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Chapter 177 Raiding Ghost Street! (5.4k)

For some unknown reason, the middle-aged woman in the tailor shop began to use harsh words to try and drive Lu Ming and the ghost bride away the moment they appeared.

Perhaps it was because Lu Ming's mourning clothes and the ghost bride's wedding dress made her very jealous.

Or perhaps they simply dislike the ghost bride.

In short, the woman's voice was very harsh, and if it weren't for the special rules and restrictions of this tailor shop that prohibited her from physically assaulting customers, she probably would have already forced the customer to leave.

Lu Ming looked around and made a quick mental calculation.

These clothes are all made up of terrifying and vengeful ghosts. There are many of them, and they are very dangerous.

But danger and opportunity coexist.

If we can kill this mean-spirited woman, besides the burial clothes we had planned to put on the ghost baby, we might also gain some unexpected benefits.

"With my current abilities, robbing someone on this ghost street wouldn't be difficult at all..."

"These haunted shops harbor great dangers, but as long as they are ghosts, they must abide by certain rules. Take the coffin shop as an example. Under the restrictions of the rules, the coffin shop owner cannot leave the shop. As long as the boundary between the supernatural and reality can be broken, the coffin shop can be robbed."

With that in mind, Lu Ming was ready to take action.

"Why aren't you leaving yet? Dead people should stay where they belong! All the men in town are dead, and nobody cares about this kind of thing anymore. I came here to suffer."

The sound of washing clothes had completely stopped, and only the women's cursing could be heard behind the tailor shop.

Lu Ming still ignored her. He first wrapped the shroud around his hand, then casually picked up a piece of clothing hanging nearby.

The reason for wrapping the shroud around one's hands beforehand is to avoid most of the danger.

The ghost clothes in the tailor shop were all made by extremely fierce ghosts, so even Lu Ming didn't dare to be careless and directly reach out to touch them.

However, even though he wasn't directly attacked by the ghost clothes in his hand, Lu Ming's actions still violated some kind of terrible taboo within this tailor shop.

Crunch!

With a barely perceptible, slight noise, the door to the tailor shop was closed.

The wooden door was extremely old and possessed an eerie power; even the strongest person could not push it open.

"That alone is not enough to stop me."

The next moment, Lu Ming's ghostly domain invaded the wooden door of the tailor shop, and the battle between the supernatural beings was decided in an instant.

A foul stench emanated from the door of the tailor shop, and the once intact door was easily corroded away.

After the door was damaged, a chilling wind blew in from outside the tailor shop, sending shivers down one's spine.

At this moment, Lu Ming noticed that the street outside was no longer the ghost street he had entered from before.

Li Yang and his companions had disappeared, and the streets were pitch black. If one were to go outside now, one would find ghostly clothes, tainted with supernatural phenomena, hanging on both sides of the doorway.

"After leaving the tailor shop, you will re-enter it? This is a supernatural phenomenon even more terrifying than being trapped in a maze."

Lu Ming gave this assessment in his heart.

However, anything can happen in the supernatural realm, and a few supernatural phenomena that defy common sense are not enough to frighten Lu Ming.

He could use the five layers of ghostly domain to invade reality and leave this eerie tailor shop whenever he wanted.

call!
The eerie wind that suddenly appeared grew stronger, causing the ghostly clothes on both sides of the tailor shop to flutter.

These clothes seemed to have a life of their own, suddenly coming to life and even starting to move on their own.

The ghostly garments were numerous, piled up densely together, and even from a distance, one could sense the terrifying supernatural forces brewing and reviving.

"You two outsiders don't look like good people. We told you to leave, but you dared to try and steal clothes from my store. Since that's the case, then there's nothing more to say."

Behind the tailor shop, where the sound of washing clothes had come from earlier, emerged a middle-aged woman of average appearance.

Lu Ming turned around calmly, looked at the woman, and replied, "Just open the door and do business properly. Since you're going to take action, I have no reason to be afraid."

Of the few remaining second-generation ghost tamers in Taiping Ancient Town, this middle-aged woman has the worst personality.

She was always sharp-tongued and sarcastic, and now that Lu Ming had taken the ghost clothes from the tailor shop without permission, she had found an opportunity to take action.

The older generation in Taiping Ancient Town has passed down a rule that these ghost controllers cannot attack younger generations without cause.

