Chapter 152 The First World
"Report to the captain, no living people were found!"
Cheng Kaige punched the reporting team member and hit him with a hammer: "How dare you talk like that!"
The team member felt aggrieved: "But Captain, we just didn't notice it."
Wu Xiaojing analyzed, "We haven't found anyone, not even a body. It seems we're not in the same space as the others."
There is also the feature of dividing space, which is troublesome.
Cheng Kaige racked his brains to recall the content of his previous training. Due to his training focus, he handled more special incidents involving physical mutations and less encounters with the supernatural. The higher-ups, mindful of this shortcoming in their team, had specifically assigned Wu Xiaojing to this group.
"When encountering a ghost domain with spatial properties, the primary goal is to slay the ghost. The most likely location for a ghost to appear is the place it was most obsessed with in life, which is Dormitory 404!"
"Why go to 404? Because this ghost's deepest obsession is revenge against her roommate who bullied her."
As they ascended, the stairwell lights flickered an ominous red, and unidentified powder occasionally fell from the walls. Lu Chudan carefully avoided the brown stains on the floor, listening intently to Xiang Gucheng's words, committing every word to memory.
"So many minions, interesting! You chose a good location for that technology building."
Lu Chudan saw only a shadowy figure flash over the man's shoulder. Then, a child's shrill laughter nearly pierced her eardrums. She felt a wave of dizziness. When she regained consciousness, she saw bloody palm prints all around her, and a warm liquid running across her lips. She touched it, and it was blood.
"Sorry, sorry, the kid was a little excited when he saw the snacks." Xiang Gucheng kept smiling as he apologized.
"...It's okay." Lu Chudan struggled to maintain her expression, trying not to show any fear, and suppressed the instinct to scream. Her sixth sense told her that if she was too incompetent, the man in front of her would tear up the agreement and abandon her without hesitation.
Does he have malice towards her, or towards humanity?
Lu Chudan asked: "Why is it the Science and Technology Building?"
This is the question she and many others have: why did they choose the science and technology building as the place for suicide?
"Perhaps you could look up history from a hundred years ago and see if your technology building was used as a mass grave a hundred years ago. Even so, to be able to accumulate Yin energy to such an extent in such a short period of time, the girl who died must have had a very special fate."
"It seems that your world is not very peaceful." Xiang Gucheng sighed hypocritically.
Lu Chudan was silent. There was no one else's guidance behind this matter. As an ordinary college student, she didn't believe that everything had traces of human intervention.
"This is it."
Lu Chudan stared at the dormitory door with the number 404, her eyes filled with fear. She clearly remembered that the school had sealed the dormitory completely with cement, and the place where 404 was originally located had long since become a wall, but now, the dormitory door appeared before her intact.
She glanced at Xiang Gucheng, who seemed to be indifferent and relaxed, bit her lip, put her hand on the door handle and turned it down.
Sure enough, the door was not locked and opened directly.
As the gap in the door grew wider, a huge black ball of yarn rolled down and stopped at her feet, revealing a face covered by hair, its eyes open.
"ah!"
The screams were almost enough to blow the human skull apart. At this moment, everything faded from Lu Chudan's brain. The body's automatic protection mechanism made her ignore everything she saw. After all, she was just an ordinary person who grew up in a peaceful world and had never seen such a miserable scene. Lu Chudan even wanted to faint on the spot.
But she also knew clearly that she had to stay awake.
She stopped looking at the naked head on the ground and turned her gaze towards the room with chattering teeth. A woman with long hair had her back to them, her hair like twisted tentacles, circling the entire room. In front of her, a girl in a nightgown was tightly entangled in her hair.
The girl in the nightgown was crying non-stop, her mouth stuffed with a large amount of hair, and fear was evident in every corner of her face. She stared at Lu Chudan at the door, her lips stretched wide, but no sound came out.
Lu Chudan read her meaning from her eyes; she was asking for help.
The long-haired woman noticed the intrusion of the uninvited guest. She did not move her lower body, but slowly turned her head.
