Chapter 150: The Ghost Thief
Put the first idea aside for now and continue reasoning along the second idea:
“If I were Wang Chaling, now controlling the restart-capable Pendulum Clock and a special ghost, although I already have some life-preserving ability, who wouldn’t want to make their life-preserving skills even stronger?”
“So he came for the Ghost Lotus. Through Old Qin’s information, it can be known that the initial controller of the Ghost Lotus was not Sun Yan, nor He Qiong, but Shen Bao.”
“If according to He Qiong’s statement, the Short Old Man-like Ghost is Shen Bao, and he dismembered the Ghost Lotus from himself to confront Ghost Rain, would he not leave a backup plan on such an important ghost as the Ghost Lotus?”
Jiang Shan sat on the stairs, recalling the information about Sun Yan he had seen in the file back then:
“The Ghost Domain Strength of the Ghost Lotus can even exist independently within Ghost Rain’s Ghost Domain. Its Terror Level is very high, and even the Puzzle Piece is much more complete. Yet back then, Sun Yan only controlled one ghost. Even if what she controlled was only part of the Ghost Lotus, this situation is almost impossible.”
Would Shen Bao, who dared to decompose his own consciousness and stake his life for seventy years just to control Ghost Rain, let a Ghost Wielder so easily control part of the Ghost Lotus?
This is not a fantasy world,
There is no such thing as so-called opportunities or immortals pointing the way.
This is Mysterious Revival,
In this world, those with supernatural powers are a group of madmen tormented by ghosts every moment!
If reasoning through all this according to the second line of thought, then Jiang Shan has every reason to suspect that the person posing as He Qiong is Shen Bao!
But concluding based on just this is too hasty. After telling Cao Yanhua to stay silent for now, in the quiet scene, Jiang Shan continued thinking:
“Since there is no contact between Wang Chaling and Shen Bao, his goal is very pure: he came for the Ghost Lotus. According to ‘He Qiong’s’ statement, the final Ghost Lotus and Ghost Rain will inevitably fall into perfect dormancy due to the seventy-year Supernatural Confrontation, that is, Dead Machine.”
“If I were Shen Bao, my current goal would be to regain control of the Ghost Lotus that was stolen and controlled by someone else, so my top priority is to stop He Qiong’s actions.”
“And Wang Chaling should also know that once Shen Bao controls Ghost Rain, the Ghost Lotus will similarly be controlled by him, so his goal is probably to stop Shen Bao from controlling Ghost Rain.”
As Jiang Shan thought here,
A key point inadvertently emerged:
If Wang Chaling knows Shen Bao’s plan, but he doesn’t know about the Unexpected Change of Sun Yan and He Qiong.
So he had Qin Xi killed precisely to stop Shen Bao from controlling Ghost Rain.
But this also means that through certain information, he knows the true identity of the consciousness within that Ghost Lotus ghost—Shen Bao!
“Cao Yanhua, go investigate Dachun City Mayor Wang Xi right now. I suspect he is related to Shen Bao.” Jiang Shan suddenly said into the satellite phone.
“Wang Xi is related to Shen Bao? Give me some time, I’ll send people to investigate right now.”
Hearing this news, Cao Yanhua’s face darkened. After putting down the microphone in his hand, he immediately called several headquarters-related technical personnel.
Just over ten minutes passed,
After one phone call ended, Cao Yanhua angrily slapped the table. After calming his emotions, he picked up the microphone and said to Jiang Shan:
“Jiang Shan, I had Cao Yang control Wang Xi. Cao Yang used some means, and Wang Xi confessed everything.”
Cao Yanhua paused, took a deep breath, and then said in an icy tone:
“Wang Xi said that Dachun City’s second temporary Person in Charge, He Qiong, came to him more than ten days ago and threatened him to cooperate with her actions. Wang Xi compromised; not letting South Pass District residents evacuate was one of the conditions of his compromise. Also, one month ago, Wang Xi provided financial assistance to a person named Qin Xi.”
