Chapter 220: Inheriting The Past
This sudden heavy rain had been falling for an entire day, showing no signs of stopping.
The torrential rainwater brought not only surface-level physical chilliness in this season that did not belong to the rainy season.
Half a month ago, the Ghost Town in the Rain incident had almost affected half of Da Lin Province.
Therefore, this rain once again brought familiar yet despairing fear to the survivors who had experienced the Ghost Rain Incident.
The Da Chun City Branch had even entered a special alert state because of this. Even though Jiang Shan had not made his itinerary public, he still maintained the facade of being stationed in Da Chun City, but at this time, the interior was still filled with panic.
An Hua Building,
A certain stairwell corner.
“Wasn’t it said that the Ghost Town in the Rain Supernatural Event was solved? Why is this damn heavy rain falling again, and it’s been a whole day. Those people above don’t even notify us of any information.”
A group of Headquarters staff who had been transferred to the Branch not long ago were smoking and chattering endlessly.
“Who knows. To speak frankly behind closed doors, maybe that incident wasn’t solved at all, but was suppressed by the Branch. Hasn’t Headquarters done the same?”
A man took a disdainful drag on his cigarette. He looked out the window at the still unrelenting heavy rain and continued:
“I say, Headquarters and the Branch are doomed sooner or later. A kid who hasn’t even grown all his hair is the Branch Minister. Isn’t that ridiculous? This heavy rain has been going on for so long, and the Branch Minister is so impressive but hasn’t shown up. Doesn’t that mean he simply can’t handle it and feels guilty?”
After the man finished speaking, the scene fell into a deathly atmosphere.
Originally, it was just venting during a smoke break. Although the Branch indeed had not given a reasonable explanation for this weird heavy rain.
Even though the Branch had received countless Supernatural Events that appeared because of this heavy rain.
But from the start of the rain until now, there had still been no personnel casualties, and the ratings of those Supernatural Events were still the lowest level.
Overall, this heavy rain had not caused any substantial losses to the Branch, Da Chun City, or its surroundings.
And this man’s words really made the remaining few smokers afraid to continue speaking.
That man seemed to also realize the problem with his words. He sheepishly finished his cigarette and then quickly walked back to his office.
However, the “true thoughts” spoken by this man were also what many people in the Supernatural Circle were thinking.
For figures like Jiang Shan who could influence the domestic landscape or even the world landscape, some people hoped he would do well, but more hoped he would die early in a Supernatural Event.
The heavy rain had already fallen for a day and a night.
Similarly, from the moment Jiang Shan began controlling the Newspaper Ghost until now, his consciousness had also sunk for a day and a night.
He was now “reincarnating” in this world with different identities and different emotions.
In this process,
Jiang Shan had his own consciousness and his own emotions.
But he also had the memories of that past person, and all the emotions of that person in those past memories.
Jiang Shan’s first identity was an innocent father who was caught up in the Ghost Rain Incident and died miserably.
This man’s final obsession was only to go home and see if his wife and daughter were still alive, and if they were doing well.
When Jiang Shan appeared in the heavy rain in the man’s form, saw his wife, saw his daughter, and fulfilled the man’s final obsession in his memory.
The man who existed in the human face and in the memory no longer competed with Jiang Shan for the past. He gave up invading Jiang Shan’s past and instead chose to merge with Jiang Shan’s past as one.
Memory;
Ability;
Emotion;
The supernatural invasion would not stop; it just transformed into a gentle way in a forceful manner. But in any case, this allowed the past Jiang Shan to possess everything of the man.
Unlike Yang Jian controlling the Ghost Shadow Head, where countless memories inside the Ghost Shadow Head violently fused with his own memories.
For Jiang Shan, these memories stolen by the Newspaper Ghost were more like an inheritance.
His consciousness was not only not drowned by these countless memories, but also not affected by the endless emotions.
Several supernatural powers intertwined, restrained and fused each other, acting on Jiang Shan’s process of controlling the Newspaper Ghost in a way that was nearly mythical.
Time passed who knows how long,
Jiang Shan, whose consciousness was split into countless parts, had no concept of time at all, even as his consciousness lingered on every body derived from the supernatural, belonging to past people.
But it was merely lingering.
At a certain moment,
Jiang Shan lying on the floor of Room Thirty-One in Caesar Grand Hotel opened his eyes.
His body was twisted, lying on the ground in a weird posture, completely stiff and motionless.
But the weirdest thing was that the entire person’s body seemed to be split into two halves. One half looked just like a corpse, already without any signs of life, and the whole body emitted a rotten corpse odor, as if the corpse had been abandoned here for several days.
While the other half was completely the opposite.
Fair and reddish skin emitted a breath of new life; whether skin or flesh and blood, it was all as if it were the peak, healthiest state a living person’s body could achieve.
No one could possibly believe that such a body could truly exist.
This body, which didn’t even qualify as a corpse, had its chest cavity begin to heave crazily up and down as its eyes opened. That half of the body like a dead corpse began to recover with the breathing.
Yes.
Jiang Shan had not died.
He had come alive from the endless “reincarnation.” The memory anchored by the Ghost Lotus prevented him from losing himself in the past lives of countless people, while the Blood Ghost’s attack allowed him to avoid the traps left by the Newspaper Ghost in the reincarnation.
After all, not everyone’s obsessions are good.
Perverts and madness were just deeply hidden in the darkness of people’s hearts because of this seemingly calm and beautiful world.
And Jiang Shan, unable to fulfill these obsessions, would without hesitation use the Blood Ghost’s supernatural power to erase them. Without controlling the Blood Ghost, he might really have been forever trapped in the past due to controlling the Newspaper Ghost.
But the information collected by the Newspaper Ghost seemed incomplete.
The traps it carefully set for Jiang Shan did not achieve the expected effect.
On the contrary,
This attack that could eternally trap any Ghost Wielder in the past instead gave Jiang Shan an unimaginable enhancement.
Not only did the supernatural powers he possessed surge wildly, but more importantly, the path to becoming a god was laid out before him, even within reach.
“What is my current state? Although I can use the Ghost’s Supernatural, I can’t control my body.” Jiang Shan lying on the ground thought this.
He tried to move his fingers.
But it didn’t work, no sensation at all.
Blink his eyes.
Also didn’t work.
His eyes could only stay rigidly open, like dying with eyes wide open.
The whole person was like a puppet, stiff and motionless.
