38: Chapter 38 Didn't you notice there's one more person?

"Where did these brats come from? Are they here to do a mission too?"

"Livestreaming? Heh, internet celebrities these days really don't care about their lives for the sake of traffic."

The bespectacled man pushed up his glasses and sneered:

"Hey, streamer, hurry up and take your pretty boy boyfriend and get lost! This isn't a place for you to play house!"

"The things in this building are extremely vicious. If you wet your pants later, no one will change them for you!"

Zhou Mingyue was riled up by their fierce attitude; she puffed out her chest and retorted:

"Who's playing house? We also came here after accepting a bounty! And my boss is very powerful!"

"Powerful? Hahahaha!"

The bald, burly man acted as if he had heard a joke and pointed at Su Yang, laughing loudly.

"Just this tender-skinned kid? Where is he powerful? Powerful in bed?"

"Hahaha!"

The other two followed suit, roaring with laughter.

Su Yang wasn't bothered; he remained as lazy as ever.

He took out a cigarette, lit it, took a deep drag, and then blew a smoke ring at the bald, burly man.

"You guys, don't be so arrogant, or you might slip up."

"The things in this building aren't just simple evil ghosts."

Su Yang's gaze went past the three of them, looking at the pitch-black elevator shaft behind them.

"And..."

"Haven't you realized that there's one extra person among you?"

"One extra person?"

The bald, burly man was stunned. "Bullshit! Our demon hunting squad only has three people! Where is there an extra one?"

"Is that so?"

Su Yang pointed at the feet of the man wearing glasses.

"Then... whose is that extra hand in his shadow?"

"What?!"

The bespectacled man, A Wen, turned pale instantly and instinctively looked down at his own shadow.

Using the light from the flashlight in his hand,

he saw with horror:

At the neck of his shadow, there was indeed an extra slender, pitch-black shadow of a hand!

That hand shadow was in the middle of a strangling motion, and it was slowly tightening!

"Uh... uh..."

Almost simultaneously,

A Wen felt an icy, bone-chilling cold wrap around his neck, and his breathing instantly became difficult.

His hands desperately clawed at the air, his eyeballs bulged, and a "gurgling" sound came from his throat.

"A Wen!"

The bald, burly man and the woman were horrified.

"There's something! On his back!"

The woman shouted sharply, the dagger in her hand gleaming with a cold light, and she was about to slash at A Wen's back.

"Don't move!"

Su Yang suddenly shouted.

"That is a Shadow Ghost. If you strike with that knife, you won't kill the ghost, but you will cut his neck instead!"

"Then what should we do?!" The bald, burly man was sweating profusely with anxiety.

"Beg me."

Su Yang flicked the cigarette ash, his expression looking very punchable.

"Beg me, and I'll save him."

"You..."

The bald, burly man gritted his teeth in anger, but looking at A Wen's face, which had already started to turn purple, he had to swallow his pride.

"I... I beg you! Great Master! Save my brother!"

"That's more like it."

Su Yang threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stomped his right foot down hard!

"Golden Light Curse: Quake!"

Boom!

A visible golden ripple, centered on his foot, instantly spread across the ground!

When the golden ripple swept across A Wen's shadow,

"Screech—!"

A shrill, miserable scream suddenly erupted from within the shadow.

Immediately after, a mass of black shadow, as if scalded, shot out from A Wen's shadow, trying to escape back into the dark elevator shaft.

"Since you're already here, you want to run?"

Su Yang grabbed at the Void Realm.

"Palm Thunder: Bind!"

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!

Several small bolts of lightning, like chains, instantly caught up to the black shadow, bound it tightly, and dragged it back in front of Su Yang.

It was a small ghost, pitch-black all over, with no thickness, looking just like a paper cutout.

"This is a Shadow Ghost? It looks really ugly."

Su Yang pinched the desperately struggling little ghost and shook his head in disgust.

"Does this kind of low-level trash dare to come out and make a fool of itself?"

Snap!

He clapped his hands together, directly turning the Shadow Ghost into black smoke, which dissipated into the air.

"Hoo... hoo..."

A Wen slumped to the ground, panting heavily, with a clear black handprint left on his neck.

The way he looked at Su Yang was as if he were looking at a god, filled with fear and gratitude.

"Th-thank you, Great Master, for saving my life!"

The bald, burly man and the woman were also stunned.

A stomp to force out a Shadow Ghost? Void Realm thunder magic to catch a ghost?

The hell is this a pretty boy? This is clearly a hidden master!

"Now, am I qualified to 'play house' here?"

Su Yang looked at the three of them, smiling half-heartedly.

"Yes, yes, yes! Please, Great Master! Please!"

The bald, burly man bowed and scraped, no longer showing his previous arrogance.

"Um... Great Master, since you're so powerful, how about we... team up?"

"Team up?"

Su Yang glanced at them and shook his head.

"No need, I'd rather not have you dragging me down."

"And..."

Su Yang looked up at the bottomless floors above, his expression becoming serious.

"The things up there are not comparable to this kind of small ghost from just now."

"If you want to live, you'd better get lost now."

"The further you get, the better."

Having said that, Su Yang ignored the three of them, grabbed the awe-struck Zhou Mingyue, and walked straight towards the elevator shaft that was emitting heavy Yin Qi.

"Boss, aren't we taking the stairs? The elevator seems to be broken..." Zhou Mingyue looked at the doorless elevator shaft, her legs feeling a bit weak.

"Who said we were taking the elevator?"

Su Yang stood by the elevator shaft and looked down.

It was bottomless, with Yin winds howling.

"This elevator shaft is the shortcut to the heart of this building."

"Su Qingcheng, Chu Ling, come out and get to work!"

Hum!

Red light and purple Qi intertwined.

Two stunning female ghosts appeared on the scene again.

"Master, what are your orders?"

"Take us up, straight to the top floor!"

Su Yang pointed upwards.

"Alright!"

Su Qingcheng wrapped her arm around Su Yang's waist, while Chu Ling grabbed Zhou Mingyue's back collar with disdain.

Whoosh!

Two streams of light shot up into the sky, following the elevator shaft straight towards the 60th-floor roof!

Behind them, the three members of the demon hunting squad watched this scene, completely dumbfounded.

"Holy crap... those two women... are ghosts?!"

"Red-Clothed Ghost General?! Thousand-Year Corpse King?!"

"What the hell kind of god-tier lineup is this?!"

The bald, burly man swallowed hard, feeling his legs turning to jelly.

"Captain... are we still going up?" A Wen asked weakly.

"Go up my ass! Run! This 8 million is something you'll have a life to earn but no life to spend!"

The three looked at each other and scrambled out of the building.