Chapter 148: The Biggest Loophole
For a full ten or more minutes, Jiang Shan and Hong Ze had been listening to “He Qiong’s” account.
Through her description, Jiang Shan already had a clear understanding of the current situation:
As long as he helped this He Qiong in front of him, who was about to control the Ghost Lotus,
not only would that Republic of China Ghost Wielder’s plan fall through, but the Ghost Rain’s resurrection would also be restricted.
At this moment,
he was constantly analyzing every word He Qiong said in his mind.
After thinking for a moment,
Jiang Shan looked at the lotus flower-like He Qiong and deliberately said:
“According to what you said, if Shen Bao does this, he might successfully control the Ghost Rain in no time, and then Dachun City’s so-called crisis would naturally be solved. So why should I help you?”
Jiang Shan glanced at the Ghost Candle in his hand that could still burn for more than twenty minutes, and continued calmly:
“I don’t care who controls the Ghost Rain or who controls the Ghost Lotus. I just want to solve this Supernatural Event. If I can’t solve it, I’ll run. With what you said, I have no interest in your plan.”
“Once Shen Bao controls the Ghost Rain, the hundreds of ghosts suppressed inside the Ghost Rain will lose their restraints. I’ve personally experienced that Ghost Tide; every ghost in there is at least B-level!”
“Do you think Shen Bao will help you detain those ghosts? At that time, it won’t just be Dachun City; the entire Dag Province will be plunged into misery and suffering. You would be the sinner of the ages!”
Hearing Jiang Shan’s words, that He Qiong’s unique eight-person chorus became angry:
“As long as you burn a piece of grayish-white paper money within the Ghost Park’s range, you can immediately roll back from here.”
“Shen Bao is searching for me in this Ghost Pool. The Ghost Lotus still needs at least four hours to rewind my consciousness, because my Eighth Life was attacked by Shen Bao, causing a part of the supernatural to be missing.”
“So this rebirth of mine will occur on the current timeline. If you’re afraid of dying, get out quickly, leave Dachun City, don’t die here and add a few more wandering ghosts to this city!”
After saying this, He Qiong no longer continued speaking.
The atmosphere fell into deathly stillness.
Time passed second by second,
Chilling wind blew, causing countless Dead Person Lotuses in the Ghost Pool to sway slightly.
Waves of fetid smell and the rotten odor of mud were also carried along with this cold air.
“Pa!”
The sound of a lighter igniting rang out.
With a bright, blazing flame lighting up, a piece of grayish-white paper money quickly burned in Jiang Shan’s hand.
In just a few seconds,
A muddy road emanating a chilling aura appeared out of thin air in some dark shadow around the two.
After searching nearby for a while, Jiang Shan pulled something out of the mud.
“See you later if fate allows.”
After saying that, Jiang Shan put that mud-covered thing into the handbag, then unhesitatingly walked toward that muddy road.
Watching the gradually illusory road and Jiang Shan’s almost vanishing back, Hong Ze hesitated and struggled for a few seconds before gritting his teeth and quickly following.
Even though that muddy road had completely disappeared, He Qiong, who was about to be completely eroded by the Ghost Lotus, didn’t say another word.
She had said everything she needed to say, and even quite a bit she shouldn’t have.
Jiang Shan’s attitude was completely beyond her expectations; she felt furious yet helpless.
Still the familiar muddy road.
Countless grave mounds, countless coffins inserted into the grave mounds.
Walking on the road, Jiang Shan looked at the familiar grave mounds around him, and his mind couldn’t help but recall the weird pool water in the Ghost Pool.
That Ghost Pool not only possessed supernatural properties but could also suppress Fierce Ghosts, yet the feeling it gave him was just like ordinary pool water tainted with supernatural.
The so-called Ghost Pool completely lacked the obvious characteristics of a ghost.
No radiating supernatural, no killing pattern, no killing process, and no killing method.
While walking, Jiang Shan suddenly thought of something.
