Chapter 416 I have special skills in catching ghosts

Late at night, after paying a high parking fee, the group of two plus Maomao slowly strolled to the second-hand car market not far away. Liu Linan stayed in the RV in the parking lot, ready to pick them up at any time.

Although the way of action seems a bit shameless, there is nothing we can do about it.

Superheroes need a background to look cool.

For example, Batman drives a Batmobile and dominates the city, which is really cool.

Then the whole Gotham is almost like his home. BYD drives against traffic and speeds at night with modified cars, and the police don't care at all. The surveillance cameras are like blind.

When have you ever seen Batman pay a fine?

Unfortunately, although Lu Wenwu has a family background similar to Batman, he is not Batman.

So when he violated traffic rules in the upper part of Coconut Juice City, the cameras hanging high in the sky would not tolerate him.

There are strict requirements on the mode of travel and speed in each area of ​​Shangcheng District.

The only way to break this limitation is to spend money.

As a result, Lu Wenwu and his group, who have no intention of going to war with the corporate group or paying high fines and application fees, can only choose the simple and unpretentious 11th Road low-carbon travel route.

Under the leadership of Wang Banxian, who had detected the route in advance, the two men and the dog quickly bypassed the guards, took advantage of the momentary blur in the surveillance to jump high, and jumped into the high wall in a more simple and unpretentious way, completing a smuggling.

The security guard in the security room had just injected himself with a tube of caffeine stimulant and was completely unaware of some slight noises coming from the shadows in the distance.

The staff in the control room who were watching the surveillance did not care about the screen flickering for a moment. They just thought that these old systems had been in disrepair for a long time and the signal was not good, so they needed to be updated.

After all, it is just an ordinary second-hand car trading market, and there is no outrageous high-tech protection.

Unlike parking lots on Earth, the land-scarce upper city uses multi-story parking structures that require a large amount of mechanical structures for support.

The vehicles were stacked neatly according to model and age like neatly arranged capsules, and there were no stairs for ordinary people to climb up.

If a customer takes a fancy to a certain car, the salesperson will control the machine to transport the car down for viewing, rather than the customer walking up and choosing it themselves.

Among these honeycomb-like compartments in the car, a standard black business car makes the already narrow space seem even more crowded.

This is their target this time - a Theseus car that has caused many traffic accidents but still miraculously "survived". Wang Banxian has already visited it in advance.

This is probably thanks to the fact that Coconut Juice City does not have mandatory scrapping and annual inspections, otherwise even ghosts would have to be forcibly destroyed.

Wang Banxian and Lu Wenwu looked at each other below and tacitly chose to climb the rock with their bare hands.

He climbed directly to the seventh-floor car building and squeezed sideways into the small compartment where each car was placed.

Lu Wenwu had to temporarily remove the nutrient solution tank before he could get in. This place was really too small.

After checking his surroundings and making sure that he had not overlooked any alarm or defense systems, Wang Banxian gently pulled the car handle and the driver's door opened.

The cars in the upper city are all electric cars. The energy modules of these second-hand cars are directly removed before they are sold.

These cars do not involve traditional mechanical locking, so they are naturally defenseless and can be opened with a single pull.

After Lu Wenwu and Maomao entered the car, Wang Banxian began to take things out of his backpack and put them into the car.

Small altar, command flag, peach wood sword, seal, Three Pure Ones bell, incense burner, Bagua formation plate, cinnabar, yellow paper, wooden fish.

Lu Wenwu and Maomao sat in the corner, quietly watching Wang Banxian perform a ritual.

Set up the altar, light three incense sticks, chant scriptures, worship gods, and pray to the ancestors, completing all preparations before catching ghosts.

I have to say that Wang Banxian does have some skills.

After going through this whole process, even though this was a completely spiritual place, Lu Wenwu could clearly feel that the three fragrance pillars carried a certain will and were trying to be transmitted to a certain place.

It was just that it seemed to be lacking some necessary conditions. This wisp of will quietly dissipated when it floated into the sky and did not play any significant role.

