NOVPUBWu Bin, who was leading the group, sensed something was amiss. He had always thought Ma Baoguo was in good health, so why was he coughing after just a few words?
Wu Bin turned his head to look, only to find Ma Baoguo hunched over, talking while coughing up blood that flowed straight from his mouth.
Even so, Ma Baoguo seemed oblivious to his own condition and urged Wu Bin and the others to quickly make their way out.
"What are you waiting for? Get moving, leave this place, don’t come in..."
Just as Ma Baoguo said this, he vomited a mouthful of fresh blood with a retching sound.
Seeing this, Wu Bin immediately asked, "Uncle Ma, are you alright?"
Wu Bin was just about to approach when he was stopped by Wang Xing.
Wang Xing drew the Peach Wood Sword he carried on his back and said in a deep voice, "Something’s not right with him, don’t go near yet."
No sooner had Wang Xing finished speaking than Ma Baoguo’s neck began to spasm, and his hands turned stiff and twisted, much like someone in a movie on the brink of turning into a zombie.
Wu Bin saw the veins on Ma Baoguo’s body bulging out one by one, his flesh rapidly withering away, exposing the contours of his muscles.
Ma Baoguo’s voice had also become hoarse and chilling.
"I already told you to leave quickly, why aren’t you going? Why! Ah!"
Ma Baoguo suddenly lifted his head as he spoke, and the moonlight shining on his face gave everyone, including Wu Bin, a jolt of fear.
At this moment, Ma Baoguo’s eye sockets were sunken, his complexion was ashy, and his eyes were blood-red.
It was clear that some frightening change was underway in Ma Baoguo’s body, a change with which they were unfamiliar.
Wang Xing said gravely, "Something seems to be dwelling inside him, most likely an evil spirit."
"Step back, I’ll handle this."
In dealing with ghosts and evil spirits, a Taoist like Wang Xing was the most experienced.
Wang Xing held the Peach Wood Sword in his right hand and pulled out a yellow talisman with his left, charging at Ma Baoguo without a word.
Ma Baoguo subconsciously drew out his baton to strike at Wang Xing.
But how could Ma Baoguo’s movements compare to those of Wang Xing, a Maoshan Taoist?
Wang Xing deftly flicked and diverted the baton aside with the Peach Wood Sword and then stepped forward, pressing the yellow talisman directly onto Ma Baoguo’s forehead.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!
The instant the talisman touched Ma Baoguo’s forehead, Wu Bin and the others could clearly see white smoke sizzling up from where the talisman was placed.
Wu Bin and Song Bing both widened their eyes in astonishment; if they hadn’t witnessed it with their own eyes, they never would have believed the talisman could truly work!
Placing the talisman was Wang Xing’s way to suppress the ghostly entity within Ma Baoguo.
Unknown to them, while the talisman did have an effect, it angered the ghostly entity inside Ma Baoguo.
Ma Baoguo’s face twisted hideously, his eyes filled with a fierce malevolence.
"A mere Maoshan Taoist thinks to trap me? Break!"
As a deep roar emerged from Ma Baoguo’s throat,
the talisman on his forehead was instantly torn apart by an invisible force.
Seeing the situation deteriorate, Wang Xing quickly brought the Peach Wood Sword up to his chest.
In the next second, Ma Baoguo’s right palm struck fiercely towards him.
Even with the block prepared in advance, Wang Xing was pushed several steps back by the force of the blow, his expression grave as he eyed Ma Baoguo.
"Wu Bin, you and the others leave first. This ghost is more difficult to deal with than I anticipated. If you don’t leave now, you’ll lose the chance."
Wang Xing suddenly realized that the ghostly entity inside Ma Baoguo must be connected to this old building.
Because Wang Xing could distinctly feel resentful energy continuously pouring into Ma Baoguo from around them.
Ma Baoguo, greedily absorbing the surrounding resentful energy, began to laugh maniacally.
"That’s the feeling, that’s the feeling, ha ha ha ha!"
"After so many years, I can finally return to the human world!"
Ma Baoguo’s eyes became seductive and excited.
"If it weren’t for that damn security guard blocking me back then, I would have killed you all long ago, how could I have waited until today to awaken?"
"But this is also good, although it took me more than a decade longer to awaken, I got a decent body, so it’s not a loss."
Hearing the ghost speak this way, Wu Bin was extremely surprised.
At this moment, he finally understood.
He had been wondering, if the fire in the old building was a summoning ritual, why hadn’t the summoned thing come out to cause trouble?
Now he knew.
Indeed, something dreadful had been summoned back then, but for some unknown reason, the ghost was sealed inside Ma Baoguo’s body.
For many years, Ma Baoguo had been a security guard at the agricultural college but never entered the old building again.
This resulted in the old building being filled with resentment but unable to contact the ghost inside Ma Baoguo’s body nor become a part of the ghost’s power.
However, this time, Wu Bin and the others rashly entered the old building and were discovered by Ma Baoguo.
Although Ma Baoguo did not know which student had broken into the old building, he always knew that it was a dangerous place.
Worried about the students’ safety, Ma Baoguo went to the old building alone with a flashlight to look for them.
As a result, while searching for Wu Bin and the others, the resentment in the old building kept pouring into his body, awakening the ghost that had been sleeping inside him for many years.
Feeling that the aura on Ma Baoguo was getting stronger and stronger, Wang Xing gritted his teeth and said, "It’s no use, the ghost’s aura is too strong, I can’t suppress it."
"You guys need to run now! There won’t be a chance later!"
The ghost let out a cold snort.
"Run? Did I agree to that?"
With a wave of the ghost’s hand, the rusty iron door slammed shut with a snap.
The entire square was swept by chilling winds, scaring Song Bing until he turned pale.
"It’s over, I told you not to come to this kind of haunted place in the middle of the night. Now we’re done for, we’re all going to die here."
Wu Bin did not pay attention to Song Bing, but instead quietly asked Zhu Ling.
"How about it, can you make out his origin?"
Zhu Ling said disdainfully, "He has nothing to do with our Dragon Clan, but he seems a bit like the Ghost Clan."
"The Ghost Clan always acts sneakily like him, never daring to do anything openly and honestly."
Wu Bin felt a headache coming on.
What the hell is the Ghost Clan?
"Then, can you deal with him?"
Zhu Ling nodded.
"I can, but now he’s one with the security uncle. If I make a move, the security uncle will die too."
"Unless there’s some way to put the security uncle into a temporary coma, then I can confidently pull out this ghostly thing and extinguish it."
To put Ma Baoguo into a coma?
This was going to be difficult.
After all, the current Ma Baoguo had absorbed enough resentment, whether in terms of momentum or physical strength, he had definitely reached the peak condition of his body.
In such a situation, how could he be put into a coma?
