Chapter 25: Echo Localization

Pick up the Golden Box, and heavily smash it on the Ground a few times, causing the crack to widen further.

Seeing a bowl‑shaped opening appear on the Golden Box, Zhang Hao reaches in.

Soon, a piece of White Cloth is pulled out by Zhang Hao; on that White Cloth is printed the outline of a Crying Face.

"This is the Ghost Crying Face? I thought it was a face, but it turned out to be a piece of cloth."

Zhang Hao is a bit surprised; the Ghost Crying Face is not the same as he imagined.

In his imagination, the Ghost Crying Face should be a face taken off the Face‑Covering Cloth.

But in reality it is just the outline of a Crying Face printed on the Face‑Covering Cloth.

"Bride, come help me a moment."

Zhang Hao removes the Face‑Covering Cloth, walks up to the ghost bride and takes her hand.

Although Zhang Hao is wearing Ghost Mourning Clothes and possesses half of a Ghost Seeking Kin's Ghost Power, he is not sure whether he can remain the primary state while completing the Ghost Crying Face.

If it were a true Fierce Ghost, there would be no need to worry about this.

After all, Fierce Ghosts all act according to the Killing Rule; being controlled by another ghost or controlling another ghost makes no difference in a Fierce Ghost's eyes.

But Zhang Hao is different; he possesses his own wisdom.

Even though Zhang Hao does not mind that his consciousness is controlled by a Fierce Ghost.

But if he is driven by the Ghost Crying Face, he cannot guarantee his thinking consciousness still exists.

Therefore Zhang Hao plans, just as when he previously controlled the Ghost Mourning Clothes, to use the bride's Ghost Power to seal the Ghost Face, confirming his consciousness as the body's controller.

Holding the ghost bride, Zhang Hao finally puts the Face‑Covering Cloth on his head.

The Face‑Covering Cloth, as soon as it contacts Zhang Hao's head, immediately begins to writhe.

What was originally just a face‑covering cloth the size of a handkerchief keeps extending, folding over Zhang Hao's head into a hood.

At the same time, within the hood, a white strip of cloth falls, briefly covering Zhang Hao's face.

At this moment, Zhang Hao's whole body is shrouded in white Funeral Clothes, and apart from his pallid hands, no part is exposed to the air.

Surprisingly, with his face hidden by the Face‑Covering Cloth, Zhang Hao does not feel his gaze being obstructed.

His eyes seem able to see everything outside through the Crying Face printed on the Face‑Covering Cloth.

In fact, at this moment, that Crying Face is indistinguishable from his own face.

Not sure how long has passed, but the Ghost Face and Ghost Mourning Clothes seem to have fully merged into a ghost, and Zhang Hao's body regains normal mobility.

"Is this the bride's perspective of the outside world?"

Having regained control of his body, Zhang Hao feels this somewhat strange yet unobstructed perspective, finding it novel.

The ghost bride is also covered by a Red Cap, but from his current condition, the Red Cap does not affect vision.

At the same time, Zhang Hao can clearly sense his Terror Level continuously rising.

As Zhang Hao's emotions shift, an eerie Fierce Ghost's wail echoes through the empty second floor.

And after the wail appears, Zhang Hao also feels a very strange sensation.

"I seem able to locate everything around me through the echo of these wails."

The feeling is like a bat using ultrasonic waves to locate surrounding objects.

As the wail reverberates, a D Map naturally forms in Zhang Hao's mind.

"Just like now."

Moreover, some Fierce Ghosts invisible to the naked eye are also rendered by the D Map in his mind.

However, this D Map is not without flaws; the echo‑confirmed D Map can only construct solid objects and cannot distinguish things like calligraphy. For example, behind Zhang Hao there is a door with the number 201.

But in Zhang Hao's mind the D Map perceives only a rectangular block, unable to tell what it actually is.

Overall, the completion of the Ghost Crying Face raises Zhang Hao's strength by one step, and his methods gain new variations.

Putting aside other things, just this irregular killing wail can raise Zhang Hao's hazard level to grade A.

The Terror Level, not to mention having Ghost Mourning Clothes and a Ghost Face, plus half a Ghost Seeking Kin, already firmly places Zhang Hao in the A‑grade Terror Level.

"Let's go, next we'll look for that Spirit Tablet."

Having felt his own changes, Zhang Hao leads the bride upstairs.

Earlier he hadn't noticed, but after mastering the Ghost Crying Face and forming a D Map in his mind, he easily located Guo Fan's position.

Through the endless echo, he senses that in a room upstairs, a strange figure is numbly kneeling there.

In the D Map, that figure's shape is bizarre, and on a nearby object sits something resembling a wooden plaque.

By comparing shapes, Zhang Hao readily judges that it is a Ghost Spirit Tablet.

As Zhang Hao and the ghost bride ascend, the wail continues to echo, confirming positions through the wail.

The wail reaches the fourth floor, reverberates in the corridor, and swiftly spreads into the dark depths, covering the entire floor in moments.

At first, nothing unusual occurs on this level.

But when the wail reaches an incomprehensible spot on the fourth floor, everything here changes.

The wail seems to enter a non‑existent corridor on the fourth floor of Caesar Grand Hotel.

This corridor's sides are lined with guest rooms that are normally vacant, yet at this moment a guest room contains—

"So we've stepped into the depths of Caesar Grand Hotel? No wonder I couldn't find Guo Fan's silhouette earlier."

Earlier, when Zhang Hao entered Caesar Grand Hotel, he had tried to locate Guo Fan and Feng Quan's positions.

Feng Quan's location is easy to pinpoint; he is in the haze just outside Caesar Grand Hotel.

But Guo Fan's whereabouts are hard to confirm; Zhang Hao scoured the hotel's surroundings yet found no similar figure.

Had it not been for the Ghost Crying Face, the echo‑discovered nonexistent passage, Zhang Hao might truly have failed to find Guo Fan.

Entering this nonexistent passage, darkness envelops everything.

In the deep living room, on the TV cabinet, sits an old wooden ancestral tablet.

On the Spirit Tablet there was nothing, only a black‑and‑white Photo, and the person in the Photo was the International Police Guo Fan who had previously entered the hotel.

But the moment the Crying reached it, the old Spirit Tablet placed on the TV cabinet suddenly toppled onto the floor.

A person who had been facing the Spirit Tablet in a kneeling posture for a long time suddenly lifted his head, and he seemed very shocked.

At this moment, Guo Fan in the Spirit Tablet Photo also became eerie, his half face showing an almost rotting appearance.

"Something else has come again?"

Guo Fan listened to the eerie Crying, and his complexion turned unpleasant.

He had just been attacked by a Fierce Ghost once, and survived by hiding inside the Spirit Tablet.

Unexpectedly, now another Ghost has come over.

"Damn, we can only continue."

Guo Fan's head lowered again, becoming numb with Ghost's Stiffness, and the person in the Photo also returned to normal.

(End of Chapter)