Instead, some of the spells that Wang Banxian had chanted earlier were faintly lit up with a faint golden light, which was impossible to see unless you looked hard.

Even if it is faint, it does exist.

Just when Lu Wenwu thought he was about to see a wonderful show of the Taoist priest catching ghosts, Wang Banxian

He opened his forearm, took out a data cable and plugged it into the onboard computer as a backup energy supply line.

At the moment the energy was connected, there was a crisp "swish" sound, and black sunshades were lowered from the car windows on all sides at the same time, accompanied by the crisp "click-click" sound of locking.

The car, which had previously allowed them to move freely, was instantly locked, trapping the two people and the dog.

The car, which was originally pitch black, suddenly lit up at the same time. The circle of light strips on the roof were all lit up. The dazzling simulated sunlight made the place as bright as day, and even filled with a hint of strange warmth.

Just combined with the music that suddenly started playing, it added a touch of horror to this originally warm space.

The man and the dog all looked at Wang Banxian.

Wang Banxian waved his hand calmly. "It's normal. It's set to auto-start upon power-on and has anti-theft features. I have a plan, and it's working. Otherwise, the car would have sounded the alarm."

As he spoke, he pressed his hands in the air a few times, and the music that suddenly sounded soon stopped.

The car door that was originally locked automatically was also unlocked, and the bright simulated daylight halo gradually weakened, turning into a soft warm light that was not dazzling.

Everything seems to be gradually getting back on track.

However, if nothing unexpected happens, an accident is about to happen.

Just as Wang Banxian was confidently operating the program he wrote, began to access the main control system, broke through the first firewall of the onboard computer, and began to run the cyber ghost-exorcism scripture he had written in advance, the car locks that had been unlocked were locked again at the same time.

The entire car suddenly began to sway without any warning, shaking violently from side to side as if it was tap dancing.

Wang Banxian was not surprised but happy. He didn't expect that there really was a cyber electronic ghost, and this ghost's resistance to Taoism was quite low, so the result was achieved so easily!

He immediately called up a virtual program and began to play the DJ Pure Heaven and Earth Mantra and Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra on a crazy loop, supplemented by the beating of virtual musical instruments such as wooden fish, chimes, and drums.

Almost immediately, the vehicle began to shake more violently, giving the impression of driving on a gravel beach.

An invisible and intangible "field" is taking shape in a very small space around it, gradually enveloping the commercial vehicle and forcing some kind of "evil spirit" inside to appear.

Lu Wenwu could clearly see that the formation of this field not only borrowed part of the natural magnetic field, but also consumed part of Wang Banxian's own energy.

His three fires had clearly weakened a bit.

If you try to forcibly practice Taoism in such a spiritual place, you will lose your life.

"It seems to be working, we need to increase the intensity!"

This time, Wang Banxian muttered to himself, took the Sanqing Bell on the altar with his right hand, held a token engraved with talismans in his left hand, closed his eyes and muttered something.

When he was reciting the Taoist scriptures to the key point, a drop of blood was squeezed out from his fingertips and stained on the Sanqing Bell.

Immediately, the spell on it suddenly burst into a clear yellow light, and a loud and clear sound suddenly rang out in the entire car.

It doesn't sound like a bell, but more like a huge bell.

An invisible shock wave spread out, and the previously invisible and intangible things were suddenly forced to reveal their whereabouts.

In just a moment, all the places in the car that could display images were lit up at the same time, showing a hideous ghost face stained with blood, without any pale blood color.

Beneath the curled and turned-out flesh, there were broken bones. Blood mixed with foul-smelling, pus-filled, turbid yellow tissue fluid kept flowing out, almost covering the entire screen with the sticky, disgusting liquid.

"Hehe. Everyone should agree with me."

A sharp, cold mechanical sound came through the car's speakers, making people feel even more creepy.

Lu Wenwu looked at the ghost face on the screen in front of him thoughtfully, tapped it with his knuckles, and showed curiosity.

"It's fine to agree with you, but could you please answer a few questions for me first?"

"Is this the only face you have?"

"Where is your body?"

"Is this tissue fluid a special effect or something?"

“Is your skin a simulacrum?”

