Mysterious Revival: Controlling Ghosts Starts with a Bug

Chapter 78 Decoration
Caesar Hotel is located in the south of ZS City and is one of the famous hotels in ZS City.

Due to its luxurious decoration and good service, many people choose to hold wedding banquets here, and it is basically full every day during holidays.

People living nearby are basically accustomed to the hustle and bustle of the Caesar Hotel.

However, to the surprise of those around, in the past two days, the Caesar Hotel actually put up a cordon and the number of people inside was decreasing.

The headlights that used to be brightly lit at night were all turned off as early as seven or eight o'clock.

Some curious people went to inquire and found out that the Caesar Hotel, which made tens of thousands of dollars a day, had actually been sold.

For a time, the rumor spread like wildfire.

Some of them were run away due to gambling debts, some were acquired by wealthy people, and some were forced to sell due to the oppression of power...

In short, no matter whether they cared or not, people around couldn't help but pay attention when passing by Caesar Hotel.

It seems that with just one look and a 99% guess, there will be endless topics to talk about for half a day after returning home.

The life of ordinary people is so simple and unpretentious.

But on this day, a sharp-eyed passerby suddenly saw a young man bypassing the cordon of the Caesar Hotel, opening the door directly and walking in alone.

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“The decoration of Caesar Hotel is quite good.”

Xu Kong walked on the first floor of Caesar Hotel. Everything he saw was magnificent. Even though the lights were not turned on, the hanging crystals were still shining, showing the luxury.

Since most of the banquets we organize are grand banquets, according to domestic customs, this kind of grand style is indeed necessary to attract more customers.

When it comes to specific boxes and rooms, Caesar Hotel also has different decoration styles.

Based on the information submitted by Tong Qian, Xu Kong saw various Chinese and Western styles, including small bridges and flowing water, ancient simplicity, grand luxury, flowing lights and colorful lights...

Of course, the hotel as a whole is still more European style.

Xu Kong took over the Caesar Hotel and had no intention of changing the surface decoration style.

The place he wanted to renovate was the mysterious place that overlapped with the Caesar Hotel.

Before starting the work, Xu Kong first controlled the ghost den to scan the real world from top to bottom, confirming that no one was in the hotel. He also moved all the useless debris and even dust and garbage outside the hotel and piled them into a small pile.

The city’s sanitation department will take care of these things, after all, the Caesar Hotel has paid full sanitation fees.

As for the future?

With Tong Qian's words, Xu Kong didn't have to worry about these trivial matters.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Kong directly controlled the ghost den and broke into the depths of the spiritual world.

In an instant, the scene of the entire Caesar Hotel was completely different.

Xu Kong looked down and saw darkness beneath his feet. He looked around and saw darkness all around as well.

The magnificent pillars, murals and lighting fixtures that were previously seen everywhere in reality have completely disappeared.

The only light was in the air above and to the side, quite a distance away from Xu Kong.

Xu Kong walked towards it, but saw that the light seemed to be getting farther and farther away.

"Everything in the deep spiritual realm is indeed different from reality."

Xu Kong stopped and didn't waste any more effort.

Over the past few months, he has simulated more than ten kinds of evil spirits, but there is one that happens to be suitable for this scene, that is the supernatural power of "ghost feet".

The ghost foot's body is only at the third level of horror, but with its unique rules it can travel through the ghost den, just enough to restrain the ghost den's distortion of reality.

After Xu Kong "simulated" its rules, he was able to walk freely in the depths of the spiritual world with his eighth level of terrifying power.

Suddenly, a cold feeling emanated from his feet, and the exposed skin on his ankles turned black like a burnt corpse.

This is the inherent influence of the laws of evil spirits in this world. Even with Xu Kong's ability, he can only recover after the supernatural powers are eliminated.

Xu Kong took a step forward, and the light he saw moved visibly forward a big step.

His charred feet stepped on the dark ground where nothing could be seen, but Xu Kong was unaware of it.

He only took about ten steps before he arrived in front of the light.

At this time, one could clearly see the light coming from a double-opening European-style glass door in mid-air.

Outside the gate, a red carpet spiraled down and arrived directly at Xu Kong's feet.

On both sides and below the red carpet are handrails and stairs standing in the air.

