“Wang Liang. What a Wang Liang. Even that ghost bowl can’t do anything to you? What a bizarre ability. I underestimated you. No wonder Sun Qiang failed,” Wu Chao muttered through gritted teeth, his eyes filled with viciousness.
Feng Bo spoke up in warning. “Ah Chao, we need to think of a new solution, and time is very tight.
“From the looks of it, Wang Liang is still alive. No matter how Sun Qiang and the others died, he’ll probably turn his attention to us. Headquarters may act against us very soon. After all, attacking a person in charge is a serious crime.”
“I know! I know!! Damn it, then—”
Before Wu Chao could finish, the phone on the conference table suddenly rang, cutting him off and drawing his gloomy gaze toward it.
Feng Bo stepped forward and answered it. From the phone came the voice of the female receptionist downstairs, panicked and lowered.
“President Wu, bad news. Someone came into the building causing trouble. Several security guards have already—ah…”
Beep—
The call was suddenly cut off, and the receiver emitted a busy tone.
“Something’s already happened!”
Feng Bo’s expression changed. He quickly went to the computer beside the conference table and, after a flurry of operations, pulled up the surveillance footage of the first floor of the building.
In the image, on the building’s first floor, Wang Liang was smiling as he raised his hand and pressed down the panicked female receptionist’s hand, hanging up the connected phone in her grip.
The moment the surveillance feed was pulled up, Wang Liang in the footage seemed to sense something. He suddenly lifted his head and looked toward the surveillance camera, giving an eerie smile.
A familiar smile.
Not good! Feng Bo’s heart trembled.
He hurriedly tried to turn off the surveillance feed, but it was already too late.
The computer screen began to flicker and glitch uncontrollably.
After one burst of static, Wang Liang’s figure in the video transformed into the white-clothed female ghost from before. Her black hair covered her face, her shoulders hunched, her body facing the camera as she stood silently with her head lowered.
It flickered again.
The white-clothed female ghost with black hair covering her face suddenly filled the entire screen. From between the strands of hair, only one eye was visible, brimming with a venomous resentment no living person could ever display. It radiated a disturbing, terrifying sensation, as if she would crawl out of the screen in the very next moment.
Bang, bang, bang.
The sound was deafening. A succession of gunshots rang out as Wu Chao raised a golden handgun in time and fired repeatedly at the computer.
Before the female ghost in the screen could crawl out, he swiftly destroyed the computer.
The monitor went black. Several bullet holes appeared across its surface, cracks spreading everywhere. Several pieces of the screen were blasted off, and it was clearly no longer usable.
Wu Chao lowered the smoking muzzle of the gun. His face was so dark it seemed about to drip water, and the brutality in his eyes was almost impossible to suppress.
Feng Bo carefully examined the shattered, blackened computer screen. Suddenly, his pupils constricted, and he hurriedly shouted,
“She’s still there!”
Reflected in the broken black screen riddled with bullet holes and cracks was not the scene inside the conference room, but the figure of a female ghost with her head lowered.
The terrifying curse had already spread over. Even the destruction of the medium could not completely sever it.
Wu Chao’s expression changed. He raised his hand again and fired at the computer, smashing it completely apart. Fragments of the computer flew everywhere, and pieces of the black screen scattered across the floor in all sizes.
But a cold, sinister aura had already begun to spread outward. A pale hand suddenly reached out from one of the black screen fragments.
A black-haired female ghost identical to the one before crawled eerily out from a tiny shard. Her joints twisted unnaturally, and she dropped to all fours, swiftly attacking Wu Chao.
“What the hell kind of supernatural power is this?! Does it have no limits?!”
Wu Chao’s face looked ugly. This time, he chose to roll up his sleeve, revealing the rotting flesh on his arm, then swung his arm and struck the spawned Sadako with the blackened, rotten part.
With a vicious ghost appearing, Li Yu endured the pain in her face and, carrying a surge of hatred, lengthened the nails on both hands again.
But her condition had worsened, and the ghost had revived even further.
This time, her right hand uncontrollably grew one more blackened fingernail. Added together, her left and right hands now had seven, and they stabbed toward the spawned Sadako at the same time.
As before, Feng Bo blew out a mouthful of foul-smelling yellow gas, his complexion turning much grayer.
Under the attacks of three kinds of supernatural powers, this spawned Sadako, as expected, shattered into flying ash once more.
