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Before he could turn around, he felt a chill at his throat.

Then his view dropped from high to low...

His head hit the ground with a thud, rolled across the carriage, and stared fixedly at the Ghost Shadow holding the Ghost Butcher Knife that had so easily taken it off.

His eyes were filled with shock, disbelief, and terror.

He died with his eyes wide open!

One strike, one kill!

Chen Yu clapped his hands lightly. The Ghost Shadow, the Ghost Butcher Knife, and the Funeral Shroud wrapped around him all disappeared.

Everyone who saw this was scared out of their wits. Not one of them dared breathe too loudly!

Zhou Ai, who'd been so cocky, had just been beheaded with a single slash?

What was that shadow just now? And what was that outfit wrapped around Chen Yu?

Who was Chen Yu?! How could he be so strong?

Chen Yu paid no attention to the shocked passengers.

He moved.

Every passenger flinched and hurriedly crawled into a corner.

Unhurriedly, Chen Yu crouched down and searched Zhou Ai's body.

"Found it."

He took a miniature steering wheel from Zhou Ai.

The moment it appeared in Chen Yu's hand, it grew until it was about the size of a bus's steering wheel, then stopped.

So the Anomaly Zhou Ai had controlled was the Ghost Steering Wheel.

No wonder he'd been able to turn the bus into a Ghost Bus and control it at will.

The next moment, Chen Yu bit straight into the steering wheel.

Everyone cowered beneath the seats, watching in horror.

He was eating a steering wheel?

Was he even human?

Surely he couldn't bite through it, could he?

"Crack, crack..."

Crisp chewing sounds rang out.

Chen Yu bit a hole in the steering wheel, chewed a few times, then swallowed it.

Everyone stared, dumbfounded, their faces deathly pale!

He could even eat a steering wheel.

Was Chen Yu some kind of shredder?

Everyone trembled, not even daring to call the police.

Could the cops really handle someone this powerful?

After swallowing the steering wheel, Chen Yu felt a surge of power coursing wildly through his body.

[You have devoured the Level 5 Ghost Steering Wheel.]

[The Ghost Steering Wheel has been digested and turned into energy.]

The energy coursed through Chen Yu's body once, then flowed into his Time Ghost Eye.

[Time Ghost Eye experience increased. Upgrade experience (40%).]

Chen Yu was overjoyed!

He hadn't expected eating the Ghost Steering Wheel to level up his Time Ghost Eye!

As expected of a Ghost Bus, even with only half its carriage left, it could still run normally.

After consuming the Ghost Steering Wheel, Chen Yu began operating the bus and changed its destination.

But halfway there, Chen Yu got off with Tong Jian.

They'd arrived at the Anomaly Zoo.

After they arrived, the zoo's entrance stood not far away. Chen Yu looked up at the rusted sign.

The sign read, "Welcome to Linjiang Zoo."

The lively zoo of the past had become something else entirely. All that remained was a cold, murderous stillness.

Two figures stood not far from the entrance.

One was a slim, beautiful woman in casual clothes that gave her a capable air.

She was Han Ningning, the school belle of Linjiang High School.

The other was a young man of about twenty-five, wearing an air of superiority. He clearly wasn't someone to trifle with.

When Han Ningning saw Chen Yu, she ran over excitedly and greeted him with a respectful tone. "Chen Yu, you're finally here! I've been waiting for you for ages. With you here, I'm sure I can pass this mission!"

She admired Chen Yu and had great faith in his abilities.

After all, she'd seen him eating the Ghost Butcher's corpse with her own eyes.

He'd even swallowed the Ghost Butcher Knife whole...

She'd heard that even Luo Mu couldn't handle that Anomaly. When he'd come to warn the class, he'd told them to run as soon as they heard the sound of meat being chopped.

Yet Chen Yu had dealt with the Butcher with ease.

"You're too kind," Chen Yu said with a smile.

Only after greeting Chen Yu did Han Ningning notice the little girl standing silently beside him. She asked, "Who's this little girl?"

"Oh, she's a friend. She's my aunt's daughter. My aunt went out of town for a couple of days and asked me to look after her. I didn't feel comfortable leaving her home alone, so I brought her with me. You don't mind, do you?"

Chen Yu made up an excuse.

