Chapter 267: Mountain As Prison, Detaining Ghosts And Messengers
Seeing that the Ghost Messenger seemed to have regained action, Huang Ziya immediately looked toward Jiang Shan, her eyes once again showing a look of shock.
“Keep holding onto each other, don’t move around.”
In the next second after Jiang Shan had just reminded everyone.
The Ghost Messenger’s stiff and blackened corpse suddenly collapsed to the ground, as if it had lost some weird support, turning into an ordinary corpse.
“Jiang Shan, what’s going on?” Liu San looked at the corpse lying on the ground, his tone becoming grave.
“Nothing, the ghost restarted, we restricted it, so it abandoned this identity.” Jiang Shan slowly withdrew his hand from the Ghost Messenger’s brain at this moment.
Huang Ziya’s eyes flickered evasively, her gaze switching back and forth between Jiang Shan and the Ghost Messenger: “Restart? So… what kind of state is this ghost in right now?”
She simply couldn’t understand what Jiang Shan had done before.
“Unclear, but the only thing I need to do now is wait.”
Although Jiang Shan knew that the Ghost Messenger’s killing pattern had been successfully changed, he truly had no idea what it had been changed to.
This uncertain supernatural power made him feel inexplicably irritated:
“After solving this Dajing City crisis, when we get back, I need to properly study the Newspaper Ghost, to figure out exactly how its mechanism for changing killing rules works.”
“Uncontrollable supernatural power, if you can’t find a pattern to use it, it’s very likely to backfire on you at certain moments.”
While Jiang Shan was pondering how to explore the Newspaper Ghost’s supernatural, Liu San suddenly pointed into the distance: “Jiang Shan, look, the Ghost Domain is disappearing.”
Hearing Liu San’s reminder, Jiang Shan slightly raised his head and looked into the distance.
Sure enough, he saw a patch of darkness gathering together in the distance, quickly moving away toward one place, while the surroundings became brighter and brighter, even the morning sun visible behind them.
And that receding patch of darkness, at first glance, surprisingly took the shape of a coffin. If viewed from even farther away, it was simply a black Ghost Coffin moving, making one’s heart chill.
“Jiang Shan, the Ghost Messenger is”
The still shaken Huang Ziya, having survived the ordeal, looked at the departing darkness and couldn’t help but turn to Jiang Shan and ask.
“Do you know about the Huanggang Village incident? Because of Feng Quan, the Ghost Messenger didn’t fully develop, so its characteristics changed.”
Jiang Shan smoked, continuing calmly:
“A Ghost Domain in the shape of a coffin means we weren’t in an ordinary Ghost Domain earlier, but inside a coffin. That’s why the ghost could restart infinitely and couldn’t be detained.”
“The Ghost Domain is the ghost, the ghost is the Ghost Coffin; as a whole, people inside it naturally can’t detain it, just like a bug can’t escape a sealed box. To solve it, you have to act from outside the box.”
“And I’ve taken the most important supernatural from the Ghost Messenger, so now is the best time to handle it.”
Jiang Shan’s words, spoken as casually as chatting about neighborhood gossip or friends talking, sounded like a thunderclap in Liu San’s ears.
He looked at Jiang Shan in disbelief, his heart full of shock:
“Taken some supernatural from the ghost?!”
Although Liu San didn’t know what taking supernatural from a fierce ghost specifically meant, seeing the Ghost Messenger’s current state, he was starting to believe Jiang Shan’s words.
And that was the reason for his shock.
He’d heard of suppressing fierce ghosts; heard of stealing fierce ghosts’ supernatural; but he’d never heard of a Ghost Wielder being able to take something off a ghost.
This almost subverted Liu San’s cognition.
As for Jiang Shan’s so-called “taking supernatural from the ghost,” it was actually changing the ghost’s killing pattern.
If you see the ghost as a computer, then the killing pattern is the computer’s basic code, and being able to change that line of code—isn’t that also taking the ghost’s supernatural?
This ability was truly too terrifying, and Jiang Shan didn’t want the information about his ability to change killing patterns to be known, so he chose this way to fob off Liu San.
One is like plundering and taking;
The other is changing from the ghost’s root;
Which is lighter or heavier, Jiang Shan had already given the answer.
“Part of the Ghost Messenger’s resurrection is outside, the unresurrected part left behind became the Ghost Coffin, so the Wei Jing that became a ghost represents the coffin lid.” Jiang Shan’s eyes gradually flickered:
“Now this ghost has very probably returned to the Ghost Coffin for reshaping due to the lack of supernatural, but this isn’t a restriction, it’s indulgence. Given some time, the Ghost Coffin will completely disappear, turning into a complete ghost.”
“So you mean”
“I haven’t thought of any good handling method right now. According to my calculations, this ghost will at least develop in the Ghost Coffin for a while, but how long that will be can’t be confirmed.”
“If detained in a gold container before it fully develops, it might still have some effect, but now, Dajing City’s situation is already a complete mess, I can only restrict it first.”
Looking at the endless messages on the satellite phone, a trace of helplessness flashed in Jiang Shan’s eyes.
Even though he and the others had successfully changed the Ghost Messenger’s killing pattern after a near-death struggle, making it return to the Ghost Coffin, he had no clue on how to perfectly handle this ghost.
Infinite restart; unsolvable suppression.
And now its killing pattern was unknown to anyone.
This left Jiang Shan at a loss on how to proceed. Perhaps after fully mastering the Newspaper Ghost’s ability, he could use the Ghost Messenger’s new killing pattern to create conflict and control or detain it.
But right now
The Ghost Messenger lying in the Ghost Coffin, no longer causing trouble—in the current situation, restricting it was the best handling method.
“I’ll handle the rest, do some emergency handling and leave. You now have everyone contact the Ghost Wielders still alive in Dajing City.”
After answering Liu San, Jiang Shan turned to glance at that patch of darkness: “I don’t know if it’ll work, but at least it’s for peace of mind.”
After speaking,
Jiang Shan’s face began to turn deathly pale, his features began to change, his whole person seemed to turn into a fierce ghost, the terrifying chilling feeling even making Liu San’s heart palpitate.
The silver light of the Ghost Domain instantly enveloped that patch of darkness precisely like a beam of light.
The next moment,
A scene that left everyone dumbfounded and incredulous appeared.
The terrain around that patch of darkness underwent drastic changes.
The ground sank, hills rose, strangely shaped mountain peaks abruptly appeared before everyone, the layered peaks forming a valley around the area where the Ghost Messenger was.
This valley was tightly surrounded on all sides, only visible from the air, and in the center of the valley, that patch of darkness still lingered, refusing to dissipate.
Using mountains as prison,
Detaining the ghost messenger.
