Weird Cards: I've Become a Ghost

Nighttime.

The central square of Fugui Residential Community.

An old man was listening to music on an old radio in his arms while vigorously slapping his thigh. His eyes were bloodshot, and his dark circles made him look extremely listless.

He hasn't slept for several days.

He wasn't unable to sleep, he was afraid to sleep!

Once asleep, that eerie creature, lurking somewhere, could rip out his heart at any moment.

"What a terrible thing!"

The old man was filled with bitterness. He had finally managed to buy a house in this community with his life savings and the compensation money from the demolition, but who would have thought that something like this would happen.

If I had known, he would have been better off living in the countryside.

Although those people had said not long ago that the heart-digger monster had been killed, the old man, who had been shrewd all his life, quickly saw through the trick. If the monster had really been killed, why were they still locked up here?

......

At that moment, inside a tent in the square, a group of high-ranking officials from the alliance were engaged in a heated discussion.

"Why can't we leave even though the strange phenomenon has been resolved? What are you special operations team members doing?" An old man with a white beard was cursing at a group of people.

The elderly man was a retired union official and also a resident of the wealthy neighborhood.

As the highest-ranking official in the community before retirement, the old man naturally had the right to speak in this tent.

After being thoroughly scolded, Wei Feng, the commander of the operation and the captain of the Binhai City Special Operations Team, frowned deeply.

He himself couldn't understand why the ghost realm that trapped the residents of the community hadn't disappeared even though the ghost was clearly dead.

The Realm of Ghosts – Some special supernatural beings create their own unique barriers, like a cat toying with a mouse, trapping and torturing its prey to death. As long as the supernatural being survives, the barrier will not break.

But... the heart-digger monster that appeared in the neighborhood this time was clearly killed by its own hand, and according to the instrument's detection, the monster energy level in the neighborhood had clearly started to decrease!

Thinking of this, Wei Feng's already cold face seemed to grow even colder. This strange incident had an extremely negative impact, involving a large number of social celebrities and alliance officials. If it was not handled properly, someone might even have to take away his title as captain.

Just then, the tent was opened, and a middle-aged man wearing glasses rushed in in a panic.

"Captain Wei, something bad has happened."

Seeing this, Wei Feng's face darkened, and he shouted, "What's the panic? What happened?"

After being scolded, the newcomer was visibly taken aback. He then wondered why Captain Wei, who was usually quite good-tempered, had suddenly become so angry. However, he didn't think much of it and said in an extremely heavy tone, "Captain Wei, it's foggy outside."

Upon hearing this, it was Wei Feng's turn to be stunned.

"Isn't it normal for it to be foggy so late at night? What's there to report?"

However, just as he finished speaking, he seemed to realize something, his expression changed noticeably, and he tentatively asked, "Could it be...?"

The visitor nodded, his expression grave.

"It's black mist."

Upon hearing the words "black mist," Wei Feng's expression changed drastically. He immediately stood up and rushed out of the tent.

outside.

A black fog appeared out of nowhere and enveloped the entire neighborhood. The whole world seemed to be covered by an ominous black veil, and everything in the world began to become blurred, making it impossible to distinguish whether what appeared in the distance was a person or something else.

Looking at the black mist that appeared before him, Wei Feng's expression turned extremely ugly.

His expression mirrored that of the special operations team members around him, who also knew the origin of the black mist.

Hundreds of years ago.

Just as the alliance was established and the "Martial Era" was declared over, and the global alliance was about to enter a new era, the black mist appeared, followed by the monsters hidden in the black mist—the eerie ones.

Whenever black mist shrouds the sky, something strange is sure to descend upon the earth.

The scholars of the alliance call this eerie black fog "the eerie fog".

Some scholars speculate that passing through the eerie fog leads to another world, a world of the bizarre.

......

"this......?"

At this moment, Xiao He, who had just walked out of the grove, looked at the ruins in front of him with a face full of doubt.

Although he had never been to Fugui Residential Area, he had seen photos of it while researching online. Although the ruins in front of him were dilapidated and looked quite old, he could still tell from the general outline that this was Fugui Residential Area.

"How did this neighborhood become like this?"

Xiao He looked around at the gradually spreading black mist and pondered to himself, "Could it be related to this suddenly appearing black mist?"

Just now, as he was about to walk out of the woods, fog suddenly rose up in the forest.

Almost instantly, the black mist that seemed to come from nowhere enveloped the entire grove. If he hadn't been only two or three meters away from the exit, he probably would have been trapped in this grove before even reaching the residential area.

