Chapter 53

At this moment, in the air above ZS City, a military helicopter was quickly approaching.

"Damn, am I still too late?"

Li Jun's face was grim as he looked at the chaos around Caesar Hotel, especially seeing the dead soldiers one by one, his eyes seeming to spit fire.

"Director Li, something seems off up ahead."

The helicopter's pilot said somewhat nervously.

Following his gaze, Li Jun then noticed that in the not‑far‑away air, countless heads were floating……

They all faced the helicopter's direction, eyes tightly shut, rotting flesh occasionally falling off, while a continuous stream of heads floated up from the ground.

At this moment they gathered above Caesar Hotel, and the heads drifting up belonged either to civilians or to soldiers.

"Really troublesome……"

Li Jun frowned and was about to use his ghost fire to burn those heads clean!

Just then a strange male voice suddenly came from nearby, startling everyone present: "Don't waste spiritual power on these ghost slaves—just land directly!"

"You……"

Li Jun hadn't finished speaking when Li Leping cut him off.

"I am Li Leping, the person in charge sent by Headquarters to assist ZS City together with you. Our mission is to resolve ZS City's newspaper‑ghost incident, or to bring out the person in charge, Chen Shoushan."

Li Leping said blandly, he had already grown used to the feeling of being invisible.

"Yes, yes, um, but when did you come up?"

"I've been here all along……"

…………

In the hotel, Yang Jian brought Xiong Wenwen to hide in Room 13, which does not exist in Caesar Hotel; this was the hiding place for Zhao Lei that the Ghost Cabinet gave Yang Jian when they traded.

In Room 13 lay numerous faceless bodies, some long dead, others still possessing a faint heartbeat.

Yang Jian moved cautiously through the crowd and finally saw a familiar body—Zhao Lei, controlled by the newspaper ghost! Zhao Lei, as expected, had his face taken; now his head held only a bloody chunk of flesh, but fortunately his heart still sent out a weak beat—he was still alive!

"What the Ghost Cabinet gave me was Zhao Lei's information, and what Zhao Lei left for me is the newspaper ghost's information!"

Yang Jian said while thinking: earlier, when Zhao Lei was under control, he had once left me the newspaper ghost's information; Room 31 of Caesar Hotel is exactly the opposite of the Ghost Cabinet's Room 13.

Yang Jian guessed that the newspaper ghost had probably originally intended to use that strange hatchet ghost to eliminate him, but he ran into Chen Shoushan, a variable, who directly told him the hatchet ghost's killing pattern, which led to the newspaper ghost's awkward situation.

It was like after finishing all the provoking, the enemy showed up at the door, while his thigh‑teammate went offline……

After figuring out the newspaper ghost's trump card, Yang Jian naturally wasn't afraid of it; the newspaper ghost might be top‑notch at stirring trouble, but once Yang Jian caught it……

"Yang Jian, what do we do now? How do we get out? The satellite phones of Feng Quan and Guo Fan haven't moved—they won't have died, right?"

Xiong Wenwen tugged at Yang Jian's sleeve, speaking worriedly.

Yang Jian said somewhat uncertainly: "No way…… After all, he's an elite Ghost Master from Headquarters—he couldn't die that easily, could he?"

By the end, Yang Jian felt a bit guilty; under the hatchet ghost's attack, even he dared not say he could guarantee survival, let alone them.

Speaking of which, Yang Jian seemed to have forgotten to tell Feng Quan and the other two about the hatchet ghost's killing pattern; at first it was deliberate, but later he really forgot…

If their footprints were stepped on by the hatchet ghost, tsk tsk, Yang Jian could only mourn them in silence—who made them oppose him at the start?

At the same time, in a certain room on the hotel's third floor, thick fog filled the air, and strangely, the mist seemed to be controlled by someone, tightly confined to the room without spreading out.

In the midst of the fog, an eerie mound appeared out of nowhere, and within the dense fog this small mound resembled a lone grave…

This was precisely the grave soil, one of the two ghosts Feng Quan commanded; at that moment Feng Quan trembled in fear, curled up in the black grave soil, having just been attacked yet unable to locate the enemy—if his body weren't entirely grave soil, he would probably have been shattered into pieces just now.

Feng Quan also paid a price; part of the ghost mist he commanded was forcibly severed, which is why the room is filled with thick fog—he has lost most of his control over the mist in the room and can barely keep it from spreading out.

In the corridor on the second floor, dismembered bodies lay scattered everywhere, bits and pieces, while the ceiling was crowded with countless heads, leaving no gap visible.

At first the sky was full of ghost ropes, but perhaps lacking a target only one remained, and now that single rope hangs Guo Fan's corpse; the corridor floor is littered with countless flesh chunks, the ceiling packed with rotting heads, and between them dangles a solitary pallid corpse long dead.

Beneath the stiff toes of the corpse stood a rectangular black spirit tablet amid the countless flesh chunks, and in the center of the tablet was affixed a black-and-white photo of Guo Fan; in the photo he still smiles, but on closer look his smile appears forced.

In a certain villa in ZS City, two men and one woman were gathered together.

"Luosuyi, we were invited by headquarters to serve as external aid; loafing around here might not be appropriate, right…"

Lin Luomei cautiously raised her cue card and asked.

"Luomei, you haven't even looked at what's outside—can people like us even get involved?"

Huang Fei asked, somewhat amused.

Luosuyi also nodded and said: "This situation is beyond our ability to participate; probably only Boss Ye Zhen himself coming personally could handle it in our supernatural forum."

"But headquarters is different; their resources aren't comparable to our forum. Rest assured, since this ghost thing caused such a commotion, headquarters definitely won't ignore it. When things are about to wrap up, we'll go out and make a show of presence."

"Besides, with Boss Ye Zhen present, headquarters wouldn't dare mess with us."

As the leader of the three-person team, Luosuyi naturally had to take responsibility for his teammates; originally, if he hadn't feared that refusing would anger headquarters into killing them all, they wouldn't have come to ZS City at all!

Finished writing, at 3:19 a. m., the Chaos Mentor won't be promoted in ZS City, because ZS City's order hasn't been completely destroyed, so there's no talk of reconstruction; the Chaos Mentor's ritual involves taking the demon potion after extreme chaos, before order is rebuilt—that is the Sequence Five extraordinary trait—and now there is no order reconstruction…

(End of chapter)