Hong Kong Ghost World

"Mommy, are we moving to a new home?"

"Yeah."

"Yay! Hahaha! We won't get pinned down by ghosts at night anymore. That's so great!"

His senses spread outward.

Several children seemed to be shouting excitedly outside the building. Nearby, someone urged them along. "Hurry up, get the kids out of here. I don't want to spend another second in this dump. The security guards' lives matter too."

Inside the elevator, Fang Xiu pondered.

Then another figure approached the building against the flow of people. He caught their whispers once more.

"Th-this... How are there still people brave enough to move in? Didn't the landlady tell them this building was haunted?"

"She's greedy for money. It's not like you didn't already know that."

"No wonder she owns several buildings. What a blackhearted woman. What about you security guards? When are you leaving?"

"Before midnight. I heard the old lady invited a high monk into the building to catch the ghosts."

Boom! The moment the words left their mouth, thunder cracked across the clear sky.

In Eastern mysticism, it was an ill omen.

These scenes stirred part of Fang Xiu and Tang Tian's memories. For Fang Xiu in particular, he could now clearly sense the area with the strongest negative energy: the basement.

"Ferocious Ghost Mansion."

"Ferocious Ghost Mansion!"

They spoke in unison.

—It told the story of Inspector Ah Shin, who investigated a counterfeit money printing plate case while helping a mage exterminate evil spirits, leading to a series of comical encounters.

Horror? The memories had grown hazy.

But Fang Xiu vividly remembered a few of the funny scenes—

In the film, the male cop played by Lau Nam Kwong ended up in an elevator with a female ghost by sheer chance. After she threatened him, he had to force down his fear and put her deathly pale foot in his mouth, smacking and licking it.

After him, Da Sha encountered the same female ghost in the elevator, but instead of backing down, he pressed forward, acting even more boldly than Ning Caichen.

Aside from that, there were two scenes that had inspired A Chinese Odyssey: —Lau Nam Kwong looked at the female ghost and said, "It's got six heads, seven arms, eight legs, and a head as big as a dinosaur's! It weighs over four hundred pounds.

"If there's nothing else, I'd like to go home now~ My head hurts a bit. My head hurts."

—The female ghost controlled the elevator, taking it up and down, then asked Lau Nam Kwong if he was having fun.

"The Hong Kong Ghost World setting contains a large number of supernatural incidents. Clearly, the Main God chose one of them as our arrival point."

After briefly gathering his thoughts, Tang Tian, clad in a red spider suit and holding the summoning device for an electromagnetic cannon, spoke up and began explaining the plot to the other teammates.

Yi Ban Shi (played by Lau Nam Kwong) returned from his honeymoon in Thailand with his newlywed wife (played by Sandra Ng). Just then, Inspector Ah Shin (played by Hu Feng), investigating a counterfeit money case, assigned Yi's wife and two female cops (played by Ann Bridgewater and Shum Wai) and his niece Siu Min (played by Maggie Cheung) to form an undercover team. They arranged to meet the Hong Kong suspect, Da Sha (played by Shing Fui-On), at Maplewood Mansion.

That night, Maplewood Mansion was unusually lively.

A monk performed a ritual to capture the ghosts, subduing and sealing away one after another of the spirits haunting the building. But a female ghost unexpectedly escaped halfway through! Meanwhile, Yi Ban Shi, who had mistaken his wife and Ah Shin for lovers, also rushed furiously to Maplewood Mansion to catch them in the act.

The female ghost roamed the building, searching for a chance to release the other ghosts. Yi Ban Shi and the others were scared out of their wits, and Da Sha, who had come to negotiate, was dragged into it and haunted by the evil spirits too.

Just then, the high monk returned to Maplewood to deal with the aftermath. A ridiculous showdown between humans and ghosts unfolded in the building late that night...

"There are quite a few ghosts in this building. A few are scattered across the floors, while the rest are hiding in the basement at the very bottom."

Fang Xiu withdrew his ocular power and returned his eyes to the Three-Tomoe state. "If you're confident, you can stay and earn side-mission rewards, using real combat to steel your nerves."

"Risk brings rewards."

"Keep running away and following the newcomers out, relying on luck and the main mission's guaranteed reward, and you'll die sooner or later!" He made no attempt to soften his final words.

Tang Tian had planned to lie low and observe the situation first, but after hearing the half-warning, half-rebuke, he steeled himself and volunteered. "The plot has only just begun, and I've seen the movie. I can lead the team in wiping out the ghosts in the building."

"Boss, go track down the Ghost King."

A basic Mutant Spider Lineage, plenty of spiritual bullets, a one-use Malice Protection Talisman, and two D-rank items prepared for the Ghost King.

They were far better prepared than they had been in the Xenomorph setting!

Besides, his teammates were every bit as capable as he was.

Support: Odubiao, with a Mutant Angel Bloodline.

Frontline tank: Emir, with a Mutant Werewolf Lineage. He held a Plasma Pistol and could double as a ranged attacker.

Frontline fighter: Haida, with the Warhammer Inquisitor Module.

With a high-damage, high-regeneration, high-resistance captain choosing to stay a little longer, and a Tongtian on their side, Tang Tian couldn't imagine how they could lose.

Besides... If the captain went all out, could he blow up a hundred-meter-tall building?

Unfortunately, Fang Xiu wasn't a babysitter, and he never played favorites. Just as in the Alien vs. Predator setting, he chose to launch a decapitation strike first. He wouldn't worry about anything else until he had eliminated the biggest wildcard and taken out the final boss.

He had no idea his underling Tang Tian was wondering whether his own combat strength could bring down a building.

"I hope to see you all when we return."

Leaving them with those words,

Fang Xiu vanished on the spot.

No one present knew how he had left. Perhaps it was the Body Flicker Technique, or maybe some advanced Earth Release technique.

A corner of Hong Kong Island.

The Lord's House, a church.

For historical reasons, many island residents had changed their allegiance and chosen to believe in Christ. Whenever they had free time, they would bring their families here to pray and collect free holy water—

In the Hong Kong Ghost World, hauntings were common and often left people terrified.

And where believers gathered, faith naturally flourished.

Even if the priest was just an ordinary man, he could still drive out demons and catch ghosts. He could draw a bucket of well water, then bless it with prayers, offerings, and other rites until it gained a faint power to repel demons.

That was why the moment the Fusang Ghost King leaped out of An Eternal Combat, before he could do anything, the cross displayed in the middle of the church immediately suppressed him.

"Father, those two fellows came out of nowhere. They suddenly dropped from the sky, and their clothes are so strange. Could they be... something unclean?"

At that moment, a member of the clergy looked at the white-robed priest before him and said helplessly, "It's the middle of the night, and you actually went out of your way to give them food. We should call the police right away."

"Our omnipotent Lord can even forgive the devil, let alone two human beings." The priest smiled kindly, holding two bowls of chicken leg rice. "I tested them with my cross pendant. It didn't react, so don't worry."

With that, the priest cheerfully set the tasty food outside the door, then leisurely picked up a little fan and began to fan himself, like an angler chumming the water.

Inside the room,

Xiaogui, the Silver-Armored Divine General, was leafing through a book in a foreign language. The dense rows of ABCs made the ancient man's head spin, and he wanted nothing more than to tear the book to pieces.

Of course, the main reason was that he was hungry.

After all, he wasn't a divine general in the truest sense and couldn't go without food and drink. But the Golden-Armored Divine General beside him had been tricked into coming by their master, Hermit Caolu. He couldn't let that slip.

Otherwise... What was he supposed to use to fight the Ghost King?