Faced with this horrifying scene, Lu Chudan covered her mouth. She subconsciously followed Xiang Gucheng's figure, but found that he had disappeared without a trace at some point.
How is that possible!
Just as she was about to see the long-haired woman's face, great fear was about to pierce her heart, and a familiar voice sounded in her ears.
"Ghost, stop it!"
The woman paused as she turned her head, and a golden crack appeared in space. Cheng Kaige jumped out first, followed by his four teammates.
"Teacher Cheng!"
Lu Chudan's eyes lit up and she shouted in surprise.
"Stay behind us."
Cheng Kaige did not let Lu Chudan find a place to hide by herself. In this building full of minions, there were dangers everywhere. It would be better to let this student stay with them and be protected.
His eyes swept over the two headless, shriveled corpses on the ground, and he clenched his fists. They were already too late.
Another question is why a new ghost that just died not long ago can have such heavy resentment and control so many ghosts. This does not conform to common sense!
The first second Wu Xiaojing entered this space, she activated her talent and hid in the shadows. While the ghost girl's attention was drawn to the suddenly appearing Cheng Kaige and his group, she popped out sharp claws from her hands, covered with a layer of mysterious light, and directly cut off the ghost girl's wriggling hair that was wrapped around the girl in the nightgown. She took the fallen girl into her arms and retreated behind her teammates.
The hair was harder than steel bars. In order to cut it, Wu Xiaojing's hands were already full of cracks and blood.
All this happened in just a few seconds. The female ghost realized belatedly that her enemy had been kidnapped. She immediately screamed and went into a state of rage.
Amid the resistance of her teammates, Wu Xiaojing quickly checked the body of the person in her arms. She had learned some basic medical knowledge, and looking at the densely packed hair in the girl's mouth, Wu Xiaojing frowned deeply.
The hair has penetrated deep into the girl's internal organs, constantly absorbing her vitality. I'm afraid I have to ask someone with healing abilities to treat it.
Wu Xiaojing instantly assessed the girl's situation and placed a talisman on her forehead. As a pure white light emanated, the girl's face, a mixture of fear, relief, and the joy of being alive, a mixture of tears and laughter, calmed down and she closed her eyes.
Wu Xiaojing entrusted the girl to Lu Chudan and stood up to join the battlefield again.
Lu Chudan carefully supported the unconscious girl and looked towards the center of the battlefield with concern.
Even though she had not yet embarked on the path of cultivation, she could clearly see that Cheng Kaige's side was at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the female ghost.
"Captain, the injured person must receive immediate treatment. The sedative can only suppress the foreign object in her body for three hours at most. After three hours..."
Wu Xiaojing reported to Cheng Kaige during a break in the battle.
Cheng Kaige's flaming spear helped a teammate escape the hair attack. Upon hearing Wu Xiaojing's report, he tightened his grip on the red tasseled spear, his eyes changing several times. His flames were just ordinary flames, and it was difficult to deal with the female ghost.
Damn it! If he hadn't failed to fuse the seed of that strange fire, he wouldn't be so powerless against the ghosts!
"who!"
Cheng Kaige suddenly raised his head and stared at the void. At that moment, he felt a chilling murderous intent.
"Oh my, I'm so sorry, little brother, your appearance is too similar to an old friend of mine. I really can't control my emotions and accidentally got too excited."
Xiang Gucheng stepped out of the void and casually flicked off the dust that had accidentally stuck to the corner of his clothes.
"Who are you?" Cheng Kaige asked warily.
The moment this person appeared, both the enemy and our side stopped attacking at the same time. They all felt extremely threatened by this person.
"I'm just an ordinary passerby. By the way..." Xiang Gucheng smiled and said, "I'm looking for some snacks for the greedy kid at home."
The moment he finished speaking, a yin energy as deep as the sea erupted with this young man as the center. A heavy, shrill laugh echoed throughout the room. The shadow of a black coffin tied with black chains appeared behind him, and nine little children turned into entities, jumping around and making faces at them.
Before Cheng Kaige's side could move, the female ghost showed an expression of extreme fear, quickly retracted her fluttering hair, and quickly disappeared in front of them.
