On Lu Ming’s side, in order to prepare for his trip to the Caesar Hotel, he had specially looked into the current situation in ZS City.
At present, the person in charge of ZS City was Tong Qian, a ghost controller with the codename Ghost Face.
However, ZS City was far from peaceful. It was currently under the influence of a supernatural incident, and even Tong Qian, the person in charge, had lost contact.
“This Tong Qian can be considered a good person, for the time being. But in an era like this, good people are useless—especially ghost controllers like this who don’t use their brains. They often end up doing bad things with good intentions.”
Thinking of Ghost Face Tong Qian, Lu Ming shook his head.
Although he acknowledged Tong Qian’s convictions, in comparison, Lu Ming was still more willing to choose someone like Yang Jian as his comrade-in-arms.
Over the past two days, Lu Ming and Yang Jian had occasionally kept in touch. What Lu Ming had not expected was that Headquarters had only classified the supernatural incident in ZS City as A-rank.
He didn’t know whether the people at Headquarters were truly stupid, or whether they were using the pretext of an A-rank supernatural incident to send the ghost controllers under them on a mission.
As far as Lu Ming knew, the human-head balloon incident that had erupted in ZS City alone was enough to be defined as A-rank.
Not to mention the Newspaper Ghost that could alter people’s memories, and the Caesar Hotel, which imprisoned countless terrifying malevolent ghosts.
To save time, Lu Ming did not continue waiting. Instead, he set off for ZS City.
Before departing, he also saved a recording of knocking sounds that had been circulating on the forum.
In truth, that post had long since been officially banned, but Lu Ming still had Yang Jian get the recording for him.
“I just don’t know what the exact situation in ZS City is right now.”
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It was not until late at night that Lu Ming arrived in ZS City.
After entering the urban area, a very bad feeling immediately rose in Lu Ming’s heart. Beneath the night curtain, many black things floated in the sky, like balloons that had been released. Only, these balloons seemed to have been fixed in place by something, hanging motionless in the air.
Lu Ming, of course, knew that these black objects were not balloons at all, but heads taken from the necks of living people.
If he remembered correctly, the source ghost of this supernatural incident later retrieved its own head and went to the island nation, taking away the malevolent ghost inside the body of a “Jade,” before gradually devouring the entire island nation’s Spirit Removal Society.
From this, one could see the terror of the human-head balloons.
And this was only one malevolent ghost that had escaped from the supernatural place known as the Caesar Hotel.
“A supernatural place like the Caesar Hotel is still far too dangerous for the current me. I have to wait until the people from Headquarters begin their operation, then slip in together with them.”
“My goal is only to take away the bloodstained old newspaper by relying on my informational advantage. But it’s not worth risking my life just to achieve that. After returning to the Lord God Space seven days later, I might encounter new opportunities. So if I run into anything wrong, I’ll directly use the supernatural to flee.”
Thinking of this, Lu Ming could not help sighing somewhat.
The resources he could mobilize right now were still too scarce.
He did not even have a single ghost candle.
The margin for error in his actions was extremely low.
“Although it’s impossible for me to join Headquarters, doing some trades with these people in the future wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing.”
Nothing happened that night.
It was not until the next morning that a helicopter landed in the outskirts of ZS City. Afterward, the Caesar Hotel and the surrounding area were sealed off together, with specialized official personnel standing guard and forbidding anyone from entering or leaving.
Lu Ming knew that Yang Jian had already arrived in ZS City.
With Yang Jian’s personality, he would never drag his feet in doing things, lest delay bring more complications.
“In that case... the operation is about to begin.”
Outside a luxurious European-style grand hotel, police cordons had been set up everywhere.
Everyone thought this place had already been completely brought under control, and that no outsiders would intrude.
But in reality, as a flurry of paper ash drifted down, a figure dressed in mourning clothes with a black trench coat draped over them appeared within the cordon, in a place where no one noticed.
Most chilling of all was that his right hand was actually holding that of a bride dressed in a bright red wedding gown.
Lu Ming did not rashly enter the Caesar Hotel. After all, this was an unfathomable supernatural place.
Even if he could use the supernatural powers of two ghosts, barging in just like this would be showing this place far too little respect.
With a thought, Lu Ming used supernatural power to invade the broadcast room on the second floor of the Caesar Hotel and played that recording of knocking.
The next moment, knocking sounds echoed throughout the entire Caesar Hotel.
From the outside, the weather above the Caesar Hotel seemed to have suddenly darkened, gloomy and inexplicably strange.
This darkness seemed capable of devouring everything, exuding a supernatural aura.
Lu Ming knew that this was the Knocking Ghost’s ghost domain. The Knocking Ghost was about to arrive. The medium through which this malevolent ghost killed was the sound of knocking.
By continuously playing the Knocking Ghost’s knocking sounds inside the Caesar Hotel, the Knocking Ghost could be drawn to this place and use its ghost domain to take away a large number of malevolent ghosts whose level of terror was not too high.
This was the preparation Lu Ming had made before entering the hotel. It could reduce the possibility of encountering danger, as well as reduce the number of times he needed to use supernatural power.
The Caesar Hotel, having just been scoured by the Knocking Ghost’s ghost domain, would have its level of terror greatly lowered. This was the best time to enter the hotel.
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At this moment, Yang Jian, Xiong Wenwen, and the others, who were still not far from the Caesar Hotel, were all startled by the sudden change before their eyes.
“Damn it, what the hell is that? It’s way too evil.”
Xiong Wenwen cursed under his breath.
He was a child who looked only around ten years old, but he was a powerful ghost controller with the codename Spirit Child. His ability was to use the supernatural to simulate events that would happen in the future, thereby achieving an effect similar to prediction.
This time, aside from Xiong Wenwen, Headquarters had also sent two ghost controllers, Feng Quan and Guo Fan, to assist.
In addition, the Supernatural Forum from Dahai City had sent three external reinforcements: Lin Luomei, Luo Suyi, and Huang Fei.
However, in Yang Jian’s eyes, the abilities of these three were not outstanding, so he called them the “Noob Trio.”
“Are you kidding me! This is... the ghost domain of that Knocking Ghost from Seventh High?”
With just one glance, Yang Jian recognized the mist-like ghost domain shrouding the sky above the hotel, as viscous as mercury.
Why had the Knocking Ghost come to this hotel?
Had a guest staying in the hotel played that knocking audio?
But as early as several days ago, the Caesar Hotel had been sealed off by the people from Headquarters. No one was allowed to enter or leave.
Even from so far away, Yang Jian still felt his scalp go numb. This Knocking Ghost reminded him of some unpleasant memories.
To him, the pressure it gave off was even stronger than that of the S-rank Starving Ghost.
The ghost eye on Yang Jian’s forehead forced itself open through his flesh and began to swivel restlessly.