Nightfall Takes Action Again? Then There's Nothing to Worry About

Nightfall Takes Action Again? Then There's Nothing to Worry About

However, the Ghost Doll still effortlessly sent

Chen Yu flying back along with it.

But things were different on Li Hao's side. The Ghost Doll did not pay him any attention at all.

Weird Head Pat carried an oppressive aura of death as it reached for Li Hao's head.

Caught off guard, Li Hao was actually touched on the head by the suddenly appearing ghostly hand.

"Urgh..."

In an instant, Li Hao's expression stiffened, his eyes turned vacant, and saliva began to drip from the corner of his mouth.

Within seconds, thick blood began pouring from Li Hao's eyes, nose, and mouth.

Li Hao continued to groan. Seeing that his life was in danger, the [Ghost Scissors] under his control began taking over his body and awakening within him.

"Brother Chen Yu, hurry! Save him!"

Han Ningning's Ghostly Smiling Face was completely useless against Weird Head Pat. Chen Yu had been the one to deal with it.

After Chen Yu had saved her, she hurriedly begged for help when she saw Li Hao in that state.

"I told you to wait for the people from your Investigation Bureau to come in together, but you wouldn't listen. Now that something's happened, you want me to clean up your mess."

Chen Yu smiled helplessly and gave Li Hao a scolding.

If Li Hao had still been conscious, he probably would have cursed his mother out in his heart.

He had come to help Chen Yu, only to end up being saved by Chen Yu instead.

No one had expected the Anomalies here to be so powerful. Weird Scent had only just been driven away when Weird Head Pat showed up. Both were level 13 beings. Who could withstand that?

Chen Yu unfolded the Slaughter Ghost Domain and swept his gaze across the mountaintop.

He immediately found where Yang Wei was.

After withdrawing the Ghost Domain, he smiled faintly. "You've controlled two Anomalies. Not bad. If you want to deal with Weird Head Pat and Weird Scent, you need to solve the problem at its source."

"Don't think you're the only one with many Anomalies. I have plenty too."

With a thought from Chen Yu, several Anomalies on his body awakened simultaneously.

Streams of mist emerged from Chen Yu's body, spreading and enveloping the surroundings.

Like a powerful smoke bomb, they immediately shrouded the entire mountaintop.

This was the Anomaly Ability of the Ghost Fog Chen Yu had just controlled.

Next, Chen Yu lightly waved an arm like a commanding general.

The Head Balloons that had previously absorbed the Ghost Fog suddenly appeared, drifting through the air.

At Chen Yu's next command, the Head Balloons charged straight into the Ghost Fog!

Ghost Shadow began invading Chen Yu's shadow, as well as the shadows of Han Ningning and Li Hao.

Even the shadows of the wild animals in the mountains were infected and taken over. In the end, all of them gathered at the mountaintop, ten in total.

Ten Ghost Shadows, countless Head Balloons, and Ghost Fog.

Together, they formed a formidable offensive.

When Yang Wei saw Chen Yu so easily break through his Weird Head Pat and even release Ghost Fog, he immediately sensed that something was wrong.

He turned to run, but the Ghost Fog had already wrapped around him. Everything before his eyes was a sheet of white, and he could not see his hand in front of his face.

Countless Head Balloons rammed into Yang Wei. Some bit into his body, while others tore at his clothes.

Meanwhile, the Ghost Shadows darted through the darkness, slapping Yang Wei's cheeks left and right.

"Ahhh!"

"Urgh!"

Miserable screams rang out from within the Ghost Fog, proving that the person inside was being brutally tortured.

The sound made even Han Ningning and Li Hao frown, chills running down their backs.

The screams were loud at first.

But they gradually grew weaker, until they finally became hoarse.

About five minutes later, Chen Yu lightly clapped his hands.

"That's enough. Come back."

At Chen Yu's command, the Ghost Fog that had filled the area instantly dispersed, and the Head Balloons suddenly vanished as well.

The controlled shadows returned to their original owners.

Yang Wei stood in the center of the mountaintop, covered in blood. His face was so swollen that even his mother would not recognize him.

His entire body was covered in bite marks. Blood kept pouring from the places where flesh had been torn away, and every bone in his body had been broken by the Ghost Shadows. If he had not possessed powerful Anomalies, he probably would not even have been able to stand.

"Hello, we meet again. Those guys from before were your subordinates, right? They're all waiting in hell for you to lead them."

Chen Yu said with a smile.

