Chapter 52 The Terrifying Ringing of the Bell
Chapter 52 The Terrifying Ringing of the Bell
The cold, lifeless head rolled rapidly in the darkness, the monocle above its eye socket emitting a chilling, eerie light. Then, figures with faces strikingly similar to the head emerged one after another.
This was a new ghost servant clone. He quickly returned to his previous position and took the ghost bell back from the corpse on the ground.
"So that's how this thing is used! You don't need to wait for it to make a sound on its own. You can also trigger a supernatural attack by hitting it with external force. However, such an attack is not indiscriminate; it can only attack the target that the bell mouth is pointing at."
I took two shots just now. I don't know if the first supernatural attack was too weak, or if the attack only started on the second one. I'll have to try again. This thing will be very useful in the future.
"What would happen if I used the supernatural technique of clapping ghost hands to strike this ghost bell?"
The ghost slave clone that appeared this time was the first clone created by Su Qin. It possesses some of the supernatural abilities of clapping hands. There are currently only ten such ghost slave clones. Su Qin released one this time to test whether anything unexpected would happen when the supernatural ability to clap hands encounters this ghost bell.
The clapping ghost was a vengeful spirit inside that foreign devil's body. It was a type of supernatural attack that could be launched by clapping. The attack would be doubled if both hands were clapping, and the effect would be cumulative if clapping repeatedly. Fortunately, Su Qin intervened in time several times and prevented the foreign devil from launching the supernatural attack, otherwise he might not have been able to withstand it.
"Theoretically speaking, any supernatural phenomenon that involves clapping can simply be caused by making a sound by clapping. Clapping this ghost bell would also work, but it would also attack the ghost bell. So, would the result be a conflict between the two supernatural phenomena, or a combination of the two phenomena?"
The ghost servant clone picked up the ghost bell with practiced ease and aimed it at the vengeful ghost wrapped in yellow medium threads. He slammed his palm heavily on the ghost bell, and with the experience from last time, he didn't stop this time, slamming it several times in succession.
Thump~ thump~ thump~
The bells rang in succession, each one more muffled and suppressed than the last, continuing for more than a dozen times before stopping.
"It really works! I'm a genius!"
The ghost slave clone looked at the fierce ghost lying stiffly on the ground, as well as several other fierce ghosts that were frozen in place, and a chilling smile appeared on his stiff face.
The ghost had stopped moving when the bell tolled for the third time, and it collapsed when the bell tolled for the tenth time.
Su Qin's conjecture has now been verified; the result is that two types of supernatural attacks, both belonging to the category of sound attacks, can overlap, making them even more terrifying than individual supernatural attacks.
The supernatural attacks of Ghost Bell and Ghost Clapping Hands restrained the vengeful ghost wrapped in yellow medium lines, while the other less terrifying vengeful ghosts were affected by the superimposed supernatural effects of the clapping hands.
However, the supernatural power of the Ghost Clap was equally effective on the Ghost Bell. The Ghost Servant clone stopped decisively on the twelfth clap. He clearly felt that the Ghost Bell had become unusually cold and eerie. If he had clapped it thirteen times, the Ghost Bell would have definitely launched an indiscriminate and terrifying attack. Perhaps if it weren't for the supernatural limitation of the Ghost Clap, it wouldn't have needed to be clapped thirteen times to launch an attack.
"It's time to deal with that ghost. It caused me to lose one of my ghost servant clones. I can't just sit idly by. But how do I find that ghost?"
I'm getting more and more confused. Why bother looking for it? Why not just launch an indiscriminate supernatural attack?
"Isn't this what the main body sent me out to do?"
Without hesitation, the ghost slave clone picked up the ghost bell and frantically patted it with both hands, facing the direction from which the laughter came in the darkness.
Thump~ thump~ thump
The dull, oppressive chimes rang out again, but the eerie laughter in the darkness did not stop, seemingly unaffected in the slightest.
This is not surprising. The ghost slave clone never expected such a supernatural attack to work on the ghost. All it needed was the supernatural power released in the instant when the ghost bell went out of control.
He struck the ghost bell with both hands simultaneously, and the combined supernatural force made the suppression of the ghost bell even stronger. The ghost slave clone struck it more than twenty times in a row.
On the twenty-eighth strike, he clearly felt as if his hands were hitting ice, and at the same time, a sense of foreboding and a chilling feeling suddenly arose in his heart.
boom~
A muffled, thunderous chime suddenly rang out without warning. The ghost slave clone had already stopped its research, but the chime still sounded, this time more muffled and oppressive than ever before.