“Moreover, I also investigated Wang Chaling’s recent flight movements. He came to Dachun City one month ago, and he didn’t take the special plane back afterward, disappearing in Dachun City as if he vanished.”
Jiang Shan had been wondering how Wang Chaling knew Qin Xi’s appearance, but unexpectedly, Cao Yanhua resolved this doubt for him.
Cao Yanhua, once the headquarters Vice Minister and now the branch Enforcement Committee Member, his ability to handle matters absolutely justifies Jiang Shan’s recruitment of him back then.
“Handle Wang Xi’s matter yourself. I’ll give you a few names; see if you can find information about them in Dachun City.”
Jiang Shan told Cao Yanhua all four names that Sun Yan had mentioned on that path in the darkness.
This wait was a long time,
Half an hour later, Cao Yanhua’s voice came through the satellite phone:
“Jiang Shan, of the four people you mentioned, two cannot be queried, while the remaining two have situations very similar to He Qiong’s—they both appeared out of nowhere one month ago, and both finally disappeared in South Pass District.”
“This is all I can find for now. If there is new information, I’ll tell you immediately.”
Hearing Cao Yanhua’s words, Jiang Shan confirmed in his heart that “He Qiong” had not lied about the Ghost Lotus’s abilities.
Similar to the nature of restart,
The Ghost Lotus’s ability is to anchor a person’s consciousness to a fixed time period with supernatural power.
When the controller dies, his consciousness will return to the timeline when it was anchored back then.
Although Jiang Shan does not know what the price of using the Ghost Lotus is, this “Rewind” ability, even more exaggerated than restart, is really as Cao Yanhua said.
This is Rebirth,
Rebirth that far surpasses Rewind in some sense!
Moreover, those resurrected through this method can influence the present from the past, even change the future!
“He Qiong is Shen Bao, and that Short Old Man-like Ghost is Sun Yan!”
Now in Jiang Shan’s mind, the relationship between Shen Bao and Sun Yan has cleared the clouds to see the blue sky.
Now the only doubt in his heart is:
“All the Unexpected Changes started from He Qiong entering Ghost Rain. Her identity goes without saying, but from this, it seems Sun Yan truly possesses part of the Ghost Lotus’s supernatural power.”
“But how exactly did she steal this supernatural power? How did she transfer her consciousness to that Short Old Man?”
Just as Jiang Shan was recalling his encounter with that Short Old Man, suddenly the Weirdness feeling from the Luck Ghost that had always been acting on him disappeared.
A scene suddenly appeared in Jiang Shan’s mind:
Severed head!
Instantly, his train of thought poured out like a flood:
“That Short Old Man is Sun Yan. She probably couldn’t speak or remind me for some reason, but her action must have a special meaning.”
“What happens if the head falls off? Death? No.”
“Projection, reflection, mirror, inverted perspective?!”
After suddenly discovering the Pattern among them, Jiang Shan seemed to know how Sun Yan had pulled off that “ghost-stealing act.” His eyes flickered as he said to Cao Yanhua:
“I heard Jiang Qingwu say Cao Yang is now in Dachun City. Call him and have him go to my study room, tie up a mirror covered with black cloth securely, and bring it over.”
Water surface projection,
Mirror reflection.
“The reflection of light rays on the Mirror Surface obeys the law of reflection: the object in front of a plane mirror forms an upright virtual image behind the mirror, and the distance from the image to the Mirror Surface equals the distance from the object to the Mirror Surface.”
Jiang Shan didn’t expect that the Ghost Mirror he had brought by a twist of fate would become the key to breaking the situation at this moment, even the key to stealing the supernatural power!
“Sun Yan decapitated me to make me discover this characteristic of Ghost Rain, so back then she very likely used the Mirror Surface of the Ghost Pool’s pool water to steal Ghost Rain and thereby affected Shen Bao’s process.”
“If I’m not mistaken, Sun Yan who controlled the Ghost Lotus and Shen Bao who was the Short Old Man precisely swapped identities because of this characteristic of Ghost Rain’s projection and Mirror Surface.”
Mirror,
Reflects body, inverts spirit.
