Chapter 115: Campsite Incident

Zhang Wei, along with Fanny and the other two, placed formation flags at the eight trigram positions of the campsite. Miao Zhiwei asked, "Senior Brother, is this magic formation like the ones in the movies?"

Zhang Wei said helplessly, "That would require my Grand-Uncle-Master to come. The formation I've set up is at most just for a warning."

Miao Zhiwei hurriedly asked, "Then what about Master?"

Zhang Wei explained, "Even my Uncle-Master cannot set up a grand formation, but it is still useful if set up inside a small room."

"Alright, the formation is already set up. Once there is any sign of trouble, I will know. Let's go back first."

The group returned to the campsite. Hu Xin had already led Jin Maiji and the others to tidy up the camp simply, and then they gathered in a classroom.

Zhang Wei and his group also walked in and picked a spot to sit down.

Hu Xin said on the podium, "This department of ours was ordered personally by the Governor and is a unit directly under the Governor. Everyone must take this seriously!"

Chen Hui, with a cigarette in his mouth, said with an indifferent face, "It's a new era now, where would there be any ghosts? Anyway, I was tricked into coming here. I don't give a damn; I'll do whatever I want. My brothers will definitely support me."

Hu Xin's face turned livid. He snorted coldly, took out his pistol, and slammed it onto the podium, saying, "If anyone is not serious about this training, the light punishment is a military tribunal, and the heavy punishment is execution by firing squad!"

He looked at Chen Hui and said, "Which one do you choose?"

Chen Hui said with a bitter face, "Hehehe, Officer, I know I was wrong. Please continue."

Hu Xin looked at Zhang Wei and said, "Sir Zhang is our consultant. He is a disciple of Maoshan and is most skilled at capturing ghosts and subduing demons. Now, please have Sir Zhang come up to speak."

Zhang Wei immediately went on stage and introduced himself, "Fellow colleagues, I am Zhang Wei from the Dongping Chau Branch. This time, I will serve as your consultant to teach you some crash-course Daoist arts."

"Logically speaking, we as officers should believe in science, but there are many things in this world that science cannot explain."

"Currently, many strange incidents have appeared in Hong Kong. These incidents have been kept as classified files and have never been made public."

"It's just that in recent years, such things have been gradually increasing. Especially with this vampire incident, even within our police force, vampires are hidden."

"Therefore, the higher-ups attach great importance to this matter and have established a Ghost-Catching Unit. I hope everyone will stay alert. In the matter of catching ghosts, one moment of negligence will cost you your life."

Hu Xin took over the conversation and said, "Now, Sir Zhang has explained it to you in detail, so next, we will learn some basic knowledge."

Lin Jiajun hurriedly said, "Sir Hu, we're starting on the first night? Can we relax a bit?"

Jin Maiji also chimed in, "Yeah, Sir, let's relax tonight and start tomorrow. We've been sitting in the car for a long time."

Hu Xin pulled a long face and barked, "Our mission is heavy; there is no time to relax!"

Seeing the look He Fanny gave him, Zhang Wei also said, "Sir Hu, I don't think tonight is very suitable. Shall we talk about it tomorrow?"

Hu Xin coughed and said, "Since a professional like Sir Zhang has said so, let's relax for the night."

The crowd below cheered immediately. Chen Hui hurriedly walked to Zhang Wei's side and said with a fawning smile, "Consultant Zhang, you're the best."

Zhang Wei responded with a smile and then walked over to chat with He Fanny.

Everyone walked out of the classroom and went straight to the grass field outside to get firewood for a barbecue.

Their supplies were very abundant; they had transported a whole truckload of meat alone.

Everyone gathered around the fire, roasting pork chops, chicken wings, chicken legs, and so on, eating very happily.

Hu Xin frowned and said, "Don't get too relaxed."

Jin Maiji hurriedly handed over a chicken leg and said, "Sir, you join us too."

Hu Xin took the chicken leg, ate until his mouth was oily, and muttered, "Don't let it happen again."

Then he picked up a plate of roasted food and walked toward his room.

The others didn't pay any mind and just gathered there chatting.

To liven up the atmosphere, Chen Hui smiled and said, "Luckily we still have this fire, otherwise if we ran into a ghost, we wouldn't know what to do, right?"

The jinx Lin Yulian immediately said, "Hey, don't talk about ghosts at night. It's best not to even mention the word 'ghost'. If you talk about ghosts, it's very easy to run into one. It's late at night, and of all things to talk about, you have to talk about ghosts. What's so good about talking about ghosts?"

A group of people opposite her stared at her. Lin Yulian whispered, "What kind of ghost are you looking at?"

Chen Hui looked at Zhang Wei and asked, "Consultant Zhang, have you really seen a ghost?"

Jin Maiji immediately said, "Of course, I've even seen a vampire."

Dai Bobo said, "We don't understand any of this. I really don't know why they called us here?"

Chen Meijun smiled and said, "I'm a professional too. My grandfather and my father have both done this."

"When I came this time, my grandfather even gave me a notebook with some of the things he had seen and heard recorded in it."

