Mysterious resurrection, something's wrong with this guy.

Chapter 22: The Roadside Shrine

"Hiss~ Uh!"

Su Qin felt as if something was growing in his head, causing unbearable pain. He scratched it desperately with his hands, and finally seemed to pull something out and throw it on the ground, which relieved the pain.

Su Qin quickly stopped using the supernatural abilities, fearing it would exacerbate the resurgence of the evil spirits. He could only squat in the corner and catch his breath for a while.

However, he suddenly seemed to realize something, looked nervously to his side, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

Beside him was a dilapidated shrine, inside which sat a kind-looking local earth god, and next to the earth god huddled a young man in camouflage.

This was a young soldier, probably around twenty years old, who was pointing his gun at Su Qin with trembling hands.

"Don't be nervous, be careful not to accidentally discharge the gas."

Su Qin comforted the young soldier.

Su Qin had never seen this person before; he must be one of the other people who had gotten separated from him. However, judging from his appearance, he seemed to be quite frightened.

"Are you human or a ghost?! Don't move, keep your distance, or I'll shoot!"

The young soldier did not let his guard down. He had seen Su Qin's strange behavior, especially when Su Qin reached into his head and seemed to pull something out.

This made him think that what was in front of him might not be human. How could anyone put their hand into his head? It was very likely like those strange and terrifying stone statues before.

Seeing that the young soldier didn't believe him, Su Qin had to continue explaining. He didn't want to be shot in the head by an ordinary person for no reason. It would be too unfair to die at the hands of an ordinary person instead of a ghost.

"I'm an investigator from the Paranormal Investigation Bureau, a ghost slayer, here to handle this paranormal incident. This is my identification. You must be one of Wei Jing's men! Why are you the only one here? Where are the others?"

As he spoke, Su Qin took out his identification from his jacket pocket and showed it to the other man. Perhaps it was seeing Su Qin's identification, or perhaps it was hearing the name Wei Jing, that made the young soldier lower his gun and become less wary.

"I was a member of the second assault team of the heavy armored platoon. All my comrades sacrificed themselves to cover me, and I was the only one who survived."

At this point, the young soldier's eyes turned red. He was the youngest soldier in the second squad, and his comrades took great care of him. Without their cover, he wouldn't have survived until now. He had been hiding here for more than ten minutes, too afraid to go out. The eerie stone statues outside were just too terrifying.

Suddenly, the young soldier seemed to have thought of something and asked urgently:

"Have you seen the platoon leader? Where is he? You must have come in later! How many men did the regimental commander send as reinforcements? Where are they?"

The young soldier bombarded him with a barrage of questions, his mind still stuck in conventional warfare, assuming there would be a large influx of reinforcements.

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"There are no reinforcements. This is a supernatural event. Any more ordinary people coming in would just be suicide. As for your platoon leader Wei Jing, his situation is a bit special. He was attacked by an unknown vengeful ghost and is currently lying in a truck, his fate unknown."

"Right now, in this ghostly realm, it's very likely that only the two of us are alive. If we can't figure out a way to deal with the vengeful spirits, none of us will survive, and neither will the main force guarding outside!"

The young soldier was slightly taken aback upon hearing Su Qin's words.

With no reinforcements, and only the two of them left alive, is there any hope of survival?

His mood seemed extremely low, like a deflated balloon, with only a sliver of belief in his eyes supporting his collapsing spirit.

"You don't need to be so discouraged, we still have a chance! I've figured out the ghost's killing patterns and abilities. As long as we avoid those unfavorable factors, we still have a chance to deal with this vengeful ghost."

Su Qin tried his best to soothe his emotions and give him some hope of survival. He didn't want his only tool at the moment to become uncooperative because of emotional problems.

Upon hearing Su Qin's words, hope rekindled in the young soldier's eyes, as he keenly grasped some key words in Su Qin's speech.

"A pattern of murder? What is a pattern of murder? Do vengeful ghosts follow certain rules when they kill? And what is that?"

The young soldier felt that this might be the key to survival, and the person in front of him seemed to know something.

"The first ability of that ghost is the Ghost Realm, which is the darkness that shrouds this village. In the Ghost Realm, distances and things seen are distorted. If we don't deal with this ghost, we will never be able to leave this village, or even leave this crossroads. We have tried many times, and we keep going around in circles near this crossroads. No matter which way we go, the end of the road will always be this crossroads."

The second ability of the vengeful ghost is to petrify people, a sure-kill killing technique that lasts for about three to ten seconds. The person will be completely transformed into a stone statue, unable to escape or reverse the process.

This vengeful ghost's killing pattern is divided into two stages. The ghost has a ghost face on the back of its head. When you see the ghost's face, you will be targeted by the ghost, but you will not die immediately. You will die immediately only when the second stage of the pattern is triggered.

The second stage of the murder pattern is that the person will die immediately upon seeing the ghost face a second time, or being seen by the eyes on that ghost face.

