Chapter 65: Even the Newspaper Ghost is imprisoned?

In the original work, the headless ghost shadow that Yang Jian controlled was actually one of the supernatural entities controlled by Li Qingzhi; by using the ghost shadow together with the Ghost Firewood Knife, not only can one skip the tedious step of stepping on footprints, but also after using the Ghost Firewood Knife, one can use the ghost shadow to reassemble one's own body.

The cost of using the Ghost Firewood Knife is divided into two situations.

The first is, when directly using the firewood knife to dismember an enemy, the user's body also suffers the same injury, and the wound will gradually rot, making it difficult to recover.

The second is, like the Firewood Knife Ghost, by stepping on footprints to dismember enemies while ignoring spatial distance, not only the user's body, but also the ghost that the user controls will be dismembered.

In short, there is no free lunch in the world.

Chen Shoushan weighed the Ghost Firewood Knife in his hand, nodded in satisfaction; although it looks a bit ugly, this ability is really not bad, it's a decent supernatural item.

As for the side effects of using the Ghost Firewood Knife, Chen Shoushan isn't particularly worried; as an Extraordinary Person on the lawyer's path, he can use distortion, weakening, and the barbarians' resistance to reduce or even eliminate the side effects after using the Ghost Firewood Knife.

Weakening isn't only usable for suppression…… weakening one's own injuries is also allowed by the rules.

Chen Shoushan picked up the Ghost Firewood Knife, went to the Firewood Knife Ghost's side and pulled the Ghost Rope off, then returned to the crowd; thus the Ghost Firewood Knife became Chen Shoushan's supernatural item, and everyone present saw no problem with it, as a matter of course.

"How should we deal with this ghost?"

Li Leping looked at the corpse tightly wrapped in blood lines and asked Chen Shoushan.

"Just throw it in the hotel; then we can seal the Caesar Hotel and it'll be fine."

Chen Shoushan wrapped the Ghost Rope around the handle of the Ghost Firewood Knife, at the same time reaching out to take the Ghost Candle that Lin Luomei had just been holding, and said lightly.

The Caesar Hotel holds countless supernatural beings; the Ghost Firewood Knife was taken by itself, but the supernatural beings in the Caesar Hotel still need the Firewood Knife Ghost to keep watch, right?

It's just a ghost; imprisoning it anywhere is still imprisonment—it's merely the difference between a hotel and a golden coffin, there's no need to take risks.

No one objected; even Li Jun, whose sense of responsibility was off the charts, didn't step forward to insist on imprisoning the Firewood Knife Ghost—if those at headquarters who knew Li Jun saw this, they'd probably stare wide-eyed.

Chen Shoushan was about to lead everyone forward when he noticed Tong Qian's position moving toward him.

His brows slightly furrowed; Chen Shoushan had just been attending to the Firewood Knife Ghost and really had no spare attention for Tong Qian's position.

Seeing Chen Shoushan suddenly stop, Li Jun, while on guard, asked: "What's wrong, any situation?"

Everyone also subconsciously gazed at the surrounding ghost mist, fearing another ghost would pop out.

"Wait a moment!"

Chen Shoushan calmly gazed at the ghost mist ahead and softly said.

After advancing to Chaos Instructor, Chen Shoushan could already preliminarily sense the emotions of the connected ones.

From the emotions transmitted from Tong Qian, there was excitement, tension, and some anxiety.

After waiting a while with no movement at all, everyone looked at Chen Shoushan somewhat puzzled, but seeing him still standing silently in place, they all gave up.

Finally, everyone faintly heard some scattered footsteps and instinctively went on alert.

However, a dark green light shot out first from the ghost mist, shining on everyone.

"…"

This dark green light was very familiar to everyone present, because the Ghost Candle held by Chen Shoushan was emitting the same light.

Yang Jian pulled Xiong Wenwen with one hand and dragged a faceless soldier's corpse with the other, while Tong Qian walked last, holding a red Ghost Candle.

"Hey! It's Li Jun and them! I said it, Xiong Dad, I'm this important, headquarters will definitely find a way to save me!"