However, Lu Ming had broken a taboo, and the women had found a pretext to take action, which they were naturally eager to do.

"I'm getting old anyway, and I've spent my whole life holed up in this little place. It's time to get out and explore... Why don't I start with you? After I kill you all and strip you naked..."

The woman seemed to completely disregard Lu Ming and the ghost bride, continuing to ramble on about her plans and intentions. She was truly vicious and prone to murder.

Lu Ming, of course, didn't wait for her to finish speaking and seized the opportunity to make his move.

He used the ghostly garment wrapped in the shroud to send it away using the Ghost Domain, and then took out a rattle drum that a child used to play with.

The rattle drum was painted with cheap red paint, and the drumhead was yellowish. However, much of the red paint on the surface had peeled off, and there were some unidentified stains on it.

The moment the rattle drum was pulled out, a faint stench of corpses filled the tailor shop.

As Lu Ming activated the supernatural power within his body, two terrifying human faces suddenly appeared on the left and right sides of the originally normal rattle drum.

One face is smiling, and the other is crying. The two faces seem to have grown out of the drumhead and become one with the rattle drum.

Boom boom boom!
Lu Ming shook the rattle drum.

The drumsticks swayed back and forth, striking the surface of the rattle drum and producing a dull sound.

Along with the drumbeats, eerie cries and laughter could be faintly heard.

At first, the woman didn't pay attention to the ghostly wails and laughter that Lu Ming made with the rattle drum, because the attack wasn't very strong and wouldn't have much of an impact on her.

"Is this all the young man is capable of? He dares to rob my tailor shop?"

The woman sneered repeatedly, seemingly disdainful of Lu Ming's petty tricks.

But she soon stopped laughing.

Because the eerie cries and laughter echoed and overlapped within the tailor shop, the intensity of the ghostly cries and laughter increased with each turn.

"It amplifies the power of supernatural phenomena through stacking, and it's a deadly, murderous curse?!"

The woman's face froze, and she was horrified when she realized what had happened.

"I never imagined that after so many years away from home, the kids outside would be so amazing."

The reason why Lu Ming was not taken seriously from the beginning was that during the period when the supernatural was temporarily blocked, the possibility of a top-notch ghost tamer emerging was too low.

Lu Ming looked like an ordinary young man.

The middle-aged woman had no idea about the background of the woman in wedding attire who was being led by him. Before using her supernatural powers, she remained inconspicuous, and all that could be seen was that her wedding dress and veil were made of the finest fabric.

However, the older generation of ghost handlers were quite experienced in dealing with paranormal events, and the woman quickly figured out the principle behind the superimposed ghost cries and laughter.

Intensity is increased by superimposing echoes.

By making the space large enough, the rate at which echoes accumulate can be slowed down.

She pulled out a dead man's severed hand from somewhere.

The hand exuded a strong aura of death. The woman pried the index and middle fingers of the hand apart, and then pried the middle and ring fingers apart.

The next moment, an unbelievable scene unfolded.

The narrow tailor shop was strangely stretched out, and the distance was drastically altered.

A distance of just a few meters now feels like a hundred miles.

This is the supernatural story of Mr. Liu, the owner of an inn in Taiping Ancient Town.

Boss Liu's men aren't here, but this middle-aged woman in front of me has somehow temporarily borrowed Boss Liu's supernatural powers.

The dead man's hand rotted away quickly after being used, disintegrating into a pile of useless rotten flesh.

Although its effect is far inferior to that of Boss Liu, and even spreading two fingers only creates a distance of a hundred miles, it is already enough.

The eerie supernatural force affected the distance, even Lu Ming's vision. The middle-aged woman became a tiny and blurry figure, as if he were looking at her upside down through a telescope.

The middle-aged woman gave a cruel smile: "In this way, it will take a full six minutes for your crying and laughter to overlap once. By the time the overlap is complete, even the corpse will probably be cold."

Lu Ming ignored him, still holding the ghost bride's hand with one hand and turning the rattle drum with the other.

I thought the superposition wouldn't work anymore, but the crying and laughter in the space kept getting louder and louder.

"what?"

The middle-aged woman couldn't help but gasp in surprise.

She could clearly feel that the distance inside the tailor shop had been stretched to a hundred miles.

How come the superposition speed of the ghost's wailing and ghost's laughter is still so fast?
What she didn't know was that using supernatural means to change the distance could indeed slow down the superimposed speed of the ghost's wailing and laughter.

