The ghost glanced at Zhou Nianyan, whose face was pale, without saying anything, and walked directly to Xiang Yin and Xiang Shi.
"Help him well." The ghost looked at Xiang Yin and said, then turned to look at Yuan Si and the others, "The exit is on the fourth floor. I'll take you out. Follow me closely."
After saying that, the ghost took the lead and walked outside. Xiang Yin, Xiang Shi, and Xiang Yan quickly followed.
"Let's go too." Yuan Si looked at Zhou Nianyan and asked.
"Ah? Well, let's go!" Zhou Nianyan seemed to be thinking about something just now, and Yuan Si's words startled her. She came to her senses and nodded hurriedly, then followed the ghost out with Yuan Si.
On the other side, the few people who had been standing quietly in the corner showed a conflicted look on their faces after hearing the words of the ghost.
"Team leader, should we follow them?" The man among the three looked at the people who were leaving, then turned to look at the short-haired woman standing in the center.
The short-haired woman had a stern expression and her brows were slightly furrowed, as if she was very conflicted about this decision.
"Team leader, this mission..." another woman couldn't help but speak.
The short-haired woman pursed her lips and said, "Let's follow them!"
"Yes!" The other two nodded, followed the short-haired woman and walked out quickly, following the ghost officials who were walking upstairs.
[I was really careless this time. I didn’t expect there would be so many ghosts in this small world.] Gao Yi, the short-haired woman, thought with lingering fear as she walked, [This mission is not even of B-level strength!]
Originally, they thought it was just a B-level mission, so Gao Yi only brought two people with him. Unexpectedly, they encountered a difficult ghost just after they reached the second floor. If it weren't for the ghost messenger, they might have died just now.
For the sake of his own safety, Gao Yi decided to follow the ghost catcher and leave first. He should go back and discuss the next matters in detail with everyone in the team.
…
The ghost walked in front with a very calm look on his face, but he was actually very scared looking at the darkness around him.
But you can't show it. You have to be cool and not let people know that the ghost catcher is actually afraid of ghosts.
Click——
When the ghost officials just stepped onto the third floor, the doors of the surrounding classrooms opened one after another with a click.
A faint red mist began to spread.
"Be careful."
The ghost turned around and said something to Xiang Yinxiang, then raised his leg and walked towards the fog with the ghost-binding chain.
As the ghost approached, the fog that was originally spreading suddenly stopped and then gradually retreated.
“…”
The ghost walked forward in silence. Every time the red mist retreated a step, he took a step forward. Slowly, the red mist retreated back into the classroom, and with a click, the classroom door closed again.
[Hey, hey, hey, are you so timid?]
The ghost looked at the red mist that was so scared that it hid back in the classroom, and felt that his worries were in vain.
[Of course it’s because you are awesome.] The system’s cheerful voice rang out, [Wait, dear, behind me!!]
"!" After hearing what the system said, the ghost turned around and saw a wisp of faint red mist floating towards Yin Xiangshi and the others.
The ghost was startled and turned around and ran over.
Seeing the ghost turn around and run over, the floating red mist quickly retreated back into the classroom.
When the ghost ran over, except Xiang Yin, Xiang Shi who had a defensive purse, and Yuan Si who had his own talisman, everyone else fell to the ground and fainted.
"Ah...what...what happened to them?"
Yuan Si and Xiang Yin looked at the people on the ground in surprise.
The ghost officer squatted down and looked at the people who had fainted. He was relieved when he found that they were still breathing. He stood up and looked at the people who were standing and said, "They are still breathing, but they have fainted."
"Is it because of this red mist?" Yuan Si also saw the red mist just now, so he guessed.
Xiang Yin and Xiang Shi also nodded, agreeing with Yuan Si's guess.
At first, the ghost also thought that it was caused by the red mist, but when he thought about it carefully, he found something wrong.
When he turned around and looked at Yuan Si and the others, the red mist was still some distance away from them and had not touched them.
Therefore, the possibility of red mist is relatively small, and what is more likely is...
The ghost turned his attention to Zhou Nianyan who had fainted.
Originally, Xiang Yan had noticed that something was wrong with Zhou Nianyan when they were in the office on the second floor. When he came into the ghost messenger's shell, the abnormality of Zhou Nianyan became even more obvious.
After all, the ghost catcher's sensitivity to ghosts is much stronger than that of ordinary people.
In the eyes of the ghost, Zhou Nianyan was not what she looked like now. She was wearing the school uniform of Xuzhou High School. The uniform was covered with scorch marks left by the fire, and there was a strong and unpleasant burnt smell all over her body.
The reason I didn't expose her before was because I wanted to see what she was going to do. I didn't expect that when we weren't paying attention, she and the others fainted together.
If it weren't for the purse given by the ghost messenger to Xiang Yin, they might have been among the people lying on the ground now.
Looking at the people lying on the ground, the ghost asked the system in his heart if it knew what happened to them.
[Dear, they were pulled into the illusion created by Zhou Nianyan.] The system explained: [This kind of illusion is usually used to find scapegoats. If they can't get out within a certain period of time, they will eventually become new ghosts, and Zhou Nianyan can leave this small world.]
In this small world, although ghosts and monsters are powerful and can control most places here, they also cannot go out.
They can only wait day after day and year after year for someone to accidentally break in, or pull in a few people who happen to be in school at dusk.
Life in the small world is too boring, so some ghosts try every possible way to get out.
