Chapter 10 A Good Plan

Huai Yi swallowed a mouthful of saliva tinged with blood, watching Shen Mengyun's coy appearance, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that Jiang Cheng was good at playing these games.

After about 7 or 8 minutes, a group of sculpture ghosts ran back from another direction. The formation was sparse, indicating that their stamina was not unlimited.

Jiang Cheng pointed them in another direction, telling them to continue climbing the stairs.

Through the gap, Fatty saw a sculpture ghost at the back panting for breath, holding onto the wall, still trying to keep up. He couldn't help but feel that they were having a tough time.

When all the ghosts had disappeared, Fatty poked his head out and whispered, "Doctor, what's our next step..."

Suddenly, a sculpture ghost appeared around the corner. Because it was just a half-body statue without legs, it could only crawl on the ground.

It seemed to be a straggler from the previous group.

Fatty immediately retracted his head.

Jiang Cheng imitated his previous actions, gesticulating wildly at the half-body statue ghost.

But as this ghost crawled past Jiang Cheng, it seemed to notice something strange, turning its head and looking towards the location where Fatty and the others were hiding.

No matter how Jiang Cheng gestured at it, it didn't move. After a few seconds, it actually changed direction, propping up its upper body and crawling towards the corner behind it.

Suddenly, its body froze. Due to the angle, it caught sight of Fatty's legs hidden in the shadows.

The sculpture immediately turned its head, pointing its finger at the place where Fatty and the others were hiding, straightening its neck. But before it could call for help, the outstretched hand was grabbed, and it was suddenly dragged into the darkness.

At first, there was a sound of kicking and punching, but after a muffled "thump," everything went silent.

After a while, Huai Yi cautiously peeked out, looked around, and, finding no movement, gave Jiang Cheng an "OK" gesture.

From Jiang Cheng's angle, he could see Fatty holding a hammer in his left hand and the statue's half-arm in his right, his head down, muttering about how many ghosts had passed by, but this one had to be so eagle-eyed, having its head smashed open.

"Okay," Jiang Cheng said, jumping out of the wooden rack. He took off his work clothes and handed them to Shen Mengyun. "Miss Shen, please put this on."

Fatty and Huai Yi's eyes turned red with envy.

"I don't want to, Mr. Jiang, you should wear it," Shen Mengyun said.

"Doctor," Fatty said, staring at the work clothes, swallowing. "Actually, I can wear it too."

"Me too," Huai Yi raised his hand.

Not giving Shen Mengyun a chance to refuse, Jiang Cheng directly helped Shen Mengyun put on the clothes, not avoiding their physical contact. Shen Mengyun reluctantly complied.

After she changed, Jiang Cheng nodded to Shen Mengyun. "Just hide here. As long as you don't make a sound, they will treat you as one of their own."

Jiang Cheng then looked at Fatty and the others. "I counted just now, and there are 19 scratches left on the clothes. That means there are still 19 resurrected sculptures. We have to deal with them."

Counting the eagle-eyed half-body statue just now, the guiding ghost, and the two that Jiang Cheng and Huai Yi had teamed up to eliminate, they had dealt with a total of 4 resurrected sculptures.

But originally there were as many as 25 resurrected sculptures, and now there are 19 left. Two don't add up.

Jiang Cheng turned his head to look at Wang Qi, who hadn't spoken the whole time. The latter looked at him with the same expression, and a smile spread across his face as if he sensed something. "Two were chasing too closely earlier, so I took care of them."

"That's right, that's what happened. You didn't know, Doctor, but two ghosts suddenly jumped out of the corner and were about to pounce on me. Fortunately, Brother Wang Qi reacted quickly, otherwise I would have been in trouble," Fatty explained for Wang Qi.

"Is that so?" Jiang Cheng said, smiling at Fatty. "Wang Fugui, you have so many brothers."

In the distance, there was a sound of hurried footsteps again, as the ghosts turned around again.

This time, the group didn't waste any time. Jiang Cheng instructed Shen Mengyun not to let the sculpture ghosts stop, to exhaust their stamina, and then try to lead them to the stairs on the left and right sides.

After leaving Shen Mengyun, the group finally decided that Jiang Cheng would team up with Huai Yi, and Wang Qi would lead Fatty.

The two groups split up to lie in ambush, hiding in the shadows to catch the stragglers.

Anyway, there were 19 left, and killing one was one less.

Although Fatty preferred to follow Jiang Cheng, he wasn't as resistant to Wang Qi, who had just saved him. "Then Doctor, be careful!"

But to Fatty's surprise, Jiang Cheng just glanced at him and ran off. And Fatty remembered Jiang Cheng's last look, feeling like he had something to say.

"Don't get distracted," Wang Qi patted him on the shoulder.

"Oh."

Jiang Cheng and Huai Yi chose to ambush in a room at the end of the corridor. The space inside was relatively large, with several rooms connected by doors.

Even if they were blocked inside by ghosts, they could leave from other rooms, which would prevent the previous incident from happening again.

Huai Yi hadn't said a word the whole way, until they were hiding behind the door and had settled down completely, he hesitated to look at Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng glanced at the door through the crack. "Speak your mind."

Huai Yi hesitated for a moment, but still whispered, "Brother Jiang, you and Brother Fugui... have known each other for a long time, right?"