"It's too late to run away. Come on, I'll let you enjoy it."
The boys cheered like "Dinner is ready" and dispersed. Then, for the first time, everyone present heard the ghost's crying and shouting.
So ghosts can be this scared...
Everyone was speechless for a moment, but Cheng Kaige was deeply wary of the man in front of him. He had not forgotten the murderous intent that had just flashed across his face.
Xiang Gucheng looked at these people with a smile, or more precisely, at the leader Cheng Kaige, and said in a very gentle tone: "How about this, you destroy your own cultivation, and I will spare your life, what do you think?"
"you!"
One team member took a step forward angrily, but was stopped by Cheng Kaige. He took a deep breath and asked, "Where is that female ghost?"
"He should have become part of that group of cubs."
Cheng Kaige said slowly: "...Okay."
"team leader!"
The team members were all in disbelief. Cheng Kaige glanced at Wu Xiaojing, who had been looking down and trembling with shoulders, and said soothingly, "Alright, I'm still the winner by trading my cultivation for everyone's lives. You all know that with our strength, we can't stop that female ghost."
He grinned, pretending to be nonchalant, raised his hand and condensed a ball of spiritual energy, slowly pouring it over his dantian. Although he tried his best to remain calm, the slight trembling of his hand refused to obey his command.
The compressed explosive spiritual power was about to enter his dantian.
"Xiao Dan!"
Lu Chudan looked up suddenly. It was Tang Lingnan's voice. How could it be?
No one noticed when Xiang Gucheng's expression suddenly changed. In an instant, the dilapidated dormitory scene faded like a phantom, and in the blink of an eye, they were standing on the ground.
"Xiao Dan!"
Tang Lingnan ran to Lu Chudan, panting, and only breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Lu Chudan was safe and sound.
She noticed the person Lu Chudan was supporting and asked in confusion, "Who is this, Xiaodan? Are you okay?"
"I'm fine, this is..." Lu Chudan hesitated for a moment on how to introduce the person she was half hugging.
"This is the person who started this incident. She should have died here." A strange male voice sounded. Tang Lingnan's eyes moved to the young man with too pale skin, and he was suddenly stunned.
This person...
The man extended his hand, a bright smile on his face that he had never seen before: "Hello, nice to meet you. I'm Xianggucheng, from Xiangxi."
Where is Xiangxi? I don't think I've heard of it.
Tang Lingnan didn't have time to think before her hand was on the man's hand. She also introduced herself: "My name is Tang Lingnan. Um, my hometown is in southern Sichuan, and I'm currently studying at a university in Quancheng."
"Yeah. I remember it." Xiang Gucheng felt the relic in his pocket that was about to burn him with his other hand, and the smile on his face grew bigger and bigger.
Lu Chudan, who suddenly became a background board, looked around and felt that the two people in front of her had an atmosphere that she could not fit in, and... She looked at Xiang Gucheng's increasingly passionate eyes and muttered in her heart: I always feel that this is not like the first time we met.
Cheng Kaige, who had also been forgotten, asked tentatively: "Boss, I still need..."
"Don't worry about me. I'm just a casual cultivator who is willing to help others. Killing demons is a virtue that every cultivator should have." Xiang Gucheng changed his expression in the blink of an eye, looking righteous and unselfish.
Cheng Kaige and his group, who had personally experienced his cold murderous intent: ...
But Tang Lingnan really liked this. She had a very good impression of this person to begin with, and now she admired him even more.
Such cold hands.
Tang Lingnan withdrew her hand, thinking it might be because it was too cold at night. She gave Xiang Gucheng a grateful smile: "Thank you for saving so many people, especially Xiaodan, she is my best friend."
"Friend..." Xiang Gucheng bit the word, which reminded him of unpleasant memories. He glanced at Lu Chudan lightly and replied, "It's really my honor."
【Author’s words】
Oh, oh, oh, senior brother is no longer a human being. Because of the huge shadow he suffered in the past, he is not a good person.
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