But this is based on the premise that there is no rattle drum.

Using the rattle drum as a medium, supernatural phenomena are superimposed. Ghostly cries and laughter can be rapidly superimposed within the closed drum surface, regardless of the influence of the external environment.

The middle-aged woman didn't have time to think much and quickly took out an oil lamp.

This oil lamp is different from the corpse oil lamp that Lu Ming had headquarters help make. This kind of oil lamp is more like a ghost candle, which can resist terrifying supernatural attacks.

The oil lamp went out shortly after it was lit, and the glass cover on its surface shattered, sending shards flying everywhere.

This is far from the end.

After the oil lamp went out, the colorful burial clothes worn by the middle-aged woman faded and became rotten and worn out, clearly no longer wearable.

After she took off her rotten coat, she was now wearing a new shroud, which looked similar to the rotten one she had just worn out, and was colorful and patterned.

It was this burial shroud that saved her. Only when the shroud rotted and fine cracks began to appear on the surface of the rattle drum did Lu Ming stop the supernatural superposition of ghostly wails and laughter.

The middle-aged woman's eyelids twitched violently. She never expected that a simple move by this young man would cost her an oil lamp, a shroud, and a dead man's hand.

This was all without the woman in the wedding dress beside him making a move.

She wasn't stupid; she knew she'd run into a tough opponent. So she tried to smooth things over, saying, "You took my tailor shop first, but I won't hold it against you... If you want any clothes, just take them. I'll turn a blind eye."

Upon hearing this, Lu Ming forced a stiff smile onto his pale face.

If they realize they can't win, they want to make peace?
That doesn't make sense.

Given this woman's personality, if we let her go, she might just turn around and find someone else to do something to me.

Moreover, if Lu Ming were to fall into a disadvantageous position, this woman certainly wouldn't let him off so easily.

"From the moment you take action, you must be prepared to bear the consequences."

"In this tailor shop today, it's either you or me who lives."

The middle-aged woman's face turned even uglier.

It's a matter of life and death?

Isn't that the same thing?

She quickly lit an oil lamp in the tailor shop; the flame was weak, but it illuminated the dimly lit shop.

This oil lamp doesn't seem to be a vengeful spirit controlled by the woman, but rather something that came with the tailor shop itself, making it extremely dangerous.

After the oil lamp illuminated the tailor shop, Lu Ming discovered that he could not use the six layers of ghost domain to envelop the middle-aged woman.

The latter took advantage of this opportunity to launch a supernatural attack.

The woman took out two burial garments at the same time.

Soon, Lu Ming's mourning clothes and the ghost bride's wedding dress will be replaced by these two burial garments from the tailor shop.

“Young man, you are too young. Although you have some skills, you lack experience. This shroud is the most malevolent one in my tailor shop. I have to wash it in the river several times a day, otherwise the vengeful ghost inside will come out... I put in a lot of effort to sew this shroud back then…”

He was dressed in the clothes of a dead man, draped over the body of a dead man.

In the original timeline, Yang Jian, who entered Taiping Ancient Town to deal with the Ghost Lake incident, got entangled in this shroud and only managed to remove it after entering the bottom of Ghost Lake.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Lu Ming will not die, but it will still take some effort to remove his burial clothes.

A shroud resembling a vengeful ghost replaced Lu Ming's mourning clothes, making him look like a dead person lying on top of him.

The next moment, Lu Ming's white mourning clothes and the ghost bride's red wedding dress showed a strange movement, and the burial clothes that had just been put on were easily taken off.

"You think you can take me down with just a piece of clothing? You're the one who's ignorant."

Lu Ming shook his head, seemingly looking down on the woman's methods.

He did admit that the two shrouds were ominous, but for them to have any effect on him and the ghost bride, they had to overcome the curse of the mourning clothes and the wedding dress.

This is clearly impossible.

Lu Ming and the ghost bride happened to suppress the woman's burial clothes.

"The old folks who have lived from the last era to the present day do have some tricks up their sleeves, but that's all they've got."

After a brief exchange with the woman in the tailor shop, Lu Ming made a simple assessment of her abilities.

For those who control vengeful spirits, the most important thing is how long they can ultimately live.

Balance, crashes, outliers—no one can say for sure which path is right.

Everyone's situation is different.

If you survive to the end by killing the vengeful spirit inside you, then you are right.

