Head Balloons Shroud the Campus!

Head Balloons Shroud the Campus!

So all the Ghost Controllers here knew Wang Tianhao, though they had never seen him in person.

They had not expected to meet the real man today.

Facing everyone's flattery, Wang Tianhao clearly enjoyed it.

However, his expression was somewhat arrogant as he waved a hand and said calmly, "Don't talk about riding my coattails. I simply want to resolve this anomaly incident. I haven't joined you people. If you want to follow me, then come with me."

Everyone nodded. As long as they could follow him and get a share of the spoils, that was enough.

At that moment, Zhou Tai reminded him, "Brother Wang, this anomaly incident is extremely dangerous. I heard more than a dozen Ghost Controllers have already died inside. Are you really confident you can handle it?"

Wang Tianhao said with complete confidence, "Before coming here, I used a friend's connections to figure out the anomalies here. Those anomalies are no match for me, so naturally I'm not afraid. But if you want to follow me inside, stay close. I won't have time to look after you later."

Zhou Tai and the others hurriedly nodded.

In the end, everyone followed Wang Tianhao into the museum.

Upon reaching the main hall, everyone was on edge.

Only Wang Tianhao remained utterly relaxed.

Zhou Tai looked around. There was not a single person in sight, and the silence was eerily unnatural. He could not help growing nervous and asked Wang Tianhao, "Brother Wang, are there any anomalies in this hall?"

"Yes."

Wang Tianhao said, "Once you enter the hall, there's an Anomaly Security Guard here. I've already figured out its Anomaly Ability. If it asks you to sign the register, then the moment you write your name, you'll have to remain in this hall for the rest of your life."

Hearing that, everyone became even more nervous.

An Anomaly Security Guard?

Where was it?

Why was there not even a trace of a Ghost Shadow?

Wang Tianhao also looked around in every direction. He even searched the hall for quite a while, yet failed to find any sign of the Anomaly Security Guard, causing him to frown.

"Where's the Anomaly Security Guard? Where the hell did it die?"

Wang Tianhao asked in surprise.

"It... it died here!"

A Ghost Controller in the distance let out a scream.

Everyone hurriedly ran over to look.

They discovered a security guard's uniform left on the ground.

The uniform was drenched in blood, while bits of leftover flesh littered the surrounding area.

Everyone's expressions changed drastically at the sight!

Wasn't that a security guard's uniform?

"Could another security guard have entered this place and then been dealt with by the Anomaly Security Guard?"

A bespectacled man analyzed.

Wang Tianhao walked forward, picked up the name badge from the Anomaly Security Guard's uniform, and looked at the name. His face darkened like water about to drip. "It wasn't another security guard. This was the Anomaly Security Guard that had already undergone anomaly resurgence. Its original name was Liu Guang."

"What?!"

The moment those words came out, everyone instantly broke out in cold sweat!

That meant the Anomaly Security Guard was dead?

And it had been eaten until only scraps remained!

Who could have been so bloody and violent?

In an instant, everyone began trembling.

Even Wang Tianhao felt a flicker of fear.

The Anomaly Security Guard was said to be extremely powerful. Though it was no match for him, whoever had killed it and eaten it until only scraps remained—

That proved the other party was also incredibly powerful, and a violent maniac besides.

Then Wang Tianhao stood up, tossed the name badge onto the floor, and said to everyone, "Don't be afraid. It was probably the anomalies here killing each other. It's good that the Anomaly Security Guard is dead. That saves me some time dealing with it. Let's keep moving."

With that, Wang Tianhao took the lead.

The others followed close behind, terrified that falling behind the group meant death.

"What's ahead?"

Zhou Tai asked shakily.

Wang Tianhao said, "If I remember correctly, ahead is the antique exhibition hall. There's an extremely powerful Anomaly Administrator inside. That thing is difficult to deal with, so all of you need to be careful."

He kept saying "all of you" and never included himself.

That showed just how confident he was.

A heavy door appeared before them.

Wang Tianhao stepped forward first and pushed the door open.

What they saw immediately left everyone dumbfounded.

All the antiques in the hall had vanished.

On the ground lay a piece of clothing.

The badge on the clothes proved that it belonged to the Anomaly Administrator.

Beside the clothes were more chewed-up chunks of flesh!

The sight was utterly disgusting and nauseating.

"This is the Anomaly Administrator's clothing. How did it die too?"

Zhou Tai said with a stunned expression.

Wang Tianhao's face darkened even further.

"It seems an extremely powerful anomaly has appeared in this museum. It was likely that anomaly that ate the Anomaly Security Guard and the Anomaly Administrator..."