"Do you have a real skeleton?"

"How do you determine whether we are in agreement with you? Is it some kind of sensor or life radar built into the vehicle?"

"If the energy supply is cut off, will you disappear too?"

"If this car is completely destroyed, will you also disappear completely?"

“And that’s what.”

Lu Wenwu's sudden series of questions not only confused the ghost face that had just appeared, but also confused his teammate Wang Banxian.

He has been catching ghosts for so many years and has never thought about these questions.

To catch ghosts, isn’t it just a matter of chanting spells and performing rituals, and then catching them?

It is nothing more than a question of suppression, purification, salvation, enlightenment, or killing.

Just when Wang Banxian was still thinking about whether he should catch the other party and interrogate him later, the ghost face had already come out of the stuck state.

It did not answer Lu Wenwu's question, but suddenly revealed an even more weird and terrifying smile, and its rotten eyes seemed to be filled with endless ridicule and disdain.

"You are not the first. You will not be the last. Hahahaha"

The sinister and cold smile came from the car audio system, and the cold air blowing from the air conditioner brought the horror atmosphere in the car to a new level.

"Technology cannot restrict my body. If I hadn't shown myself, you wouldn't have been able to find me."

Having said this, the ghost face suddenly moved closer to the screen, pressing its entire face against it. Its rotten facial features were squeezed together, making it look even uglier and more hideous.

"You will have the same fate as those people before you!"

Amidst the loud voice, all the car screens turned off at the same time. For a moment, apart from the lights, there was no other onboard equipment in the car!

"He has some consciousness and can communicate to a certain extent. He hopes that others will die in the same way as him and is committed to this. He is a very standard earth-bound spirit-type vengeful ghost." Wang Banxian opened his eyes and analyzed.

Theoretically speaking, being able to determine that the other party is indeed a ghost formed by resentment, and even the category has been determined, should be good news.

This means that we can now enter the Taoist's comfort zone and follow the procedures to bring this "standard ghost" to justice.

But once it comes to the actual operation of "how it works in theory", there will definitely be some difficulties.

For example, now, Wang Banxian was extremely shocked to find that his means of perception had become ineffective.

This business car ghost actually did what it said. If it didn't show up on its own, no one would be able to find it.

This is outrageous.

How could an ordinary ghost be able to hide so well under my nose?

Even though he no longer has any cultivation, his innate gift of perception should be something that no ghost can escape.

After trying for a few minutes, Wang Banxian looked at Lu Wenwu with a frown.

Before he could say anything, Lu Wenwu spoke first: "Can't find any trace?"

"Ah?" Wang Banxian was stunned, then lowered his head in shame, "Yes"

"Well, it's not a big problem. Leave it to me." Lu Wenwu waved his hand. "By the way, what would happen if I took apart a piece of this car?"

"Well, it shouldn't be a problem. I've activated an environmental simulation that should trick the computer's automatic detection," Wang Banxian replied. "Then I'll just unplug the power cord and no one will notice."

"That'll do."

Lu Wenwu nodded slightly, his eyes wandering around every corner of the car.

Suddenly, at a certain moment, his aura condensed, and he stretched out his hand forward like a tiger descending from the mountain, and inserted his palm directly into the computer screen in front of the co-pilot like a knife cutting tofu.

When he pulled his hand out, a tiny eggshell-like stance had formed in his half-clenched fist.

Trapped inside was a ping-pong ball-sized ball of restless sparks, a strange gray-blue in color. It was darting left and right in this miniature stance, trying to break free from the shackles.

What the hell is this!

Wang Banxian was stunned on the spot.

He even forgot to unplug the energy supply line.

"Is this the electronic vengeful ghost?" Wang Banxian's eyes widened. "Wait, Fifth Brother, what kind of method are you using?! Holy crap, catching ghosts with your bare hands! Aren't you practicing body refining? This can't be the power of the law!"

Lu Wenwu scratched the dog's head and asked in confusion, "Didn't I tell you? I'm a ghost catcher in the underworld, working for the Ghost Gate Security Bureau. Doesn't catching ghosts just require hands?"

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