Hide and Seek: The Mad Girl Sees All novel Chapter 116

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Chapter 116

Lana put the marker back on the whiteboard tray. “Next, let’s talk about the counterattack.”

She looked around. “Lyra’s Transform Card has four uses left. It’s a game item, and every use is one less. Save the rest for the game itself, so no more using it to explore the Wraith zone.”

Lyra opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but then closed it again.

“But today’s exploration has proven one thing.” Lana said.

She tapped the words “Ghost Wall” on the whiteboard.

“The soldiers before us didn’t have the Heavenly Eye or Transform Cards. They went through the Ghost Wall as living people and entered the Wraith zone.”

“So, the living can enter.”

“But we still don’t know what it’ll cost us.”

Lana fixed her gaze on Lyra.

“What we need to do is find a way for the living to safely enter the Wraith zone before the next game starts.”

Ms. Reed sighed. “If only we could figure out a way to use Vital Flame values for offense or defense.”

She rested her hands on the table, her fingers absentmindedly rubbing against each other.

“So far, we’ve only found ways to boost Vital Flame values, but they’re all passive and take forever.”

“Once we step into the Wraith zone, Vital Flame values keep dropping, and they go down way faster than they ever go up.”

Ms. Reed paused. “If Vital Flame values are some kind of energy, they shouldn’t just be numbers on a screen. They should actually do something in the real world.”

“But as for how to use it, we have absolutely no clue right now.”

Garrett thought for a moment. “Ms. Reed, I’ve got an idea, but I’m not sure if it’s right.”

Ms. Reed looked at him, and he continued, “Do you think Buddhist or Taoist scriptures might mention anything about this kind of energy?”

Garrett rested one hand on the edge of the table.

“Spirit, soul, and essence, those are Taoist concepts. And the Wraiths and ghosts we’re dealing with now fall under the supernatural, too.”

“If people in the past ever ran into this, maybe they wrote down some ways to handle it in their scriptures or cultivation manuals.”

The room went quiet for a couple of seconds as everyone mulled it over.

Lana nodded. “I agree, but we shouldn’t just stick to Taoism or Buddhism.”

“Let’s check out everything, Draconia’s folklore, local histories, mystical legends, even old handwritten notes from regular folks. Nothing’s off limits.”

She turned to the communications officer. “Draft an announcement under the Defense Ministry’s name. Tell everyone, if

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you’ve got any old books, handwritten notes, or even stories about ghost-banishing, spirit communication, the three souls and seven spirits, or spirit cultivation, report them.”

Garrett muttered. “Isn’t that way too broad? We’ll get a pile of real and fake stuff mixed together, and sorting through it all is going to be a huge headache…”

Lana cut him off. “Doesn’t matter how big the scope is, we have to do it.”

Lana interrupted him, “You really think we can storm in and wipe out all the Wraiths with just Lyra’s ten Soul Deck cards?”

No one answered.

“We can’t kill them all,” Lana answered herself.

“There are countless Wraiths out there. Ten Soul Deck cards are just a drop in the bucket. We might take out a few dozen today, but tomorrow there’ll be hundreds more. And what about the day after that?”

“The only real way is to figure out how the living can kill these Wraiths.”

“A nationwide counterattack isn’t just a slogan. We can’t rely on individual strength alone to take back our land. The people are our best bet.”

Garrett straightened up. “Yes.”

Lana looked around the room. “Anyone else have anything to add?”

The room went quiet for a few seconds.

Lyra raised her hand. “I have a question.”

Lana looked at her.

“Do other countries have Ghost Walls too, or is it just us?” Lyra asked.

As soon as Lyra asked, a few people’s faces shifted.

Garrett was the first to speak. “Lyra, the Ghost Wall is something only you can spot with your Heavenly Eye. Regular folks can’t see it, not even a hint. So even if other countries have them, they’d be totally clueless.”

“Unless they’ve got someone out there with powers like yours.”

Lyra tilted her head. “But what if they don’t? What if we’re the only ones with a Ghost Wall?”

Ms. Reed tapped her fingers on the table, but didn’t say anything. Nobody could tell if the Ghost Wall was a worldwide thing or just something unique to us.

Lana took the question. “I’ll reach out to the Alliance States.”

“First, they need to conduct a nationwide search for anyone who might have powers similar to the Heavenly Eye.”

“Second, the Alliance States should conduct experiments along the borders of their Invasion Zones.”

“For instance, set out organic items like apples and vegetables at varying distances from the Wraith zone, placing them at regular intervals, and monitor how quickly they decay depending on how close they are.”

Garrett was jotting down notes when he looked up. “So, what exactly are we checking for?”

“We re testing how fast living things lose their vitality, Lana replied.

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“If stuff rots faster in areas with a Ghost Wall than in places without, we can deduce whether their country has a Ghost Wall

too,

“We won’t even need the Heavenly Eye to check.”

Lyra glanced around thoughtfully. That’s actually a pretty smart approach, she thought to herself.

“Meeting adjourned, Lana said.

It was ten o’clock at night in the dormitory building.

Lyra lay in bed, staring up at the ceiling, unable to sleep for once.

The scenes from the day kept replaying in her mind, the Ghost Wall, the Wraiths….

She kicked off the covers, sat up, and laid out all her items one by one.

The Transform Card still had four uses left.

“You’re the one I’ve burned through the hardest,” Lyra said, placing the Transform Card on the far left.

Decoy Doll.

“I only used it once during the test, so I’ve got nine lives left on it,” Lyra said.

She set the doll next to the Transform Card and flicked its head. The head tipped back, then bounced right back into place.

Lyra thought, ‘Nice. That feels pretty good.’

Lyra thought, Wait a second.’

The Decoy Doll’s effect was simple: whenever you’re about to die, the doll takes the hit for you and zaps you somewhere safe.

Lyra wondered. What if I pushed through the Ghost Wall alive while holding the Decoy Doll?’

If my Vital Flame values crash to a deadly low while I’m crossing, would the doll kick in?

Lyra mulled it over and thought. Yeah, this could be worth trying.

She nudged the doll to the right, putting it in the pile of things to try out.

Wraithslayer.

“You’re good as you are, no need to mess with you,” Lyra said.

Token.

Lyra turned the Token over in her hands a couple of times, and the game description popped into her mind.

Just a piece of junk,” she muttered.

Scrying Orb.

“It lets you see the most vivid memories from a Wraith’s life,” Lyra said.

Lyra pressed her finger to the Scrying Orb and wondered. ‘If it can show a Wraith’s memories, what about the spirits in the

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Lyra thought. They’re not Wraiths, they’re real spirits. But the Scrying Orb reads fragments from a soul’s memories

Lyra wondered, ‘What if I used the Scrying Orb on one of the spirits inside the Ghost Wall?”

Would it show me how the Ghost Wall was created?

Would it reveal how they all got gathered there?

Lyra wondered, ‘Could I find out who gathered them there?”

The more Lyra thought about it, the more workable it seemed. If she paired the Scrying Orb with the Dream Butterfly. maybe she could awaken one spirit, just like Jane and the others.

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