Chapter 77: Ghost Gate Reappears
This used to be an internet-famous farm stay with a large customer flow and no murders. It was not a mass grave before, but rather had good feng shui, beautiful mountains and clear waters. The owner's farm stay business here was thriving.
Logically, this place shouldn't be haunted. But since the end of last year, paranormal activity has been rampant. The Special Management Bureau investigated and found just one or two mindless wandering spirits, accidental paranormal events that could be resolved with the souls' salvation. But for some unknown reason, the number of these spirits has increased, and they've become increasingly ferocious. Last month, a ferocious ghost even showed up. Then, fortunately, someone from the Special Management Bureau's Combat Division came to dine here.
The driver was quite thankful when he spoke of this, saying, "We ran into that evil spirit head-on. It took quite a while to subdue it, and no one was killed. The authorities finally realized this place was right, and sent someone to investigate. They discovered that since some time ago, this place's excellent feng shui layout has, for some reason, begun to attract negative energy instead of wealth."
Since then, the entire farmhouse has become increasingly gloomy, and the people in the farmhouse have also been infected by the evil spirit and become increasingly unlucky.
The Special Management Bureau purified the negative energy here, and it gathered again after two or three days.
The Special Management Bureau couldn't find the cause and could only temporarily block the area and prevent anyone from entering.
But when a few ghost hunters heard that this place was haunted, they were so fearless that they ran here to explore at night and sneaked in when the people guarding the place were not paying attention.
As soon as I entered, the live broadcast was interrupted and the hosts also lost contact.
After receiving the news, the Special Management Bureau immediately sent the captain of the combat department to lead people in to search, but they also lost contact.
Director Lin realized that something was wrong and immediately transferred the case to Qi Yue.
Qi Yue turned to look at the driver, thought for a moment, and decided to give him a heads-up. "When wandering spirits appeared here one after another, causing paranormal incidents, you should have realized something was amiss."
"Ah?" The driver was stunned.
Qi Yue patiently explained, "Although some ghosts have strong obsessions and their magnetic fields are compatible, there's still a small chance they can affect real things. For example, some ghosts returning on the seventh day of the lunar calendar or during the Zhongyuan Festival can possess fish, insects, birds, and animals to visit their loved ones. However, these ghosts must have their bodies and consciousness intact. Wandering souls are merely unconscious remnants without even obsessions. Logically, even if the magnetic fields are compatible, they can't affect the real world. Unless the barrier between the real world and the wandering soul's world is broken within a short period of time."
This means that the problem is not the wandering soul, but the space in this place! This problem is also the most serious.
Seeing the driver's face filled with shock and fear, Qi Yue could only swallow his words of blame. It wasn't their fault. A month ago, the Celestial Master Association was the sole authority in the metaphysical world!
The Tianshi Association strictly guards the Tianshi inheritance. Those independent Tianshi who do not have a family behind them have to rely on themselves to explore and understand many basic knowledge. Some of their ideas are even wrong.
Those aristocratic families that controlled the Tianshi Association were only concerned with fighting for power and profit among themselves. Following their example, the Tianshi below also followed suit and fought for power and profit.
The paranormal events caused by a few wandering spirits were not profitable at all, so naturally no one paid much attention to them. The association didn't even bother to place orders for these minor matters.
The Special Management Bureau has handled the situation well. At least, there haven't been any incidents in the past few months, until yesterday. If those anchors hadn't come here to seek death, they wouldn't be trapped here.
Qi Yue didn't say anything more, pushed open the door and walked into the farmhouse.
The driver hurriedly followed him in. "We've searched the farmhouse inside and out. While there's some Yin energy here, it's very thin. We haven't found the captain and his men yet. It's as if they vanished into thin air. Other than that, we haven't noticed anything else unusual."
Qi Yue looked up and his eyes fell on the door he had just passed through. His brows furrowed slightly. "Look at this door. Is there anything wrong?"
The driver was stunned for a moment, then took a closer look and shook his head: "Is there anything wrong?"
Qi Yue looked carefully again to make sure he was not mistaken. The yin energy near the main gate was fluctuating very slightly, as if caused by spatial fluctuations.
Qi Yue thought of something, his face darkened, a golden light of merit condensed from his fingertips, and he quickly drew a talisman in the air and pointed it at the door.
The golden runes instantly enveloped the entire door, and the space shattered. A shadowy door carved from a white jade archway appeared, emitting yin energy.
The driver's pupils suddenly shrank, and his voice became sharp and changed tone: "Ghost, door!——"
"How could it be the Ghost Gate? Didn't you seal the Ghost Gate?"
Qi Yue hadn't expected a ghost gate to appear here, and was genuinely shocked. However, he quickly calmed down and said, "Did you misunderstand? The ghost world and the human world overlap not because of the ghost gate, but because the ghost world is overlapping with the human world, so the ghost gate appears."
The driver was terrified beyond words.
This means that even if the Ghost Gate is sealed, the crisis in the world has not been resolved, and more and more Ghost Gates may appear in the future.
Fortunately, the ghost gate in front of him was not yet fully formed, and it had not yet completely connected the real world and the ghost world, so what was constantly coming out was the yin energy brought by the ghost gate itself, not the ghost energy from the ghost world.
