Chapter 828 795: Dangerous City

Li Yang watched a group of people without shadows leave the hotel and disappear from sight, feeling an inexplicable chill in his heart.

If it were just Li Leping alone, it could still be explained.

After all, Li Leping is a ghost master, and some bizarre traits are completely understandable. However, it is incomprehensible for the others, as Li Leping’s assistants are all ordinary people who appear very normal.

Very normal ordinary people, each one without a shadow.

This is obviously very abnormal.

“Captain, are those people controlled by Li Leping? Or is it that Li Leping’s supernatural powers have affected the others?”

Only after seeing the group leave did Li Yang shift his gaze and whisper.

Yang Jian still looked indifferently outside: “Not sure, from the moment we got off the plane, to the car accident on the road, and till here, everything seems normal, yet there’s a peculiar feeling everywhere. Li Leping and his group didn’t even have shadows just now, which clearly involves a supernatural event.”

“One thing is certain though, they have all been eroded by supernatural elements. It might be as you said, influenced by Li Leping alone, or maybe not by Li Leping.”

“Perhaps he himself is a victim of some situation. Anyway, be more cautious in the coming period, don’t let your guard down. Though you’ve controlled two ghosts and have grown, the involvement of the Ghost Post Office and Li Leping brings significant danger, and a slight carelessness could have serious consequences here.”

Yang Jian cautioned Li Yang.

He now had the feeling of gradually stepping deeper into a place of horror.

What stunning things are hidden within this calm city, needing to be slowly uncovered and discovered?

Li Yang’s gaze grew solemn, feeling that an originally simple task of delivering a letter had suddenly become particularly complicated.

Although the letter delivery task in Dahai City was dangerous, the process was simple. Not like now, where just having entered Dachuan City things felt wrong.

After all, this is not supposed to be a place of supernatural phenomena, but a big city where normal people live.

“Let’s go back to the room to rest for now. If something is odd, the hotel will inform us,” Yang Jian said without speaking a word but instead turned back towards the hotel.

“Captain, are you saying that the hotel is dangerous?” Li Yang was quick to catch on.

Yang Jian said: “That depends on whether there is anything wrong with Li Leping. If there’s something wrong with him, then there’s something wrong with this hotel. If not, then the hotel shouldn’t have any issues because he arranged this place. Any problem would definitely be connected to him.”

“If the captain is not assured, wouldn’t it be better to find a chance to leave now?” Li Yang said.

“If we leave, how do we investigate the issue?” Yang Jian replied calmly.

Li Yang was startled for a moment.

He then remembered that facing danger, Yang Jian’s first reaction was not to escape, but to figure out how to solve it.

Escaping is the thought process of an ordinary person. If this mentality does not change, a ghost master can never conquer a malevolent ghost.

Because running away means never resolving a supernatural event, only entering a passive survival situation, and the end result is often very grim.

The two’s accommodation was on the hotel’s top floor, a presidential suite, with a servant on duty in the corridor twenty-four hours a day.

However, it’s still daytime now, and the two do not need to rest, just staying in the room to while away the time, while also trying to investigate through some informational channels what has recently happened in Dachuan City.

Things have been quiet so far, seemingly with no incidents occurring.

But when the time reached the afternoon.

Outside Dachuan City.

A private car had already driven into the city.

Sitting in the private car were three people, Liu Mingxin, Cai Yu, and Yang Xiaohua.

They were previously messengers on the second floor of the Ghost Post Office, so they kept in contact on regular days. This time they chose to participate in the letter-delivering task, so after leaving the Ghost Post Office, they gathered together at the designated spot and drove to Dachuan City.

The reason for choosing to drive was for safety.

After all, this reduces contact with other strangers.

Reducing contact means reducing mistakes, and the likelihood of encountering danger becomes very low.

“We don’t even have a letter, even if we successfully approach that address, finding Yang Jian won’t help; maybe we shouldn’t have come,” Cai Yu sat in the back seat, smoking and frowning as he looked out of the window.

“Moreover, the messenger from the third-floor has joined in, I really suggest doing like Wang Shan, staying home to watch TV and snack, life and death are predestined.”

Upon hearing this, Liu Mingxin, who was driving, immediately responded, “Do you feel comfortable entrusting your life to Yang Jian? We don’t have to get involved, it’s just to be on the safe side. If Yang Jian fails, we can immediately join forces with Li Yi to continue the delivery task. If we ignore it like Wang Shan, we might miss out on opportunities when the time comes.”

