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Zshan City.
Zhoutang East Street.
This is a street very close to the Caesar Hotel, and it is also the edge area of the ghost painting ghostland. Further ahead, there is the area covered by the ghost painting ghost domain!
Early morning.
Wisps of dark mist appeared out of thin air on the top floor of a building on Zhoutang East Street. As the mist became thicker and thicker, a figure emerged from the mist.
Standing on the top floor of the building, Su Mubai looked into the distance.
The east side of Zhoutang East Street is in the direction of the Caesar Hotel. At this time, the area east of the street is covered by ghost paintings.
What comes into view is a gray world. After all things come into contact with that gray world, they seem to be assimilated, become dim, and become part of that world.
In this gray ghost world, some vague things are constantly falling from the sky.
It was a ball of paper ash-like objects, just like what was left after burning textbooks, or like the paper ash left after burning paintings.
In this ghost realm, there is a candlestick made of gold, with a white candle emitting green light on one side of the candlestick.
On the other side of the candlestick, a pair of seemingly perfect palms were pierced. There was no blood flowing out of the wound, which seemed a bit strange.
The owner of the palm is a woman wearing red clothes. She is very beautiful. Her figure, facial features, etc. are all perfect.
But this kind of perfection seems a bit false, not like a real person, but a bit illusory, like a painted character.
The woman's face was dull, her eyes were dull, and her eyes were empty. As time passed, the woman began to leave in the opposite direction to where Su Mubai was.
The gray ghost world also spread into the distance as the woman left, gradually drifting towards the other side of Zshan City.
"Did the ghost painting run out of that old castle? Have you started wandering around Zshan City?" Su Mubai's eyes turned dark green unknowingly, and he stared closely at That gray ghost world.
In his sight, the gray world showed a different scene. Although the paper dust was still floating, there were other buildings in the ghost domain.
The ghost world of ghost paintings is like a broken world, with high-rise buildings and cities, but the city is dead and silent, without any life.
"It seems real or illusory, a... world in a painting." Su Mubai murmured, but had no intention of going in to explore.
His goal this time is not ghost painting!
On the contrary, Gui Hua's departure and wandering into the distance was good news for him.
Su Mubai did not directly use the ghost domain to enter the Caesar Hotel at first. Instead, he stopped at Zhoutang East Street, which was still some distance away from the Caesar Hotel. He may not be afraid of the ghost paintings.
Originally, Su Mubai was still thinking about how to reach the Caesar Hotel through Gui Hua's ghost realm, but now Gui Hua left on his own, which was exactly what he wanted.
"Caesar Hotel is close to that weird castle. When you enter Caesar Hotel, you should face the supernatural things inside and be careful of the ghosts in the castle."
The ghost paintings left the castle and began to wander outside. At the same time, it also reminded Su Mubai.
Since the ghost painting can leave, it proves that other ghosts in the castle can also come out. Even now, there are ghosts running out of the castle and wandering around Zshan City.
Of course, there is another possibility.
After all, the ghost painting broke out in the castle. When she left, she might have packed away the other supernatural beings in her ghost domain.
Just like Yang Jian in the original work, before entering the Caesar Hotel, he used knockers to take away some of the less terrifying ghosts in the Caesar Hotel.
Although ghost painting and knocking on the door are not the same ghost, the principle is the same.
Judging from the fact that Gui Hua packed up the ghosts and took them away, she will take away the other spirits that exist in her ghost domain with her, and they will gradually become part of her ghost domain.
After all... there are many other supernatural beings in Gui Hua's ghost domain, most of which were taken away in a wave after Gui Hua covered the ghosts into his own ghost domain.
Time passed minute by minute, and when the gray ghost realm completely disappeared from sight, Su Mubai began to take action.
Without the coverage of the ghost domain, not far away, the Caesar Hotel and the Central European-style castle building next to it appeared.
"Sure enough, the castle has changed again." Su Mubai looked at the castle not far away and frowned.
Different from the scene when Su Mubai left, the environment on the strange road outside the gate of the castle became pitch black.
Different from the darkness of night.
This kind of darkness is very pure and strange. The bright moonlight cannot shine into that darkness, and all the light on the road disappears.
The street lights on both sides of the road were not extinguished. On the contrary, the ink-like darkness was emitted by the light of the street lights.
The green light at first turned into pitch black, and a very powerful supernatural power spread, even Su Mubai couldn't see clearly.
