Chapter 24: Night Walker Five What a Pianran Master, just a gambler

Ji Lingche and his companions stood on the roof opposite the Baiyu Building. They felt their hair stand on end and a strange and terrifying feeling rose to the sky.

Not to mention the strangeness of a restaurant open to the public in a ghost town, the restaurant's specifications and style are all of the current dynasty's, definitely not a relic of the previous dynasty! It must have been built recently.

The owner of this building must be incredibly talented, actually being able to build a tall building from scratch in this ghost town with no survivors...

In the pitch-black ghost town, the building opposite had an eerie brightness... to the point of being decorated with lights and colors.

The entire building was hung with fluorescent lamps, emitting a cold, faint light. However, due to their large number, they could illuminate an area of ​​dozens of meters as bright as day!

This building is extremely beautiful. Different from the elegant building in Tiejian Town, every brick here is blue-black with a metallic luster. It has a double-eaved hip roof, and four huge black iron-backed beasts squat on each corner, glaring at the ghosts with bloodshot eyes, warding off evil spirits and suppressing evil.

The shape of the entire building is indescribably solemn and eerie, eerie yet not frivolous, and even possessing a touch of righteousness amidst its evilness.

Although there is not a single white tile on this building, there is a plaque hanging high up, with the three words "White Jade Building" written in cinnabar clearly visible.

Over a hundred ghosts gathered at the foot of the White Jade Building, their hands raised to the air, their faces enthusiastic, as they shouted in unison, "The owner of the building is a millionaire!"

"The host of this post is a millionaire!"

"Monopoly!"

“…”

The noise below rose and fell. Linghu Jin frowned, looking at the building and said, "The owner of the White Jade Building? Could it be... that he is really the wealthy businessman who specializes in business with the Immortal Alliance?"

Ji Lingche smiled and said, "It's him, there's no doubt about it."

The owner of this building is Gu Chaoyin, a wealthy businessman who lives a carefree life and spends money lavishly. He owns restaurants all over the world, not to mention his other businesses...

The owner of this post is a legendary figure himself.

This person is not from a sect or school, yet he is self-taught and has reached the Golden Core stage. If he could devote a third of his attention to cultivating immortality, he would surely be a rare genius...

Suddenly, everything became quiet. All the ghosts stopped talking, held their breath, and looked up at the same time.

The window of the central wing on the top floor was suddenly pushed open, and a slender hand stretched out of the window.

The cool breeze blew his green gauze sleeves, and a piece of paper money was pinched between his snow-white fingertips.

A lazy and elegant chuckle, with a long tone, said lazily: "Reward——"

Then, that hand casually but forcefully threw up the paper money held between its fingertips!

In an instant, paper money rained down from the sky, swirling and falling like heavy snow. It didn't stop for a long time, and the wind blew it dozens of miles away...

Those ghosts seemed to have fallen into a kind of madness, roaring together, jumping up to grab the paper money from the sky, and instead of stuffing them into their arms, they held handfuls in their hands. Then, when they opened their hands to grab more, the ones they had caught before were scattered. After all the commotion, they caught less and threw away more. However, the ghosts did not care, and continued to roar and shout happily.

The ghost heads were crowded together, the big ghosts were jostling and laughing, and the little ghosts were squeezed among them. They had to bend down to pick up the things on the ground, but they were stepped on by the ghosts. They howled sharply, but the screams were immediately drowned out by the ghosts' silence. Several ghost heads with cut throats fell to the ground in the pushing and shoving, rolling around. For a while, chaos broke out and the scene was weird and lively.

Ji Lingche ignored the ghosts' ugly appearance and just stared at the box with narrowed eyes. He only heard Linghu Jin say in surprise: "They say this man is like a dragon that can't be seen from head to tail. Although he is not from the immortal sect, he has mastered the essentials of immortality. Even famous monks have to praise him as Mr. Pianran--"

Before Linghu Jin finished speaking, Ji Lingche seemed to have heard something very funny. He chuckled and sighed softly, "What do you mean by Mr. Pianran? He's just a gambler."

