The Desperate Outcome

"It worked?"

Wang Xiaoming felt a blur before his eyes and entered a red world.

It was still a hospital, still a ward, but the gloom had vanished, and the terrifying figures around had disappeared without a trace.

He wasn't surprised; his research on vengeful spirits was deeper than anyone else's, and he knew that Yang Jian had forcibly brought him into the Ghost Domain.

"I don't know if it can be considered a success. I can only say that I've temporarily dealt with a rather powerful ghost, but I'm certain that this is definitely not the source ghost. Those things outside are still there."

Yang Jian's expression was grave. "Although we won this time, we also lost."

He said that winning was only a victory this time, but losing meant losing the whole game.

Without being able to resolve the source of the evil spirit, the fall of Dachang City is only a matter of time. We have suffered heavy losses, and we no longer have the resources to continue contacting the evil spirit. If we continue to drag this out, even if we manage to control two ghosts, we will still face the danger of the evil spirit's resurgence.

"What a pity."

Wang Xiaoming's expression remained calm. "However, this is within the calculations. After all, in my opinion, the success rate is less than 30%. What kind of ghost is this?"

"It's Ye Feng, who's been missing," Zhang Han said.

"Really? The ghost on him is there too?" Wang Xiaoming asked.

Yang Jian, "That's right, it's exactly the same as Ye Feng, only much more difficult to deal with. This thing can control the ghosts inside Ye Feng's body without any restraint."

"It seems our previous deduction was correct; a fourth-stage Ghost Infant does exist," Wang Xiaoming said.

"A fourth-stage Ghost Infant? Does that mean those Ghost Tamer who died before are going to reappear in front of us in some way we don't know? A combination of Ghost Tamer and Ghost Infant?" Yang Jian's expression changed drastically.

Wang Xiaoming said, "That's how it is based on the current situation."

"How can we avoid being targeted by the fourth-stage Ghost Infant? We can't think of ways to deal with it now; we must protect ourselves," Yang Jian. "It's about understanding the pattern of how the fourth-stage Ghost Infant kills people."

"My personal guess is breathing," Wang Xiaoming said.

Breathe?

Yang Jian said, "Are you kidding me? Can't you even breathe?"

"Normal breathing is fine, but breathing in this kind of smog makes it impossible."

Wang Xiaoming raised his hand and looked at the bruised back of his hand, saying, "Breathing in this gloom these past few days has gradually turned my skin a bluish-black, just like the gloom itself. Combined with my previous investigation of your classmate Wang Shanshan, this is a curse, something like a brand."

"After experiencing the Ghost Knocking incident, you should understand what happened; it's roughly the same thing."

"Professor, but the whole city is breathing in this gloom, what can we do?" Zhang Han asked in shock.

Wang Xiaoming said, "That means the fourth-stage Ghost Infant will go and kill everyone in the city."

"This is a cage. The vengeful spirits are the beasts, and we are merely the prey. No one is exempt. However, there should be very few fourth-stage Ghost Infant, and their attacks on others are highly random, given the large population of a city."

"Indiscriminate killing?" Yang Jian's face was grim.

Wang Xiaoming added, "Comparing the number of third-stage Ghost Infant with the number of fourth-stage Ghost Infant, I suspect that ordinary feeding is not enough for them to grow into fourth-stage Ghost Infant. In my opinion, those third-stage ghosts have already stopped growing. It seems that there is indeed a limit to the number of ghosts that can be generated."

"Through the first wave of attacks, these third-stage Ghost Infant could be eliminated with some cost."

"So it seems that ghosts below level three no longer pose a threat. In addition, their attacks are one-time attacks. As long as you block the first attack and don't trigger the conditions for them to attack people again, you are safe for the time being."

"Well, to put it simply, if you encounter a ghost, don't run and scream at the same time, or you'll definitely die."

Zhang Han asked, "Wait, Professor, if the fourth-stage Ghost Infant don't grow through ordinary means, then how do they grow?"

"Eat ghosts."

Wang Xiaoming calmly said, "The ghosts that are eaten by the Ghost Infant will be controlled by the Ghost Infant, and at the same time, the Ghost Infant will grow. They are Ghost Tamer just like you, only their nature is different. As for why they turned into Ye Feng's appearance, that is not important. For ghosts, identity is never the key."

