Chapter 155: Riding the Spirit Child

Although Meng Xiaodong, who lost the hard clash with Zhang Hao, has entered a temporary dead‑machine state because of the Ghostly Servant's Mindless Suppression.

But at this moment, Meng Xiaodong still carries a considerable amount of Ghost Power; an ordinary person or a weak Ghost Tamer who encounters it would die.

However, that does not come from Meng Xiaodong's own Ghost Power, but from the Ghost Power of the red bed beneath Meng Xiaodong's body.

Zhang Hao stepped forward and lifted Meng Xiaodong's corpse in one hand.

As he touched Meng Xiaodong's body, an inexplicable Ghost Power emerged from the red bed below.

It seemed the bed exerted a pulling force, trying to drag Zhang Hao onto it and pin him there, rendering him immobile.

Fortunately, given Zhang Hao's current magnitude, the red bed could not easily pull him.

After a brief resistance, Zhang Hao quickly lifted Meng Xiaodong's corpse and swallowed it completely.

Having swallowed Meng Xiaodong's essence, Zhang Hao sensed a significant boost to his own condition.

The speed of Infinite Invasion accelerated, and now he could not only exist within his own memories but also seem to emerge from others' memories.

"Given the current situation, as long as someone recalls my image, I can directly invade them."

"And it seems to go further: as long as that person still remembers me, I can forcibly affect their memory and thus actively invade."

Zhang Hao lifted his head; this change greatly enhanced his survivability and derivative speed.

However, in the short term, Zhang Hao has not conceived a stronger development method, because he has already learned most of the techniques that the ghost controlling Meng Xiaodong employed.

Even if the two ghosts complement each other like a puzzle, it merely speeds up Zhang Hao's invasive replacement.

"Unless I can invade the future."

Zhang Hao fell into contemplation; given his current state, invading the future did not seem impossible.

He has already layered all his past selves onto himself, and his future self will surely retain this condition.

"The problem is, how can I find the medium that will overlay the present me onto the future, so that when the future has not yet let me invade the past, I can achieve a reverse invasion of the future?"

Zhang Hao unfolded the Ghost Domain; within it, black‑and‑white images flickered by like strips of film.

Yet the end of these film images always corresponded to the time point where Zhang Hao stood.

"Precognition is still required!"

Zhang Hao lifted his head and looked toward the distant city.

When he arrived at Dachuan City, a duplicate had already gone to Dachang City to look for Yang Jian, but it had not found him yet.

Perhaps the Human Skin Paper sensed the danger and helped Yang Jian hide, or perhaps after escaping, Yang Jian did not return to Dachang City but went elsewhere.

"Besides the Human Skin Paper, Xiong Wenwen, who has Precognition Ability, also counts as one."

"And Qin Lao, the island nation's projector, also possesses a similar precognitive ability."

Qin Lao's whereabouts are easy to locate—basically in Dajing City—but Zhang Hao does not wish to act against Qin Lao.

If possible, he would rather see Qin Lao die completely inside that Gold Statue.

Because this is a trap set for Qin Lao back when the past had not yet opposed him.

Even though that old man is now on the verge of Fierce Ghost revival, it is better not to touch him before he completely perishes.

Even if Zhang Hao possesses the ability to seal the past, he is uncertain whether he can fully block all messages Qin Lao sends to the past.

"Abandoning Qin Lao leaves only Xiong Wenwen and the island nation's projector."

"But compared with the island nation's projector, Xiong Wenwen's Ghost Power aligns better with me."

Xiong Wenwen's Ghost Power is future Precognition, allowing her to forecast and extrapolate events that will happen in the short term.

If later he obtains the Human Skin Paper and combines it with Xiong Wenwen's precognitive extrapolation, it might aid him when leaving this world.

"According to what happened before, when Xiong Wenwen met me, she used a Ghost Camera to seal herself inside a Photo."

"But later Qin Lao restricted me and my lady, taking that Photo away."

"But the Ghost Spirit Tablet has already been mastered by me, so although Xiong Wenwen has not revived, she should be at the Dajing City Headquarters, the place used to imprison Fierce Ghosts."

