After a long time of consolation, Yan Danian finally recovered. He told Chen Ge that it was his power that had stopped the Red Specter earlier — Soul Painting.
There was a chance of dragging the ghost into the painting, but for a Red Specter, it could only slow them down for a fraction of a second.
Temporarily, Chen Ge had no idea what the limitations of this power were. He only knew that there were not many blank pages in the comic, and the number of ghosts that could be contained was limited. Furthermore, the success rate of this power was very low.
This power alone was not enough for Yan Danian to become the strongest Lesser Red Specter. The hidden power was what Chen Ge was looking forward to the most.
Unfortunately, no matter how hard Chen Ge tried, Yan Danian did not reveal any information. It was as if he did not know he had this hidden power.
Xu Yin and Zhang Ya were asleep, and he needed the uncle's help tonight, so Chen Ge did not ask too many questions. After comforting the uncle, he put the comic away.
"Uncle Yan is a good person, but he looks a bit sad."
When he was consoling the uncle earlier, Chen Ge had said many things, and he did not think there was anything wrong with what he said. "What happened tonight was indeed an accident for you, but in the future … after experiencing this a few more times, you'll get used to it."
Looking at the rampaging ghosts and the rampaging Red Specters around the well, Chen Ge nodded lightly. "Only by standing next to me will you be able to see this magnificent and strange world. Perhaps one day in the future, uncle will understand my good intentions."
After his energy recovered, Chen Ge wandered around the perimeter with the comic and the hammer. He summoned his employees from the comic and had them drag the lone ghosts from the village to the corner.
Chen Ge had always thought of himself as a reasonable person. He would have his employees beat up the ghosts until they were about to disappear, and then he would ask them if they were willing to join Haunted House.
If they were willing, they would be accepted into the comic, and both sides would be happy. If they were not, then they would be enemies, and Chen Ge naturally would not do something like letting them go.
"To perfectly restore the three-star scenario to Coffin Village, I'll need many ghosts from the village. I'm doing this for the sake of the visitors."
At first, the employees in the comic did not know how to cooperate, but under Chen Ge's guidance, they slowly developed a tacit understanding. Towards the end, there was no need for Chen Ge to teach them. They had already begun to attract lone ghosts.
"Outstanding talent." Chen Ge was satisfied with his employees' reaction. He grabbed the hammer and hid to the side, his eyes on the two men in black robes.
No. 10 probably knows me in real life, so there's a high chance that he's the guild leader. If I can knock him down, Xiong Qing will be affected as well.
If he wanted to attack the members of the Society of Strange Tales, Xiong Qing was an obstacle that he could not avoid.
Chen Ge very naturally moved his gaze back to Xiong Qing. When he first went to Lin Guan Village, he had received a call from Inspector Lee saying that Xiong Qing had been captured, and he had been captured near New Century Park.
But in just one or two days, Xiong Qing had appeared before Chen Ge in his Red Specter form.
The conditions for the birth of a Red Specter were very harsh. This was evident from Xu Yin. He had to be tortured, filled with hatred and resentment, and be extremely aggressive.
Half of Xiong Qing's body was torn apart. If this is how he looked before his death, then it goes to show how much pain he was in before his death. But the key question is, why would he appear near New Century Park alone and coincidentally be captured by the police? Where were the other members when he was captured?
With this in mind, Chen Ge had a general idea. Did the members of the Society of Strange Tales plan to abandon Xiong Qing from the beginning? Make him lose his last hope, torture his body, and use his resentment and pain as well as the black blood stains inside the wooden box to create a Red Specter?
The Society of Strange Tales had controlled the blood door for five years, so they definitely knew more secrets than Chen Ge. It was not impossible for them to create a Red Specter.
They purposely abandoned Xiong Qing so that he would lose everything, but after Xiong Qing was captured by the police, how did the members of the Society of Strange Tales complete the next step? How did they get close to Xiong Qing when the police blocked off the area?
This was the thing that confused Chen Ge the most. He looked at the half of Xiong Qing's body, and his eyes darkened. Does the Society of Strange Tales use ghosts to do this? Or is someone cooperating with them?
No matter the process, Xiong Qing becoming a Red Specter was a fact that could not be changed. The Society of Strange Tales had done that, and based on their setup at Coffin Village, this group of people obviously had a bigger plan.
"What are they trying to do?"
While Chen Ge was thinking, the situation around the well changed again.
The group of ghosts attacked everything in sight, and the resentment in their hearts was about to explode.
Funerals were very common at Coffin Village. They had been around for many years, and no one had dared run into them.
However, that day, not only did that person stop the Funerals, he even destroyed their coffins!
This was unbearable, and all the ghosts seemed to have gone mad.
The two ghost stories society members who were tricked by Chen Ge were angered to the point that their mouths twitched. They were frustrated, and the situation was clear.
The boss of the Haunted House had done something wrong to provoke all the ghosts in the village, and now they were the scapegoats.
If possible, the black robed man wished to reason with the ghosts in the village or stop temporarily so that everyone could go and kill the scapegoat.
Unfortunately, the Zhu woman was around, and she would not give them that chance.
When she saw the ghosts holding Xiong Qing back, she had the ghost baby crawl over and prepare to deal with the two black robes.
The Society of Strange Tales's research on ghosts and human hearts was much deeper than this isolated village. When Chen Ge escaped, they had already predicted this, so they had summoned back the thin shadow and had it block the attack of the ghosts so that Xiong Qing could deal with the ghost baby.
The two Red Specters fought at the edge of the village. Their fighting style was different from normal Specters. Like the other Red Specters from the Society of Strange Tales, Xiong Qing used the blood vessels that extended from half of his body to morph into different shapes to capture the ghost baby and eat it.
The ghost baby's reaction was even weirder. Blood dripped from its skin, and the blood morphed into tadpole-like things that crawled toward Xiong Qing's body like it was trying to crawl into its body.
Both of them moved very fast, and they purposely avoided the well when they fought.
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