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Chapter 188: Replacing the Portrait, Bai Sha Strengthens! The End of the Incident (1 words)

boom!
Just as Lu Ming was about to step forward, Li Yang noticed the strange movement of the ghost in his mind's eye, which seemed to be a prelude to an attack. So he rushed forward and closed the old cabinet door, using the ghost's supernatural power to block the door.

Rather than calling them two cabinet doors, they are more like two cracked wooden boards.

However, the two wooden boards did not tremble as expected.

The ghost inside did not confront the supernatural force of the ghost blocking the door.

"What happened? Why did it suddenly become quiet?"

Li Yang was still somewhat puzzled when Lu Ming's voice came from behind him.

"Why don't you open the cabinet and take a look? The ghost has already left."

"what?"

Following Lu Ming's instructions, Li Yang opened the wooden cabinet under the altar. Sure enough, it was empty, only emitting a musty smell that comes from a long period of lack of sunlight.

Just moments before he used the ghostly barrier, the ghost had already left the Lingtai using its ghostly domain and disappeared somewhere.

It's still very early, the light outside is dim, and a cold wind is still blowing.

"Another ghost with a ghostly aura?"

The only surviving stranger who was a ghost tamer was somewhat terrified.

In his previous understanding, ghosts with ghost domains were extremely rare. However, the ghosts he encountered at the Ghost Feast these past two days were terrifyingly high in level. Ghost domains were not uncommon here, and even Lu Ming, codenamed Ghost Groom, could frequently use his ghost domain.

call!
A cold wind kept blowing against the door of the mourning hall.

Dark, ghostly figures were beginning to emerge from the mist outside the village, approaching this place.

Moreover, the mourning hall is not safe at the moment.

Ghosts lurk in the darkness, ready to launch a deadly supernatural attack at any moment.

Snap! Snap! Snap!

The portrait on the altar did not stop its strange movements even after the appearance of another ghost.

Between the gaps in the spliced ​​wood, the blood that flowed out was even thicker and carried a strong stench, dripping onto the ground along the edge of the altar.

Lu Ming didn't have time to pay attention to the portrait for the time being.

He had a premonition that the portrait would be dangerous.

If the previous corpse is allowed to hide in the shadows and launch an attack at a crucial moment, then things will become difficult.

Before dealing with this portrait, we must first deal with the other ghost.

"Li Yang, you're in charge of blocking the door. Don't be stingy with your supernatural powers. There's a high chance we won't be leaving this mourning hall today."

Lu Ming issued the order.

Upon hearing this, Li Yang was taken aback.

We don't need to leave the mourning hall?
According to the previous rules, weren't the real dangers all in the outer courtyard?
Lu Ming pointed to the plastic shed in the yard and said, "The tables and chairs are all gone, so there probably won't be a feast today. We have limited time. If we wait for those evil spirits in the distance to get closer and we don't find a way to leave, then it will be really dangerous."

"Understood, Captain."

Without saying a word, Li Yang closed the door to the mourning hall.

Through the gaps between the cracked wooden planks, one could see that although the ghosts moved extremely slowly, they suddenly appeared very close by after only a few steps.

The way these ghosts walk is beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.

At this rate, it won't be long before the ghost arrives at the mourning hall.

Therefore, Lu Ming asked Li Yang to block the door so that he could help delay the time as much as possible.

At this moment, Lu Ming suddenly felt a strange sensation.

Just as he was about to raise the corpse oil lamp, a ghostly hand appeared in the shadows and reached for his neck.

The ghost lurking in the shadows planned to crush Lu Ming's neck in the same way it had killed the unfortunate ghost tamer earlier.

Snapped!
A sharp cracking sound, not the sound of a broken cervical vertebra, but the sound of a slender arm reaching out from nowhere grabbing the ghostly hand that appeared out of thin air.

A female ghost with long, wet, black hair and dressed in white mourning clothes appeared from behind Lu Ming, blocking the ghost's supernatural attack.