This is one way to find a scapegoat, but this method is not easy to carry out. It requires a lot from the dead ghost, and the success rate is very low. It often takes a lot of living people to replace a ghost.
However, even if the success rate is low, there are still many ghosts willing to try. Zhou Nianyan is one of them.
Zhou Nianyan looked at the three people struggling in the illusion in front of her, and the corners of her mouth curled up in good mood.
Zhou Nianyan was originally an ordinary student of Xuzhou High School. She happened to be in the building when a fire broke out in the school a year ago, and unfortunately she was burned to death.
Originally, she didn't have much resentment about the death, after all, it was an accidental fire.
After her death, she complained about her bad luck for a while, but gradually she calmed down and began to wait for the ghost to take her to hell to be reincarnated.
After she died, a feeling appeared in her mind, which told her that after people died, ghosts would take them to hell for reincarnation.
Although she was reluctant to leave her family and friends, since the dead cannot be resurrected, she accepted her fate and waited for the ghost to come after death.
But she waited for a long time and no ghost appeared, so she left the place where she died and went out to take a look.
This time she went out, she realized that they were all trapped in the small world and couldn't get out.
Zhou Nianyan felt very desperate and confused. She wondered why this small world appeared.
Could it be that because so many people died, this small world was formed? However, there were so many accidents in this world, and none of them formed this kind of small world.
This doubt was answered when Zhou Nianyan saw the evil ghost on the fourth floor.
It turns out that the fire was not an accident at all, but was caused intentionally. That is why the ghosts closest to the fire had so much resentment, so much so that this small world was formed.
After knowing the cause of the small world, Zhou Nianyan's resentment was also aroused.
"Why? Why me?"
"Why don't you even give me a chance to be reborn?"
"I hate..."
"I want to go out..."
She no longer just waited, she wanted to find a way out on her own.
After that, Zhou Nianyan began to look for a scapegoat.
In order to get out, her hands were covered in blood, and her heart gradually became filled with resentment.
During this year, she found many people to enter the illusion, but it was still not enough.
Until she met Yuan Si.
When she met Yuan Si, she knew that he was a very good scapegoat.
However, although Yuan Si has a cheerful and kind personality, he is not someone who would easily fall into illusions. That is why Zhou Nianyan deliberately pretended to be someone who had accidentally broken in like him, to gain his trust, and then look for an opportunity to take action.
But her plan was ruined by the sudden appearance of a ghost.
When Zhou Nianyan met the Xiang Yan brothers and sisters before, she felt something was wrong. But for Yuan Si, the candidate she had finally met, she still felt that she couldn't give up, so she continued to follow them.
But who knew that there was a ghost behind Xiang Yan?
That’s right, Zhou Nianyan felt that the ghost messenger came just for Xiang Yan.
Before Xiang Yan came in, they had encountered some dangers and ghosts, but the ghost catcher did not show up at all. But as soon as Xiang Yan came in and encountered danger, the ghost catcher appeared instantly.
Moreover, the concerned and nervous look in the ghost's eyes when he looked at Yan was different from the indifference in his eyes when he looked at other people.
Who would believe that the ghost messenger didn’t come for Xiang Yan?
If it was Zhou Nianyan in the past, she would have wanted to see the ghost messenger and let him take her to hell to reincarnate. But Zhou Nianyan now no longer has this idea. If she finds a good scapegoat, won't she be free and unfettered after she gets out? Who would want to reincarnate?
Moreover, Zhou Nianyan felt that the ghost looked at her in a very strange way, as if he had noticed that something was wrong with her, but the ghost did not say it out loud, which made Zhou Nianyan very nervous.
For her own safety, Zhou Nianyan decided to give up Yuan Si. Although Yuan Si was a good person, it was difficult to deal with him. She took the opportunity to launch an illusion when everyone's attention was on the red mist, and then dragged the three people following them into the illusion she created, and then left an empty shell behind and fled back to her own territory.
Looking at the three people in front of him who were trapped in the illusion, Zhou Nianyan touched his chin and muttered to himself: "With these three people, there is still a little short..."
…
"Um... Mr. Ghost Officer, do you know what happened to them?" Yuan Si saw the Ghost Officer staring at the four people on the ground without saying anything, so he couldn't help but ask.
"They were pulled into an illusion." The ghost sighed slightly, then walked to Xiang Yin and Xiang Shi.
"Illusion?"
Yuan Si and his companions looked at the ghost messenger in confusion.
The ghost didn't explain much. He walked up to Xiang Yin, frowned, then drew a circle around them with golden paint and asked Yuan Si, Xiang Yin and others to go in.
"Stay in the circle, I'll bring them back." The ghost said and was about to turn around and leave, but he paused for a moment before taking out a black chain with a purple crystal necklace and hung it around Xiang Yan's neck. Then he left in a flash.
“…”
“…”
Xiang Yin looked at the necklace on Xiang Yan's neck, then looked at each other, not knowing what to say.
On the other side, the ghost ran towards Zhou Nianyan while asking the system about the necklace in his mind. [System, is that amethyst necklace really that powerful?]
Although Xiang Yin and Xiang Shi were there, the ghost catcher was still very worried whether something would happen to Xiang Yan's body. After all, Xiang Yin and the others were just ordinary people. If something happened to Xiang Yan's body by accident, the ghost catcher would not even have a place to cry.
In order to protect his own body, the ghost, under the introduction of the system, spent one third of the energy points he collected in the incident of the red-clothed female ghost to buy the amethyst necklace in the system mall.
When I bought it, my heart was bleeding because it was too expensive.
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