Chapter 26: Are You Human or Ghost?

In the living room, a strange figure lifted the Spirit Tablet, placed it back on the TV cabinet, and knelt again.

From a distance it looked as if a person were kneeling and bowing for the deceased.

But when approached, one would find that the kneeling person and the person on the Spirit Tablet look exactly alike.

The person in the Photo on the Spirit Tablet has a cold, expressionless face, yet upon close inspection one can notice.

The gaze of the person in the Photo is fixed on the entrance of the living room.

Wooo! Wooo! Wooo!

The originally low, faint crying began to grow louder.

Stomp! Stomp! Stomp!

The muffled Footsteps from outside the door made the Guo Fan in the Photo's complexion turn sour.

"Did you set your Gaze on me again? But I'm already a Fierce Ghost, a dead person, so I shouldn't be attacked, right?"

Guo Fan felt a bit flustered inside, but more so from being assaulted repeatedly in a short time, not from fearing an attack by this crying Fierce Ghost.

However, as the Footsteps drew nearer, his complexion suddenly turned sour.

Some incomprehensible supernatural force was affecting him.

No, to be precise, it should be affecting the body he left outside.

That body, now occupied by a Fierce Ghost and in a dead state, logically should not be subject to attack.

Yet, as a figure entered the living room, his face became completely sour.

It was a person clad in white Funeral Clothes, with a White Cloth covering the head, their features obscured, only a Crying Face stamped on the visage visible.

"Red and White Double Evil?"

Guo Fan pondered, and soon another figure emerging behind the white silhouette confirmed his thought.

This is the Red and White Double Evil; although the reason is unknown, the White Demon has an extra Face-Covering Cloth, yet otherwise matches what was seen in the Photo.

Realizing this, Guo Fan's complexion turned exceedingly sour.

Red and White Double Evil, these two ghosts need no further explanation; they both know what they are related to.

The Red Demon represents Red Affair, the White Demon represents White Affair.

The first news of killings by the Red and White Double Evil indicated that the Killing Rule of one of these ghosts is linked to kneeling.

"So, the body I left outside triggered the Killing Rule of these two ghosts?"

Guo Fan immediately grasped the key point.

"Moreover, the Spirit Tablet and the White Demon"

The White Demon is linked to White Affair, and his Ghost Spirit Tablet is a ghost that requires a Fierce Ghost to kneel.

In Guo Fan's terrified gaze, the White Demon released the hand holding the ghost bride representing the Red Demon.

The White Demon slowly stepped forward, and as it approached, the living room resonated with the echoing cries of a Fierce Ghost.

Moreover, the Fierce Ghost formed from Guo Fan's body, kneeling before the Spirit Tablet, seemed also to be under a supernatural attack.

This attack, extremely terrifying, each time gave Guo Fan a feeling that he was about to sever his link with the body outside.

Guo Fan can be certain that if this continues...

The ghost that emerged from the Ghost Spirit Tablet will completely cut off his connection and replace him in actions outside.

The Ghost Spirit Tablet can let Guo Fan's consciousness enter the Spirit Tablet to evade danger, but this comes at a price.

The more terrifying the attacks the Ghost Spirit Tablet endures while acting outside, the more horrific the erosion on Guo Fan becomes.

When Guo Fan is eroded to the point where he cannot control the outside ghost from within the Spirit Tablet, that will be the moment of his Fierce Ghost's revival.

Fortunately, the White Demon Ghost stopped at that moment, not continuing to attack Guo Fan's body left outside.

"Is the attack over?"

Guo Fan let out a sigh of relief inside.

Triggering the Fierce Ghost's Killing Rule does not necessarily mean being killed to death by the Fierce Ghost.

Surviving one round of Fierce Ghost assault without triggering the Killing Rule means the Fierce Ghost will not launch a second attack.

"That's not right, I'm no different from before?"

"So, is this ghost's Killing Rule kneeling? Or hearing that Crying?" Guo Fan suddenly recalled that after hearing the Crying, the White Demon Ghost came.

But if that's the case, I should have been constantly in a state of triggering the Killing Rule and being attacked by the Fierce Ghost, right?

"Why did the White Demon Ghost stop?"

Guo Fan stared at the White Demon Ghost, yet faced with the Crying Face stamped on the Face-Covering Cloth, he could not glean any useful information.

At that moment, the White Demon Ghost reached out and seized Guo Fan's Fierce Ghost‑formed body.

The two Fierce Ghosts made contact, and without close‑range supernatural combat, they would enter a fundamental contest of Terror Level.

However, this is ultimately only relative.

At this point, Guo Fan's body, in a kneeling state, has already triggered countless instances of the Kneeling Death supernatural.

Zhang Hao, when grabbing Guo Fan's body, easily established control.

He exerted force with his hand, flinging that ghost out.

Then Zhang Hao finally looked toward the Guo Fan inside the Spirit Tablet.

"What is this guy trying to do?"

Facing the blurred Crying Face on the Face-Covering Cloth, Guo Fan felt an extremely terrifying sensation.

This was not fear of being targeted or the defeat of the Fierce Ghost in the Spirit Tablet, but the dread caused by the White Demon Ghost's bizarre behavior.

The White Demon Ghost's Crying Face stared at Guo Fan for a while, then its form slowly sank.

Guo Fan realized this was a kneeling? "So? Is he trying to kill me?" he guessed inwardly.

"What on earth are you?"

The Ghost Spirit Tablet was suppressed, the Fierce Ghosts that emerged had already been thrown aside, and knowing they faced certain death, Guo Fan shouted in terror.

From the Photo, a strange voice came out, making Zhang Hao, who was kneeling, pause in surprise.

"It can actually emit sound from a Photo? Looks like this thing's function is far greater than I imagined."

Zhang Hao thought inwardly, but gave no response to Guo Fan.

Because he could not determine whether Guo Fan's Walkie-Talkie had recorded those sounds.

"You have consciousness, right? You definitely possess the ability to think. Are you a human or a Ghost?"

Zhang Hao's momentary pause was caught by Guo Fan.

As an experienced Ghost Tamer who even seeks the Captain Position, he keenly sensed the distinct nature of the White Demon Ghost before him.

Guo Fan's words deepened Zhang Hao's inner thought of killing Guo Fan even further.

However, with the Face-Covering Cloth on, Guo Fan did not see the change in Zhang Hao's eyes.

If he could see, he would notice that at the moment Zhang Hao's desire to kill Guo Fan intensified, Zhang Hao's originally cold gaze turned resentful and poisonous.

"You definitely possess intelligence; you just paused because of my words, and even if you try to hide it, it won't work."

"You, like that Newspaper Ghost, can think, and you are even more terrifying than that Newspaper Ghost."

"The Newspaper Ghost only steals and alters living people's memories, yet you actually have intelligence yourself."

"Haha, our struggle is meaningless; the Fierce Ghost possesses intelligence, so what right does a Ghost Tamer have to oppose a Fierce Ghost?"

Perhaps knowing escape was hopeless, combined with the horror of facing an intelligent Fierce Ghost.

Since becoming a Ghost Tamer, all the despair Guo Fan had accumulated inside erupted at this moment.

For a moment, he actually began to babble incoherently.

"The bunch of idiots at Headquarters, even now they keep scheming against each other, unable to unite to tackle the Supernatural Incident."

"wail! Is humanity really this hopeless?"

The emotional outburst made Guo Fan laugh and cry alternately.

Zhang Hao, seeing this scene, showed a somewhat surprised expression.

This Guo Fan, as a mature Ghost Tamer, shouldn't have so many emotions.

(End of Chapter)