Vaguely, Su Mubai could feel that the black light was a curse, an instinctive induction from a ghost.
Although it is unclear what the cursed ability of the black light is, it is obviously terrifying.
Su Mubai had an intuition that if a less terrifying ghost entered that dark road, he would probably be directly suppressed by the supernatural force.
It's not just the road outside the castle that's dark.
It is not difficult to see through the windows of the castle that the interior of the castle is also dark at this time, exactly the same as the weird darkness on the road!
What Su Mubai didn’t know was.
The saber and the castle are integrated. The saber’s suppression ability is very powerful in the castle, but as soon as you leave the castle, its suppression ability will be greatly weakened. This is something Su Mubai himself did not feel. The reason for how much was suppressed.
In the castle, the male corpse, who was far more terrifying than Su Mubai, had half of the supernatural power in his body suppressed. Only when Su Mubai took the saber from him, the male corpse himself Only then did the supernatural power fully recover.
same.
The suppression of the saber is also demonstrated by the people inside the castle. Su Mubai is an "outsider". Even if he holds a saber in the castle, he will not suffer too much suppression.
This is a kind of bondage and a kind of safety guarantee.
The old castle was originally a supernatural place used to imprison evil ghosts. The male corpse holding a saber is the guardian of the old castle. While suppressing the evil ghosts inside the old castle, it will also clean up "outsiders".
But now that the saber is missing, the supernatural being in the man's body has completely revived, and the castle will be completely out of control. Now the green light turned into black light, which was the beginning of the castle losing control.
All the devils imprisoned in the castle may escape from the castle at any time, and the suppression of the castle no longer exists.
And that terrifying man who looked like a mummy was the most powerful supernatural being among them!
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Su Mubai was not the only one who noticed the departure of the ghost painting ghost domain, but also Wang Xiaoming, who had been staring at the satellite photography display screen at the Ghost Controller Headquarters.
And... Cao Yang, Shen Bing, Zhong Shan, Shao Wei and other ghost masters who have not yet evacuated from Zshan City are waiting for Wang Xiaoming's instructions.
"Okay, I understand."
Cao Yang pressed the hang-up button with a strange expression, and the words "Wang Xiaoming" were displayed on the call page on the satellite positioning phone.
"Cao Yang, what did Professor Wang say?" Shen Bing asked from the side. Looking at Cao Yang's strange expression, he couldn't help but feel a little guilty in his heart.
"Wang Xiaoming will not force a few of us to enter the hotel to solve the supernatural incident under such circumstances, right?"
The people present are not stupid, as long as they take a look Cao Yang's face made him guess.
really.
Cao Yang said: "I don't know what Wang Xiaoming suddenly discovered. He actually asked us to enter the Caesar Hotel again, but not to solve the supernatural incident. According to him, Tong Qian may not be dead yet."
Tong Qian is not dead?
Hearing this news, the other three people looked in disbelief. If Wang Xiaoming had not provided this information, everyone would have laughed it off.
After all, Tong Qian has lost contact with her for a long time.
In a weird place like the Caesar Hotel, where supernatural events occur, losing contact is, in a way, linked to death.
When Cao Yang and the others entered the Caesar Hotel, they had already planned to collect Tong Qian’s body and get rid of the evil spirit inside Tong Qian!
After all, they all see how dangerous Caesar Hotel is.
Even they themselves did not dare to say that they could stay in the hotel for such a long time. They were afraid that they would have died a long time ago and the evil ghost would revive.
"So, what Wang Xiaoming means is for us to go into the hotel and fish out the people?" Zhong Shan touched his nose and asked the thoughts of others present.
"Yes." Cao Yang nodded.
“It’s simply ridiculous!”
Shao Wei’s expression changed and she said: “Wang Xiaoming prides himself on always putting the overall interests first. Now anyone with a discerning eye can see that the situation inside the Caesar Hotel is very serious. danger, king Xiao Ming is actually willing to let the four of us take risks for Tong Qian alone?”
“Indeed.”
The others were a little confused, even Cao Yang, who led the team, was a little confused. Wang Xiaoming’s decision.
Based on his understanding of Wang Xiaoming, when the benefits and harms are out of proportion, the other party should decisively abandon Tong Qian.
Although this choice is very cruel, from the overall perspective, it is very wrong to gamble the lives of four ghost masters on the life of a person who has been out of contact for a long time and does not know whether he is alive or dead.