Xu Kong's pupils were slightly black, simulating the supernatural power of the "ghost eyes", and he could see through the depths of the supernatural and the real world at the same time.

I saw that the red carpet staircase exactly coincided with the stairs going up to the upper floors of the Caesar Hotel in reality.

And with the help of the "ghost eyes", Xu Kong could clearly see that the scope of the red carpet was slowly and steadily expanding.

"This should be the intersection of reality and the depths of the supernatural at the Caesar Hotel."

Xu Kong understood.

The expansion of the red carpet symbolizes the deeper and deeper intersection between this mysterious place and Caesar Park Hotel.

If this continues, one day an evil spirit will pass through the Caesar Hotel from the depths of the spirit world and run out.

In fact, in the original book, a headless ghost did run out, and then there were incidents of human head balloons everywhere.

It’s just that right now, the headless ghost hasn’t come out yet.

Xu Kong walked straight up the stairs, leaving behind a series of charred footprints on the smooth red carpet.

After Xu Kong left, these footprints continued to spread and replicate, quickly turning the red carpet into a charred black.

Then the black color faded away quickly and the red carpet returned to its smooth and clean state.

This is the "ghost footprints" supernatural being simulated by Xu Kong, specially prepared to seal off the supernatural place.

Once touched by an evil spirit or a living person, they will immediately be attacked by the eighth level of terrifying ghost consciousness, ensuring that no one and no ghost can enter or leave.

As Xu Kong continued to go up the stairs, his whole body began to emanate a magical aura.

His hands became paler, with a hint of redness inexplicably appearing, and his nails became sharp. He pressed down on the handrail casually, leaving trails of bloody handprints that quickly painted the escalator scarlet before quietly fading away.

His breathing began to become heavy and long, and each breath seemed to take dozens of seconds, but the breath he exhaled added a chill to the depths of the mysterious world.

His throat began to swell, but it shrank a little under the pressure of the pale skin. Then bursts of coughing appeared in Xu Kong's throat, repeating over and over again on the stairs.

The index finger of his right hand was raised, and as his arm swung, he kept pointing forward, backward, left and right, making the ghost on the stairs even more confusing...

By the time Xu Kong arrived in front of the European-style glass door on the second floor, he had become as pale as a corpse. His eyes were completely black, his hair had grown to his waist, his breathing was heavy and intermittent, his teeth and nails were extremely sharp, his throat was slightly swollen, the edges of his palms were flushed, his heels were slightly raised, and his ankles were slightly black... He looked like a ghost, and there was an inexplicable sense of horror and oppression.

After being restrained and disguised in the real world for a long time, Xu Kong rarely relaxed in this deep spiritual world, revealing the complete form of his "ghost consciousness" at the moment, ready to completely suppress this spiritual place and turn it into his own "cash machine".

Of course, if he met other people here, he would completely deny their identities as evil spirits.

The "living consciousness" in the ghost consciousness can prove that Xu Kong is a pure ghost rider, just more powerful than the new generation.

Xu Kong stretched out his hand, pressed it on the glass door, and watched the scarlet color in his palm paint the door.

Then he pushed the door open with force, and officially entered the mysterious place that intersected with the Caesar Hotel.

After passing through the gate, Xu Kong saw an endless long, lighted corridor in front of him, with a red carpet extending into the unknown darkness.

Even if Xu Kong used his ghost eyes to look, he could only see the endless door at the end.

Those doors are both real and fake, and are wonders created by the intersection of the supernatural world and reality.

If you go straight forward, you will never reach the end, because the depths of the spiritual world are also infinite.

Here, Xu Kong could see the distortion of time and space. The corridors became disordered from time to time. Sometimes they went forward and sometimes backward. Sometimes an aisle suddenly appeared horizontally, and sometimes the aisle suddenly disappeared. Sometimes an upward and downward corridor suddenly appeared, and sometimes the corridor disappeared directly...

And in this endless corridor, he also saw dozens of figures coming in and out.

These figures were some far and some near, but the closest one was still several thousand meters away from Xu Kong.

Xu Kong could see them, but they could not notice Xu Kong standing in front of the glass door.

The figures also come in various shapes and forms.

Some had missing limbs, some were swollen, some were charred, some were wrapped tightly, and some fled in terror...

Obviously, some of these figures are evil spirits, while others are humans who have accidentally fallen into this mysterious place.