The strangest thing is that Sadako crawled out of a dry well, but this dry well did not appear anywhere else, but on Lu Ming's back.

A circular hole appeared in the center of Lu Ming's back, like the mouth of a well. Looking inside, one could not see the internal organs of a normal human body, but rather an unfathomable darkness.

Sadako can use the dry well as a medium to climb out of it.

Lu Ming himself controlled the Ghost Well, so a well could even appear on his own body.

"Is this...is this still human?"

Just how many vengeful spirits did he control?

From the perspective of another ghost tamer, he first saw a huge well opening split open on Lu Ming's back, and then a female ghost dressed in white crawled out of the well.

The supernatural confrontation was decided in an instant.

But the ghost was suppressed and disappeared again. With a dull "thud," something else appeared in the mind's eye.

Lu Ming was very familiar with this scene.

It will restart when suppressed, just like the ghost messengers at the training base.

"Is it also a vengeful ghost capable of single-target reboot?"

Lu Ming frowned, feeling that something was amiss.

This ghost would be a terrifying existence for an ordinary ghost tamer, but Lu Ming could handle it with ease.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been suppressed and put at a disadvantage the moment he came into contact with Sadako.

How could a ghost of this level possess such a terrifying ability as single-target reboot?

Unlikely.

Of course, we cannot draw conclusions based on this alone.

Because single-unit restart is not directly related to the terror level of ghosts, it can only be considered a very special characteristic.

"Captain, do you need me to block the Lingtai (spirit platform)?"

Li Yang also noticed the situation and took the initiative to make a suggestion.

Lu Ming shook his head: "No need, this ghost isn't too difficult to deal with. Li Jun, Liu San, and you..."

Lu Ming pointed at Ji Yuan, but couldn't remember his name for a moment.

"You just need to hold off this ghost and prevent it from bothering me."

After a brief exchange, Lu Ming figured out the details of the ghost hiding in the shadows and gave up his previous idea of ​​dealing with the ghost first.

"It's very possible that the mourning hall itself is a ghost. If we don't deal with the mourning hall, or the portrait on the altar, this ghost will keep restarting itself until all the ghosts outside the village rush in and kill us all."

"In other words, the ability to restart a single entity is not the ability of this ghost itself, but belongs to the entire shrine."

Having figured this out, Lu Ming stopped worrying about it and turned his gaze back to the portrait on the altar.

The blood flowing from the portrait is thick and foul-smelling, imbued with supernatural elements; any ordinary person who touches it will die instantly.

Fortunately, the blood that flowed out did not possess the same unsolvable suppressive properties as Yan Li's ghost blood, and therefore posed no threat to Lu Ming.

He took the ghost bride's hand and stepped forward.

At the same time, the foggy surface of the picture frame looked as if it had been wiped clean by something.

"This is······"

There were still no photos in the frame, only a glass that reflected Lu Mingmo's image.

Looking at his own portrait, Lu Ming's previous vague guess was confirmed.

"It looked like a banquet, with a mourning hall, coffin, and wreaths set up, but the coffin was empty; no one had actually died."

"The fact that my reflection is in this portrait means that the funeral is being prepared for me..."

At that moment, a new ghostly figure appeared behind the portrait, looking like a girl of thirteen or fourteen years old.

She was dressed in a blue robe, her hands clasped in front of her. Her clothes were old-fashioned and she didn't seem to belong to this era.

The girl's face was quite delicate, but her complexion was terrible, like that of a dead person.

The most terrifying thing was that her big eyes had no pupils, only two huge, hollow pits, with maggots crawling inside.

Snapped!
A clear handprint appeared on the frame of the portrait.

However, in Lu Ming's view, the ghostly figure in the portrait did not move at all from beginning to end.

This is not the end.

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!
The dense, ghostly handprints slapped onto the portrait, sending chills down the spine of onlookers. The portrait trembled violently as if it were about to be shattered at any moment.

Lu Ming was startled, feeling as if the surrounding scenery had become blurry and unreal, and he and the ghost bride seemed to have been pulled into another space.

