Chapter 265: The Vanished Jiang Shan
Although there was a gap in the number of fierce ghosts compared to the Ghost Messenger, Jiang Shan, knowing of the existence of that artificial coffin nail, chose to make a desperate gamble after judging that the gap in the number of fierce ghosts between both sides wouldn’t be too large.
After the Dead Face Ghost easily swallowed that piece of flesh and blood fused with the coffin nail, the darkness rapidly receded like the tide.
Everything around was no longer pitch black where one couldn’t see their own hand, as if it had suddenly become morning.
An unknown faint light appeared, restoring everyone’s vision. Although it wasn’t particularly bright, at least they could now see their surroundings clearly.
“We can see the things around us now. Is it dawn?”
“Are you even a Ghost Wielder? This is obviously the Ghost Domain of this ghost receding.”
“No, look over there. The Ghost Domain hasn’t receded. The distance is still pitch black. The area where we are has returned to normal. It seems the ghost temporarily has no effect on our surroundings. Could it be because Wang Bin died?”
Liu San’s words made the others all shocked and uncertain. At first, everyone thought the situation had certainly improved.
However, when they saw the scene in front of them, it was utterly horrifying.
A cold, blackened corpse was facing them, stiffly hovering in mid-air, motionless. The most conspicuous part on this corpse was the large chunk of missing flesh and blood at its chest.
As if it had been bitten off by something.
This,
is this the ghost?
This extra weird corpse made everyone’s scalp tingle and their hearts chill.
“Where is Jiang Shan? He wasn’t killed by the Ghost Messenger, was he?”
“Impossible. You’ve all seen the Ghost Messenger’s killing method. How could Minister Jiang disappear into thin air without a sound?”
After the darkness receded, the crowd only saw the Ghost Messenger hovering motionless in mid-air with no reaction, but they still hadn’t seen Jiang Shan’s figure.
This instantly threw the already tense crowd into panic.
Suddenly,
The Ghost Messenger seemed to react to the crowd’s voices. It was no longer stiffly hovering in the air and didn’t choose to move forward. Instead, its head eerily turned slowly backward, its stiff neck emitting creaking sounds, as if the cervical vertebrae had already broken, but this had no effect on the ghost at all.
Fierce ghost turning back, the target seemed to be the entire team.
This was a mutation.
Because Jiang Shan had personally contacted the ghost, the so-called pattern of isolation would be changed.
If under the condition of no contact, the ghost’s judgment range was relatively large, covering a small area, then after Jiang Shan contacted the ghost, the three-meter isolation judgment would disappear.
At this time, whoever contacts the ghost would be considered in an isolated state.
However, the vanishing Jiang Shan left the Ghost Messenger without a medium for attack, but having already changed its pattern, it wouldn’t fall dormant. Instead, it would launch terrifying attacks on everyone around who fit the medium.
Just as this ghost turned its head back, Huang Ziya, who was still pondering Jiang Shan’s whereabouts, suddenly felt her body, especially her neck, no longer under her control, twisting in a way that defied human anatomy.
Moreover, this twisting force was terrifying and astonishing, impossible to resist, as if her body was involuntarily making this motion.
If it continued, Huang Ziya felt her body would be twisted into a pretzel. Her gaze immediately swept toward Liu San, and she shouted loudly:
“Liu San, save me!”
Seeing this, Liu San seemed to think of something. Because of the paper person’s special ability, he was like a fish in water when it came to gathering information. He knew the information of many people in charge at Headquarters very well.
So after noticing the Ghost Messenger turning its head, he immediately growled: “We can’t let this ghost turn its head back! This is another Ghost Wielder’s ability, called fierce ghost turning back. Anyone behind it after it turns back will undoubtedly die.”
“You all keep holding onto Huang Ziya. I’ll block this attack.”
He gritted his teeth, without any hesitation, and immediately rushed forward.
Earlier, his plan with Jiang Shan was exactly this: Jiang Shan would take action, while the others ensured their own safety and absolutely did not separate, guaranteeing that during Jiang Shan’s action, they wouldn’t be suppressed due to the gap in fierce ghost numbers.
If Jiang Shan died, all hope would be lost.
And now,
Although Jiang Shan disappeared after killing Wang Bin, without even leaving a trace of blood.
But after Liu San saw the wound on the Ghost Messenger’s chest that looked like a bite mark missing flesh and blood, though he had doubts in his heart, he was still certain that Jiang Shan had already affected this ghost to a certain extent.
Otherwise, who bit off that piece of flesh on the Ghost Messenger?
Not Jiang Shan, could it be him?
Now, Liu San was proactively preparing to block this attack, not only to ensure the team wouldn’t be slaughtered by the Ghost Messenger due to reduced numbers, but also to buy time waiting for Jiang Shan.
If they could successfully withstand the attack, not only would they have hope of leaving here, but they might also successfully handle the Ghost Messenger after Jiang Shan reappeared.
“This time I have to get serious, or I won’t be able to dodge the Ghost Messenger’s attack.” Liu San slightly lowered his head and reached out to tear at the skin and flesh on the back of his hand.
A piece of bright red flesh and skin was brutally torn off and casually discarded to the side.
No.
That wasn’t flesh and blood.
It was actually a piece of paper, just with traces of disguise, making it look like a piece of living flesh and blood.
One by one.
Liu San tore off all the paper from his hand, blood continuously flowing down.
Soon.
A pair of even weirder and more terrifying hands appeared.
They were a pair of withered arms, somewhat mutilated and rotten, with blackened nail beds, like those of a corpse buried for many days that had been dug up again.
This was no longer human.
This was absolutely a pair of genuine fierce ghost arms.
And this was merely a small part revealed from the paper figure body after tearing off the disguising paper.
It was hard to imagine what kind of terrifying thing was hidden inside once the real paper person was torn open.
Immediately after, in the next second, Liu San’s withered, rotten arm suddenly grabbed the neck of the Ghost Messenger still hovering in mid-air, as if to clamp its head firmly.
The Ghost Messenger instantly stiffened.
And from that neck, an indescribable eerie aura spread, causing the Ghost Messenger’s pallid skin, which had lost color, to turn black where it passed, then begin to rot, followed by flesh and blood sloughing off.
In just a moment, the Ghost Messenger’s body already showed signs of decay.
Liu San had unleashed an incomprehensible terrifying supernatural power that could easily restrict even the Ghost Messenger.
But for him, using this supernatural power with extreme suppression power came at a heavy cost.
Sheets of yellow paper began involuntarily peeling off from Liu San’s face and body, and his vitality seemed to weaken bit by bit along with the falling paper.
The yellow paper composing the paper person not only represented the supernatural, but also Liu San’s life as an anomaly.
Once the yellow paper falls completely,
Death follows.
