39: Chapter 39 Creating Fear Behind the Scenes, Harvesting the Wishes of the Masses
As the whispers of the Crying Ghost continued to spread.
"Wuwuwu..."
More and more shrill cries echoed through the corridor, as if containing some irresistible sorrow.
The Ghost Controllers who had originally wanted to bolt for the door suddenly froze.
Their eyes began to glaze over, and their fierce expressions were gradually replaced by an inexplicable sadness.
"Why... why do I have to live such an exhausting life..."
"Dad, Mom... I want to go home..."
"I was wrong... I shouldn't have killed you..."
They knelt on the ground, covering their faces with their hands, weeping bitterly.
Even the restless abominations within their bodies were infected by this extreme sorrow at this moment, gradually falling into a state of deep sleep.
"Cough, cough! Cough, cough, cough!!"
Just then.
The Coughing Ghoul controlled by Lin Chuan also activated its Rule Ability.
The violent coughing sounds, like the death knell of the Grim Reaper, rang in everyone's ears.
"Pfft!!"
One of the weeping Ghost Controllers suddenly jerked, opening his mouth to spray out a large mouthful of fresh blood.
Immediately after.
His lungs felt as if they were about to burst, and every breath brought a heart-wrenching, agonizing pain.
"Cough, cough... Help... help... Wuwu..."
He struggled to reach out his hand, wanting to grab onto something.
But in the next second.
His body began to disintegrate from the inside.
His internal organs turned into fragments, coughed out along with the blood.
"No... I don't want to die... Wuwu..."
"Damn it! Let's fight them!!"
Another Ghost Controller retained a final shred of ferocity.
He let out a roar, forcibly suppressing the sorrow in his heart and the intense pain in his body, wanting to let the abomination inside him fully recover!
But Lin Chuan didn't give him that chance at all.
"Cough, cough!"
Another cough.
That Ghost Controller's movements instantly froze.
His body trembled violently, and then with a bang, he exploded directly into a mist of blood.
[Obtained fear value +60.]
[Obtained fear value +100.]
[Obtained fear value +20.]
[...]
Before several Ghost Controllers died, they continuously provided Lin Chuan with fear value.
In the corner of the private booth.
The girl who had been tortured until she was on the verge of death was now curled up on the floor, shivering.
She had witnessed the tragic deaths of these Ghost Controllers with her own eyes.
That bloody and eerie scene caused her already fragile nerves to completely collapse.
"Ah..."
She let out a weak scream, then her eyes rolled back, and she fainted.
Lin Chuan paid her no mind.
His targets were only these Ghost Controllers.
The Rule Ability just activated by the coughing ghoul clone and the Crying Ghost was not aimed at this girl either.
Lin Chuan was not interested in killing ordinary people.
All he wanted was fear value and Power Of Will.
"Go and devour those abominations."
Turning his gaze toward the abominations left behind after the Ghost Controllers died, Lin Chuan issued an order to the Crying Ghost.
Soon, the Crying Ghost's pale figure drifted over and opened its large mouth.
Crack, crack... Several black phantoms were directly grabbed by her and, in a horrifying manner, were all stuffed into her mouth.
In just an instant, those abominations were devoured into the Crying Ghost's body.
The rule aura on her body also strengthened slightly after devouring several D-Class Abominations.
Having done all this.
Lin Chuan was in no hurry to leave.
Instead, using the coughing ghoul clone as a medium, he directly activated his original Rule Ability... Blood-Tear Illusionary Realm!!
As the illusion rules quietly spread, the dance floor outside the private booth remained noisy, the music deafening.
Just as Lin Chuan activated the Rule Ability.
In the corridor.
Two men wearing designer suits with faces full of flesh were walking over, swearing.
"Supposedly, Old Third and the others found a top-tier one."
"Those sons of bitches, having good stuff and enjoying it secretly."
These two were also Ghost Controllers of the Black Snake Society, and the abominations they controlled had reached C-Class!!
In the Black Snake Society, the two were considered middle-to-high-level figures.
"Let's go, take a look inside."
One of the suit-wearing bald men pushed open the door to the private booth.
At this moment, the corpses of the several Ghost Controllers inside the booth had all disappeared.
The Ghost Controller "Old Third" was sitting on the sofa, alive and well, holding the girl in his arms, waving at them with a lewd smile.
"Yo, two captains, what brings you here?"
"Just in time, this chick's got spirit!"
"You two captains play first, we'll wait in line..."
"Old Third's" voice was full of flattery, and the other Ghost Controllers chimed in, raising their glasses to toast the two men in suits.
"Hmm?"
The bald man frowned.
He felt something was off.
There seemed to be a faint smell of blood in the air.
And... why did Old Third's smile look a bit stiff?
"Old Third, why is there blood on you?"
The other long-haired man pointed to a large bloodstain on Old Third's chest and asked.
"Oh, this?"
Old Third looked down and grinned.
"This chick resisted too fiercely just now, I accidentally got it on me."
"Hehe, does Big Brother want to come and try?"
As he spoke, he pushed the girl in his arms forward.
Then, when the girl looked up.
She revealed a face... without any features!
"What the hell is that!!"
The bald man and the long-haired man were both startled.
Just then.
The surrounding scene suddenly changed.
The originally magnificent private booth instantly turned into a dark and terrifying morgue.
The skin on the faces of Old Third and his lackeys began to peel off, revealing the rotten flesh underneath.
"Two... captains..."
"Why are you still standing there..."