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the other side.

Li Jun and the others worked together to suppress the ghost in the spirit platform once more, allowing it to restart and return to the spirit platform.

boom!
The cabinet door was opened once again.

The vengeful ghost's attack came once again.

"Li Yang, how's the situation on your end?"

"The ghosts are still getting closer... there are too many of them, and I'm not sure how long I can hold out after they arrive..."

Li Yang's face was ashen as he stared intently through the crack at the dark mass of vengeful ghosts outside.

He was under a lot of pressure.

No one knows how long it will take Lu Ming to get rid of the vengeful ghost at the source.

Of all these ghost tamers, only he was able to block the door.

The two exchanged a few words briefly, without saying much more, because the ghost in the spirit platform reappeared.

The yellow paper on Liu San's paper figure had been torn off in half, revealing bloody flesh and the corpse inside.

His paper doll can withstand three more waves of attacks at most before it becomes completely unusable.

Li Jun's situation isn't much better either.

When he was performing at the Ghost Stage in Taiping Ancient Town, he frequently used supernatural abilities, causing his skin and flesh to crack open, with eerie green ghost flames dancing from the gaps in his skin and flesh.

Before she could suppress the resurgence of the vengeful spirit within her, she was drawn into the ghost-eating feast incident.

He is still resisting the attacks of the evil spirits here, relying entirely on his indomitable will. Every time the eerie ghost fire is lit, he feels immense pain.

Something's not right...

Something's very wrong...

Li Jun gritted his teeth and used the ghost fire to ignite the faceless, charred corpse.

Unlike the previous two times, the level of terror from this ghost was significantly higher.

They will find it more difficult to cope with.

“With each restart, the ghosts will steal more supernatural things from the mortuary. If this continues, let alone surviving three more waves of attacks, we might be wiped out next time.”

The fact that they can restart this eerie funeral hall and steal even more supernatural things after each restart is simply unbelievable.

However, many things involving the supernatural are illogical and cannot be judged by common sense.

Especially in such supernatural places that do not exist in reality.

House seemingly endless rain.

In the distance, through the mist, swift-moving vengeful spirits were already approaching the mourning hall, as if they were about to invade at any moment.

Li Yang is responsible for blocking the wooden door outside the mourning hall. The vengeful spirit inside Li Jun is about to revive, and Liu San's paper figure will soon be damaged.

Supernatural forces from all sides began to invade in full force.

On the third day of the ghost feast, the greatest danger descended.

If the first two days were about struggling to survive thanks to the patterns they had discerned, then on the third day, they would have to rely entirely on their own hard skills.

Even if you know the rules, it's still hard to survive.

The sound of dogs barking came from somewhere.

This seemed to be some kind of signal, causing the stiff, wandering ghost to move even faster.

Although ghosts have no thoughts and cannot consider advantages and disadvantages, they can sense that Lu Ming and the others are in the mourning hall at this moment.

Therefore, they will move closer to this place based on rules and instinct, until they kill everyone.

tread!tread!tread!
The footsteps drew closer and became clearer.

Through the crack in the door, you could even see a pair of old black cloth shoes outside the wooden door.

A ghost, wearing these cloth shoes, is about to step onto the threshold of the mourning hall.

Fortunately, Li Yang blocked the wooden door, keeping the ghost outside.

The wooden door creaked and groaned, but the ghost outside ultimately did not manage to break in.

The first ghost to arrive outside the mourning hall stopped moving, seemingly waiting for the other vengeful ghosts to arrive so they could invade together.

At this moment, Ji Yuan, who had been silent all along, gritted his teeth and said, "There's only one ghost in the house. I'll handle it. You all go and help block the door."

Liu San's sallow face twitched, and he asked, "How do you plan to resolve this?"

If he and Li Jun could free up their time to help Li Yang, they could undoubtedly buy Lu Ming more time.

