Serial Player
Chapter 877 - 535 Chang Ghost

Chapter 877: Chapter 535 Chang Ghost

Zhao Jiu having this thought was not unusual; she was, after all, someone who had experienced the Yanyun incident firsthand.

The chaotic battle between players and demons marked her first step into the extraordinary world.

And after becoming a player, she had seen all kinds of them.

There were those who wielded dual blades to give massive enemies a back rub, those who punched through enemy steel armor with their bare hands, and those who strolled leisurely on the battlefield, stabbing the enemy leaders with a single thrust.

But the current her was quite far behind those players who fought their way up. She had been overprotected...

Luckily, Mr. All-known and the others had also realized this, and after the Yanyun disaster fog began, they agreed to let Zhao Jiu complete tasks on her own.

The next morning, in the hotel room, Zhao Jiu opened up a local map.

And marked the location of the hotel she was staying at.

In Mr. All-known’s intelligence network, this hotel was formerly a restaurant, which had seen a fatality due to an altercation between customers.

After the restaurant could not continue its operations, it was sold and eventually converted into a hotel.

After it was transformed into a hotel, there were some rumors related to paranormal events that seemed neither entirely true nor false.

These rumors were collected and sorted by Mr. All-known’s intelligence network.

And the reason for Zhao Jiu’s visit was to ascertain whether there were any paranormal beings.

Her Yin and Yang eyes could see spirit bodies that even players might fail to notice. They were the best method for surveying paranormal events.

However, Zhao Jiu did not spot any paranormal beings nearby. Her special physique would attract those Mysterious Species to approach, yet the entire night passed without any tasks being triggered.

Instead, she saw some paranormal streaming hosts drawn by the reputation of the place.

Chasing after viewership, they often showed up in those mysteriously rumored spots to stream live. Naturally, they would not miss out on this location.

"It seems to be just a tactic to attract tourists," thought Zhao Jiu; she was not surprised, as many rumored paranormal events were often the result of misunderstandings caused by visual discrepancies or deliberately misleading actions by certain individuals.

Zhao Jiu had seen this many times before.

Although Mr. All-known and the others agreed to let Zhao Jiu handle tasks alone, they did not want her to participate in instance tasks or storyline tasks but to focus on real-world tasks.

This was because, in real-world tasks,

players could run away if they could not win, and they could call for support. The danger was not too high.

Zhao Jiu’s skills and equipment were not bad, and it was unlikely for her to encounter abnormality-level bosses from instances in real-world tasks. That’s why they let her go out.

So, in order to trigger real-world tasks as much as possible, she had not been sparing any effort in searching for places with similar rumors.

This was hardly blameworthy, as her possession of Yin and Yang eyes gave her a unique Taoist extraordinary talent, making ordinary paranormal beings not difficult for her to handle.

For her, it was the most efficient and safest leveling route.

Thus, after packing her luggage into her backpack, Zhao Jiu left the hotel, ready for a new round of exploration.

She knew that Mr. All-known and the others had suffered losses in the disaster fog, with several familiar Taoist companions having sacrificed themselves.

She needed to push harder and level up to LV10 sooner to help them instead of hiding behind them.

With great power comes great responsibility. As a rare bearer of the Innate Yin-Yang Eye, she should not always hide behind others.

"So, where to next?" mused Zhao Jiu, sitting in her car at the roadside parking spot, looking at the map and falling into deep thought.

She had finished detecting all the suspicious locations organized by the intelligence, and it might be time to switch to another province.

As she was contemplating this, Zhao Jiu suddenly felt a chill in her heart and subconsciously looked up at the crossroads.

On a sedan, a middle-aged man with a somewhat pale complexion was anxiously waiting for the traffic light, probably in a rush to attend to some urgent matter.

And in Zhao Jiu’s perspective, a sinister figure was climbing on the back of the middle-aged man.

The figure’s pitch-black skin swelled as if waterlogged, and on that bloated face, one could see a pair of eyes emitting a red glow.

He seemed to notice Zhao Jiu’s gaze and instantly turned his head to look at Zhao Jiu with a chilling stare.

Meanwhile, the middle-aged man seemed unaware that there was something clinging to his back.

"Chang Ghost!" Zhao Jiu’s complexion slightly changed as she recognized the identity of that figure.

In the legends, people killed by a tiger transformed into ghosts that need someone else to die in their place to free their souls, thus becoming accomplices for the tiger.

This is the origin of "becoming a tiger’s lackey."

Chang Ghosts are of a similar nature; they claim victims by causing others to die in the same manner they did.

But this method doesn’t free them; instead, it fortifies their strength.

Now, this Chang Ghost, who knows how many had died by his hand, possessed a driver amidst a crowd of pedestrians.

Zhao Jiu’s heart pounded wildly.

If the Chang Ghost were to strike here, many people would suffer!

And how exactly could she stop a car that’s out of control? Crash into it with her own vehicle?

Zhao Jiu’s mind raced as she swiftly raised her arm. The small sword concealed in her sleeve was about to fly out.

The next second, the traffic light turned green, and Zhao Jiu stiffened.

The anticipated disaster didn’t occur.

The middle-aged man floored the gas pedal, driving far away and leaving behind the pedestrians cursing in phrases akin to "rushing to be reincarnated."

"He didn’t make a move, didn’t he die in a traffic accident?" Zhao Jiu broke into a cold sweat, terrified. This sudden encounter left her somewhat frozen in shock.

This was her lack of experience showing. When something unexpected happened, her actions and thinking would slow down. Even if she had reacted just now, there probably would have been casualties.

If it were a seasoned player, they would have already jumped onto the car and made the Chang Ghost surrender by now. They wouldn’t have given it a chance to escape.

But fortunately, the Chang Ghost didn’t strike.

"If only I had reacted faster..." Zhao Jiu chided herself while quickly turning the car key. She started the car.

She intended to track down the possessed middle-aged man and exorcise the Chang Ghost afflicting him.

Fortunately, the map showed that there were no side roads on that route. She should be able to keep up.

Zhao Jiu started the car and followed along the highway.

On the other side, the complexion of the middle-aged man driving the sedan gradually returned to normal as he deftly drove on the increasingly desolate highway.

The car kept speeding up and even overtook a truck on a turn, leaving behind the truck driver’s cursing about "learning how to drive" as he sped away.

...

The Earth Knight was exasperated, pointing at the car driving away in the distance and cursing loudly. If he had not reacted quickly, an accident would have just occurred.

At such a turn, the driver had audaciously overtaken in the middle of a speeding curve. Was he out of his mind!

"Li, how about you get out now, run over there, and take off his tires?" He Feng suggested.

"It’s hard not to agree!" Earth Knight chimed in.

"All right, you two, don’t get angry. Brother Earth Knight, let’s continue the rest of the way on foot," Li Changhe, sitting in the passenger’s seat, spoke up to calm them down: "You’ve worked hard."

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