Mysterious Resurrection: The Peddler

Chapter 38 Shadow Puppet
Cao Yang, who had just hung up the phone, suddenly heard an emergency evacuation danger alarm, followed by the screams of men and women, messy and complicated footsteps, and various noisy sounds.

"problem occurs."

Cao Yang's heart trembled. He opened the door and found that there were many lifelike human-shaped graffiti on the wall of the hotel. These graffiti were the same as what he saw during the day. They were wearing various clothes and their figures were blurred, but without exception, they all had expressions of fear on their faces. The eyes were even more lifelike. They almost instantly fell on Cao Yang the moment he opened the door.

"It seems that the ghost's ability is to turn people into this graffiti-like plane."

By this time Cao Yang had realized that these were not graffiti, but living people, who were transformed into two-dimensional shadow puppet-like beings by the influence of evil spirits.

In the center of Da'an, the streets that used to be bustling with people were now empty, and the whole city was eerily quiet. The ground was densely covered with countless dark shadow puppets, some with incomplete limbs and some with terrifying and exaggerated expressions.
What's even more bizarre is that these shadow puppets are not dead objects. They will occasionally move their eyes and slowly move in a certain direction. Such shadow puppets have now spread to every corner of Da'an City, almost everywhere. Countless pairs of numb eyes are peeping at the city from all directions and angles.

In the hotel, there were more and more shadow puppets on the ground, almost forming a twisted human-shaped carpet.

"This is... an extremely special kind of ghost den."

The ghost carrying a human on his back was stepped on by Cao Yang. The horror of the evil ghost was not something that these supernatural creatures could deal with. The shadow puppets instinctively avoided Cao Yang and forcibly opened up an extremely narrow path.

"Unlike normal ghost dens, this kind of ghost den is invisible and intangible, but I know I am not in it, and I can see the people in it. The Cultural Palace incident has gotten out of control, and the supernatural is beginning to spread. I have to find Chen Xi as soon as possible, and then wait for Li Jun to arrive."

Immediately, the shadow puppet made an expression of fear and howling, but no sound came out, it seemed like a silent wail.

Cao Yang shook his head, no longer hesitated, opened his ghost nest and quickly left the area. The headquarters had just sent a text message, confirming that Wen Zhong's satellite phone was in Chen Xi's hands. As long as he used his phone to locate it, he could successfully meet up.

"Try the death card. If it doesn't work, I'll just run away."

The answer was obvious. Chen Xi couldn't die, at least not now. No one knew his information except Wen Zhong. If he died first, there would be one or two more ghosts in Da'an City, and then everyone could really go home and wait for death.

"Chen Xi's location is in Da'an City Central Building."

The current situation puts Cao Yang in a passive position. He controls two ghosts, but it is difficult to deal with these supernatural derivatives.

"Shadow puppets no longer have the concept of weight. The gravity ghosts probably can't invade them. The law of imbalance is difficult to trigger."

The Central Building is not far from the hotel, but it is very close to the Palace of Culture, and going there means going deep into the incident.
To go or not to go?

Cao Yang took off the scarlet wooden plaque from his body and pasted it on a shadow puppet.

The ghost cave of the gravity ghost is also special, invisible and intangible but objectively existing. Cao Yang can affect and manipulate gravity within a certain range, but this range is not large, probably only covering the size of a football field. Cao Yang is only balancing now, and cannot use the ghost cave to travel at will, so he has to find a small electric donkey on the side of the road, and then change the gravity to force speed up.

"The Death Card is still useful, but it's too inefficient."

Seeing this location, Cao Yang couldn't help but frown. The Central Building is in the center of Da'an City. Could it be that Chen Xi was going there to fight for his life?

Along the way, the shadow puppets were ruthlessly run over by Cao Yang at a lightning speed. In addition, with the existence of the ghost carrying people on its back, these shadow puppets did not have any effect on Cao Yang.

"This is it."

Seven minutes later, Cao Yang successfully arrived at the Central Building. Fortunately, Chen Xi's position had not changed and he was still in the building. On the twelfth floor of the Central Building, Chen Xi was dealing with the shadow puppets that kept coming towards him.

Chen Xi is only in his early twenties. Before becoming a ghost rider, he was an editor of Singularity Chinese website. In a certain incident, he accidentally became a ghost rider, codenamed "Ghost Face". After that, he joined Wen Zhong and has been his right-hand man. It can be said that when Wen Zhong was away, Chen Xi was the temporary person in charge of Da'an City.

The floor was filled with the stench of rotting corpses. A large number of shadow puppets were struggling and screaming on the ground, and everything became blurred as if they had been greatly stimulated.

This is Chen Xi's ability, the Ghost Face, a rotten face that can rot everything around it, and these supernatural derivatives are naturally no exception.

Chen Xi sat calmly on the chair, but he was wearing a dark green gas mask that covered his entire face. Looking through the eye area of ​​the mask, one could only see a pair of indifferent and cold eyes, and a small part of the slightly rotten face.

"If I didn't have this gas mask, I really wouldn't have been able to hold on that long. I don't know if the people from the headquarters have shown up. I'm not a regular employee, so no one pays me."

Chen Xi picked up the satellite phone with some disgust, only to find that a signal source was approaching him.

"Here it comes, pretty fast."

Under the mask, a creepy sneer was outlined on the half-rotten face.

In the central building, there were so many shadow puppets gathered here that Cao Yang had no choice but to use the ghost to transfer himself and finally came to the floor where Chen Xi was. However, the shadow puppets on the ground and walls of this floor were much dimmer, and there was another kind of spiritual atmosphere left on them.

"There is only the wrong name, not the wrong code name. This should be the ability of Ghost Face Chen Xi. He can persist here for so long. This person is not simple."

Although they haven't actually come into contact yet, Cao Yang has already inferred that Chen Xi is unusual through the reactions of these shadow puppets.

"Can you please leave your name?"

A young but somewhat hoarse voice came from a certain room, with a somewhat arrogant tone.

"I don't think anyone who can say such a thing is a ghost."

Cao Yang made a judgment in an instant, and shouted loudly inside:

"Dajing City, Li Jun, support sent by headquarters."

Just kidding, judgment is judgment, what if there is really a ghost inside? Cao Yang is not stupid enough to casually reveal his identity, so using Li Jun as a shield is the most appropriate at this time.

"Since you are from the headquarters, then go and solve the Cultural Palace incident. I am not the person in charge. Why are you looking for me? Do you want me to do volunteer work for you?"

Chen Xi's voice came from Room 1202, and it seemed that he had no interest in resolving the incident.

"Under the order from headquarters, the three of us will work together to solve the incident."

A flash of green fire passed by, and then all 12 layers of shadow puppets burned up in an instant, but the green flame was not blazing, but instead emitted an eerie and chilling chill.

(End of this chapter)