Tap, tap, tap, tap...
Finding no answer through contemplation, Su Mu Bai stepped into the street, intending to first locate the Starving Ghost.
He directly ignored the dense population of Ghost Infants at various stages within the Cyan-Gray Ghost Domain. Su Mu Bai believed his current body had evolved from a Ghost Infant, so it shouldn't be attacked by other Ghost Infants.
Events unfolded as Su Mu Bai had anticipated. Upon entering the street, he encountered no attacks, nor did he even draw the attention of the other Ghost Infants.
The majority of the Ghost Infants in the street were in Stage One and Stage Two. There were very few Stage Three Ghost Infants, only a few dozen.
As for the Stage Four Ghost Slaves, not counting Su Mu Bai himself, there were currently none!
"Is the Starving Ghost at the deepest part of the street?" Su Mu Bai's eyes, which were pitch black like two black holes, gazed toward the street's furthest end.
At the terminus of this street, the cyan-gray mist had almost solidified into substance. The mist drifted outward in all directions, as if it were the Source of the Cyan-Gray Ghost Domain.
"Buzz!"
Something unexpected occurred.
Shortly after entering the street, Su Mu Bai's expression suddenly became vacant, and his eyes turned dull and empty, as if he had instantly lost his consciousness!
However, his steps forward did not cease.
Tap, tap, tap!
Su Mu Bai's footsteps sounded heavy, yet rhythmic. The frequency and Time for every lift and placement of his feet were identical, without the slightest deviation!
At this moment, he moved like a Marionette, his body stiff, his face vacant, his eyes empty, and his expression devoid of any feeling.
Tap, tap, tap...
After advancing about ten more meters, Su Mu Bai's vacant body suddenly jolted. Wisps of Black Mist appeared out of thin air, enveloping his cyan-black body.
"How could this be?!" Within the Black Mist, Su Mu Bai's expression was extremely grim.
Just now, his consciousness was suddenly suppressed without any warning! The instinct belonging to a Stage Four Ghost Infant emerged and took over control of the body.
The Black Mist churned and spread, forming a Ghost Domain that enveloped Su Mu Bai's body, separating him from the outside world and leaving him alone in a world between illusion and reality.
Within this Ghost Domain, Su Mu Bai was The One!
"The problem just now wasn't with this body; it originated from the Starving Ghost in that cyan-gray mist at the end of the street."
Su Mu Bai pondered, recalling everything that had just happened, from entering the street to losing control. He wanted to know why he was suddenly suppressed.
"As I was walking, that cyan-gray mist at the end of the street gave me an extremely strange feeling, as if something inside was calling me, wanting me to go over."
"Then, this body exhibited an instinct, stepping forward involuntarily, and my consciousness was suppressed at that very moment!"
Su Mu Bai looked at his cyan-black arm, his face grim: "This kind of summoning, like a body's instinct... even I was instantly lost, and the body was left entirely under the other's control!"
Su Mu Bai clearly understood that he had underestimated the Starving Ghost; the entity was terrifying.
The Starving Ghost possessed extremely powerful control over its Ghost Slaves. This was true even for those who had evolved to Stage Four and become true Fierce Ghosts!
The Black Mist Ghost Domain isolated everything. Su Mu Bai, situated within his own Ghost Domain, no longer felt the summoning from the Starving Ghost.
But similarly.
While contemplating, Su Mu Bai failed to notice that in the street, nearly all the dense Ghost Infants turned their heads simultaneously the moment the Black Mist Ghost Domain appeared, looking in this direction.
This scene was extremely chilling.
Ghost Infants of different stages and sizes stared uniformly in one direction, their pitch-black, cold, and empty eyes fixed directly on Su Mu Bai's location.
Immediately following that.
As if receiving an order, all the Ghost Infants moved at the same instant, heading toward Su Mu Bai's position.
"Hm?"
"Is the Starving Ghost making a move against me?!"
As the Ghost Infants began to move, Su Mu Bai reacted. Looking at the dense mass of Ghost Infants surrounding him, even he felt a chill run down his scalp.
With cyan-black corpse skin and pitch-black, empty, cold eyes, the Ghost Infants of various stages surrounded Su Mu Bai, some walking, some crawling.
Although there were many Ghost Slaves, Su Mu Bai did not take them too seriously, as Ghost Slaves below Stage Four could be killed.
Moreover, even if Su Mu Bai were truly outnumbered and overwhelmed, as long as his Ghost Domain could function normally, he could choose to flee.
"After I successfully invaded the Stage Four Ghost Infant, my Ghost Domain strength also increased significantly. Although it's still not as strong as the Starving Ghost's Ghost Domain, it's nearly at the strength of two layers of a Ghost Domain!"
Within the Starving Ghost's Cyan-Gray Ghost Domain, Su Mu Bai's Black Mist Ghost Domain could still deploy, but it was heavily affected.
The Ghost Domain was severely Suppressed, only able to cover a radius of about five meters around his body!
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"Beep~ Woo~ Beep~ Woo~ Beep~ Woo~"
Outside the Hospital, police sirens blared loudly.
Police cars stopped far away from the Hospital, and then police officers armed with real guns and live ammunition disembarked, setting up a Cordon Line in the vicinity.
The cordon area was vast, isolating a large region surrounding the Hospital.
"Attention all units and teams..."
"You must first evacuate all surrounding residents. And until the Cordon Line is removed, personnel must stand guard and patrol day and night. Not a single fly is allowed in! Anyone attempting to force their way through, do not report—shoot on sight!"
Among the crowd, a supervisor in charge of this incident shouted loudly.
"Yes!" the others responded.
At the same time.
In the First Floor Hall of the Hospital, Yang Jian, who had walked to the center of the hall, also heard the commotion outside the Hospital. He knew that Headquarters had sent people to seal off the area.
Since the place was haunted and the Supernatural threat hadn't been resolved, sealing off the area and evacuating people to minimize potential casualties was necessary.
The Headless Ghost Shadow had retreated behind Yang Jian.
The two Female Corpses in the center of the hall were normal; they were not Fierce Ghosts, so Yang Jian paid them no further attention, instead focusing his gaze on the bloodstains on the hall floor.
On the hall floor, flesh and blood were scattered, but two patches of bloodstains were very strange.
They were Handprints, blood-red, seemingly left on the ground by hands stained with fresh blood.
However, the most Eerie thing was.
These hands were all small, just like the handprints of a very small Child.
The Child Handprints stained with blood started near the two Female Corpses and Extended to the corner of the Stairs on the first floor.
Looking at these handprints, Yang Jian couldn't help but fall into memory; he had seen similar handprints before.
That was shortly after he had become a Ghost Controller.
"A Ghost Infant?" Yang Jian murmured to himself.
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