bookbashuk Chapter 68 The Instinct Born from the Ghost Coffin
Chapter 68 The Instinct Born from the Ghost Coffin
Dead silence, gloomy darkness.
As if he were in a quagmire, Chu Mo felt as if his body was sinking or disappearing.
The peculiarity of the ghost coffin seemed to be affecting his body, even though he was still holding hands with the mummified bride and the newspaper was still stuck to his face.
But the disappearance of the body is a real phenomenon, and because of this, the erosion of the ghost newspaper seems to be diluted.
This state is very subtle, as if the body has completely become part of the ghost coffin, and only the consciousness can extend out and wander in Huanggang Village, which is formed by the ghost realm.
Fortunately, as long as the consciousness is brought back into the coffin, the vanished body will reassemble. At this point, if the coffin is opened, one can easily leave.
But Chu Mo did not do that, because as the time spent lying in the coffin increased, after his consciousness left his body, the supernatural power belonging to Bai Sha seemed to have subsided and merged with the ghost coffin.
This is the characteristic of the ghost coffin that breeds vengeful ghosts.
The presence of the dried-up corpse bride caused the ghost coffin to reactivate its instinct to breed vengeful ghosts.
And because Chu Mo was leading the dried-up corpse bride, this instinct also extended to Chu Mo.
At this moment, the supernatural phenomena of the weeping grave ghost seemed to be bound together with those of the ghost coffin, without conflict or contradiction.
After all, the source ghost in Huanggang Village was originally a product of the ghost coffin before it was fully formed.
Both the scope of the ghost realm and the intensity of the supernatural phenomena remain in the ghost coffin.
At this moment, Chu Mo intervened midway, which was equivalent to taking away the supernatural forces gestating inside the ghost coffin.
However, this process will not be too fast.
Chu Mo had guessed that if Feng Quan lay inside as a ghost tamer, the ghost coffin wouldn't truly nurture him as a vengeful ghost, since he was a living person, not a real ghost.
But the dried-up corpse bride is different; she is a ghost in the truest sense. The ghost coffin's instinct to breed vengeful ghosts will inevitably misjudge her as the original ghost in the coffin returning to the coffin and continuing to breed.
It's as if the dried-up corpse bride interfered and stole the chance to conceive the true source ghost inside the coffin.
Furthermore, with the dried corpse bride holding hands with Chu Mo and being bound together by supernatural forces, Chu Mo would also be affected by the ghost coffin.
Ultimately, the patient may exhibit symptoms of becoming a vengeful ghost.
For example, loss of emotion, numb eyes, and physical stiffness.
That's why the paper effigy mentions using a red veil, a white mourning cap, and old newspapers to fight against the ghost coffin.
After all, most human emotions revolve around joy and sorrow. As long as these two emotions are not affected, and the old newspaper anchors Chu Mo's identity, then with both identity and emotions present, he can be considered a complete "person".
As time went by, Chu Mo could clearly feel that he was being eroded by the ghost coffin very quickly.
At least ten times that of Feng Quan.
The only uncertainty is how long we'll have to stay here.
Maybe a week, maybe a month, maybe until the ghost coffin's supernatural power is completely exhausted.
The process of conception here is proceeding silently, while ten minutes ago in another direction...
Headquarters.
Inside the wiring room.
A phone call came through to Liu Xiaoyu's device at that moment.
"Liu Xiaoyu, do you have any files on Huanggang Village in Dachang City?"
Yang Jian asked.
"Huanggang Village?" Liu Xiaoyu typed on the keyboard and quickly brought up a file.
However, this file has access restrictions.
"I'm sorry, Yang Jian, you're not an official head at headquarters right now, so I can't help you access the relevant files. If you're considering joining us, I can apply to the higher-ups."
Yang Jian frowned. "So, you have the files, but you're unwilling to give them to me just because I'm only in charge temporarily?"
"What if I were to deal with that incident now?"
Liu Xiaoyu was clearly surprised; he hadn't expected Yang Jian to take the initiative to deal with the paranormal event.
In his view, this person was selfish and rarely took the initiative to deal with things unless it concerned his own safety and interests.
This caused her a lot of distress as the other party's operator.
After thinking it over carefully for a while, she decided to report to Captain Zhao.
About two minutes later, Zhao Jianguo answered the phone in place of Liu Xiaoyu.
"I am Zhao Jianguo. Yang Jian, are you sure you want to handle the Huanggang Village matter?"
"I'm not sure. After all, I don't even know the most basic details. Do you think a normal person would be willing to make contact?"
Yang Jian was somewhat displeased. According to the other party's meaning, if they didn't deal with Huanggang Village, wouldn't they be unqualified to check the relevant files?
That's absolutely ridiculous.
Zhao Jianguo was clearly speechless after hearing these words. He seemed to see the shadow of Chu Mo in Yang Jian.
After a moment of silence, he said, "I can't access the files for Huanggang Village using your permissions, but I can access the files of other responsible persons to help you look them up."
After suffering a loss at Chu Mo's hands, Zhao Jianguo felt that the rules didn't need to be so rigid.
After all, Yang Jian is a ghost tamer with a ghost domain. If he were to leave again, I, as the squad leader, would probably have to pack my bags and leave.
"Hurry up, while I'm still interested in that village. Who knows what will happen in a few days," Yang Jian reminded him.
For him, if the plan to control the second ghost hadn't been so appealing, he wouldn't have made that call at all in order to understand the principles of supernatural balance.
Zhao Jianguo did not hang up the call, but instead started looking up relevant information on Liu Xiaoyu's computer.
At the same time, the satellite retrieved images of Huanggang Village.
But the moment the image appeared, Zhao Jianguo froze, his eyes filled with doubt and disbelief.
"What is he doing here?"
In the scene, Zhao Jianguo sees Chu Mo appear strangely at the entrance of Huanggang Village.
The other party was carrying several gold woven bags; the scene flashed by.
Due to severe signal interference in Huanggang Village, even satellites were unable to accurately capture its complete appearance.
He couldn't help but ask Yang Jian, "Has Chu Mo told you recently that he's going back to Dachang City?"
"No, what's wrong?"
Yang Jian squinted, sensing something amiss in the other person's tone.
After all, the recent conflict between Chu Mo and headquarters has already been made public on the Ghost Rider website.
He was aware of the arrest warrant from headquarters, but ignored it.
The other party was one of the few people who had helped him on his supernatural journey. Even though they had different stances, it did not affect his relationship with Chu Mo.
Zhao Jianguo's emotions were quite complex. He exported a document containing relevant information about Huanggang Village and sent it to Yang Jian.
"This incident was initially handled by Feng Quan, the first person in charge of Dachang City, but unfortunately he did not survive to bring the intelligence out. To this day, that village remains a mystery."
Listening to Zhao Jianguo's introduction, Yang Jian opened the file, but there was very little useful information in it.
It's fair to say that aside from the person in charge's file and the village's environment, it's practically just a piece of waste paper.
Yang Jian was speechless. "I really don't understand why you would encrypt such trivial files?"
He hung up the phone quickly without continuing the conversation.
Since we can't get any useful information from headquarters, we'll have to go to Xiaoqiang Club in person.