"Ah--"
"Ah--"
On a street in Linjiang City, many passersby screamed in terror.
In the dead of night, a dark shadow suddenly appeared before them.
Under the streetlights, the head of the dark figure, split vertically in two, was clearly visible.
At the wound in the middle of the head, thick, red, yellow, and white fluid stretched into strands, and the two halves of the brain slowly wriggled, struggling to move closer together.
His facial features were also divided in two, his nose split in the middle, his eyes on each side were bloodshot, the left half of his mouth was baring his teeth, and the right half of his mouth was tightly pursed.
The horrific wound stretched from the head downwards, and the entire body was not spared, splitting into two parts.
However, his black robe covered his body, barely sustaining his life as he ran for his life.
Pedestrians on the street were terrified by what they saw.
Someone screamed and ran away like a madman.
"I promise I'll listen to my mother from now on and never walk alone at night again!" the man vowed silently as he fled.
"Get out of the way!" Someone in a car deliberately bumped into people nearby. When a tiger appears, you don't necessarily have to be faster than the tiger to escape; you just need to be faster than your companions!
"Help me! Someone help me up!" someone cried out, collapsing to the ground, their limbs weak.
Some were even so shocked that they fainted.
The instigator of all this chaos, Geheluos, had no interest in the reactions of passersby.
All he can think about now is escaping, and he specifically seeks out crowded places to run.
The method he originally intended to use to escape was forcibly stopped by Hu Jiu; he was just a hair's breadth away from being captured alive.
Fortunately, he managed to escape the mansion, which was fraught with danger, by cutting off his tail at every turn.
However, Hu Jiu relentlessly pursued him, leaving Geheluos in a very awkward situation.
Looking back at the ever-spreading Frost, a ruthless glint flashed in Geheluos's eyes:
"I'll remember this grudge!"
The citizens who were disturbed by him quickly called the police.
A few minutes later, Hu Jiu received a call from Qian Ying.
"Don't worry, it's not a Supernatural event. It's a foreign Ghost Tamer causing trouble, and I'm hunting him down."
Hearing Hu Jiu say this, Qian Ying felt relieved. With Hu Jiu there, everything was fine; the police only needed to handle some follow-up work.
Hu Jiu demonstrated the meaning of "a persistent ghost" to the fullest extent through his actions.
He fled, he chased, but he couldn't escape.
Whenever Geheluos thought he was about to escape, Hu Jiu would always appear just in time to make his presence known.
Later, Geheluos vaguely realized that Hu Jiu... was fishing by following the clues?
This is utterly disregarding Evernight!
However, considering Hu Jiu's strength, Geheluos felt a slight unease.
Despite the embarrassment, he quickly sent a distress message to the organization.
Compared to life, face is nothing!
But right after he sent out the distress message, Hu Jiu's attack suddenly became more swift!
Geheluos was driven away from Linjiang City, and in the deserted wilderness outside the city, he finally lost his ability to move.
The Supernatural within him spiraled out of control, and Fierce Ghost began to awaken.
The eyeball on the right side of his body kept swelling and soon occupied half of his face. Its color changed from the normal gray-blue to dark red, and the white of his eye was covered with blood vessels that looked like gnarled tree roots.
The eyeballs grew larger and larger, soon exceeding the size of a normal adult.
It turned on its own, seemingly observing its surroundings.
Geheluos howled in agony as the crimson giant eye broke free of his control and took over, turning his body into an accessory, like an incongruous eyelash.
The ground, under the gaze of the giant eye, began to undulate, as if something was awakening.
Within seconds, the ground bulged up in nodules, and the wriggling soil even outlined human facial features on these bulges!
The faces formed from the soil became more and more refined, more and more like Geheluos, but they had no vitality whatsoever that a living person should have. They just stared blankly and numbly at the giant crimson eyes in mid-air, and then emerged from those tomb-like mounds of earth, like zombies.
Seeing this, Hu Jiu thought to himself: Very good, you have successfully caught my attention!
Just then, Geheluos seemed to regain control of his body, manipulating the gaze of his giant eye to fix on Hu Jiu.
Hu Jiu slapped him across the face from a distance, hitting the giant eye's pupil squarely.
"Ah--"
The enormous eyeball fell off in an instant, Geheluos screamed in agony.
Hu Jiu stepped forward and grabbed the connection between the giant eye and Geheluos's body.
"Stop! Stop right now! What are you doing?!"
Geheluos roared at the top of his lungs, but he couldn't stop Hu Jiu from pulling the eye out.
Geheluos felt as if he were being slowly tortured, yet he could only endure the agony of the Fierce Ghost being stripped away bit by bit!
Normally, it is difficult for Ghost Tamer to separate from the Fierce Ghost within their body, but Hu Jiu managed to do it!
The giant eye, once detached, became docile in his hands, its size shrank, and it quickly returned to the size of a normal eyeball.
As he was putting the eye into the Golden Container, a hand suddenly reached out from the void and grabbed Geheluos's robe.
Hu Jiu chased after him at a leisurely pace, casually tossing out a painting with his hand.
The surrounding scenery suddenly changed dramatically.
Hu Jiu saw a dilapidated primary school. The school seemed to have been abandoned for many years, with peeling paint, broken windows, and scars left by time everywhere.
The classroom was filled with scattered desks and chairs, the graffiti on the walls was blurred and covered in dust, the wind howled, and the swings on the playground swayed forlornly. Every corner was permeated with an indescribable loneliness and despair, making one's spine tingle.
The moment Hu Jiu stepped into the school, a muffled and disordered sound of reading aloud suddenly rang out from nowhere. In the dimly lit and empty classroom, a little boy with his eyes rolled back pressed against the window, staring intently at Hu Jiu.
Looking around, Hu Jiu realized that this primary school was quite similar to the Little Garden and small meeting room he had encountered when he was chasing Han Yang, a member of the Evernight. They were both small, Supernatural spaces.
Thinking this, the Ghost Fire' -the-wisp blazed up, burning everything in its path.
The sound of reading aloud from the classroom grew increasingly noisy and jarring. The little boy, his face pressed against the window, continued to roll his eyes, remaining unmoved despite the flames engulfing him.
Click--
As the Ghost Fire'- the-wisps spread, spiderweb-like cracks appeared in the sky.
This small, Supernatural space then collapsed, leaving nothing behind.
In the wilderness outside Linjiang City, the heavily injured Geheluos had disappeared. Without a second's hesitation, Hu Jiu activated his Ghost Domain and chased after him in a certain direction.