He immediately stopped, his gaze sweeping over the variously shaped grave mounds around him, his heart jolting:
“Luo Qian Endless Graveyard’s grave mounds? That Ghost Pool’s pool water is Ghost Lake?”
Although Jiang Shan was slightly surprised for a moment, he quickly calmed down and thought to himself:
“It seems the Ghost Rain even has the ability to steal supernatural. Forget it, I don’t want to think about this anymore. That He Qiong is somewhat strange; what she wants to do is definitely not as simple as what she said.”
From the time when it was still Qin Xi’s consciousness, the blurted-out phrase “Ghost Script” had made him suspicious.
He had said the term “Ghost Characters” in front of Qin Xi.
According to normal logic, once a person’s memory has a corresponding name for something,
in that kind of crisis, most normal people would say the first thing that comes to their subconscious mind.
This indicates that
Ghost Script appeared in Qin Xi’s consciousness earlier than Ghost Characters.
But Jiang Shan had known them for less than a day.
So those two words “Ghost Script” were quite intriguing.
It was from that moment that Jiang Shan became full of vigilance and wariness toward the so-called Ghost Lotus controller He Qiong.
He even pretended to be selfish and afraid of death to show He Qiong, wanting her to say more.
The facts proved that Jiang Shan’s action worked.
From He Qiong’s words, he discovered many suspicious points, such as:
The Ghost Lotus, which could even have a foothold in the Ghost Rain’s Ghost Domain, absolutely wouldn’t have a low terror level.
Why was He Qiong, as the Person in Charge, so confident that she could restrict the Ghost Rain after controlling the Ghost Lotus?
And why had Sun Yan, suspected to be the initial Ghost Lotus controller, not said a single word from beginning to end? If she really wanted to convince Jiang Shan, wouldn’t her and He Qiong’s words together be more convincing?
The only possible reason Sun Yan didn’t appear:
She wasn’t in that lotus flower-like He Qiong’s body at all!
Thinking of this, Jiang Shan’s face darkened.
However, these were just his guesses. In truth, if really looking for reasons, these two points could still be explained.
After all, in Supernatural Events, all kinds of sudden situations are too common, nothing to be surprised about.
What made him feel He Qiong had a problem the most was that sentence: “Once Shen Bao controls the Ghost Rain, the hundreds of ghosts suppressed inside the Ghost Rain will lose their restraints. I’ve personally experienced that Ghost Tide; every ghost in there is at least B-level!”
“Hundreds of ghosts? Personally experienced? At least B-level? Heh.”
When he first heard this sentence, Jiang Shan had already confirmed in his heart that He Qiong definitely had issues.
Perhaps the person borrowing He Qiong’s body thought this sentence was enough to fool most Ghost Wielders.
Unfortunately,
Jiang Shan’s previous crazy action had made him discover the loophole in this sentence.
When Ghost Characters covered nearly half of the ghosts in that woods Ghost Tide, that scene seemed incredibly impressive, as if Jiang Shan could already suppress a Group of Ghosts, emulating Emperor Zhang Tian.
But he knew better than anyone what the actual situation was.
Even though Ghost Characters hadn’t launched a killing attack, its essence was still a ghost.
Contact between ghosts inevitably leads to confrontation.
Although Ghost Characters’ terror level had been elevated after Ghost Blood became a puzzle piece, suppressing a Group of Ghosts was still too much for the current Jiang Shan or Ghost Characters.
In the original work,
When Yang Jian, who had already become an Anomaly, was delivering a letter to Zhang Dong, even though he could restart and had the coffin nail.
But on the second night when more than ten ghosts came to pay respects, he restarted twice, his whole body shattered, before dismembering and suppressing those more than ten ghosts.
So during the “Ghost Characters suppressing the Group of Ghosts” back then, aside from the thirty-four ghosts moving with the Short Old Man, all the other ghosts were derived supernatural from some ghost!
With this fact right in front of him, Jiang Shan had enough reason to suspect this impatient He Qiong—did she have other motives?
If she was truly single-mindedly trying to save Dachun City.
Why lie to him?
