Chapter 19: Shang Tong Building
Ignoring the wails in his ears, Jiang Shan fell into deep thought.
The performance of those Ghost Wielders at Little Qiang Club yesterday made him feel something was off,
He had only activated Ghost Characters once, yet this group was in such pain with snot and tears streaming.
Jiang Shan suspected it was an issue with his Ghost Domain.
Then today, when he used his Ghost Domain to envelop Ye Feng, he noticed Ye Feng’s expression was one of pain, but the pain seemed off.
From his expression, it felt like his pain came more from his body.
After observing carefully at the time, Jiang Shan realized: Ye Feng’s body and even his clothes showed varying degrees of corruption, with some exposed skin already rotted down to the flesh.
No wonder the Ghost Wielders in his Ghost Domain were all grimacing in pain.
But rotting and corruption—that’s the Ghost Domain trait of the Knocking Ghost.
So when did his own Ghost Domain gain that?
Jiang Shan was puzzled; the Dead Face Ghost’s Ghost Domain clearly steals supernatural power from Fierce Ghosts, which he was certain of.
Because he clearly saw: in the gray fog, tiny Dead Face Ghosts like floating particles bit chunks of grayish supernatural power from Ye Feng’s Ghost Robe.
After the Dead Face Ghosts chewed and swallowed, the Dead Face Ghost in his body received a slight enhancement.
Undoubtedly stealing supernatural power.
But he didn’t know the Dead Face Ghost could also steal a Fierce Ghost’s Ghost Domain?
Jiang Shan was both shocked and delighted. He tried gathering the dust-like miniature Dead Face Ghosts in his Ghost Domain, and soon they converged above his head into clumps of yellow fog.
As the yellow fog condensed, Jiang Shan noticed the thugs’ wails began to weaken.
“Looks like it’s the effect of these dust-like Dead Face Ghosts,” Jiang Shan thought.
Suddenly, he felt the Ghost Characters in his body acting a bit abnormal, as if craving for him to activate his ability.
Others are shitting, and it wants to join in on the fun.
Jiang Shan pondered for a moment and, feeling there wasn’t much risk, decided to activate the Ghost Characters prophecy ability.
This was the first time he actively activated the Ghost Characters prophecy ability.
Jiang Shan wanted to know if the prophecy of the Ghost Characters was the same as Xiong Wenwen’s prophecy ghost’s ability.
Was it foresight, or did it have some other effect?
As the Ghost Characters activated,
Suddenly, an indescribable terror permeated around Jiang Shan. At this moment, he felt waves of chill around him. In the void where he couldn’t see, there were pairs of eyes filled with malice and hatred staring dead at him, as if wanting to take his place.
Jiang Shan closed his eyes and used his Ghost Domain to search for these unseen eyes, but after scanning around, he found nothing.
He waited a few breaths, but the feeling of being watched didn’t disappear.
At this time, Ghost Characters emerged in his mind, changing from their usual font to a crooked scrawl:
“I am Jiang Shan. I discovered that the Dead Face Ghost can steal a Fierce Ghost’s Ghost Domain. Although it can only steal a portion, this is still extremely terrifying.”
Immediately after, the Ghost Characters seemed to receive some interference, the font becoming increasingly hard to discern, but Jiang Shan could still vaguely make out what it wanted to express:
“As long as I control the third Fierce Ghost—Ghost Blood, the ghosts in my body can form a triangular balance, and the Dead Face Ghost can regain the ability to steal Ghost Domains.”
Jiang Shan couldn’t make out the content after that, so he simply stopped the Ghost Characters prophecy.
Once the Ghost Characters quieted down, the surrounding malice and covetous gazes vanished.
Rather than prophecy, Jiang Shan felt it was more like inducement that revealed pros and cons.
The Ghost Characters prophecy was just like the Human Skin Paper; they seemed to know everything, but every word carried a trap.
Jiang Shan stood in place, pondering and weighing the words of the Ghost Characters, as the fog began to grow turbid again.
Jiang Shan controlled the timing, coldly watching the thugs. After a good while, the wails gradually faded.
They had passed out from the pain while still alive.
Jiang Shan walked up to the yellow-haired thug, bent down and pulled out a dagger gleaming with cold light, examined it closely, then seemed to notice something off and reached to touch the blade.
“Not sharpened?”
Though the blade gleamed coldly, it was easy to tell from this unsharpened state.
This group of thugs was purely playing at beheading in front of a tiger—scaring people.
Looking at this knife, Jiang Shan seemed thoughtful.
Gray fog adhered regularly to every thug’s arm, continuing to rot their skin, flesh and blood, even internal organs.
In no time,
The thugs who had been wailing in pain on the ground vanished completely, thoroughly disappearing from this world under the supernatural power with rotting traits.
Having witnessed the entire process of living people rotting away, Jiang Shan’s eyes showed no emotional fluctuation whatsoever.
“Head home and sleep.”
The next day,
Jiang Shan, still maintaining a good routine, finished breakfast at eleven and arrived early at the club to slack off.
For the evening’s action, he unusually stayed at the club until ten at night before leaving.
Tonight, Dachang City’s night sky was covered in dark clouds, the sky oppressively dark, making one feel suppressed.
Upon arriving near Shang Tong Building, Jiang Shan got out of the car and lit a cigarette. Looking at the weather, he smiled and said:
“Perfect night for killing with dark skies and high winds. Let me see just what’s up with these foreigners.”
A biting chill hit Jiang Shan’s face, but he was used to it.
Every time the Dead Face Ghost activated, it was like putting a mask on his face—not affecting his vision, and a limited summer cooling edition at that.
In no time, pervasive gloomy gray fog enveloped the urban area around Shang Tong Building, with coverage reaching even a tenth of Dachang City.
And this was without Jiang Shan fully deploying his Ghost Domain.
Gray fog hazy, like a natural weather phenomenon,
But unlike ordinary smog, the turbid dust in this smog all gathered in the sky above. Ordinary people in the fog felt almost no abnormality, except for slightly obstructed vision.
This was a deliberate move by Jiang Shan to avoid harming ordinary people; after all, he only needed to borrow the Ghost Domain’s ability, not to cause chaos.
With his last puff of cloud and fog exhaled, his figure vanished into the fog.
At this moment,
In a certain office in Shang Tong Building.
“Oh no, Mary, we’re already in a Ghost Domain! My God, how did this demon arrive without any warning?!”
In a lavish grand office, a blond man who had just pulled up his pants patted the head of the woman with a classic European and American face in front of him, looking out at the yellowish gray fog with a face full of worry.
The two seemed to have just done something unseemly,
The woman called Mary, face flushed red, walked to the wine cabinet, took down a bottle of red wine, and said unhurriedly:
“It’s fine, Paul. I feel this ghost is very similar to the one in Dachang City last night. As long as we hide in your secret room to avoid its killing pattern, we’ll be fine once the ghost leaves.”
“Pop.”
The wine was opened.
Paul walked over, took the wine glass from the woman, and the worry in his brows had mostly dissipated.
As he spoke, he opened the door to the secret room, leaning against it with a rapt expression:
“Hahaha, why didn’t I think of that? Oh~ this wonderful wine aroma, just like you, makes me intoxicated, Mary. Shall we go another r”
“Another person? Sure, the three of us can play Landlord, I’m top ten in Dachang City at Landlord, verifiable record.”
Brothers, wherever there’s a problem, comment and tell me. I listen to advice.
Thanks for the brothers’ support!