Seeing Chen Shoushan and the others, Yang Jian and his three companions were stunned for a moment; then Xiong Wenwen's eyes lit up, and she smugly said to Yang Jian beside her.

"Um, Xiong Wenwen, as long as you're okay."

Li Jun, hearing Xiong Wenwen's excited voice, felt a bit embarrassed; the task given by headquarters in the rush seemed to have no part concerning Xiong Wenwen…

"Yang Jian, is this the Newspaper Ghost?"

Chen Shoushan looked at the soldier's corpse that Yang Jian was dragging and asked with interest.

Yang Jian couldn't possibly be dragging a useless corpse around; moreover, the corpse's surface was covered with a dark shadow—that was the headless ghost shadow that Yang Jian controlled.

"It should be correct; it can move freely in the ghost mist and can attack us with Ghost Newspaper, so it must be it."

His gaze swept over the Firewood Knife Ghost tangled in blood lines on the ground, then saw Chen Shoushan's Ghost Firewood Knife, and Yang Jian spoke offhandedly.

Yang Jian's heart was far from calm—what a joke! The Firewood Knife Ghost that had been chasing him everywhere was actually dealt with by Chen Shoushan, and even the Ghost Firewood Knife was taken…

At the same time, Yang Jian also saw Luo Su holding a rotten human head in one hand, the Ghost Rope wrapped around the Ghost Firewood Knife…… Chen Shoushan is terrifying beyond belief!!

Under the influence of the Chaos Instructor, Yang Jian subconsciously overlooked others' contributions and subconsciously credited all the merit to Chen Shoushan.

"Feng Quan, where is he?"

Li Jun glanced at Yang Jian's three companions, didn't see Feng Quan, and anxiously asked.

After all, looking at the thick fog filling the corridor, one can tell Feng Quan's condition is certainly not good.

"He should be in a not‑far‑away room; when we encountered the Newspaper Ghost in the corridor, we heard his cry for help, but Yang Jian disagreed with rashly entering, saying we must first find Chen Shoushan."

Tong Qian glanced at Yang Jian with some dissatisfaction and said, her tone inevitably carrying the implication of complaining to Chen Shoushan.

Yang Jian then spoke with a hint of sarcasm: "Go in? Use your ghost smile to make Feng Quan laugh?"

Back then they had no way to suppress Feng Quan's recovery; what would going in achieve? Just look at his miserable state? Then use words to urge him to persevere?

"Let's go first; if we drag it out, Feng Quan might really be beyond saving."

Chen Shoushan said with a laugh; sure enough, as soon as he spoke, Yang Jian and Tong Qian silently closed their mouths.

Saying this, Chen Shoushan first blew out the Ghost Candle in his hand; having two Ghost Candles burning at once is obviously wasteful, so using Yang Jian's one is enough.

Yang Jian looked at the little remaining Ghost Candle in his hand, then at Chen Shoushan's, which still had more than half left; he didn't dare to speak, and led everyone back toward the place where they had encountered the Newspaper Ghost.

"Did you encounter the Newspaper Ghost in the corridor? Or did the Newspaper Ghost actively attack you?"

Chen Shoushan looked at the Newspaper Ghost being dragged on the ground, and to be safe added his own weakening to prevent it from suddenly erupting midway.

Tong Qian, hearing Chen Shoushan's question, hurriedly replied: "That's right, but Xiong Wenwen had foreseen that the Newspaper Ghost would attack us, so Yang Jian then led us to take the initiative."

Chen Shoushan nodded thoughtfully, strange— the Newspaper Ghost should have already entered; I wasted so much time outside and on the second‑floor corridor, yet during that long period the Newspaper Ghost never once attacked Tong Qian.

Looking at this Newspaper Ghost that had been dragging in the ghost mist for a long time without dissipating, Chen Shoushan also confirmed it was indeed a ghost, and Yang Jian had said the Newspaper Ghost had used Ghost Newspaper to attack them.

But Yang Jian and company should have had their Ghost Candles lit at the time; even if they couldn't imprison the Newspaper Ghost, the possibility of their memories being altered is also very low.

(End of chapter)