Translator: Lonelytree Editor: Millman97 The fog thinned, and the blood moon in the sky became clearer. The blood red moonlight fell on the ground, shining on many ugly and strange figures.
"Pa!"
The window next to Chen Ge was slammed open by an external force, and a strange man whose face was wrapped in coarse cloth poked his head out. He had his eyes on Chen Ge, and he was waiting for Chen Ge to get close to ambush him.
There was no reason for him to attack. Perhaps he found Chen Ge an eyesore, or killing Chen Ge would bring him temporary joy.
This was the logic of a crazed murderer. Their brain structure was different from a normal person. They did not care about others, did not care about the consequences, and did not have a plan. They were sensitive and easily provoked, and they had a natural sense of aggression.
Blood seeped out from under the coarse cloth. Chen Ge could not see the man's face, and he did not care what the man looked like.
When the man reached out his hairy arms toward Chen Ge, trying to drag him into the room, Chen Ge took a step to the side and raised the hammer.
This kind of murder weapon was rare even in Li Wan City. The shadow kept these murderers in captivity to gain negative emotions, not to build a colosseum. Therefore, the weapons that these murderers used to commit their crimes were tools that could be found anywhere in their daily lives.
The man's shoulders caved in, and the coarse cloth that covered his face fell to the ground, revealing a pair of eyes that were filled with confusion. He had no idea where Chen Ge had gotten such a hammer. He felt like the man was breaking the rules, but he could not do anything about it.
The man fell backward, and the man ran toward the room that he was hiding in.
Normally, when a person was being chased, they would not pay attention to these small fries, but Chen Ge was obviously an exception.
"I don't care if you're a ghost or a human. If you want to kill me, then you should be prepared to be taken away by me. That's what I call fair." He leaped into the room through the window, raised the hammer, and chased after her. "You're planning to kill me, so you're definitely not an innocent person. Even if I save you, I won't get the reward from the black phone. If anything, I'll disturb the peace of society, so I'd better spend more time to kill you."
Rushing into the house, there was a commotion. An ordinary wooden door was a piece of cake for Chen Ge. Even if it was a security door, he was confident that he could break it open within five strikes.
The masked man had never seen such a scene before. Before he could escape from the room, Chen Ge had already caught up to him.
Entering through the window on the left side of the building and smashing through the window on the right side of the building, the whole process did not take more than half a minute.
Holding the coarse cloth that he had removed from the man's face, Chen Ge shoved it inside his backpack. "I guess I'll keep this as a souvenir."
In Xiao Bu's game, the streets would become very dangerous after dark, similar to Chen Ge's current situation. The only difference was that the main character in the game was the defenseless Xiao Bu, but in real life, the main character was the new chairperson of the Society of Strange Tales.
"I have no idea what Doctor Gao's goal is, but that is a big problem. For now, I can only try my best to exhaust them." Chen Ge's route did not follow any pattern. If someone or a ghost provoked him, he would immediately change his route and charge into the building before moving to another street.
Most of the buildings in Li Wan City were hiding Specters and crazed murderers. For a normal person, this was a place that sounded dangerous, but for Chen Ge, it gave him a special thrill that was similar to a lucky draw.
Whenever he entered a room, there would be a sense of anticipation in his heart. He could not explain why — perhaps he was just curious.
"It feels like I'm a street sweeper. If only the door that has gone out of control doesn't expand on its own. That way, I'll be able to come and clean it periodically."
The blood moon shone, and the fog swirled. Chen Ge ran under the many malicious gazes.
"The human-shaped shadows at the junction are still there. The man with the tattoo said that these shadows came from the shadow's main body, so they probably have some kind of connection with the shadow." Chen Ge knew that the reason he could wreak havoc and snatch the baleful Specters as he pleased was because the shadow was busy dealing with Doctor Gao and did not have time to spare.
If he knew that Chen Ge was the key, the situation would definitely change.
"As long as I'm careful, I should be able to stall for a long time." Chen Ge raised the hammer and smashed it at the window. Wherever there was a human-shaped shadow, he would walk through the building. With the hammer, wherever Chen Ge went, there would be a path.