Zhang Hao removed the red bed and the red cloth on it; although he wanted to go straight to Dajing City, he now needs to bring these items back, so he will leave the matter to other entities.

As Zhang Hao finished these thoughts, another city.

A man in Funeral Clothes walking through the Wilderness looked up.

"Going to Dajing City to find Xiong Wenwen?"

"Alright, Yang Jian has Human Skin Paper assistance, but it's temporarily unavailable, so first find the Precognitive Ghost Power, then use Precognition to locate the Human Skin Paper."

"Moreover, Xiong Wenwen's Precognition may grant me the ability for the Black and White Ghost Domain images to generate subsequent film images, which is indeed more important."

Another Zhang Hao heading elsewhere received the news and changed his direction.

By using the Ghost Domain, after only a moment, he arrived at Dajing City.

At this time, Dajing City, due to the captains' failure, could still barely maintain calm under official arrangements.

But a close observation of the Ghost Tamers' actions reveals that Dajing City now shows subtle signs of losing control.

However, at this moment, whether at Headquarters or among the Ghost Tamers, everyone suddenly turned pale.

"What's happening?"

Several people shouted in terror, even though nothing abnormal was occurring in the city.

But suddenly at a certain moment, the Ghost Tamers in Dajing City felt the Fierce Ghost inside their bodies fall into silence.

Logically, for a Ghost Tamer, a silent Fierce Ghost is a good thing, since they no longer endure its erosion.

Yet this sudden occurrence is clearly abnormal, as they had never deliberately suppressed their own Fierce Ghosts before.

"Hey, Lao Liu, how's the situation over there?"

"The Fierce Ghost inside my body suddenly fell silent, so I'm asking about your side."

Many Ghost Tamers at this moment took out their phones and began contacting fellow Ghost Tamers they knew.

However, at this time, they all received the same.

The others' Fierce Ghosts also entered a silent state; the Ghost Power's erosion of their bodies suddenly ceased, but now they cannot use Ghost Power.

"Has anyone in Dajing City spotted any abnormal figures?"

Cao Yanhua, as Deputy Minister of the Ghost Controller Headquarters, was the first to receive this message.

At this moment he stood before the screen, continuously assigning people to investigate the situation in Dajing City.

All Ghost Tamers within Dajing City's jurisdiction suddenly experienced a Ghost Dead Machine; this cannot be ignored, as some unknown Fierce Ghost may have invaded this place.

"This situation is very similar to the effect brought by a Ghostly Servant."

At that moment, a Ghost Tamer stood inside the conference room.

"A Ghostly Servant can Unsolved Suppression the Fierce Ghosts inside a Ghost Tamer's body; now all the ghosts inside every Ghost Tamer cannot act, and I suspect it was likely done by a Fierce Ghost similar to a Ghostly Servant."

This Ghost Tamer is named Lin Long, an early Ghost Tamer who is now a reserve captain.

"That's impossible; the Ghostly Servant has already been commanded by the White Evil of the Red and White Double Evil," Cao Yanhua shook his head.

"Although the White Evil is intelligent and does not kill indiscriminately, judging from its confrontation with our Headquarters, if that ghost truly entered Dajing City, it would certainly attack others."

Hearing that, Lin Long couldn't help but feel helpless, his inner resentment flaring.

The White Evil indeed, because of its intelligence, does not kill casually.

But likewise, each time the White Evil kills, the number of deaths is incalculable.

Besides knowing that many have died, Headquarters so far cannot determine how many died at the hands of the White Evil.

Of course, this also relates to the White Evil's Black and White Ghost Domain.

Those killed by it are forgotten by everyone else; only a small portion who die by other supernatural beings are recorded by Headquarters.

"I never said that what came must be a Ghostly Servant."

"I only said that the current situation is very similar to the original Ghostly Servant case," Lin Long said at this moment.

"You mean…" Cao Yanhua seemed to recall something, his face growing heavy.

"The ghost appearing in Dajing City could very well be a Puzzle of the Ghostly Servant?"

"I'm not certain; after all, it's all just speculation," Lin Long waved his hand.

