CHAPTER 1121: CHAPTER 867: THE DAY OF THE AWAKENING OF THE GHOSTS

"So many dead souls." Farosa looked around, the towering black Giant Tower intertwined to form the City of the Dead, more oppressive than a human corporate metropolis; there was no sunlight, rain, or plants here, entirely a domain of Ghosts.

"They’re retreating as you arrive." Yanagawa Fumihiko looked up.

The corpulent ghost entrepreneurs, having already filled their bellies with souls, had heard the news that Farosa and her team eradicated the Bird of Death, and thus began to flee.

These ghost entrepreneurs flew swiftly upstream along the Styx River, surrounded by their loyal phantoms and guards.

"Chase them!" Farosa was excited, the members of Mt. Kuro’s Expedition Team wouldn’t miss a chance to assail ghost entrepreneurs, quickly following along.

"Wait for me—" Yanagawa Fumihiko followed on foot.

They went upstream along the Styx River, only to find a large number of fleeing ghost entrepreneurs intercepted ahead.

"They seem to be fighting!" Wei Shiyue overlooked from the sky.

"With another group of Netherworld Army?" Yao Guang scanned the area.

A large throng of angry ghosts suddenly emerged from the wasteland, highlighting themselves, blocking the path of the ghost entrepreneurs.

Many entrepreneurs had originally escaped, fleeing from Wei Shiyue’s pursuit, only to be blocked!

"It’s those ghost insurgents." Yanagawa Fumihiko observed, "The entrepreneurs originally intended to hire me to eliminate those rebellious Specters; they’re a group of lawless individuals."

Wei Shiyue attacked the managers of the Super Ghost Corporation and their trusted aides from behind, flames swirling fiercely, overpowering many entrepreneurs’ phantom subordinates with insurmountable force, those Specters though powerful couldn’t resist the lunar white flames.

"Ah!"

"Humans from the mortal world are reinforcing us!"

"Kill the corporate dogs!" The angry ghost army surged, forcing the ghost entrepreneurs to surrender urgently.

Leading the insurgent Specters, a furious ghost roared, "You greedy bastards! Only caring about money and power! We were tormented by you while alive, even after death, we’re exploited by you! Damn you! I want to hunt you down; only slaughtering you and dismantling the Soul Company can lead to rebirth!"

The Cyber Specter recorded the ghost’s cries, recognizing it was particularly familiar.

This is...

This is the ghost of Hosoda Yoshiyuki.

Hosoda Yoshiyuki, now a ghost, was still leading an entire rebellious cohort; they hadn’t reincarnated for many years, but opposed the Super Soul Company in the Netherworld!

And only when Farosa and her team scared off these entrepreneurs did they have the opportunity to capture them.

"Hosoda Yoshiyuki! It’s us who came here!" Cyber Specter soared into the sky.

Hosoda Yoshiyuki looked up and saw him, additionally recognizing the few people behind him, surprised.

"I—I don’t have much memory left, but I feel you’re all familiar!" he said.

"We accomplished many incredible things in the mortal world; it’s been nearly three years." Cyber Specter responded.

"I’ve already died!" Hosoda Yoshiyuki exclaimed.

"But your body is still ’alive.’ Those implants in you, you modified yourself too much, leaving your behavioral persona instilled within your brain chip; currently, your body is working as a construction laborer in the mortal world!" Cyber Specter explained.

"Hahaha!" Hosoda Yoshiyuki laughed uncontrollably, "He actually accomplished what I wanted to do!"

"You’ve been fighting here all this time for three years?" Cyber Specter inquired.

"Yes! I detest them. This is the inevitable path to reincarnation, so they can intercept and exploit every Ghost; many could naturally reincarnate but were detained, first required to sign a contract to work for several years at the Super Soul Company before queuing for reincarnation! Now even more terrifying, the Grim Reaper or something is blocking the exit of the Styx River, harvesting all dead souls!" Hosoda Yoshiyuki scorned the Super Soul Company.

His phantom burned with intense black flames, like a vengeful Specter.

"Pomorty..." Farosa gazed towards the end of the Styx River, where ominous shadows flickered.

Under their encirclement, the entrepreneurs of the Super Soul Company were captured despondently; these ghostly figures were powerful and wealthy major business figures in life, but now couldn’t move.

They appeared like soul obese or mountainous, contrasting starkly with other Ghosts, almost crushed by their own weight.

Hosoda Yoshiyuki seized the entrepreneurs and henchmen, confronting them one by one, making them tremble under the gazes of masses of Ghosts.

"Soul Poet! You criticized the New Taixi State’s rampant gun use, violence, and riots all the time when alive; yet you sent your family to the West Coast! Always preaching Northern Archipelago’s people should be diligent, but never worked a day in a factory yourself! After death, you made Ghosts frantically mine, acting as the most atrocious overseer of the Soul Company, I sentence you to doom!" Hosoda Yoshiyuki roared towards one obese old Ghost.

Immediately, Hosoda Yoshiyuki lunged forward to tear it apart and consume it, then proceeded to judge another ghost.

