Terrifying Heavens: I'll directly worship the Black Law of Fengdu!

Chapter 281 Seizing the Body
The temperature on the rooftop gradually rose, and Huang Yaozu felt a bit hot. He kept his gun at the ready, remaining highly vigilant to prevent himself from capsizing in the gutter...

About forty minutes later, footsteps were heard in the stairwell, and with a creak, the rooftop door opened, and Li Xuan walked out.

Liu Chenggang thought the extraordinary person hiding behind Huang Yaozu must be a cunning old fox in his fifties or sixties, but he never expected that it would be such a young man.

He smiled slightly and said, "It seems that this is the extraordinary person who created the ghost-detecting tool."

Li Xuan was carrying a large bag of steamed buns, roughly estimated to be over a hundred. Seeing Liu Chenggang, he smiled broadly, as if seeing a long-lost friend, and said, "Commander Liu, this is only the second time we've met. I need my money lately and I'm short on cash. Knowing you love to eat, I bought two hundred steamed buns at a breakfast shop on my way here..."

Liu Chenggang's lips twitched slightly. It was true that he liked to eat, but two hundred steamed buns just looked unappetizing.

Li Xuan walked up to Liu Chenggang, put the steamed bun on the ground, and said, "Commander Liu wanted to see me, so I came without stopping. What can I do for you?"

Looking at Li Xuan, who was right in front of him and completely unprepared, Liu Chenggang wondered what Li Xuan was up to. He simply cut to the chase and said, "I've been a ghost for over a hundred years. I died right after the Opium War ended, when Hong Kong was ceded to the foreigners. I've witnessed countless rises and falls of powerful forces over the past 150 years. I've seen too much and I'm tired. Being a ghost is not the right path after all. This world should eventually be returned to humans to be the dominant force."

Li Xuan took out three steamed buns, handed one to Huang Yaozu, and one to Liu Chenggang.

Liu Chenggang's right hand was not handcuffed. He took the soft, sticky steamed bun and his eyes were a little dazed: "This steamed bun is really good. Unlike when I was starving to death on the street, steamed buns were a very precious food. Only those with power and influence could afford to eat them."

Li Xuan ate his steamed bun without replying.

Liu Chenggang continued, "If a person dies with lingering attachments, they will become a ghost. The ratio of humans to ghosts is becoming increasingly unbalanced, and eventually this world will inevitably turn into a hellish place."

I accidentally discovered that Huang Yaozu had ghost-detecting tools, and my dormant heart reignited. I decided to join you and create a new world together!

Li Xuan: "Tell me more about it."

Liu Chenggang said, "Cooperation is all about trust. I can tell you anything about ghosts, and you must also provide me with information without reservation. By sharing information, we can achieve highly efficient operations!"

Li Xuan nodded: "That makes sense. Tell me about the history of ghosts first. If I'm not mistaken, the history of ghosts is very short, perhaps only within the last three hundred years..."

Liu Chenggang was taken aback. While others were eager to know the weaknesses of ghosts, this young man wanted to know their history.

He organized his thoughts and said, "After I became a ghost, I experienced a completely new world. Any seemingly glamorous and noble gentleman could become my body. Any profession, any enjoyment, I could have it as long as I wanted it!"

I started possessing people like crazy until one day I met someone I couldn't possess. That's when I realized that there were other ghosts besides myself.

In the days that followed, I encountered more and more people possessed by ghosts, and everyone began to consciously unite to gradually take control of the top power in Hong Kong society!

Hong Kong Island was made a warm garden for incubating ghosts. Later, we discovered that the probability of a ghost being born went from one in ten thousand to one in a thousand. Wild ghosts were increasing in number, and they were very ambitious, all trying to overthrow the old ghosts and become the ghost kings of the new world...

How could we stand by and watch this happen? So we set up the 'Miscellaneous Affairs Section'—a cleanup department specifically to deal with those lawless scoundrels.

It was relatively stable at first, but in the last seven or eight years, the rate at which illegal street vendors have emerged has accelerated. More than a dozen cleaning departments on Hong Kong Island have gradually disappeared in the process of cleaning, and now only the police station's 'Miscellaneous Affairs Section' still exists..."

Li Xuan frowned slightly: "Commander Liu seems to think I have a lot of time?"

I just want to know if there's a hierarchy among ghosts like in vampire legends, and whether you had any contact with suspicious people in your life? What did they say or do to you?

Liu Chenggang had almost forgotten what he was like in his previous life. At this moment, his eyes were somewhat unfocused as he said, "In my previous life, I was just a schoolteacher who hoped to educate people and change the world with my knowledge, but... the world was in turmoil, and knowledge was of no use at all."

The day before I starved to death, I did encounter a man who was wrapped in a tightly sealed robe and had a very unpleasant voice, like the sound of a millstone turning.

Looking at me, barely alive, he said only one thing: "Are you willing to die like this?" I curled up in a street corner, and with all my remaining strength, I managed to squeeze out, "I don't want to die..."

This person let out a strange laugh, grabbed my arm, and turned to leave.

Then the next day I died and became a ghost.

Oh? There's a brand new version too!

Li Xuan immediately became interested and said, "Would it be convenient to see your arm?"

Liu Chenggang pulled up the sleeve of the arm that was not handcuffed, revealing a ring of black, mosquito-coil-like patterns on the skin.

He said, "I don't know what this is. As long as it possesses someone for more than seven days, this thing will appear on the arm. After a while, it doesn't feel uncomfortable, so I just ignore it."

Bang!

The handcuffs suddenly broke!

boom!
Gunshots rang out...

Steamed buns were scattered all over the ground, and Liu Chenggang's hand, still handcuffed, was gripping Li Xuan's shoulder tightly!
Blood was flowing from his chest; it was Huang Yaozu who fired the shot.

Huang Yaozu's face twisted in pain as he gritted his teeth and said, "You..."

Liu Chenggang's pupils turned white as he laughed, "Yaozu, lies are the least credible. I'm already a ghost, how can you believe I'll help you deal with yourselves? But everything I said just now was true. I only have one goal, which is to seize this extraordinary person's body!"

"Once I possess his power, I can not only do whatever I want in human society, but I will also be the absolute ruler at the top of the pyramid in the ghost world!"

Huang Yaozu: "..."

He put the pistol on safety and put it away.

Liu Chenggang laughed and said, "Have you recognized and accepted reality?"

Huang Yaozu said with a forced smile, "Mr. Li Xuan is an important figure in exorcising ghosts. You just said a few words and I easily invited him out. Are you really that unvigilant?"

Liu Chenggang felt things were going too smoothly, yet nothing seemed amiss. After all, Huang Yaozu, barely in his thirties, was no match for the old fox in terms of intelligence and cunning.

He now realized that he seemed unable to invade the young man's body, a feeling akin to a tiny person standing before a towering, impenetrable wall...

(End of this chapter)