The Right Time

"We have to open the right door at the right time to get out of this hellhole, otherwise we'll be trapped here and die."

It's still that Ghost Domain realm, which is suspected to be Huanggang Village.

Li Jun, who was in the lead, had an extremely solemn expression. He was no longer thinking about how to imprison the Ghost Messenger, but rather how to get these people out of here alive. The attack from the vengeful ghost just now was a disaster if they hadn't been well prepared and if the people in the team weren't so capable.

Otherwise, they would have been wiped out just now.

However, surviving one crisis does not mean you are safe.

They discovered something even more terrifying: they were completely trapped.

They were trapped in this Ghost Domain.

Moreover, they have completely lost contact with the outside world.

"The right time, the right door?"

Liu San, standing to the side, paused slightly. "Then what is the correct time to open the door next?"

Li Jun checked the time. "I've made three appointments with Professor Wang in ten minutes. We've already missed one opportunity, so we have two left. If we haven't opened the door and left after these two chances, we'll have to give up. And given the current situation, relying on other Ghost Tamer for support seems unrealistic."

"Indeed, if we can't even leave here, there's not much point in providing support. Minimizing losses is the most important thing."

Su Fan took a drag of his cigarette, frowned, and stated a rather harsh reality.

"Two chances left? It's not entirely hopeless; it's better than I expected," Liu San said with a smile.

"How can you still laugh at a time like this?"

The Ghost Tamer named Xu Yiping's lips twitched violently. "Look at the situation around us. If we take one wrong step now, we could all be wiped out here. The influence of the ghost painting is getting bigger and bigger. Soon we won't even have a place to escape to."

Everyone fell silent.

Looking at the various portraits hanging on the walls and in front of the doors of the houses, they had a general idea of what had happened.

Huanggang Village should belong to the ghost Ghost Domain of the Ghost Messengers, but it has now been invaded by a ghost codenamed Ghost Painting.

These portraits and paintings are the best proof.

They are still alive because a certain balance is maintained between the two ghosts, allowing them to survive in this precarious situation without being hunted down by the ghosts.

However, this balance has already tilted. Once the ghost paintings completely invade this place, the danger they will face will be ten times, even dozens of times, greater than it is now.

After all, this "Ghost Painting Incident" had already wiped out a foreign team of Ghost Tamer.

The danger and horror have been proven.

"Thud!"

In the brief moment of their silence, something seemed to fall to the ground with a sound in the quiet, dim surroundings.

The tense crowd immediately looked in the direction from which the sound came.

It was a huge portrait hanging on the wall of a nearby house. The portrait was more than a person tall. For some unknown reason, it suddenly became unstable and fell down, landing face down on the ground.

"We have to go." Su Fan glanced at the faint glow emanating from his phone screen.

The message displayed above reads: You are dead.

This information proves that if everyone stays here, they will definitely be killed by the ghost.

"Leave? Where to now? This village is full of these things. We've seen them all the way here. There's nowhere else to go. After all, the village is still a little safer. This is the place of the Ghost Messenger. Once we leave the village, we'll have to face the ghost paintings alone."

A Hong, the only woman in the team, revealed a hint of despair in her voice.

"This is S-class paranormal event, also known as an unsolvable paranormal event in the circle. Let alone solving it, we'd have to fight tooth and nail just to survive. If we don't keep moving, we'll be attacked again in three minutes at most. Even if we don't die, the vengeful ghost will eventually revive if we try to withstand the attack," Su Fan said with a wry smile.

"It's really hard to imagine what method Yang Jian from Dachang City used to resolve the Starvation Ghost Incident not long ago. You know, almost all of his teammates were killed at the time, and he turned the situation around all by himself. I used to underestimate him a bit, but now it seems that I was too naive."

While some past incidents were dangerous, at least there was a chance to retreat. But now, even escaping from here is difficult.

"Indeed, Yang Jian is the only one in Headquarters with experience in handling S-class paranormal events, and he has done so twice. He also survived the attack on the training base by the Ghost Messenger and even managed to change the Ghost Messenger's killing patterns, which indirectly weakened an S-class vengeful ghost. If he had been present in this operation, perhaps things wouldn't have turned out so badly."

Liu San nodded in deep agreement.

Having witnessed the horror of such events, they became increasingly aware of the unusual nature of the newcomer, Yang Jian.

"Headquarters will not allow Yang Jian to participate in this operation, and Yang Jian will not agree to it either."

Li Jun looked slightly anxious at this moment. Although he was talking, he was thinking about which path to take next.

"Why?"

A Hong said with some surprise, "He clearly has this ability."

Li Jun interrupted her, his tone stern. "Because we can't win alone. Even if Yang Jian gets involved, what about the next S-class supernatural event? And the one after that? He did what he was supposed to do, and we should do what we're supposed to do. If we all die here this time, it will only prove that this is all we're capable of."

"You're not new here, and you all understand these principles. We have eight minutes left. Let's work together to survive this time. If we're not out of here by the time the door opens next time, the third opening will be in half an hour. I don't think we'll have much of a chance of surviving until then."

"It's time to go."

Suddenly, Xu Yiping, who had been silent until now, urged urgently, pointing to the spot where the portrait had just fallen.

I don't know when it started, but a blurry black shadow has been lingering around the fallen portrait.

The dark image was of a person, but it was distorted and shifting, like a shadow.

Yet this shadow-like figure possesses facial features.

Although it's blurry, you can still sense the ghost around the portrait looking this way.

"Snap!"

Another portrait fell down nearby.

Everyone shuddered, a sense of dread creeping into their hearts.

The situation is indeed getting worse.

"Come with me."

Li Jun let out a low growl and chose a gray-white road to continue deeper into this eerie village.

There's no way to retreat now; the only option is to try and get closer to the Ghost Messenger hidden in the village.

Only in this way can we get through this period; no matter how dangerous the road is, we have to grit our teeth and bear it.

No one knows the dangers they face here, and no one knows if they will survive.

However, outside.

Zhong Shan, which has lit the ghost candle to lead the five ghosts forward, is about to face the next wave of crisis.

The ghost candle in his hand was almost burned out.

This signal means that "Guo Fan," who has been following him all the way, will need to replace his ghost candle. Otherwise, once the ghost candle burns out, the five ghosts behind Guo Fan will undergo unexpected changes.

Such changes are neither good nor bad, only varying degrees of danger.

Chen Yi, who had been following along, also frowned deeply at this moment.

He had no shortage of ghost candles, but as they progressed, the distance between ghosts and humans had become extremely dangerous, so the probability of being attacked by ghosts during the next replacement of ghost candles was very high.

"We can't delay any longer."

Chen Yi gritted his teeth and had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk up.

Not far ahead.

Guo Fan, now replaced by a ghost, continued walking forward in the same fixed posture.

The ghost candle in Zhong Shan's hand was still flickering in the dim environment. Although no light could be seen, the darkness that was so different from the surrounding environment was particularly obvious, and the ghosts around were attracted by that darkness.

As Chen Yi approached "Guo Fan," it felt as if he had stepped into a dark, Ghost Domain, where the surrounding atmosphere was exceptionally cold.

The eerily quiet surroundings were broken only by the heavy, muffled footsteps.

However, compared to Guo Fan, who is a ghost, Chen Yi is more wary of other ghosts.

Since he has entered the range of the ghost candle, it means that he could be killed by the ghost at any time.