Seeing the long distance, Xu Kong had no intention of going to rescue.

He had not received any news about anyone going missing from the Caesars Hotel in the past month or so.

But there is no food or drink in the depths of the spirit world.

Therefore, these humans who have fallen into the supernatural realm have most likely become slaves of ghosts without knowing it.

Xu Kong will only send them back to peace after encountering them.

At the moment, his own affairs are more important.

Xu Kong looked around and found that the room closest to the glass door was No. 245.

Apparently, this was caused by the distortion of the haunted place, which caused the rooms to move chaotically and at irregular intervals.

Xu Kong wanted to set up a ghost collection point here, and then guide the ghosts here, and then collect them at regular intervals.

To achieve this, the room in this location must be completely fixed.

Otherwise, after a large number of evil spirits entered the room, the room would be moved directly, and Xu Kong would have to spend a lot of effort to find them.

In a supernatural place, the best way to fix a location is to cover it with more powerful supernatural power.

Xu Kong stood still, the charred footprints under his feet kept replicating, overlapping and wrapping up Room 245 and even the glass door, and then using powerful spiritual power to completely fix them together, ensuring that the distorted time and space could not move them.

Afterwards, the charred footprints gradually faded, and the red carpet, walls and even the glass door returned to their smooth surface.

Do not!
Xu Kong looked at the red carpet in the corridor. There were still a lot of black footprints on it, but they were not left by Xu Kong.

The footprints were as black as if they were burnt, and they also stained the red carpet like drops of ink, with a stench of corpse.

Xu Kong knew that this was the trace left after the body of Li Qingzhi, one of the Seven Elders of the Republic of China, walked across the carpet after his death, and the corpse fluid that flowed down dried up and rotted.

And Li Qingzhi is also a person that Xu Kong absolutely cannot avoid if he wants to complete the "decoration plan" of his own supernatural place.

After Li Qingzhi died, he left his body in the Caesar Hotel.

He also used special means to restrict the evil spirit in his body, allowing it to wander around the intersection of Caesar Hotel and the depths of the spirit world day after day, suppressing those evil spirits that wanted to escape.

If Xu Kong did not break Li Qingzhi's back-up plan, there would be a high probability that the evil spirits he collected would be intercepted by Li Qingzhi.

"Li Qingzhi's backup plan basically exists in his own corpse."

"So the most important thing right now is to find Li Qingzhi's wandering body."

Xu Kong slowly raised his hand, and the magical power of ghost guidance was activated.

This time I am not showing the way for others, but for myself.

All of a sudden, Xu Kong had a feeling that the target he was looking for was right in front of him.

He walked forward following the spiritual guidance.

Every time he passed a door, Xu Kong would point towards room 245, leaving behind the magical power of the ghost pointing the way, which turned into an invisible signpost to guide the homeless evil spirits.

After following the spiritual guidance through several corridors and up and down seven or eight stairs, Xu Kong just turned a corner when he saw a tall figure walking towards him.

"Finally found."

Xu Kong's eyes narrowed.

The man was tall and burly, with a black and rotten face, corpse fluid constantly flowing out of his eyes. He was wearing an old coat and holding a rusty and chipped hatchet in his hand. He exuded a strong corpse stench, and was exactly the same as Li Qingzhi in Xu Kong's memory.

Xu Kong had no intention of waiting for Li Qingzhi's corpse to take action first.

At this moment, his ghost consciousness was fully activated, and his ghost eyes launched an attack as soon as he saw Li Qingzhi. The powerful supernatural power made Li Qingzhi's body suddenly stiffen.

Then Xu Kong took a step forward, and his ghost feet shuttled through the mysterious place and came directly behind Li Qingzhi. He grabbed his hand holding the hatchet with one palm and pressed on his shoulder with the other palm.

At the same time, he kicked Li Qingzhi's knee with his right foot. A violent cough and a language that ordinary people could not understand came out of Xu Kong's throat, making Li Qingzhi's body fall into complete silence.

"The attack is saturated..."

Xu Kong silently snatched the hatchet from Li Qingzhi's hand, and the ghost domain flashed by, imprisoning all the evil spirits in Li Qingzhi's body.

As for the hatchet in his hand?

Xu Kong intends to imprison it with ghost consciousness to speed up the "simulation".