“Cai Yu, since you’re willing to get involved, it shows you have concerns. Otherwise, you would have refused outright.”

Cai Yu took a drag of his cigarette, flicking the cigarette butt out: “I’m still hesitant, haven’t made a decision yet.”

Yang Xiaohua said, “This time we don’t need to take risks. We just need to find a place to stay in Dachuan City and then observe and investigate without interfering in the delivery tasks.”

“That’s what I think too, mainly observe and wait for the right moment,” Liu Mingxin added.

They aren’t dumb.

Of course they understand the risks involved with this delivery task, so this time they came to Dachuan City without the intention to personally complete the delivery but rather to check out the situation to better understand the delivery process.

After all, it’s a matter of life and death for them.

“The car is almost out of fuel. I’ll stop at the gas station up ahead to fill up,” said Liu Mingxin, turning the steering wheel and driving towards a nearby gas station in Dachuan City.

“95, fill it up.”

Liu Mingxin turned off the engine and sat in the car, casually instructing the worker.

The worker, somewhat woodenly, took the fuel nozzle to fill up the car.

“I’m going to buy a pack of cigarettes,” Cai Yu got out of the car and headed to the convenience store nearby.

Yang Xiaohua sat in the passenger seat fiddling with her phone, searching for news about Dachuan City. If something significant had happened here, it should be reported in the news. She also joined dozens of local groups to collect rumors from various places.

At that moment,

Cai Yu arrived at the convenience store, but as soon as he walked in, he noticed that the interior was dim and gloomy, apparently without lights on, like a power outage.

At first, he didn’t mind.

But as he walked towards the counter, his steps suddenly halted.

A chill inexplicably surged up from within him.

He smelled a strong, nauseating stench of a dead body drifting from the front, originating from the dim figure sitting behind the counter.

No, it was no longer a person, but a corpse,

The body sat upright, hands on the counter as though deliberately arranged like a puppet. Most horrifyingly, the figure’s neck was empty, void of a head.

The head had somehow vanished from the neck.

“You’ve got to be joking… this is the downtown area.”

Cai Yu was instantly covered in a cold sweat. He no longer dared to buy cigarettes, instead cautiously retracing his steps, planning to leave the convenience store and quickly escape the area.

The headless corpse sitting behind the counter was clearly not just a simple murder case but was linked to a supernatural event.

This was the first time he experienced such a surreal scene in broad daylight in a gas station downtown,

nothing was concealed.

“Ghosts shouldn’t be here,”

Cai Yu took a few steps back, ears perked up, surveying his surroundings. Having a decent mental fortitude, he figured everything else seemed normal here, quickly understanding that this place had just been attacked by ghosts and wasn’t a point where a supernatural event was occurring—it likely wasn’t very dangerous.

Relieved, he took a deep breath.

However, just as he was about to leave the convenience store in haste, his eyes caught sight of a staff photo hanging on the outer wall of the store.

Cai Yu froze for a moment, then his heart suddenly turned terrifying.

Only now did he remember that there was another employee filling Liu Mingxin’s car with gas at the gas station just now.

But the headless corpse in the convenience store had already been decomposing for several days, and under such eerie circumstances, it was already very strange that this place wasn’t sealed off, let alone someone still refueling there.

Therefore, the employee who just refueled… was probably not human.

Cai Yu abruptly looked towards the direction of the car, where he saw the somewhat wooden employee had already finished refueling. But the employee’s expression and appearance did not resemble that of a living person, but rather a creepy, animated corpse.

“Liu Mingxin, quick, drive away, there’s something wrong with this gas station.”

He didn’t dare stay in the car any longer, but instead yelled and turned to run.

That possibly ghostly employee was standing right next to the car; going over at this time was asking for death, and he wasn’t going to do such a foolish thing.

Cai Yu’s warning was loud.

Yang Xiaohua and Liu Mingxin in the car also heard it.

Upon hearing the shout, both subconsciously looked in the direction of Cai Yu, realizing the seriousness of the situation only when they saw Cai Yu turning to run.

“Run!”

Once they registered the danger, the only thought in the minds of Liu Mingxin and Yang Xiaohua was escape.

But by then it was already too late.

“It’s still not full,”

a wooden and somewhat stiff voice spoke up as the employee, holding a fuel nozzle, pointed it towards Liu Mingxin seated in the driver’s seat.

