Miao Yue put the Despondent Ghost (0.5-ghost version) into the Gourd.
After confirming that Lin Hanzhi was unharmed, Qi Gu assessed the situation. "Looks like this isn't a new species. These half-ghosts must have been assimilated into this state by something."
That thing... had rather unusual tastes. Some bosses liked their underlings in matching uniforms, and some liked their underlings working plenty of overtime, but the boss of these half-ghosts was clearly a complete freak who liked all its subordinates divided into fifths.
Perhaps this counted as falling in with the wrong ghost.
Miao Yue outlined the situation for Qi Gu. "These ghosts have incomplete souls and no consciousness. Even forcing them back together won't restore them. They won't answer any questions and only attack people... It doesn't look like that Opera Ghost's work, though. After all, the clothes and makeup he put on those tourists show that he has a sense of aesthetics. He probably wouldn't do something like this."
"I checked. The six tourists aside from Fat Cat all had varying amounts of two kinds of ghostly energy on them, which should belong to two different powerful ghosts. The second kind largely counteracted the damage the first did to the tourists' bodies, keeping them from turning into something like those half-ghosts." Qi Gu paused before voicing his guess. "If I'm right, this Opera Ghost should be one of the Chaoyang District Helpful Ghosts. He saw something causing trouble and stepped in to help. Making the tourists perform puppet shows should be his means of dispelling the first ghost's energy. In other words, ghost number one captures them, and the Opera Ghost saves them. The two ghosts have formed a cycle something like a perpetual motion machine."
"Those tourists won't come to any serious harm in the Opera Ghost's