Weird Cards: I've Become a Ghost

late at night.

Binhai City Special Operations Team Headquarters.

Wang Yao, who had been searching for information all day, was resting on her desk when a phone rang, making her open her eyes abruptly.

She then picked up her phone and saw that it was her teammate Zheng Hao who had called her.

"Feed".

After Wang Yao answered the phone, Zheng Hao's deep voice immediately came through.

"Something's happened. Something strange has occurred at a slaughterhouse in the suburbs."

Wang Yao was taken aback: "Isn't the investigation of the strange occurrences in the suburbs handled by Captain Zhang and his team?"

The Binhai City Special Operations Team is mainly divided into two departments. One department is responsible for the strange occurrences in the urban area, while the other department is responsible for the strange occurrences in the suburbs.

Wang Yao and Zheng Hao belonged to the former department, so she was very puzzled as to why Zheng Hao was talking to her about the strange things in the suburbs. You know, the heart-digging monster in the city had already given her a lot of headaches recently.

"That's right, but a friend of mine who works with Captain Zhang told me that they found a piece of the hanging monster's tongue in the slaughterhouse," Zheng Hao said in a deep voice.

The hanging ghost's tongue?

Upon hearing this, Wang Yao instantly realized something and quickly asked, "You mean, this strange incident at the suburban slaughterhouse is related to the missing Xiao He?"

Since the bizarre heart-digging incident in Fugui Residential Area escalated, most of the patrol team members and special operations team members in Binhai City have put aside their work to provide support. Even the hanging ghost incident that Wang Yao and Zheng Hao were investigating was forced to be temporarily suspended.

Zheng Hao replied, "It's not just related to that; they also found Xiao He's body in the slaughterhouse."

Wang Yao was taken aback by what she heard and remained silent for a moment.

She never expected that the most important person in the hanging mystery she had been investigating for so long would be dead.

After a moment of silence, she asked again, "Is it a strange loss of control? Or...?"

At this moment, Wang Yao was 100% certain that Xiao He had successfully integrated the power of the Hanging Ghost and mastered the method of controlling the ghost.

To kill someone who wields supernatural powers, either the other person's power goes out of control and they are killed by the supernatural power they control, or... they are killed by another person who wields supernatural powers.

"There are also traces of other strange forces remaining at the scene."

Zheng Hao replied, "One of them, according to instrument testing, belongs to the Corpse Ghost, one of the twelve common types of strange phenomena. The remaining strange power is not recorded in the database."

Wang Yao was somewhat surprised: "Is it another newly appeared weirdo?"

Since the first strange occurrence, there have been very few new strange occurrences. Unexpectedly, new strange occurrences have been appearing one after another in Binhai City recently.

"It's pretty close to the truth," Zheng Hao said in a somewhat heavy tone. "But the problem now isn't this newly appeared anomaly."

"Based on their analysis of the scene, Captain Zhang and his team suspect that in addition to Xiao He, who controlled the hanging ghost, and a corpse ghost, there was also..."

At this point, Zheng Hao's voice paused slightly on the other end of the phone. After a moment, he seemed to lower his voice and whispered, "There's another cultist."

"Cultists of the Tricksters?"

Upon hearing those three words, Wang Yao's expression immediately turned ugly.

The Tricksters are a group of madmen with bizarre beliefs who firmly believe that the future belongs to a strange era and that the frail human body is destined to be abandoned.

Unlike those who temporarily merge with the supernatural, almost every cultist abandons their human identity, permanently merging a part of their body with the supernatural, transforming into a half-human, half-supernatural being.

The Alliance's highest decree clearly stipulates that every cultist will be included in the Alliance's kill list.

Because they are forever intertwined with the supernatural, they are almost all beings who disregard life. In the eyes of the cultists, human life is as worthless as grass.

Thinking about this, Wang Yao couldn't help but feel a little worried.

If a cultist were to appear in Binhai City, the city's residents would be in grave danger. Regardless of the cultist's purpose in Binhai City or whether he was simply passing through, given his personality, he would certainly cause many deaths.

So she asked again, "Are Captain Zhang and his team certain they found traces of the cultists at the slaughterhouse?"

"Sure."

Zheng Hao's tone on the other end of the phone was very firm, followed by his heavy voice.

"I've seen photos of the scene, and only cultists would do something like that."

......

The next morning.

In a breakfast shop in the western district of Binhai City, many customers with dark circles under their eyes were hurriedly eating breakfast, preparing to start a new day of work. In addition to the aroma of toasted bread, the air was also filled with the painful emotions of office workers about working.

At that moment, an urgent news report suddenly broadcast on television caught everyone's attention.

"Yesterday evening, an extremely serious and heinous incident occurred at a slaughterhouse in the suburbs. More than thirty workers were brutally murdered, their bodies were dismembered, and some body parts were even put into a meat grinder... After investigation, this incident has been determined to be unrelated to any supernatural phenomena..."

The host's serious voice echoed in the store, immediately sparking discussion among the crowd.

"This world is getting more and more dangerous. I have to live in fear every day on my way to work." A man in a black suit sighed, wondering if he would live to pay off his mortgage.

"Yes, I was planning to move to the suburbs." The woman next to me frowned deeply, her face full of worry.

