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Chapter 408 The King's Organization: This All-In (7K, Two-in-One)

Ten minutes ago.

Dachang City, Guanjiang Residential Area Phase II.

Construction had already stopped before the "starving ghost incident," supposedly because of paranormal events that occurred at the construction site.

Most of it has been completed, with only one project still under construction.

A gust of wind blew by.

Zheng Zha sensed something and looked towards a desolate area overgrown with weeds at the very back of the residential area.

In that desolate place, there were some old buildings, dilapidated wooden houses, and some mud houses that had just been demolished.

But one old-fashioned building with blue brick walls and a Republican-era style caught his attention.

The house is two stories high and is entirely built of blue bricks. The wooden roof supporting the tiles has rotted and collapsed in a large area, covered with weeds and moss.

However, the walls of the house were covered with a dense layer of ivy, with thick, lush leaves and growing very well.

However, due to the long period of neglect and the surrounding desolation and ruin, this old Republican-era house has gained a somewhat eerie atmosphere.

"So this is where the ghost mirror and the ghost cabinet are kept? It's really eerie and terrifying." Zhan Lan's expression was a bit strange.

"Zheng Zha, why did you come back alone? Where is Ye Zhen, the so-called number one ghost tamer in Asia?"

Ye Zhen?

Zheng Zha's face twitched: "That's just a delusional teenager!"

"They'll start a fight at the drop of a hat, but he can take someone else's place, just like a vengeful ghost that you can't kill no matter how hard you try."

"A scapegoat? Then we can ignore the resurgence of supernatural phenomena, right?" Zhan Lan was speechless.

It's unbelievable that even such a vengeful ghost exists.

"Yes."

Zheng Zha was somewhat indignant: "But he actually used a living person to die in his place!"

Zhan Lan asked in surprise, "A living person?"

"The price of taking someone's place is the lives of the living. I only slashed him once, but I never expected the price to be the lives of more than a dozen people."

"These vengeful ghosts' abilities are indeed quite bizarre." Zhan Lan felt a chill run down her spine.

I thought that scapegoats were relatively safe and harmless vengeful ghosts, but I didn't expect that the price would have to be paid by other living people.

Zheng Zha was furious: "Even if a ghost tamer manages to control a vengeful ghost, he can only slow down its erosion, and might even cause the situation to deteriorate further."

"This guy still won't admit defeat, so I can only get away by beating him unconscious."

"The doctor is right. There are very few people with normal thinking among the ghost tamers in this world."

“Then our progress is really too slow. We might not be able to finish dealing with the ghost cabinet by the time the doctor and the others have imprisoned the wishing ghost.” Zhan Lan looked at the old house from the Republican era.

As Zheng Zha gazed at the old house, he felt his fourth-level spiritual sense constantly warning him, and his powerful internal energy and true essence began to stir restlessly.

The closer they got, the stronger this feeling of unease became.

That was a potentially deadly threat.

soon.

The two arrived in front of the old house.

Weeds grew in front of the house, and the two wooden doors, which were almost rotten, were half open and half closed. Through the half-open doors, you could see that the inside was also overgrown with weeds and covered with moss.

Without lingering on the first floor, the two went straight up the stairs to the second floor.

The second-floor corridor was dark and damp, and it became darker the further you went. At the end of the corridor was a blue brick wall, but there were three rooms and three doors along the side of the corridor.

Three rooms, three large doors.

The first door was a heavy iron door, like a fortress from wartime, with sturdy rivets. The door was covered in moss and rust, and it seemed as if it had never been opened before, as there wasn't even a handle to open it.

Zheng Zha reached out and touched the heavy iron door. The rust fell off, revealing a bright golden yellow color inside. This door was made of gold, but it was covered with a layer of iron to conceal its true nature.

"It really is made of gold."

Generally speaking, modern ghost tamers use gold to imprison evil spirits, while in the Republic of China era and even earlier, due to the low gold mining output, ghost tamers were more accustomed to using the method of "using ghosts to control ghosts".

The door was made entirely of gold, which undoubtedly reflected the highest level of importance placed on it during the Republic of China era.