From a certain perspective, the blood fog was a symbol of the shadow's power. Now that the fog was thin, and the strange noises kept coming, many of the imprisoned ghosts and murderers realized that their chance had arrived.
Initially, the strange noises only came from behind Chen Ge, but slowly, screams and wails came from all over Li Wan City.
Order collapsed, and Li Wan City, which the shadow had worked so hard to manage, fell into chaos. The madmen and madmen who had been suppressed for a long time crawled out from their hiding places.
Be it to escape or to release the darkness in their hearts, these ghosts and madmen who represented the bottom line of humanity started to make their move.
If the shadow was not held back by Doctor Gao, he could make an example out of them. He could kill those who disobeyed him and suppress them by force.
But now, he was too busy, and the more he did not make a move, the more chaotic the situation would become. The fear and respect in the hearts of these madmen would disappear, and they would be swallowed by their negative emotions.
Crying and laughter floated above the small town. The sound of fighting was everywhere. The blood fog was still thinning, but the smell of blood in the air was getting heavier.
"This is a bunch of madmen. This is too scary." Chen Ge stepped over the fainted murderer, and at the same time, Xu Yin crumpled the lingering spirit that he had fought earlier into a ball and put it away.
The man and ghost had a clear division of labor. Chen Ge was responsible for dealing with the living humans, and Xu Yin was responsible for dealing with the lingering spirits and Specters. Unless they ran into a Red Specter, basically no one would be able to stop them.
In just a few minutes, Chen Ge's backpack had gained many strange things. For example, a showerhead that had been pulled off. It was attached to a man's lingering spirit. He liked to peek at other people when they were showering. He had no combat ability, but he looked scary. Chen Ge felt like he had the potential for his job, so he kept it.
Other than that, there were many other things, like a flashlight that could turn on on its own, a spirit that hid under a glass, a female ghost that liked to hide under a table, and so on.
Those that were easy to take away, Chen Ge would take them with him. Those that were not easy to take away, like the female ghost that liked to hide under the table, Chen Ge smashed the table and had the female ghost possess one of the wooden boards. He promised the female ghost that he would get her a new table in the future.
The reward from this mission was more than Chen Ge expected. He opened the black phone, and there were several new messages on his employee page.
"Congratulations, Specter's Favored! Congratulations on obtaining a special type of lingering spirit — Li Gui (Lingering Spirit). Lust is like a knife. When she tried to install a camera in the shower, she was electrocuted to death. Her special power is bad luck. She can affect the luck of herself and those around her. Would you like to hire her as your employee?
"Congratulations, Specter's Favored! Congratulations on obtaining a special type of lingering spirit — He Beibei (Lingering Spirit). She was hit in the head by a falling glass in the residential area and died. She was filled with resentment, but she could not find her killer, so she could only hide under the glass. When someone drank from her, she would observe them from under the blanket. Her special power is X-ray vision. Would you like to hire her as your employee?
"Congratulations, Specter's Favored! Congratulations on obtaining a special type of Specter — Wang Mei (Baleful Spirit). She suffered from a mental illness, and the smaller the space, the safer she felt. The cause of her death was a mystery. The police found her body inside a wooden box under the table. No one knew how she got into the box, and no one else's fingerprints were found at the scene. Her special power is shapeshifting. Would you like to hire her as your employee?
"Congratulations, Specter's Favored! Congratulations on obtaining a Red Specter —??? (Red Specter)! Heavily injured, on the verge of dissipation. Real name unknown, power unknown, past unknown. Before completing her spirit, you cannot hire her as your employee. "
Chen Ge glanced at the employee page. He had gained quite a lot from this mission. He glanced through it, and there were three lingering spirits with special powers and a headless female Specter at the level of a Red Specter.
"I should consider hiring them after completing the mission." For a team to grow, it was not enough to focus on quantity alone — quality was more important.
Putting the black phone away, Chen Ge looked around.
Li Wan City was a complete mess. The shadow probably could not figure out what the problem was no matter how hard he tried.
Dr. Gao's appearance was a variable. No matter how smart the shadow was, he would not have expected Dr. Gao to turn into a Red Specter and appear at a time like this.