But Ji Yuan hasn't made a single move yet. How is he supposed to deal with this vengeful ghost that will only get stronger after it restarts?
"I am a ghost tamer, but I am not as good as Captain Lu. I only control one ghost. If I use supernatural powers carelessly, it will cause the vengeful ghost inside me to revive, which is why I have always been so cautious."

"But now that things have come to this, there's no need for me to be cautious anymore. If we don't come up with a solution soon, everyone will die here."

After saying that, Ji Yuan pulled out a pistol.

Calling it a pistol isn't entirely accurate.

Because the gun was too small and not made of gold.

It looked more like a child's toy gun than a pistol, with damp mud on its surface, as if it had just been dug out of the ground.

Before taking out the gun, Ji Yuan went through a long internal struggle.

He was also very afraid of dying.

However, considering that all the ghost tamers who came with him were already dead, he knew that if he did nothing, he probably wouldn't survive either.

Rather than die a cowardly death, it's better to give it one last shot.

boom! boom! boom!
Three gunshots rang out in succession.

Ji Yuan pulled the trigger three times.

They didn't even aim; it was just seemingly random firing.

Then the three shots landed precisely on the ghost.

The ghost that had been hiding in the shadows was now accurately hit by these three bullets, creating a supernatural suppression.

“So accurate?”

Li Jun was somewhat surprised. He had practiced marksmanship before and knew that Ji Yuan's marksmanship level far exceeded that of ordinary people.

Even many professionally trained soldiers cannot do this.

Liu San's eyes darted around: "It's clearly not that his marksmanship is accurate; it's that every bullet he fires precisely targets the vengeful ghost..."

If you look closely, you'll find that Ji Yuan's gun, which looks like a child's toy, doesn't fire golden bullets, but rather human organs.

The first bullet was a little finger, the second bullet was a small piece of flesh, and the third bullet was a section of bloody intestine.

"what!"

The vengeful spirit was suppressed and returned to the spiritual realm.

Ji Yuan, who had fired three shots in quick succession, turned pale and let out a scream.

A bloody hole appeared on the back of his hand, and his little finger was missing.

"Is this the price he paid for firing the gun? The bullets he fired were all parts of his own body... Not only that, the missing parts will soon be corroded by the supernatural. Once the supernatural corrosion exceeds the body's limit, he will be resurrected as a vengeful ghost."

That's how it is with ghost tamers; the more powerful the supernatural entity, the greater the price they have to pay.

Seeing that Ji Yuan was indeed able to deal with the ghosts in the mourning hall on his own, Li Jun and Liu San were relieved. Each of them raised a scarlet ghost candle and went to the wooden door to help Li Yang.

The ghostly figures appearing at the door are dense and numerous, and it is clear that Li Yang alone cannot handle them.

Li Jun and Liu San were ready at any moment, waiting for the door to open.

Click!

Suddenly, a clear sound of shattering glass came from the direction of the mourning hall.

Lu Ming stood frozen in place, as if he had been cursed by some terrible curse; half of his face had turned into the likeness of the girl in the portrait.

This appears to be a kind of ideological replacement.

The scraping sound of Freddy's steel claws echoed continuously deep within his consciousness.

But this can only slow down the rate of erosion; it cannot completely prevent such attacks.

The ending was already sealed the moment Lu Ming looked at the portrait.

Because the attack didn't come from a ghost, but from an entire village holding a funeral.

Being entangled by such a curse would be absolutely unbearable for a demon tamer.

Even if Lu Ming took out the Ghost Scissors right now, he would probably have to make more than a dozen cuts.

No.

Even cutting it a dozen times might not help.

Even the Ghost Scissors cannot cut off all curses; this supernatural item is not omnipotent.

"Damn it, it seems like the situation on Captain Lu's side is even worse than ours."

Li Jun's voice was low and his mood had sunk to the bottom.

There are too many ghosts outside the mourning hall; they can't keep dragging this out forever.

Moreover, it seems that even if Lu Ming can stall for a few more minutes, he is at a disadvantage in his fight against the Source Ghost.