He has been curious for a long time about this special supernatural object that can attack the present by attacking traces of the past.

After dealing with the only troublemaker, Xu Kong began his long career of guiding others.

He walked in this mysterious depth that intersected with the Caesar Hotel, and at one point he went thousands of kilometers deep.

Thanks to the magical power of the ghost's feet, Xu Kong only used twenty days to spread the ghost's road signs almost everywhere he could see.

By gathering all the spiritual land and even some evil ghosts that happened to pass by, Xu Kong added hundreds of suppression quotas for the ghost catcher.

It is worth mentioning that during the time in the supernatural land, Xu Kong encountered a ghost bus coming from the depths of the supernatural world, and then watched it leave from the corridor silently in the terrified eyes of the people on the bus.

Xu Kong also went to look for Room 71, where the mysterious piano was, and Room 38, where the stove was.

After imprisoning these two evil spirits that were cast into supernatural objects, Xu Kong can release terrifying ghost fire and emit ghost sounds to carry out conscious attacks or protection.

During this period of time, he also began to integrate the laws of evil spirits that he had simulated.

For example, ghost sounds, ghost language, ghost coughs, etc. with repetitive characteristics are all tried as puzzle pieces and integrated into the "ghost consciousness" to enhance the effect of the response rules.

Perhaps because of the natural aggregation of evil spirits that form a puzzle piece, Xu Kong's attempt was very effective.

Then on August 8, Xu Kong rarely left the mysterious place that intersected with the Caesar Hotel and returned to reality.

As agreed with the headquarters, the time for settling the "balance payment" for the Dachang City Starving Ghost Incident transaction has arrived.

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Following the signposts scattered throughout the supernatural land, Xu Kong soon arrived at the intersection of the supernatural land and reality.

He first restrained most of the rules of "ghost consciousness", leaving only the inconspicuous ghost eyes, and then walked down the red carpet stairs step by step.

During the time he went downstairs, Xu Kong used his ghost eyes to observe the supernatural place and reality at the same time, and found that the intersection between the two was getting bigger and bigger.

Specifically, the red carpet in the haunted place was extended by several meters, and several marble floors inlaid with floor lamps also appeared, slightly illuminating the surroundings.

But Xu Kong just observed it and ignored it.

No matter to what extent the supernatural land and the Caesar Hotel intersect, after these twenty days of action, the entire supernatural land has become the shape of Xu Kong.

No matter how powerful the ghost is, if it wants to break into the reality from this mysterious place, it must first go through the many mysterious traps set by Xu Kong.

The glass door on the second floor is the strongest defense.

It is absolutely impossible for any evil spirit to leave before the supernatural forces there are destroyed.

The corridor of Caesar Hotel was actually not very long. Xu Kong walked up about twenty steps and completely walked from the mysterious place to the real first floor.

After taking back the ghost eye's spiritual power and removing the inherent cold color interference, he saw the magnificent hall that he had not seen for a long time.

There is a special reception room on the first floor of the Caesar Hotel, and it is right next to the main entrance.

After Xu Kong sent a message to Tong Qian, he went to the reception room and waited for more than half an hour. Then he received a message from Wang Xiaoming saying that he had arrived at the door.

"Professor Wang, welcome, welcome."

When Xu Kong opened the door, he saw Wang Xiaoming and Li Jun, who was always by his side, as well as several large boxes carried by military police behind them. He immediately welcomed them in with a smile.

"There are 200 evil spirits in these two boxes. They are the final payment for the last Dachang City starving ghost incident. Please count them."

Wang Xiaoming's style remains as vigorous and resolute as ever.

Before he sat down and finished his cup of tea, he asked Li Jun to open two of the several large boxes he brought and asked Xu Kong to count them.

Xu Kong, who had really made efforts in Dachang City, naturally would not be polite.

His disguised scarlet ghost den flashed and broke open all the golden containers in the two large boxes, and then imprisoned all the two hundred evil ghosts.

Including the evil spirits imprisoned in the mysterious depths of Caesar Hotel, the number of ghost catchers who can be unconditionally suppressed has now reached 7156, getting closer and closer to the full number of ten thousand.

After Wang Xiaoming and Xu Kong collected all the evil spirits, they waved their hands and asked Li Jun to bring people in to transport the two large boxes and the gold inside them out.

