Mysterious Resurrection: The Peddler

Chapter 188 Suit Ghost

Otsu City, Beichen Building.

Lin Ye and Zhao Tong left one after another, and only Hu Mingtao still insisted on guarding the building every day. After the last incident, there were fewer employees in the building, and the whole building became a little deserted.

"Captain Cao, you're back."

Hu Mingtao just noticed a gust of cold wind mixed with the stench of corpse blowing past, and he instantly became alert and saw Cao Yang's figure.

"I'm back. Why do I feel like I'm almost the person in charge of Dajing City after Chen Yi and his gang got caught? I was the one who handled the suburban haunted house and the haunted road incidents."

Cao Yang put down his suitcase. He still loved his office chair so much.

"Captain Cao is extremely capable, and those who are capable should be given more work. The current domestic situation is still so stable, and this is in no way without your contribution, Captain Cao."

Hu Mingtao praised.

"I never realized you were so good at talking before."

"Captain Cao, I want to ask for leave from you."

Hu Mingtao, who had been carefree at first, suddenly became shy, and Cao Yang felt a little confused.

"Tell me, do you think I'm a black-hearted capitalist or a villain who turns hostile or even kills people at the slightest disagreement?"

"Of course not. Captain Cao, my girlfriend and I are getting married, so..."

As he spoke, Hu Mingtao became a little shy.

"I thought it was a big deal. Congratulations, Lao Hu. As your boss, I have to give you a big red envelope. Asking for leave is even smaller. I've approved it. You can take as long as you want. It'll give you some time for your honeymoon."

Cao Yang smiled and patted Hu Mingtao on the shoulder.

"You can go back now. I'm here in Otsu City. You can go back and prepare for your wedding without any worries."

Hu Mingtao said a few more words of gratitude and then left.

"Oh, marriage, what a beautiful word."

Cao Yang sighed, then took out his satellite phone and dialed.

"Han Yu, please arrange another liaison officer as soon as possible. I have approved Hu Mingtao's vacation, but the daily maintenance and inspection of Dajin City, as well as the work of connecting with the headquarters, cannot be neglected."

"Understood. The new liaison officer will be determined tonight. By the way, Captain Cao Yang, the safe house that the headquarters took the lead in building last time has been under construction for some time. It is located in Beichen Building. You can go and check the progress."

"I'll go when I have time."

After hanging up the phone, Cao Yang instantly appeared in the underground garage of Beichen Building. This place has been completely requisitioned by the headquarters. Apart from the construction team, only Cao Yang has the authority to enter.

"The construction team at the headquarters is very efficient. If they continue working at this pace, they will be finished in about a week."

Cao Yang did not stay here, but returned to the office.

"The island nation is in crisis. Yang Jian is also involved in the ghost post office incident. Zhang Xuan is undercover abroad. I don't know who will take over the vacant captain position after Jiang Shangbai's death? Zhou Deng, or Lin Bei?"

There were two top-secret files on the desk, which only Cao Yang had the qualifications and authority to view. One of the two files was about recent supernatural events that had not been solved in the past year or two. The other was the files of all the incumbent heads of the headquarters. In terms of level, the second file was more confidential.

"Zhongzhou City Ghost Lake Incident, Level A, the person in charge, Cheng Hao, is confirmed dead."

"Da Zheng City terrorist bwg incident, A+ level, the person in charge Zhou Deng tried to contact him, but failed in the end."

"Taiping Inn incident, X-level. The think tank believes that this mysterious place is temporarily stable and there is no risk of losing control in the short term." "..."

"There are indeed more and more supernatural incidents, and A-level incidents are no longer rare."

Cao Yang roughly looked through it and found that there were six or seven A-level events alone, not including the two X-level events of Taiping Inn and the Ghost Bus. As for B-level and C-level events, the number reached an astonishing double digit.

Then, Cao Yang began to check the files of those responsible.

"Zhongshan from Dachang City, Mo Qiuren from Dashen City, Ma Jun from Dafu City, Sun Rui from Dahan City, Wen Zhong from Daan City, Ah Hong from Dasu City, Jiang Yongzhou from Jinling City..."

Unfortunately, most of the ghost handlers at the headquarters are not fools. Cao Yanhua overestimated the level of detail in the files. In fact, among these dozens of files, no more than ten truly recorded the intelligence and abilities of evil spirits.

"What a bullshit arrangement. They are all in the jurisdiction of other captains anyway. We can just wait for them to take care of it. If you randomly assign people, they will die if they go there."

Cao Yang shrugged, took out a palm-sized golden box, and took out a roll of parchment from it.

The human skin list is a list from the ghost peddler, which records the basic information of the evil spirits that the ghost peddler wants to trade.

"It's time to see where to go next time."

Not sure if it was an illusion or what, but Cao Yang felt that this list of human skin seemed to have shrunk a little, the color became darker, and it felt dry and hard, not as soft as it was at the beginning.

On the human skin list, the image of the female corpse quickly faded away, and then some crooked words began to appear on the human skin paper...

"My name is Cao Yang. When you see this sentence, I will be dead——"

Cao Yang's eyes suddenly shrank. The name on the list was no longer the three-character name, but his name, Cao Yang.

"What is this? A text targeting me?"

The text continued to appear. Cao Yang forced himself to suppress the doubts in his heart and continued to read.

"I have completed my fourth transaction with the Peddler, but this transaction involves many things. I realized that this world may be very different from what I imagined."

"So, I made an absurd but bold decision. I wanted to control the Ghost Peddler, not a piece of puzzle or a kind of supernatural power, but the complete Ghost Peddler."

However, at this moment, the words on the list began to fade rapidly, just like a child who was discovered scribbling and was quickly erasing the traces he left behind.

However, Cao Yang was no longer surprised by this and did not forcefully try to leave anything behind. The human skin list was different from the human skin paper. He suspected that these words had been preset long ago and would only appear at a fixed time.

After a few breaths, the words on the list completely disappeared, and then the image of a fierce ghost appeared.

The ghost was wearing a dirty old black suit, but it was not a common style in China. He was wearing leather shoes, his head was highly rotten, his eyes were empty and numb, and the most bizarre thing was that he was holding a half-broken samurai sword in his hand, which gave off an atmosphere of an island country.

"Is this... a ghost in a suit?"

Cao Yang was just wondering, but the ghost on the human skin list began to show some abnormalities. Cracks began to appear on the suit, as if it had been cut by a sharp weapon.

The same crack appeared on Cao Yang's clothes, and at the same time, an extremely severe pain came. Although there was no wound on his body, it made people feel that the skin, flesh, and even bones were cracking.

"Did it inadvertently satisfy the medium or conditions for the attack?"

This kind of pain was nothing to Cao Yang. This level of deadly ghost could not kill him. After all, except for his head, his entire body was ghost flesh.

Cao Yang continued to check the other information on the list while facing the attack of the evil spirit.

"Transaction period: 176 days."

(End of this chapter)