Mysterious Revival: Controlling Ghosts Starts with a Bug

Chapter 58 Persuasion
"We're in big trouble."

In the Dachang Municipal Government Office, Wang Xiaoming stood in the conference room and spoke in a low voice.

Opposite him were all the ghost riders in Dachang City who could be summoned, including Li Jun, Yang Jian, Zhao Kaiming, Yan Li, and several other new ghost riders from Dachang City. There were seven of them in total, and all of them had serious expressions.

Wang Xiaoming summoned everyone to solve the S-level supernatural incident in Dachang City.

At this moment, he pressed the switch and pointed at the screen behind him and said.

"The paranormal incident in Dachang City this time has been basically verified. It is most likely a continuation of the death of the previous Dachang City criminal policeman, the ghost baby Zhou Zheng, after the evil spirit revived."

Behind Wang Xiaoming, the light came on at the right time, projecting a photo of a skinny Interpol man with a big belly, with the words "Dachang City Interpol Zhou Zheng" written next to it.

Zhou Zheng's face was extremely thin, without any extra flesh on it, he was almost skin and bones.

Because he was extremely thin, his eyes looked large and bloodshot.

But under his thin face, Zhou Zheng's belly was bulging, like a beer belly full of fat, which looked extremely abnormal.

"The evil ghost Zhou Zheng controls is called Ghost Infant. He can usually control the ghost infant in his stomach to launch supernatural attacks. His ability is average among domestic ghost controllers."

"I also studied the ghost baby in Zhou Zheng's body and found that it has no entity."

"We can feel the ghost baby in Zhou Zheng's belly and see its outline on his belly."

"But when we actually checked Zhou Zheng with instruments, we found that there was nothing in his stomach."

"At that time, due to other topics, I did not conduct in-depth research on him."

"But I didn't expect that after the ghost baby revived and left Zhou Zheng's body, it showed extremely high growth potential."

Wang Xiaoming pressed the switch again, and the scene on the screen changed to a laboratory. Zhou Zheng was lying on a medical bed with a bulging belly. A baby's face propped up his skin, revealing a hideous outline.

"In the laboratory, the ghost baby was still in its infancy and was tightly restrained by Zhou Zheng. Apart from showing a stress reaction to the supernatural power, there was nothing special about it."

Wang Xiaoming pressed the switch again, and two pictures appeared on the screen.

The first photo shows a rental house. The floor is covered with bloodstains, scattered hair, and a few broken fingers. The walls are covered with bloody scratches. I wonder what kind of desperate struggle the victim went through before he died.

The second picture shows a dark blue child standing in the middle of the road, captured by the camera.

"The first picture is a case file I retrieved from the police archives in Dachang City's Beicheng District. The second picture was taken in front of a convenience store near the crime scene on the same day."

"Through analysis of the samples left at the scene, the blood stains on the ghost baby in the previous picture are extremely consistent with the simulation of the crime scene."

"At that time, the ghost baby had grown into a child."

Wang Xiaoming pressed the switch again, and the screen changed to the outline of an adult with an expressionless face, emitting a blue-black aura and almost blending into the surrounding blue-black haze.

It was standing inside a teaching building and was photographed through a glass window.

"This photo was taken by Yang Jian this morning at Dachang City No. 7 Middle School. The ghost baby has obviously grown to adulthood and has an extremely wide ghost den that can cover the entire Dachang City. Its strength is also extremely astonishing."

"During this period of time, dozens of cases similar to the previous ones broke out in Dachang City, with only traces of blood and flesh left but no bodies."

“I won’t show them all here.”

"Infants, children, and young people are the three most obvious changes. I think you all know what this means."

Wang Xiaoming looked at everyone and said seriously.

"The ghost baby is growing! And the way it grows, I personally infer, is to eat humans."

Except for Yang Jian, who had been informed of the situation in advance, the others obviously gasped.

Although there are rumors that as the number of murders by evil spirits increases, the laws of the supernatural will change accordingly.

For example, at the beginning, the killing pattern was triggered by noise levels above 85 decibels, and as more people were killed, it gradually dropped to 75, 65, 55...

But a ghost that grows up eating humans?

This should be the first time in recorded history, right?

But Wang Xiaoming hadn't finished his words yet. "At present, we can make a preliminary judgment that as the number of murders by the ghost baby increases, the supernatural patterns and the degree of terror are constantly changing."

“But this is not the most important thing.”

"After Yang Jian took this photo at No. 7 Middle School, he tried to imprison the ghost baby, but when he almost succeeded, the ghost baby restarted."

"Reboot? What's that?"

The ghost riders present were obviously confused.

"Restart means that everything within a certain range, including injuries, consumption, physical condition, surrounding environment, etc., will be directly returned to a certain time ago."

"In short, it is a reset of time except for memory."

Wang Xiaoming explained, then looked at Yang Jian, indicating that he should continue explaining.

"At that time, I tied the ghost baby's neck with a ghost rope in the teaching building of Dachang No. 7 Middle School, and planned to imprison the ghost baby in a golden woven bag."

Yang Jian stood up under the gaze of everyone and spoke seriously.

"But in just a moment, I was back to forty minutes ago, standing outside the teaching building, and the evil spirit in my body also returned to the state before it was activated."

"And the ghost baby standing at the window of the teaching building disappeared."

"I guess it may have gained intelligence, and after knowing it was in danger, it used this unimaginable ability to escape."

"And the next time we encounter them, my attack method this time will probably be defended against in a targeted manner and won't have any effect."

The many ghost riders in the field were suddenly in an uproar, and of course most of them couldn't believe it.

"Restart? Are you kidding me? How can someone have such an outrageous ability?"

"Could it be that you couldn't defeat that evil spirit, so you made up a lie?"

A strange ghost rider stared at Yang Jian and questioned him with a weird and unfriendly look.

"What's your name?"

Yang Jian looked at him expressionlessly and asked back.

"His name is He Chuan, one of the members of the Xiaoqiang Club that you killed before."

Zhao Kaiming, who had been silent, suddenly spoke. He first introduced He Chuan to Yang Jian, and then unexpectedly gave advice.

"Yang Jian, it is better to resolve a feud than to create one."

"Dachang City is in dire straits right now. I think peace is the most important thing. What do you think?"

"I don't think so."

Yang Jian glanced at him and sat down expressionlessly.

"let it go."

Zhao Kaiming didn't seem to really want to persuade them.

He then looked at Wang Xiaoming and made a suggestion.

"Professor Wang, from what you and Yang Jian just said, even if the reboot is true, that ghost baby doesn't seem to have any special strengths other than being a ghost."

"After all, even Yang Jian, a new ghost rider, can suppress it."

"I think we can just split up in groups of two. When we see the ghost baby, even if we can't defeat it, we can protect ourselves and send a message."

"By then, if we all work together, we should be able to detain it even if it restarts, right?"

"What do you think?"

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