Chapter 57: Detained!

In the end, Luo Suyi and the others still obediently followed Chen Shoushan into the Caesar Hotel; the headquarters' deterrent over them still existed.

What, what is this past?

Luo Suyi looked at this terrifying corridor on the second floor, with broken corpses scattered everywhere and floating heads; for someone like him, a spoiled rich kid who just goes through the motions, it was literally hell!

Chen Shoushan glanced around; based on earlier intel, Guo Fan should be on the second floor, but now there is no sign of Guo Fan's corpse or spirit tablet, indicating that Guo Fan was likely taken away by Li Jun and another.

Let's go!

Looking at the horrifying scene before him, Chen Shoushan said calmly.

Wait, just going in like this, won't we be... what is this?

Huang Fei was about to refuse, but he was astonished to find that the surrounding environment began to fluctuate unbelievably.

It wasn't the environment fluctuating; rather, Chen Shoushan used confusion in the corridor, causing the light to become somewhat disordered, making it look as if the environment itself were fluctuating.

Is this his ability? What is the effect?

Luo Suyi muttered to himself silently.

Soon the corridor changed: some floating heads on the ceiling suddenly dropped, smashing into the scattered corpses on the floor, then slowly floated back up; as one side floated up, the other side dropped again, repeating...

Moreover, the ghost ropes changed, as if countless nonexistent people had triggered their killing pattern; their numbers began to multiply, and they started to strangle nearby heads and somewhat larger corpse chunks.

At that moment the corridor resembled a demonic frenzy, with rotting heads floating up and down and tangled broken grass ropes hanging thickly in the air, leaving the trio behind stunned.

Chen Shoushan stepped into the corridor first; logically, the moment he entered, he should have been attacked by the ghost ropes or the head balloons.

But the result was that, whether the floating rotting heads or the tattered grass ropes, they seemed not to notice Chen Shoushan at all, and any heads or ghost ropes near him unconsciously drifted away.

What a joke! This is the strength of a person casually picked out by headquarters—terrifying indeed!

Luo Suyi looked at Chen Shoushan's back and said, shocked.

If only the three of us tried to walk through this terrifying corridor alive, even without losing troops we would surely have to pay a huge price, certainly not as easy as Chen Shoushan makes it look.

What now?

Huang Fei nervously asked Luo Suyi, now that Chen Shoushan isn't with us, sneaking away isn't impossible.

Lin Luomei also looked at Luo Suyi; although a woman's sixth sense told her following Chen Shoushan would be harmless, they were nevertheless a team, and if Luo Suyi decided to leave, Lin Luomei would not objection.

Follow him!

Gritting his teeth, Luo Suyi said directly.

Saying this, Luo Suyi stepped forward first; the spirit he commanded was the best at self-preservation among the trio, and as team leader he naturally took the lead—this is also why Huang Fei and Lin Luomei trust him absolutely.

When Luo Suyi cautiously entered the corridor and confirmed that the surrounding spirits were not attacking him, he then waved at the two behind him to signal safety.

Their small movements were naturally noticed by Chen Shoushan; otherwise, Luo Suyi and the others would have been affected by the confusion, which naturally was due to Chen Shoushan's care.

Seeing that Luo Suyi was unharmed, the other two also relaxed and followed him inside.

Luo Suyi led the two, carefully dodging the corpses on the ground while jogging toward Chen Shoushan's direction.

Chen Shoushan, meanwhile, didn't focus much on them; instead he carefully examined the floating grass ropes around him, knowing that the source ghost of the ghost ropes had been detained by Yang Jian, so the true ghost ropes were wrapped in gold paper.

Soon Chen Shoushan found that special grass rope among the heap of ghost ropes, hidden among the many heads and ghost ropes; without his keen insight, it would hardly have been noticeable.

Chen Shoushan took out his revolver, fired a shot toward the ghost rope; whether it hit or not didn't matter, as long as the intention was there.

