Weird Cards: I've Become a Ghost

"You are... a cultist!?"

The man in black stared at the magician who was slowly walking towards him with a grim expression.

He could sense the unfathomable and eerie aura emanating from the other person.

Although he was just a martial artist, he had once sensed the eerie aura emanating from the cultists, an aura completely different from ordinary eerie auras.

Therefore, the man in black knew very well that the other party was not a weirdo, but a cultist on the Alliance's kill list.

Only cultists possess an eerie aura and an appearance that is almost identical to that of a human.

The man in black had participated in the operation to capture the cultists, but in that operation, with his second-tier combat strength, he was merely an ordinary soldier and did not participate in any of the core operations.

Even so, the man in black witnessed the power of the cultists.

That was simply a monster, a monster even more bizarre than the supernatural.

"Don't worry, I won't kill you."

At this moment, the magician also saw the deep fear hidden in the black-clad man's eyes. He smiled and shook his head: "An elegant gentleman would not stoop to lay a hand on a seriously injured person."

"Although I don't particularly like the people in your alliance, I won't do anything that goes against my principles." The Magician's face showed a gentle smile.

Looking at the magician's smile, the man in black immediately thought that the other party was lying. After all, many psychologically twisted cultists enjoy torturing their enemies, especially giving them hope only to destroy it with their own hands.

However, at the same time, a sliver of hope arose in the man's heart. What if the other party really kept their word? But the moment this thought appeared, the man in black dismissed it.

There are never that many "what ifs" in this world.

So the man in black silently closed his eyes, preparing to face death.

However, he waited for a long time but the other party did not make a move, so he opened his eyes again, and his eyes were immediately filled with doubt.

Because the cultist who was standing in front of him just moments ago... has vanished!

"Did they survive?"

The magician had vanished, and the black-clad man, who had escaped death once again, wore a look of confusion on his face.

Did the other party really let him go?

at the same time.

The magician, who was just standing in front of the man in black, has now appeared in a deep pit.

This is the core of that fleshy ball's bizarre self-destruction.

The magician's ultimate goal for this trip is about to be revealed.

He simply extended his finger and gently hooked it.

next moment.

A slight tremor ran through the ground, and then something buried under the dust suddenly flew up and hurtled toward the magician.

Soon, the object flew into the magician's hand, where a fleshy ball resembling a beating heart appeared. This "heart" was dark red in color and covered with a scale-like substance. Just looking at it was enough to make one feel extremely disgusted.

At this moment, this heart-shaped ball of flesh, since it came into the magician's hands, began to beat slowly, just like a real heart.

"The seed of bloodshed is finally in our hands."

As the heart-like mass of flesh became more and more active, beating faster and faster, the magician's gaze grew increasingly fanatical and... eerie.

He had been plotting for so many years, doing so many things, and staging a blood feast, all for this one seed of bloodshed.

As is widely known, the world inside the mysterious fog is almost a projection of the real world.

Since cities in the real world belong to the Alliance's sphere of influence, the world inside the mysterious fog must also belong to the sphere of influence of some mysterious entity.

In the world of the mysterious fog, Binhai City is actually one of the territories of a powerful and eerie entity. Through the magician's meticulous investigation, he not only learned that this entity possessed abilities related to flesh and blood, but also that this entity would not be appearing here for some time.

This is why the magician chose to appear here at this time. Normally, he would not want to appear here, because those trapped in the mysterious fog world are extremely tempting delicacies to that weirdo.

The magician went to great lengths to organize a blood feast in order to obtain the Blood Calamity Seed, which would only appear after the feast ended.

"The Feast of Blood is over, and the Seed of Blood Calamity is in our hands. It's time to leave."

The magician removed his top hat, placed the Blood Seed inside, and then put the hat back on.

After the Feast of Blood ends, the eerie mist, having lost its projection coordinates, will slowly dissipate and return to that strange world. Before long, the magician and those trapped in this eerie mist world will return to the real world.