After all, in this era, the importance of gold is growing with the increase of evil spirits, but gold is limited.

Therefore, even the headquarters has to be very meticulous.

"There's one thing I want to know."

Wang Xiaoming looked at Xu Kong, pointed upwards and asked.

"If you end the transaction ahead of schedule and pay the balance of the unmanned ghost isolation zone you set up in ZS City, will the ghosts in the ghost cabinet dissipate in the following 11 months, or will you continue to isolate the ownerless ghosts?"

"It was set up by the ghost cabinet."

Xu Kong first reminded Wang Xiaoming.

"I am just an intermediary to assist in the transaction."

Unless under special circumstances, he will always pay attention to maintaining his personal image.

In case someone really deals with him according to his character in the future, Xu Kong will also be able to give others a surprise.

"As for what you said, the ghosts in the ghost cabinet will naturally dissipate after the transaction is completed, even if the transaction is ended early."

Xu Kong replied as a matter of course.

"If the ghost cabinet is still there, then the transaction will naturally continue."

"Otherwise, if a fierce ghost attacks, or a masterless fierce ghost is brought in directly through the gold, wouldn't the ghost cabinet have to use additional supernatural powers to fight it?"

Wang Xiaoming shook his head, not paying attention to Xu Kong's reminder, and just said.

"That's not what I meant."

"Ever since you told Minister Cao about the matter of the 'balance' of isolating the supernatural in ZS City, the headquarters research institute, including me, has thought of something."

"That's the deal for a ghost. How many ghosts can use the ghost cabinet at most?"

"Can the size and amount of the supernatural be quantified?" Wang Xiaoming took out a pen and a notebook from his pocket and started to draw directly on the notebook.

"If a ghost can trade with a ghost cabinet to use 100 portions of the ghost cabinet's supernatural power, and 70 portions are used to fight against the attacking ghost, the remaining 30 portions are not used."

"Then while ending the ZS City 'quarantine zone' transaction ahead of schedule, can we discount the price and keep the unused supernatural powers in ZS City to continue protecting the people?"

"Once the supernatural powers are used up, there is no need to refill the ghost cabinet."

Wang Xiaoming pushed the notebook to Xu Kong.

If this idea is feasible, as long as the exchange ratio of evil ghosts and ghost cabinet spirits is high enough, the headquarters will have the possibility of forming a team of ordinary people and spirits.

After all, from Xu Kong's performance, we can tell that the ghost cabinet is extremely terrifying.

A hundred evil spirits with low levels of terror would be no match for a single evil spirit with high levels of terror.

“It’s a good idea, but it won’t work.”

Xu Kong took the notebook, took a look at it, and shook his head.

"The deal with the Ghost Cabinet has already been made. It cannot be changed."

"And every time the ghost cabinet fights against external ownerless evil spirits, it directly outputs supernatural powers from the ghost cabinet itself."

"So the transaction in the quarantine zone of ZS City that you imagined did not involve the use of supernatural powers and never existed."

Wang Xiaoming's idea was denied, but he looked at Xu Kong with burning eyes and continued to ask.

"In other words, if we trade ghost cabinet spirits directly, it will be feasible?"

"So how many copies of Ghost Cabinet Supernatural can one evil ghost trade?"

"As a ghost cabinet that trades as a rule, its supernatural power should also have a price, right?"

Xu Kong already understood what Wang Xiaoming was thinking, but he still shook his head and said to Wang Xiaoming.

"The ghost cabinet's supernatural powers do have a price, but the exchange ratio with evil spirits is not fixed."

"The sum of the value of the 'front payment' and the 'back payment' must be greater than the value of the ghost cabinet."

"This is also the rule of the 'ghost cabinet' transaction."

"If, as you said, the ghost cabinet rules for trading a fierce ghost are divided into one hundred parts, then suppressing this fierce ghost may cost one hundred and twenty parts."

"After all, the spirits of evil spirits and poisons are actually similar. It's foolish to talk about toxicity without considering the dosage."

"No matter how terrifying a ghost is, it is impossible to suppress a weak ghost forever with its tiny spiritual power."

Xu Kong concluded.

"From a ghost tamer's perspective, I suggest that you and the headquarters use this to create a batch of high-priced supernatural items, but you can't rely on it completely, otherwise one day you will not be able to make ends meet."

