Chapter 161 Don’t do that, you will be in trouble!
Towards evening, it started to drizzle again.

A breeze blew in the distance, making the originally hot temperature cooler.

Cordons have been set up on remote streets and the crowds have been dispersed.

Ah Hong stood on the street, retracting the ghost domain she had just released, and said with a little confusion on her face: "Strange! I checked around and didn't find anything unusual."

Li Jun stood aside and said thoughtfully: "This evil ghost is very hidden. If we don't trigger its killing pattern, we won't be able to find out its special features. Let's wait for the analysis results!"

Ah Hong nodded and was about to reply when a staff member operating the spirit-testing instrument ran over, handed Ah Hong a tablet, pointed at the screen on the tablet, and said:
"Sir, we have located the evil spirit, it's right here..."

Ah Hong recognized the location with just one glance and moved forward directly: "Follow me!"

Li Jun signaled the staff to stay away before following him.

The two of them walked one after the other to the sidewalk at the back half of the street. The road conditions here were even worse than before. The ground was bumpy and a lot of rain water had accumulated.

This is all thanks to the roadside sewers built at the highest terrain, which are simply unable to handle drainage work.

After arriving at the area designated by the staff, Ah Hong and Li Jun looked at each other and immediately turned on the ghost-exorcising bell to prevent being attacked by evil spirits, and then began to conduct a detailed inspection of the place.

But no matter how Ah Hong checked, she couldn't find the evil spirit hiding here.

"Leave it to me!" Li Jun stepped forward and summoned a large number of green ghost fires out of thin air, setting the entire area on fire.

The ability of will-o'-the-wisp is to burn supernatural power. As long as there is an evil ghost here, no matter how well it hides, it will be ignited when it encounters the will-o'-the-wisp.

The designated area was not large, only about 20 to 30 square meters. Li Jun easily filled the space with ghost lights, and soon he discovered something unusual.

"Here!" Li Jun pointed to a sewer. He saw that the ghost fires in other places were extinguished, and only this sewer was still burning.

"This is the first time I've seen a ghost hiding in a sewer." Ah Hong showed a hint of surprise on her face.

"No," Li Jun said with a strange look on his face, "the evil ghost is not hiding in the sewer, it is right in front of us."

"You mean..." Ah Hong looked at the object burning in the will-o'-the-wisp and said hesitantly.

"It's a manhole cover. This evil ghost is the manhole cover."

While the two were talking, they did not let down their guard. They held their golden pistols and approached the evil spirit cautiously.

At this time, the evil ghost in the manhole cover also gradually changed. The lighting of the ghost fire awakened the instinct of the evil ghost. The originally burning ghost fire suddenly went out, and the round manhole cover lying quietly in the original place floated in the air like a flying saucer.

boom!
Li Jun aimed at the evil spirit and fired a tentative shot, hitting the evil spirit in mid-air.

What was surprising was that after being shot, the manhole cover ghost did not react at all and still floated upright in the same place, like a living target.

"Nothing unusual was found, let's drive together... cough cough cough!"

Li Jun was just about to call Ah Hong to shoot together to restrain the evil spirit on the manhole cover. As he was speaking, a gust of wind blew into his mouth and choked his trachea, causing him to cough continuously.

"You... cough cough cough!" Ah Hong was about to speak when she was choked by a gust of wind.

For a moment, coughing broke out and neither of them could control themselves.

No! The two looked at each other and instantly realized that they had been attacked by a ghost in the manhole cover.

The fact that both of them were choked by the wind at the same time was too coincidental and it didn't seem like something that could happen naturally.

But why didn’t the ghost-chasing bell protect them from the attack of evil spirits?
In a flash, without too much time to think, the two made a common choice and raised their guns to shoot.

Bang bang bang!
After a series of gunshots, the manhole cover floating in the air suddenly fell down, splashing water all over the sky.

Although several of their shots missed due to coughing, they still hit five targets. The combined power of these supernatural bullets finally interrupted the killing rules of the manhole cover ghost, forcing it to stagnate briefly.

At the same time, both of them returned to normal and no longer had dry coughs.

"Although the attack of this evil spirit can bypass the sound of the exorcist bell, its power is not strong."

Li Jun calmed down and fired two more shots after getting closer to the evil ghost on the manhole cover to prevent it from recovering its ability to move in a short time. This is a new course recently added to the headquarters training base. The negative example is that some ghost riders were killed by evil ghosts because they had no habit of making up shots.

After being shot twice more, the evil ghost on the manhole cover showed no reaction and just lay quietly on the ground.

Ah Hong stepped forward, first took out the yellow paper and pasted it on, then put the manhole cover ghost into the golden pocket.

Nothing unexpected happened during the period, and seeing that nothing was missed, the two returned along the same route.

However, they encountered many accidents on the way back. First, Ah Hong slipped and almost fell, and then Li Jun almost fell into the sewer. It was as if God was targeting the two of them, and bad things kept happening to them.

Even after getting in the car, the situation did not stop. The car started to stall and the car behind rear-ended it.

It was not until the staff retrieved all the surveillance videos from remote streets and collected data on all the people who had stepped on the manhole cover and their subsequent experiences in life that they were able to determine that the ghost's abilities were related to bad luck.

Anyone who steps on the manhole cover will be targeted by the evil spirit, which means that the person will be unlucky for three consecutive days.

On the first day, there were only bad luck incidents like losing money and stepping on dog poop, but basically no one died;
On the second day, the situation worsens to life-threatening accidents such as car accidents and falling objects from heights, and people begin to die;
Death is certain on the third day, similar to the movie Final Destination. Accidents will continue to happen until the person targeted by the evil spirit dies.

Inside the carriage, Ah Hong and Li Jun looked solemn, and they had a bad feeling in their hearts.

According to the information collected so far, it is very likely that the two of them were cursed by the evil spirit in the manhole cover.

Because they encountered several unexpected situations during the short one-hour period of imprisoning the evil spirit on the manhole cover, the driver exclaimed that he was unlucky.

After a brief discussion, the two decided to head to the headquarters to seek help from Professor Wang Xiaoming.

Because if they are really unlucky for three consecutive days as shown in the information, they may die even if they are ghost riders.

Besides, will this bad luck really only last for three days?
Could it be because the average person can only last three days?

If they persisted for three days and the misfortune on the fourth day was even more terrible, what would they do?
Why has the evil spirit on the manhole cover been imprisoned, but the curse of bad luck has not disappeared?
With all kinds of questions lingering in their minds, the two couldn't get the answers and could only ask others for help.

So Li Jun called Wang Xiaoming directly and explained the situation one by one.

After getting their consent, the two changed to a special vehicle and rushed to the headquarters. They encountered all kinds of unimaginable accidents along the way, but fortunately the car did not stall. Finally, they arrived at the headquarters just as night fell.

(End of this chapter)