Han Ningning knew how strong Chen Yu was. If he'd dared bring someone along, that meant he was capable of protecting her.

As long as Chen Yu was here, why would Han Ningning care about that?

She hurriedly said, "It's fine. Bring as many people as you want."

"Tsk, tsk. Bring as many as you want? Do you really think this is some zoo for sightseeing?"

An ill-timed voice rang out just then.

Everyone turned to look. The speaker was the man who'd come with Han Ningning.

Han Ningning glanced at him, looking a little awkward, then explained to Chen Yu, "This is Senior Li Minghai. He's been with the Orderer Plan for a long time."

"Oh."

Realizing that the man meant trouble, Chen Yu merely nodded and said nothing.

"Kid, you've got quite the attitude."

Li Minghai was taken aback when Chen Yu heard his name and didn't look surprised, remaining completely unfazed.

But he quickly recovered.

After all, who was Chen Yu? A nobody like him wasn't worth knowing Li Minghai.

Chen Yu ignored him completely and asked Han Ningning, "When are we going in?"

Chen Yu just wanted to get into the zoo as soon as possible and deal with the Anomalies.

"We can go now."

Han Ningning glanced back at Li Minghai and said, "Senior, the person I called has arrived. Why don't we go in first?"

Li Minghai waved a hand. "No. I called someone too, and he's on his way. We'll go in after he gets here."

On his way?

Who was he talking about?

Han Ningning looked a little apologetic as she said to Chen Yu, "Chen Yu, I'm sorry... The Investigation Bureau gave us permission to call in help for this mission, so each of us can bring one person. His hasn't arrived yet."

"Who is it?" Chen Yu asked.

"I heard he's called Zhou Ai. He's a very powerful Ghost Controller and has yellow hair," Han Ningning explained.

Hearing that, Chen Yu couldn't help but laugh.

What a small world!

He hadn't expected that Yellow Hair was the person Li Minghai was waiting for.

Chen Yu smiled at Li Minghai. "If you're waiting for him, don't bother. You could wait until the end of time, and he still wouldn't show up."

"What are you talking about?"

Li Minghai looked confused and displeased. Thinking Chen Yu just didn't want to wait, he sneered, "Let me tell you, without Zhou Ai and me taking you in, you'll be walking to your deaths!"

"Fine, fine. I won't say anything else. Take your time waiting. I'll be on my way."

With that, Chen Yu led Han Ningning and Tong Jian into the Anomaly Zoo.

Han Ningning didn't hesitate for a moment. She firmly believed Chen Yu would help her deal with the Anomalies in the zoo, so she followed him inside.

"Truly ignorant and fearless. You're asking for death!"

Seeing Chen Yu lead Han Ningning and a little girl toward the zoo, Li Minghai spat in disdain and said with a mocking smile, "He says Zhou Ai won't show up even if I wait until the end of time. Is he dead or something?"

As soon as he finished speaking—

[Whirr!]

Li Minghai's phone vibrated.

He picked it up. A line of text, written in flickering scarlet flames, appeared on the screen.

[You're very clever. Your guess was right—he's dead.]

[And he died without the slightest chance to fight back.]

[Because what he encountered was an existence entirely beyond his reach.]

[To die at the hands of such an existence was a rare honor.]

[...]

[You have offended someone you should never have offended. Neither he nor They are beings you have any right to blaspheme. Perhaps you'll die just as horribly as your dear Zhou Ai...]

Li Minghai trembled as he read the lines. Cold sweat drenched him!

Zhou Ai.

Was dead?!

The zoo was no longer lively as it had once been.

It was empty, with not a single person in sight.

An invasion by Anomalies had left the zoo in ruins.

Animal droppings and dismembered bodies and organs littered the ground.

Some of the organs hung from branches, dripping thick blood. Others clung to the walls like twisted, blood-red talismans.

Every cage had been torn open, and the animals' organs had been ripped out.

The countless scenes of ruin told Chen Yu that

this place was full of danger and terror.

They also told him that a brutal massacre had taken place here.

Han Ningning looked at the scene ahead, then told Chen Yu everything she knew.

From Han Ningning, he learned that

three Anomalies had been identified in the zoo so far.

They were the Ghost Ticket Seller, the Ghost Zookeeper, and an unnamed Anomaly.