But on Wu Chao’s arm, the blackened rot spread a little further, and his condition worsened somewhat.
Although he controlled two ghosts, he had not resolved the problem of a vicious ghost’s revival. He had only prolonged the time before that revival.
Normally, it was fine. The flying ghost head that bit things and the rotten flesh would conflict with each other, so his condition worsened very slowly, allowing him to live much longer than ghost controllers who controlled only one ghost.
But once he used supernatural power, the rate of deterioration would still accelerate. Once the degree of decay on his body became too severe, or the flying ghost head tore his body apart too badly, he would still die.
As for Li Yu and Feng Bo, who each controlled only one ghost, their condition was even worse now. They had not even seen the other party in person yet, but they had already been forced to use their supernatural powers twice.
But there was no helping it. Although the white-clothed female ghost with loose hair could be beaten into ash and destroyed,
aside from the fact that she would dissipate, the difficulty of dealing with her was no different from an ordinary vicious ghost. Even with two people attacking, it would be difficult to destroy her quickly. Only by having all three of them strike could they wipe her out in a short time.
Wu Chao did feel that he was capable of suppressing and destroying that female ghost alone and quickly, but that would inevitably mean using the powers of two vicious ghosts at once, accelerating the deterioration of his condition. That was why he had not stopped the other two from acting.
“Good! Very good! He hasn’t even shown himself, yet he’s already given us two displays of power. He moves fast, all right. He’s already made it downstairs. Daring to barge into my club alone—arrogant enough. Does he really not take us seriously at all? Then come! Let’s see who dies!” Wu Chao said viciously.
They had not even seen the other party in person. Just by looking at a photo and watching the surveillance feed, they had been put in such a sorry state.
This made Wu Chao’s expression somewhat ferocious. The result in reality differed too greatly from what he had anticipated. At this moment, he no longer had that composed look of contempt for everything he had earlier. Anger burned in his heart, and he felt as if he had been slapped in the face.
He had indeed underestimated Wang Liang, but he also believed that as long as the other party dared to come up, the three of them here, with four ghosts attacking at once, would be more than Wang Liang could withstand!
Just like that white-clothed female ghost the other party had summoned just now!
He would only become flying ash!
“Brother Chao, let’s go down and kill him,” Li Yu said resentfully, covering her face.
Feng Bo stopped her. “No! His ability is very strange. To be safe, I suggest we wait for him to come up. This floor can only be reached by elevator. We can launch an attack the instant he steps out and join forces to kill him.
“As for the other people in the building, if they die, they die. As long as we’re still here, that’s enough. Fang Shang is still on the sixteenth floor watching the kid we caught earlier, but we can’t care about that now. I’ll call him up right now. When the time comes, we’ll attack together. One more person means one more bit of strength.”
“…Hmph. Then we’ll do as you say. Have Fang Shang come up first. We’ll face that Wang Liang here!”
After being attacked twice, Wu Chao became much more honest. He did not arrogantly rush downstairs. With a cold snort, he chose to play it safe and hold his home ground.
Feng Bo picked up the phone and dialed a place in the middle floors of the building.
After waiting for a while, he put down the phone and said in a low voice,
“No one answered. Fang Shang has probably been dealt with. That Wang Liang acts very quickly, and his supernatural power is very strong. He should be coming up soon. Looks like it’s just us.”
“Trash. He was at least someone who controlled a vicious ghost, yet he’s completely useless,” Wu Chao cursed, his heart growing even more anxious.
A sudden stench of urine drifted out. Wu Chao instantly turned his head and looked at the middle-aged man who had been scared witless on the floor.
The middle-aged man’s eyes were vacant, unable to believe everything he had just seen. The crotch of his pants was soaked, and a patch of yellowish liquid had flowed onto the floor.
Blue veins bulged one after another on Wu Chao’s forehead. He abruptly raised his hand and fired.
Bang.
A bloody hole appeared in the middle-aged man’s forehead. His eyes widened, and he fell over.
Thanks for the tips. Ahem, although the protagonist hasn’t appeared much in these chapters, the protagonist’s ghost has a very strong presence. I personally like writing from this kind of other-person perspective, like a horror movie—facing the attacks of the protagonist’s vicious ghost, panicking and responding, and gaining that emotional payoff. Is it padding? Maybe. I couldn’t help myself. Go easy on the flaming, orz (doge for protection)
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