At this moment, the two of them were at least over two hundred meters away from the Hanging Ghost.
On the ground not far away, several corpses had already rotted down to bare skeletons.
Moreover, Liu Ming had mentioned that the Hanging Ghost would only attack when someone entered within fifty meters of it.
So, the two continued walking toward the Hanging Ghost.
[Ding! You absorbed 650 points of Paranormal Energy, converted into 650 Detention Points!]
[Ding! You absorbed 700 points of Paranormal Energy, converted into 700 Detention Points!]
Soon, they were about a hundred meters from the Hanging Ghost.
"Looks like this ghost has at most 900 points."
Qin Feng finally felt at ease.
After getting closer to the Hanging Ghost, they noticed something.
Within a fifty-meter radius centered on the ghost, the area was completely barren—aside from the large tree it hung from, all the surrounding trees had vanished.
This strange phenomenon didn't surprise them.
Anything related to ghosts, no matter how bizarre, could be regarded as normal.
They kept moving forward. When they reached about sixty meters from the ghost, Liu Qingrou circled around at the corresponding distance, positioning herself opposite Qin Feng—behind the Hanging Ghost.
While waiting for Liu Qingrou to get in position, Qin Feng kept his eyes on the ghost.
The Hanging Ghost was the corpse of a small-framed woman dressed in a traditional white gown. Her palms were shriveled and pale, and her bare feet the same.
She was suspended by a white silk ribbon—the kind ancient emperors used to bestow death upon their concubines.
Her head hung downward, completely hidden by long black hair, making her face unrecognizable. Her limbs drooped lifelessly, resembling an ordinary hanged corpse.
But they both knew this was a terrifying Malevolent Ghost.
Though they didn't know why it had stayed hanging from the tree like that.
There was no need to waste energy trying to understand.
Because ghosts were inherently incomprehensible.
At that moment, Qin Feng also noticed a faint black mist forming within the fifty-meter radius around the ghost. The area was already dim, and without a careful look, it would've gone unnoticed.
What is that?
Qin Feng felt a sense of unease.
Moreover, the black mist seemed to be gradually spreading outward.
Hiss!
Was a Ghost Domain forming?
Qin Feng had his own Ghost Domain. This phenomenon that distorted reality—it had to be a Ghost Domain.
However, the Hanging Ghost's domain wasn't fully formed yet.
Still, it explained why all the trees within fifty meters had disappeared.
"Damn! I have to detain this Hanging Ghost today."
If allowed to complete the formation of its Ghost Domain, its threat level would definitely reach Class A.
That could bring disaster to Jiangcheng city.
Five minutes later, Liu Qingrou was in position behind the ghost.
Qin Feng raised his hand to signal the start of the operation.
He faced the Hanging Ghost to attract its attention.
Meanwhile, Liu Qingrou would rush to within five meters of the ghost and use her ghost hair to restrain it.
Technically, the ghost hair could extend and bind the ghost even from fifty meters away—but the suppression would be far weaker.
Only within five meters could it exert maximum strength.
The two of them stepped out of the forest and into the ghost's fifty-meter range.
As soon as Qin Feng stepped in, the female corpse hanging from the tree—the Hanging Ghost—had its hair float upward without any wind.
He knew the ghost was about to attack.
He activated his ghost hand, eerie Paranormal Energy swirling around him. Without hesitation, he aimed at the ghost dozens of meters away and tore forcefully.
"Riiip!!!"
The ghost's head split from the center of its forehead downwards, like paper being easily torn apart.
Even though it was torn in half, the ghost remained hanging, and in less than a second, it fused back together.
Ghosts cannot be killed.
They can only be suppressed.
But the threat level of the Hanging Ghost was clearly high—it healed in under a second.
Just as Qin Feng prepared to tear it apart again, the Hanging Ghost suddenly lifted its head and looked at him.
When it hung its head, Qin Feng couldn't see anything, like some invisible force blocked his sight.
But once the ghost looked up, he clearly saw its true face.
It had no facial features—just a single eye, located right in the center of its face.
As eerie and terrifying as it looked, there was also an inexplicable sense of symmetry, as if that face was only ever meant to hold one eye.
The eye glowed red, blood-red all over.
The moment Qin Feng saw it, his consciousness froze.
His thoughts slowed drastically and began to sink into darkness.
And this was despite his mind being in the second layer of Ghost Domain.
Yet even then, he was still affected.
That spoke volumes of how terrifying the ghost eye was.
"Chief Qin Feng!!!"
Liu Qingrou cried out from the other side.
She saw Qin Feng's body rapidly decay, the rotting areas crumbling into ash and falling away.
This shocked Liu Qingrou, making her think Qin Feng was about to die.
She instinctively picked up her pace.
But to her relief, Qin Feng's partially decayed body regenerated rapidly, returning to normal in less than a second.
She couldn't help but wonder:
Was the ghost hand really this powerful?
Not only could it disassemble and reassemble, but also regenerate flesh and bone?
Back to Qin Feng—"Damn! That ghost's eye is terrifying! Just one look nearly killed me—instant death level. If I hadn't placed my consciousness in the second layer of the dream, I might've been done for."
He looked visibly shaken, but inwardly he felt lucky.
The second-layer dream allowed his consciousness to alter reality, manifesting changes in his physical body.
And it seemed to exert some suppression over Malevolent Ghosts.
Thus, the death of his consciousness was much slower than physical death.
Because he could change anything in the dream, one thought from his conscious self-erased the ghost's attack and restored him.
In other words, the Hanging Ghost's unavoidable killing pattern couldn't kill him.
Whew! Thank goodness for mastering the second-layer ghost dream.
But right after recovering, he was attacked again. His body began to decay rapidly, only to fully heal a moment later.
Still, he was effectively trapped in place.
Each time he recovered and took a step, he would be attacked again and stopped.
Without exposing his Ghost Domain, he could only rely on Liu Qingrou to temporarily restrain the ghost.
That was the only way for him to escape.
Liu Qingrou was now within twenty meters of the ghost.
But then—The Hanging Ghost suddenly bowed its head again, and its floating hair fell.
It returned to its hanging posture.
"Huh?"
"Did the ghost realize it couldn't deal with me and gave up?"
Of course, that was just a passing thought.
But since the ghost wasn't attacking, Qin Feng immediately took off running.
Then he saw something that made his heart pound in fear.
Liu Qingrou, without warning, was suddenly sliced in half at the waist.
"Sh*t!!!"
"This ghost has a second killing pattern?"
Qin Feng's expression changed drastically.
He was puzzled.
If the Hanging Ghost had two killing patterns, why not use both at once?
Or could it only use one at a time?
No, ghosts could usually use multiple patterns simultaneously.
But this one clearly couldn't use the eye while using the other pattern, and couldn't use the other pattern while using the eye.
It was a clear contradiction.
But Qin Feng didn't have much time to dwell on it.
Liu Qingrou had been bisected dozens of meters away.
If he didn't save her, she would die.
Whether to prevent the ghost hair's revival or simply as a colleague, he couldn't stand by and do nothing.
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