"Unless...in Wang Xiaoming's eyes, the value of one Tong Qian's interests is enough to cost the lives of the four of us, so we are allowed to go in and fish for people at this time." Shen Bing said in a faint tone. .
"This is the only explanation, but how is this possible? As far as I know, Tong Qian is just a ghost controller who controls a ghost." Shao Wei questioned.
Zhong Shan on the side said: "Maybe Wang Xiaoming discovered something, or maybe he was doing some kind of experiment."
"Okay, it's useless to talk so much. Wang Xiaoming is the commander of this operation. Since he has made the decision, we can just follow it. Of course, you can also choose not to follow his instructions. After all, the choice is yours. In hand."
After Cao Yang finished speaking, he walked straight towards the Caesar Hotel. It was obvious that he had made his choice. Although he was a little confused, he still followed Wang Xiaoming's arrangement.
Behind him, Zhong Shan hesitated for a moment, but chose to follow.
People are obedient. Seeing Cao Yang and Zhong Shan taking the lead, Shen Bing followed after hesitating for a few seconds.
On the same spot, Shao Wei was the only one who did not take any action.
"I refuse to participate in this operation. I think it is not worth putting myself in danger to rescue a Tong Qian who has been missing for a long time and does not know whether to live or die. Wang Xiaoming's choice is not 100% correct."
Shao Wei made her attitude clear. After shouting these words towards the backs of Cao Yang and others, she turned around and left in the opposite direction.
Cao Yang didn't say anything about Shao Wei's departure, and didn't even look back.
As he said before, everyone's choice is in their own hands. They can choose to act together or leave alone.
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"Be careful to avoid the old castle and the road that has weirdly extended from the castle. The purpose of our trip is only to get people, not to solve the supernatural."
Cao Yang, who was walking at the front, reminded .
They are not very far from where the Caesar Hotel is. They only need to cross two streets to reach the street where the Caesar Hotel is.
What the three of them didn't know was that behind them, a figure invisible to the naked eye, in the fifth-level ghost realm, was silently following them.
About ten minutes later.
With a "ding" sound, the door to the Caesar Hotel opened automatically.
“Welcome.”
In the lobby on the first floor of the hotel, a graceful female receptionist in uniform, with her hair tied up, was standing there, looking at Cao Cao with a professional smile. In the direction of Yang et al.
"Can I help you?" The female receptionist said to Cao Yang and the other three who had just walked into the hotel. Her voice was soft and pleasant, making people feel very comfortable.
“Huh?”
Cao Yang and the other three people immediately became vigilant. They must know that when they came in before, there was no such female receptionist in the lobby on the first floor of the hotel.
And in such a hotel where supernatural incidents have been happening for some time, how can there be any living staff who dare to continue to work here.
Shen Bing directly took out his special golden pistol, pointed the gun at the front desk staff, and asked Cao Yang: "There is something wrong with this female receptionist at first sight. Do you want to test the waters with a shot?"
"Even if she is really a ghost, it shouldn't be difficult for the three of us to work together."
Zhong Shan stopped him immediately and said: "Don't mess around, let's take a look first Let’s talk about the situation.”
The female receptionist still had a professional smile on her face, as if she hadn't heard the discussion among several people. Based on this alone, it was already certain that she had a problem.
After all, how can a normal person not change the slightest expression when being pointed at a gun?
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“Tong Qian?”
Su Mubai, who was in the ghost realm, looked at him with a professional smile, but there was no The female receptionist with other expressions couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
"Smiling face..."
Su Mubai's eyes moved slightly, and he had an idea in his mind.
Now he has obtained the puzzle of the crying face, and the ghost controlled by Tong Qian is the smiling face. The two complement each other, the sounds of crying and laughing are superimposed on each other, and the power will be greatly increased.
"First, deal with the tall man's corpse and obtain the hatchet. The primary purpose this time is the hatchet. Everything else must be postponed to avoid another accident."
Su Mu Bai glanced at the three Cao Yang people in the hall and began to look at the environment of the hall. After finding no body of the tall man, he passed through everyone and walked upstairs to the hotel.
To be honest, the actions of Cao Yang and others were unexpected by Su Mubai.
In his opinion, in this situation, the best way is not to come in to solve the supernatural incident, but to evacuate the crowd and seal the place off. (End of this chapter)