The light in Wang Xiaoming's eyes dimmed slightly, but still existed.

"I still choose to trade the ghost cabinet spirit worth one evil ghost first, and divide it into 100 parts as I said just now."

"Are you planning to do some research? Where is the evil spirit?"

Xu Kong did not stop him, but just asked.

"That's right. I think the ghost cabinet has great potential for supernatural things."

While answering, Wang Xiaoming gestured to Li Jun to take out a small gold box from a large box next to him.

"The evil spirit inside is a drop of ghost water, one of the special evil spirits imprisoned in the headquarters."

Wang Xiaoming introduced.

"It seems to be connected to some mysterious place. Once released, it will expand rapidly, and evil spirits can be vaguely seen in the water."

"The ghost water is so mysterious, could it be a ghost lake?"

Xu Kong guessed, and then controlled the scarlet ghost den to flash, break the golden box, and suppress it with the ghost before the ghost water expanded.

'Suppress, learn, connect, differentiate...'

Xu Kong was delighted when he sensed the evil spirit laws contained in the newly suppressed ghost water from the ghost he was controlling.

"It seems that this is really a supernatural being that has evolved from the Ghost Lake. I don't know how the headquarters has imprisoned it. Anyway, it's a good deal for me."

Afterwards, he controlled the ghost catcher to immediately suppress the ghost water into silence, just like starving ghosts, and did not use their supernatural powers.

After all, the ghost catcher is just borrowing the rules of imprisoning evil spirits in his body, and the main body is still with the evil spirits in his body.

If you use the hungry ghost's rule to devour, the devoured evil ghost will also be absorbed by the hungry ghost instead of being absorbed by the ghost messenger.

If the ghost water is used to connect with the supernatural, it will most likely be directly connected to the ghost lake, causing the ghost lake to invade from a distance.

Although Xu Kong is currently confident that he can suppress Guihu, he doesn't mind being more fully prepared and growing more confidently.

"What kind of supernatural power do you want from the ghost cabinet?"

After suppressing the ghost water, Xu Kong showed no expression at all and asked Wang Xiaoming calmly.

"Protect? Attack? Or suppress?"

"Can it be all-powerful? Or can it change according to needs?"

Wang Xiaoming asked back.

"of course can."

Xu Kong, who had captured the evil spirit, answered very straightforwardly.

"If it's just omnipotent, the effect is only one tenth, and the same is true if it changes according to the emergency needs."

"After all, the supernatural powers are dispersed and used in other places, not concentrated."

Wang Xiaoming thought about it and said.

"Then give me twenty copies of the Guardian Spirit, twenty copies of the Offensive Spirit, twenty copies of the Suppressing Spirit, twenty copies of the All-Powerful Spirit, and twenty copies of the Emergency Change Spirit."

"no problem."

A scarlet light flashed on Xu Kong's body, and five stacks of talismans appeared in front of him. On them were written the words "Protect +1", "Attack +1", "Suppression +1", "All-round +1", and "Adaptability +1" in twisted and weird simplified Chinese characters, just like simple game cards made by children.

He pushed the five stacks of talismans to Wang Xiaoming and introduced them.

"I made these talismans for your convenience."

“As long as it is attached to the body, it can be driven directly as desired, and it can be superimposed.”

“You can try to see how it works.”

Wang Xiaoming was not polite either. He picked up a protective talisman and stuck it on himself, then gave direct instructions to Li Jun.

"Li Jun, attack me."

"Professor Wang, this..."

Li Jun was startled and subconsciously wanted to refuse, but then he heard Wang Xiaoming say again.

"Control the degree of your will-o'-the-wisp, start from a little bit and increase it slowly, and stop when you reach the critical point."

"Don't worry, I haven't completed my goal yet, so I won't seek death."

"I also believe in your ability to control."

"……Yes."

Li Jun hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed.

In addition to being a bodyguard, he also serves as Wang Xiaoming's experimental assistant, so it is impossible for him to refuse Wang Xiaoming's reasonable requests.

Li Jun did as Wang Xiaoming said, lit the green will-o'-the-wisp fire, and tentatively approached Wang Xiaoming slowly from the outside.

As the will-o'-the-wisp fire approached, a layer of scarlet light visibly appeared on Wang Xiaoming's body, blocking the will-o'-the-wisp fire out.