Zhuang Boshi had said never to open the door to gold, and Zheng Zha's intuition also told him that it contained something terrifying enough to kill.

It was as if countless evil spirits were staring intently at him from behind that door.

Zhan Lan didn't recklessly use her mental power to probe inside the first door, as that wasn't their objective this time.

The second door was a bronze door covered in patina, and it also had no handle.

It was incredibly thick and blended seamlessly into the surrounding walls; the only way to open it was to smash the wall.

I knocked on it.

There was not even an echo, which shows that the bronze door was unusually thick.

Zheng Zha knew that what he was looking for was inside the bronze door.

The room with the copper door was just a small room with only an old cabinet inside. The paint had peeled off, revealing the dark, worn wood underneath.

Besides that, there was only a small table.

There was a line of text on the table.

You will have everything, and you will lose everything. Be careful.

The handwriting is very neat, and it looks like a warning, which is also the only trace left by the original owner of this place.

Zheng Zha ignored the warning sign and looked directly at the ghost cabinet.

The ghost cabinet has two layers. The first layer is a wooden lattice window. The horizontal and vertical wooden strips form many square holes on the cabinet door. It is pitch black inside, and it is impossible to see clearly whether there is anything behind the cabinet door.

The bottom shelf is a cabinet, with the doors tightly closed.

The light shone into the ghost cabinet, but it only managed to penetrate a few centimeters into the darkness inside.

Through those small square wooden grids, all one could see was complete darkness.

It was as if some strange force was blocking the light; although the cabinet door was openwork, it could not reveal anything.

Zheng Zha was observing the ghost cabinet.

Suddenly, from the darkness inside the cupboard, a pair of eyes appeared in their field of vision. These eyes were pressed against the back of the cupboard, eerily scrutinizing the two people in the ghost cupboard through the openwork wooden lattice.

"Ok?"

Although Zhan Lan knew there were ghosts in the haunted cabinet and was somewhat prepared, she was still startled when faced with the eyes that suddenly appeared in her line of sight and stared at her strangely.

There was no fear, mainly it was an instinctive stress response of humans to something that suddenly appeared.

The eerie eye behind the cabinet door glanced at something and then disappeared immediately, seemingly just wanting to see who had come, without making any other move.

At the very top of the cupboard were three very ordinary, old items.

A bottle of ink that had long since dried up.

An old-fashioned fountain pen.

A small notebook.

Opening the small notebook, the first page had marks left by pen writing.

Although it was a long time ago, it was well preserved in this enclosed environment, and the handwriting can still be discerned today.

First, who are you?

Second, I have nothing left to give you.

Third, you wretched cupboard, give me back my things!

Fourth, tell me where that ghost is.

Fifth, I want to leave here.

According to Zhuang Boshi, this ghost cabinet is a special kind of ghost, and making a deal with the ghost cabinet is making a deal with a ghost.

When you make a request to the Ghost Cabinet, the Ghost Cabinet will weigh your request and then make a request to you in return.

Once you fulfill the Ghost Cabinet's requirements, the Ghost Cabinet will also fulfill your requirements, while simultaneously making further requests to you.

Once the second requirement of the Ghost Cabinet is met, you can then make another request to the Ghost Cabinet.

Then it just goes on and on.

If you don't stop making demands on the ghost shop, the transactions will keep going and never stop.

Moreover, as the transaction progresses, the "amount" of the transaction will increase.

This is what the original owner meant: You will have everything, and you will also lose everything, so be careful.

This is not an equal exchange, because ghosts can bear everything, but humans cannot.

Of course, ghosts are all programs, so naturally there are shortcuts to exploit bugs in the Ghost Cabinet.

"It's really a bit eerie." Zhan Lan looked at the cabinet. "I can't see what's inside. The supernatural interference is extremely strong."

Zheng Zha didn't want to think too much and wrote directly: Tell me where Guixu is.

Tear off a page of paper and reach into the lower cabinet of the ghost wardrobe.

I felt a hand reach out from deep inside the cabinet and grab the paper. The paper tightened instantly, and a force came from the other end of the paper.

Zheng Zha did not let go, and the force grew stronger and stronger.

