Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 43 Soul Calling
Climb out of the coffin.

Xiao Ran took out her cell phone, turned on the camera, turned off the beauty filter, and took a beautiful selfie of herself.

He has a bony skull face, with only a thin layer of human skin covering his entire body. His eyeballs are flashing with light blue flames. If the Red Skull is summoned at this time, and the two of them stand together, it would be no problem to say that they are brothers.

You know what, it looks pretty cool.

"Warning! Your identity has temporarily changed to a night ghost!"

"Hint 1: You will be temporarily deprived of the ability to speak, but you will have a special connection with the Night Ghost."

"Tip 2: You can use campus badges to strengthen yourself."

"Tip 3: Don't reveal your identity, otherwise you will be hunted by all the night ghosts."

"Tip 4: Be sure to return to the coffin before dawn, otherwise you will bear the consequences at your own risk."

A series of prompts appeared in front of Xiao Ran. At the same time, just like in the dormitory, a form also appeared in front of Xiao Ran.

General abilities: claws, speed, physique, ghost perception.

These four abilities, like the normal upgrades to dormitories, require campus badges, and the badges consumed are doubled for each upgrade.

Xiao Ran didn't care much about these things, his eyes were fixed on the four special exchanges below.

【Ghost Whisper】（LV1）
Campus badge required · Pain

After awakening, he can control the students in the dormitory through the door through ghost language.

[Evil Curse] (LV1)
Need a campus badge? Desperate

After awakening, you can corrode an area. Within the corroded area, all your attributes will be increased by 30%, and the corrosion effect on the defense of doors and windows will be enhanced.

[Spiritual Journey] (LV1)
Campus Badge Required Cruel

After awakening, you can put yourself into a state where you cannot be targeted by physical attacks, and your movement speed increases by 300%.

[Devil's Treasure House] LV1; requires special badges: Hatred + Cruelty + Pain + Despair
Summons a treasure chest, instantly obtaining three special items from it.

"That's it!"

Xiao Ran took out the remaining campus badges and upgraded speed, claws, defense and ghost perception to level 3 respectively. Then he took out the other two special badges in his hand, pain and cruelty.

The two special skills [Ghost Whisper] and [Spirit Walk] were activated.

After a wave of strengthening, Xiao Ran felt that his originally skinny body seemed a little fuller than before.

At the same time, a dark red ghost mist appeared on his body.

The ghost fog enveloped his body, as if adding a layer of mystery to himself.

Xiao Ran climbed out of the coffin and tried to activate the [Black Swan Brooch] to make sure that his original abilities were not affected after he became a night ghost. Only then did he dare to walk out the door.

The moment Xiao Ran walked out of the dormitory, all kinds of negative emotions began to surge towards him.

These negative emotions do not have much impact on oneself. They are more like radio waves transmitted between ghosts. As long as you read the emotions in them, you can feel the message they want to convey to you.

Xiao Ran felt it carefully and couldn't help but feel helpless on his face. His face was filled with negative emotions such as eat, eat, eat, and kill, kill, kill.

However, these emotions also became a way for him to quickly locate the night ghost.

The place where the emotions fluctuate most intensely is also the direction where the screams are the loudest.

"Go and see."

Not to mention, after becoming a ghost, even his walking became light and fluttering. With just a tap of his toes, he would be three meters away. If he activated [Spiritual Movement] and his speed increased by 300%, I'm afraid no one would be able to catch up with him.

After reaching the third floor, Xiao Ran stopped after taking a few steps and looked back at the dormitory on the side in confusion.

There were still large shoe prints left by Yang Kai on the dormitory door, and from time to time one could hear the bed squeaking.

"Good fellows, it's so miserable outside, and you're still having fun inside. Now that we've met, we can't break the rules, right?"

After checking the gate, he found it was of a very high level, higher than the door of his dormitory, but it seemed to be only one or two levels higher. Xiao Ran didn't have time to resort to violent demolition here.

It's a good opportunity to test the special ability I activated [Ghost Whisper]

As Xiao Ran's heart moved, a string of low whispers came out of his mouth. There was no sound, but one could clearly feel a sound wave vibrating in the air and constantly drilling inside through the crack in the door.

The next moment, the scene in the room appeared in Xiao Ran's mind.

There are three beds in the room, but there are only four people in it at the moment, three men and one woman.

Two boys were lying on the lower bunk, one of them covered his head with a quilt. You could see the quilt was bulging and denting from time to time, as if he was wiping his glasses.

The other boy was lying on the bed with a look of despair on his face, staring at the shaking bed above his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

After Xiao Ran's consciousness had clearly understood the situation in the room through the ghost language, it immediately changed direction and began to concentrate all its attention on attacking the classmate who was practicing his craft with his head covered under the quilt.

The reason I chose this person is definitely not because I have any bad taste.

It is said that the essence of a person is called soul, and the physical body is called spirit. If the essence is dispersed, the soul cannot be gathered, the yang energy is weak, and the spirit cannot be concentrated.

This kind of person has the worst mental state and is easiest to control.

At this time, someone will say, why not choose the two on the bed.

This is another concept. It is said that it is like dry wood and raging fire. At this time, the desire is like a furnace, and the yin and yang are combined, and the energy is at its strongest.

Xiao Ran was afraid that if his consciousness rushed in, he would be disturbed.

