Chapter 50: Paper Money in the Laboratory

"Zhong Shan? Zhong Shan!"

Voices kept coming through the Walkie‑Talkie.

"Chen Yi! Did you hear that!"

Perhaps because of deafness, Zhong Shan and the others, while only caring about staying away from Dajing City, simply could not hear the Headquarters' communication.

At this moment, Cao Yanhua stood at the conference table, his complexion extremely grim.

Just now they dispatched a drone to check the situation with the Red and White Double Evil, but they couldn't find any trace of the Red and White Double Evil.

Normally, in front of the Red and White Double Evil, once a drone gets close enough, it should lose visual contact.

But the drone circled Zhong Shan and the others several times, showing no sign of losing visual contact, let alone spotting the Red and White Double Evil.

Everyone present, all experienced supervisors of Supernatural Artifacts, immediately realized something.

"The Red and White Double Evil has gone out of control; it no longer follows Zhong Shan and the others."

Realizing this, Wang Xiaoming promptly made arrangements, sending people to guard near the Ghost Tamer Training Base.

But at this time, the Red and White Double Evil they were obsessing over was not here.

Outside the Ghost Tamer Training Base, not far from a Laboratory, at an unknown time a red and a white silhouette appeared here.

Seeing the open Laboratory doors, Zhang Hao, without much thought, led the Ghost Bride inside.

According to Hao Zhang's memory, this Laboratory was Wang Xiaoming's Laboratory.

Inside the Laboratory it was pitch black, with only a ring of Safety Room lights still glowing, barely allowing anyone to see inside.

Recalling that the Ghostly Servant escaped from the experiment, Wang Xiaoming and Li Jun must have left without enough time to close the Laboratory doors.

Stepping into the Laboratory, Zhang Hao felt the walls were strange; he could barely sense what lay beyond them.

"Walls forged with gold, huh?"

Zhang Hao walked inside the Laboratory, using a specially made transparent glass to examine everything inside.

One must admit, worthy of Wang Xiaoming's Laboratory, this place holds a great many Supernatural Artifacts.

Each time he passed through a room, he could see many fine items displayed inside.

First is the initial room; on a table inside lay a peculiar bill, bearing a three.

"Is that Gui Qian? It can be used as a life‑selling Gui Qian."

Zhang Hao's eyes flickered slightly as he approached the room door, intending to open it.

Gui Qian has appeared many times in the original work; even later Yang Jian could use Gui Qian to buy a coffin at a coffin shop in Taiping Ancient Town.

The Ghost Coffin, due to the Ghostly Servant's departure, now lacks a coffin lid, and Zhang Hao does not wish to encounter the Ghostly Servant.

The best solution thereafter is undoubtedly to go to the coffin shop to buy a new lid for the Ghost Coffin, or even purchase an entirely new coffin.

After all, without the Ghostly Servant, Zhang Hao cannot be sure what supernatural effect the Ghost Coffin can still exert in his hands.

The Ghostly Servant took away most of the Ghost Coffin's supernatural properties; a Ghost Coffin without the Ghostly Servant is incomplete.

Unfortunately, this room is secured by fingerprint authentication, and Zhang Hao cannot open it.

Moreover, because the equipment here is all made of gold, unless he uses a physical method, Zhang Hao cannot open it.

But this means, if the door is forced open, it's uncertain whether the Laboratory will trigger an alarm.

"My primary goal is to get the Ghost Coffin; we'll deal with this room later."

Zhang Hao thought for a moment and decided it was better not to try before obtaining the Ghost Coffin. If the Laboratory truly has an alarm, triggering it himself would be troublesome.

This Laboratory is interlaced with gold construction; in other words, this room is a kind of alternative Safety Room.

A Safety Room can protect people, and likewise, a Safety Room can serve as a container to imprison a Fierce Ghost.

When Headquarters receives the news and shuts the main doors, Zhang Hao, still without the Ghost Coffin, will have to make a choice.

Passing the first room, Zhang Hao arrived at the next room.

In this room lay a Dagger, its blade rusted, yet the rack holding the Dagger was clearly made of gold.

Although he doesn't know the Dagger's abilities, he can be certain it's not simple.

After all, even the earlier Gui Qian was merely placed on an ordinary wooden table within a standard display case.

Perhaps holding the Dagger might cause some side effects, who knows.

Unfortunately, the room is shielded by gold; otherwise, upon seeing this, Zhang Hao would likely understand how to use it.

As a Ghost Slave, Zhang Hao has lost his emotions; when the Killing Rule is triggered, he can only forcibly suppress his instincts, and even when the Ghost Bride triggers the Killing Rule, Zhang Hao cannot defy it.

But as a Ghost Slave, Zhang Hao also gains many benefits that Ghost Tamers and Abnormals lack.

For example, when facing a Supernatural Artifact, Zhang Hao can know how to use it as soon as he obtains it, without needing to experiment like a Ghost Tamer.

He attributes this phenomenon to the collision and integration of rules.

It's like two computers with different programs; when you download a program from one computer onto a USB drive and then load it onto another computer, it can be used immediately.

A Fierce Ghost is similar: Ghost's Action Logic equals program execution logic, Killing Rule equals program purpose, while Ghost Tamers and Abnormals are akin to bugs in the program.

The difference is that a Fierce Ghost possesses self‑repairing bug capability.

Zhang Hao passed through the second room and then saw some new Supernatural Artifacts.

One room featured a hanging slab of meat with Wax Oil constantly dripping into a basin, and another room had a ceiling crowded with dense Straw Rope.

Zhang Hao even saw that in some rooms, a bizarre person stood inside, apparently noticing Zhang Hao's gaze and looking back at him.

However, due to the gold shielding, that thing only turned its head to glance at Zhang Hao.

"Hmm?"

After passing the sixth room, Zhang Hao halted.

He hadn't found the Ghost Coffin; instead, something in the room caught his attention.

It was a piece of Paper Money, not Gui Qian, but Paper Money made from Yellow Paper.

Moreover, worth noting, this Paper Money was not square but shaped like a copper coin.

In the middle of the Paper Money there is a square hole, and a golden thread threads the Paper Money through, hanging from a golden pillar nailed in the room.

"Paper Money."

Zhang Hao's eyes whirled around; clearly, he wanted that paper copper coin.

But after pausing for a moment, Zhang Hao still stepped forward to continue.

The moment he realized that might be his Puzzle, Zhang Hao's urge to break through the door kept surfacing.

Fortunately, reason ultimately overpowered the instinct to seek the Puzzle; after all, with the golden barrier, he did not truly perceive the hanging Paper Money.

(End of Chapter)