But Zheng Zha still didn't let go, and the paper strangely didn't tear.

Finally, the power had increased to an unimaginable level, but Zheng Zha remained calm and composed.

sizzle.

The paper finally tore.

Zheng Zha quickly threw in the remaining half of the paper, pretending to be nonchalant, and said, "I don't know how long this paper has been sitting here; it's all moldy and brittle."

Zhan Lan sighed and said helplessly, "Can't you show it some respect? The Ghost Cabinet is a terrifying ghost. Its killing mechanism is based on transactions. Now that you've torn up all the requirements, how can it still read them?"

The answer is yes.

The cabinet began to tremble violently, as if some evil spirit was about to break free.

Finally, a piece of paper floated out.

It was a piece of paper that I had slipped in earlier. The first line read: Tell me where Guixu is.

The second line of text, written crookedly, reads "A different question."

"Hmm?" Zheng Zha narrowed his eyes: "Is it that you don't know this, or that you can't say?"

“I think this question is beyond his ability to answer,” Zhan Lan said, tilting her head.

"How about we rephrase the question?"

Zheng Zha then asked a series of questions, such as the origin of evil spirits and what ghosts are.

All the replies I received were to ask me to ask a different question.

"Is this thing just a bluff?" Zheng Zha said helplessly.

He wouldn't answer any questions; he couldn't very well just chop this ghost cabinet in half with a knife, could he?

"Let's leave first," Zhan Lan said, rubbing her temples. "We'll discuss it again when the doctor returns."

Zheng Zha nodded, and then casually wrote down: When will the King's Organization attack Zhuang Boshi and me?

After swallowing the note, the Ghost Cabinet began to tremble violently.

what's the situation!
Is this question even more taboo than the previous ones?

Soon, a crumpled piece of paper was thrown out, as if someone was furious.

Zheng Zha carefully unfolded it and saw that it was covered with dense writing—

Where is that bastard?!

Where is it?!

Then, only in the small corner of the crumpled paper did they make requests as insignificant as ants.

Give me a ghost.

Zheng Zha and Zhan Lan exchanged a glance: "Doctor, have we offended this ghost cabinet in any way?"

"He seems to harbor a deep resentment."

"That shouldn't be the case. The Doctor shouldn't have used this ghost cabinet before," Zhan Lan said, also puzzled.

"Let's try it first."

Zheng Zha grabbed a fierce ghost from a golden can and threw it inside.

No matter how much the vengeful ghost struggled, it could not break free from the control of the ghost cabinet.

Randomly, it was completely swallowed up, and the entire ghost cabinet trembled for more than ten seconds, emitting a terrifying gnawing sound.

Then, the paper ball was spat out again.

All that could be seen was a crumpled piece of paper covered with large, blood-red characters.

[You bastard!]

It would be best if he were dead!

And a dense barrage of completely unique insults.

Zheng Zha and Zhan Lan finally found two characters smaller than ants in the corner.

【now】

"what?"

Zheng Zha was taken aback when he suddenly heard a piano piece.

The music is ethereal and dark, like a thin mist in a forest at night, carried by a cold wind past the listener's ears.

"Is someone playing the piano?"

However, he immediately realized something and pulled Zhan Lan behind him.

"The enemy is coming!"
-
Dachang City, suburbs.

"Chu Xuan, what are you looking at?"

Saito asked curiously.

Chu Xuan looked up at the sky, shook his head, and said in a daze, "I don't know, I just feel like someone is watching me."

"What!" Haotian shrank back in fear, as if a ghost might jump out at any moment.

Given his personality, he would definitely stay in the safe house and not come out, but since the veteran had made the decision, he couldn't really object.

They have now left the safe house, as Zhan Lan and Zheng Zha have been out of contact for ten minutes.

"Zheng Zha and Zhan Lan have been covered by the ghost domain." Zero Point lay on the top of the Golden Safe House and saw the dark blue ghost domain that spanned the entire community.

"Can we get in touch with the professor and the others?" Saito grabbed his wand and tried to Apparate over.

"No." Wang Xia kept restarting the quantum communication, but there was still no response.

