Li Zhuiyuan, a corpse retriever, travels through a mysterious resurrection.

Chapter 85 The Rules of the Ghost Wardrobe, The Supernatural Bus (First Update 4100 words)

Inside the small room behind the second door.

The dark, old cabinet had so little paint left that the original color of the wood was visible.

In the middle of the room, there was a small table.

The table was unremarkable; upon touching it, it turned out to be just an ordinary wooden table, but someone had carved a sentence on it.

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

The neat handwriting was the only information in the room.

Li Zhuiyuan shifted his gaze to the cabinet.

There are two levels. The first level is a wooden lattice window with many small square holes crisscrossing horizontally and vertically. It is dark inside. Even if the ghost baby's supernatural power is used and its eyes turn black, it is still impossible to see what is inside.

The next level has two tightly closed cabinet doors.

Like the Ghost Mirror, it doesn't show any abnormalities at first glance.

In the first room, the ghost mirror sealed with a wooden door has the ability to bring people back to life, so this cabinet is definitely not simple.

Otherwise, the original owner of the old house from the Republic of China era would not have left it behind and sealed the room off with a heavy brass door.

During the observation, Li Zhuiyuan saw a pair of eyes appear in the darkness from the square hole in the upper layer.

An eerie, cold gaze peered at him through the square hole.

He walked over quickly, and those eyes disappeared again.

A ghost was hiding inside an old cupboard.

Even when he got close, the ghost didn't attack, hiding inside as if it had autism.

The message left by the original owner said that it possesses everything, which means that this cabinet has an incredible ability to allow the user to own many things.

However, vengeful spirits are unlikely to serve the living out of kindness; users must pay a price and will lose everything in the process.

This ghost cabinet is even more valuable than the ghost mirror. If its rules can be figured out, it can have unexpected benefits for the user.

"The original owner left this message to warn future generations, but did not tell them how to use it. Perhaps he was worried that users would use this haunted wardrobe recklessly, causing things to develop in an uncontrollable direction. Instead of destroying it, he left it behind so that future generations could explore it and naturally realize the function and cost of the haunted wardrobe during the process of exploration and discovery."

"If you can't even understand the rules of the Ghost Cabinet, it means you're not capable enough. It's good that the Ghost Cabinet is abandoned here."

"To have everything, what ability can make someone have everything? I want it, and I can have it; my dreams will come true..."

Li Zhuiyuan thought of the vengeful ghost beside Zhao Kaiming.

"Could it be that the Ghost Cabinet possesses the same power as that vengeful ghost, capable of granting people's wishes?"

He continued to examine the ghost cabinet, hoping to find some clues.

Li Zhuiyuan suddenly noticed that there were some things placed in an inconspicuous corner at the very top of the cabinet.

Reaching down, I found three very ordinary old objects.

An empty ink bottle, a fountain pen in the style of the Republic of China era, and a notebook the size of a palm.

"Placing it on the ghost cabinet must be related to the rules for using the ghost cabinet. Is it to write the wish on a piece of paper and hand it to the ghost cabinet?"

"I wonder what the price will be, otherwise I could give it a try."

Li Zhuiyuan glanced through the papers and found that five pages had been torn out.

There are still traces of writing with a fountain pen on it.

However, too much time had passed, and the traces were intertwined, so Li Zhuiyuan could not recognize what the original owner had written on it.

"Analyzing these traces requires professionals; the police station definitely has them." Li Zhuiyuan put away his notebook and left the old house from the Republican era.

Conference room in Dachang City.

Because of Li Zhuiyuan, the meeting ended abruptly shortly after he left.

Several Interpol officers left in a panic, eager to leave the city as soon as possible and return to their respective jurisdictions.

After all the Interpol agents had left, Cao Yanhua, who was sitting at the head of the table, sighed.

"I admit that Li Zhuiyuan is very capable, but he is too domineering and cannot tolerate the slightest provocation. Sooner or later, such a personality will lead to something serious. Killing a colleague in front of us was a direct warning to everyone at headquarters."

Zhao Jianguo said with a wry smile, "Anyway, this isn't the first time. Last time, during the Huanggang Village incident, he even said he'd let the knocking ghost target all of us. For someone his age, having experienced so much, it's already remarkable that he hasn't become antisocial. He proactively resolves paranormal events and has the ability to handle them well, which makes him worthy of our resources. Expecting him to be both capable and obedient is asking too much. Top-tier ghost controllers have already emerged abroad; we can't continue using the old methods, or we'll fall behind."

Cao Yanhua remained silent, understanding that Zhao Jianguo's words made sense. However, if things continued this way, these ghost tamers would become very difficult to control, and each of them would become a potential threat.

