Mysterious Resurrection: The Peddler

Chapter 102 Ghost Lantern
The lamp in Mo Qiuren's hand emitted a dim light. The lamp had a strange shape and looked like an old object with several decades of history. At least it was something passed down from Mo Qiuren's grandfather's generation.

But it was this inconspicuous lamp that, at this moment, saw through the den of evil where even the will-o'-the-wisp fire was ineffective, and revealed the original appearance of Otsu City.

"is that useful?"

Li Jun asked.

Although the lamp reveals reality, we cannot rule out the possibility that it may be a supernatural phenomenon, and what we see may not be true.

"better than nothing."

Mo Qiuren did not look back, but took a step towards the other side of the gray-white border. The area covered by the light dispelled the gray-white world, forming a vacuum zone, and Mo Qiuren was standing in this vacuum zone at the moment.

"The ghost lights do reflect the reality of this area, but reality has always been here. The ghost den has not changed it, nor has it pulled reality into the ghost den."

"Just as the headquarters analyzed, this ghost's lair is simply a layer that perfectly covers the city, nothing more."

It was not known whether Li Jun understood or not. Anyway, Mo Qiuren felt that he had explained it clearly enough. He continued to walk deeper into the cave. Seeing this, Li Jun hurriedly followed him and entered the vacuum area covered by the lights.

"Ghost Candle, get ready. Maybe we will meet that ghost."

When they reached Otsu University, Mo Qiuren reminded him, and Li Jun took out the ghost candle from his arms, ready to light it at any time.

Today is the fourth day. The expansion speed of the gray-white border has obviously slowed down, but it still extends about five kilometers.

"Wait, what's that outside...?"

Cao Yang in the Memory Building suddenly saw a small area outside the building with light. It was not grayish white, but dim yellow, which was out of tune with the entire memory world. Not only that, the light was still moving slowly, and judging from its trajectory, it seemed to be approaching the Beichen Building.

"Is it a ghost or a human?"

"When the incident first broke out, Hu Mingtao said that the Beichen Building was gradually being erased, but it is unknown whether it was erased or pulled into the ghost den. The ghost den that can affect reality has at least reached the fourth or even fifth level of strength."

Cao Yang stood by the window, staring at the moving ball of light. The ball of light was getting closer and closer to the Beichen Building. He could even see two figures the size of rice grains in the ball of light.

"It's impossible for me to hit it with my marksmanship at this distance. Besides, I'm in a ghost den. Everything I see may be an illusion. The ball of light may be someone's memory seized by a ghost."

After about three to five minutes, Cao Yang stopped paying attention to the ball of light and sat back on the ground, thinking about how to break the deadlock.

On a street outside Beichen Building, Mo Qiuren and Li Jun have already walked here, and they are only one kilometer away from the location of Beichen Building in reality.

"I didn't realize I had gotten this far."

Li Jun looked around vigilantly. The places outside the lights were still gray and silent. They occasionally saw ordinary people on the way, but somehow these people seemed to have become vegetables and did not respond no matter how they shouted.

"They are not ghost slaves. Their physical characteristics are normal, but they have lost all sense of the outside world. People generally call this kind of people "lost souls."

Mo Qiuren still had an expressionless look on his face, and no emotion could be seen on his face at all.

"The modern medical explanation is that he is in a vegetative state. I don't know if he can recover."

The two no longer paid attention to the ordinary people they met, because they were all the same, and it would be useless even if they shouted at the top of their lungs.

"We should be at Beichen Building now."

Ten minutes later, the two arrived at the location of the Beichen Building, but strangely, there was no building here, but an empty lot, without even any trace of a building. "How is this possible? Clearly all the other buildings are still there?!"

Li Jun said in a lost voice.

"The building is not there, which means the source of the incident is in the building, and Beichen Building was truly pulled into the ghost den, while other places were just covered."

Mo Qiuren raised the ghost lantern slightly, but the higher ground was still blank, with no buildings.

"But this also shows that Gui Deng has a limit. That ghost is more powerful than Gui Deng. But there is another possibility, which my father mentioned a long time ago."

"The supernatural powers of evil spirits are not limited to the physical and real levels. Some ghosts may directly wipe out a person's consciousness and cause death. Some ghosts do not even exist in reality. They may exist in a person's cognition and memory, or simply exist in the mind."

Mo Qiuren's words shocked Li Jun a little. Although he had occasionally seen similar statements at the headquarters, what he did not expect was that Mo Qiuren's understanding of the supernatural was far beyond that of some ordinary leaders.

"But no matter which of these two situations, it's not something you and I can handle. It's time to retreat. The fuel of the ghost lantern is running out. If we don't leave now, you and I may be sucked into the ghost den. Only then will we be truly hopeless."

Mo Qiuren shook the ghost lantern in his hand, and Li Jun realized that the ghost lantern was actually an oil lamp.

"I suggest you not to use the ghost den. We are very close to the source ghost now. If you deploy the ghost den and cause any changes, I can't guarantee that the ghost lamp can still lead us out."

As if he had seen through Li Jun's intention, Mo Qiuren hurriedly reminded him, while also complaining in his heart:
"Alas, can such a reckless person be considered a leader? Fortunately, he is stationed at the headquarters. If he were a leader in the city, he probably wouldn't survive long."

After stopping Li Jun, the two men returned along the same route and retreated beyond the gray-white boundary. The ghost lantern was completely extinguished one minute later due to the exhaustion of fuel.

"Thank you for your support. I will submit your analysis and intelligence to the headquarters in full. The reward offered by the deputy minister is a ghost candle."

"I don't have any use for ghost candles. Ghost lamps are better than ghost candles. I will contact the headquarters after I return. Although I haven't made much contribution, it should be enough to ask for some raw materials for ghost lamp fuel."

Mo Qiuren waved his hand and refused the ghost candle handed over by Li Jun. After saying this, he left.

At the same time, Li Jun uploaded Mo Qiuren's analysis and opinions, and the think tank headed by Wang Xiaoming started a brainstorming session again.

The building in his memory, after hours of thinking, Cao Yang finally came up with a way to break the impasse.

He patted his butt and stood up from the ground with some excitement. He hadn't slept for four days and three nights. Although he didn't feel tired, he still looked unkempt and sloppy. However, this also made him look more human, which was a rare experience for Cao Yang.

"Ghosts cannot be killed."

"Only ghosts can deal with ghosts."

"See the patterns of ghosts."

"These are the three major laws of the mysterious resurrection world. Even if I am in the memory world, it is no exception. If I want to deal with ghosts, I must rely on the power of ghosts."

"So, I want to become a ghost rider in this world of memories. As for the origin of ghosts..."

Cao Yang's gaze fell on the two body bags at his feet, his bloodshot eyes filled with determination.

On the fourth night, the city of Otsu was almost completely covered by the gray world, with only a few villages in the outer suburbs surviving.

(End of this chapter)