The snowman wandered through the supermarket, searching for traces of other people.
One snowman was too inefficient, so Hu Jiu stuffed several more snowmen into the supermarket.
With his current physical condition, he is perfectly capable of handling this kind of multi-tasking.
The viewpoint became a split screen, with each segment representing a snowman he was controlling.
He then found several other survivors in the supermarket.
Then he discovered something even stranger.
"You mean, you've been here for almost half a year?" The snowman looked at the middle-aged man in front of him with surprise.
The middle-aged man nodded. "I keep track of every day with a mechanical watch; there's absolutely no mistake."
"It must have been tough for you to live in here for so long," the snowman exclaimed.
The middle-aged man forced a smile, "I'm naturally inclined to solitude. I don't like crowded places and prefer being alone."
"This supermarket is great. It's well-stocked, I have plenty of food and clothing, I don't have to work, and I don't have to be pressured to get married. It's a pity there's no internet, and we get attacked by monsters from time to time. If it weren't for these drawbacks, I could live here forever."
The snowman looked at him and said, "To be honest, this supermarket was found to be acting strangely seven days ago. You say you've lived here for half a year, which is truly unbelievable."
The middle-aged man was extremely astonished. "Seven days? That's impossible!"
A sensitive nerve in Hu Jiu's brain was touched, and he quickly manipulated the snowman to ask, "Do you remember which day you entered this supermarket?"
"November 17, 20██," the middle-aged man reported a date.
"I came in on November 25th, 20██," Hu Jiu said, not entirely calmly.
He had been searching for Supernatural events related to time anomalies, using this as a starting point to try to explore the mystery of rebirth.
After searching for a while without any results, I never expected to have such an unexpected gain during this trip to the Capital!
"How is that possible?" The middle-aged man frowned. "I clearly spent half a year in the supermarket, but only a week has passed outside?"
"Could it be that time flows differently inside and outside the supermarket?" he exclaimed, looking as if he had just realized something.
The snowman didn't speak.
Hu Jiu knew that the flow of time was the same both inside and outside.
He was standing outside the supermarket, while the snowman puppet he was controlling was inside. If there really was a difference in the flow of time, he would have noticed it as soon as the snowman entered the supermarket.
The middle-aged man claimed he had been living in the supermarket for nearly six months.
The length of time, "half a year," really caught Hu Jiu's attention.
He had been reborn for almost half a year.
Just as he was letting his imagination run wild, trying to figure out what connection the two could possibly have...
Boom--
A Ghost Fire Bomb landed at his feet, and a terrifying, Supernatural aura instantly swept over him.
Flames soared into the sky, Hu Jiu stood alone amidst the raging flames, his lips tightly pressed together, veins bulging on his forehead, his expression twisted and distorted, his entire face contorted into an extremely ferocious and terrifying sight.
He had just drifted off into thought because he seemed to have caught some inspiration.
But the sudden shell interrupted his inspiration!
"Great, that's really great!"
Hu Jiu gritted his teeth and waved his hand lightly, instantly fueling the spread of the fire.
While I was controlling the snowman puppet in the supermarket on multiple fronts, my attention was inevitably diverted, and I didn't notice the bomb that landed at my feet.
The Ghost Fire didn't hurt him at all, but it was ultimately his carelessness that caused him to be at fault, and he had no one else to blame but himself.
He's always been magnanimous... just kill them all.
The snowman puppet was left in the supermarket.
Under Hu Jiu's watchful gaze, the supermarket door disappeared.
Suddenly, lines of tiny, ant-like characters appeared on a shelf in the supermarket.
He sealed off the area completely, saying he would discuss it later.
The more pressing question now is: who on earth dared to launch Ghost Fire Bomb at him in the Capital?
Is it specifically targeting him?
Or is it that they harbor ill will towards Headquarters and want to weaken Headquarters overall strength?
Or perhaps... to incite conflict between him and Headquarters?
You should know that not everyone can come across Ghost Fire Bomb, let alone the one that just exploded, which had a very powerful yield.
Who on earth is so audacious as to use this thing to bomb Hu Jiu in downtown Capital?
This was no small matter; even without Hu Jiu's intervention, Headquarters received the news immediately.
The Satellite Phone vibrated, and in the firelight, Hu Jiu paused for a while before pressing the answer button.
"Hu Jiu, are you alright!" Shen Jiliang's anxious and agitated voice came from the other end of the phone.
"I'm not feeling well." Hu Jiu's tone was very calm.
It was eerily calm.
Shen Jiliang immediately said, "I will immediately begin investigating the attack on you."
"Don't worry, I will definitely give you a satisfactory explanation! Before the results are in, I hope you won't act impulsively."
"Hmm." Hu Jiu simply replied with one word.
The next second, the fiercely burning Ghost Fire'- the-wisp suddenly increased in power.
A perfectly timed breeze swept by, fanning the flames, Ghost Fire spread rapidly in all directions, seemingly carrying an endless will to destroy, burning everything in their path.
"Hu Jiu!" Shen Jiliang suddenly exclaimed on the other end of the phone, then barely managed to remain calm and quell his rapidly beating heartbeat.
"Since you're here, could you help suppress the Ghost Fire? The Ghost Tamer I dispatched will be here soon!"
"No problem," Hu Jiu replied.
"Although I was attacked in the Capital and seriously injured by a Ghost Fire weapon developed by Headquarters, the greater good comes first, and the safety of people's lives and property is the most important thing. I understand that."
"Unfortunately, I'm seriously injured, and though I want to, I'm powerless to help."
Hu Jiu said that the Ghost Fire brighter.
Fortunately, the Ghost Fire suddenly stopped spreading outwards and instead burned everything in a fixed area.
Shen Jiliang breathed a slight sigh of relief after seeing this scene through remote monitoring.
Unfortunately, he seems to have let his guard down too soon.
Inside the Research Department, several Ghost Tamer control Filthy Water and one Ghost Tamer controls Demon Wind received orders and set off simultaneously, rushing to the scene of the incident to contain the out-of-control Ghost Fire that had erupted.
The Research Department has a thorough understanding of the weaknesses of Ghost Fire and naturally has a complete and highly targeted containment plan.
I thought this time it would be as easy as before, and the Ghost Fire would be extinguished effortlessly.
However, when the Research Department Ghost Tamer arrived at the scene, they discovered that the situation was not so simple.
The fire was so fierce, yet it didn't spread in all directions; instead, it burned downwards.
A huge crater has been burned into the ground, giving the impression that the fire won't stop until it burns through the earth's core.
The foul water flowed into the bottom of the pit, but was suppressed by the will-o' -Ghost Fire, while the rising Demon Winds inadvertently fueled the fire.