The ghosts, who had been quietly watching around, suddenly moved. almost at the same time, they pounced toward Shane. That uncontrollable madness and excitement were like encountering a water source in a desert, or encountering one's own kind in the apocalypse. Even the air couldn't block that impatience they emitted...
Shane didn't expect the ghosts' reaction to suddenly become so intense. Even if I guessed your intentions and purposes correctly, there's no need to be so enthusiastic.
Whoosh—
Seeing the ghosts about to pounce on him, Shane suddenly disappeared, and almost at the same time, appeared in another direction.
Flying Thunder God Technique.
Since possessing the Flying Thunder God Technique, he had formed a habit: wherever he went, the Flying Thunder God mark stayed there.
It had to be said, this technique was truly convenient. With this technique, it was equivalent to having countless layers of insurance. Unless isolated by different dimensional spaces like Heaven or Hell, he dared to break into even a dragon's pool or a tiger's den without any preparation.
The ghosts who pounced on empty air were dumbfounded. Kat, who watched helplessly as Shane disappeared and reappeared nearby, was also dumbfounded.
Is this living person disappearing magic?!
"Wha... what happened?" The ghosts didn't manifest, so Kat naturally couldn't see them.
"Although I like supernatural creatures, don't be so enthusiastic. If you were beautiful or normal, it would be fine. But your current honorific appearance... uh... can only be viewed from afar, can only be viewed from afar!"
Shane waved his hand to call a stop, turned to the ghosts continuing to pounce, and said, "Room 137. Room 137, right? The Dean's body is hidden in the secret room of Room 137! By the way, there's also the patient log left by the Dean before. You guys can't use this thing anymore; don't mind if I take it away, right? Hmm, no one answering means no objection. Then it's settled."
This was Shane's first time experiencing a ghost event. This patient log had great commemorative value.
"Let's go, go to the basement to deal with the Dean. On the way, just right to wake up Gavin." Shane greeted Kat. The dazed and confused Kat, although unable to see the ghosts, yielded carefully when walking toward Shane, almost no different from carefully avoiding elderly people when squeezing onto a bus.
If this scene were recorded, it would definitely be considered a top-quality work of non-physical performance.
Shane walked in front to lead the way. Kat followed behind. The ghosts followed mightily behind the two. Not long after, they encountered Gavin, who had fainted and was lying on the ground.
Kat walked over quickly to wake Gavin up. The awakened Gavin loudly reminded the two that there were ghosts here. That panicked little expression, that fearful little voice, tsk tsk... unexpectedly exposed his "sissy" attribute.
Of course, this "sissy" didn't refer to the "sissy" of being effeminate, but the kind of "sissy" whose courage was even less than a girl's. Looking at the performance of the two, when encountering a ghost, one was scared into panic and chose a path blindly, while the other knew to run toward her companion and also knew to remind her companion. Which is higher and which is lower, visible at a glance.
When Gavin was afraid, it felt like his IQ was negative. At least Kat's IQ was still online.
"Let's leave here quickly," Gavin said urgently.
"No, we can't go yet."
"Why? Why can't we go!"
Before Kat could explain, Gavin got somewhat agitated.
Kat explained clearly and in detail what happened after Gavin ran away and fainted, including Shane's Byakugan being able to see ghosts, ghosts following them around but meaning no harm and only hoping for help to be freed, as well as what happened here years ago, the Dean's actions, the place being locked down, and the necessity of dealing with the Dean to leave, etc.
"You... you are so powerful. How about we don't go down with you? We... we can't help anyway, so we won't go and cause you trouble," Gavin said hesitantly.
"Doesn't matter. If you want to see it, come with me. If you don't want to, wait for me here."
Shane didn't mean to force them to advance and retreat with him. It wasn't like teaming up to fight monsters. For two ordinary people, guaranteeing not to cause trouble was already considered pretty good. Under the condition of not affecting him, Shane was really easy to talk to.
It was just that his impression of Gavin changed from a passerby or an acquaintance to someone he didn't want to have contact with.
Running to this kind of place for a date with a girlfriend was one thing; men are sometimes very childish and very straight/clueless, which is understandable. Even the reaction of abandoning his girlfriend when scared away just now could be explained by overreaction and brain going offline. But being cowardly and irresponsible, Shane really looked down on that.
Kat, a girl, didn't say she would wait here and let Shane go alone. You, a man, a man who dared to bring his girlfriend to date in this kind of place, how could you have the nerve to say it?
"Earth Style: Hiding Like a Mole Technique." (Doton: Moguragakure no Jutsu)
Shane formed seals with both hands. The ground under his feet instantly turned into flowing mud, letting him dive down directly and disappear...
"This..."
Gavin and Kat were dumbfounded looking at Shane's bizarre way of disappearing. Then they felt waves of cold wind passing by them. That icy coldness made them feel like falling into an ice cave.
The ghosts left with Shane.
"I think we should go down. Although Shane is very powerful, he is alone. What if he encounters danger? After all, we came together, and he helped us. I don't think it's good to let him face danger alone now," Kat hesitated for a moment and said to Gavin.
Gavin said, "Should... should be fine, right? We don't know how to deal with ghosts. Going down will only cause trouble."
"There is iron here. Iron can temporarily deal with ghosts!" Kat picked up a discarded iron rod from the side, which looked like the leg of an iron chair.
"I..." Gavin still hesitated somewhat.
"Forget it, I'll go myself. You wait for me here." After finishing speaking, Kat held the chair leg and flashlight and chased toward the basement.
Gavin hesitated and gritted his teeth, finally following.
Basement, Room 137.
This was an abandoned office. Inside was dilapidated, with garbage piled up.
Shane slid down from the roof (or ceiling?), looked around, and directly locked onto the abandoned bookcase in the corner, discovering the patient log that seemed stained with blood inside.
After flipping through it simply, it recorded how every patient was tortured, what reaction they had every time they were tortured, as well as the direction and content of the next experiment, etc.
Putting away the patient log close to his body, Shane had already seen the secret room inside the wall through the Byakugan. It looked like that should be the place where the Dean tortured patients for experiments. At the same time, in the cabinet in the corner of the secret room, a shriveled corpse was curled up and stuffed inside. It was precisely the Dean's corpse.
"Earth Style: Hiding Like a Mole Technique!"
Using Earth Style to dive underground again, a moment later, Shane surfaced in the secret room.
Just emerging from the ground, the Byakugan saw an old man wearing blood-stained clothes, with withered and pale skin, his right eye looking like it was about to fall out, his hands glowing with azure electric currents, grabbing toward his head.
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