Once the Ghost Gate is fully formed, ghost energy will continue to flow in from the ghost world, and the Ghost Gate will form a huge desolate area like a ghost gate. All living beings in the desolate area will die instantly.
Now those missing people should be in the dimensional space where the ghost gate is located.
Qi Yue: "You wait here, I'll go in and bring the others out."
The driver's lips trembled: "Captain, are the captain and the others still alive?"
Qi Yue: "As long as the ghost gate hasn't opened and no ghost energy has leaked out, there's still a possibility."
As he said that, he took a few steps forward, passed through the Ghost Gate, and entered the dimensional space where the Ghost Gate was.
It wasn't long before he brought everyone else out.
Fortunately, this ghost gate has not yet taken shape, and the dimensional space formed is not very large, just slightly larger than this farmhouse.
Those ordinary people were protected by several people from the Special Management Bureau and barely managed to keep their lives.
However, they were all severely affected by Yin Qi. The few Heavenly Masters from the Special Management Bureau were fine; they could eliminate the Yin Qi's erosion by practicing more and accumulating merit. However, the ordinary people were likely to suffer from frail health and poor luck in the future.
Director Lin took the news very seriously and immediately ordered his subordinates to conduct a nationwide investigation to see if there were other places with similar situations.
After Qi Yue sealed the Ghost Gate which had not yet formed, he went to the hospital to visit Gu's father. He happened to meet Dr. Wu who was giving Gu's father a follow-up examination.
Doctor Wu was very excited when he saw Qi Yue. "Resemble you! You really do look like your grandfather when he was young. That old guy was so mad he didn't dare bring you to us old friends to see you. He didn't even dare to give us a photo. He wanted us to see what you look like, but he still wouldn't believe his nonsense that you were just picked up and raised!"
Qi Yue felt very complicated when he suddenly saw Mr. Qi's old friend.
Doctor Wu wanted to take him to another place, saying that Mr. Qi’s old friends had wanted to meet him for a long time, and today happened to be their gathering, so Qi Yue had to go with him no matter what.
Qi Yue couldn't refuse, so he pulled him into the car and took them to a certain place. They passed through many checkpoints that were heavily guarded. When Qi Yue almost thought they were going to a very important military base, the car finally stopped in a yard.
It was indeed just a group of old men and women having a meal together. There were flowers, lawns, delicious food, and even a fish pond where you could fish.
These elderly men and women all have faces that have appeared on CCTV news, and each of them holds significant importance in their respective industries.
Qi Yue's pupils trembled.
When they saw Qi Yue coming, they were so happy as if they had finally seen their grandson who had been lost for many years.
They all enthusiastically pulled Qi Yue aside to ask about his situation and why he didn't bring his childhood sweetheart with him.
Another person with a more irritable temper complained with red eyes, "Your grandfather is really something. If he didn't want you to follow in his footsteps, he should have just told us directly. Why did he have to keep it secret so tightly? In the end, he didn't tell us a word. He even spread false news that you were sent abroad, making it impossible for us to find you. Otherwise, with us watching over you, he wouldn't have let his own child be bullied like this."
Another person said, "Don't blame him. I think he had no choice. In fact, he wanted to hide his fate the most. You are also aware of the fatal fate of the Qi family."
Qi Yue understood that these words were said to him in the hope that Qi Yue would not blame Grandpa Qi.
What Qi Yue was more concerned about was, "My grandfather also knows fortune-telling?"
His words surprised everyone.
"Don't you know? Your grandfather is best at fortune-telling and changing fate. He just started out at the age of fifteen and soon became a very famous half-immortal in the Xuanmen."
This time it was Qi Yue's turn to be surprised. Hadn't Grandpa Qi always hated fortune-telling?
Qi Yue also heard a lot of old stories about Grandpa Qi from their chat.
For example, when Mr. Qi was young, he was very arrogant and cocky, and he always talked about defying fate and fighting against heaven.
Those who learn fortune-telling have five disadvantages and three flaws. He himself was destined to be a widower, but he refused to accept his fate and wanted to find a partner to spend his old age with, so he changed his fate. He also told them that he had changed it to being single, and was prepared for the fact that he would not have children to support him in his old age.
But now that they have a grandson like Qi Yue, they know that the old man is lying again.
However, Mr. Qi did disappear for many years later, saying that he went into seclusion to get married. For some reasons, it was inconvenient to let them know, and he could not accept their red envelopes.
They knew that it must be because Mr. Qi changed their fate.
When Mr. Qi contacted them again, they heard that he had divorced.
He looked much older and more decadent, but he soon cheered himself up and was still as happy and cheerful as before, but he no longer had that arrogance and frivolity. He became much more mature and steady, and no longer told fortunes for anyone.
They all guessed that Mr. Qi failed to change his fate, and had to divorce his wife reluctantly in order to save her life. He watched her remarry in tears, which was a great blow to him.
Qi Yue asked: "So you don't know who my grandmother is?"
"I don't know. Your grandfather was very tight-lipped and never revealed anything. It was only after he learned of your existence that we learned that although he was divorced at the time, he still had a son. Now he has a grandson."
Actually, it should be a daughter, Qi Yue thought silently.
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