Wang Tianhao said, "I hope we don't run into that anomaly. Since the Anomaly Administrator is dead, let's go straight to the ancient relic exhibition hall. That's the museum's final stop."

After saying that, Wang Tianhao continued, "If you're afraid, you can wait outside first. What lies within isn't something you can handle."

With that, Wang Tianhao walked ahead.

Zhou Tai and the others knew the ancient relics were their ultimate target, so they naturally did not stop and hurried after him.

When they pushed open the doors to the ancient relic exhibition hall—

The sight before them shocked everyone so badly their jaws nearly hit the floor.

A wave of fear instantly rose from within and spread into the depths of everyone's minds, assaulting their nerves!

The ancient relic hall—

Was filled with heads split cleanly in two.

It could only be described as heads littering the ground!

White clothing also lay on the floor.

As one of the rising stars among the younger generation of Ghost Controllers, and a Ghost Controller from Linjiang City, Wang Tianhao naturally knew Lin Yu.

This piece of clothing belonged to Lin Yu.

His expression was incomparably ugly as he said in a somewhat strange tone, "It seems Lin Yu has met with disaster. Someone has already beaten us here."

Beaten them here first?!

Everyone was shocked. Who was it? Who could kill Lin Yu, take out the Anomaly Security Guard and the Anomaly Administrator, and split all those heads apart?

"Could it be him?!"

At that moment, Zhou Tai suddenly shook like a sieve. His eyes were filled with terror as he spoke in a trembling voice.

On Chen Yu's side—

After dealing with the Anomaly Head Boss and Lin Yu, then restarting the Time Ghost Eye, he left immediately.

In order to leave the museum quickly—

He took the back exit through the emergency passage, so he did not run into Zhou Tai and the others.

Not long after entering the emergency passage—

An eerie sound of crying suddenly rang out.

[Wuwuwu...]

The sound was like a black cat yowling in heat at night, or two cats fighting each other, piercing Chen Yu's eardrums.

Then a small shadow appeared within the emergency passage, blocking Chen Yu's path.

The moment this shadow appeared, it carried an extremely powerful anomalous aura.

"Ghost Infant?"

Chen Yu hurriedly spread out his Ghost Domain to look.

The thing crawling ahead really was a Ghost Infant.

However, a faint black karmic thread extended from its navel.

That proved this, too, was a Ghost Infant clone.

"Even if it's a clone, I'll eat it. No reason to waste the energy."

Chen Yu walked forward with a smile. Just as he was about to awaken the Headless Ghost Shadow and deal with the Ghost Infant—

The Ghost Infant suddenly began crying and crawled toward Chen Yu at incredible speed.

Chen Yu could see that the Ghost Infant seemed to have something in its mouth.

Chen Yu stopped, wanting to see what this little thing was trying to do.

After crawling to Chen Yu's side, the Ghost Infant spat out the item in its mouth.

Chen Yu saw that it was something made of paper.

Its color resembled a complex, sticky mixture of the brain matter of countless deep-sea creatures. Just one glance made him nauseous. It contained not only black, but also a bloodlike crimson.

There were also some indecipherable markings on it, exuding an unsettling and vile aura. The sloppy strokes sprawled wildly in bizarre shapes.

These words should not have existed here. They belonged beneath the pen of Gothic Edgar Allan Poe.

Chen Yu picked up the paper item. The rough texture of the paper stabbed at his fingers, while its sinister implications compelled him to unfold it.

Could this paper have been sent by a demon?

[Hehehe...]

[Wuwuwu...]

The Ghost Infant alternated between laughing and crying, looking exceptionally strange.

Chen Yu did not deal with it yet, because his attention was entirely fixed on the paper.

After unfolding the folded sheet, Chen Yu discovered words he could understand.

It was as though they had been written specifically for Chen Yu.

[Birthday Banquet]

[Location: Linjiang No. 1 Middle School.]

"A birthday banquet? At school?"

Chen Yu was completely baffled.

Why had this Ghost Infant suddenly delivered such an invitation to him?

Chen Yu continued reading.

He found a signature at the bottom.

The name "Li Kun" was written there.

Wasn't Li Kun his classmate?

That show-off?

Why was his birthday banquet not only being held at school, but delivered by a Ghost Infant?

"Why did you give me this?"

Chen Yu looked at the Ghost Infant and asked.

[Hehehe, hehehe, die...]

The Ghost Infant said in an eerie, twisted tone. It seemed not to possess perfect language skills yet.

Therefore, its words sounded like incoherent mumbling in a dream.

"Fine. I know I won't get anything out of asking you."