Using all his strength, Yang Wei shot Chen Yu a vicious glare, his eyes filled with unwillingness and rage.

Yet a strange curve suddenly formed at the corner of his mouth. That smile seemed to be mocking Chen Yu.

"Kid, don't think you've won. The story has only just begun. Hahaha!"

Yang Wei's body lost all strength, and he collapsed to the ground.

But at the brink of death, he suddenly exhaled!

That breath was extremely strange as it blew toward a corner of the mountaintop.

There were no streetlights on the mountaintop. The reason everyone could see was because Li Kun and Yang Wei had lit quite a few candles.

Though the light was dim, they could still vaguely make out people's outlines and appearances.

When Yang Wei died, that breath happened to blow out a burning candle in the southeastern corner of the mountaintop.

The candle flickered once before instantly going out.

At the same time, a wisp of green smoke rose up.

People light candles.

The breath a person exhales in the second before or after death is called death breath.

It is also the final breath a person is meant to swallow after dying.

Using death breath to blow out a candle was an enormous taboo!

"Ghost Blows Out the Lamp... Damn... This is bad..."

When Li Hao saw Yang Wei fall, he was not happy at all. Instead, his face was filled with terror.

Chen Yu and Han Ningning both looked at Li Hao in confusion.

Yang Wei had been defeated, so why was that bad?

"It's like this..."

Li Hao began explaining what had happened.

It turned out that the candle had been suppressing an Anomaly.

This Anomaly had been stolen from a museum by them earlier. It was called [Grave Robber Ghost].

There had always been a saying among tomb raiders: [People light candles, ghosts blow them out]. It meant that when entering a tomb, grave robbers would light a candle in the southeastern corner of the burial chamber. If the candle went out, it meant the situation was extremely dangerous!

And now...

Once the candle went out, [Grave Robber Ghost] could awaken!

The reason Yang Wei had been willing to sacrifice his life to awaken Grave Robber Ghost was very simple.

"What is the purpose of [Grave Robber Ghost] appearing? Is it, like the other Anomalies, an enemy of humanity?"

Han Ningning asked in confusion.

They had made such a huge spectacle, and even sacrificed the captain of an [Apocalypse] squad. Could it really be that simple?

Li Hao's face was so dark it seemed ready to drip water as he said grimly, "The Rift... [Grave Robber Ghost] is connected to the Rift..."

The Rift?

This time, not only Han Ningning, but even Chen Yu frowned.

The Rift was the cause of the Anomalies' descent.

The Ghost Infant had emerged from it.

Now, the Rift was expanding at an extremely slow pace. According to analysis by Ghost Controller experts, if it continued expanding at its current speed, it would take another three years before the Rift fully opened.

The arrival of the Investigation Bureau's [Cleansers] had further slowed the Rift's expansion. Now, it would take at least five to six years for the Rift to fully open.

That was under the premise that the [Cleansers] could hold on and there was no outside interference. Only then could it be maintained for five or six years.

The Rift was like a Japanese grenade with its pin already pulled. It only needed one knock to explode.

[Hahaha, I've finally awakened. Finally awakened...]

[I have slept in this place for so many years. At last, someone was willing to blow out that hateful lamp.]

[Little mouse who awakened me, I will grant your dying request...]

A completely black shadow held an ancient, rust-covered Luoyang shovel and drove it into the ground.

Crack!

A sound rang out.

A large chunk of earth was dug open by [Grave Robber Ghost].

After the earth was overturned, everyone could see clearly.

Beneath the soil was not another layer of earth.

Instead, it was something like a pitch-black, hazy, twisting void.

"Crack!"

Another shovel strike landed.

More earth was overturned.

The black void inside became even more obvious.

Extremely strange auras spread from the place [Grave Robber Ghost] had excavated, enveloping the entire back mountain of the school.

The moment It began acting.

It was now around nine-thirty at night.

The moon hung high in the night sky.

Yet at that moment, it suddenly went dark.

Boundless darkness descended over all of Linjiang City. Even the moon's meager afterglow vanished, and the strange shadows beneath the city all disappeared with it.

"What happened? Where did the moon go?"

"Wasn't the August moon supposed to be full? Why did it suddenly disappear?"

Some people enjoying the moon on Linjiang City's mountains spoke in astonishment.

Inside the Linjiang City Investigation Bureau.

"What is going on? Who can tell me why the city has suddenly been shrouded in such a strange aura? What Anomaly released this?!"