How should they deal with the source ghost that even the ghost groom Lu Ming couldn't handle?

With the weight of all the vengeful spirits pressing down on the wooden door, the two cracked planks wobbled precariously, seemingly about to collapse at any moment. Boom!
With a loud crash, the wooden door finally gave way and was breached by a dense horde of vengeful ghosts.

Li Yang took a few steps back, and the lividity on his body surface became even denser, indicating that the supernatural forces were intensifying their erosion of his body.

By this point, Li Jun and Liu San no longer had time to consider Lu Ming's situation.

Holding up their rapidly burning scarlet ghost candles, they began to fight against the ghosts with all their might.

"what!"

Another scream.

Ji Yuan didn't know what kind of murder pattern he had triggered, and his body began to rot rapidly.

He clearly doesn't have long to live; he'll probably turn into a rotting corpse in a few seconds.

"Damn it, I'll fight you to the death!"

At the last moment, Ji Yuan also lost his temper, pointed the mud-covered toy gun at the two ghosts charging at the front of the door, and fired two shots.

boom!boom!
This time, the two bullets fired were actually Ji Yuan's two eyeballs.

The more important the body part that is hit, the greater the suppression effect of the bullet on the ghost.

Sure enough, after those two shots, the two vengeful ghosts at the front fell into a temporary silence.

"Even if I can't live, I'll drag you down with me."

Ji Yuan's eye sockets became hollow, leaving two bloody holes that kept dripping blood.

He could no longer feel the pain; he was just firing wildly.

After three more shots, Ji Yuan finally couldn't take it anymore, and his mutilated body collapsed heavily to the ground.

In the paranormal world, battles between ghost tamers rarely involve each other's families. This is because even a weak ghost tamer, if they really don't want to live anymore, can unleash a powerful attack before death that approaches the terror of a real vengeful ghost.

If you go too far in your actions, and a ghost tamer wants to fight you to the death, the most likely outcome will be mutual destruction.

Just like Ji Yuan's current situation.

Knowing he was going to die, he used his supernatural powers without hesitation in his final moments to hold back several of the most vengeful ghosts at the front.

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at the same time.

The situation on Lu Ming's side was not as bad as Li Jun and the others had imagined.

Under normal circumstances, being cursed by the entire village to die, there is only one outcome: being replaced by the girl in the portrait. Lu Ming enters the portrait and is sealed inside forever.

However, Freddy's terrifying mental strength and his protection of his consciousness slowed down the replacement process.

Lu Ming must take this opportunity to remove the curse of the ghost eating the feast from his body.

Only then did Lu Ming understand why the final prophecy given by the human skin paper was the word "reboot".

"It's no exaggeration to say that this level of curse is unsolvable. The only way to resolve it is to quickly reboot yourself."

Lu Ming was very glad that he had inquired about the human skin paper in advance and made preparations.

Although this ghost is wicked and eager to send him to his death in the ghost feast, the paper human skin cannot lie due to the rules of ghosts.

Therefore, as long as it is used properly, many dangers can be avoided in advance.

At that moment, Lu Ming sensed the presence of that ghost well.

Because of the properties of that supernatural rainwater, each layer of these well waters is like a frame of an image, recording Lu Ming's state at a certain point in time.

Lu Ming chose to go back one minute.

At that time, he had not yet been affected by the curse of the portrait.

The black film in the well water disappeared part of its length due to some kind of supernatural erosion.

More film disappeared this time than Lu Ming did in his last experiment.

But in terms of the overall length of the film, it's actually not much.

After activating the supernatural power of reboot, Lu Ming's experience was quite unique.

He was fully conscious and aware of everything he had experienced.

Lu Ming could clearly feel that time was playing backwards, like a song playing in reverse.

More accurately, it is Lu Ming's own time that is being reversed.

Lu Ming returned to his former self.

If this reboot can continue indefinitely, Lu Ming could even return to his childhood, to when he was still an infant.

But this is obviously impossible.

Lu Ming looked at the portrait again, and saw that his reflection in the portrait had returned to normal, turning into that pale face.