Because Wei Jing's previous actions broke some kind of restriction on the vengeful ghost, that ghost now has a strong ability to roam and may suddenly appear anywhere in the ghost realm at any time, actively seeking out people to attack. It's only a matter of time before we are found by the vengeful ghost, so we must act as soon as possible.

I am a demon tamer; I can restrict that ghost's movements, but I need you to actively attract the ghost's attention.

Don't worry, this is just the first stage of the pattern. Nothing will happen. There won't be any problems in the next minute. I will immediately activate the supernatural suppression of the vengeful ghost and imprison it.

There was no other way; to survive, we had to take risks. Neither you nor I had a choice!

Su Qin explained the ghost's abilities and killing patterns, and persuaded the other party to cooperate with his actions, while also concealing and modifying some key information.

For example, closing your eyes or hiding so you can't see the ghost's face can help you avoid the first stage of the pattern. After triggering the first stage, there is no such thing as a one-minute safe period. The ghost only needs to turn its head once more, and the person will die. It was because of this that two of my teammates' lives were lost.

But Su Qin had to do this; he had to give him hope of survival before he would try to cooperate.

If you tell him that triggering the pattern will result in immediate death, will he still cooperate? This is tantamount to suicide, and not all Iron Man are as brave as Chen Hao. He might immediately shoot Su Qin dead and continue hiding here.

The young soldier fell silent, hesitant about whether to believe the man before him. If what the man said was true, he indeed had no other choice; this was his only chance to survive.

But at that moment, the kind-looking local deity next to the young soldier suddenly turned his neck in a strange way.

"Watch out! Something's wrong with what's next to you!"

Su Qin suddenly reminded him, and at the same time moved his body to the side a little, using the young soldier's body to block the view.

The young soldier suddenly felt a chill beside him and instinctively turned around, just in time to see the head of the local earth god turn towards him.

The once kind-looking local deity had his head turned 180 degrees, revealing a hideous ghost face on the back of his head, with stone eyes on the ghost face glaring fiercely at him.

The young soldier immediately felt goosebumps all over his body and felt extremely regretful. Why did he have to be so reckless as to turn around and look?

But he didn't dare turn his head back. He still remembered what Su Qin had said earlier: if he saw the ghost's face a second time, he would die.

He could only hope that Su Qin would act quickly and deal with this terrifying ghost.

Su Qin had actually guessed it long ago. Since the ghost could appear on any stone statue nearby, could it appear on this seemingly ordinary earth god statue?

If possible, then there's no need to bother searching for traces of vengeful ghosts.

He only needed to calm the young soldier down, keep him in check, wait for the ghost to arrive, and then deliberately guide the young soldier.

In this tense environment, he will most likely turn around to investigate the source of the danger, which will definitely trigger the vengeful ghost's killing pattern.

This is the opportunity, the only chance to imprison this ghost.

The image in Su Qin's vision turned black and white again. At the same time, his hand reached out, ignoring the distance and all obstacles in front of him, and passed through the young warrior's body in a strange way, grabbing at the ghost's face.

The ghost didn't stop moving. Its head, which had already turned 180 degrees, suddenly turned another full circle, and its stone eyes stared fiercely at the young warrior.

Seeing the ghost's actions, the young soldier felt a chill run down his spine, and at the same time, he understood.

This is not what that guy said at all. There is no such thing as a safe first phase. The ghost only needs to turn its head once more, and the person will die!

He wanted to escape, and even more so, he wanted to shoot the guy who had deceived him, but he couldn't move. His body was cold and stiff, and he was rapidly turning to stone.

At this moment, Su Qin's hand touched that hideous ghost face again. This time, he learned from his previous experience that this ghost face was the true form of the entire vengeful ghost. With the supernatural power within him, it was impossible to restrain this terrifying vengeful ghost. Therefore, he had to take another approach.

Su Qin's fingers gripped the stone eyes on the ghost's face. These eyes were the key to this vengeful ghost's killing spree. If these eyes were dismembered, the ghost would not only lose its killing pattern, but at least its level of terror would be reduced.

Click~

Su Qin's operation went smoothly this time. Although he still felt that cold, stiff sensation in his hands, he successfully gouged out the pair of stone eyes.

The ghost froze in place, motionless, while the surrounding light seemed to gradually brighten, indicating a new change in the ghost realm.

Su Qin didn't know what this meant. He was gambling with his life. No one could guarantee what would happen if those eyes were gouged out.

To avoid any unforeseen complications, Su Qin quickly took out a golden woven bag from his backpack, put the ghost and the stone statue into the bag, and tied it up tightly, fearing that something unexpected might happen.

After doing all this, Su Qin nervously looked around, fearing that another gargoyle might suddenly appear.

However, as it turned out, he was overthinking it. The despairing situation did not occur; the surroundings were completely silent and there was no movement.

The surrounding light grew brighter and brighter, and the darkness that enveloped the entire village began to distort. As the light grew stronger, rays of sunlight pierced through the darkness, and gradually the darkness receded, making the whole world bright, as if it had suddenly become daylight.

Su Qin looked at the rising sun in the distance, slumped down on the ground, and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Damn! We finally survived."