Chapter 165: Shadow

Tu Lanxun was startled.

Kris is dead?

"Do you know what you are talking about?" She stared at the second brother of the ghost bandit sternly.

The second brother of the ghost bandit was completely controlled by the long needle. His frontal lobe was pressed against him, making it impossible for him to tell a lie. "I know..." he said slowly, "He is... is..."

"How do you prove that he is dead?" Tu Lanxun asked.

The reckless Ghost Bandit Brother Two thought bewilderedly for a few seconds, then said, "Well, he promised me something. I wanted to find him, but I didn't dare meet him in person. You know the Fourth Treaty, right?" The Ghost Bandit Brother Two said foolishly, "Then he reassured me, saying he wasn't from this world anymore and wouldn't trigger the Fourth Treaty. Sure enough, nothing happened to me in the end."

Tu Lanxun didn't know for a moment whether this person was really stupid or just pretending to be stupid. If you said he was stupid, he had the brains to engage in espionage activities. If you said he was smart, he would even believe such words.

There is more than one way to circumvent the Fourth Treaty. The Tree Worshipers have it, the Tourism Bureau has it, so why doesn't Kris have it?

However, the words of the second brother of the ghost bandit reminded Tu Lanxun, what if what he said was true?

Kris hasn't been found for so long, and his physical traces seem to have completely disappeared. Could he be dead?

For someone like Kris, death isn't extinction, but a new beginning. Especially in the context of his earthly paradise, ghosts seem to better fit Kris's identity. After all, his ultimate goal is for ghosts to take over the entire Earth and enslave all of humanity.

"But that might not be the case," Wen Chong's voice came over the phone. "Having a human body gives me two lives, after all. I can die once and again. If I become a ghost now, I'll be easily killed by the mad Fourth Treaty."

Tu Lanxun agreed, and Wen Chong continued to ask, "Did the second brother of the ghost bandit say anything else?"

"Nothing else matters anymore," Tu Lanxun said. "He took the gold Kris gave him and also took advantage of a big promise Kris made, promising him a position as the leader of the Heavenly Kingdom Group on Earth once it was established."

The interrogation video was also played to the eldest and third brothers of the Ghost Bandits, as well as a few influential leaders. The eldest brother's face was extremely livid, but the third brother was still smiling and poured a cup of tea for the eldest brother. "I think the second brother was also confused for a moment, calm down."

The ghost bandit slammed his hammer on the table, and the teacup nearly jumped up. He roared, "How can I calm down? He's dragged our entire gang into this place! If he hadn't been so evil and kidnapped us, we'd still be out there, free and easy!"

This was not directed at Tu Lanxun. Although they were hungry before, they were free after all. Now they have dormitories and canteens, but they are not allowed to leave the development zone. No matter how big the breeding area of ​​the zoo is, it is not a forest after all.

"It's not easy outside now." A faint voice came from the computer female ghost, who came out of the computer with her hair down and a cold face, scaring all the ghosts.

The screen behind the computer ghost kept popping up web pages as if she was having a seizure and was poisoned. It was too much to keep up with. Most of them were domestic and international news. The chaos and panic without the smoke of war made people feel heavy in their hearts.

The Toothless Ghost asked curiously, "Is there unrest abroad as well?"

The computer ghost has recently been responsible for the security of the convenience store's network and telephone communications to prevent people from drilling into the lines and eavesdropping. Her information is much more informed than that of the closed development zone and even the closed routes.

"It's a few hours later than ours, but just as serious." The computer ghost thought for a moment and said, "There's even been a mass death. Some countries and regions are vast, sparsely populated, and poorly organized, so residents can only defend themselves. Many people have lost contact."

Customs in various countries are now installing equipment to prevent ghosts from entering, but customs have gates, while borders do not, so ghosts can move freely between countries.

Except for this wave that is now detained in the development zone.

Seeing the resentful look on the ghost bandit's face, Tu Lanxun quickly said, "Anything else?"

The computer ghost switched between two web pages, intelligently translating into Chinese, and preached, "Because religious beliefs are more prevalent abroad, the people and ghosts there are partially controlled by religion. The better religious leaders will organize the masses and appease their hearts, while the worse ones, perhaps instructed by the Kingdom of Heaven Group... will directly engage in cults or announce the coming of the end of the world..."

One of the two webpages contained content about a town being looted and massacred, and the murderer was suspected to be related to a religious ghost group calling itself the Devil Group.

Another story involves a family deceived by an extremist religious leader. They prayed for their ancestors to appear at the family cemetery for a sanctification ceremony. However, upon the family's ghosts appearing, the leader exterminated them in the name of God. The few ghosts who fled also perished in the fourth covenant. Ultimately, the surviving family suffered a mental breakdown and committed mass suicide.

The ghost that came out after the suicide was in turn destroyed by the religious leader.

