Chapter 28: Ghost Tree Forest
Before Zhao Leihu could even draw his gun, a bloodless Dead Face Ghost suddenly appeared right in front of him.
“wc! What the hell is that thing!”
Zhao Leihu looked at the Dead Face Ghost in front of him in terror and cursed angrily. Then something even more frightening happened—he discovered that his own face skin was actually starting to peel off!
No matter how hard Zhao Leihu tried to stop the peeling of his face skin, the Fierce Ghost’s terrifying Killing Pattern made all his efforts futile.
“My face! Ahh!”
In just a few breaths, a bloody mess of flesh and blood face skin fell to the ground. Zhao Leihu, with his blood-drenched faceless head, staggered in place, looking exactly like a living corpse.
Now Zhao Leihu’s consciousness had vanished along with the peeling of that face skin. He could no longer be called alive.
Jiang Shan felt that with just a thought, Zhao Leihu, who had already become a Ghost Slave, would completely die within a few seconds.
Beside Zhao Leihu, that young team member was stunned for a few seconds by this scene. When he snapped back, he collapsed to the ground, his eyes filled with fear.
As Jiang Shan walked toward him, the young team member heard the footsteps and his mental defenses instantly collapsed. He trembled uncontrollably, crawling toward the woods while muttering nonstop:
“Don’t kill me! Don’t kill me! It was all Zhao Leihu! He made that ghost kill Old Cao! It wasn’t me! He was the one who wanted to rob the Gold Box! Please spare me!”
“Birds of a feather.”
Jiang Shan snorted coldly, and scarlet Ghost Characters spread from under his feet, instantly reaching behind that person.
“!”
After that teammate desperately fled into the woods, the Ghost Characters surprisingly could no longer spread on the ground in the woods!
Jiang Shan was surprised in his heart,
Even Ye Feng’s life-saving Ghost Robe could be crawled over by the Ghost Characters, and they could even repeatedly trigger the Killing Pattern on the Ghost Robe.
This woods, which felt almost devoid of any Weirdness, could not only suppress the Dead Face Ghost’s Ghost Domain, but even the Ghost Characters couldn’t invade it.
At this moment, Jiang Shan’s heart was pounding wildly. Now he was hesitating:
Go?
Or not go?
If he forced his way into this woods now, Jiang Shan had no confidence he could walk out alive.
He didn’t even know where the Fierce Ghost was or what the Ghost’s Killing Pattern was. Moreover, from what that team member had just said, Jiang Shan sensed:
“There are other ghosts in this woods?”
If Old Cao had turned into a Ghost Tree, that team member absolutely wouldn’t have said that. So it could only mean there were other ghosts in this woods!
Jiang Shan grew more solemn. After thinking it over repeatedly, he decided not to go.
Since the Ghost Tree Forest would eventually grow to cover the entire Village, he, Jiang Shan, had no way to avoid entering the Ghost Tree Forest. Compared to going in blindly to die, he preferred to find the Ghost’s Killing Pattern in this limited time.
Ghosts are always dead, while people are alive.
No ghost is unsolvable. Even the most perfect ghost Puzzle Piece has a trace of a Loophole, and Ghost Wielders are just ordinary people who luckily survive again and again through these ghosts’ Loopholes.
“Since I can’t get useful information, I’ll wait until the ghost kills again.”
“This person could be Guo Dezhong, or Chen Yue, or even myself. Now let’s see who among this group of lucky people can continue to be lucky.”
With that thought,
Jiang Shan returned to the car, neatly lowered the seat, and lay down.
Seeing this, Guo Dezhong was somewhat puzzled but more panicked. He opened the car door and sat in the back row, saying incredulously:
“Don’t you want to live? It’s this time and you can still fall asleep?”
“I’ll give you three seconds to shut up. Say one more word and I’ll throw you into that Ghost Tree Forest, believe it or not?” Jiang Shan said.
Guo Dezhong looked at the dark and deathly still Ghost Tree Forest, feeling a chill from the bottom of his heart. He didn’t dare say more and could only sit obediently in the car.
And Jiang Shan wasn’t really sleeping. He narrowed his eyes, thinking about everything that had happened today,
while occasionally staring at the changes in the Ghost Tree Forest outside.
But until ten o’clock at night, the somewhat sleepy Jiang Shan hadn’t noticed any abnormalities in the Ghost Tree Forest.
Except it was growing extremely fast.
3:28 a.m.
Jiang Shan had not slept at all. The image of death in his mind was like a death knell, tugging at his mind again and again.
Suddenly, an image began to involuntarily emerge in Jiang Shan’s mind.
This was the second time the Ghost Characters presented a prophecy in Jiang Shan’s mind in the form of an image. The last time was because of the Ghost Painting.
Jiang Shan didn’t dare to be distracted and focused all his attention on the images in his mind:
Not sure of the exact time, but the night was turning pale, so it seemed dawn was approaching.
Jiang Shan saw himself in the car covered in dense, scarlet Ghost Characters, while that pale Dead Face Ghost in the youth’s likeness was tightly pressed against his face.
No matter how the Ghost Characters spread in the car, even the Dead Face Ghost seemed to be triggered by Jiang Shan and was showing signs of Resurrection. The Dead Face Ghost’s expression had changed from originally cold indifference to one of considerable anger.
But none of this could stop the Fierce Ghost’s Killing Pattern.
In just a few breaths after that, he died.
In the car, Jiang Shan’s body turned into a Ghost Tree, quietly rooting here.
The image in his mind ended abruptly here, and Jiang Shan’s brows were tightly furrowed.
He couldn’t figure out why, having controlled Two Ghosts—even with the Ghost Characters Dead Machine—he still couldn’t survive even one extra second under this Fierce Ghost’s Curse.
In front of this unknown ghost, he was no different from an ordinary person.
“Why will I die? I’ve only been in Chen Family Village for six hours. I haven’t touched a Ghost Tree, so there’s no reason I’d trigger the Ghost’s Killing Pattern?” Jiang Shan kept pondering in his heart where exactly the problem was.
The night in Chen Family Village was quiet. In the Ghost Tree Forest, you could even hear cicadas and some insects chirping.
But this only made Jiang Shan increasingly chilled.
Just after the Ghost Characters disappeared, Jiang Shan felt the Ghost Slave mark on Zhao Leihu start to vanish. Through the car window, he saw that Zhao Leihu not far away had disappeared!
His feet had turned into stumps, leaving only a body that was continuously elongating, but it was about to turn into a tree trunk!
“What exactly is the Fierce Ghost’s Killing Pattern!?”
“Ghost Characters!”
After suppressing it all night, Jiang Shan resolved to activate the Ghost Characters’ prophecy ability. The peeping gaze from the void followed.
Jiang Shan felt creeped out by the invisible gaze fixing on him, but he couldn’t care about that now. All his focus was on the twisted and crooked text of the Ghost Characters in his mind:
“I am Jiang Shan. I broke into a Ghost Tree Forest. I can’t find the Fierce Ghost’s Killing Pattern. I’m going to die. At 3:56, I will die under the Ghost Tree’s Curse.”
“I shouldn’t be trapped in a dead end. I should control.”
The further down the Ghost Characters’ text went, the more chaotic it became. By the end, it was impossible to make out the shapes of the characters.
At the very end, it was as if the Ghost Characters were fearing something and hesitated to continue appearing in Jiang Shan’s mind.
“3:56, and I’m dead?”
Jiang Shan looked down at his watch:
3:29
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