7: Chapter 7: Desiring to Control the Fierce Ghost!

Their eyes were dead and numb, lacking focus; those were not the eyes of the living.

Especially combined with their varied appearances, they were undoubtedly corpses that had been dead for a long time.

Some had cracked skin, no flesh, with only bones clinging to their skin, emitting a foul stench at every moment.

Others were covered in water stains, bloated to the size of giants, presenting the appearance of a water-logged corpse.

There were even skeletons left, wrapped in Republic-era clothing...

At a glance, of the twenty or thirty people from before, only three or four were normal passengers who hadn't changed.

"Ah! Ghosts, they are all ghosts, they are all ghosts!"

"This... this, how could this be... ugh... save me..."

"Run, run quickly..."

The sudden change caused everyone to scream in terror.

Some students triggered the Ghost's killing rules and were killed within a second.

Some students tried to flee frantically, but this was a subway, and a subway filled with many Ghosts.

Escape? Where could they escape to?

Students who triggered the Ghost's killing rules died one after another.

In less than a minute, half of the 36 students, including Lin Chuan, were already gone.

They were killed so quickly because they were too close to the Ghosts.

They were almost face-to-face; in such a situation, it was hard not to be killed.

"There are actually so many ghosts!?"

Seeing the carriage suddenly turn into a living hell, Lin Chuan's pupils constricted.

His heart was filled with horror. He had previously thought there must be some Ghosts among them.

But he never expected that ninety-nine percent of them were Ghosts.

"Chuan... Chuanzi, what should we do?"

Luo Jie, who was sitting next to him, couldn't help but tremble when he saw the scene before him.

Fortunately, there were no Ghosts in the seat where he was sitting; otherwise, he would have been the next victim.

"Don't move, don't speak."

After Lin Chuan said this with a heavy expression, he didn't speak again.

Instead, he continued to observe the situation in the carriage. He discovered that as long as the students were sitting in their seats and not face-to-face with those Ghosts, they were basically still safe.

Li Fei and the few others who were calm also quickly realized this.

They reminded the others, which created a brief moment of safety.

He counted silently; there were twenty-one Ghosts he could see, while only 14 students, including Lin Chuan, were still alive.

As for the other passengers, there was only one man wrapped in a trench coat!

Lin Chuan looked at that person, pondering in his heart.

He could tell that the living man in the trench coat had no panic in his eyes.

All that was there was numbness, pain, and an indifference toward dying life, as if he had seen all this many times before.

Moreover, judging from his appearance, it was hard to tell if he was a living person.

If it weren't for Lin Chuan noticing a slight rise and fall in the man's chest, along with the man's gaze occasionally looking at them unexpectedly, he would have thought the man was dead.

To sum it up in one sentence.

A strange guy.

Of course, Lin Chuan also had a certain guess in his heart.

According to the basic information he understood, this was how a Ghost Controller would look after being invaded by a Ghost for a long time.

Therefore, Lin Chuan speculated that this person was, in all likelihood, a Ghost Controller!

He hadn't noticed the abnormality of the man in the trench coat at first because the man lacked presence.

Literally, if Lin Chuan hadn't carefully recalled his previous observations, he would have subconsciously ignored him, as if some strange power was affecting his cognition.

This was a Ghost Controller who could affect other people's consciousness!

"Ghost Controllers are difficult people to deal with. I cannot rashly go over and make contact, or I fear I will be killed directly."

Quietly withdrawing his gaze, Lin Chuan muttered to himself in his heart.

Because they have been invaded by Ghosts, most Ghost Controllers have their personalities drastically changed, and only a few are relatively peaceful.

Lin Chuan could not gamble on whether this Ghost Controller who could influence others' consciousness belonged to the latter, so he did not intend to make rash contact with him.

He would continue to observe first, and then seize the opportunity to find a Ghost to control.

Although there were many Ghosts here, it did not mean he could choose one at will.

Ghosts were unreasonable existences; saying one wanted to choose a Ghost to control was simply foolish!

However, Lin Chuan was not without a target. After the Ghost's recent killing, he discovered several Ghosts with unavoidable killing rules. One should absolutely not touch such Ghosts before becoming a Ghost Controller.

Otherwise, one would only end up dead in a second, suffering the same fate as the deceased students.

Therefore, Lin Chuan set his sights on those Ghosts that required some time to kill.

For example, that skeleton Ghost wearing Republic-era clothing; its way of killing was to wrap the victim in the clothing!

Just a moment ago, a student triggered its killing rule and was directly wrapped into it, with only blood flowing out.

Through observation, he had a ridiculous deduction.

The Ghost might not be the skeleton, but that piece of Republic-era clothing.

Besides this Ghost, there was another one Lin Chuan observed in detail.

That was an invisible Ghost, which needed nearly a minute to kill someone.

It could be said to be the Ghost that took the longest to kill, and this meant Lin Chuan's margin for error could be raised a little bit.

Although it was only a little bit, it was better than a Ghost with an unavoidable killing rule.

That would mean certain death in the next second!

Even though Lin Chuan possessed the human skin book, Seeking Good Fortune and Avoiding Calamity could not guarantee he could survive under an unavoidable rule.

Unless, like the Blood Script Ghost, one had an operation to exploit a bug.

Otherwise, the outcome would only be death.

"Although I don't know the killing rule of that Ghost, there is a one-minute margin for error..."

Lin Chuan's eyes flickered, struggling in his heart.

On one hand, thinking from a safety perspective, if he sat still in his original place, there was a high probability that this subway ride would end without any harm.

On the other hand, considering it from a future perspective, whether it was surviving seven days in Taoyuan Village or encountering supernatural events in the future... if he controlled a Ghost, his margin for error would become higher!

"I don't like to gamble, but this time I must gamble!"

After weighing it for less than ten seconds, Lin Chuan decisively made up his mind.

If he did not control a Ghost, then in front of Ghosts, he would only ever have a narrow escape.

Summoning all his focus, Lin Chuan slowly stood up from his seat.

The next moment, a rotting corpse with cold, dead eyes also stood up, and those dead eyes stared right at him.

At the same time, in Lin Chuan's mind, the human skin book changed.

[Triggered the Ghost's killing rule, do you want to enable Seeking Good Fortune and Avoiding Calamity?]

Triggered the Ghost's killing rule?

What was the condition? Leaving his seat?

Or was it just standing up?

Lin Chuan, noticing the change in the human skin book, would be lying if he said he wasn't nervous.

He had indeed anticipated this, and was prepared to use the human skin book.

But when he was truly targeted, that cold, prickly feeling on his back still made his scalp tingle.

"Yes."

As Lin Chuan's thought to use it took hold, words began to appear on the second page of the human skin book.

[Lower-Lower Luck: Ignore the Ghost's killing rule, take the Ghost and walk toward that mysterious Ghost Controller; the Ghost Controller will kill you first, there is absolutely no possibility of survival!]

[Lower-Middle Luck: Use a student as a shield, there is a probability of briefly delaying the Ghost's killing, Small Fortune!]

[Upper-Upper Luck: Crouch down and walk, avoid the Ghost's killing rule, no aftermath, Great Fortune!]