Chen Meijun took out a notebook and said, "It records things like zombies and ghosts."

Dai Bobo hurriedly asked, "Zombies? They're different from vampires, right?"

Chen Meijun immediately said, "Of course they're different. It's written here that if you're bitten by a zombie, you'll turn into a walking corpse, and if you're bitten by a vampire, you'll turn into a vampire."

"But if the poison isn't deep, you'll be half-human and half-corpse. If it's the night of a full moon, you won't be able to help but undergo a corpse transformation, howling like a ghost and wailing like a wolf."

Meng Chao, with his back to the crowd, sat on a stool, feeling very anxious in his heart. He felt the dry heat inside his body.

Just as the full moon appeared, he felt his mouth itching. Immediately after, his hands and feet became uncontrollable, and finally, he tilted his head back and howled like a ghost and wailed like a wolf.

"Awoooo!"

Meng Chao howled at the full moon behind them. Dai Bobo, Lin Yulian, and the other women were scared into screaming.

Just then, dark clouds covered the full moon. Meng Chao's canine teeth disappeared, and he regained his sanity.

Jin Maiji stood up and cursed, "Meng Chao, you bastard, you're even trying to scare your own people!"

"Ah!"

At this moment, a scream came from Hu Xin's room. Chen Hui said in surprise, "Screaming so miserably, did he run into a ghost?"

Zhang Wei took out an eight trigram mirror to look, shook his head, and said, "Impossible, the formation has no reaction. Ah Hui, you go take a look."

Chen Hui immediately stood up to investigate.

Seeing that the fire in the fire pit wasn't strong enough, and thinking about how well she got along with everyone, Lin Yulian stood up and said, "Meng Chao, come with me to pick up some dry firewood."

Meng Chao said with a bitter face, "Ah, why is it me?"

Jin Maiji slapped him and said, "Who told you to scare people? Hurry up and go."

Meng Chao then followed Lin Yulian to the nearby woods to pick up firewood.

Chen Hui, who had gone to look for Hu Xin, heard Hu Xin discussing with two others about pretending to be ghosts to scare people.

He immediately ran back and said, "Everyone, I just heard Sir Hu telling people to come and scare us."

Lin Jiajun laughed and said, "Then we must give them a good lesson."

Jin Maiji laughed and said, "I'll go prepare some things, hehehe."

Chen Hui looked at Zhang Wei and asked, "Consultant Zhang, what about you?"

Zhang Wei laughed and said, "I'm fine with whatever you guys do."

Soon, they prepared a bit, then gathered in front of the campfire, pretending to chat.

Meanwhile, Da She Ming, who was disguised as a vampire, snuck around in the shadows, preparing to find an opportunity to scare people.

And another lackey, Majai Qiang, who was also disguised as a vampire, arrived at the small woods, preparing to scare Lin Yulian and Meng Chao.

Majai Qiang didn't scare Meng Chao, but was instead given a fright by Meng Chao, who had undergone a corpse transformation after being exposed to moonlight; he ran blindly into the camp's air-raid shelter.

Inside this air-raid shelter, there was a passage that happened to lead to an ancient Ming Dynasty tomb, which contained two female corpses.

These two female corpses had been awakened by the foreigners; they were still very weak at the time and only used a glamour technique to deceive the foreigners.

Afterwards, they learned in the foreigners' camp and realized that it was no longer the Ming Dynasty.

After understanding enough, the two of them killed quite a few foreigners and recovered a good amount of their strength.

When Meng Chao entered the air-raid shelter, he ran into a female ghost wearing modern clothing.

The female ghost tricked Meng Chao into coming into her coffin room; only then did Meng Chao suddenly wake up to reality, and when he turned his head, he saw the murdered Majai Qiang.

Fortunately, moonlight shone in, and Meng Chao began to undergo corpse transformation again, so the female ghost let Meng Chao go.

Meng Chao looked at the two coffins and said with a bitter face, "Two coffins, now only you are here, so where did the other one go... went out..."

The female ghost smiled triumphantly.

Meng Chao hurriedly said, "Then I'll go trick those people into coming in right now."

Having said that, he turned and left, muttering, "It's over, I'm dead for sure."

On the other side, Da She Ming, who was disguised as a vampire, was given a hard time by Jin Maiji and Chen Hui and the others.

Fortunately, Hu Xin stepped in just in time to protect Da She Ming.

Jin Maiji asked in confusion, "Sir, do you really believe he is She Zai Ming's twin brother?"

Hu Xin said as a matter of course, "What else? You saw She Zai Ming turn into ash with your own eyes."

Seeing that Jin Maiji had nothing to say, he turned his head to look at Chen Hui and said, "Little Flat-top, hurry up and clean up."

Chen Hui acted like a fool and said, "I am not Little Flat-top, I am Little Flat-top's twin brother, Little Pointy-top."

Hu Xin was so angry he slapped him: "Damn it, are you playing with me?"

Chen Hui hurriedly covered his head and went to clean up the campfire.