"However, speculating now holds little meaning; the priority is to quickly locate the source of the anomaly in Dajing City."

"Although this situation currently offers some advantages to Ghost Tamers, behind those benefits surely lurks an even more dangerous crisis."

Lin Long's words reminded Cao Yanhua, and he also snapped back; now is not the time to speculate on the Fierce Ghost's origin.

Resolving Dajing City's trouble is what Headquarters most needs to do now.

As orders were issued one after another, Dajing City became swarmed with people, who began inspecting along each Road, even the sewers were no exception.

Meanwhile, Zhang Hao had already arrived at the Ghost Controller Headquarters' place used to imprison Fierce Ghosts.

Having been here many times, Zhang Hao is already very familiar with the Basement where the Headquarters detains Fierce Ghosts.

"Who are you?" Suddenly, at that moment, someone discovered Zhang Hao, apparently a Ghost Tamer responsible for guarding Dajing City.

However, at that moment, looking at the other, his body only seemed colder, without emitting any supernatural aura.

But that is perfectly normal.

Because Zhang Hao has layered all versions of himself from different periods onto his own body.

This causes Zhang Hao to be constantly filled with countless Suppression Quotas.

"Where is Xiong Wenwen's Photo placed?"

Zhang Hao looked at the other; the face painted with a Crying Face showed no change, only a cold voice came from beneath the Face-Covering Cloth.

"W‑what do you mean?"

The person, hearing these words, turned an extremely unpleasant shade.

Because according to the information he received, all Fierce Ghosts inside Ghost Tamers in Dajing City have been suppressed.

In this situation, Ghost Tamers can to some extent restore the emotions of the living.

Yet the person before him, though able to speak, gave him the feeling of confronting a terrifying Fierce Ghost.

The other's tone lacked any emotion, his body exuded a chilling aura, and just looking at him felt eerie.

It seemed that staring at him for a long time might cause some unimaginable danger to oneself.

"Answer my question!"

Looking up, beneath the ghastly white Face-Covering Cloth, a pair of milky eyes stared fixedly at the person before him.

"Fine, I'll go find it myself."

As Zhang Hao stared, the person's body turned eerily pallid; he could not speak or move.

In his consciousness, a memory not his own surfaced.

It was a stranger's memory; that person looked much like the guy before him, both colorless, wearing Funeral Clothes and a Face-Covering Cloth painted with a Crying Face.

"Wait, Face-Covering Cloth, Funeral Clothes, black and white colorless!"

The man seemed to recall something, his eyes widened, staring fixedly at the person before him, yet he could not speak.

Moreover, the scenes in his memory kept changing.

That figure dressed in ghastly white Funeral Clothes, like a White Wraith, surfaced deeper memories for him.

"Gao Ming! Is that the name of the person before me?" As the memory invaded, Zhang Hao obtained the person's name.

Gao Ming appears to be one of the three officials in charge of Dajing City.

However, this mattered little to Zhang Hao; he still delved into the invader's deeper memory.

At this moment, Gao Ming's eyes were a bit vacant; deep within his memory, that segment seemed to have become an integral part of him.

It was someone who had followed him since birth, accompanying him to school, to work, even when he fell in love, always trailing him.

Strangely, aside from Gao Ming, no one else could see this person.

Although that person had followed him since birth, he never did anything to him, as if merely observing his experiences.

As the memory approached modern times, Gao Ming became a Ghost Tamer.

Sometimes, when Gao Ming falls into danger and faces a Supernatural Incident he cannot resolve, the other side will still step in to help.

After becoming a Ghost Tamer, Gao Ming suspected that this White Impermanence-like person was a ghost, but of course when he brought the other party into the gold, he could not restrict the other's actions at all.

Thus Gao Ming simply allowed this person to follow his actions.

Then comes a more modern memory.

Until a certain moment, that White Impermanence-like figure suddenly vanished from Gao Ming's memory.

That was a memory from the period when a Ghost Painting incident occurred in Dajing City; in the memory, Gao Ming held Xiong Wenwen's Photo and placed it in a room in the Basement.