All three were terrifying.

The Investigation Bureau had sent two Ghost Controllers in succession, and both had died in the Anomaly Zoo. They'd probably already revived as Anomalies inside it.

To keep more people from dying in the zoo, the Investigation Bureau had designated it an extremely dangerous instance and prohibited ordinary Ghost Controllers from entering.

Chen Yu looked around and smiled faintly.

An Anomaly capable of causing this much destruction must be pretty powerful.

It would probably taste delicious, too.

He turned to look at Han Ningning, who was acting as their guide and explaining the Anomaly Zoo incident from beginning to end.

The moment he'd first seen Han Ningning, he'd sensed a faint trace of Anomaly energy on her.

Now, when he examined her with his Time Ghost Eye,

he discovered the Anomaly within her was the [Ghostly Smiling Face], a Level 5 Anomaly.

Its potential rating was five stars as well.

It was a fairly ordinary Anomaly.

No wonder the Investigation Bureau had taken an interest in her and let her join the Orderer Plan.

After she'd finished explaining, Han Ningning concluded, "That's the situation. I've told you everything I know. Things here are very complicated, and danger lurks at every step."

Chen Yu nodded and said indifferently, "It certainly is dangerous."

Han Ningning glanced at Tong Jian. The girl hadn't said a word the whole time, and Han Ningning assumed she was frightened. She asked worriedly, "Will she be in danger if we bring her in?"

Chen Yu smiled. "Her? Don't worry. No one can hurt her. She's very capable."

Han Ningning was a little skeptical, but she nodded anyway.

She couldn't believe that a girl barely in her teens could be all that powerful.

The zoo was just up ahead.

The farther they went, the more obvious the devastation became, and the stronger the stench of decay grew.

The surroundings were rather dark.

As they walked, they suddenly found themselves back where they had started!

It felt just like they had walked in a circle around the zoo.

"What is this situation?"

Han Ningning looked at the path they had walked previously.

Clearly they had been walking straight ahead, so how had they ended back at the starting point?

Could they have been targeted by an anomaly?

"There's a ticket office over there, let's go take a look."

Chen Yu led Han Ningning and went straight to the ticket station.

In front of the ticket station was a pane of glass.

Only the glass was pitch black inside, as if it had been filled with darkness so that nothing could be seen at all.

And upon the glass were two empty holes.

Above one of the holes, the four large characters [Collect tickets to enter the park] were written.

While on the other, the five characters [Pay the park entry fee] were written.

No human figure could be seen inside the pitch-black ticket office.

Beneath the illumination of the desolate moonlight.

After Chen Yu and Han Ningning drew close, they discovered to their shock that a hand was extending out from the window beneath the pay the park entry fee sign, seemingly asking them for something.

This hand was pitch black and withered as a skeleton, darker than the night, looking extremely terrifying and completely unlike a human hand.

[Hum!]

[Do you want to enter the zoo?]

[Then you've got to pay the admission fee.]

[After all, Him of the zoo needs to make a living too.]

[...]

A phone notification appeared, its tone slightly mocking and teasing.

It seemed this admission fee would be something people found difficult to accept.

"This is a Ghost Ticket Seller, what He wants definitely isn't simple!"

Han Ningning said with a trace of panic, "I'll try and see what exactly He wants."

"Don't."

Before Han Ningning could step forward, Chen Yu blocked in front of her, "Let me."

As his voice fell, Chen Yu's mind stirred, and he directly drove the Anomaly Ability of the Headless Ghost Shadow.

Chen Yu's shadow reflected on the ground actually rose up with a strange whoosh.

Without a word, the Ghost Shadow replaced Chen Yu in extending a hand, grasping the pitch-black ghost hand that reached out from the ticket booth.

The two pitch-black hands clasped together, looking extremely bizarre.

When Han Ningning saw this Ghost Shadow, she was instantly frightened into drawing a sharp breath, her eyes filled with astonishment and shock!

Where did this anomaly come from?

Why was it controlled by Chen Yu?

She hadn't seen it before.

Could it be...

Chen Yu had harnessed two anomalies?!

The ghost hand reaching out from the window gently stroked the arm of the Headless Ghost Shadow, just like stroking a cherished treasure of His own.

The price He wanted was a part of the body!