Chapter 148: Unrecallable
The faint music lingering around Zhang Qian’s ears had dissipated, but his mood had become somewhat heavy at this moment.
This eerie music seemed to contain some kind of taboo, unobservable and unmemorable.
Zhang Qian clearly knew of its existence, yet he couldn’t, and didn’t dare, think about its details.
“Using memory as the attack condition, it’s really quite idealistic…”
Forcibly pushing that melody aside, Zhang Qian stopped focusing on the specific content of the music and began to think about what kind of existence it was.
“This feeling is too familiar. Perhaps the culprit that made me lose my memory is this melody.”
“This sound definitely comes from a fierce ghost. It’s a very terrifying supernatural attack. Even I, who has devoured three fierce ghosts, couldn’t hold out for long against it.”
Although the fierce ghosts on Zhang Qian’s body had all been suppressed to varying degrees, with their supernatural resistance weakened, he hadn’t felt any resistance at all just now—he had been hit unknowingly.
Undoubtedly, his compatibility with this fierce ghost was very poor.
To use an inappropriate metaphor, it was like a tank that specialized in physical defense encountering a ghost that only dealt magic damage, with defense power basically at zero.
“But this time the situation is a bit strange. The memory recovery speed was very fast, and there were no signs at all.”
Strangely enough, even Zhang Qian himself was puzzled, not knowing how he had escaped this influence.
To be safe, he took out his mobile phone again and checked the time.
“Compared to the time I saw at the beginning, only more than ten minutes have passed. So, I really only lost consciousness for an instant just now.”
“Could it be this thing helped me again?”
Zhang Qian looked at the ghost map somewhat incredulously. This dead fish-like, limp thing didn’t look like it had that ability at all.
Moreover, after he had abused it so much, could it still kindly repay him?
“It could also be that I’m overthinking it. That music only appeared for an instant, after all. Even if it itself is very terrifying, the supernatural power it carries shouldn’t be much.”
“Thinking of it that way, it being able to affect me for only an instant is normal.”
“If I could grasp the pattern of when this sound appears, then this instant wouldn’t be a big deal.”
But the problem is that the pattern of when the music starts is unpredictable. Caught off guard, even just an instant of losing consciousness could lead to very serious consequences.
After all, there are more dangers on the ghost ship than just losing memory. Zhang Qian had already encountered seven or eight fierce ghosts, and the actual number was impossible to estimate.
If he suddenly forgot how to use true qi or what kind of existence a fierce ghost was during a confrontation with one, no matter how skilled Zhang Qian was, he would definitely be done for.
“More than six hours have passed since I entered the ghost ship, but this musical sound hasn’t appeared.”
“So the problem lies with me now.”
Was it because his memory recovered and he was discovered by the fierce ghost that he became the target of the fierce ghost’s attack?
“That makes sense. If treating memory recovery as the fierce ghost’s attack condition, I must have been normal when I first entered the ghost ship. At that time, I also met this attack condition, so I lost my memory due to the attack.”
If that’s really the case, then the next attack would come sooner or later, and he needed to take some preparatory measures.
“I don’t know if that method still works, but having it is better than not.” Zhang Qian muttered, and the true qi in his body began to flow.
Moments later.
He looked at the two ghost hands lying on the bed on the ground and grinned.
“Just this? The ghost ship’s suppression is really harsh, though it could also be that the ghost hands are too weak and completely unable to activate their ability under the ghost ship’s suppression.”
A single derived ghost hand’s ability isn’t strong. Its greatest terror lies in the endless quantity, but now Zhang Qian tried and found he could only summon a scant few ghost hands.
Even the summoned ghost hands were listless, their five fingers limp like muscle weakness, unable to even prop up the palm while lying on the bed.
“Whatever, I’m not counting on them to fight anyway.”
Stepping forward to pick up these two useless things, Zhang Qian adjusted the angle and placed them respectively beside his left and right ears, using them as earmuffs.
This trick had some effect against the foghorn sound. He didn’t know how it would perform against the music.
To verify it, the safest way was naturally to stay in the room and wait for the musical sound to ring again before testing the effect.
However, the pattern of when that sound occurs was still unclear. If he waited for half a day with no movement, it would just be a waste of time.
The time flow rate on the ghost ship was very slow, but that didn’t mean he could waste it casually.
He didn’t even have a clue where the captain was, and could even say he hadn’t left the newbie protection area yet, with no idea how long the subsequent process would take.
If he dragged it out until the ghost ship’s resurgence, that would truly be all for nothing.
“If this sound attacking me was premeditated, really because my memory recovered, then I should still be its attack target now.”
“In this state, the fierce ghost’s attack won’t come too slowly.”
“Five minutes. If no attack comes after five minutes, I’ll have to put it aside for now.”
He could use this time to study the ghost map in his hand and see if this thing had any other uses.
Time passed quickly.
During this time, Zhang Qian played some extreme challenges with the ghost map again, but the ghost map remained aloof, showing no response.
The image displayed on the map showed no changes either, even when Zhang Qian deliberately scratched it with his fingers—he couldn’t alter the thick ink marks.
In this short time, that eerie musical sound didn’t appear again, as if it had vanished completely, sparing Zhang Qian this target.
“Maybe that attack isn’t easy for the fierce ghost either, needing a long interval before it can be launched again?”
After all, although a fierce ghost’s supernatural power is infinite, it’s not the kind of infinite like an endless sea that ordinary people imagine.
In Zhang Qian’s view, a fierce ghost was more like a container holding supernatural power, with supernatural power constantly appearing out of thin air inside the container every moment.
But this supernatural power wouldn’t overflow from the container, so a fierce ghost’s limit was locked from the start, unable to “loan” an attack exceeding its own limit.
This manifested as differences in terror levels between different fierce ghosts. There was no situation where everyone had infinite supernatural power, so their strength was the same.
As for why he reached this conclusion, it was naturally a reasonable deduction Zhang Qian made based on his experience from suppressing fierce ghosts.
According to this deduction, if a fierce ghost’s single attack consumed too much supernatural power, a vacuum period was possible.
Just like normal recharging or skill cooldown.