Lin Yulian, who had been scared unconscious by Meng Chao, had already woken up; she hurriedly ran back and shouted, "It's bad, Meng Chao has undergone corpse transformation!"

Jin Maiji said in disbelief, "No way, when was he bitten?"

Zhang Wei was also a bit surprised and said, "I'm afraid it was when he was with that Senior Sister Lin; he hasn't had any abnormalities these past two days."

"No, he just came into contact with moonlight and underwent corpse transformation!"

Jin Maiji said with lingering fear, "Damn, so he wasn't just trying to scare us earlier."

Zhang Wei immediately said, "We must find Meng Chao immediately."

The next second, Zhang Wei felt the Eight Trigrams Mirror in his pocket get hot; he hurriedly took it out to look and discovered the Eight Trigrams Mirror was flashing.

His expression changed, and he said, "Wait a moment, don't go look for Meng Chao; there is a ghost nearby, everyone don't scatter."

As he spoke, he immediately took a pile of protective talismans from his bosom and gave one to everyone present.

Da She Ming hurriedly said, "My little brother Majai Qiang is also missing."

Zhang Wei frowned and said, "You guys stay in the camp, I'll go look for him. Little Chen, you are more knowledgeable; if you encounter the ghost, hold on for a bit until I return."

As he spoke, he took out the peach wood sword that Zhong Fabai had given him, along with a dozen talismans, and handed them to Chen Meijun.

Afterwards, Zhang Wei held the Eight Trigrams Mirror and went off to search for Majai Qiang.

Hu Xin had no choice but to say, "Everyone go back to the dorms, prepare yourselves, get some rest early, and stay alert tonight."

Having said that, Hu Xin returned to his own dorm first.

He Fenni, Dai Bobo, and the other women also returned to their dorms.

Lin Yulian picked up a towel and said, "I just fainted in the woods and don't know what I got on me; it's very itchy now, I'm going to go wash my hair first."

Afterwards, Lin Yulian arrived at the shower room to wash her hair.

She turned on the faucet, but there was no water inside, so she had to pick up a water scoop to scoop water from the pool next to it.

Just as she wetted her hair, the sound of flowing water came from behind, which made Lin Yulian's heart tighten.

She hurriedly grabbed her hair and pulled it up, then picked up the shampoo bottle, went to the shower room, and pulled back the curtain to check one by one.

But nothing happened.

Just as she relaxed, a hand rested on her shoulder.

"Ah!"

"What are you doing?"

Lin Yulian looked closely and saw it was Chen Meijun, who handed her a protective talisman and said, "You forgot to take your protective talisman."

Lin Yulian said irritably, "You almost scared me to death."

Chen Meijun laughed and said, "Don't worry, call me if anything happens."

Seeing Chen Meijun leave, Lin Yulian casually put the protective talisman to the side and began to wash her hair.

But before two seconds had passed, she heard a "gurgle gurgle" sound; she stood up and looked around carefully, but didn't find anything unusual, so she began to wash her hair again.

Little did she know, a red-clothed fierce ghost was in the pool, intentionally making noise to try and scare Lin Yulian.

As she was washing her hair, she accidentally got foam in her eyes, so she reached out to grab the water ladle, but ended up knocking it into the water basin.

She fumbled around for a while, but couldn't find the ladle, so, feeling somewhat impatient, she simply reached into the water basin to rinse her eyes.

"Ah!"

Zhang Wei arrived at the small woods where Lin Yulian had previously gathered firewood; he took out his compass and saw the needle pointing in the direction of the air-raid shelter.

He immediately followed the direction of the compass needle and soon arrived at the entrance of the air-raid shelter.

Zhang Wei looked closely and saw that the air-raid shelter was filled with Yin energy, and the stench of a corpse was blowing out along with the cold, ghostly wind.

He thought to himself: This might be a ghost nest, and Meng Chao could be inside.

Holding the compass in one hand and the Eight Trigrams Mirror in the other, he walked into the air-raid shelter.

After only a few steps, he heard footsteps coming from inside the shelter and hurried forward.

Meng Chao was anxious about the female ghost that had already gone out and was paying no attention to his surroundings; as he passed an intersection, he was kicked by the approaching Zhang Wei.

"Ouch, who's there?"

Zhang Wei said in surprise: "Meng Chao?"

Meng Chao looked up and hurriedly said: "Zhang sir, why did you kick me?"

Zhang Wei coughed and said: "That Lin Yulian said you had turned into a zombie."

Meng Chao immediately said: "Zhang sir, we're done for; there is a female ghost in here, and another female ghost has already entered the camp."

Zhang Wei was greatly alarmed; he immediately took out a Ghost-Repelling Talisman, stuck it on the wall, and said: "Why aren't we leaving yet?"

The two of them immediately ran out of the air-raid shelter, and the compass needle began to change, turning toward the camp.

Zhang Wei left Meng Chao behind and rushed into the camp alone, hearing Lin Yulian's scream coming from the direction of the shower room.

"Not good, something is going to happen!"

Zhang Wei felt a sense of foreboding and hurriedly ran toward the shower room.

(End of chapter)