Behind the portrait, half of the eerie girl's face disappeared, leaving only the remaining half, staring blankly at Lu Ming.

"After the restart, I returned to my previous state, and the part of my body that the ghost in the portrait had invaded was naturally erased."

Lu Ming's reboot is a single-unit reboot, which can only affect himself and cannot interfere with the outside world, hence the current situation.

"This ability is just too bizarre..."

Although I was already aware of the existence of this kind of supernatural phenomenon called reboot.

But only by truly experiencing it can one feel how terrifying a restart can be.

The body altered by the invasion of the vengeful spirit, and the cursed consciousness, were all brought back by this simple reboot, and the vengeful spirit's attack was irrationally repelled.

This is not because the curse of ghosts eating feasts is not terrifying enough.

The problem lies in the fact that the restart feature is too unsolvable.

The reboot of the black film did not directly confront the curse in a supernatural way, but instead cleverly restored Lu Ming to a previous time.

"If a single restart is already this unsolvable, you can imagine how terrifying a large-scale restart would be."

"However, with just this black film, it is not possible to achieve a large-scale restart for the time being. The black film is just a trick. To achieve a true single restart or even a large-scale restart without any restrictions, one still needs to perfectly control the Ghost Bride and become an outlier among Ghost Tamers."

Lu Ming shook his head, not wanting to think about it any further.

"I've let you jump around here for so long, now it's my turn to make a move."

Before the vengeful ghost in the form of a young girl could make a move behind the portrait, the curse on the videotape had already begun playing through the portrait.

What's even more unbelievable is that the foul-smelling, sticky ghost blood no longer seeped from the gaps in the picture frame; instead, it became damp, as if it had just been pulled out of a well.

Sadako reappeared, extending her hand with black nail polish.

Without any hindrance, they invaded the portrait.

The old portrait turned gray again, the once empty background became a ghost well, and heavy rain continued to fall from the sky.

The remaining half of the ghost's face in the portrait had completely rotted away under the erosion of the rain.

Without any warning, the girl in the portrait suddenly disappeared, and standing in the center of the portrait was now Sadako, a tall woman with long, wet hair falling over her forehead and wearing a dirty white dress.

From this moment forward, this funeral will no longer be prepared for Lu Ming; the funeral will now be for Sadako.

Sadako herself is a vengeful ghost. After successfully invading the portrait, she took over this eerie village.

There was not even any resistance.

This kind of integration, or rather, this way of managing, is not about creating conflict and causing a system crash.

Instead, it's a different, clever way of doing things, just like He Yuelian's use of ghost paintings and wearing a wedding dress.

"The fusion was successful."

Sadako completed another piece of the White Demon puzzle, which was not unexpected by Lu Ming.

However, Lu Ming did not relax his vigilance.

Because he felt the supernatural forces within him, which had been calm for a long time, begin to stir.

This fusion is a significant enhancement for Bai Sha. If nothing is done and the unrest is allowed to continue, it will definitely lead to the resurgence of the vengeful spirits.

Lu Ming didn't speak, but with a thought, the ghost bride holding his hand understood his idea.

When He Yuelian was initially given the power to control the Ghost Painting, she didn't grasp the complete supernatural aspects of it.

Instead, the ghost bride acts as a regulator, constantly impacting and suppressing the supernatural, thus creating a dynamic balance between the white and red evil spirits.

At this moment, the White Fiend has been strengthened. Only by increasing the degree of the Red Fiend's recovery in tandem can the balance be maintained.

Fortunately, Lu Ming didn't need to worry about this process.

Ultimately, he was just a ghost tamer; his control over the supernatural couldn't be as precise as that of the ghost bride.

The ghost bride took the initiative to bring Lu Ming's hand into the air and slowly and stiffly waved it.

The ashes, now faded from their original color, continued to fall, turning the surrounding environment black and white, just like the portrait above the mourning hall.

After an unknown amount of time, balance was restored.