"So, we've lost six Ghost Tamer so far, which means there will be six fourth-stage Ghost Infant appearing?" Zhang Han asked.

"Who knows? Maybe there will be more. Other ghosts recorded in the paranormal files of Dachang City may also have been eaten by the Ghost Infant. It's an indiscriminate sweep. But based on my years of research, I speculate that this gluttonous feast was ultimately prepared for only one ghost."

"The Ghost Infant that crawled out of Zhou Zheng's belly, the ghost I consider the source, is codenamed the Starving Ghost. No, if that ghost succeeds, perhaps calling it the Starving Ghost is no longer appropriate; it might need a different codename."

"Depend on."

Yang Jian couldn't help but swear.

Zhang Han, who occasionally swore, trembled all over.

This isn't a large-scale paranormal event; it's a complete Ghost Game.

But just as the three were talking, Yang Jian's expression suddenly changed, and he noticed something and looked sharply in one direction.

His vision through his Ghost Eye is different from that of ordinary people. They cannot see through the Ghost Domain, but Yang Jian can, and the gloom cannot block his vision.

"What did you see?" Wang Xiaoming asked.

Yang Jian's face showed horror. He saw a thick, dark blue haze surging in from the direction of the operating room in front of the hospital, like a wave, swallowing everything in its path. He saw the walls disappear in the haze, and he saw the ground disappear in the haze.

And something seemed to be lurking deep within that gloom.

At this moment, Wang Xiaoming and Zhang Han also noticed that Yang Jian's Ghost Domain was rapidly shrinking.

It seemed to have been crushed back by something far more terrifying, unable to expand further.

"Quick, get out of here! Something's coming!"

Zhang Han hurriedly grabbed the cart. "Use your Ghost Domain to send us away."

"Walk."

Without hesitation, Yang Jian transformed his Ghost Domain into a red light and flew out the window into the distance, while everyone else vanished from their spot in an instant.

In the blink of an eye, the three of them arrived on the rooftop of a building several hundred meters away across the street.

"Wait, where's the box? Where's that huge box that was next to me just now?" Zhang Han had just regained his footing when he suddenly realized that something important was missing.

"You forgot something?" Wang Xiaoming looked at Yang Jian.

Yang Jian's face was grim. He said, "The Ghost Domain transfer failed. At that moment, the box seemed to be grabbed by something."

I looked towards a floor of the hospital a few hundred meters away.

The place where they had been was now dark and gloomy. In the pitch-black ward, a figure stood vaguely. Below the window, a specially made box hung outside, held tightly by a bluish-black hand.

The hand was two or three meters long, extending out from inside the house; it was bizarre and terrifying.

"They've been kidnapped?" Wang Xiaoming said calmly, "Looks like all our efforts have been in vain."

"If I hadn't lingered there even for a moment, this wouldn't have happened," Zhang Han lamented.

Wang Xiaoming said, "Maybe the ghost will come knocking on our door if we take that box. We might end up being buried with it. But what's done is done, so there's no point in talking about 'what ifs.' Besides, this operation was a failure to begin with. Even if we took the box, it wouldn't affect the overall situation."

"Maybe we still have a chance to turn things around with that burial shroud Ye Feng was wearing," Zhang Han said, still somewhat unwilling to give up.

"Ye Feng himself is already dead, so his burial shroud is obviously unreliable."

Wang Xiaoming's voice turned cold. "We lack a powerful means to restrain that source ghost. Without this, we cannot imprison it. That finger was our last chance. The moment we used it on the wrong ghost, we lost. Moreover, we've run out of ghost candles, and we've run out of ways to create an opportunity. Under these circumstances, we can't even get close to that source ghost."

"No one understands our current situation better than I do."

That being said, it's still quite disheartening that we didn't achieve even this last bit of consolation.

"Let's go." Yang Jian was also very unwilling.

But he knew Wang Xiaoming was right; he and Zhang Han were no longer qualified to contact that ghost, even though they knew that what had just appeared might have been the source ghost.

But all means have been exhausted, and he himself is almost at the point of being able to revive the vengeful ghost.

The situation is so hopeless.

Most importantly, the source ghost is Ghost Infant existence that surpasses the fourth level. Even that finger might not be able to pin it down, and the risk of direct contact is too great.

Unbeknownst to many, this paranormal event has evolved into an unsolvable and terrifying situation.