Information decided the direction of one's thinking. The shadow had crossed swords with Dr. Gao before. He was a master of psychological warfare, and coincidentally, Dr. Gao was the top psychologist in Jiujiang. Even though he had barely won the battle earlier, Dr. Gao had left a deep impression on him, and he was very wary of this' person '.
Three-quarters of the blood fog in Li Wan City had gathered at one spot. Black and red chains slid through it, leaving deep marks on the surrounding buildings.
"Behind the shadow is a four-star scenario, so he definitely has other trump cards that he has not used. I wonder how far Dr. Gao can push him." Chen Ge paid close attention to the battle between Doctor Gao and the shadow. At that moment, a loud explosion came from the residential area where Fan Chong lived. He could clearly see that the blood vessels on the surface of one of the buildings had started to fade.
"Who did this? Their target appears to be the door that has gone out of control as well. " Chen Ge was surprised. Other than himself, Dr. Gao, and the shadow, there was a fourth force in Li Wan City. "Is it the red raincoat? Or the cooperation of those crazed murderers? "
The door that had gone out of control was the source of all the blood fog in Li Wan City. The shadow would not allow anyone to touch that door.
A strange voice came from the chains and the blood fog. It sounded like it was calling one name after another.
"Is the shadow going to use his second trump card?" Chen Ge was on high alert. He soon realized that something was wrong. After the voice appeared, human-shaped stains started to appear on the buildings in Li Wan City. They appeared to be the real owners of these buildings.
"This is similar to the stains I saw at Fan Cong's residential area. Is the shadow trying to wake up all the people who have died in Li Wan City?"
All the murderers and most of the baleful Specters were brought here from elsewhere by the shadow. The human-shaped stains were the real natives of Li Wan City. They had died of infectious diseases and were buried deep under the city.
"Creak, creak, creak …"
Something seemed to be moving on the wall behind him. Chen Ge turned to look, and there was a human-shaped stain behind him.
It was a little girl. She looked about seven or eight. Her body was thin, and her hair was tied into two ponytails.
Initially, it was just a shallow shadow, but as time moved on, the stain slowly deepened until the girl's silhouette could be seen clearly.
Her body was twisted and curled into a ball. As if to lessen the pain, her arms hugged her body so tightly that her bones were bent out of shape.
"Creak, creak, creak …"
The creepy voice kept coming. Each time it started, the stain on the wall would become clearer like it was trying to break free from the wall.
The recorder kept buzzing, and the white cat inside the travel bag kept meowing at Chen Ge. They were both reminding Chen Ge to stay away from this girl.
"Why doesn't Xu Yin allow me to get close to her?" The girl's presence was far weaker than a Red Specter's. In fact, she was weaker than a slightly stronger baleful Specter, but a stain like this attracted the attention of both Xu Yin and the white cat.
The color of the stain continued to deepen. Perhaps it was his imagination, but Chen Ge saw the girl's curled up body shudder. Then the girl's head that was buried deep in her chest slowly raised to turn toward Chen Ge.
It was a face that had nothing on it, but being stared at by the long face, Chen Ge felt chills all over his body, and his hair stood on end.
Ever since he was blessed by the baleful Specter, Chen Ge's body temperature had started to drop. He had not felt this kind of bone-chilling coldness for a long time already.
"This thing doesn't appear to be a ghost …" Chen Ge's own definition of a ghost was a lingering spirit left behind by a living person.
There were good and bad obsessions, so ghosts were divided into good and evil. However, this human-shaped stain in front of him had no emotions. It was filled with a morbid desire to destroy. Rather than calling it a ghost, it was more accurate to call it a living curse.
Its existence seemed to be to spread misfortune and misfortune, to turn everything into something like it.
The stain in the wall saw Chen Ge. The girl's curled up body slowly unfurled. The deformed limbs stretched outward, and it walked out from the wall.
The featureless face turned to face Chen Ge. The girl moved forward, moving faster and faster until she suddenly picked up speed and leaped at him!
At the same time, endless screams echoed in Li Wan City. The shadow did not only target Chen Ge, the murderers and baleful Specters were also the target of the human-shaped stain.
"Let's retreat for now." Chen Ge had no idea what would happen if he was touched by this thing. He did not have Xu Yin and Bai Qiulin make a move. He actively evaded and planned to observe the situation.
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