Boom!
The moment the bell rang, the ghost slave's clone's head suddenly exploded without warning, as if an invisible hammer had suddenly smashed his head.
Not only that, the vengeful spirits that were already affected by the supernatural suddenly fell down in unison, as if they had been hit by a hammer at the same time. The laughter and the sounds of objects hitting and rolling in the darkness suddenly stopped. Everything around seemed to be affected, and the entire village fell into an eerie silence, with no sound at all.
Thud—The glass monocle fell to the ground, its lens covered with tiny cracks, emitting a faint, ethereal glow.
One after another, overlapping figures emerged from the dim light, eventually converging into a curvaceous man with a shapely figure—the very same Su Qin clone who had just gotten off the vehicle.
He smoothed the unsightly flab on his chest with his hand and adjusted the monocle on his eye socket.
"It's finally all sorted out. Now I can relax and wait for the buses to resume."
He picked up the ghost bell that had fallen to the ground, put it in a golden body bag, and wrapped the body bag tightly. A faint, eerie light emanated from his monocle. Then, a pale, dead hand reached out from inside, grabbed the bag, and dragged the entire bag into the monocle.
Su Qin's clone walked to the side of the bus, waiting for it to return to normal and resume its journey. As for the vengeful ghosts lying around, he had no interest in them. His tastes were becoming increasingly picky, and he didn't care for these ghosts that weren't particularly terrifying or had any special supernatural properties. Besides, he couldn't carry them around anyway.
In this haunted place, there are plenty of vengeful ghosts. These ghosts are not of much value. He might be interested in the complete corpse of a ghost tamer, but since that unfortunate ghost tamer is headless, he has no interest in him.
The main body has now barely managed to control four ghosts, and has initially acquired the supernatural abilities of a captain-level being. The vengeful ghosts in the two clones are both sound attack type vengeful ghosts, and can also stack supernatural attacks. Even if the main body can only use 70-80% of its supernatural abilities, it is still the most terrifying. With the addition of the Ghost Bell and dozens of ghost slave clones, ordinary A-level vengeful ghosts really do not pose a threat, and it has the ability to barely survive in this world.
"It's a pity there's still no ghost realm! Ghosts possessing a ghost realm are too rare; ordinary people simply can't control them."
Since Su Qin invented the method of creating clones, he has never intended to use his original body to control vengeful spirits. His main target is those ghost tamers, as controlling these ghost tamers is much safer than controlling vengeful spirits.
Not only can it enhance one's own supernatural abilities, but it can also alleviate the recurrence of supernatural phenomena, making it a sure-fire way to make money.
Su Qin underestimated the terrifying power of the Ghost Bell. His clone waited in front of the car door for ten minutes, but the surrounding ghosts didn't move. In particular, those ghosts with only green mediums were like real corpses, showing no signs of revival. The more this happened, the more his clone started to have wicked thoughts.
"These things can't possibly be that fragile! They've already broken? Maybe we should take this opportunity to release a few more clones and see if we can control these ghosts using ordinary ghost servant clones?"
Using a living person's body to control a vengeful ghost is quite normal, but using a dead person's corpse, such as a ghost slave, to control a vengeful ghost is something that probably no one in the entire paranormal community has ever done before.
This strange idea lingered in his mind and wouldn't go away, making the clone increasingly eager to see what the outcome would be.
The monocle on his eye socket glowed eerily as he released a ghost slave clone.
"Go give it a try and see if you can control that ghost. If you succeed, you'll get a promotion!"
The clone eagerly urged the ghost slave clone to try to control the vengeful ghost that had been attacked by the ghost bell more than ten times. This was an A-level vengeful ghost with a pale yellow medium line, whose abilities and killing patterns were unknown.
The ghost servant's clone dragged its stiff body to the ghost's body. It stretched out its pale, dead hands, grabbed the stinking child's corpse, and pressed it onto its own body.
The child's corpse seemed to pass through the ghost slave's body and be directly placed into the ghost slave's body.
The feeling was strange. Even the Ghost Slave's body felt somewhat uncomfortable with such a large lump of stuff being forcibly stuffed inside, but nothing unusual happened.
With a creak, the front and rear doors of the bus suddenly opened simultaneously, and the headlights on the front of the bus suddenly turned on. The bus finally returned to normal.
Upon seeing the bus doors open, Su Qin's clone immediately recalled the ghost slave clone that was controlling the vengeful spirit into the supernatural medium and quickly boarded the bus.
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