As the ghost fire continued to burn, the scarlet light began to dim, but Wang Xiaoming did not feel any discomfort at all.

Finally, when there was still a faint layer of scarlet light, Wang Xiaoming spoke up to stop it.

"Okay."

Li Jun breathed a sigh of relief and retracted the will-o'-the-wisp. A slight burnt smell emanated from his body, like the stench of a corpse burning in a crematorium, and Li Jun's brows furrowed slightly.

"Has the evil spirit revived more rapidly? I can try this."

Wang Xiaoming took out a "Suppression +1" talisman and stuck it on Li Jun. Li Jun did not resist at all.

In an instant, the words "Suppression +1" on the talisman melted into a pool of scarlet blood and then merged into Li Jun's body.

The expression on Li Jun's face became comfortable at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the tense muscles all over his body relaxed in an instant.

"It seems to be working well. How do you feel?"

Wang Xiaoming asked Li Jun.

"...The effect is very good. The recovery level of the will-o'-the-wisp in my body that was increased by the use just now has been reduced by half."

Li Jun sensed himself and reported seriously.

"Is the effect of the suppression talisman equivalent to half of the protection talisman?"

Wang Xiaoming murmured, then shook his head.

"No, you can't think like that."

"Li Jun's supernatural power didn't actually attack me completely. At most, only half of it fought against the 'Guardian Talisman'."

"As the evil spirits revive, their degree of revival continues to intensify."

"Li Jun is in good condition right now, so a suppression talisman can reduce the degree of recovery that just increased by half."

"Until we have thoroughly understood the relationship between the resurrection of evil spirits and supernatural attacks, we cannot compare different talismans together."

"But according to the data collected in the laboratory before, there must be some kind of formula between the degree of resurrection of evil spirits and supernatural attacks, but I haven't found it yet. If I can..."

"Professor Wang!"

Li Jun's call interrupted Wang Xiaoming's thoughts.

He raised his head and suddenly remembered that he was still trading with Xu Kong.

"I'm sorry, because the talisman you provided is of great research value, and I got lost in the research all of a sudden."

Wang Xiaoming smiled apologetically at Xu Kong.

It was just that he didn't smile often, and his expression looked a little stiff at the moment.

"It's ok."

Xu Kong smiled and waved his hand.

"Since you, Professor Wang, have confirmed the value of these talismans, then what about the 'balance' of two evil spirits?"

"Li Jun."

Wang Xiaoming looked up at Li Jun, and Li Jun took out two small gold boxes again.

A scarlet light flashed, and Li Jun felt his hands were empty. The small golden box had been broken open, and there was nothing inside.

"Thank you for your patronage."

Xu Kong has always been polite and courteous to trading partners who can give him evil spirits.

On the opposite side, Wang Xiaoming tore off the talismans on his body and on Li Jun's body, but found that the words "Guard +1" on the talisman on his body had faded to almost invisible, while the talisman on Li Jun's body had no words at all.

Although he was very curious, he still restrained the desire to study it on the spot and handed over a hundred talismans, including the two used ones, to Li Jun.

"Keep it. When I get back, I will apply to set up a special research group to conduct research."

Afterwards, Wang Xiaoming brought up the old matter again to Xu Kong.

"Xu Kong, you should remember that I wanted to trade technological equipment with you a few months ago, right?"

"of course I remember."

Xu Kong looked at the several large boxes next to him that had not been opened yet.

"So, you have prepared enough evil spirits and are here to trade with me?"

"That's right. But before we make the deal, I have one more question."

Wang Xiaoming nodded and looked at Xu Kong and asked seriously.

"When I wanted the technological information, I paid the price of two evil spirits. The technical information I got was 'find a wishing ghost and make a wish, or trade with the ghost cabinet and you can get it'."

"So later I decided to directly trade in technological equipment that does not have any supernatural powers."

"But then I thought of something: since Guikui is able to manufacture these devices, we should be able to get detailed technical information even if we work backwards, right?"

“Why was the answer given so crude?”

"Is it true that the Ghost Cabinet is unable to deduce the data? Or is it that the Ghost Cabinet does not want humans to obtain the technical data, but has to provide the relevant equipment due to the transaction rules?"

"This question... is worth a thousand evil spirits."