The strange events that have recently occurred in the Fugui residential area have made her, who lives nearby, consider moving. But who would have thought that something like this would happen at this critical juncture?

Just then, the breakfast shop owner spoke up, "Hey, what's there to be afraid of? Murderers are much more terrifying than weirdos."

Since the arrival of the supernatural, some ordinary people would rather encounter a murderer than a supernatural being.

"Yes, that's true." The woman nodded, but the boss's words did not lessen the worry on her face.

For some reason, she felt that this strange occurrence was different from the past, and an indescribable unease would rise in her heart from time to time.

Just as everyone was discussing this, in a corner of the breakfast shop, a tall man dressed in dark casual clothes was eating a meat bun with his head down. He had a hideous scar on his face that was very conspicuous.

This man was none other than Scarface Yong's subordinate, Chen Wu.

However, Chen Wu is now just a shell; his soul has long been devoured by the short-lived and cunning Xiao He, who has usurped his place.

The current Chen Wu is like Xiao He.

Listening to the news broadcast in the store and the discussions of the crowd, Xiao He wolfed down the meat bun in his hand while expressionlessly focusing his gaze on the two cards in front of him that only he could see.

The Clown's Mask

Category: Ghostly Objects

Rating: Two stars

Quality: Premium

Ability: By wearing this mask, you will gain the power of a circus clown.

Side effect: You can only remove the mask by absorbing enough fear power; otherwise, if you wear the mask for too long, you will no longer be yourself.

Note: The Joker wears a mask; his joys and sorrows remain unknown. On stage, the Joker smiles; off stage, he weeps. The Joker's laughter and tears are like an invisible mask worn for too long. Therefore, no one knows whether this mask belongs to the weeping Joker Morey or the smiling Joker Roy.

......

This is a high-quality two-star card, and also Xiao He's most powerful and mysterious card to date.

Logically, he should have been incredibly excited to draw such a powerful and bizarre card, but at this moment he was still somewhat apprehensive.

The reason was that when he first came into contact with the clown mask, he could clearly sense that it contained a powerful and evil will.

This mask possesses its own will!

When Xiao He first wore it on his face, it was as if he had become one with this will, and afterwards his actions were all unconsciously influenced by this will.

That is why Xiao He, who originally only intended to possess Chen Wu, only had a fleeting thought of eliminating the root of the problem, which was seized upon by that evil will and amplified.

Thus, Xiao He ended the lives of the thirty-odd underground criminals disguised as workers at the slaughterhouse in a brutal and decisive manner. In order to prevent the news that "Chen Wu" was still alive from leaking out, the dead bodies were turned into a pile of minced meat, making it impossible to tell who was who.

All of this happened simply because someone wanted to try out the abilities of this new card.

"Although this card has significant side effects, it at least gives me more confidence."

With a thought, Xiao He's cards vanished in the blink of an eye.

Meanwhile, on television, the presenter is reporting on the latest bizarre attack.

"We have just received news that the Heart-Digging Monster in Fugui Residential Area has been killed by the Alliance Enforcement Team. However, in order to prevent the spread of its post-mortem power, the residential area will remain under lockdown. Furthermore, for safety reasons, the area within a three-kilometer radius of the residential area will also be sealed off. We request the cooperation of nearby residents..."

Xiao He glanced at the television on the wall, then chewed the meat bun in his mouth and swallowed it.

He had a feeling that the heart-digger monster that appeared in the wealthy residential area was definitely not simple. If this monster had really been killed, how could the alliance have expanded the area of ​​the blockade?

"But that's fine too, it'll make it easier for me to sneak in later."

He pondered for a moment, and a plan had already formed in his mind to sneak into the wealthy residential area.

Since the area under lockdown has expanded, the number of people needed will naturally increase. However, if there is a shortage of people, the lockdown in some areas will not be as tight.

After possessing Chen Wu's body, Xiao He did not leave Binhai City for his own reasons.

The reason he was so eager to possess someone and leave Binhai City at first was because his public identity had been drawn into a "bizarre murder case." People both openly and secretly were looking for trouble with him, and at that time, he was too weak to do anything but avoid it.

But now, "Xiao He" is dead, dead in that slaughterhouse, and no one will bother him anymore.

And his current identity, "Chen Wu," naturally died in that slaughterhouse as well, mixed in with a pile of minced meat. As long as Xiao He doesn't actively reveal his identity and attract the attention of both the overt and covert groups, he is at most just someone who looks somewhat similar to "Chen Wu."

Besides, Xiao He is no longer the weak version of himself he once was. With a two-star Weird card in hand, he has gained a lot more confidence. Moreover, the ability he gained after advancing to a one-star Short-lived Weird is also one of his sources of confidence.

As for why Xiao He wanted to sneak into the wealthy residential area, it was naturally because he had his eye on that heart-digging monster.

After all, besides upgrading the level of the short-lived ghost, the only other way to draw new weird cards and increase one's confidence for now is to collect weird or strange objects from this world.

If that heart-digger monster was indeed killed, it would at least leave behind a monster artifact.

Of course, he was only going there to try his luck. It would be a waste to confront the Alliance head-on for a strange creature or a strange object.

unless......