatural weapon was just something he had obtained by chance, and that if he had the chance to get coffin nails later, he would still have to make a supernatural weapon similar to Yang Jian's.

But when the blood rain fell and the ghosts cried in the night, Lu Ming vaguely realized that the red umbrella in his hand was the most suitable supernatural weapon for him.

It was not a coincidence or an accident, but rather something that had been foreshadowed and prepared in advance.

The red umbrella, combined with Lu Ming's other supernatural abilities, will amplify the already terrifying supernatural phenomenon to an even higher level.

Moreover, the red umbrella and the ghost bride are a very good match.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that this umbrella itself is one piece of the red and white duo's puzzle.

And this time, the task of speedrunning the Ghost Post Office...

Although it wasn't completely finished, Lu Ming had already arrived at the fifth floor of the post office and had figured out some of the tricks of the trade.

Clearing customs is only a matter of time.

"With my current strength, if I were to return to the Tomie world again, I would be much more at ease even when facing Hell Star."

"The next seven-star difficulty horror movie dungeon will be completed in a team-based competitive mode, which is good news for me because there will be no challengers who can beat me."

Lu Ming is clearly very confident now.

This is not arrogance, nor is it looking down on others.

He was simply stating a fact.

Lu Ming is just one step away from becoming the most extraordinary of the extraordinary, and even in the mysterious world of revival, he is one of the top beings. There is no reason for him to suffer a setback in a horror movie scenario.

(End of this chapter)