Mysterious Revival: Controlling Ghosts Starts with a Bug

Chapter 45 Identification
"That depends on how big the city you're talking about is."

Xu Kong said leisurely.

"You can't just draw a big circle that encompasses the entire country and call it a city, right?"

Now, he is the dominant party, so whether he wants the deal or not, he will naturally find as much fault as possible.

Otherwise, wouldn't you be digging your own grave?

“How about the current size of the city?”

Wang Xiaoming proposed a standard.

"County, city, province, municipality, each level has one more evil spirit."

"No, I think it's better to divide it according to the area."

Xu Kong shook his head.

"Using the current average county area of ​​20 square kilometers as the calculation standard, there is one evil spirit per 20 square kilometers per year, and the part exceeding that is also counted as one evil spirit."

Then, he brought out the ghost cabinet again as an excuse to raise the price.

"If the prices are not equal, even with my intervention, the Ghost Cabinet's 'transaction' will only distort the results."

"excuse me."

Yang Jian, who had been listening nearby, suddenly spoke.

"Xu Kong, you just said that a normal transaction can only be concluded if the prices are equal, right?"

"But isolating 20 square kilometers of ghosts for a year shouldn't be worth just one evil spirit, right?"

"As far as I know, basically every city has at least a few supernatural attacks every year."

"Are you sure the evil spirit won't be revived by this?"

"of course not."

Xu Kong shook his head.

"Due to the particularity of the Ghost Cabinet's 'transaction' rules, if I am only acting as an intermediary, I will not be able to increase the degree of the evil spirits' revival."

"And the more trades I make, the more ghost cabinet privileges I can get from them."

"As for the equivalent?"

This time, Wang Xiaoming spoke before Xu Kong could open his mouth.

"Let me tell you about this."

"Yang Jian, you should have heard of the story of Zhong Kui exorcising ghosts?"

“As the king of ghosts, Zhong Kui devours hundreds of ghosts every day, so people draw images of Zhong Kui in the hope of driving away the ghosts.”

"In reality, even less terrifying ghosts will retreat in front of more terrifying ghosts."

"The horror level of the ghost cabinet happens to be in the high category."

"As long as it covers the city with its domain, many evil spirits with low levels of terror will retreat on their own."

"Only when you encounter a highly terrifying ghost will you need a ghost cabinet to fight against the supernatural."

"As a 'deal' after paying the price, the ghost cabinet's supernatural powers can be used indefinitely, and Xu Kong will not be delayed by the invading evil spirits until the evil spirits revive."

"So, the transaction just now can be considered 'equivalent'."

Yang Jian was thinking about something, but suddenly found a loophole.

"Wait, after all these years, isn't there a terrifying ghost in that headquarters?"

"Of course there are, but there are differences between evil spirits."

Wang Xiaoming shook his head, glanced at Xu Kong, and then continued to explain.

"The special rule of 'trading' that the ghost cabinet possesses can be considered 'omnipotent' to a certain extent."

"After the price is paid, the ghost cabinet can use the spirits to do all kinds of incredible things, such as what I just said, 'isolating the spirits of a city', helping you control evil spirits, and alleviating the resurrection of evil spirits."

"As for the highly terrifying evil spirits at the headquarters, their patterns are more one-sided, focusing on combat or assistance."

"I see."

Yang Jian immediately understood, glanced at Xu Kong, and seeing that he seemed to agree, he leaned back in his chair.

"I have no problem." "One evil ghost as the price, and the isolation of unmanned evil ghosts for every 20 square kilometers of the city for one year. The headquarters can renew it indefinitely. As long as the delivery of evil ghosts is not interrupted, the deal will not be considered complete, right?"

Wang Xiaoming also looked at Xu Kong again and repeated the transaction price they had just agreed upon.

"Yes, I can also accept advance payment here."

Xu Kong nodded and added, then asked.

"So, which city are you going to trade 'isolation' for?"

"Is the ghost ready?"

"Hold on."

Wang Xiaoming took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and just then a message buzzed in.

He took a look at the message and saw that it had no beginning or end, only the word "OK".

Wang Xiaoming seemed to have received some confirmed news.

He put the phone back and then signaled to a man in military uniform next to him.

"Take it out."

The man in military uniform did not hesitate and took out a gold box from the backpack behind him and placed it on the table.

"There is a fierce ghost imprisoned in this box."

Wang Xiaoming reached out, pushed the box over, and said to Xu Kong.

"Your hometown is in ZS City, right?"

"As a price for using this evil spirit, I can isolate the supernatural within a 20-kilometer radius of the center of ZS City for a year. Should that be okay?"

"no problem."

Xu Kong agreed readily and opened the golden box directly.

This time, everyone in the box saw it clearly. A scarlet blood suddenly enveloped the golden box, and a ghost fang inside it dissolved in the blood without any sign of struggle.

Then the scarlet blood evaporated and disappeared as well, leaving only the empty golden box.

"DiDi! DiDi!"

The cell phone of a man in military uniform who was guarding Wang Xiaoming suddenly vibrated.

He glanced at Wang Xiaoming, and after getting his consent, he took out his mobile phone and opened it, and found that it was a video sent from the Asian Ghost Riders Headquarters.

The man in military uniform clicked it and took a look. Then his pupils shrank immediately. He subconsciously looked up at Xu Kong, and then handed the phone to Wang Xiaoming.

"Professor Wang, this was just sent from headquarters, take a look..."

Wang Xiaoming looked at the video and saw a bird's-eye view of a city, which was obviously taken by a satellite.

In the city, cars and people are busy as usual.

However, above the city, a scarlet light curtain appeared at some point, completely covering an area of ​​20 square kilometers in the center of the city.

The light curtain was faintly visible under the sunlight. People who noticed something was wrong in the sky looked up and pointed, and some even took pictures of the sky with their mobile phones.

But after most people found that there was no significant impact, they returned to their busy normal lives.

“This light curtain shouldn’t be within the scope of Ghost Cabinet’s transactions, right?”

Wang Xiaoming frowned and looked at Xu Kong.

"Can it be removed?"

"If it persists, the impact will be quite large."

"Why not let an expert wash it?"

Xu Kong said it casually, obviously not caring much about the "influence", and he even sounded very confident when he spoke about it.

"Although this light curtain is not within the scope of the Ghost Cabinet's transactions, I created it specifically using the Ghost Cabinet's supernatural distortion of light in order to clearly define responsibilities."

"Otherwise, if the area is 20 square kilometers in the central city, how can we determine if a supernatural event happens to be within the central city but outside the 20 square kilometers?"

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