“We’re being interfered with.” Saito looked at the hazy air over the entire city.

"Dachang City is once again shrouded in a massive ghost realm."

"Isn't the headquarters' satellite phone supposed to be able to travel through ghost realms? How can it be so unreliable?" Cheng Xiao grumbled.

"Should I charge in?" Wang Xia said solemnly.

"You stay here, I'll go!" Saito gripped his wand tightly. "I can teleport, I'll give it a try!"

“I’ll go. I’m the strongest here. None of you can withstand those fierce ghosts.” Cheng Xiao was no longer his usual playful and frivolous self; he was very solemn and serious.

"Besides, I'm the captain!"

"The most dangerous missions should be assigned to me!"

“My ex!” Saito rolled his eyes.

"The former captain is still a captain!!"

Cheng Xiao immediately lost his composure, his face contorted with anger as he glared at her.

"Calm down," Zero said, stopping the argument.

"Don't mess up!"

Without Zheng Zha and Zhuang Boshi, Chu Xuan was still confused, and the Zhongzhou team members were all a bit flustered and didn't know what to do.

Seeing this, Haotian sighed inwardly and said, "Don't be impulsive."

"We must stick together."

“But Zhan Lan and Zheng Zha are already trapped inside. Are we just going to stand by and do nothing?” Saito Ichi’s face was grim.

“They don’t need us to save them,” Haotian said quickly.

"Instead, we should remain on the defensive and wait for him to come to our rescue!"

"Zheng Zha's side is restricted by the powerful ghost domain. If we rush in, we will easily be surrounded and attacked, becoming a burden to Zheng Zha and his group."

“But—” Saito Hajime was about to say something when Haotian interrupted him.

"Old Qi, listen to me!"

“If we were the only ones being attacked, the captain and Zhang Jie would have noticed, but we’ve been out of contact for ten minutes now.”

"Ten minutes is enough for the captain to make several round trips between North America and East Asia, but we haven't seen any support from the captain yet. There's only one possibility—"

Haotian looked at everyone in the Zhongzhou team with a serious expression.

"He was attacked too!"

"Moreover, the level of terror from the attack was definitely several times greater than what we experienced!"

"He can't escape in a short time!"

"The king has ordered his troops to split into two groups and attack simultaneously?" Everyone's expressions turned even more grim.

"It seems to be a trap set against us," Haotian said, glancing at Chu Xuan as he continued his analysis.

"Bureau?" Wang Xia frowned.

Haotian said, "Whether the King's Organization was bewitched and controlled by the captain, or suddenly decided to launch the Ark Project ahead of schedule."

"Their goal is to go all in and kill the captain and Zheng Zha at all costs."

"This doesn't make sense!" Haotian's mouth grew faster and faster as he spoke: "Even if supernatural powers are convenient, they can't just cross continents to launch attacks at will, so this anomaly can explain four things."

"First, there's a mole within headquarters."

Second, there are collaborators within the country.

"Third, they have a large number of vengeful ghosts as cannon fodder."

Fourth, the king mobilized all his forces.

"I knew there was a traitor!" Saito said angrily.

Haotian's mind raced: "If it were me, the Dachang City starving ghost incident had just ended, and the ghost riders who came to support us had just returned. Attacking Dachang City again now would cause information chaos."

"At the same time, their accomplices at headquarters will definitely disrupt intelligence and create information silos in Dachang City."

"At the same time, the King's organization's domestic allies will take the opportunity to attack the headquarters. The headquarters may be in dire straits and cannot rely on their support!"

"But Wang Xiaoming and several local ghost tamers are also here; they are trustworthy individuals!"

As expected, to confirm Haotian's prediction, a scarlet ghost domain was firmly fixed on the green ghost domain.

The two ghostly realms began to clash and erode each other.

“Ghost Eye Yang Jian.” Haotian nodded.

“Other ghost tamers should have noticed this as well, but due to the limitations of their ghost domain strength, they can only watch from the outside.”

"Zhao Jianguo must be jumping up and down in anxiety right now," Haotian said, rubbing his temples.

