Chapter 215: I Have A Date With The Newspaper Ghost
The first room encountered after reaching the fourth floor, Jiang Shan sensed the strangeness within and decisively chose to break down the door.
As expected, in this room, he discovered the Newspaper Ghost he had been longing for.
“I know you can speak, Feng Quan is dead, right? I’m curious, are you now a combination of countless people’s memories, or a ghost controlled by Yang Xiaotian’s memories?”
Watching Feng Quan “put back” the face in his hand, Jiang Shan asked calmly.
The “Feng Quan,” who had regained his human form, did not answer, merely gazing at Jiang Shan with a pair of hollow, lifeless eyes.
At this very moment,
Feng Quan stood in the center of the room like a fool, as if conveying a message to Jiang Shan through his posture:
“I’m standing right here, come and detain me if you dare.”
Recalling the Newspaper Ghost’s behavior in the original work, because it was confirmed to be a spirit of idealism.
And most such incorporeal ghosts possess a common ability:
Stealing.
Once people meet their killing patterns and subsequently die, such ghosts can steal their bodies and identities, living in this world in human form.
Therefore, the moment he saw Feng Quan’s face, Jiang Shan had already concluded that Feng Quan was dead, and the person standing before him, dressed in a formal uniform, with hollow eyes and a numb expression, was the Newspaper Ghost.
“The human faces on the newspaper on the wall should all possess some kind of supernatural power. The faces are not just for ‘face-swapping,’ otherwise, there would be no reason for the Newspaper Ghost to collect so many.”
“The reason the Newspaper Ghost is lingering in this room is most likely to launch a fatal attack on me using these faces and its killing patterns.”
At this time,
Standing outside the door and not entering the room, Jiang Shan was calmly analyzing the possible reasons for the Newspaper Ghost’s bizarre actions.
If it were a ghost detained in the Caesar Grand Hotel doing this, Jiang Shan would only assume it was unable to leave due to some restriction.
But for the Newspaper Ghost, which could leave the hotel freely and possessed human intelligence.
Although Jiang Shan’s deductions were not unfounded, he now needed the Ghost Characters’ foresight to confirm his judgment and his next course of action.
In fact, whether it was Yang Jian, who believed in the Human Skin Paper and used the Ghost Rope to hang himself, causing the Headless Ghost Shadow to crash;
Or Jiang Shan, who is now choosing to use the foresight ability of the Ghost Characters to aid his judgment.
Their methods and choices seem different, but in essence, they are no different.
Both are using the ghost’s abilities to resolve the effects caused by ghosts.
In the face of such supernatural phenomena that cannot be borrowed from, deduced, or understood, even the clearest understanding and judgment of a person can be vastly different from the predicted outcome.
After all, only ghosts can deal with ghosts.
An icy chill flowed into his mind like a stream, and blood-red Ghost Characters appeared continuously and rapidly in his “eyes” in familiar Chinese characters.
“I am Jiang Shan, when you see this message, I am not dead yet, but death will find me soon.”
Upon seeing the first sentence appearing in his mind, Jiang Shan’s eyes flickered.
This was the first time he had used the Ghost Characters’ foresight ability since becoming an anomaly.
As expected, the “foresight” he received was the same as he had guessed:
Only within the past thirty days and for his current self, the Ghost Characters’ foresight would only present itself in two forms:
Either the foresight ability of the Ghost Characters is suppressed by the Blood Ghost’s characteristics, and it will completely lose its foresight ability, similar to how the Dead Face Ghost lost its resurrection ability.
But Jiang Shan was certain this situation would not happen, as there was no puzzle piece relationship between the Blood Ghost and the Dead Face Ghost. Compared to the fusion of the Blood Ghost and the Ghost Characters.
The Dead Face Ghost and the Blood Ghost were more of a balance within him.
Therefore, after Jiang Shan anchored his consciousness and remained on the Blood Ghost, becoming an anomaly, the Blood Ghost, as the main entity, its uniqueness and dominance would certainly alter certain characteristics of the Dead Face Ghost to some extent.
After all, supernatural phenomena either oppose each other or are puzzle pieces of each other.
And the Ghost Characters and the Blood Ghost are clearly the latter, which is why Jiang Shan dared to use the Ghost Characters’ foresight ability when the Newspaper Ghost was right in front of him, without ever testing it.
The blood-red Ghost Characters continued to appear in his mind:
“Even though I have become a unique existence, my caution has saved me from death. The human faces on the newspaper wall all contain the memories of living people. If I rashly enter this room, I will be immediately attacked by it.”
“At that time, the past memories from the Newspaper Ghost’s faces will replace my past self, thereby replacing my current self. But if I can be in the same space with it alone, without the interference of others’ memories, I will kill it and control it.”
Looking at the Ghost Characters in his mind, which had stopped appearing, although much of the information they provided confirmed his thoughts, his expression was still somewhat solemn.
“The descriptions of the Ghost Characters are becoming more and more ‘human-like’.”
Ever since he came to this world and started controlling the Ghost Characters, regardless of his state, Jiang Shan always felt an inexplicable unease whenever he used the Ghost Characters’ foresight ability.
And each time after foreseeing, he could clearly notice the eerie changes in the Ghost Characters.
But now was not the time to research the anomaly of the Ghost Characters.
With the reminder from the Ghost Characters’ foresight, Jiang Shan already had a method to engineer a “private date” with the Newspaper Ghost.
As a cigarette butt flew into the room.
The previously withered black floor beneath Jiang Shan’s feet instantly turned an intense crimson. Upon closer inspection, one would find that the floor’s redness was due to countless Ghost Characters arranged densely, as if a layer of viscous fresh blood was writhing on it.
Rather than resembling fresh blood,
It was more accurate to say that the Ghost Characters, now revitalized by Jiang Shan, erupted in the supernatural form of Ghost Blood!
Although the Ghost Blood Jiang Shan controlled was not complete, and its supernatural degree and suppression power were not as terrifying as when Yang Jian controlled it in the original work.
This was not him being self-deprecating.
Because Jiang Shan knew that if he controlled the Ghost Blood that had connected to a certain supernatural land in the original work, he would not have been able to bear it at that time.
How could Ghost Blood that could balance half of the Ghost Bus’s supernatural power be controlled so easily.
However, the Ghost Blood’s suppression power was still terrifying enough when facing most fierce ghosts, especially after it became a puzzle piece of the Ghost Characters. Ghosts with low supernatural levels and low puzzle integration could even be suppressed to death by the Ghost Characters!
Based on this alone, Jiang Shan had a clear understanding of his own strength.
Since, a few days ago, he already knew the limit of his Ghost Domain’s spread.
Today, Jiang Shan wanted to see the limit of the Ghost Characters.
When the cigarette butt landed.
The room was completely covered by Ghost Characters, permeated with the fetid smell of blood, viscous like blood.
Whether it was the human faces on the wall that had opened their eyes, the foolishly standing Feng Quan in the center of the room, or every corner of the room, they all had only one common color at this moment:
Red,
A fresh red, like blood.