Thinking of this, the magician suddenly remembered the person he had encountered in this eerie, foggy world who wore a mask left behind by a circus clown.

"Interesting fellow. I'll come back to you after I've dealt with the Blood Seed." A smile appeared on the magician's face.

Although he didn't know what methods the person used to make the bionic bird's aura disappear, the magician was absolutely certain he could find the person as long as they appeared in the real world.

Even if he hides and doesn't show up, the magician has plenty of ways to find him.

The next moment, a gust of wind swept by, raising a cloud of dust.

In the hazy smog, the magician's figure gradually disappeared, leaving behind only a bottomless pit.

the other side.

The man in black, already utterly exhausted, closed his eyes and waited, awaiting death and also awaiting rescue.

He didn't know whether the magician was hiding nearby, watching him weaken with a twisted expression, or had already left. All he knew was that, severely injured, he was powerless to change anything.

Just then, a sound like a charging bull suddenly rang out, accompanied by a deep roar. A huge hole was smashed in the collapsed wall behind the man in black, and a figure quickly walked out of the hole.

The man in black had been waiting for Wei Feng for a long time!

"Captain Wei Feng!"

A look of joy appeared on the man in black's face.

Wei Feng nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

After saying that, he began to look around. Seeing the devastation around him, as if the area had been bombarded by missiles and corroded by acid rain, he felt both anger and a deep sense of powerlessness.

"Is it really true that the power of the supernatural is invincible? After all the suffering we've endured and the years of martial arts training, are we really destined to lose to those high-level supernatural beings?"

A look of sorrow appeared on Wei Feng's face.

In an era rife with strange occurrences, are martial artists truly powerless?

During the period when the Alliance first discovered the supernatural, almost all of the new-century firearms had no effect on it whatsoever. Not only did they fail to harm the supernatural, but they even found it extremely difficult to touch some of the more spiritual supernatural beings.

But at that moment, a martial artist miraculously chased away the strange creature, and the news immediately reached the ears of the alliance's higher-ups.

In later experiments, the Alliance discovered that the internal energy generated by the martial arts left over from the Old Era, also known as the Martial Era, could actually damage the strange creatures!

This discovery also greatly encouraged many high-ranking officials who were struggling with the strange events.

Later, a high-ranking member of the alliance personally intervened and invited a contemporary martial arts master from a martial arts mecca. Finally, witnessed by several high-ranking leaders of the alliance, the martial arts master unleashed his powerful internal energy, instantly annihilating a first-tier monster.

This verification prompted the league's top brass to immediately launch a plan—to promote martial arts among all citizens.

Unfortunately, not everyone has the talent to practice martial arts, and not everyone can develop internal strength to become a martial artist. Many people practice martial arts their whole lives but are blocked at the threshold of internal strength.

Fortunately, the alliance has plenty of people, and with such a large population, many martial artists have emerged and joined the fight against the strange forces.

However, more than a decade later, the Alliance also discovered the flaws in this plan.

That is... time!

To become a martial artist, one must not only have martial arts techniques suitable for one's physique, but also train one's muscles and bones first, then train the internal organs, and supplement with many herbs to heal the hidden injuries that occur during martial arts training. Finally, after practicing day and night, one will have the opportunity to generate a wisp of internal energy and become a martial artist.

For an ordinary person to become a Ming Jin martial artist, it would take at least five years, and for an An Jin martial artist, at least ten years.

However, over the course of five years, the frequency of strange occurrences increased, and the number of martial artists dying also increased. This resulted in the alliance having a large number of Ming Jin martial artists, but very few martial artists with profound martial arts realms, while the strength of those strange beings also increased.

Fortunately, there's always a way out.

After discovering that martial artists' internal energy could deal with the supernatural, some scholars in the alliance successfully extracted an energy from the remains of some supernatural beings who died—an ability that seemed to originate from the same source as the supernatural power.

The scholars who first discovered this ability called it dark matter, which is also referred to by some as weird matter.