"But simply eliminating our external support is not enough. With the combined efforts of more than a dozen kings, at most it will make things a bit more troublesome for Zheng Zha and the captain to deal with."

"Not everyone of them is a vengeful ghost or an anomaly who controls a ghost's body; ghost controllers can die!"

"Therefore, a large number of vengeful ghosts must be involved in the operation!"

A hint of panic finally appeared on Haotian's face: "I suspect that we may have obtained information about the human skin paper, or we may have triggered two side quests. The Source of the Vengeful Spirits is about to secure victory!"

"Yang Jian is very likely to fail!"

"Therefore, our role is not as significant as we imagined."

"The source of the vengeful spirits intends to completely exterminate us, the variables!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a transparent, dark mist began to slowly rise around them.

A dozen or so figures lurked behind the mist, whispering amongst themselves.

"Shall we continue to hide in the safe house?" Saito asked, looking at Haotian.

Haotian's performance completely won their trust.

“No, gold can block the perception of vengeful spirits, but it can’t deceive the spirit tamer.” Veins bulged on Haotian’s forehead: “Locking yourself in a cage like a coward is the most foolish way to die.”

"The best defense is a good offense."

"At midnight, in the battle between Wang Xia, Saito Hajime, and the Ghost Rider, whoever strikes first wins."

"Zhuang Boshi said that most demon tamers are still human, and they will die when it is their time to die."

Haotian looked at the group, and finally focused his gaze on Lingdian, Saito Ichi, and Cheng Xiao.

"To those ghost tamers, aren't we also a bunch of monsters who don't know the rules of killing?"

"Old Qi, equip them with gold gear." Haotian looked at Saito Ichi, then turned his gaze to Wang Xia.

"Wang Xia, stay here. Ling Dian, Cheng Xiao, and Saito Ichiro, the three of you will form three defensive circles. Ling Dian will snipe from the center, Saito Ichiro, you will take care of the key targets, and Cheng Xiao will roam around the outside to keep them occupied."

"Remember, deal with it first, don't give the enemy a chance to retaliate."

"You must eliminate the enemy outside and never give them a chance to get close to the safe house!"

Grikart is the captain of the King's Squad under the command of the King of South Africa, Ghost.

Ghost was a new king temporarily recruited after the King Organization lost its North American branch.

Grikart could have enjoyed life in South Africa, arbitrarily controlling the lives and deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, but now he has been forced by the king to come to this great Eastern country.

"Damn it!" Gricart cursed under his breath.

Half of his face was almost dried up, because the evil spirit he controlled needed to devour the flesh and blood of a sixteen-year-old virgin every day to maintain its stability.

But after a terrifying paranormal event occurred in the city, not only sixteen-year-old teenagers, but even most people disappeared.

This made the vengeful ghost begin to stir.

"Captain, the Ghost Domain has already covered the Golden Safe House."

"They didn't react."

A teammate whispered to himself.

Five Kings Squads, totaling over sixty Ghost Riders, were involved in this attack.

“Be careful, they definitely have other tricks up their sleeves,” Gricart said.

But he had just turned around.

The ghost tamer who made the sound has disappeared—no, all that remains are a pair of severed legs.

His upper body was completely shattered by an unknown force.

what's the situation?
A vengeful ghost attack?

Gricart was completely bewildered, but he saw the bodies of the demon tamers following behind him exploding one after another.

What followed was a series of deafening explosions.

"Hide quickly!" He immediately unleashed his ghostly power, blood seeping from every pore of his body, making him look like a blood-soaked figure.

At this point, the attack stopped.

"Gerry, it's the enemy sniper, my men have him in their grasp!" a voice crackled through the walkie-talkie.

Sniper?
How can there still be snipers!

In the Ghost Realm, ordinary sniper weapons are completely unusable, as bullets are easily affected by the Ghost Realm.

but
Gerry instantly understood: it was ammunition mixed with gold.

Seeing that only three terrified teammates remained around him, Gerry had no choice but to continue advancing.

But a colossal creature emerged from the mist.

"what!"

Gerry cautiously stopped in his tracks.

A giant stone figure appeared before them, piercing through the mist.

