Dachang City, the Paranormal Forum's headquarters.
Inside the absolute safe room built from gold on the fourth floor.
The heavy Golden Door, tightly sealed shut, suddenly gave a dull metallic scrape.
The door was pushed open from within.
Zhang Lei emerged, his belly swollen like a pregnant woman's.
He walked stiffly out of the dim room.
There was not a trace of living emotion on his face.
No fear, no confusion, only an unsettling, deathly stillness.
He did not take out his Communicator to contact anyone, nor did he check the other security facilities on the floor.
An inexplicably cold paranormal aura spread along his footprints through the golden corridor.
Zhang Lei took the stairs, descending step by step to the Welfare Zone on the first floor.
"Beep. Authorization confirmed."
The synthesized electronic voice rang through the empty corridor.
A Golden Door to an isolated room in the Welfare Zone slowly opened.
Zhang Lei walked inside and stopped before the Ghost Cabinet.
His unfocused, dead-fish eyes stared silently at the Supernatural Item.
The next second, Zhang Lei's belly suddenly split open. A huge mouth appeared, and the Gluttonous Ghost's paranormal power erupted!
No chewing, no pause.
That horrifying mouth was like a bottomless black hole.
In a single bite, it swallowed the entire Ghost Cabinet into his belly, along with the surrounding air!
The instant he swallowed it, a torrent of fresh blood poured endlessly from the mouth.
Zhang Lei stood motionless, as if frozen in place, his entire body drenched in blood.
Gradually, the blood enveloped him.
Dozens of minutes passed before the stillness broke, and all the blood flowed back into the huge mouth on his belly.
The corners of his lips rose slightly into an eerie smile.
Then he turned and walked in another direction.
Toward another