464 Taking the Initiative to Lead Away
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Just dozens of miles away from the training base.
Here lay a secret laboratory located in the suburbs of J city.
Earlier on, due to special circumstances, all staff of the laboratory had been evacuated from the premises as quickly as possible and the laboratory was urgently sealed.
But now, a group of ghoul tamers from headquarters had come here again and reopened the laboratory, taking some dangerous items from within.
Some dangerous things were transported away, while others were left behind due to certain risks associated with them.
“Is this the place where they kept the Ghost Coffin? Quite secure, isn’t it? It’s rather surprising that despite such precautions, the ghost inside managed to escape.”
A group of people once again stepped into the deepest part of the laboratory.
This was a highly secure experimental area, and within this zone, one isolated room now seemed particularly conspicuous.
The room’s walls were built with Gold in combination with a special steel, making them incredibly robust. Moreover, due to the gold’s properties, they could prevent any supernatural intrusion. And to observe the inside of the room, a piece of transparent golden glass, which was not very clear, was installed on one of the walls.
Through this glass, everyone could see a dark red lacquered solid wood coffin placed inside the room.
The red paint looked as if it had been recently applied, and the thick wood pieces joined together gave the whole coffin a sense of solemn weight.
At first glance, the coffin looked ordinary, similar to what many rural areas would use for funerals.
But everyone in the laboratory knew this was not just any coffin but the so-called Ghost Coffin, suspected of being able to nurture fierce ghosts. Information about this Ghost Coffin had also just been declassified today; previously, it was highly confidential.
If it wasn’t confirmed that the ghost from the Ghost Coffin was no longer in the laboratory, they wouldn’t dare to stand around here so nonchalantly.
“The lid of the coffin has been opened; this is evidence that the ghost has left the Ghost Coffin.” Jang Shangbai strode over from within the crowd, scanned the area, and concluded.
However, after speaking, he frowned, “But the eeriness of the Ghost Coffin remains. We cannot let our guard down just because the ghost has left. Who knows what dangers this sinister thing might still bring?”
He saw that the inside of the opened Ghost Coffin was dim, the bottom completely invisible, leaving a bad impression on everyone.
“Look, the lid is cracked. Did it get damaged when the ghost opened it?” Another ghoul tamer approached, pointing at the coffin lid inside the room with some unsettled doubt.
The thick red lid was now overturned on the ground. Whether it was because it fell with too much force, what was originally one whole piece had cracked down the middle. At the crack, the wood had turned dark and rotten, as if it had been buried in the earth for many years.
Wang Xiaoming’s gaze shifted as he stared at that coffin lid thoughtfully.
Next to him, Li Jun’s face was somber because he had witnessed many experiments in order to protect Wang Xiaoming and had some knowledge of this Ghost Coffin.
The lid of the Ghost Coffin was definitely not something that could be broken by a fall,
since this kind of experiment had been conducted in the past.
Forget about a few drops; even if a bomb was thrown at it, not a single scratch would appear.
However, the lid of the Ghost Coffin was indeed broken, split into two halves, as if it had lost some kind of strange power and could no longer maintain its previous state.
“There’s nothing wrong with the Ghost Coffin; it’s the lid of the Ghost Coffin that’s the issue…” Wang Xiaoming had a calm expression, connecting this to the scene he witnessed when he escaped from here previously.
There had been signs that the lid of the Ghost Coffin had been moved.
Could it be that the real source of the ghost from the Ghost Coffin was this lid?
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Now that the supernatural presence had left the coffin lid, the lid itself lost its eeriness and became nothing more than an ordinary piece of wood.
While they were investigating and conducting research here.
Over at the training base, Yang Jian and the others were already facing the most dangerous crisis.
They risked their lives, overcame several threats of a group wipeout, and finally suppressed the ghosts with sheer force, momentarily halting the source of terror and preventing further murderous growth.
But this suppression wouldn’t last long.
In the dim sky, those old, hanging grass ropes, like life-claiming specters, drifted towards everyone here.
These were the resurrected Ghost Ropes.
However, right now it wasn’t Yang Jian in control, nor were it the Ghost Ropes themselves, but the ghost right before their eyes.
From the previous encounter, it could be determined that this ghost currently had nine entities. Yang Jian and his group had cancelled out eight with the fierce ghost, leaving only one entity—the Ghost Rope.
But this lone entity couldn’t be neutralized.
It wasn’t that Yang Jian’s side lacked numbers, but that taking such action would have allowed the ghost to abandon its rigid, darkened corpse and reappear beside you in a new identity, like a reboot, launching a second wave of attacks.
So, all they could do was exactly this.
What to do?
At this moment, everyone panicked, sensing the urgency and danger. If they didn’t find a way to deal with the situation, the revived Ghost Rope would send them all to hell.
If it were under normal circumstances.
Yang Jian could easily restrain the Ghost Rope using the Headless Ghost Shadow’s power, and if combined with the Ghost Domain, even the sky-full of hanging ropes could easily be dealt with.
But now, the ghost inside his body was suppressed, utterly powerless to resist.
The Ghost Rope seemed to be the last straw that would break the camel’s back.
Yang Jian’s face was covered in beads of anxious sweat; he had never felt such urgency before, not even when he first entered the Caesar Hotel in Z city, where he had a semblance of self-preservation.