When Yang Jian drove back to Guanjiang Community, his old classmate Zhao Lei suddenly rushed out.

After a strange conversation, Yang Jian discovered that Zhao Lei had been to his house.

And he was controlled by the ghost that read the newspaper.

Zhao Lei revealed a strange smile: "Yang Jian, tell Li Zhuiyuan that I am still not as good as you, but I will come to find you."

"That newspaper is mine. You took it, and you'll pay with your lives."

Yang Jian tried to keep Zhao Lei, but he escaped.

He took out his GPS-enabled phone and contacted Liu Xiaoyu, asking her to issue a nationwide warrant for Zhao Lei's arrest.

"Zhao Lei? Who is he? What did he do?" Liu Xiaoyu asked.

Yang Jian said, "He's my classmate, the one who survived from No. 7 Middle School. He's been controlled by a vengeful ghost, but he still retains a part of his own thoughts and intelligence. He's a special kind of anomaly. We need to find him as soon as possible, or he'll cause a major disaster."

"Okay, I'll issue the arrest warrant immediately."

Yang Jian rushed to the neighborhood where he used to live, where he discovered a large amount of information left by Zhao Lei.

Zhao Lei tried to control the newspaper ghost, but he failed.

He discovered that his memory was failing him and wrote down many notes to remind himself.

Yang Jian collected all the papers containing the information and returned to his villa in the Guanjiang residential area.

After Jiang Yan and Zhang Liqin pieced together the shredded paper, Yang Jian saw Li Zhuiyuan on the fifth floor.

He told her everything about Zhao Lei.

Li Zhuiyuan thought of the ghost-faced Tong Qian.

The newspaper ghost Si Ping keeps collecting other people's faces. Is it possible that it's looking for a ghost face?

Perhaps the androgynous face behind Tong Qian's head, capable of emitting eerie laughter, is its true target.

"Brother Xiaoyuan, that ghost can use newspapers to modify people's memories. Now that we have its newspapers, it seems to be directly controlling Zhao Lei. I think Zhao Lei still retains his own consciousness. Do you think we have a chance to save Zhao Lei?" Yang Jian asked.

Yang Jian didn't want to see Zhao Lei die like this, since there were only a few of his classmates left.

Li Zhuiyuan opened a golden box, inside which was a blood-stained old newspaper.

He said, "Didn't that ghost say it was coming to find us? Without this newspaper, it lost its means of taking over people's faces, so until it gets the newspaper back, it can only use Zhao Lei's face. This is our chance."

"As for taking back the newspaper, that's impossible."

After speaking, Li Zhuiyuan ate the blood-stained old newspaper.

Now, the only way for that ghost to reclaim its power is to seize his body.

"I went into the second room of the old house from the Republican era. There was a haunted cabinet there. I guessed that it was like the ghost next to Zhao Kaiming, able to grant people's wishes."

"I found some information left by the original owner that can help me better understand the haunted closet. This information requires professional handwriting analysis. The Dachang City Police Department just told me that there is a handwriting recovery expert in Xiaochun City next door, and I'm going to find him now," Li Zhuiyuan said.

A haunted wardrobe that can grant wishes?

Yang Jian was surprised. In just a short while, Brother Yuan had made another new discovery.

If what Xiao Yuan said is true, perhaps Zhao Lei can be saved through the Ghost Cabinet.

He decided to go along.

Yang Jian said, "Brother Xiao Yuan, planes and high-speed trains in Dachang City have been suspended, and there is now a complete traffic control. Zhao Lei also damaged our car just now. We may not be able to leave Dachang City for the next few days."

"Xiaochun City isn't far, and since there's no transportation, we'll fly there ourselves," Li Zhuiyuan said.

As soon as the words were spoken, a dark blue-green light shot into the sky, and the two disappeared from the spot.

Yang Jian exclaimed in surprise, "Brother Xiao Yuan, you can fly using Ghost Domain?"

"I thought of a way to use the Ghost Realm in order to save time. I'll teach you."

In no time, two beams of light, one black and one red, appeared in the sky.

Ten minutes later.

The two appeared at the entrance of the police station in the new district of Xiaochun City.

Shortly after handing the notebook to a professional, Li Zhuiyuan's GPS-enabled phone rang.

Zhao Jianguo's voice came through: "Li Zhuiyuan, in recognition of your contributions, headquarters has sent part of the reward to Dachang City. Two ghost candles and two thousand kilograms of gold should arrive tomorrow. Be prepared to receive them."