Thinking of this, Xiao He turned around and looked back at the woods he had come from. The trees, which had been lush and green before, now looked as if they had been corroded by sulfuric acid, leaving only black trunks and branches, like evil ghosts baring their fangs in the dark night, exuding a sense of eeriness and unease.

"Looks like they're not going back."

Xiao He looked down at the scorched earth, which looked like it had been burned by a fire, and he already had a guess in his mind.

His current situation is very similar to that of someone who has accidentally entered a strange realm. It is likely that the black mist floating around him is the "strange mist" that ordinary people talk about, which is terrifying.

He shook his head, feeling somewhat dazed.

Since the appearance of this black mist, Xiao He felt that his body had undergone some changes.

Do not!

It must be that something has changed in the soul.

He could clearly feel his soul gradually... sublimating, a feeling like a fish returning to its homeland welling up from the depths of his soul.

Before Xiao He could figure out the reason, a heart-wrenching scream suddenly came from the dark ruins of the residential area.

"what!"

Upon hearing this noise, Xiao He immediately turned around and strode towards the direction from which the sound came.

He wasn't acting out of curiosity, but rather because he sensed a similar aura in that direction—a strange, eerie aura.

Xiao He never forgot the purpose of his long journey to this neighborhood—to catch the ghost.

Not long after, amidst the ruins of the residential area.

This neighborhood appears to have been abandoned for a long time, with moss and vines covering the ground and walls, almost completely obscuring the original shapes of some buildings.

By the dim light of a few dilapidated streetlights, Xiao He could clearly see a gruesome corpse on the ground.

This was a man who looked to be in his twenties. A large chunk of flesh had been torn off half of his neck by something, and his body was covered with wounds from sharp objects. The ground was covered with bright red blood, which still looked very fresh.

"Oh wow, it's someone I know."

When Xiao He saw the deceased's face clearly, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, his expression changing slightly.

He had seen the deceased.

If I remember correctly, this person should be one of the group he met in the grove before. There was another person with him who looked exactly like him, so the two should be twin brothers.

"But it's really strange when you think about it. I was the one who left first, so how come he got here in this neighborhood before me?" Xiao He squatted down next to the corpse and pondered.

Although he had already gone far away, with his strange perception, he could still roughly sense that shortly after he left, the group of people he had encountered in the forest were still standing there watching him leave.

Given their wary nature, even if they deliberately took a longer route to avoid the areas he had been, it was impossible for them to arrive at the neighborhood before him in such a short time, unless...

At this moment, a bold conjecture arose in Xiao He's mind.

"Those who leave first arrive later, and those who leave later arrive first."

Xiao He glanced down at the corpse on the ground. He hadn't expected that he would be affected by something strange so soon after he entered.

Indeed, only the bizarre itself could possess such unpredictable and mysterious abilities.

Hiss!

Just then, a low growl suddenly came from the corner behind Xiao He.

He subconsciously turned around and spotted a figure in the darkness. However, as the figure gradually emerged from the darkness and was exposed to the dim light, Xiao He realized that it was a strange person with no eyes or nose, only a large mouth. The strange person's mouth was full of blood, and he was holding a bloodstained, broken kitchen knife in his hand.

This is bizarre!

Xiao He looked at the strange man who was walking towards him step by step, but he remained calm and analyzed the situation in his heart.

"So, you killed this person, didn't you?"

Xiao He glanced at the corpse on the ground, then at the strange man's bizarrely large mouth, which resembled a meat grinder. The sharp teeth inside gleamed with a cold light, highlighting their sharpness. As for the blood-stained, worn-out kitchen knife in the man's hand... it really did look like just an ordinary, worn-out kitchen knife.

Just as Xiao He was deep in thought, the strange man opened his mouth, chuckled sinisterly, and then raised the kitchen knife in his hand and pounced on Xiao He.

Seeing this, Xiao He didn't say a word and directly conjured a card surrounded by a dark aura from his hand.

[The Hanged Ghost]!

As mentioned before, in order to prevent the Alliance from detecting the existence of the Hanging Ghost, Xiao He had turned the Hanging Ghost back into a card long ago. In this state, although the Hanging Ghost could not protect Xiao He at all times, it completely isolated the eerie aura, making it undetectable to others.

Xiao He himself, on the other hand, used his short-lived and cunning nature to disguise himself as an ordinary person.

The next second, as the Hanging Ghost Card in Xiao He's hand emitted a blinding black light, a disheveled woman in white appeared before him.

As soon as the Hanging Ghost appeared, it launched an attack on the strange and eerie creature under Xiao He's command. It opened its mouth and spat out a tongue that looked like a blood-red spear, which flew straight towards the strange and eerie creature's heart.

