Ghost Compendium

"Hello, is this the location of the long-term supernatural event No. 5 in Mingyang District that's under lockdown?"

"I'm Du Juan, and this is the Magician. We're Awakened sent by headquarters to investigate the situation. Here are our credentials."

Fu Juan drove the flashy purple sports car, speeding all the way with Jin Chenghua.

Seeing a building cordoned off by official police lines, they went closer and happened to meet the investigators waiting for news.

After checking the credentials handed over by Fu Juan, the investigator saluted her and Jin Chenghua, saying, "You should already know the details. The key issue now is that an Awakened who claimed to be an official has been inside for a while."

Generally, in such long-term supernatural events invaded by the Awakened, the official response would be one of two measures.

Either dispatch Awakened capable of freely entering and exiting the supernatural lockdown site to investigate, or wait outside for the situation; if no one comes out within 24 hours, it's assumed that the Awakened is dead.

But this is still a minority of cases, as no Awakened would want to risk death by barging into a long-term supernatural event.

"Understood, we'll go in to rescue people and investigate why the unfinished building transformed into an apartment building." Fu Juan said while taking gear from the car and strapping it on her waist.

She is among the rare Awakened who can freely enter and exit the supernatural lockdown areas.

Unfortunately, Fu Juan can only take one other Awakened in and out, leaving ordinary people completely unable to.

After all, traversing the supernatural lockdown area presents extremely strong resistance; those without strong Spiritual Power would suffer brain death directly.

So Fu Juan can't just save ordinary people one by one from supernatural incidents first; she can only ensure her partner has a fallback plan to retreat and rethink a strategy if they can't win.

"Leave it to us, don't worry!"

Jin Chenghua cheerfully said, pulling out his wand that looked like a twig.

But just as the few people outside were preparing to rush into the apartment building to find out what was happening,

suddenly, an anomaly occurred!

Boom——

Before their stunned eyes, the entire building kicked up a cloud of dust and gradually collapsed into ruins from its original six stories.

Fortunately, the area was deserted due to the lockdown, eliminating any chance of casualties.

But... why did the building suddenly collapse?

"Cough, cough, cough, damn, there's too much dust. Doesn't the Tower Ghost clean its body regularly? At least let the tenants help with housekeeping!"

Amidst the flying dust, as everyone's minds were about to freeze, an abrupt voice came from the supernatural lockdown area.

Fu Juan and Jin Chenghua instantly went on high alert in case a Fierce Ghost emerged with a mutation from the long-term supernatural event's fixed area.

But next, a familiar figure, dusting off and coughing, walked out from the inside.

"Huh? Shadow?"

"Yingzi! Why are you here?"

Just after coming out, Wu Liang saw two familiar faces and paused, saying, "Well... had nothing to do, so I'm here to play a game copy?"

"..."

Hearing the long-term supernatural event being trivialized like a game copy left Fu Juan and Jin Chenghua speechless.

So all this while, the person who rushed in before the investigators turned out to be him!

But what Wu Liang said next stunned everyone present.

"There's no need to cordon off this area anymore; the ghost inside has been exorcised. Call the post-processing team to clean up the ruins."

After saying that, Wu Liang turned to leave.

Fu Juan and Jin Chenghua quickly stopped him, incredulous, saying, "Wait a moment, you exorcised the ghost inside all by yourself? Are there any survivors? You should give us some details!"

Hearing their doubts, Wu Liang pondered for a moment and organized his words.

Then he roughly recounted what happened inside, except for two things he kept secret—

"Survivors? None! The people inside have been in there for half a year; do you still expect them to survive a supernatural event for so long?"

The truth is, when the apartment building collapsed, Wu Liang watched as everyone was buried and ultimately perished.

Tang Shiyue and the suited man, these so-called survivors, had long since become part of the Tower Ghost, simply tools aiding it by killing other intruders.

Their logic and consciousness had been twisted by the Fierce Ghost; even if saved, they would be obsessed only with killing for this inhuman power.

Of course, Wu Liang's excuses and nonsense.

In reality, he was simply disgusted by their hands tainted with innocent lives.

The building collapsed, he didn't save them, that's all there is to it.

Let go of the savior complex, respect other people's fates!

As for the other matter… the Tower Ghost wasn't actually exorcised!

Casually found an excuse to get rid of Fu Juan and Jin Chenghua, Wu Liang found a secluded corner and got on the Ghost Taxi.

He's in a hurry to reach the next long-term supernatural event location to exorcise a Fierce Ghost.

Because right now, he has a little minion eagerly waiting, whose ability is really important!

He took out a palm-sized little house from the Ghost Compendium, emitting an ominous aura.

This was the true form of the Tower Ghost!

Its ability is—

[Time Shift House: Any non-living object placed into the Tower Ghost can revert to its past state. Currently, it can revert to: 5 days ago]

This ability allowed the Tower Ghost based on Tang Shiyue and others' imagination to restore architectural styles to some era!

Although now that it's subdued as a Fierce Ghost Minion, it can only revert to 5 days ago, its significance is extraordinary!

It means—if Wu Liang could have the Tower Ghost consume a large number of other Fierce Ghost Fragments. Boost the time reversal up to around 30 days,

he could restore the used [Unlimited Transmission Chip] of Professor Guo's to the state used by Zodiac Pig at the time!

Then use the [Unlimited Transmission Chip] to transport himself to Zodiac Pig's eventual destination!

"Haha, there are still so many long-term supernatural events left. I'll take you to devour them one by one! Don't let me down..."

Listening to Wu Liang's devilish whispering, the Tower Ghost, like a block of Lego, trembled.

It took half a year to fully integrate its real form into the whole building, making it a completely controllable supernatural area.

It thought it could use this to gradually grow stronger, eventually turning a district, a street, even a city's buildings into its ghost buildings!

Never did it expect that this guy easily brought down the entire building in less than an hour by snapping all the load-bearing columns!

Is he really human?

Isn't he more ghost-like than me?

"..."

Wait, what's he planning to take me to eat?

Doesn't seem like he's looking for other Fierce Ghosts, is he?

Well, that's good! Can't be the only one getting beat up! The other Fierce Ghosts in the city should share the same pain!

With the increasingly excited thoughts from the Tower Ghost echoing in his mind, Wu Liang was stunned.

He suddenly felt that Tang Shiyue's past behavior, happily leading him to attack other tenants after getting beaten, wasn't unfounded, nor was that girl simply crazy.

The Tower Ghost itself seemed pretty abstract...