Only at this point can the mastery and integration be truly completed.

at the same time.

Li Yang and the others who were fighting off the evil spirits in the mourning hall stared wide-eyed, their faces filled with disbelief.

They first saw Lu Ming's stiff body replaced by a girl's ghostly face, even the eye sockets had become empty holes, which looked extremely creepy.

This is clearly a sign of being at a disadvantage in a supernatural confrontation.

But then, Lu Ming's body got soaked by the rain.

He was indoors, and it wasn't raining outside, so why was he soaked by the rain?
The wet body did not rot due to the supernatural invasion, but gradually lost its original color, turning into a grayish mess, just like the ghost painting world.

Soon, Lu Ming's gray body returned to its original state.

The replaced half of the face returned to its original state, as if everything that had happened before was just an illusion for Li Yang and the others, and nothing had actually happened.

Liu San was the first to react.

"Restart?"

Although he is not very old, his knowledge surpasses that of Li Jun and Li Yang.

Liu San had only seen this unsolvable ability to restart in some unsolvable vengeful ghosts.

He had heard about the Dachang City starving ghost incident that Yang Jian had dealt with, which caused a large-scale reboot, and he was back to thirty minutes earlier.

There was also the incident of the ghost messengers at the training base.

The characteristic of the ghost messenger is that it can be infinitely restarted as a single entity after being suppressed.

Think about it, after going through countless hardships and even losing the lives of many ghost tamers, they finally managed to suppress the ghost, only to find that the vengeful ghost simply used the restart function and returned to its original state.

All our efforts were in vain.

This feeling can truly drive a demon tamer to utter despair.

Liu San never imagined that one day he would see such an ability in a ghost tamer.

Looking at the entire paranormal community, there may be many ghost tamers who have the potential to achieve this, but as far as Liu San knows, there are basically no ghost tamers who can truly achieve a reboot.

Because potential and strength are two different concepts.

If a ghost tamer unleashes their full potential without restraint, like Lin Shan did back then, they can become very strong in a short time, but they will definitely die from the resurrection of vengeful ghosts afterward.

For Lu Ming at this moment, restarting was just the beginning.

After restarting, he actually allowed the ghost he controlled to invade the portrait and replace the original ghost in the portrait.

The situation has completely reversed.

The ghost was supposed to replace Lu Ming, but now Lu Ming has replaced the vengeful ghost.

After doing all this, Li Yang, Li Jun, and Liu San noticed that the densely packed vengeful ghosts had stopped and stood stiffly in place, like lifeless corpses.

"We...we survived?"

Li Yang was still shaken; the lividity on his hands had spread to his shoulders.

After controlling two ghosts, his condition did become much more stable, but that did not mean he would not be able to revive as a vengeful spirit.

"Fortunately, the captain intervened at the critical moment. As long as I rest for a while, the lividity on my body will be blocked back by the door-blocking ghost."

After regaining his senses, Li Yang looked at Lu Ming and asked, "Captain, how are you?"

Lu Ming's tone remained as calm as before: "It's not a big problem."

According to Li Yang's experience, ghost tamers are not vengeful ghosts; in fact, they are just a group of pitiful creatures who have stolen supernatural powers.

While using supernatural powers, the supernatural also erodes the spirit wielder himself.

The more powerful the supernatural force, the greater the harm it will cause to the ghost tamer.

Lu Ming used the seemingly unsolvable ability of Restart at this moment, so it's impossible that he didn't pay a price.

But looking at the captain's current state...
It seems like nothing really happened.

"Forget it, the captain is different from ordinary ghost tamers. We can't judge him by common sense. It's not surprising that he can restart."

Things progressed so quickly that the three were still in shock.

Li Jun glanced at the mud-covered toy gun on the floor of the mourning hall and the mutilated corpse beside it, then silently took off his charred coat and covered Ji Yuan's body with it.

"He was a real man, it's a pity he didn't make it to the end."

Then, Li Jun looked at Lu Ming and asked, "Captain Lu, what do we do next?"