Ghost candles are now very rare items; even Interpol ghost tamers don't have the chance to get one.

There's also the gold quota. A city official's quota is 100 kilograms, and together with Yang Jian, it's only 200 kilograms.

The headquarters sent two ghost candles and two thousand kilograms of gold, clearly indicating their intention to make friendly relations.

Li Zhuiyuan didn't react much after hearing this, and simply said, "Hmm."

Ignoring Li Zhuiyuan's cold attitude, Zhao Jianguo changed the subject, saying, "By the way, the phone's location shows that you and Yang Jian are both in Xiaochun City. Could you help investigate the disappearance of the Interpol officer in Xiaochun City?"

Before Li Zhuiyuan could reply, Zhao Jianguo quickly said, "If you don't want to, you don't have to investigate. I've located his phone; it contains a lot of important information. Could you help me retrieve it? I don't know who took it; it's been moving around, and the signal is intermittent."

"Interpol agents can verify each other's cell phone signals, so could you help me with this if it's convenient?"

It would take professionals three hours to analyze the handwriting, which is neither too long nor too short, but it should be enough to help find the phone.

Li Zhuiyuan agreed.

He turned on his phone's location services, and the screen showed two signal sources.

One was Yang Jian beside him, and the other was a few streets away, moving at a slow pace.

However, the signal was very unstable and kept flashing.

Li Zhuiyuan opened his Ghost Domain and led Yang Jian to the location where the signal appeared.

This is a main road in Xiaochun City, with a lot of vehicles and pedestrians around it.

Next to them was a bus stop, where seven or eight people were boarding a bus.

Yang Jian searched the surrounding area but found nothing.

He asked in surprise, "Brother Xiao Yuan, the signal isn't working, which means it's not with the pedestrians. I've checked the surrounding area..."

"I didn't find the phone."

Li Zhuiyuan narrowed his eyes as he looked at the bus in front of him.

He said, "No need to look anymore, the phone must be on this bus."

"There's something strange about this car; I sensed an eerie atmosphere."

Yang Jian asked, "Then what about us?"

"Let's go up and take a look." Li Zhuiyuan followed behind the pedestrians.

The two boarded the bus and chose to sit in the back.

At this moment, the phone displayed a signal from Xu Feng, the person in charge of Xiaochun City, located here.

The two decided to wait and see.

Before we knew it, the bus had traveled two or three stops and gradually deviated from its original route, heading towards the suburbs.

The sky outside began to darken.

It was 6:20 PM on my phone. Summer nights come late, so such a rapid change in the sky seemed quite unusual.

The bus had been traveling for almost twenty minutes and had not yet reached the next stop.

Things started to get increasingly strange.

Yang Jian reached out to open the car window. If things went wrong, he and Xiao Yuan could jump out and escape.

"Hmm?" Finding that the car window couldn't be opened, Yang Jian started knocking on it forcefully.

The car window remained completely still.

Yang Jian's body was affected by supernatural forces, which would make him superhuman in the eyes of normal people. He never expected that he would be unable to break the window of a bus.

He placed his palm on the car window, and a scarlet ghost eye emerged, flashing red light.

However, the red light emitted by the ghost eye was confined inside the carriage.

The outside and inside of the bus seemed like two different worlds. Even when Yang Jian activated his Ghost Domain, it couldn't spread out of this seemingly ordinary bus.

"Brother Xiaoyuan, we can't even get out of the Ghost Realm." Yang Jian frowned, the situation here was beyond his expectations.

Li Zhuiyuan said calmly, "It seems that the person in charge of Xiaochun City has not gone missing; he is trapped on this bus."

Li Zhuiyuan looked at the more than twenty people in the car.

Something was wrong with this bus. He could only be sure that the few people who got on with him were human, but as for the others, it was hard to say whether they were human or ghosts.

At this point, several students on the bus realized something was wrong and started making a fuss, demanding that the driver stop the bus.

Seeing that the driver did not respond, one of the students angrily walked over and shoved the driver.

"Can't you hear me?"

The driver, who had been driving, was pushed to the side, and his hat fell off.

His pale, bloodless face exuded death, and a foul stench emanated from his body. His neck was slightly rotting, indicating that he had been dead for more than a day.

"Ahhh!" The student was terrified and collapsed to the ground.

"He's dead! The driver is dead!"

A dead man was driving a bus through the city.

Even more bizarrely, now that the driver has fallen off the bus, there is no one in the driver's seat, but the steering wheel is still turning. It's as if an unseen person is driving the bus, taking everyone to an unknown place.

Seeing this, Li Zhuiyuan stood up and walked towards the driver's seat.

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