Chapter 48: Inescapable Death!
“Jiang Shan, ha… haha, this is Yan Li. I’m in a suburb of Dachang City right now. I feel the Ghost Blood is about to resurrect. I’ll send you the address, come quickly!”
Yan Li was panting heavily. Just from his weak, barely audible voice, one could tell his current condition was very bad.
As if he would suddenly die in the next second.
“I’ll head there right away.” Jiang Shan, who was already in the car, immediately replied.
“Good, come quick. Someone else is coming! I’m hanging up first!”
“Beep beep beep~”
Jiang Shan looked at the hung-up phone with furrowed brows. According to the original work, Yan Li wouldn’t have the Ghost Blood resurrect for at least one or two days.
But from the situation on the other end of the phone, it seemed Yan Li had been chased and killed for quite some time.
“Is it because of my involvement that Yan Li’s situation has worsened?” Jiang Shan thought to himself as he drove.
The address Yan Li sent on the mobile phone was not close for him. According to the navigation, it would take at least an hour and a half to drive there.
“The Ghost Blood must be detained. It’s a puzzle piece personally selected by the Ghost Characters. I absolutely cannot let the Ghost Blood fall into others’ hands.”
Even if Jiang Shan wouldn’t control the Ghost Blood in the short term, he had to take it into his own hands no matter what.
Just as Jiang Shan was driving and putting the Withered Finger into his pocket, the Ghost Characters prophecy that had been silent for a long time surprisingly appeared in his mind once again.
The scene in his mind showed:
In a viscous endless blood pool, a humanoid silhouette, a weird existence covered entirely in fresh blood, was quietly standing in the center of the blood pool.
“It’s that ghost in the Ghost Blood.”
The moment Jiang Shan saw this ghost covered entirely in fresh blood, he immediately recalled its existence.
Then he continued watching:
Floating beside that Blood Ghost was a man’s corpse. The corpse seemed to have been gnawed by countless maggots, with its skin surface already exposing white fat and rotten flesh and blood.
One ghost and one corpse were just soaking in the crimson blood pool like this.
Then the scene disappeared, and the Ghost Characters returned to deathly stillness.
Seeing all this, Jiang Shan’s heart raced uncontrollably. Perhaps others wouldn’t recognize the back of that corpse, but he knew that corpse was himself!
“Am I going to die?!”
Looking at the scene from the Ghost Characters prophecy, Jiang Shan was greatly shocked. He sat in the car somewhat incredulously.
There was a ghost in the Ghost Blood. Jiang Shan had known this from the beginning.
In the original work, that ghost escaped from the Ghost Blood after its resurrection and finally disappeared into the fields of Dachang City.
And after that ghost left, the Ghost Blood began endless spreading, from an initial pool of blood to a blood pool, and eventually almost turning into a Ghost Lake!
So Jiang Shan guessed that the ghost was a terrifying existence suppressed by the Ghost Blood.
After all, the Ghost Blood that could balance the Ghost Lake seemed so ordinary in the early stage just because of its suppression.
Therefore, Jiang Shan decided to detain the Ghost Blood at the first moment after Yan Li’s death, specifically to prevent that ghost from escaping.
But what exactly happened? The Ghost Blood had actually resurrected to such an extent, even evolving into a blood pool, and why would he be killed by that ghost?
Jiang Shan stopped the car. At this moment, he was hesitating whether this trip to detain the Ghost Blood was worth it.
Would he really die at the hands of that Blood Ghost?
Thinking of the description in the original work, the Ghost Blood continuously resurrected after Yan Li’s death, forming a small blood pool only after half an hour.
And the blood pool in the scene, which was the size of a fish pond, was definitely not caused by the Ghost Blood’s natural resurrection.
“Could it be because those people chasing Yan Li died in the Ghost Blood? That’s why the Ghost Blood expanded so dramatically?”
“That’s entirely possible.”
Jiang Shan was well aware that a fierce ghost killing people would increase the ghost’s terror level.
Just like the Ghost Rope, which was originally just a straw rope that continuously resurrected to increase in quantity,
But after it killed ordinary people, the increase in straw ropes far exceeded natural resurrection.
“But why didn’t I detain the Ghost Blood in time, instead letting it resurrect freely? Could there have been some unexpected change, leading to me not detaining the Ghost Blood?”
Jiang Shan already had a rough guess about the cause of the blood pool’s formation, but the most fundamental problem still puzzled him.
Most of those chasing Yan Li were from the Ghost Hunting Squad, ordinary people specialized in ambushing Ghost Wielders, with at most one or two Ghost Wielders in the team.
If Yan Li was still alive when he arrived, given his current abilities, there wouldn’t be any accidents at all.
But in the scene from the Ghost Characters prophecy,
Not only did an accident happen, but he also died!
Just as Jiang Shan was about to use the Ghost Characters to actively trigger the prophecy ability, he suddenly stopped. He realized that the scenes from the Ghost Characters prophecy always carried an inducing nature.
From the initial prophecy scene telling him: the Ghost Painting was heading toward the school, and if he didn’t quickly find a way to leave, he would die at the hands of the Ghost Painting;
Then in the Ghost Tree Forest incident, it showed him that no matter which fierce ghost he used, he would die under the curse of the Ghost Tree Forest.
And this time, he would die at the hands of the ghost that escaped from the Ghost Blood.
Every time the Ghost Characters prophesied for Jiang Shan, it always hinted at his death, but it never told him the cause of death.
This weird feeling was just like the first sentence written by the Human Skin Paper to its holder: “I am Yang Jian. When you see this letter, I am already dead.” It made one desperately want to find the cause of their own death.
For Jiang Shan, every time he saw the scene of his own death, he felt no different. Every time he wanted to use the Ghost Characters’ active prophecy ability to find the cause of his death and a way to survive.
But trading with a ghost, even a dead machine ghost, did it not require a price?
Jiang Shan knew better than anyone that this was absolutely impossible.
Whether it was the already dead machine Ghost Characters or the Human Skin Paper, in some ways, they were exactly the same.
“What exactly is the purpose of the Ghost Characters inducing me to actively prophesy?”
Thinking of those countless eyes coveting him, the chill in Jiang Shan’s heart grew even stronger.
“The Ghost Characters’ prophecy should be used as little as possible. Who knows what its true purpose is. This action to detain the Ghost Blood is hereby terminated. If I die at the hands of that ghost, it goes against my intention to survive. I can only let Yan Li, like in the original work, find a remote place to wait for the Ghost Blood’s resurrection.”
In the time it took to smoke one cigarette, Jiang Shan weighed all the pros and cons and finally made a decision.
The Ghost Blood in Yan Li’s body was already on the verge of resurrection, and he had no way to save Yan Li.
Moreover, for Jiang Shan, the Ghost Characters’ prophecy had blatantly told him that if he insisted on detaining the Ghost Blood, he would undoubtedly die.
Even if the Ghost Blood was suspected to be a puzzle piece of the Ghost Characters, the risk of this action was simply too great.
With that thought, Jiang Shan took out his phone, found Yan Li’s name, and was about to call when,
The scene from the Ghost Characters prophecy surprisingly appeared in his mind once again:
On a deathly still urban area street, viscous crimson fresh blood covered every corner of the street, with even traces of splattered fresh blood on the surrounding buildings.
And the ghost that walked out from the Ghost Blood appeared once again at the center of the scene. This time, there was no blood pool or corpse beside it, only a head quietly standing next to that ghost, staring puzzled at the distance with wide-open eyes.
The final scene showed nothing, only the black haze of the Dead Face Ghost spreading and permeating.
As expected,
The owner of that head was still Jiang Shan!
Scene terminated
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