"Yeah," Jiang Cheng nodded. "In a few days, it will be a month and a half."

Huai Yi: "???"

"I know what you want to say, something is indeed off about him and Wang Qi," Jiang Cheng paused and continued, "But I trust him, he won't hurt us."

"I also think Brother Fugui isn't that kind of person, I just feel that this mission is strange from the beginning," Huai Yi scratched his head in distress. "We just came to find someone, how did we get dragged into this?"

"And, Wang Qi, what exactly are they..."

"Shhh—"

Jiang Cheng gestured for silence.

Slowly, there were scattered footsteps and the sound of "shasha" crawling, approaching from far away. These sculpture ghosts were exhausted, and their speed was much slower than before.

After most of the footsteps had passed, Jiang Cheng noticed that there were still two sculpture ghosts lagging behind the main group, walking together, supporting each other, the two ghosts together having three arms.

Jiang Cheng gestured to Huai Yi, and when the two sculpture ghosts passed by the door, Jiang Cheng suddenly opened the door, and then the two of them dragged the ghosts in one by one.

After a while, with a few muffled sounds, the room was completely silent.

Jiang Cheng casually threw half of the ghost's head on the ground and shook off the dust on his body. "How are you?" he asked Huai Yi.

Huai Yi said tremblingly, "Brother Jiang, to be honest, I've been on missions for quite a while, and I've always been chased by ghosts. I never thought that one day I could hide in the dark and sneak attack ghosts."

Jiang Cheng exhaled and advised in the tone of someone who had been there, "Don't be nervous, there's a first time for everything, you'll get used to it."

"Th-thank you... Thank you for your guidance, Brother Jiang."

"It's nothing."

......

Jiang Cheng strictly adhered to the tactical principle of hitting and running, ambushing four waves of straggling sculpture ghosts in a row. Except for one that wasn't very cooperative, the rest went peacefully.

Just as they had been waiting for 10 minutes and there was no movement outside, Jiang Cheng and Huai Yi were preparing to change their ambush location.

But as soon as they went out the door and hadn't walked far, they saw a sculpture ghost staggering out from behind a corner in the distance. The two groups spotted each other almost simultaneously.

Originally, the sculpture ghost was excited when it saw people, but soon the expression on its face changed, because it found that the two people on the other side seemed even happier than it was.

"Catch it!" Jiang Cheng pointed, and Huai Yi immediately pounced.

After seeing Jiang Cheng and Huai Yi rushing towards it, for some reason, the sculpture ghost suddenly felt cowardly and turned to run.

Jiang Cheng and Huai Yi chased it all the way to the second-floor corridor but still let it get away.

"Brother Jiang," Huai Yi said, opening several doors in a row, without finding any trace of the sculpture ghost, and said regretfully, "It got away."

"Forget it, no time to worry about it, let's find the others," Jiang Cheng said, taking one last look at the empty corridor before leaving with Huai Yi.

The corridor became quiet again.

About a minute later, a crack slowly opened in a tightly closed door in the middle of the second-floor corridor, and a gray-white eyeball peered through the gap.

It looked around for a long time, and only after confirming that the people were gone did the sculpture ghost open the door and cautiously step out one foot.

Sticking to the wall, bending over, and lowering its head, the sculpture ghost, which had survived a disaster, tiptoed towards the other side of the corridor, for fear of making any noise that would attract the two people back.

But before it could sneak to the other end of the corridor, it heard a "tsk" sound, and then the sculpture ghost stopped in its tracks, trembling as it raised its head.

It happened to see two heads poking out from the corner, one on the left and one on the right, staring at it with wicked smiles, as if they had been waiting for a long time.

"Brother Jiang," Huai Yi grinned. "You're still one step ahead. How did you know it hadn't run far and was hiding nearby?"

The sculpture ghost couldn't run faster than Jiang Cheng and Huai Yi at all. In desperation, it crashed open another door and tried to lock the door from the inside and hide.

But there was no lock on the door!

Huai Yi rushed to the door and kicked it open.

The sculpture ghost was hit by the door and fell to the ground, still trying its best to crawl into the room. Huai Yi and Jiang Cheng each grabbed a leg and dragged it out the door.

While dragging it, the two also exchanged tips on how to quickly smash the ghost's head. Jiang Cheng and Huai Yi explained a few things that needed special attention, and even said that Huai Yi would do it later, and he would stand aside and guide him.

The sculpture ghost grabbed the door frame and refused to let go, and two lines of blood tears flowed from its gray-white eye sockets. It made a whirring sound in its mouth, looking both scary and pitiful.

"Don't do this," Jiang Cheng let go of his hand, squatted beside it, and persuaded it in a very sincere voice, "You're making it difficult for us."

"Woo woo..."

"Brother Jiang, don't waste time talking to it, I'll just..." Huai Yi walked over with a grim smile, taking out his weapon.

But what no one expected happened: the half-dead sculpture ghost suddenly jumped up, bumping Huai Yi into a stumble.

Then it rushed to the window, turned its head, and stared at Jiang Cheng and Huai Yi with its gray-white eyes full of blood and tears, then stomped its foot and jumped out of the window.

By the time Jiang Cheng and the others arrived, a "splat" sound had just been heard downstairs. The sculpture ghost, like a normal sculpture, shattered into pieces.