Why bother challenging the difficult ones when you can just do the easy ones?

Of course, there was another small reason. Xiao Ran couldn't accept it psychologically. He didn't want to experience the joy of others tilling the fields after his consciousness suddenly controlled the other party. The young man who was practicing his craft on the bed suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck, and then his eyes were spinning. His mind was confused, and he sat up from the quilt in a trance.

"Huh? Third brother, you finished so quickly?"

Seeing the third brother suddenly sitting up in bed, another boy in the same dormitory looked at him strangely.

However, the third brother actually jumped up from the bed with his naked butt, his eyeballs rolled up and his body twitching unconsciously.

"The third one!"

This strange behavior made the boy next to him tremble in his heart, and a feeling of impending disaster swept over him. The next moment, the third boy suddenly rushed to the door.

"Don't!"

The boy panicked now. He screamed and rushed forward to stop them, but the third boy seemed to be prepared and kicked him away.

"Boom!!"

Suddenly, the tables and chairs fell over and made a tinkling sound.

"Fuck, what are you doing??"

The man and woman on the upper bunk poked their heads out from under the covers and looked at the mess on the floor below. The boy, whose spellcasting was interrupted, couldn't help but curse.

The dormitory was dark, and he couldn't see clearly what was happening, but he could see the third brother standing at the door with his bare bottom, and he looked even more surprised: "Are you sick?"

However, the third brother's gray face twitched unconsciously a few times, the corners of his mouth raised, and he pulled open the door latch.

"Click!!"

The moment the thumb-thick door bolt was pulled open, the dormitory suddenly fell into deathly silence.

"Om..."

As the door was opened, a skinny hand stretched out from the gap behind the door and placed on the third brother's neck. A skull-like head slowly popped out from behind the third brother, flames flickered in the eye sockets, and sharp nails tore open the third brother's throat.

"Boom!!"

The door of the dormitory was slammed shut and a woman's scream was heard from inside.

Soon when the noise died down, blood began to flow out along the door frame.

After getting the four badges, Xiao Ran searched the dormitory again, but unfortunately did not find anything valuable, so he immediately left the dormitory and began to look for other prey.

At this moment, at the other end of the corridor, strong negative emotions came like a tide.

"The negative emotions over there are the heaviest, maybe there are stronger night ghosts!"

Xiao Ran was very interested in the night ghosts, or rather, he was more interested in the corpses of these guys. After thinking for a while, he turned off the Black Swan and instead used the trainee combined with the strange cloak.

As the two are combined, the privileges of the Trick Cloak begin to take effect.

Privilege 1: Night Travel

At night, it can enter a semi-invisible state, and when it stops moving, it enters a fully invisible state, but it cannot isolate itself from factors such as breathing, smell, and sound.

After all, its identity has changed, and the black swan's early warning ability cannot be utilized to the maximum extent.

After he turned into a night ghost, he had no breathing and no heartbeat, and was no different from a dead person. However, he was not a real night ghost. He could only receive the negative emotions spread in the air but not himself.

This loophole, at this moment, becomes perfect with the help of the strange cloak.

Xiao Ran was covered by a layer of shadow and entered a semi-hidden state. His figure quickly ran towards the source of the negative emotion.

Not long after, in the corridor on the other side, an old beggar was seen standing outside the dormitory door, holding a white banner in his hand. On the banner, human faces were twisting and screaming from time to time.

Every time he called out, another soul would fly out of the room and land on the white flag in the old beggar's hand.

"Calling the soul?"

Xiao Ran looked at the white banner in the old beggar's hand and said, "There really is such a thing."

When I was a child, my grandfather told me that in times of war and chaos, a group of beggars came from nowhere.

This group of beggars has a leader, who is known in the underworld as Baby Lord.
They beg on the streets during the day, but in fact they are scouting around the homes of wealthy landowners, asking whether the family has children, how much money and land they have, etc.

At night, she would run to the door of the house, put up a white flag, and call the child's name. After calling it a few times, she would call the child's soul away.

The next day, they will send someone to deliver a letter to blackmail you. If you don't bankrupt you, you will at least have to pay a large sum of money.

But some stingy landlords were unwilling to take the money, or simply did not believe in it, and as a result the children lost their souls and became stupid and foolish.

So people often say that the landlord has a stupid son. That’s how stupid sons come about.

Later this man disappeared. Some people said that he offended someone he shouldn't have offended and his entire family was killed.

Some people say that beggars have made enough money and have stopped doing this.

However, people all think that beggars have committed too many sins and are too immoral, so they are suffering retribution.

Xiao Ran didn't expect that in addition to rare things like evil objects, this school also had such evil ways.

At this time, the beggar seemed to have noticed something and turned around. His empty eye sockets were filled with skulls the size of fingernails. His fly-like eyes glanced around, then he turned away with a depressed look and continued to walk towards the next dormitory.

"This thing is harder to deal with than embroidered shoes!"

After a while, Xiao Ran emerged from the shadows and looked at the beggar's back. He felt a little unsure. He could sense that the beggar had a strong aura of death. If he rushed up rashly, he was afraid that he might not be his match.

Just as he was thinking about it, Xiao Ran suddenly turned his eyes and noticed the beggar's bare feet. He immediately had an idea in his mind...

(End of this chapter)