Chapter 173: A New Ghost Eye?
“So you’re not planning to tell your dad that you’re already alive?”
Jiang Shan, who was driving towards the Council Hall, looked at Sun Yan through the rearview mirror and asked.
“Just tell him I died. From when I was eight years old, he went to Headquarters saying he was carrying out some secret mission, leaving me and my mom here. Now my mom is already dead, and even her corpse can’t be found. I’m not planning to recognize him as my dad anymore.”
Sun Yan, sitting in the back seat with a dark face, continued in an icy tone:
“I know he has his own difficulties too, but I just can’t get over that hurdle in my heart. Forget it, Sun Yan is already dead. From now on, call me He Qiong outside. That name sounds pretty nice.”
“Sun Yan, Sun Yan. I don’t know what my mom was thinking giving me a man’s name back then. Sigh.”
Listening to Sun Yan’s words filled with resentment yet also relief, Jiang Shan remained silent. Every Ghost Wielder, or rather every person, has their own life. He couldn’t empathize, so he had no right to advise others.
And he couldn’t even “save” himself, let alone save others.
After all, Jiang Shan had no family or friends in this world, and even his hometown wasn’t in this world.
Becoming a God seemed to have already become the only spiritual pillar for him to stay alive in this world.
“Minister Jiang.”
When Jiang Shan parked the car in front of the tallest building in Dachun City, a woman wearing a tight-fitting uniform, with a graceful figure and beautiful face, seemed to have been waiting for a long time.
The moment she saw Jiang Shan, her eyes lit up, and a standard smile instantly appeared on her face. Then the woman quickly walked towards Jiang Shan:
“Minister Jiang, my name is Liu Yue. I’m your personal secretary. All the important leaders attending the meeting are already in place. Do you have any other arrangements? I can get someone to do them right away.”
The woman’s voice was very gentle, and paired with her tight and well-shaped professional attire, it was hard not to make one’s heart tremble.
Unfortunately,
Jiang Shan was not Gao Zhi Qiang. From the moment he was tainted by the supernatural, he didn’t want to have too many emotions with women in this world.
After all, given his current state and situation, emotions seemingly in the name of love were actually just a form of attachment.
“No, lead the way.”
Glancing at the woman, Jiang Shan’s expression showed no change, and his tone carried no trace of emotion.
“Okay.”
Hearing Jiang Shan’s reply, the woman immediately led Jiang Shan and He Qiong into the building’s entrance.
The building’s decor was very grand. At the entrance, a wide staircase paved with white marble seemed to guide people upwards. On both sides of the staircase, two rows of neat landscape lights stood quietly like guards.
The solemn and majestic aura was enough to make anyone with malice hesitate.
“From now on, this building will be Minister Jiang’s office in Dachun City. This building was completed less than a year ago. Headquarters built it originally to provide to the Captain as the Captain’s office location.”
“Now this building belongs to you both legally and nominally. Now most of the branch’s staff are working here. If you want to”
Seeing Jiang Shan looking around the hall, Liu Yue smiled faintly and immediately explained to him, but before she could finish, she stopped abruptly.
Because following Jiang Shan’s gaze, in this empty hall like a palace with no one present, somehow a man with extremely weird movements had appeared.
The man’s body was as indistinct as a dark shadow imagined in a graveyard out of fear. His face was waxy yellow, blackened, without any luster, just like a corpse that had been dead for several days suddenly crawling out of a coffin, completely a dead person’s complexion.
And suddenly, the hall was filled with a faint corpse stench.
“Minister Jiang… Ghost…”
Liu Yue was instantly scared speechless, her whole body’s blood seeming to freeze.
She stood trembling in place, her face full of terror and fear.
“When did the ghost appear here? Why would it appear here? Are those Ghost Wielders in Dachun City just eating rice for nothing?!” Liu Yue cursed inwardly.
While cursing, she couldn’t help but move closer to Jiang Shan’s side, as if being near him would give her a great sense of security.
“Isn’t this the person you met in the Ghost Rain before? Has he undergone Fierce Ghost Revival?”
Sun Yan also saw the man whose whole body was illusory like a dead person, but she seemed to recognize the man’s identity.
Zhang Dongxing.
Amid Liu Yue’s terrified gaze, Jiang Shan calmly observed Zhang Dongxing’s condition.
“If Zhang Dongxing had undergone Fierce Ghost Revival, we would have already triggered the Luck Ghost’s Killing Pattern by now, but we haven’t. This means Zhang Dongxing is still alive.”
“His gaze is fixed on me, but he hasn’t come over to me and is just standing in place. It seems Zhang Dongxing has been attacked by some ghost and has a major problem himself.”
In an instant, blood-red Ghost Characters crawled all over Zhang Dongxing’s body. Jiang Shan expressionlessly walked over quickly.
“Not dead, but close. The Luck Ghost’s influence on him is too deep. If he can’t control a ghost that counters the Luck Ghost, he probably won’t live much longer.”
When Jiang Shan approached and saw Zhang Dongxing’s hollow, deathly still gaze, he roughly judged Zhang Dongxing’s current state.
The fact that there was no one in this hall earlier was enough to arouse Jiang Shan’s suspicion, and Zhang Dongxing’s appearance now seemed to verify his thoughts.
“Hm?”
He was about to use Ghost Domain Inspection on the entire building, but just as the Ghost Domain spread out, Jiang Shan’s gaze suddenly stopped on Zhang Dongxing.
On Zhang Dongxing’s arm, there was a “crack.” This weird wound extended all the way, almost piercing his entire arm from the palm, and within that crack seemed to be hiding something.
“Ghost Domain can’t affect it? Zhang Dongxing hid a ghost in his own arm?”
Jiang Shan frowned slightly. After tearing off the clothes on Zhang Dongxing’s arm, he finally saw clearly what the “ghost” in the arm crack was:
A pale, unfocused eye.
It seemed like an illusion, but also not an illusion. Jiang Shan felt this eye was gnawing at Zhang Dongxing’s flesh and blood, as if the crack on the arm was this eye’s handiwork.
“Not an illusion. This eye should be a ghost, and this ghost’s Terror Level is very high. Even I didn’t notice that the empty hall scene was an illusion created by its Ghost Domain.”
“It seems the Luck Ghost saved Zhang Dongxing’s life. His body has erosion from many kinds of supernatural power, so this ghost wasn’t one he actively tried to control. It looks like someone doesn’t want me to hold this meeting.”
In just a few minutes, Jiang Shan pieced together the clues from Zhang Dongxing’s condition and noticed something. With an icy cold face, he unhesitatingly dug the Ghost Eye out from Zhang Dongxing’s arm.
In an instant,
Scattered reception staff appeared around Jiang Shan, but most of them stood in place with vacant eyes and tense expressions.
When the silver light covered the whole building, he discovered that everyone in the building, even a Ghost Wielder like Zhou Deng who controlled three ghosts, had been affected by this Ghost Eye’s Ghost Domain hallucination.
Suddenly, Zhang Dongxing’s weak voice sounded:
“Brother Jiang, white candles around the building… white candles.”
