"This ghost has set its sights on me."
"But last night, it struck once and retreated. Today, it's only using a Ghost Slave to deal with me."
"What does that tell us?"
"It means that although it came down the mountain, it can't conveniently unleash its full strength."
"Something has it tied up!"
The mountain road.
Captain Zhang drove personally, taking Jiang Qiao toward Nanhucun Village. Towering mountains rose on the left, while steep cliffs dropped away on the right. The narrow road was so cramped that even passing another vehicle would have been difficult.
But fortunately.
There were no vehicles coming down the mountain now. They were the road's only users.
"What could be holding it back?"
Jiang Qiao looked out the window.
His subconscious told him that this Vicious Ghost, with its complicated origins and immense potential, might be hiding some secret.
"Beep—beep—"
"Beep—"
Just then, the satellite phone beside them rang.
Captain Zhang picked up the phone:
"Hello."
"This is Zhang Jiangong."
"Hello, this is the Command Center. Please let Mr. Jiang answer the phone. We have important information to report."
Jiang Qiao took the phone.
Captain Yu's voice soon came from the other end:
"Mr. Jiang."
"This morning, you asked us to investigate whether any little girls in Nanhucun Village had suffered accidents that resulted in the deaths of their immediate family members. We've gotten the results."
"According to our current investigation."
"In the records we were able to verify, six little girls died in accidents over the past fifty years."
"Among them, after one little girl died."
"Her mother suffered a mental breakdown."
"After another little girl died, her father happened to be working out of town. While hurrying back, he got into an accident, and his motorcycle went over a cliff, killing him."
"We