Zhang Ping received news of the changes in Linjiang City at once and hurriedly gathered all the Investigation Bureau's higher-ups for a meeting.

Luo Mu said grimly, "Could a high-dimensional Anomaly have appeared? Did it suddenly attack the city?"

But Wang Zhengdao, captain of the Orderkeepers, crossed his hands over his chest and said with an anxious expression, "Hard to say. An Anomaly capable of attacking an entire city directly probably does not exist. It should be some other rea—"

Before he could finish, Director Zhang Ping's phone rang.

"It's a call from Li Hao of the [Cleansers]. I sent him to deal with the Anomalies at Linjiang No. 1 Middle School earlier. Why is he calling at a time like this?"

The Director got up to answer the call. About half a minute later, he returned, his expression as ugly as if he had eaten several pounds of cheese that had expired a hundred years ago.

The other higher-ups in the bureau all sat upright, watching Zhang Ping.

Although Zhang Ping was not a Ghost Controller, he held great authority. Since being appointed Director of the Investigation Bureau, his leadership abilities had earned everyone's admiration, so many beneath him respected him.

Yet since becoming Director, Zhang Ping had never shown such a grave expression.

Even two years ago, when thirteen elite Ghost Controllers from the Investigation Bureau had been wiped out in a battle against Anomalies, he had been deeply heartbroken but had not changed expression.

But this time, his face looked so terrible.

It was clear just how serious this matter was.

"It's over... It's over..."

After returning, Zhang Ping paced back and forth like an ant on a hot pan.

Luo Mu anxiously asked, "What is it, Director? Did something happen?"

"It's over, it's over..."

Zhang Ping did not answer Luo Mu. His face was filled with despair as he kept muttering.

"What exactly happened, Director? Did something go wrong at Linjiang No. 1 Middle School? Did Li Hao of the Cleansers die there? Did Han Ningning die there too? Did her friend die there with them?"

Wang Zhengdao hurriedly asked as well.

"Han Ningning... friend..."

As Zhang Ping spoke, his expression suddenly changed. He shouted excitedly, "That's right! Han Ningning's friend might have a way. He's an expert!"

But after shouting, he became dejected again. "But there's no way this time... Even if he acts, he can't save Linjiang City..."

"Director, what exactly happened?"

Only then did Director Zhang Ping calm down. Looking at the higher-ups of the Investigation Bureau, he began to explain, "Everyone, I just received a call from Li Hao of the Cleansers. He said that the Anomalies at Linjiang No. 1 Middle School have been resolved, and Yang Wei from [Apocalypse] has been defeated."

The moment those words came out, everyone in the Investigation Bureau froze briefly before becoming excited.

"Yang Wei is dead? Then why aren't you happy, Director?"

"Exactly. That guy committed all kinds of evil. He should have died long ago."

"The big brother of the [Cleansers] really is impressive. The moment he acts, it's extraordinary. He dealt with Yang Wei, who possessed [Weird Head Pat] and [Weird Scent], so quickly."

"Something's not right. Yang Wei's two Anomalies were both level 13, while Li Hao only has one level 13 Anomaly."

"No matter what, he's dead. Director, this is great news. Shouldn't you be happy?"

Ever since Yang Wei had arrived in Linjiang City.

There had often been cases of children being brutally murdered in Linjiang City. In less than half a week, more than ten children had died. Their deaths had all been extremely gruesome, and their hearts had been removed afterward.

In the end, they finally identified the culprit: Yang Wei.

They immediately issued an arrest warrant and compulsory summons for Yang Wei, but Yang Wei did not listen. Instead, he only became more ruthless.

But unexpectedly, Li Hao had helped deal with Yang Wei this time.

"It wasn't Li Hao who resolved it. [Nightfall] helped resolve it—Han Ningning's friend..."

The Director's voice was a little shaky.

"It was him again. I knew it. Li Hao may be powerful, but he wasn't powerful enough to defeat Yang Wei."

"Since [Nightfall] defeated him, that's hardly surprising."

"Impressive indeed."

Some of the higher-ups immediately understood.

But Zhang Ping continued, "After Yang Wei died, he used every last bit of strength to blow out a breath, extinguishing an oil lamp atop the mountain behind Linjiang No. 1 Middle School... This was Ghost Blows Out the Lamp, the only way to awaken the Grave Robber Ghost... And now that the Grave Robber Ghost has awakened, it is digging... Its goal is to completely open the Rift!"