Chapter 83: Chapter 79: The Hotel Hostage Case
Dang——
At the sound of a crisp snap, Wu Liang looked down to find that the four silver needles on the straw figure in his hand had mysteriously broken, as if the once pliable straw had transformed into unbreakable diamond.
After confirming its uselessness, he casually tore the entire straw figure apart with the Breaking Blade, and his gaze returned to his father.
Ka-ka——ka——
The other stood up in an unbelievably strange posture, twisting like a machine, bones emitting chilling creaks as if they could snap at any moment.
The drooping head abruptly lifted, revealing a face covered with various mouths, each letting out a horrific scream, their insides brimming with tongues.
A person with a hundred mouths, each mouth with a hundred tongues.
This sight truly gave Wu Liang a shock.
Now there was not a trace of resemblance between this thing and Wu Xiaoyao.
"He’s escaped! What’s left behind is just a fierce ghost!"
With just a glance, Wu Liang realized that his father had somehow escaped during the head-banging moment.
By now, Wu Xiaoyao was hiding somewhere in the hotel, while the monster before him was nothing more than a ghost similar to the white-faced mask fierce ghost.
Without any hesitation, Wu Liang reached towards his own temple, withdrawing a worn-out book, flipping it with a flick to make a whooshing sound.
Ghost Compendium, activate!
The quickest way to deal with a fierce ghost was necessary!
Since both the white-faced mask fierce ghost and the hundred-mouthed ghost appeared before him so openly, the Ghost Compendium must already have their discovery information.
Sure enough, upon Wu Liang’s turning the pages, two entries swiftly surfaced——
[White-faced Ghost] [Hundred-mouthed Ghost]
However, the subsequent content caused Wu Liang’s pupils to constrict, making him repeatedly check it before finally accepting it as truth.
[A ghost composed of five supernatural objects, allowing the user to summon a fierce ghost that can take over with a white mask]
[A ghost composed of seven supernatural objects, allowing the user to summon a fierce ghost capable of inducing inescapable hallucinations with its voice]
The Ghost Compendium’s entries for both fierce ghosts appeared in this form, lacking the previous [Discovery Time], [Discovery Location], [Habit], and [Weakness] information.
Their entries were more reminiscent of——
Supernatural Objects!
"These two things aren’t real fierce ghosts!"
At this moment, Wu Liang’s expression grew more serious.
It was unexpected that besides having the technology to mass-produce supernatural objects, his father even harbored the ability to create artificial fierce ghosts?!
This was far more alarming than supernatural objects!
Presently, the whole world knows of supernatural incidents as random, occurring at any time and anywhere.
But if artificially created fierce ghosts start mixing into it, it would spell disaster.
It would be a real-life game of survival where no one can tell which fierce ghost was released by whom!
"Self-preservation my ass! This will destroy human society sooner or later!" Wu Liang’s expression was grim.
At this point, he even considered leaving the venue to track down his father and restrain him; he couldn’t let his father continue causing chaos.
Currently, his father’s very existence had become a threat to all human society!
But the unfortunate fact was that there were over fifty leaders from Chengyang City at the venue besides himself.
Even though many of them were somewhat dirty, allowing the two fierce ghosts to slaughter them all wasn’t an option!
Once officials investigated, finding his name on the invitation list for the banquet, and realizing all the leaders were dead.
They would also discover these leaders weren’t clean, and even if he were as pure as a white sheet, he’d get stained with black ink!
That would truly be a case where a person with a hundred mouths and tongues would still find it hard to prove his innocence!
These issues with the leaders needed to be settled by the officials; the Chengyang City Government system cannot just suddenly collapse!
"Do you... want to... save your parents? Impossible... They’re gone..."
Before Wu Liang could act, the Hundred-mouthed Ghost began speaking in broken, strange words, and the surrounding scene started changing rapidly in Wu Liang’s eyes.
It was attempting to drag him into a hallucination!
But unfortunately for it, Wu Liang had been under the protection of a big red Oil Paper Umbrella; the negative effect flashed in and out in an instant.
The White-faced Ghost, on the other hand, couldn’t sneak in time and found Wu Liang’s expression turning bright, showing no signs of being dazed in a hallucination.
As soon as the Shelter effect took hold.
The two ghosts immediately turned their focus on the people inside the venue.
"You... want... money... power... beauty... it’s all possible if you just follow me..." the Hundred-mouthed Ghost continued to mumble.
Though its voice was small, it unnaturally appeared in the ears of everyone inside the venue, as if it were speaking right beside them.
In an instant, confusion appeared in everyone’s eyes, and they began shuffling towards Wu Liang, surrounding him.
This movement made Wu Liang realize something immediately.
All his past actions were merely to buy time for the fierce ghost minion to locate abnormalities within the hotel, and now the actions of these two artificial ghosts were also stalling for time?
This indicated that his father needed some time to accomplish something that he was confident would allow him to completely disregard Wu Liang!
"Using living people to stall me? You have the nerve to preach ’Do good deeds, don’t ask for the future’? Is what you’re doing now a righteous act?" Wu Liang shouted loudly, his voice echoing through the entire venue.
During the last incident in Wangsheng Village, the villagers had already been corpses, so he had no psychological burden taking action.
But now, killing over fifty living people without blinking was somewhat excessive.
"Do you think you can stop me without killing them?"
Wu Liang said coldly, his steps turning into almost a blur, moving swiftly among the people, faster than the eye could follow.
Crack—crack—
With a series of bone-chilling cracks, the leaders inexplicably fell to the ground, writhing in an odd dance, unable to rise.
He had snapped each person’s legs in a short time!
Only after immobilizing everyone did he set his sights on the two fierce ghosts.
Even though they were artificial ghosts, destroying the fierce ghost main body should render them unable to survive, right?
With this thought, Wu Liang made a hand-chopping motion, summoned Breaking Blade, and charged towards the two ghosts once more.
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Inside the Chengyang City official base.
Minister Long was playing with a Magic Cube out of sheer boredom, browsing recent news on the computer.
No one knew how he read the computer screen with a completely opaque red cloth covering his eyes, but he seemed to be reading it earnestly.
Suddenly, an urgent news alert popped up:
"A massive kidnapping case erupts at the Dongri Grand Hotel! The perpetrators are involved in plotting against numerous Chengyang City officials! Absolutely shocking!"
As the manager of Chengyang City’s official branch, he hadn’t received any word of this but learned it from the television broadcast instead?
With this in mind, Minister Long frowned as he clicked on the news.
What appeared was a familiar cold-faced figure, ruthlessly and swiftly breaking the legs of various officials who regularly appeared on television.
The perpetrator is—Wu Liang?