Qing stared at the window in silence for a long time and said, "You want to meet him? This man is definitely not easy to get along with..."

What he meant was that if one wanted to go find that ghost cultivator, it would be best not to provoke unnecessary people along the way, so as not to get into trouble.

Ji Lingche narrowed his eyes, a sly smile flashing across his face: "How can you call it looking for trouble? We are outnumbered right now, so if we go there—"

"I just want to borrow some magic weapons from him."

She said, "Master Baiyu, there are so many treasures. Now that we have seen this bandit, how can we let him go?"

"Besides, think about it carefully. This guy can build a tall building in this ghost town and come and go as freely as if he were at home. How could this be unrelated to the ghost cultivator I'm looking for? If I don't deal with him first, I'm afraid something unexpected will happen-"

Linghu Jin laughed, seeming to be very interested, but Qing frowned but said nothing.

As they were talking, a figure suddenly flashed in the window of the private room, and then left the room and disappeared.

Linghu Jin smiled and said, "Since you're going to take advantage of others, why don't you chase them after they've already gotten away?"

Ji Lingche's eyes were blazing: "He won't run away. This guy has a gambling addiction and he can't run away."

After saying that, she jumped up and flew onto the shiny black roof of the White Jade Building, then flipped into an empty room and went straight into the White Jade Building.

Several people behind him also entered.

I saw that the inside of the building was a completely different world.

Ji Lingche walked along the corridor with her arms folded, and found that the restaurant was extremely lively. It could be said that it was overcrowded with "ghosts". None of the many private rooms were empty. She peeked into the rooms and saw groups of ghost guests toasting each other. The tables were covered with rotten meat and mud, and reptile corpses crawled out of the cups. The ghost guests rolled up their long tongues and swallowed them straight into their stomachs, then laughed contentedly, and the rotten flesh on their faces bloomed with the smile -

Ji Lingche dodged a ghost servant who hurried over with a tray. Inside the tray was a massive, jet-black centipede as thick as his wrist! Its head and body were detached, but it was still alive, its densely packed legs moving about, and its body drenched in thick broth...

Ji Lingche was staring at the insect intently when the boy, perhaps walking too fast, tripped over his left foot and suddenly fell forward.

His fall wasn't a big deal; what was important was that the headless centipede on his plate was also thrown out, and it actually flew straight towards the people behind Ji Lingche.

Linghu Jin and Qing quickly dodged, but the young man following behind Qing was caught off guard, and the headless centipede pounced on his face!

The young man opened his mouth wide. Ji Lingche was about to cast a silence spell, but it was too late...

A hoarse scream pierced the sky, and the noisy restaurant suddenly became quiet for a moment.

Ji Lingche's heart was broken: ...

She turned around and ran without looking back. Qing quickly covered the boy's mouth, picked him up and followed closely behind.

The entire restaurant was silent for a moment, and then suddenly exploded. The ghosts heard the screams of the living people and rushed out from the private rooms, like leeches smelling blood, and pounced on these people with their hands and feet!

——These ghost guests were enjoying their meals when they suddenly smelled a living person. How could rotten flesh and corpse worms be compared with the brain of a living person?

If I could take a sip of it, I would be willing to go to hell and be burned by fire!

Qing's hand reached for the soft sword wrapped around his waist, and just as he was about to engage in a head-on confrontation, Ji Lingche suddenly spoke through his sea of ​​consciousness, "Don't attack! Follow me."

She moved very lightly and quickly, and was about to go downstairs, but she saw a surging group of ghosts on the stairs rushing up using their hands and feet, blocking her way tightly. She paused, jumped directly from the railing, and landed in the lobby on the first floor.

With a few flashes, he avoided the ghosts who were groping around and headed straight for a blind corner!

