Ghost Compendium

The moon was bright and the stars were sparse.

Lying on the bed, Wu Liang suddenly opened his eyes.

When he just returned, the Zodiac Rabbit caught him and interrogated him thoroughly. Even after he personally admitted that he had exorcised those long-term supernatural events, disbelief lingered on the other's face.

But when asked about the reason, he just played dumb and said, "Defending against supernatural revival is my duty!"

After fooling the underage one, he hurried back to his room to lie down and rest.

This sleep lasted until around one in the morning.

Now is a good time to find the Zodiac Pig!

Taking out the Tower Ghost's Lego-like body from the Ghost Compendium, he slowly placed the remnants of the Unlimited Transmission Chip he got from Professor Guo inside.

Finally, he summoned a large red oil paper umbrella to hold over his head, breathing deeply and awaiting its change.

Unlimited Transmission Chip: Damaging the chip will allow the user to transmit data to a designated location regardless of distance, but will result in a day of paralysis.

The transmission cannot be stopped or interrupted unless the user loses vital signs.

In a few minutes, the remnants were slowly recorded by the Ghost Compendium.

This proved it was completely restored to an unused state!

As for the day-long paralysis side effect, it can be entirely ignored, as the Shelter from the oil paper umbrella can negate it!

"Let's go!"

Holding the Unlimited Transmission Chip, Wu Liang began to feel his body becoming increasingly light. Looking down, he realized he had turned into a mosaic-like form, becoming more and more blurred.

Until completely transforming into data and vanishing from the spot!

The entire transmission process felt like riding a roller-coaster, experiencing the roaring wind, with endless weightlessness constantly rising and falling, while the surrounding environment spun and transformed!

Even though Wu Liang vanished from the room within seconds, he felt that the transmission lasted for ten minutes before gradually stabilizing.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in a room where the surroundings were as white as snow.

The pungent smell in the air, coupled with the familiar structure of the adjacent bed that could be raised and lowered, immediately made it clear to Wu Liang where he was.

Hospital!

The pungent smell, naturally, was a mix of alcohol and disinfectant, with a set of blue and white striped hospital gown placed on the bed.

"Zhongshan Hospital... located in the outskirts of Jingcheng Haimen District. If nothing goes wrong, this should be the place." Wu Liang squinted his eyes, pondering over the previous data.

Of all the long-term supernatural events in the capital city, this is the only place that is a hospital's old site.

Unexpectedly, considering how the environment looked so superior that it was hard to find even a speck of dust, it was unimaginable that this place had been a location of long-term supernatural events for about two years!

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Unexpectedly, Wu Liang heard coughing from a neighboring bed covered by a curtain.

Obviously, he wasn't the only person in this ward.

Walking over, he pulled open the bed curtain, revealing a man lying stark naked on the bed, with his chest and head covered with various tubes.

But bizarrely, all the tube ends were stopped by a mass of dark mucus, and this mucus kept expanding and contracting as if breathing.

"Ah...!"

The next second, the man began to scream in pain, and Wu Liang watched as the only unscathed skin on his arm started to bulge.

A tube identical to those all over his body burst out from beneath his skin. It stopped growing when about seven or eight centimeters long.

A drop of dark red blood, seemingly sucked from internal organs, followed the tube, finally gathering at the end to form that sickening slime.

Ghost Compendium activated!

Without hesitation, Wu Liang started perusing Ghost Compendium's information, trying to find any record of Fierce Ghost sightings in this hospital.

He wasn't prepared for the more stunning information revealed in the book—

Life Diffusion Spores

These spores are planted inside the human body. After harvesting the mucus at the spore's grown end, merely contacting someone else with the mucus allows the maternal ability to affect the target, without a limit to how many can be influenced.

Eliminating the maternal or extracting the initial spores can make the mucus ineffective.

When Wu Liang saw this supernatural objects' information, two thoughts instantly flashed through his mind.

First—this wasn't about tubes, but a growth from some spore.

Second—Holy crap! This guy seems to be the Zodiac Pig!

"Professor Guo mentioned most of the capital city's civilian Awakened are marked by Zodiac Pig's ability… It would make sense if it's because of these spores!"

Wu Liang rapidly deduced the situation before him.

No wonder Zodiac Pig can remotely mark Awakened one after another, yet his whereabouts remained completely concealed!

He's being treated as the so-called "spore maternal," imprisoned here!

Members of Promised Land need only harvest the slime from him, then covertly contact the Awakened to silently mark them with Zodiac Pig's Awakened Ability marker!

Finally, once the marked number reaches Promised Land's satisfaction, they only need to perform a curse or some influence on the Zodiac Pig within this hospital.

The majority of capital city's civilian Awakened would instantly be covered under the same curse or influence!

"Hey... dude, Zodiac Pig? Are you conscious? Can you hear me?"

Wu Liang approached Zodiac Pig, noticing the opponent had hollow eyes because of the spore-grown tentacles, almost left only with his throat's unconscious coughing and hoarse moans.

Now, he was more concerned about this person's mental state.

But perhaps it was the sunlight through the open bed curtain shining too brightly on his face, or maybe Wu Liang's words "Zodiac Pig" triggered his reaction.

Zodiac Pig began to slightly open his mouth and tremble, repeating a phrase: "Kill me… It's affecting my brain… Kill me…"

"Uh, buddy, I might not be able to kill you just yet, there's something in your brain I need." Wu Liang shrugged and said.

But Zodiac Pig showed no other reaction, continuously repeating his earlier words, obviously tortured to the brink of confusion.

Recalling Professor Guo's words, Wu Liang understood Zodiac Pig had long been affected by a fierce ghost's sanity-damaging influence, albeit seemingly of better mind now, still likely remaining unstable.

After all, a normal person wouldn't wish to die.

He sighed and said, "Alright, let's make a deal—"

"I'll subjugate or pacify the Fierce Ghost symbiote, then try restoring your sanity. If, upon waking up, you still choose death, I'll do it, you die."

"Or I'll immediately retrieve your memories, honor your current wish, I'll do it, you die."

"Anyway, dead either way, so let's decide. Listen to me!"

Seeing the other still lying on the bed moaning without any other response.

Wu Liang took Zodiac Pig's silence as acquiescence.

He decided to get back to his old job—subduing Fierce Ghost, just that this fierce ghost was symbiotic within another.

His aim was to pacify rather than obliterate it.

Raising his hand, he summoned the Nightmare Mask out of thin air, gently pressing it onto his face, and said in a low voice, "Ready to have nightmares?"