"Death Manager! When you were alive, you constantly collected and sold users’ privacy. You spearheaded the largest facial recognition and big data projects. Even after death, you had the ghosts endlessly performing, introducing the clock-in system to the Afterlife World. I sentence you to destruction! Destruction!" Hosoda Yoshiyuki furiously pounced on another corpulent ghost entrepreneur, ripping its soul apart.

The swarm of ghosts, led by Hosoda Yoshiyuki, devoured the soul substance of the Death Manager. After feasting, these ghosts grew larger in size, including Hosoda Yoshiyuki himself, who also became significantly larger! Power surged! Strength surged! Fury surged!

Hosoda Yoshiyuki sharply turned to a third ghost, trembling uncontrollably. This obese entrepreneur was shaking so much that the soul substance on its body was about to fall apart.

"Apocalypse’s Broker! In life, you cruelly exploited your employees. Your factory experienced two of the century’s largest fires, leading to the deaths of 2,200 innocent female workers! In the Afterlife World, you established a Death Board of Directors, making ghosts pay tribute and taxes, forming your elite circle! I sentence you to destruction! Destruction!" Hosoda Yoshiyuki leaped onto this ghost entrepreneur, tearing into its soul.

The swarm of ghosts rushed forward, tearing apart this mountain of flesh-like, foolish, and wicked ghost entrepreneur. The soul substance within its body continuously leaked out, each soul it had devoured seemed to retain some of its own will. Some ghosts had only just been digested today and were spewed out before being fully consumed, now expressing endless gratitude to Hosoda Yoshiyuki.

"Ahhh!"

"Escaped!"

"Almost got entirely eaten by this guy!" Ghosts fleeing from the entrepreneur’s belly shivered.

Hosoda Yoshiyuki devoured the mountain-like entrepreneur, his own body expanding to several hundred feet in height, with black Soulfire fueling his ever-growing desire for vengeance.

The remaining small and large entrepreneurs trembled even more violently, shivering under Hosoda Yoshiyuki’s gaze.

"And you! Ensuring users could never get a real bargain! Wasting so much time!"

"You! Adding toxic substances to baby formula! You deserve to die too!"

"You damn entrepreneur! Making it impossible for users to uninstall your software! Snooping on user privacy!"

"Even as ghosts you won’t escape! Death won’t spare you from justice!"

"All you entrepreneurial ghosts, die! Die! Perish!" Hosoda Yoshiyuki hunted down the ghost entrepreneurs madly.

Their memories, personalities, and emotions were seized by Hosoda Yoshiyuki, quickly turning dark, becoming his endless reservoir of vengeful energy.

He was an indomitable beast in the human world, even more vicious in the Afterlife World!

Death won’t stop him!

"Tsk..." Yanagawa Fumihiko initially wanted to take action, but witnessing the current fierce and majestic Soulfire of Hosoda Yoshiyuki, he abandoned the thought of engaging him in a life-or-death battle.

"Huff, huff, huff..." Having consumed a great number of entrepreneurial souls, their cruel intellects and evil memories flooded Hosoda Yoshiyuki’s being, impacting his mind, "I’m already deranged! Just as mad as when I was alive! But I must find the end of all this!"

"Angry souls. Ghosts are trapped in the Afterlife World, hence they are caught by the Soul Company. If we defeat Pomorty and reinitiate the death cycle, the ghosts can return directly to the human world, to reincarnate anew." Farosa slowly stated.

Due to the continuous decline in birth rates and insufficient birthing centers, ghosts couldn’t all return to the human world at once, but it would certainly solve the current problem of "ghost quantity surge." If ghosts remained unable to return to the human world, the soul labor force would keep increasing, causing the Super Soul Company to grow rapidly.

"Let’s destroy the Super Soul Company and take all the ghosts away!" Hosoda Yoshiyuki roared as he headed towards the City of the Dead.

Arriving at the City of the Dead, under the incitement of Hosoda Yoshiyuki, a massive horde of ghosts abandoned labor, rushing to attack.

The whole City of the Dead was in chaos, Wei Shiyue soared in the sky, unleashing her dragon might, scaring away the soul-finicky entrepreneurs and guards. Without control, the ghosts frantically escaped from their labors; after all, who wanted to keep working after death?

"Go! Go! Go to reincarnation and rebirth!" The ghost of Hosoda Yoshiyuki hovered over the City of Death.

"The path to reincarnation and rebirth has been blocked! We can’t be reborn anymore!" The ghosts lamented.

"Then we’ll carve out a path ourselves!" Hosoda Yoshiyuki roared.

"Oh oh!"

"Charge!"

"Run quickly!"

The phantoms formed an enormous, boundless horde, madly fleeing the City of the Dead, abandoning this dark Giant Tower, turning away from the Super Ghost Corporation, intending to break through the Afterlife World, reincarnating back to the human realm through rebirth.

Hosoda Yoshiyuki continuously rebelled against corporatism, even more so following his death!

The Death Army of the Super Soul Company couldn’t withstand the power of Mt. Kuro’s Expedition Team. With the backing of Farosa, Wei Shiyue, Easter, Yao Guang, and the Cyber Specter, the ghosts’ path of resistance was particularly smooth!

"Go! Go! Go! We’ll break out of the Afterlife World!" Hosoda Yoshiyuki’s ghost bellowed at the ghosts.

The assembly of ghosts stormed forward, directly rushing to the bottom of the Styx River!