"Come... accompany us..."
They staggered to their feet and lunged toward the two men.
"Damn! It's a ghost!!"
"Fuck! What bad luck!"
"Coming out to relax and we still run into a supernatural event!"
The bald man reacted extremely quickly, and a huge bone blade instantly appeared in his hand.
That was the C-Class Abomination he controlled—the Bone Blade Ghost!
"Go to hell!!"
He let out a roar and slashed at the lunging "Old Third."
Pfft!
"Old Third" was split in two.
But strangely.
His body did not fall, but instead turned into two clouds of black smoke, re-condensing into two "Old Thirds."
"Heeheehee..."
"Can't kill me... you can't kill me..."
The two "Old Thirds" surrounded him again.
"Damn it! What kind of thing is this?!"
The other man in the suit panicked slightly.
He waved his hands, and countless strands of long black Ghost Hair shot out like steel needles, pinning the two "Old Thirds" like hedgehogs.
But it was useless.
Even though their bodies were pierced through by the 'Ghost Hair', the two "Old Thirds" continued to laugh eerily and steadily approached the two men.
Furthermore, the "girl" in the booth and the other "Ghost Controllers"... were also closing in on them step by step.
Lin Chuan controlled the coughing ghoul clone, calmly watching everything from within a cluster of shadows.
On the panel deep within his consciousness, new prompts were constantly popping up:
[Obtained fear value +90.]
[Obtained fear value +100.]
[...]
"Run! Run quickly!!"
The two finally broke down.
They understood that the level of the supernatural event before them was no longer something they could handle!
Bang!!
The two crashed through the door of the private booth and rushed into the corridor.
However.
The scene in the corridor made them even more desperate.
Blood seeped from the walls, and human heads hung from the ceiling.
The Ghost Controllers and dancing girls who were having fun now appeared as hideous abominations in their eyes.
"Abominations! They're all abominations!!"
"Kill! Kill them all!!"
Under extreme fear.
The two completely lost their sanity.
They activated the abomination powers within their bodies and directly attacked several D-Class Ghost Controllers of the Black Snake Society!
"Ah!!"
"They're crazy! The two captains have gone crazy!!"
"Run!!"
"It must be that the abominations inside them have lost control..."
The originally lively "City of Ultimate Bliss" instantly turned into a Shura Field.
Several Ghost Controllers of the Black Snake Society were directly obliterated by these two while they were completely off guard.
Blood stained the dance floor red.
Screams drowned out the music.
"Hahahaha! Die! All of you die!!"
The bald man was covered in blood, looking like a madman.
He could no longer distinguish anything.
In his eyes, everyone was a vengeful ghost coming for his life.
Until finally.
In the middle of the entire hall, only he and the long-haired man were left standing.
"There's one more..."
"Kill him... and I'll be safe..."
"Yes! It must be like this!!"
"Kill! Kill kill kill!!"
The two looked at each other at the same time.
There was only endless killing intent in their eyes.
Boom!!
The two quickly fought each other.
Two C-Class Abomination rules erupted in a fierce collision.
bone blades flew, and black hair danced wildly.
Finally.
The bald man's bone blade plunged into the long-haired man's heart.
And the long-haired man's Ghost Hair also pierced through the bald man's throat.
"Ugh... ugh..."
The two fell into a pool of blood simultaneously.
Consciousness gradually blurred.
Just at the last moment before they drew their final breath.
The surrounding illusion suddenly vanished.
They saw corpses strewn across the floor.
Those were all their familiar teammates.
"This... this is..."
Before they could figure it out.
Two eerie figures appeared in their vision.
A hunched old man.
A woman hanging upside down.
They were facing them, revealing an eerie smile.
"Heeheehee..."
In the next second.
The two figures vanished into thin air.
As if they had never appeared.
Leaving only two C-rank Ghost Controllers who died with their eyes open, carrying endless fear and resentment, as they completely stopped breathing... In the distance of the hall.
Some ordinary people were shivering, hiding under tables.
They had witnessed this whole scene of frantic internal slaughter.
That kind of visual impact left their minds completely blank.
"Ghost... it's a ghost..."
"No... I don't want to die..."
"There's a ghost here!!"
[Obtained fear value +200 from Zhang Niu.]
[Obtained fear value +150 from Li Bo.]
[Obtained...]
Looking at the fear value on the panel that had surged by over forty thousand, Lin Chuan nodded in satisfaction.
"Jiejiejie!!"
"Coming to this Black Snake Society Base City was indeed the right choice."
"But this amount of fear value is still not enough."
"However, the good show... has only just begun!"
Lin Chuan thought continuously.
He planned to use the Coughing Ghoul and Crying Ghost to spread enough terror in the Black Snake Society Base City, and incidentally raise the two ghosts' levels to S-rank!
Then, when the millions of survivors in the Black Snake Society Base City were in a state of panic, falling into despair, and losing their faith in the Black Snake Taboo, he would descend in his true form to suppress the 'abominations'!
If this wave of operations succeeded, he would not only be able to harvest a large amount of fear value but also obtain a massive amount of Power Of Will!!
While Lin Chuan was silently preparing his plan.
Suddenly, a series of ear-piercing alarms sounded outside.
Clearly, the Black Snake Society's Security Team had arrived.
The two C-rank Ghost Controllers from earlier, influenced by Lin Chuan's illusion rules, had acted frantically and caused too much commotion; someone had long since sent a distress signal to the Black Snake Society headquarters.