"The latter will only exacerbate the conflict between humans and ghosts." Sonia chewed potato chips. "That place is a million miles away from us. If Kris is causing trouble there, it means he's probably not in the country and won't be back for a while."

Liu Maosheng frowned and shook his head: "Not necessarily, those things may not be instigated by Kris, people are inherently so perverted, people."

Tu Lanxun didn't join the conversation. Another piece of news caught her attention. It was also overseas, in a land thick with cacti and corn. A gas station had exploded, but no one was killed. Researchers dispatched by the local government to investigate the scene found a high and rapidly decreasing concentration of spirit energy, suspecting the explosion had simultaneously annihilated at least thirty ghosts.

Note that it is a ghost, not a living person.

The researchers' final opinion was that they suspected a brutal battle against ghosts took place here, and in the end those ghosts were strangled.

There was a second piece of news later. The camera left at a distance from the gas station captured something. There were indeed shadowy ghosts gathering near the gas station, but they were eventually killed by another ghost, an unclear black shadow, who detonated the gas station.

That was more than half a month ago.

"If you want to burn the soul to death with the fire of the human world, you need to transform the yin and yang in the field in an instant. Either turn the yang fire into yin fire, or turn the yin person into a yang person. It takes a lot of effort." said the toothless ghost.

Tu Lanxun thought that the fact that the Tourism Administration could come up with something like a maintenance service meant that there really existed technological products that could achieve instant conversion.

The black shadow could only be seen as a tall man, and even the specific body shape, appearance and race could not be distinguished, but Tu Lanxun had a vague idea.

He is N.

N went to do those dangerous missions that no one else knew about. There was no doubt that he joined the war and became a member of the fight against the Kingdom of Heaven Group.

Tu Lanxun repeatedly watched the video of the computer female ghost coming from overseas, clicked pause, and turned it off with an expressionless face.

"You think so too, don't you?" Mikhail said suggestively, "You think it's that person too." His voice was very soft. "If you feel sad, I can talk to you or call Sonia for you. Do you want to talk about his leaving?"

Tu Lanxun remained calm: "I don't want to."

Mikhail covered his heart and said dramatically, "Why! Aren't you worried about his safety all the time, just like a king waiting for the knight's return? Oh, what a grueling wait, what a sweet pain."

Tu Lanxun raised her eyebrows, expressionless. "Whatever you say." She stood up. "As long as the account books are updated steadily and my pockets are full of gold, I'll be fine. You can come back or not."

After saying that, she raised her hand to drive Mikhail away and continued to check today's accounts.

Regardless of whether Tu Lanxun's words were inconsistent with his heart, the news brought by the computer ghost girl soon became a reality known to everyone. This was already largely out of the control of the Kingdom of Heaven Group. The world situation was like a chariot that could not be stopped, and the division between humans and ghosts was full of smoke.

According to research, ghosts are divided into two groups. One group still has relatives in the world and retains emotional attachment to them. They hope to see their families and descendants doing well, so they secretly protect them. The other group is the opposite. Rather than feeling any warmth towards this world, they would rather live again and completely occupy the Earth.

Especially at this moment when living space is squeezed by living people.

Moreover, the existence of ghosts eliminates the guilt of slaughtering living people, and they can stand up a second time after death as souls.

Many ghosts define killing living people as "a chance to change their identity cards" rather than a crime, or even as a collective act of overturning all treaties. With their minds liberated, bloody incidents occur more frequently.

However, as far as the country is concerned, the speed of recovering the area is very fast. The ghost team brought in by the Kingdom of Heaven Group was squeezed into the two core areas of South Province and East Province, forming a stubborn resistance front.

Lucheng, the capital of Eastern Province, has been recaptured by the living, with only some areas still harboring traces of ghosts, which need to be gradually cleared out.

Tu Lanxun received a call from Wenchong, who said that patrols and searches were underway outside and asked her not to leave the development zone. The expansion documents would probably be approved soon.

Wenchong was referring to the expansion of the development zone, which is currently three-fifths full, and with ghosts in surrounding areas and even the entire country being controlled, the zone's carrying capacity is far from enough.

Therefore, the development of nearby towns and wastelands is just around the corner, buildings will be built one after another, and the development zone may eventually become a city within a city where ghosts live.

"Has anyone contacted you recently?" Wen Chong asked.

Tu Lanxun glanced at the call logs. There was a message from Ms. Tu Penglai in the nursing home. It was a very brief message saying that she was fine and that Tu Lanxun didn't need to come to see her.

"My mother sent me a message once. Hey, here comes another one." Tu Lanxun read the pop-up dialog box, and it turned out to be Nan Shaochen.

Wen Chong said, "Take it. I'm going to hang up first. Remember to report back later."

When the phone was picked up, Nan Shaochen's voice sounded a little panicked, and he said, "Tu Lanxun, I, I think I saw my dad!"