“Kid, what’s got you in such a hurry? You don’t even care about your life?”
At three or four in the morning, the streets held nothing but streetlamps swarmed by moths and mosquitoes.
There were few cars.
The driver was not going slowly—eighty-something kilometers an hour.
“My girlfriend got angry and broke up with me. I’m going to chase after her.”
Lin Qian looked ahead, his heart extremely uneasy, but he still forced himself to answer.
“For love, huh? And here I thought it was something serious.” The driver shook his head. “You young people are all like this, living and dying for love…”
Lin Qian had no mind at the moment to discuss love with the driver.
He only knew that he was not safe right now.
He had more or less sorted out the whole sequence of events.
When his previous self had gone traveling to Taiping Ancient Town, he had accidentally entered that ghost street and bought that mask.
The next day after returning, he had died.
But over the past few days, the mask had never left. And when Lin Qian transmigrated over, it just so happened that the old people of Taiping Ancient Town wanted to retrieve the mask.
When he was attacked by the malicious ghost, he had activated his ability, “Plunder.”
He had forcibly stripped that mask from the malicious ghost.
And what the old people of Taiping Ancient Town wanted was precisely the mask.
By coincidence, he had been pulled to Taiping Ancient Town by the old man’s supernatural power.
At this moment, that mask was on him, and had already been controlled by him.
Right now, the mask was in a dormant state. He looked like an ordinary person, and felt like one too.
His Plunder ability was very strange. When he did not use the supernatural, others seemed unable to discover the existence of a malicious ghost within him.
But…
Lin Qian understood one thing very clearly: someone had already sensed that something was wrong with him.
The people of Taiping Ancient Town knew very well just how terrifying that Opera Ghost was.
It was impossible for an ordinary person to survive at the hands of a malicious ghost without having controlled one, let alone survive for this long.
Lin Qian could be certain that the old people of Taiping Ancient Town had only retrieved it after confirming that the ghost had killed and then fallen into dormancy.
Everything about his situation was wrong.
The people of Taiping Ancient Town could see through it very easily.
Although those old people had not lived from the Republican era until now, they were of the same generation as Zhang Xianguang and the others.
They could be considered the second generation of ghost controllers from the Republican era.
None of those old fellows who had survived an age only a hair’s breadth beneath the Republican era were kind souls.
Moreover, there was still a He Yin’er lying in Ghost Lake.
Just for the sake of that He Yin’er alone, they would not allow someone as strange as him to live!
Let alone the fact that he had survived the hands of that Opera Ghost.
And that Opera Ghost had been deliberately sold off by that old woman.
This was already a dead knot.
If it were him, regardless of whether the other party was an ordinary person or not, he would not let them leave Dayuan City alive.
Lin Qian pondered and guessed in his heart.
His Plunder ability had forcibly seized the supernatural from a malicious ghost.
Its killing rule was terrifying. It was a curse.
From this killing rule, he could confirm that it was indeed the Opera Ghost.
Once he was attacked, the other party would directly suffer the curse. The supernatural would breed within their body and then kill them, just like at Caesar Hotel, when Yang Jian attacked the Opera Ghost and obtained the same result.
He could also attack others, with the same effect, but the other party first had to trigger his killing rule. Otherwise, he could only launch an attack after touching them.
And the killing rule was very easy to trigger. Anyone who saw the eyes on the mask would be cursed.
Lin Qian clenched his fists.
His ability had not completely plundered that Opera Ghost. It had only plundered one-tenth of its supernatural power.
His ghost was now very low in terror level. If he did not kill people or complete its puzzle, his ghost might forever remain at this level of terror, until the malicious ghost within him revived, or until that Opera Ghost found him and killed him.
It was still too early to talk about that. His most urgent task was to leave Dayuan City as soon as possible.
And he had to be ready at all times to encounter the old people of Taiping Ancient Town.
The other party had no reason to let him leave alive!
“Kid, I can tell you’re really anxious.”
The driver saw Lin Qian’s clenched fists.
At this moment, Lin Qian’s face was pale, and his whole body was trembling slightly. Perhaps even he himself had not noticed it.
“Master, I’m nineteen this year, already a freshman in university. My girlfriend and I have been together since middle school, all the way until now. Today I argued with her, and I feel like she really plans to leave. Tell me, can I not be anxious?”
Hearing this, the driver was immediately stunned, then pursed his lips. “Although I don’t know what you two argued about…”
“Just based on how long you’ve been together, today, no matter what, I’ll get you to catch up to your little girlfriend.”
“How long until the plane takes off?”
The driver asked solemnly.
“Ten minutes!” Lin Qian said without hesitation.
At this moment, he felt his heartbeat growing faster and faster. An ominous premonition appeared in his heart.
Something was coming!
“Ten minutes?” The driver narrowed his eyes slightly.
“That’s a little difficult, but…”
Before the driver had even finished speaking, a force pushing him back into his seat appeared instantly.
Lin Qian suddenly looked at the driver.
The speedometer was climbing rapidly, jumping straight from eighty to one hundred, then one-twenty, one-thirty…
“But today, I’ll stake my title as Dayuan City’s number one grind king on it. Seven minutes at most, and I’ll get you to the airport!”
Lin Qian swallowed, looking at the speedometer that had reached one hundred and ninety. Without any hesitation, he quickly fastened his seatbelt.
“M-Master, this car of yours… has it been modified?”
Lin Qian asked somewhat stammeringly.
“Yo, kid, you’ve got a good eye.”
“A Mitsubishi engine. Tough as hell. With my set of modifications, the estimated top speed can reach three hundred and thirty.”
“Three hundred and thirty!” Lin Qian’s eyes widened.
At this speed, the surrounding scenery practically swept past in a blur.
What kind of concept was three hundred and thirty?
That was not driving too fast. That was fucking flying too low!
“Relax. To send you to the airport, two-twenty is enough. Kid, your luck is pretty good. The road from here to the airport is a straight shot, not even a turn.”
“If it weren’t like that, I wouldn’t dare drive this fast either.”
The driver steadied the steering wheel with both hands, licked his lips, and spoke.
Traffic lights flashed past in an instant.
Lin Qian swallowed, both hands gripping tightly onto whatever he felt could give him peace of mind.
At this speed, if something happened, even as a ghost controller he would need a while to recover.
In the city, a taxi traveling at a severely illegal speed sped along, like a Barrett bullet fired from the barrel, shooting toward its target.
At this moment, behind the taxi, streetlamps flickered, and traffic lights strangely short-circuited.
“This…”
“Can you believe it? My ghost domain actually can’t catch up to that taxi?”
Within the ghost domain, the corners of He Liansheng’s mouth twitched as he watched the taxi speeding away. No matter how he chased, he could not catch up.
The faceless man remained silent.
At this moment, he no longer knew what to say.
How much money had that kid given the taxi driver to make him risk his life and drive that fast?
Even reincarnation was not that urgent!
“The more anxious the other party is, the more it proves certain things.”
A line of text appeared above the faceless man’s head.
When He Liansheng saw those words, he nodded. “Indeed. That kid absolutely cannot be allowed to remain!”