Chen Yu directly awakened the Headless Ghost Shadow and effortlessly killed the Ghost Infant clone.

After devouring the Ghost Infant clone, it eventually transformed into a streak of energy that rushed into one of the anomalies within Chen Yu's body.

After settling everything, Chen Yu put away the invitation and pondered as he walked.

Why could Li Kun command a Ghost Infant to deliver an invitation to him?

When Chen Yu had encountered Li Kun before, he had noticed a faint anomalous aura around him.

Chen Yu had not paid it much attention at the time, assuming Li Kun had been targeted by an anomaly.

But thinking about it now, it seemed far from simple.

Someone capable of having a Ghost Infant clone deliver invitations—

Was definitely no ordinary person.

Could it be...

Li Kun was the Ghost Infant's true body?!

At that moment, the phone in Chen Yu's pocket began buzzing.

Chen Yu took out his phone and saw countless notifications popping up in the class group chat, with many people discussing something inside.

[Hey, classmates, did you receive the message? Li Kun is holding a birthday banquet, and the location is Linjiang No. 1 Middle School.]

[I got it too. A birthday banquet at school is really something else. Since we've all been invited, let's go.]

[@Li Kun, bro, are you in the group? Say something. Why are you holding your birthday banquet at school?]

Below that were messages from most of the classmates. Some said they would go, while others said they had something to do and would not attend.

Seeing the chat records from his classmates, Chen Yu frowned.

He could gather one piece of information from those messages: all of his classmates might have received invitations.

However, they had all received their invitations through text messages.

Only Chen Yu possessed a genuine invitation card.

Why had he received an invitation card separately?

Could it be that Li Kun had already set his sights on me?

Since he had already received the invitation, Chen Yu did not waste any words. After leaving through the emergency exit, he headed straight for Linjiang No. 1 Middle School with Tong Jian.

[Big brother, what are we going to do?]

[Big brother, you seem to be busy every day.]

Ghost Doll asked curiously.

Chen Yu glanced at Ghost Doll and the expressionless Tong Jian, then explained, "This time, we might be able to find clues about the destruction of Honghong Orphanage."

They took a taxi all the way there.

Chen Yu had not returned to school for over half a month.

Ever since the anomalies had run rampant, the authorities had sealed off all news about them.

So ordinary people had no idea what was happening, only hearing scattered rumors and glimpses of the truth.

Classes had already been suspended for nearly a week.

However, the authorities had issued an order that all students were forbidden from going home and had to wait for the school lottery results in Riverside District.

Thus, all the students were temporarily staying in the dormitories.

Those who had left the school before the official announcement were not allowed to enter again.

By the time Chen Yu arrived at the school,

it had completely changed.

Hydrogen balloons were slowly rising one after another, each tethered by a string tied to a small stone on the ground.

What was horrifying was that

these hydrogen balloons were neither Pleasant Goat nor Boonie Bears.

Instead, they were severed heads bleeding from all seven orifices.

The faces of those heads still wore expressions of utter terror. Clearly, they had encountered something horrifying before they died.

Looking closer,

the strings attached to the floating heads in the sky

were not ordinary strings at all.

They were intestines!

The intestines had merely been torn into thin, string-like strips!

And what was tied to the ground was not stone either, but chunks of corpses.

The sky above the entire school was filled with heads. Some of them were even students Chen Yu had seen before.

One could only imagine how many people had died here.

Strange anomalous auras emanated from the heads.

"Is this an anomaly too?"

Chen Yu could not help but freeze slightly.

[Congratulations, you guessed correctly. This is an Anomaly Ability belonging to an anomaly. If you are unlucky enough to have one of those intestinal ropes wrap around your neck,]

[you will be sent into the sky as well.]

A notification appeared on his phone, warning Chen Yu of the danger.

Chen Yu entered through the school gates without touching those intestinal ropes. It was best to avoid trouble when possible.

"Help..."

"Can someone save us..."

Cries for help drifted from No. 1 Teaching Building, weak and feeble.

Hearing them, Chen Yu headed toward No. 1 Teaching Building.

On the first floor of No. 1 Teaching Building, quite a few students were huddled inside the classrooms, trembling all over with despair written across their faces.

Some of the girls were even weeping bitterly.

"Why are you all gathered here?"

Chen Yu entered from outside the classroom door and froze when he saw everyone.

When all the students in the classroom suddenly saw an outsider, their bodies jolted violently. They had clearly been terrified.

But after realizing Chen Yu was human, they finally let out a breath of relief and calmed down.

"Y-you're a student from this school?"

"How did you get in?"