Gerry was stunned. The abilities of a demon tamer were varied and strange, but none of them had ever turned into a stone man!

The stone giant seemed to have spotted them, and suddenly leaped up and slammed down on them.

Boom! Rock fragments flew everywhere.

But Gerry had no way to solve it.

His vengeful ghost's killing pattern is that as long as the target has a wound, it can continuously suck the blood from the victim.

At the same time, the blood he spews out can also attract the attention of vengeful spirits, allowing him to temporarily avoid being targeted by them.

Therefore, he is also known as a vampire.

But who can tell him if a stone man has blood?
On the other side, the real vampire, Zero, had just reverted to human form.

The three ghost tamers in front of him had already died from having their blood drained.

Fortunately, all three were demon tamers specializing in physical destruction. After transforming into bats at midnight, they became immune to the damage.

One of their murder patterns involves stepping on a person's shadow, while the other involves ripping out the heart after the heartbeat exceeds a certain frequency.

Fortunately, at midnight, when I transform into a bat, my heartbeat is almost inaudible, and my shadow is so small that I can't step on it at all.

As they watched their bodies twist and turn, Zero knew their vengeful spirits were about to awaken.

Zero raised his rifle again, aiming at a Ghost Rider who was about to smash the Golden Safe House with a giant hammer.

Fangzheng's magic eye opened.

Dead spot has appeared!

The entire upper body of the demon tamer from the King's squad exploded.

The ghost tamers nearby were startled, but their bodies exploded the next moment.

As the Gauss sniper rifle continued to fire, the Ghost Tamers, who had not yet achieved their extraordinary abilities, fell in droves.

But at midnight, they saw terrifying ghosts emerging from the corpses and standing upright outside the Golden Safe House.

It seems like a "lunchbox" is waiting to be opened.

Zero also realized something.

The King's Organization clearly intended to use the dead Ghost Riders to continuously close the defensive perimeter of the Central Continent Team.

Attack and you will be rescued!

Haotian, huddled inside the safe house, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

A squad of Kings just approached and started using weapons to break down the door of the safe house.

Two violent tremors sent Haotian's heart pounding in his chest.

Because at this moment, inside the safe house, only the fully armed Wang Xia still has the fighting power to resist the Ghost Tamer.

There was nothing that could be done about the brain-dead Chu Xuan and the ordinary Hao Tian.

Thankfully, Zero was reliable and managed to stop the ghost tamers!
More enemies are approaching!

Wang Xia frowned as he looked at the radar image.

Just then, the radar turned completely white, and a strange hissing sound began.

The shape of the noise is changing, and the strange sound is getting louder.

Haotian suddenly thought of something, rushed over and smashed the radar, then covered it with a golden box!
Suddenly, the rustling sound disappeared.

After finishing everything, Haotian, his face pale, said to Wang Xia, "Do not exchange any information with the outside world, or those ghost tamers will take advantage of the situation!"

Boom!
The safe house trembled violently again. If it weren't for the fact that it was made of three layers of alloy steel plates and three layers of gold interlayer, it would probably have exploded!

“It’s a high-performance explosive, with a considerable yield,” Wang Xia immediately determined.

"How long can we hold out?" Haotian's body was trembling like a leaf.

"It should withstand five times, but it's very likely that cracks will appear within five times." Wang Xia clenched his fist.

"That's not good."

The thought that there must be many resurrected vengeful ghosts outside, standing just a wall away from them, made Haotian's face turn deathly pale again.

He was fearless, except for Adam and ghosts.

Haotian forced himself to calm down and stop thinking about the vengeful ghosts just a wall away.

"The King Organization is truly vicious. They used those Ghost Riders as cannon fodder, letting them die next to our safe house, and then used long-range explosives to blow up our safe house."

"This way, they won't be able to save Zero even if they want to."

If those who control ghosts still have ways to subdue them, then none of the people here have any means to deal with the vengeful spirits.

If those ghost tamers lure the vengeful spirits towards them, then things will get very serious.

Under the pressure of death, Haotian's eyes grew increasingly fierce.

He didn't seem to notice that Chu Xuan's innocent gaze shifted from the toy to him.

(End of this chapter)