Linghu Jin exclaimed in shock, "You've cut off your own escape route. Are you crazy?!"

Ji Lingche did not answer, but raised his palm and slapped the ghost guests hiding in the corner, instantly scaring them to death. Then he drew the dagger from his waist, cut his palm, and slammed it against the wall!

He turned around and shouted, "Stand up here!"

A few people were startled and quickly took action to knock down a group of ghosts and flew over.

The blood on her palm was reflected on the wall, slowly gathering into a huge blood-red circular totem.

Several people were shocked to find that there was actually some kind of formation hidden on this wall, and it could be directly triggered by blood?!

At this juncture, countless ghost guests rushed forward and were about to drown and swallow the few people!

Linghu Jin and Qing quickly drew their weapons, their hearts pounding, their spiritual pressure already reaching its limit. Just when they were expecting another bloody battle, Ji Lingche smiled and said, "Don't worry about it, let's go—"

She put her hands on the wall and pushed hard, forcing a gap to appear in the wall!

There's a hidden world on the other side of the wall?!

Suddenly, a dazzling red light instantly enveloped several people...

When the ghosts rushed over, they found nothing. The people there disappeared in an instant!

......

Linghu Jin felt dizzy and almost vomited. He couldn't open his eyes for a long time, but then he heard Ji Lingche say, "You guys, your brain is really not very good. Can you please not carry this child around with you wherever you go?!"

"Not only can you not protect him, you're actually pushing him into the clutches of wolves and tigers. If you leave him out there, he might even outlive you..."

Linghu Jin couldn't hear what Qing said. When she opened her eyes, she found herself in a huge hall. Not far away was a huge black door with huge dark red patterns engraved on it.

Everywhere here was a dark red, as if the air were slowly flowing with blood. It was indescribably eerie and terrifying. Not far away, I could hear faint human voices, mixed with a subtle gurgling sound, as if...

The dice are rolling?!

She suppressed the strange feeling in her throat and looked at Ji Lingche: "...this place can't be--"

"The other side of the wall?"

Ji Lingche smiled brightly: "What a clever sister Linghu."

"Yes, that wall is a secret door. I used a blood sacrifice to force the wall open a gap, and then forcibly activated the formation. The wall and the surrounding ground rotated in a circle, and it directly flipped us in."

Linghu Jin no longer had any interest in asking how Ji Lingche knew about the formation. She would definitely not tell the truth anyway, and no matter what happened to that person, there was a certain rationale...

Qing was also dizzy, and now he was relieved. He just asked, "How do we get out of this situation now?"

Ji Lingche smiled: "Escape? This is where we are going——"

"Do you know where this is?"

She pointed at the door and said, "This is the place that all gamblers in the world long to come to..."

She looked a bit fanatical, like an old gambler: "Getting something for nothing, spending a fortune, experiencing huge ups and downs, how fascinating it must be..."

As she was speaking, she had already walked to the door. She raised her hand and knocked gently on the door three times, then put her hand down, paused, and knocked three more times, until she had knocked nine times.

A sweet, alluring voice suddenly rang out from the other side of the door: "May I ask who is coming?"

Ji Lingche smiled and said, "A big banker from the lowest class."

As soon as he finished speaking, the door suddenly opened, and inside was pitch black, with a cold wind blowing out, just like hell -

At this moment, a graceful person wearing a fox mask appeared. The pure black mask had a special cold luster, and she looked like a fox that jumped out of hell and specialized in bewitching people.

The man with the fox mask was dressed in black, neatly tied, yet he looked naturally charming. He smiled and said, "So, you are four distinguished guests who have come from afar—"

Ji Lingche nodded slightly, but wanted to go around him and get in, but the masked man moved very nimbly and stood in front of her, stretching out his hand to block her slightly. It was obviously very gentle, but it was a bit creepy.

The fox mask smiled, with a hint of coldness on the corners of his mouth: "Dear guest, where is your invitation?"