Finally, under the leadership of an Alliance scholar named Dum, a group of the Alliance's top scholars began their research day and night. Soon after, a weapon called the Dum bullet was developed. Although Alliance scholars later developed weapons with special powers based on the characteristics of some strange remains, the Dum bullet remained the mainstream weapon for dealing with the strange.

For no other reason than one word: simplicity.

The manufacturing process of dumdum bullets is the simplest compared to other bizarre weapons, and their usage is also extremely simple, making them the most suitable for the Alliance's current situation.

At this moment, Wei Feng, who had just recovered from his sense of powerlessness, remembered something.

"The application I submitted earlier should have a result soon."

Wei Feng muttered to himself, "It's about time it was Binhai City's turn."

Following martial arts internal force and dark energy, the Alliance has another powerful weapon against the supernatural—the Night Demon.

The Night Demon Division consists of lucky individuals who have temporarily mastered the ability to merge with the supernatural and acquire supernatural power, or martial artists who carry supernatural objects.

In fact, compared to martial artists, these people are the best choice to deal with the supernatural.

After all, you have to use the bizarre to defeat the bizarre.

However, very few people are able to briefly merge with the supernatural and temporarily master its power; the chances are even smaller than the chances of a martial artist being born.

After all, the consequence of failing to merge with the supernatural is either death or becoming a human-supernatural being.

Faced with the unpredictable and erratic nature of human trickery, the Alliance's approach was even more rigorous than when dealing with cultists.

The Tricksters are just a bunch of lunatics, but the Human Tricksters are even more insane than lunatics.

In contrast, those who possess strange objects are much luckier.

Although not everyone can be lucky enough to master the method of temporarily merging with the supernatural, as long as one understands the operating rules of a supernatural object, then anyone can use the supernatural object's abilities.

However, this also has a drawback: if someone is killed, the strange object they have worked so hard to obtain may be stolen by someone else. But there is also an advantage: once the person who possesses the strange object is killed, the alliance can retrieve the strange object and quickly train someone who can deal with the strange objects.

In fact, many Alliance scholars have proposed an experiment: whenever someone successfully merges temporarily with a supernatural being, the Alliance immediately sends people to find another supernatural being that is exactly the same, and then merges it according to the scene where the successful merging person merged. Perhaps this could "massively" create a group of people who possess supernatural powers.

Unfortunately, this experiment ultimately failed.

Because the most important thing in mastering the method of temporarily merging with a strange creature is not the process, but the people. It seems that this is related to certain characteristics of people, but the Alliance still does not have a clear answer as to what those characteristics are.

But no matter what, to this day, the people of the Night Demon Division are still the main force in dealing with the supernatural.

Sometimes, dealing with a bizarre incident only requires one Night Watchman, a few warriors, and a group of armed patrolmen equipped with dumdum bullets.

However, at this time, the alliance, with its huge population base, once again encountered an awkward problem.

That is because the Night Demon Division does not have enough manpower to send demon hunters to guard every place.

Therefore, the alliance can only prioritize assigning Ghost Keepers to guard some large cities. Once there are enough people, Ghost Keepers will be sent to guard other cities based on their level, the frequency of strange occurrences, and other factors.

This is why, given the size of Binhai City, there isn't a single Ghost Master stationed there. Even the most powerful being in the city is Wei Feng, whose martial arts realm has reached the Acquired Realm and whose combat strength is comparable to a third-tier cultivator.

If it weren't for the fact that Binhai City still had a considerable number of martial artists with internal and external strength, as well as some armed patrol members equipped with dumdum bullets, the entire city would probably have long since become a bizarre paradise.

This time, Wei Feng submitted an application requesting the establishment of the Binhai City Ghost Night Division. Given the current number of members in the Ghost Night Division and the various strange events that have frequently occurred in Binhai City in recent years, it is certain that at least two Ghost Night Division commanders will be approved this time.

Thinking of this, Wei Feng immediately composed himself. After helping the seriously injured man in black to his feet, he looked up at the gradually dissipating black mist in the sky and said softly.

"Don't worry, the fog over the beach will dissipate soon."