Bribery—Weaken!

The weakening after Sequence Five's enhancement is naturally not comparable to that of a Sequence Six Corrupted Baron; when dealing with ghost ropes, which are not highly terrifying anomalies, it can even be used as suppression.

Bang!

The sudden gunshot made the trio jump, thinking they had triggered some strange killing rule.

But soon they saw Chen Shoushan holding the gun, realizing it wasn't any killing rule at all, and they exchanged embarrassed glances.

Meanwhile, the ghost ropes filling the sky vanished one by one in an eerie fashion after the gunshot, leaving only a single ghost rope falling straight down from the air—this was the source ghost of the ghost ropes!

This...

The trio was shocked again; when did dealing with spirits become this easy—just one shot and it's over?

Of course Luo Suyi quickly realized it wasn't the gun but Chen Shoushan's ability; perhaps he had commanded a second ghost? Although Luo Suyi had seen Ghost Masters who commanded a second ghost, nobody besides Ye Zhen had ever seemed as effortless as Chen Shoushan.

What a joke—if a mere headquarters official is this strong, then how powerful must the legendary Yang Jian, who supposedly resolved an S‑grade anomaly, and Fang Shiming, who is famed alongside the great Ye Zhen, be?

Although Ye Zhen does not acknowledge that Fang Shiming can be compared to him, the fact that someone dares to spread such talk, and that Fang Shiming has survived countless troubles caused by Ye Zhen, proves his strength is not as weak as Ye Zhen claims.

Chen Shoushan walked over to the ghost rope, picked it up, rewrapped the gold paper around it, and just like that the terrifying anomaly was resolved.

Gazing at the constantly floating and sinking rotting heads around him, Chen Shoushan guessed that the source ghost of the head balloons must also be among them; all head balloons outside ZS City had already been wiped out by Li Jun, so if they weren't outside, they must be inside.

The attorney's discernment ability is no joke—three parts observation, seven parts intuition—and soon Chen Shoushan locked onto a rotted head whose original appearance was unrecognizable.

It looked no different from the other heads as it bobbed up and down, but, sorry, this is intuition from the attorney's extraordinary path; moreover, Chen Shoushan isn't a true Ghost Master, so if he's wrong, he's wrong—no loss either way.

Raise the gun, aim not, fire!

Bang!

The gunshot rang out again, and then all the heads fell silent, frozen in place, as if a pause button had been pressed.

Chen Shoushan frowned at the nearby heads; it seemed his guess was correct, but it appeared he hadn't fully suppressed the head balloons.

Luo Suyi, come here a moment.

... Oh!

Luo Suyi didn't hesitate much and obediently walked over.

If I remember correctly, your commanded ghost can suppress ghosts, right?

In the original story, it was indeed Luo Suyi who, together with Yang Jian and Feng Quan, suppressed the newspaper ghost, so Chen Shoushan asked that.

It should be possible.

Luo Suyi thought it over but still didn't dare to lie, and he didn't dare ask how Chen Shoushan knew.

All right, go and detain that head.

Chen Shoushan pointed to the source ghost hidden inside the head and said with a smile.

Luo Suyi gave an embarrassed laugh and said, "Ah? Would I not be able to if I go?"

Chen Shoushan glanced at the two people behind Luo Suyi, smiling and said, "Of course you can; I don't like forcing others."

……

Looking at Chen Shoushan's gentle smile, Luo Suyi, whose scalp felt numb, decisively spoke up again: "I feel I can still give it a try..."

If he didn't speak up, Luo Suyi felt that the heads of the three of them would, in the next second, join those floating heads.

Moreover, for some unknown reason, Luo Suyi and the others seemed never to have entertained the idea of dealing with Chen Shoushan, even though they were three against his one.

This is the dignity of the Chaos Instructor, which makes people subconsciously regard the Chaos Instructor as unbeatable and not give rise to the thought of opposing him.

(End of chapter)