Chapter 54 Inviting a Ghost to Possess the Body

On the eighteenth floor, the penthouse of Bogu Building, the pattering torrential rain lashed wildly against the glass windows, accelerating the oppressive and frantic atmosphere within.

Six clerks, six mobile phones, each required to complete an identification.

Up to this point, the moment the true mission appeared, everyone understood the truth of the matter.

The ghost was inside the clerks' mobile phones!

Furthermore, it had split itself into six portions, hidden separately within each clerk's phone.

These six ghostly avatars had simultaneously tampered with the mission, altering its intended course of progress.

This had been deliberately designed and permitted by the hotel; otherwise, it would never have had the capability to enter the hotel and wield supernatural power!

The best way to make an identification was naturally: "The ghost is in my hotel mobile phone."

However, due to the sudden attack on Fang Shendyan's side, Yu Guo was forced to be the first to identify the ghost within his own body.

As soon as Yu Guo completed his identification, a sentence instantly flashed through his mind.

It was a prompt from the hotel's will:

"Clerk Yu Guo of Room Seven has completed the identification. You must leave Bogu Building within one minute, or face immediate erasure!"

Yet arriving simultaneously with this message was the ghost attached to his hotel phone!

Before Yu Guo could even announce the message, he instantly lost all faculty of thought and movement, his hands uncontrollably climbing up toward his own head.

At this final moment when the truth was laid bare, the ghost still refused to give up.

Yu Guo's life force was being reaped at a rapid pace in a manner completely beyond his resistance, while on the other side, Fang Shendyan, having just regained consciousness, acted with swift precision.

"The ghost is inside Yu Guo's body!"

Mutual identification was likewise an effective method.

It was also the only way to save a living person who was being murdered by an unsolvable entity.

As soon as these words were spoken, another portion of the ghostly avatar was handed over to the hotel.

Fang Shendyan's mission could be considered complete. Seeing the somewhat weakened Yu Guo about to collapse, he immediately rushed forward and supported his body.

Simultaneously, a text message sent by the hotel rang out unbidden in his mind.

Just like the one Yu Guo had received earlier, it ordered him to leave Bogu Building within one minute.

Supporting Yu Guo's body, Fang Shendyan stood in a daze, unable to comprehend why the hotel would add such a bizarre rule after the mission was completed.

Time was running out, however.

Without further hesitation, Fang Shendyan supported Yu Guo and immediately turned to sprint toward the stairwell.

During this process, he glanced back at Tong Guan and Chang Nian, who were still standing in place unharmed.

Now that the path of survival had appeared, all they needed to do was speak a single sentence to complete the mission.

Since they were fully prepared on their other side, Tong Guan and Chang Nian felt completely secure after witnessing the actions of Fang and Yu.

Tong Guan took a deep breath, gently grasped Chang Nian's palm, and smiled slightly.

Chang Nian turned her head to look at him as well, then said, "The ghost is in my hotel mobile phone."

"The ghost is in m—"

Tong Guan was halfway through his sentence when he noticed that Chang Nian's expression seemed somewhat different.

Sensing that something had gone wrong again, he asked hurriedly, "What's wrong?"

Chang Nian frowned, turned her head slightly toward Tong Guan, and said, word by word:

"There is no ghost on me!"

Tong Guan's expression shifted. He opened his mouth to speak, but then pressed his lips together and remained silent.

He had felt for some time that something was amiss. When Chang Nian opened the messages on her hotel phone, the true mission was right there, whereas his own phone had gradually transitioned from a fake mission.

That feeling was as though the ghost in Chang Nian's phone had left after she checked the messages last time...

Tong Guan could not know where the portion of the ghost that should have belonged to Chang Nian had gone, but he looked toward the corpses in the storage area that had clearly been moved.

"A missing portion of the ghost, three corpses, the disappeared Ji Li..."

Tong Guan took a deep breath, roughly guessing where the problem lay.

The ghost in Chang Nian's phone must have been taken away in connection with those three corpses, and then, after Ji Li rushed over, he attracted that portion of the ghost away.

In other words, if Ji Li was still alive, he should have two portions of the ghosts on him.

"I'm going to look for Li Xing!"

Just at that moment, Chang Nian tossed her ponytail, turned directly, and left behind these words.

However, Tong Guan grabbed her arm, pulling her forcibly to his side.

"You can't go!"

Chang Nian glared with her phoenix-like eyes and abruptly broke free from Tong Guan's restraint.

"The reason Li Xing blocked us on the fourth floor is because the ghost in his body knows there is no ghost by my side, and wants to lure me over to kill me. Actually, it doesn't matter whether I have a ghost on me or not; as long as we find Li Xing, that will be enough."

Tong Guan did not speak; he merely nodded. Chang Nian's guesses were entirely correct.

This was also why they had anticipated that Li Xing would hunt them down, yet he still had not appeared.

Because "Li Xing" knew that they were still missing one ghost identification.

Chang Nian looked at the silent Tong Guan, held her breath for a fraction of a second, and then looked at him gently as she said:

"I know you want me to identify the ghost in your phone so you can leave, but I'm sorry, I can't do it."

Having said this, Chang Nian's aura shifted. With a reverse motion, she pressed down on Tong Guan's elbow, kicked the joint of his leg with her other foot, and subdued the tall man almost instantly.

"Don't forget, I am a karate master. You can't stop me!"

Kneeling on one knee with his arm twisted behind his back, Tong Guan listened to Chang Nian's words, a smile blooming at the corners of his eyes.

Out of the corner of her eye, Chang Nian glanced at Xiao Qi, who had stopped sobbing and wore a dazed expression. With an inward sigh, she ran toward the stairs below without looking back.

Yet, she had not taken more than a few steps before her pace abruptly halted.

Because she heard the sound of bone twisting!

Chang Nian whipped her head around and saw Tong Guan's handsome face still wearing a smile, while both his hands were climbing toward his own head.

This sight instantly shattered her previous imposing manner. She wanted to stop him, but discovered that Tong Guan's arms already showed signs of rigidity.

Tong Guan had not spoken from the very beginning, but from the moment Chang Nian made a move against him, he had already made up his mind.

Just like before, he would lure the ghost to possess him, forcing Chang Nian to complete the mission first.

Looking at Tong Guan's gradually twisting face, Chang Nian's expression turned gloomy to the extreme. She suddenly cursed angrily:

"Damn you, Tong Guan! You planned this all along!"

"The ghost is inside Tong Guan's body!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the rotation of Tong Guan's head, which was on the verge of being snapped off, came to a halt, and the previous stiffness vanished completely.

Blinking at the furious Chang Nian, he rubbed his neck and laughed softly:

"You really are merciless, waiting until my neck was bent to its absolute limit before speaking."

Before he could finish his sentence, Chang Nian rushed over and delivered a full-powered slap across his face!

Yet immediately afterward, she leaned down to kiss Tong Guan on the forehead, whispering lightly, "I know you have a way. I'll wait for you downstairs."

Tong Guan's gaze gradually transitioned from warmth to resilience. Watching Chang Nian's departing figure, he slowly looked toward the young girl emerging from the storage room on the other side.

In the building now, the only two lives left who might still be attacked by ghosts were them.

Tong Guan looked at her, and she looked back at Tong Guan.

A quiet murmur echoed across the eighteenth floor, which was littered with corpses.

"Can any method be used for identification..."