Gasoline poured in, soaking Liu Mingxin completely.

He had originally wanted to ignite the car and sprint out of the gas station, but at that moment suddenly stopped himself.

Because a safety instinct in his mind alerted him.

What if igniting the car now would set him on fire as well?

“Get out of the car and run.” Liu Mingxin shouted as he pushed open the car door, abandoning the idea of driving away.

“Bang!”

The car door that had just been opened violently closed again, as that wooden and stiff employee placed a pale, corpse-spotted hand on the door.

The force was astonishing, as if the door was welded shut, making it impossible to push open.

Meanwhile, Yang Xiaohua at the passenger seat had already opened the door and escaped.

“Damn it.”

Liu Mingxin, soaked in gasoline, abandoned the idea of pushing open the door and instead tried to crawl to the passenger’s seat.

Quickly.

Cai Yu and Yang Xiaohua had already escaped the gas station, standing across the street not far away, watching the previous location with a slightly panicked look.

“Did Liu Mingxin not make it out?” Cai Yu gasped out.

“He made it out, he should be okay,” Yang Xiaohua saw Liu Mingxin running towards them in a very sorry state, though encountering some problems, he was at least still alive.

“How could this happen, how could we suddenly encounter danger, what happened just now?”

She then turned to look at Cai Yu.

Cai Yu said in a deep voice; “Just now, there was no one in the convenience store, the smell of corpse was pervasive, and I saw a headless corpse sitting behind the counter, seemingly dead for several days. How could a place with a dead person still have an employee refueling vehicles, I suspect that employee… is a ghost.”

Hearing this, Yang Xiaohua’s eyes widened staring at him, a chill running down her spine.

“But if that employee really was a ghost, then it’s impossible for the three of us to have walked out unharmed.”

Before she could finish coherently, Cai Yu furrowed his brows again.

At this moment, Liu Mingxin also breathed heavily as he ran over, not daring to look back at the gas station for fear the creepy employee would follow.

Only after putting a sufficient distance between them did he start to feel a bit safer.

“We can’t stay here, there’s been such frightening supernatural occurrences in the city, not to mention that Mingyue Community, let’s hurry and leave this place.”

Liu Mingxin was scared, or perhaps he felt the situation no longer allowed them to take risks.

So without another word, he prepared to leave.

But he hadn’t finished speaking when.

Suddenly.

A passing private car stopped in front of him.

The car window rolled down.

Liu Mingxin saw a creepy person sitting inside the car.

That person had a man’s head but a woman’s body, appearing very disproportionate, with a sense of discord as if pieced together.

But the next moment.

The creepy person in the car flicked out a cigarette butt.

The cigarette butt landed precisely on Liu Mingxin, who was drenched in gasoline.

Instantly, Liu Mingxin was engulfed in fierce flames.

Ahh!

Piercing screams and the sounds of struggling echoed.

While the private car closed its window and left calmly and quickly.

“Liu Mingxin!” Yang Xiaohua was stunned by this scene.

At this moment, Liu Mingxin was not dead yet, still howling in agony, rolling around due to the excruciating pain.

“Fire extinguisher.” Yang Xiaohua immediately prepared to help, looking for the tool.

Cai Yu grabbed her: “It’s no use, his death wasn’t an accident, it was targeted by a ghost, there’s no such coincidence in this world, we must leave here fast, it’s best to leave Dachuan City. We can’t stay in this city anymore, otherwise, we’ll end up like Liu Mingxin.”

Yang Xiaohua’s face fluctuated, as she watched Liu Mingxin gradually stop struggling in the flames, she clenched her teeth and turned to leave: “We’re leaving.”

She knew that if help arrived in time, Liu Mingxin could still survive.

But.

This wasn’t a normal situation, it was a special one.

Though Yang Xiaohua didn’t want such a teammate to die, under these circumstances where she herself was barely surviving, she couldn’t manage so much anymore.

Immediately.

Cai Yu and she turned around to leave, preparing to leave Dachuan City.

But as they turned to run towards the exit of Dachuan City, the number of vehicles on the nearby road started to increase unknowingly.

It was a sunny and bright day.

Yet, it seemed as if countless eerie eyes were secretly watching them.

At this moment, they felt as if they were living humans who have entered hell, being hunted by countless fierce ghosts.

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