blogombal Chapter 98 Each Person's Choice
Chapter 98 Each Person's Choice
"Alright, I've introduced most of the supernatural items. The rest are mostly of unknown use but extremely dangerous. If you've made your selections, I'll take you to get them," Cao Yanhua said to the group.
The group was pondering which supernatural items they should choose.
The truly valuable items are almost all in the front room; the supernatural items in the back are practically useless.
"Who chooses first?" Cao Yanhua asked.
"Let Sun Rui choose first. After all, he's the only one here who has solved an S-level paranormal case," Cao Yang said.
The other two nodded as well, not rushing to be the first to choose the supernatural item.
The main problem is that they haven't figured out what they should choose.
Seeing that everyone was saying this, Sun Rui did not refuse.
"It doesn't matter which way we choose first. The best thing we can do is choose items that can help each other... I'll choose the ghost camera, the music box, and the death banner," Sun Rui said.
He quickly named the supernatural item he had chosen.
The ghost camera and music box can be used by your own independent supernatural clones without affecting you.
The "death banner" has another name in folk tradition: the "soul-guiding banner".
Its function is also related to attracting ghosts.
Planting a death banner in the ground will create a grave.
This will attract a group of eerie paper figures from a funeral procession, carrying two coffins.
One of them is empty, while the other contains an unknown vengeful spirit.
Upon reaching the location of the grave mound created by the dead man's banner, an unknown vengeful spirit will be released, and this process cannot be interrupted.
If you try to imprison the released vengeful spirit before the funeral procession leaves, you will be attacked by other vengeful spirits.
The user can pick up the death banner and enter the empty coffin to be carried away.
The currently known information is that the Ghost Realm cannot contain this thing.
The reason for sealing it is quite simple: every time it is used, it will lead to a paranormal event, and the extent of the harm is uncertain.
Before this, someone used this thing and survived, but the resulting paranormal events were classified as Level B in terms of harm.
The headquarters then sealed the Death Banner here.
"I hope you will use these three supernatural items with caution," Cao Yanhua said.
Instead of immediately taking Sun Rui to retrieve the three supernatural items, he turned to ask the other three for their choices.
Sun Rui then turned to Zhao Lei and said, "You can try choosing that human skin lantern."
The original human skin lantern contained green will-o'-the-wisps. Holding this thing and being illuminated by the will-o'-the-wisps was equivalent to being in a ghost realm, which could keep out fierce ghosts of low terror levels.
Although Li Jun controlled the will-o'-the-wisp inside the human skin lantern, the lantern lost its function.
But Sun Rui also has his own fire supernatural abilities, and it's unknown what kind of changes will occur if the flames of the burning ghost are put in.
"Okay... I'll listen to you." Zhao Lei nodded.
As the person with the least experience in dealing with paranormal events here, coupled with his special condition, the paranormal items here are not of much help to him.
Many supernatural items, in particular, only bring him harm, not benefit.
The remaining human skin lantern is quite good; at least it's harmless. As for its use, we can explore that later.
Soon, Yang Jian and Cao Yang had also selected their supernatural items.
At this point, Old Qin took out the supernatural items one by one from the room.
"No wonder headquarters dares to put so many supernatural items together. Even it takes so long for their own people to get them, let alone if someone tries to steal them," Yang Jian thought to himself.
Sun Rui put the three supernatural items he had selected into a golden body bag.
He looked at the blood-stained wooden plaque in Yang Jian's hand, and a somewhat old fountain pen.
Carving the corresponding name on the wooden plaque can suppress the resurgence of that person's vengeful spirit to a certain extent, and this can last for nearly half a month.
Of course, during this two-week period, the user will be under a special curse that will attract evil spirits to them.
The previous user only engraved their name on the day of the incident to delay the revival of the evil spirit, but that night the evil spirit came to their door and they died mysteriously.
Each use of it would lead to paranormal events, so it was sealed away.
The old fountain pen, wrapped in tape, looked nothing like it could write.
The pen's function is very simple: write down the question on paper, and the ghost will answer the user, provided that the user is a ghost controller.
Of course, the vengeful ghost can only answer yes or no, and cannot give a specific answer.
If the answer to your question is not "yes" or "no", the vengeful ghost will either not answer you, or you will be subjected to a deadly supernatural attack.
And this thing must be written with one's own blood to be used.
If the pen falls apart during use, the ghost tamer will immediately be resurrected by the evil spirit.
Initially, this thing wasn't sealed away, since dealing with the resurrected evil spirits of the ghost tamers was relatively simple.
However, as the pen changed hands repeatedly, headquarters discovered that it was becoming increasingly prone to falling apart, often even before a single sentence could be written.
There is currently no way to prevent the fountain pen from falling apart, so it has been sealed away until now.
Cao Yang's choice was quite simple: the shroud and a white bag.
The function of the shroud is quite simple: by wrapping the vengeful spirit, it can suppress and restrict it, but this takes some time.
As for the white package, headquarters knew relatively little about it.
All we know is that if this thing stays in one place for too long, it can cause the death of people within a certain range.
As for its function, headquarters has not found anything.
However, Sun Rui saw that Cao Yang was determined to get that thing, which meant that he must have learned about its function while dealing with paranormal events.
He didn't ask any more questions. Since Cao Yang had made the choice, he must have his reasons.
Zhao Lei listened to Sun Rui's advice and chose the human skin lantern.
"Alright, let's go. The situation outside is not optimistic. I hope you all will do your best to resolve this paranormal event," Cao Yanhua said to the group.
As an ordinary person, he is vulnerable when faced with such a large-scale paranormal event, and he can only play a logistical role.
We can only place our hopes on these ghost tamers.
The four nodded. Since they had come, they were determined to solve this paranormal event. After all, if the headquarters fell, the whole country would be in chaos.
Chaos, on the other hand, would only amplify the harmfulness of paranormal events, which is not the outcome they want to see.
"Vice Minister, headquarters still has some consumables. Shouldn't we be provided with these?" Cao Yang said.
"The production of ghost candles is not high, and the consumption has been particularly large all over the country recently. I can give each of you three," Cao Yanhua said.
Seeing that the others didn't quite believe him, he immediately led the four of them to a corner where there was a box. When they opened it, they found it was half-full of ghost candles.
Sun Rui looked closely and saw that there were about forty or fifty of them.
"It seems that the headquarters is indeed producing a lot of ghost candles right now, and they have to supply the whole country," Sun Rui thought to himself.
He had originally thought that the headquarters should have several large boxes of ghost candles, but he didn't expect that there was only this much.