"The paranormal incident has been resolved. If nothing unexpected happens, this place will disappear soon. Hurry up, I'm going to retrieve Xiong Wenwen's photos and that ghostly camera."

Before he finished speaking, the hazy ghost realm had already extended outwards. This time, without the interference of vengeful ghosts, Lu Ming easily found the golden bullet he had left behind, as well as Xiong Wenwen's photo and camera.

The once bright sky was suddenly split open with a deep gash, and then the gap continued to widen, tearing the entire sky apart like a ripped collage.

Village, thick fog, table setting...

Everything faded and disappeared from sight.

The supernatural place disappeared, but it did not erase Lu Ming and the others.

Because such disappearance is not uncontrollable.

Under Lu Ming's guidance, he led Li Yang, Li Jun, Liu San, and Xiong Wenwen, who had turned into a black and white photograph, away from the supernatural place and returned directly to reality.

By now, it was completely dark outside. The city lights were flashing, the roads were bustling with traffic, office workers with briefcases were hurrying by, and young couples were strolling aimlessly along the streets…

Time in the real world is clearly not synchronized with time in the haunted place.

It was morning in the village where the ghost feast took place, but in reality it was already night.

The supernatural and reality are two completely different worlds. Ordinary people cannot perceive the danger lurking in the shadows, and those who control ghosts cannot integrate into the mundane life of reality.

Li Yang let out a long breath, and the tension he had been feeling finally eased a bit.

This was the third time he had experienced a paranormal event.

The first time was during the ghost drawing incident.

The second time was in Taiping Ancient Town.

The third was the ghost feast incident I just experienced.

Three times in a row, each time it was extremely dangerous. Li Yang thought about it and realized that if it weren't for Lu Ming leading the team, he would have died countless times already.

Therefore, Li Yang didn't quite understand why some seemingly weak ghost controllers could survive several supernatural events.
“We’re back in reality. According to the satellite phone I have, we’re in Dahan City.”

At this moment, Li Jun looked ferocious and terrifying, his whole body was cracked from the burning, and you could vaguely see the flickering ghost fire.

"Captain Lu, what should we do about Xiong Wenwen?"

"No rush. I will discuss the arrangements with Professor Wang first and then take action after confirmation."

A cloud of ashes drifted by, and the ghost bride vanished from reality. Lu Ming returned to his previous appearance.

"Now that things are settled, I'll be taking my leave."

After saying that, Lu Ming disappeared from the spot with Xiong Wenwen's photo and the ghost camera.

"This paper figure of mine is badly damaged and needs to be repaired in time, otherwise it will be unusable, and I will be very heartbroken. Farewell, everyone."

Liu San's paper figure gave a strange smile and swayed away.

"What are you going to do?"

Li Jun looked at Li Yang.

"I'll go back to headquarters with you and report the situation to the deputy minister."

A couple strolling along the roadside happened to see Li Jun and Liu San, and their expressions changed.

Who are these two people?

mental illness?
madman?

Or is it just cosplay?

They rubbed their eyes to make sure they weren't seeing things.

The streetlights flickered with a soft pop.

When the light returned to brightness, the two strange men had vanished.

···········
Greater J City.

The Asia branch of the Ghost Riders headquarters.

Cao Yanhua learned that the ghost feast incident had been successfully resolved.

This is good news and worth celebrating.

However, he then heard that Xiong Wenwen had sacrificed her life in the incident.

The smile that had just appeared on her face froze on her face again.

The demon tamer codenamed "Spirit Child" has been lost.

Cao Yanhua knew very well that in a supernatural event of this magnitude, losing only Xiong Wenwen was already the best possible outcome.

However, Xiong Wenwen has very high strategic value. When paired with other Ghost Tamers, she can achieve a synergistic effect greater than the sum of her parts.

Xiong Wenwen's death was undoubtedly a huge loss for headquarters.

At that moment, Cao Yanhua's personal satellite phone rang.

It was a call from Lu Ming.

(End of this chapter)