Xu Kong looked at Wang Xiaoming deeply, paused for a moment, and then spoke.

"What? You don't want to tell me, so you just make a random offer?"

Li Jun was shocked by the number, and then he began to question it.

"How can one question be worth a thousand evil spirits? Professor Wang..."

"Okay, Li Jun."

Wang Xiaoming spoke up to stop Li Jun, then looked at Xu Kong, with no intention of arguing or bargaining.

"Since Xu Kong said it's worth a thousand evil spirits, I don't think you'll lie."

"I will ask you this question again after I have gathered a thousand evil spirits."

“I hope the answer won’t disappoint me.”

Xu Kong nodded silently.

As Li Jun said, the question Wang Xiaoming asked was not one he wanted to answer.

But Xu Kong did not make a random offer.

Because the secret contained therein is indeed a ghost worth so much.

Based on Xu Kong's recent use of the ghost cabinet's supernatural powers and his understanding of the mysterious revived world in his memory, he confirmed that the ghost cabinet is a semi-omnipotent evil spirit.

There are many things that Guichu can do, but he cannot explain them in detail.

For example, it can directly use supernatural means to make a bowl of fried rice, but the ghost cabinet cannot write out the specific physical and chemical reactions and molecular changes in the fried rice.

Even if Guichu was forced to write down the content of the transaction, it would be an exhaustive method based on the current level of human knowledge, and it would be able to write about the future after endless years.

It would be a good idea to use it to imprison ghost cabinets, but it would not be a good idea to use it to develop technology.

After all, the restrictions on transactions are based on human technological data, and it is impossible for Guiku to create new formulas and theorems out of thin air.

Corresponding to semi-omnipotent ghosts like the Ghost Cabinet are semi-omniscient ghosts like the Human Skin Paper.

A semi-omniscient ghost can know many things, but cannot do them.

It’s like the human skin paper knows how to control the second evil ghost and knows how to stack Yang Jian’s ghost eyes, but it can’t take action on its own to find an evil ghost to devour.

It can also simulate future technology and future formulas, but it cannot create future equipment out of thin air.

Half omnipotence + half omniscience, what we ultimately get is limited omniscience and omnipotence.

Xu Kong has also coveted this power for a long time.

But there was one thing that made him not dare to act, but let the human skin paper gather dust in Yang Jian's hands.

That is, if he obtained this omniscient power, Xu Kong would definitely simulate its laws, and the simulated laws would naturally be used.

At that time, under the endless future impact, the ghost consciousness will naturally produce endless thoughts.

At that time, although the ghost consciousness is still Xu Kong, his self-cognition may change towards the way of heaven and become a person of Taoism.

As the saying goes, those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes.

Before achieving ghost consciousness, Xu Kong dared to formulate the "Human Skin Paper Plan" and planned to replace the human skin paper to achieve omniscience.

After all, even if I no longer have self-awareness, I am still me.

But now that he has achieved ghost consciousness and has immortality in his hands, Xu Kong no longer has the urge to fight for these little benefits.

Therefore, before solving the problem of "personalization", Xu Kong kept his distance from the omniscient evil spirits.

Of course, Xu Kong also had an idea about this problem. That is, just like letting consciousness transcend the body before, as long as the "self" transcends the limitations of consciousness and makes the self-personality eternal, everything will be not a problem.

But in this regard, Xu Kong just started.

If he wanted to answer Wang Xiaoming's question, he only had to explain the situation of the semi-omniscient, semi-omnipotent ghost.

The Mysterious Revival World's understanding of evil spirits is too simple, and the classification of evil spirits alone is of great value.

Xu Kong was not the type of person who would stop others from climbing higher, so he handed a rope to Wang Xiaoming and the headquarters.

As long as they dare to pay, they can find the way to success.

But Xu Kong would not specifically mention it.

After achieving ghost consciousness, he has an infinite lifespan and has the patience to wait.

As for now?

Wang Xiaoming gestured to Li Jun to open a large box, which was filled with golden boxes.

He pointed at the golden boxes and said to Xu Kong.

"There are two hundred evil spirits here. I want to exchange them for three sets of artificial closed ecological circulation systems."

10,000-word chapter, revised. I shamelessly ask for follow-up reading, recommendation, monthly ticket, and comment. Let's get lively.

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