Chapter 222: “borrowing A Corpse To Return The Soul”
Jiang Shan’s current body and emotions are indistinguishable from a normal person. More importantly, the ghost he controls seems to exist in another body, or in his past self due to supernatural fusion.
Using the fruit of the past,
bearing the cause of the present.
Although Jiang Shan, as the person involved, only has a partial understanding of the strange changes happening to him, he can clearly feel it.
He is very good now.
So good it’s hard to believe.
At this moment, in terms of both spirit and body, everything Jiang Shan possesses is perfect, as if born anew.
“Eighteen days. From when I started controlling the Newspaper Ghost until now, eighteen days have passed. This is a bit longer than I expected.”
Looking at the date displayed on the satellite phone and the countless missed calls, Jiang Shan didn’t show much surprise.
From the moment the Newspaper Ghost invaded his memories by tearing off his face, he knew that the time required to control the Newspaper Ghost would definitely not be short.
After all, memories as vast as an ocean represent endless obsessions.
If he hadn’t used the Ghost Lotus’s characteristics to steal the Ghost Rain’s supernatural power; if he hadn’t controlled the Blood Ghost and become an anomaly capable of using the Blood Ghost’s abilities without limitation.
He would have truly been eternally trapped in this endless “reincarnation.”
It can be said,
the trap set by the Newspaper Ghost, which possesses Yang Xiaotian’s memories, for Jiang Shan was dangerous enough and deadly enough.
“Eighteen days. Headquarters should have been infiltrated by the Newspaper Ghost’s supernatural power by now. The situation seems to be going from bad to worse. Is it Yang Xiaotian, or the Newspaper Ghost? What exactly does it want to do?”
Jiang Shan smoked a cigarette while looking at the unread messages on the satellite phone, his brows furrowed as he couldn’t help but sigh.
Jiang Shan had already known about Zhao Jianguo being affected by the Newspaper Ghost’s supernatural power eighteen days ago.
But because the phone signal was blocked at the time, he had no way to disclose this information to the outside world.
He then fell into a state of oblivion due to his consciousness being invaded by supernatural power as he controlled the Newspaper Ghost.
It was only after fully controlling the Newspaper Ghost that Jiang Shan truly understood how terrifying its abilities were.
In the original work, the bloodstained newspaper in the Newspaper Ghost’s hand could not only alter memories but also modify people’s basic cognition, and even change the ghost’s killing pattern.
A ghost with such terrifying supernatural power was merely a supernatural item in the Newspaper Ghost’s possession.
It was a puzzle piece,
a puzzle piece to complete the Newspaper Ghost.
Although the Newspaper Ghost’s terror level was not high, its supernatural characteristics, in Jiang Shan’s opinion, were not abilities a ghost should possess.
Because this ability was more like something a god could possess.
The memory-altering ability of the bloodstained newspaper was merely to complete the Newspaper Ghost’s puzzle.
The Newspaper Ghost’s abilities allowed Jiang Shan to truly see the ladder to becoming a god.
The path to becoming a god.
Because it could create “rules” in an almost unsolvable way!
This was not Jiang Shan fabricating things out of thin air or indulging in fantasy; it happened only a few minutes ago.
After making a call to Cao Yanhua to explain the general situation, he immediately prepared to use Feng Quan’s corpse in the room and the Mist Ghost within him to test his own supernatural abilities.
“The Dead Face Ghost’s Ghost Domain did not show significant changes, no new characteristics were generated.”
Looking at the still dazzling silver light in the room, Jiang Shan continued to analyze the changes in his own fierce ghost after a brief perception.
“The Blood Ghost’s attack range has expanded. Is this range fifty meters?”
“The changes in the Ghost Characters are unknown, but it seems to have become redder. Hmm?!”
Just as Jiang Shan was peeling the Mist Ghost out of Feng Quan’s body using his Ghost Domain and suppressing it with the Ghost Characters, an extremely intense desire swept through his consciousness like a flood.
This feeling was akin to the impatience every man experiences during their pre-sleep ritual in their youth.
The strong “desire to write” caused Jiang Shan’s brows to furrow.
“What is this feeling? This feeling wasn’t very strong when the Ghost Characters were suppressing the Mist Ghost and Ghost Grave Soil earlier. But the moment the Ghost Characters appeared on Feng Quan’s corpse, this desire reached its peak.”
“So, the problem lies with the corpse and the ghost,” Jiang Shan’s eyes sharpened as he calmly analyzed.
Although the desire of “wanting to write something” had been present in Jiang Shan’s mind along with the suppression by the Ghost Characters.
This desire reached its extreme when the Ghost Characters climbed onto Feng Quan’s corpse, which had no supernatural influence.
Such a significant anomaly made Jiang Shan curious:
“Why, when the Ghost Characters come into contact with a corpse or a ghost, does a compulsion to write something arise in my heart?”
“If the attack method of the bloodstained newspaper is by writing rules on the facial skin, then is the attack method of the Newspaper Ghost, which is a part of the same puzzle, similar? Or is this feeling that is now appearing in my heart the Newspaper Ghost hinting at me through the Ghost Characters about its killing pattern?”
Adhering to the principle that “practice is the sole criterion for testing truth,” Jiang Shan unhesitatingly followed his strongest inner inclination and began to have the Ghost Characters transform on Feng Quan’s body.
At this moment,
Jiang Shan had no worries that his actions would cause unimaginable changes to Feng Quan’s corpse.
Because he now has enough trial-and-error cost and confidence, all the supernatural phenomena in this room are under his control.
It is precisely because of this strength that Jiang Shan no longer needs to worry too much; he can continuously explore the characteristics and usage of his own supernatural powers within a certain limit.
If the ghost’s abilities are a manifestation of fragments of world rules.
Then this “rule power” will have countless combinations and ways of application.
It’s just that most ghost wielders dare not try because each use of this power will deepen the fierce ghost’s erosion of themselves.
However, in supernatural events, the development and application of supernatural powers often determine the different fates of ghost wielders, whether they live or die.
“The method of Yang Jian modifying Feng Quan and Tong Qian’s memories will not work, because that is the attack method of the Newspaper Ghost’s supernatural newspaper. Therefore, if you want to trigger the Newspaper Ghost’s supernatural power, the simplest and most direct way is to make the first attempt by following the trend of the ghost characters wanting to change.”
He thought.
The scarlet and weird characters on Feng Quan’s corpse began to become orderly, and a line of crooked handwriting started to arrange and combine, gradually appearing.
Originally, Jiang Shan just wanted to try using the ghost characters to see if the ghost characters stained with the Newspaper Ghost’s supernatural power could still modify Feng Quan’s memories even without a human face.
Although most of Feng Quan’s memories have been annihilated with the disappearance of the human face.
But even for a corpse that has been dead for dozens of days and is even stained with supernatural power, Jiang Shan can now use the ghost characters as a medium to forcibly instill his past memories into the corpse.
This is an ability Jiang Shan discovered long after becoming an anomaly, and he calls it—
“Borrowing a Corpse to Return the Soul.”