If someone becomes an outcast and lives to see the end of the supernatural era, then this path is correct.

Survival is more important than anything else.

The four ghost tamers who survived to the end in Taiping Ancient Town.

The innkeeper, Mr. Liu; the spirit medium, Mr. He Liansheng; the middle-aged woman from the tailor shop; and the faceless man.

Any one of them, if placed in today's paranormal community, would be an absolute powerhouse.

Unfortunately, the middle-aged woman at the tailor shop got into trouble with Lu Ming.

Lu Ming didn't waste any more words with the woman in front of him.

Sadako appeared behind the woman at some point.

Her long, wet hair was spread out across her forehead, covering most of her pale face, leaving only one extremely venomous eye visible.

A supernatural attack has been launched.

The woman wasn't entirely unprepared; she was quite capable within the tailor shop.

The terrifying confrontation caused Sadako's movements to pause for a moment, but as the sound of rushing water arose, Sadako used the water surface as a medium to overlay her movements.

The sheer terror of Sadako's dark blue fingernails increased dramatically, overpowering the supernatural force that was hindering her movements.

The middle-aged woman's expression changed, and she tried to get away.

But before the ghost fingernails could even touch her, countless ghost hands and fingernails crawled out from her eye sockets, skin, and throat.

The shroud she wore, which was supposed to protect her from supernatural attacks, rotted away at an alarming rate, and was removed piece by piece.

No one knows exactly how many horrible burial garments this woman was wearing.

Surprisingly, even with so many layers of clothing, she didn't look too bulky.

After the last shroud rotted and decayed, the woman was completely naked, revealing her necrotic black skin.

Without the protection of the supernatural, the ghost fingernail easily killed the woman, blood splattered, and a human head rolled to the ground.

"do you died?"

Lu Ming waved his hand and used the Ghost Domain to send the woman's body away to prevent the vengeful spirit from reviving. Since it needed to be dealt with separately, only a pile of rotten and smelly burial clothes remained on the ground, which could not be sent away directly by the Ghost Domain.

Then, the dim and gloomy light in the tailor shop brightened up again.

Outside the broken door, the deserted, ghostly street, devoid of pedestrians, reappeared.

"The boss isn't here, so you'll have to take whatever you want yourself."

"I can't carry too much by myself, so I might as well call Li Yang and the others along as well."

"I didn't see anywhere to deposit money. If I want to rob ghost money, I'll have to go to the coffin shop again later."

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Ghost Street outside the tailor shop.

The supernatural confrontation between Lu Ming and the middle-aged woman hadn't actually been going on for very long.

But Liu San was still getting impatient.

"Why haven't they come out yet? Are they still trying on clothes at the tailor shop?"

"No, I need to take the paper figure and walk around the area."

Just as Liu San was about to set off, Li Jun stopped him.

“Liu San, this operation is led by Captain Lu. If everyone acts as recklessly as you, there’s no point in doing anything.”

Upon hearing this, Liu San retorted, "Captain Lu is still inside and might not be out for a while. I'll go see if there's anything I can do to help. Is there a problem?"

As the two were arguing, the door of the tailor shop creaked open.

The supernatural confrontation we just witnessed did not occur in reality.

Therefore, the tailor shop door in Ghost Street was not damaged, and no one else witnessed what happened inside the shop.

Lu Ming and the ghost bride walked out of the tailor shop hand in hand.

All four of them turned their gazes toward them at the same time.

"Ahem, the tailor shop owner isn't here. If you see any funeral clothes you like, you can go in and choose them yourself."

Lu Ming had no intention of taking all the funeral clothes in the tailor shop for himself.

Choosing one item for the ghost baby is enough; while you're at it, see if there are any unexpected finds.

Judging from what the middle-aged woman said, the evil spirits sewn into these burial clothes are very fierce. If the clothes are not washed with water from the Ghost Lake every day to suppress the supernatural, the ghosts in the burial clothes will escape.

Even Lu Ming couldn't leave with a whole tailor shop's worth of funeral clothes at the same time.

"???"

The four of them were taken aback when they heard Lu Ming's words.

Is the tailor shop owner not here?

At first, they clearly heard the sound of clothes being washed coming from behind the tailor shop.

Since the tailor shop is still open, they certainly won't let people take things for free.

Li Yang hesitated at this point.

"In that case, let's go in and take a look with Captain Lu..."

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