Chapter 187: Wishing Ghost Plus Version
After notifying Cao Yang to delay the meeting for Cao Yanhua, Jiang Shan immediately found Zhang Dongxing, because Zhang Dongxing’s current condition was very poor, and if no measures were taken, the Luck Ghost would completely kill Zhang Dongxing.
Even though the Luck Ghost had already dead machined, its tendency toward patterned protective actions could not be changed, so external force intervention was necessary.
“The Luck Ghost’s ability is very strong, and Zhang Dongxing controls it through a curse. Once Zhang Dongxing dies, the Luck Ghost without a medium will be very hard to control. It seems I have no choice but to try. But first, I need to wake Zhang Dongxing up.”
Zhang Dongxing on the sofa had his entire body turn blood red, with dense and numerous Ghost Characters crawling all over his body.
“Is this the ghost controlled by Minister Jiang?”
The staff standing nearby looked at those hair-raising Ghost Characters, and merely feeling their chilling nature made his scalp tingle.
Nowadays, the terror level of the Ghost Characters was absolutely not something an ordinary Fierce Ghost could confront, not even the nearly idealistic Luck Ghost was an exception.
While the Luck Ghost was “protecting” Zhang Dongxing’s body, it was also continuously eroding him, so Jiang Shan prepared to use the Ghost Characters to suppress the Luck Ghost’s supernatural nature and attempt to restore Zhang Dongxing’s consciousness.
If this method didn’t work, then what awaited Zhang Dongxing would only be a dead end.
In a Supernatural Event with no precedents to reference, it wasn’t just Zhang Dongxing who could only resign to fate now.
Even Yang Jian, or Jiang Shan, all people surviving Supernatural Confrontation relied to a large extent on just two words:
Luck.
As time slowly passed,
The originally stiff-bodied, breathless Zhang Dongxing, who was like a dead man, suddenly opened his eyes at a certain moment, gasping madly for air, while vigilantly looking around.
“Brother Jiang, you saved my life again. What can I do? Just say it. I won’t live much longer. Even if it costs my life, I’ll definitely get it done for you.”
Seeing that the person in front of him was Jiang Shan, Zhang Dongxing then let down his vigilance.
He glanced at the Ghost Characters on his body, then slowly got up and sat on the sofa, gratefully looking at Jiang Shan and saying.
“You have now been eroded by the ghost in your body almost to the limit. I have a way to let you survive. Before that, tell me first how you ended up like this.”
Seeing that Zhang Dongxing had regained consciousness, Jiang Shan leaned on the sofa, calmly lit a cigarette.
“To think there’s a way to save me, Brother Jiang. I really don’t know how to thank you.”
“After we separated, I suddenly returned to Dachun City, then following the Luck Ghost’s hint, I went to Jingtan. In Jingtan, I picked up a very weird sickle. I discovered that the sickle could actually nail down a Ghost Domain. Then when I was preparing to leave, I was attacked by a ghost.”
At this point, Zhang Dongxing couldn’t help licking his dry and cracked lips, as if the fear that ghost brought him had not yet dissipated. After a few seconds, his hoarse voice continued:
“That ghost’s Killing Pattern was very strange. From the moment I saw it until I was preparing to leave, the Luck Ghost suddenly attacked me.”
“The Luck Ghost attacked you? Tell me, what were you thinking when you were preparing to leave back then?” Jiang Shan immediately pressed, and when saying the word “thinking,” he deliberately emphasized the tone heavily.
Under normal circumstances, although the ghost in a Ghost Wielder’s body would continuously resurrect, before the ghost fully resurrected, it was absolutely impossible for it to attack the Ghost Wielder himself.
If a controlled ghost could proactively attack its Ghost Wielder, then this world would not have the existence of Ghost Wielders.
And Zhang Dongxing would not lie to Jiang Shan.
So the problem must definitely be with that ghost.
“What was I thinking at the time… I think I was thinking to myself: ‘It seems the Luck Ghost’s supernatural protection kept me from being attacked by the ghost.’ Then I left Jingtan and didn’t see that ghost again. Not long after leaving, I was thinking to myself: ‘I was right, the Luck Ghost’s supernatural can indeed let me avoid the ghost’s Killing Pattern.’ Right after that, I was attacked by the Luck Ghost.”
Zhang Dongxing looked at his illusory yet somewhat real body. Being attacked by the Luck Ghost until now still left him with lingering fear, so his speaking voice was even weaker:
“After being attacked by the Luck Ghost, I lost consciousness. I don’t know what happened after that. If not for you using Ghost Characters to help me suppress the Luck Ghost, I might never have woken up in this lifetime.”
Hearing Zhang Dongxing’s words, Jiang Shan’s eyes flickered. At this point, he had already determined that the ghost in Jingtan was exactly the one he had in mind.
But he hadn’t expected Zhang Dongxing to also pick up that half sickle, and even discover its ability.
“Nailing down a Ghost Domain? If this is true, perhaps I can also create a Supernatural Land of my own. Though I don’t know the cost of using it, just based on this, it seems the value of that sickle is even greater than I imagined.” Jiang Shan thought to himself.
But he only thought about it briefly. That sickle was indeed very valuable, but in Jiang Shan’s eyes, Zhang Dongxing who controlled the Luck Ghost was even more valuable.
Luck Ghost.
Transferring misfortune and warding off evil, lone survivor of calamity.
The Luck Ghost possessing the ability to change luck, which was profound and mysterious, destined Zhang Dongxing to be special.
“Back then in the Ghost Rain, before those two ordinary people died, and when you were attacked by the Luck Ghost, they all did one identical thing. Rather than saying they did it, it’s better to say they thought it. If those two ordinary people were thinking ‘I want to live,’ then they were influenced by the supernatural, with time passing on them at hundreds or tens of thousands of times the normal rate. Isn’t that also a form of living in another sense?”
Looking at the shocked Zhang Dongxing, Jiang Shan continued analyzing:
“‘Thinking’ is that ghost’s Killing Pattern. Because you felt it was the Luck Ghost’s supernatural that protected you, that ghost did attack you. Its attack method was to make the Luck Ghost fuse with you as one, so the Luck Ghost could protect you forever, because ghosts are immortal.”
With just a few words from Jiang Shan, it was as if he had opened Zhang Dongxing’s Ren and Du meridians. He let out an incredulous exclamation:
“So bizarre?!”
“This ghost’s bizarreness isn’t just embodied in its Killing Pattern. How unique the Luck Ghost is, I believe you know better than me. How terrifying do you think that ghost must be to make the Luck Ghost attack you when you had already controlled it?”
At this moment,
Listening to Jiang Shan’s analysis, Zhang Dongxing was already drenched in sweat, looking at Jiang Shan with eyes seeking help.
“Once your body is completely eroded by the Luck Ghost, you will lose consciousness and become an intelligent ghost.”
“If you can use that ghost’s Killing Pattern to reshape your consciousness with supernatural means, then you will become an existence like me. But doing so, you are very likely to die, or even completely become a killing ghost.”
After speaking, Jiang Shan extinguished the cigarette butt in his hand and calmly looked at Zhang Dongxing.
Their gazes met, and without hesitation, Zhang Dongxing immediately said:
“My wife and kids all died at the hands of a ghost. I’m the only one in the whole family who survived… I don’t fear death! I only fear dying without value!”