Xiao He originally intended for the Hanging Ghost to attack the opponent's head, since the opponent looked almost like a human, its weaknesses should be similar to those of a human. However, when he saw the opponent's large mouth, he was unsure whether the Hanging Ghost's tongue was harder or its sharp teeth were sharper, so he changed the target and aimed directly at the opponent's heart.

However, the strange creature reacted very quickly. It suddenly raised the cleaver and slashed at the blood-red tongue that the Hanging Ghost was flying towards it.

puff!

With a flash of light, a piece of the hanging ghost's tongue was sliced ​​off.

This familiar scene made Xiao He's eyelids twitch involuntarily.

He never expected that the hanged ghost, who killed people as easily as chickens and cattle, would behave so poorly when facing his fellow ghosts.

Thinking of this, Xiao He muttered to himself, "It seems that the strangeness of ordinary quality is really quite ordinary."

At the same time, the hanging ghost, which had been strangely slashed by the monster, let out a mournful scream and began to fight back quickly. Its figure gradually faded and eventually disappeared into the void.

Talent - Hollowfication!

After discovering that the hanged ghost had disappeared, the strange creature let out a furious roar, then picked up a kitchen knife and began hacking and slashing wildly at the spot where the hanged ghost had vanished.

Unfortunately, the Hanging Ghost, after becoming ethereal, had already moved to a different location.

A few breaths later, a long, blood-dripping tongue suddenly appeared behind the strange man and swiftly attacked his back.

This commotion was immediately noticed by the strange creature, who turned around and swung its old kitchen knife at the long tongue. However, this time, the long tongue of the hanged ghost suddenly rose up and deftly passed through the kitchen knife in the strange creature's hand, piercing the other's shoulder.

"What a pity."

Xiao He sighed.

This strange creature reacted very quickly, but this time it was noticeably slower than when it cut off the Hanging Ghost's tongue, which is why it was hit in the shoulder by the Hanging Ghost this time.

"Although the Hanging Ghost's ability to become intangible affected the opponent's reaction speed to some extent, the opponent was still able to dodge the Hanging Ghost's fatal attack in the end."

Xiao He glanced at the other party's injuries and thought to himself.

The opponent's heart must be its weak point; otherwise, it wouldn't have forced itself to move and avoid the Death-Slaying Ghost's attack at the last moment.

the other side.

After successfully landing its attack, the Hanging Ghost used its intangibility ability to hide again, seemingly resorting to guerrilla warfare after suffering a loss.

Upon seeing the enemy disappear again, the strange man let out another angry roar. However, this time, he did not slash wildly at the spot where the hanged ghost had disappeared with his cleaver. Instead, he turned his gaze to Xiao He, who was watching the show.

"So he's planning to attack me?" Xiao He was taken aback; he too had noticed the strange man's bizarre intentions.

Sure enough, the other person swayed and swung the kitchen knife at Xiao He.

Seeing this, Xiao He shook his head, his expression calm.

He is no longer the weakling he once was.

With a thought, he conjured another card shrouded in black energy from his hand.

The Clown's Mask

The next second, the card shattered, transforming into a clown mask.

Immediately afterwards, Xiao He picked up the clown mask in his hand and put it on his face.

boom!

The instant Xiao He put on the clown mask, a cloud of black mist exuding a chilling aura surged out from the mask and enveloped his entire body.

Just then, a worn-out kitchen knife, gleaming with a cold light, came crashing down on the black mist.

At the same time, from within the indistinct black fog, a deep and hoarse voice rang out.

"Unfortunately, your knife isn't as fast as mine."

As soon as he finished speaking, a delicate and small throwing knife pierced through the black mist and struck the strange man's bizarre heart with lightning speed. It was so fast that even with the reaction speed that the man had shown on several occasions before, he could not dodge this knife.

puff!

With a sound of flesh being pierced, the knife pierced the strange man's eerie heart with perfect accuracy.

This slash was not only extremely fast, but also incredibly powerful. After piercing the opponent's heart, the dagger's power did not diminish. It pierced through several boulders before finally embedding itself in a collapsed wall.

As the strange corpse slowly fell, the black mist, resembling a cocoon, gradually dissipated, and then a bizarrely dressed clown appeared in the spot.

He was dressed in what appeared to be an old-fashioned black and white striped outfit, with a red clown hat on his head. His face was covered in thick white powder, and his exaggerated red nose and mouth that stretched almost to his ears made his crying expression look extremely strange.

He was carrying several sharp knives that exuded a dangerous aura; including the one that had just been thrown, there were exactly six throwing knives.