After Gao Ming left, that person also left, leaving Gao Ming feeling somewhat disappointed.

In Gao Ming's memory, this white figure had accompanied him his whole life, even longer than his parents had.

"So it was there, huh?"

Zhang Hao glanced at Gao Ming and had no intention of acting against him.

This guy seems to have delved too deeply into his own Ghost's Invasion memory, and his consciousness appears to have undergone some change.

The current Gao Ming is almost no different from Zhang Hao's Ghost Slave; the only difference is that the other still possesses intelligence.

"Then keep your life, let me observe a bit."

The Fierce Ghost that Gao Ming controls is a pair of eyes; once controlled, they cannot be opened.

Therefore Gao Ming's Ghost offers no help to Zhang Hao.

Anyway, the current Zhang Hao is not short of such a Ghost in quantity.

Zhang Hao controlled Gao Ming, had him open the Basement door, and then completely ignored Gao Ming standing still.

Stepping into the Basement, Zhang Hao quickly found the direction he wanted.

That was the Headquarters' area for storing Supernatural Artifacts.

Along the long corridor, he proceeded to the end of the Basement and entered a room.

"Bang!"

Accompanied by the sound of gold being violently smashed to create a gap, a shrill alarm rang through the entire Basement.

Zhang Hao ignored the alarm and entered the room directly using Ghost Domain.

Soon, Zhang Hao found a special Black and White Photo.

In addition to the Photo, Zhang Hao actually discovered an old camera here.

"A Ghost Camera?"

Zhang Hao lifted the camera, examined it for a while, and put it away.

His own Black and White Portrait of the Ghost Domain is presented in the form of a Photo.

This Ghost Camera can take Black and White Photos and also imprison Fierce Ghosts, perhaps it could be of some help to him.

However, for now the more important thing is to perform Ghost Control over the ghost inside Xiong Wenwen's body.

Zhang Hao picked up the Photo; in the Black and White image, one can see a terrified brat.

It seems that while taking the picture, the other saw something extremely terrifying and ultimately chose to imprison themselves using the Ghost Camera.

After examining the Ghost Camera, Zhang Hao discovered that even without using a Ghost Spirit Tablet, he could rescue Xiong Wenwen from the Ghost Camera.

The Black and White Ghost Domain can easily invade the world inside this camera.

The photos of the Ghost Camera, in essence, also belong to a kind of Ghost Domain-like thing.

However, this Ghost Domain's space is limited, fixed to a particular frame, so ordinary Ghost Domains cannot affect it.

But Zhang Hao's own Ghost Domain is already strong enough, and the Black and White Ghost Domain itself also has the ability to create photos.

The Ghost Camera's photos pose no significant barrier to him.

This situation is like a Ghost Mirror and a Mirror Ghost.

Facing a Ghost Mirror that can restrict other Fierce Ghosts and only releases them under specific conditions.

Even though a Mirror Ghost's Terror Level is not high, it can still freely enter and exit the Ghost Mirror.

And the Black and White Ghost Domain's method of rescuing Xiong Wenwen from the Ghost Camera is even simpler than using a Ghost Spirit Tablet.

The Ghost Spirit Tablet can only rescue consciousness, whereas the Ghost Camera can rescue Xiong Wenwen's entire body.

However, Zhang Hao has no intention of doing so.

After understanding the principle of how the Ghost Camera takes photos, he swallowed Xiong Wenwen's Photo in one bite.

"Perhaps I can also imprison Fierce Ghosts by learning the Ghost Camera's method."

"No, I could already turn others into photos; I just need them to see my back first."

Zhang Hao looked at the Ghost Camera, pondering how to control this thing.

He does not intend to use the Hungry Death Ghost's ability to eat it directly, but plans to supplement it with the Black and White Ghost Domain.

Directly eating it, versus supplementing it with other Fierce Ghosts, yields different enhancements.

Supplementing this Ghost Camera with the Black and White Ghost Domain will make it part of Zhang Hao's Black and White Ghost Domain, a native ability of the Ghost Domain.

If he uses the Hungry Death Ghost to eat it, he can only acquire this Supernatural ability and then combine the two Supernaturals together.