The middle-aged man was terrified. He hurriedly looked all around himself, yet saw nothing.
But he had an intense premonition: when the spot occupied by the person in the photograph inside the alms bowl was chewed—
Perhaps he, too, would be chewed and gnawed in sync!
“No, I don’t want this! Let me go, spare me! I won’t do it anymore. I won’t clear the debt this way—I’ll pay it back slowly, I swear I’ll pay it back!”
Faced with such a bizarre supernatural phenomenon, the middle-aged man shouted in fear, but none of the three people beside the conference table paid him any attention.
Creak.
Another piece of the photograph went missing, right next to the head of the man in the picture.
At that moment, everyone from the club fixed their gazes firmly on the photograph.
As long as the head of the person in the photograph was gnawed away by the Ghost Alms Bowl, that person’s head in reality would be gnawed away at the same time!
This was a powerful and dangerous supernatural item. Wu Chao had only obtained it from overseas after taking down Sun Su.
It was not his permanently; it could be considered something temporarily lent to him by that side, to clear away certain obstacles in the way and maintain the normal operation of the club.
But this dangerous supernatural item also had an enormous side effect: the person who threw the photograph into the Ghost Alms Bowl would suffer the same injuries as the person in the photograph.
However, for those who held power, this side effect was very easy to avoid. Just like now—they only needed to coerce an ordinary person into doing it.
A life for a life, that was all. But using the life of an ordinary person to trade for the life of an enemy ghost controller was an excellent bargain for them.
Yet just as the club members were waiting for that final, crucial moment, the person in the damaged photograph inside the Ghost Alms Bowl seemed to come alive. His eyeballs suddenly shifted in a strange motion.
His gaze moved. The person in the photograph looked out toward the club members beyond the picture, the corners of his mouth lifting into an eerie smile.
The club members had been watching the photograph inside the bowl the entire time, so naturally they all saw this abnormal change. Their pupils instantly contracted.
In the next second, before they could react—
The damaged photograph began trembling violently inside the Ghost Alms Bowl. Thin streams of foul, blackened blood seeped out from the surface of the photo, completely covering it. Strands of black blood flowed into the bottomless Ghost Alms Bowl.
A bone-piercing chill emanated from the surface of the photograph, even overwhelming the chill of the Ghost Alms Bowl itself, causing the surrounding temperature to drop by several degrees.
Whoosh.
A pale, hideous arm suddenly reached out from the photograph and dug its fingers into the rim of the Ghost Alms Bowl, bracing itself with force.
Then a female ghost in white, her black hair hanging loose and covering her face, crawled out of the bowl—whose mouth was only the size of an ordinary bowl—in a completely disproportionate manner. She rapidly climbed toward Li Yu, who was the closest to the Ghost Alms Bowl among the three club members.
As the female ghost crawled, her black hair swung aside, revealing a pair of venomous eyes on her face. She stretched out her clawed hand and dug it into Li Yu’s face before Li Yu could retreat.
“Ahhh!!”
Li Yu screamed in agony, white vapor hissing from her face.
That was because the claw the female ghost had dug into her face not only possessed a strange, tremendous strength, but was also oozing a viscous black blood at that moment, corroding her face.
“A vicious ghost!”
Feng Bo’s expression changed drastically. Without hesitation, he immediately took a deep breath, then exhaled toward the female ghost that had suddenly crawled out.
A pale yellow gas poured from his mouth, carrying a thick, nauseating stench.
This was the ability of the vicious ghost Feng Bo controlled: he could exhale a gas that caused people to rot.
To avoid harming Li Yu, the direction of his breath was aimed at the female ghost’s lower body.
Li Yu felt as though her head was about to be crushed. At that moment, she also struggled with all her might.
A chill emanated from her body. She raised both hands and grabbed the female ghost’s pale arm. On each hand, three of her fingernails had become long and sharp, their tips blackened.
The eerily elongated nails pierced into the arm of the derivative Sadako. Where they stabbed in, Sadako’s pale skin likewise turned black and cracked.
Enduring two supernatural attacks at the same time, black cracks appeared all over the derivative Sadako’s body. The strength of the hand digging into Li Yu’s face weakened, and the speed at which the ghost blood seeped out slowed.
At that moment, Wu Chao made his move. Beneath the back of his neck was a patch of stiff, blackened rotten flesh, completely decayed and necrotic.
But now, that stiff rotten flesh suddenly bulged outward, split open, and rapidly grew into a shriveled vicious ghost’s head. Its eyes were rolled white, its complexion deathly gray, and its mouth hung open.
The shriveled head tore through Wu Chao’s clothes. Separating from the rotten flesh beneath the back of Wu Chao’s neck, it flew forward on its own, opened its great mouth, and bit down on the derivative Sadako’s shoulder.
Under three supernatural attacks—most importantly, after Wu Chao’s attack landed on the derivative Sadako—the derivative Sadako released the hand digging into Li Yu’s face. Her body instantly shattered into flying ash and disappeared from this floor.
Li Yu collapsed onto the ground without the slightest regard for her image, panting heavily, her body trembling from the pain.
A large portion of her face had been disfigured, the ruined area shaped like a palm print. At this moment, her vision was blurry, and one of her eyeballs had been completely corroded into pulp.
“What’s going on?! Why did a ghost crawl out of the Ghost Alms Bowl? Why is this supernatural item completely different from what those people said?! My face!” Li Yu shrieked, her body shaking.
She was still badly shaken. Her head throbbed as if it would split apart. She raised a hand to touch her face, felt a stabbing pain, and immediately did not dare touch it again.
“I’m afraid this isn’t a problem with the Ghost Alms Bowl,” Feng Bo said in a low voice.
Wu Chao came before the Ghost Alms Bowl, his expression dark.
The ghost head that had bitten Sadako flew back to the nape of his neck and merged into that patch of stiff rotten flesh.
The stiff rotten flesh at the back of his neck was squeezed open. The shriveled head once again sank into it, and during the process, the vicious ghost’s head opened and closed its mouth, biting off a chunk of black rotten flesh.
But very quickly, the nearby rotten flesh wriggled in an eerie manner, filling the missing gap and completely burying the vicious ghost’s head.
This process was painful. Wu Chao could clearly feel the sensation of flesh being wriggled apart and torn, but he did not care. He was already used to it. This was a fragile balance.
Wu Chao controlled two vicious ghosts. One was a terrifying human head that could fly out and bite people; the other was a patch of blackened rotten flesh.
The rotten flesh would spread across his body. Besides the area beneath the back of his neck, varying degrees of rotten flesh had appeared on his chest and both sides of his arms as well. It was just that the rotten flesh beneath the back of his neck was the most abundant.
This rotten flesh could resist supernatural forces, and any person or vicious ghost that came into contact with it would be corroded and suppressed.
At the same time, this rotten flesh could also be used to suppress the other ghost inside his body—a terrifying flying ghost head.
Wu Chao stared with an ugly expression into the Ghost Alms Bowl, at the damaged photograph being held aloft and drifting on black mist.
The eerie black blood that had covered the photograph had now vanished, but only part of the airport exit background remained in the picture, and the person within that background had likewise completely disappeared.
Although the photograph had once again begun to show chewed gaps, becoming even more damaged—
It had clearly lost all effect. Even the middle-aged man beside them, who had been scared stupid by the scene just now and was sitting on the floor, was perfectly fine.