At this moment, the Gao Huang ghost was startled, his expression filled with fear.
As soon as the Ninth Elder moved, he exposed me behind him!
His astonishment and fear turned into a thick aura of killing in an instant!
A muffled rumble echoed, and the Gao Huang ghost, astonishingly, disintegrated into a blob of black and red mist!
The mist instantly enveloped the entire room, covering me, the Ninth Elder, the headless woman, and everyone else within!
The hand of the headless woman was empty.
The Ninth Elder's hand was also empty!
The dense black and red mist suddenly dispersed into three separate groups, like blurry ghost shadows in front of me, the Ninth Elder, and the headless woman!
The blurry ghostly figures began to take shape.
In my line of sight was Sun Da Hai!
It was Sun Da Hai, holding a steel needle, his face fierce and malevolent, the Sun Da Hai of ten years ago!
My face was cold.
Beforehand, the Gao Huang ghost had shown me Sun Da Hai, making me feel as if I had lived through that terrifying scene myself.
But now, I feel no fear towards Sun Da Hai or that year.
Sun Da Hai is dead in the earth's Qi, what more is there to fear!?
Suddenly, I stretched out my hand and grabbed towards the neck of "Sun Da Hai!"
The wound on my wrist already had a thread of Qi from the earth lingering around it.
As soon as I grabbed him, earth Qi surged in from all directions!
His figure dissolved instantly, becoming another blob of black and red ghostly shadow!
That ghostly shadow looked extremely frightened, rushing towards the window!
Yet, where could he escape? Quickly devoured by earth Qi!
My gaze swept over the headless woman and the Ninth Elder. Due to the presence of earth Qi, they were not at all afraid of the Gao Huang ghost's influence, and the two blobs of black and red mist were consumed by the earth Qi...
For a moment, the room was deathly quiet, utterly silent.
This Gao Huang ghost is actually very fierce.
Any other ghost would be crushed under the combined attacks of the Ninth Elder and the headless woman, vanishing into thin air, yet he manages to strike again!
Fortunately, the earth Qi is sufficiently restraining him!
Closing my eyes for a moment, and then opening them, my mind became much calmer.
The eight-flag banner functions to seal off any external leakage, not even Wei Youming could possibly know that the Gao Huang ghost is gone.
At this time, perhaps sensing no threat, the earth Qi was gradually disintegrating and disappearing.
The Ninth Elder disappeared into it, and the headless woman vanished as well...
For some reason, I felt a slight sense of emptiness, and soon, the room was quiet and empty as if nothing had happened.
The blood on the ground had vanished, and there was a thin scab on my wrist, which could be twisted slightly to leave only a faint trace. In no time, it would disappear without a trace.
I went to retrieve the eight-flag banners placed in various parts of the room, storing them securely. Then, I straightened up and left the room, heading towards the exit of the hallway.
With the Gao Huang ghost eliminated, perhaps Vice President Old Liu is no longer in danger?
It's not certain, after all, the leader had said that Old Liu was trapped in his residence.
Just as humans have heart demons, so too do ghosts possess barriers. Once the Gao Huang ghost draws up that demon barrier in Old Liu, if it cannot be dispelled, even if the Gao Huang ghost is subdued, Old Liu will still be trapped.
Helping him is simple; once it dissipates, and then recovers, there will naturally be no balance.
With those thoughts, I hurriedly descended the stairs.
On the way down, I encountered no obstacles at all.
Once I exited the hospital building and made a turn, I quickly spotted the three-story dormitory building for the staff.
Rushing over to the staff dormitory building, to the left was the slogan of the employee canteen, and on the other side was the old-style folding sliding iron gate.
The gate was not fully closed; it was slightly ajar, as if waiting for someone to enter.
Calming down slightly, I walked into the iron gate with ease, the dim and narrow passage gave a cramped feeling.
Five meters ahead was a staircase, with several wooden doors on both sides of the corridor, each with a small sign attached to them indicating either a caregiver or a nurse.
I didn't know which floor or room the leader was in, and I couldn't just call him out now.
I didn't stop on the first floor; there was still a night patrol ghost in one of the rooms here.
Wei Youming is here, and I would expose myself if I directly attracted the night patrol ghost!
I tiptoed up the stairs.
Soon, I passed through the second-floor corridor without stopping and went directly to the third floor.
The first room on the left, next to the door frame, had a sign with the name of the vice president.
The room at the end, labeled "President," was indeed Wei Youming's.
A piercing shriek suddenly erupted in the hallway!
Is that not the cry of Sun Zhuo!?
There were scattered voices of persuasion mingled with the scream.
This voice was indeed Wei Youming's, but the scream was too loud, making it hard for me to hear what Wei Youming said!
My heart was pounding.
Fortunately, Wei Youming was torturing Sun Zhuo, so his attention wouldn't be distracted.
Otherwise, at such close range, I really feared he might sense my presence.
I crept up to the vice president's door, twisted the handle, and stepped into the room sideways.
A cold presence instantly enveloped my body.
Before me, a figure lay quietly on a bed.
A strong smell of decay hit me, and the person lying there was none other than Vice President Old Liu!
His face looked extremely hideous and in great pain.
The white coat on his body looked crumpled, and he wore a white hat on his head, the edge deeply embedded in the skin, with a hint of dark red.
My expression changed slightly.
It just occurred to me that I had misunderstood a point earlier.
Vice President Old Liu... is a violent ghost, a living ghost devourer!
I was thinking of dispersing his soul to help him regain clarity from the Gao Huang ghost's influence, but now it's much more complicated.
The soul of a ghost eater is indestructible; instead, it's an extremely resilient existence among the undead ghosts.
The formation of a living ghost devourer like Vice President Old Liu is due to the persistence of a lingering resentment, which keeps the dying person from breathing properly. As the breath is eroded by resentment and other negative energies, the person who was barely alive becomes a ghost eater, transforming into a corpse.
A living ghost devourer can vividly feel the process of their own transformation into a ghost, smelling the putrid odor of their own flesh and blood,
the pain of being alive yet already dead will continually nourish their resentment.
It will be an empty, fixated belief, the only thing that makes him feel he still exists!
The heavier the fixation, the more resilient the soul, the more terrifying a living ghost devourer like Vice President Old Liu will be!
I slowly walked to the bedside, staring at Vice President Old Liu's face, his eyes tightly shut, and he muttered unconsciously.
At first, the words were fragmented and disjointed.
After listening for about a minute, I heard a complete sentence.
"Youming... he will be okay..."
"Don't kill him... he will be okay..."
My face changed dramatically.
Wei Youming was supposed to have committed suicide, wasn't he?
How could it be murder according to Vice President Old Liu's words?
At the time, Wei Youming was already so terrifying. Although he wasn't a ghost, the viciousness he committed in committing six thousand crimes made his inner cruelty probably more terrifying than any ghost.
Who could kill Wei Youming!?!
"I... can hold him back..."
"Can hold him back... Youming..."
"Good... good... medicine, take more medicine... sleep, need to sleep..."
Old Liu's muttering became disjointed and lacked logic again.
