Chapter 285: Leaving The Ghost House
Chen Hao, who took the Ghost Scissors, saw a fair, chilling palm resting on his shoulder.
But this hand had no sense of entity; it was merely a manifestation of the curse.
“You see it, right? There are no curse manifestations of the supernatural on Yang Jian and me, but only on you.”
Seeing Chen Hao’s furrowed brows, Jiang Shan, who had lit a cigarette, continued:
“The hair on these scissors is the medium. Using it, one can see curses that are hard for anyone to detect. The fierce ghost’s curse includes many situations, and their killing pattern is one of them. But without the medium, naturally, we won’t have the possibility of being attacked anymore.”
“And this is the terror of the Ghost House.”
Jiang Shan explained in detail. At this moment, he said these things not to dispel Chen Hao’s doubts, but simply to confirm whether his own thoughts had any issues.
“Then why do I still have the Curse of the Ghost Painting on me? Could it be…?”
Chen Hao, who handed the Ghost Scissors to Jiang Shan, suddenly thought of something. His eyes narrowed as he looked toward the other rooms in the Ghost House.
“The Ghost House’s killing pattern is to continuously shield the mediums on people and ghosts, then use an extremely weird supernatural power to shield them out of the world.”
After putting the Ghost Scissors back into the Ghost Mirror Shard, Jiang Shan continued:
“Simply put, the Ghost House’s supernatural makes a person, an item, or even a ghost disappear from this world, and it has another use: hiding things.”
“Hiding things?” Yang Jian asked in a puzzled tone, not understanding.
“Yes, hiding things.” Jiang Shan glanced at Chen Hao, who was drenched in sweat, and calmly pointed to the surrounding rooms:
“Although the Ghost House’s supernatural can shield mediums, it cannot shield itself and the mediums of the real world, because that is the foundation of its existence. An hour ago, in the Ghost Domain, I sensed that inside this ghost there was a Ghost Painting.”
“Ghost Painting… So because there’s still a Ghost Painting in the Ghost House, that’s why I still have the Curse of the Ghost Painting on me.”
At this point, Chen Hao seemed to understand something.
“That’s why I had you use the Ghost Scissors to check if you had a curse on you. With high probability, that oil painting in this Ghost House is the Source of the Ghost Painting.”
Looking at the two shocked faces, Jiang Shan extinguished his cigarette and said:
“Someone wants to use the Ghost House’s characteristics to safely hide the Source Ghost Painting in Dajing City, and our key to leaving lies with that painting.”
“We’ll split up and rendezvous immediately after finding that oil painting.”
“Mm, no problem.”
“Good.”
Yang Jian and Chen Hao, who could be called natural Ghost Wielders, quickly understood the meaning contained in Jiang Shan’s words.
The oil painting is just the ghost’s carrier, while the painting is a real object that exists in real life.
So using the Ghost House’s characteristics, the Ghost Painting can be openly hidden in Dajing City.
And this approach,
not only will the Ghost Painting, with its extremely high terror level, not be discovered by Ghost Wielders like Old Qin;
moreover, without the medium, in these twelve hours in the Ghost House, it won’t actively resurrect and affect the outside world in advance.
It could be said,
the Ghost House is the key to this chaos in Dajing City.
“The Ghost Painting must have a carrier to appear in reality, so even if the Ghost Painting is ‘exiled’ by the Ghost House’s supernatural, it will still reappear in reality on some painting.”
“And this perfectly matches the painting presented by that oil painting in the fourth-floor room of the Ghost Painting World.”
“It seems that in the supernatural confrontation between the Ghost Painting and the Ghost House, it lost, so the Ghost Painting’s Source Ghost is not in the Ghost Painting World but appeared in Miao Xiaoshan’s dormitory.”
While searching for that oil painting in the Ghost House, Jiang Shan once again confirmed the ins and outs of the Ghost Painting’s whereabouts in his mind.
“Since Chen Hao still has the Curse of the Ghost Painting on him, it means that although the Source Ghost in that Ghost Painting inside the Ghost House has disappeared, it still possesses the Ghost Painting’s supernatural.”
“And the Ghost Painting, with its low puzzle piece degree, has its most prominent supernatural power as the Ghost Domain. Perhaps that oil painting still connects to the Ghost Painting World, and that’s the key to escape.”
Now,
after confirming from the file records that the Ghost House cannot be left, the only way for Jiang Shan, now just an ordinary person, to leave seems to be one.
That is to use that oil painting, which no longer has the Source Ghost but still has supernatural, to attempt entering the Ghost Painting World again, then leave through another exit.
This approach is the most appropriate and low-risk.
Otherwise,
Jiang Shan, without any supernatural power, wouldn’t know how to escape the Ghost House.
“It’s here!”
Following Chen Hao’s shout, Jiang Shan quickly found him squatting in the second-floor restroom, waiting for him and Yang Jian.
Seeing the oil painting on the restroom wall, which had lost its main subject and only had a gray hazy city background left, Jiang Shan’s eyes flickered; he seemed to have seen the path to escape the Ghost House.
“As expected, although the Source Ghost has disappeared, the oil painting it left behind still connects to its Ghost Painting World.”
“No matter how well the Ghost House hides it, ghosts can’t be killed. It has always had a connection point to reality. That point itself might be a ghost or some special item, and this picture frame that once carried the source still has some unknown connection to the source.”
“This is something the Ghost House’s supernatural cannot shield, because it’s a unique characteristic originating from the supernatural itself.”
When Yang Jian arrived, they had searched for a total of twelve minutes.
The three who found the Derived Supernatural of the Ghost Painting successfully gathered in a small restroom in the Ghost House.
“I’ll try entering the Ghost Painting World first. If something happens to me, Chen Hao, don’t help. Let Yang Jian do it, because you have the Curse of the Ghost Painting on you, which might cause some unknown change in the Ghost Painting.”
Before acting, Jiang Shan looked at the two and instructed.
“Do I need to light the Ghost Candle?” Yang Jian followed up.
“Don’t light it unless I clearly nod.”
With that said,
Under the gaze of Yang Jian and Chen Hao, Jiang Shan reached toward the picture frame of that oil painting.
And when he grabbed it, everything in the oil painting immediately changed.
The restroom’s door frame turned into a picture frame, and the door turned into an oil painting.
The city originally in the oil painting disappeared, and on the oil painting with the Ghost House restroom door as the canvas, it depicted the appearance of a dormitory.
Bed, books, desk—from the clothes hanging on the rack and some details, it could be recognized that this was very likely Miao Xiaoshan’s dormitory.
And Jiang Shan even saw a woman in the painting,
a female university student without a brain, still sitting upright on the upper bunk bed board.
On the bed in the oil painting, a girl with only a body and missing head sat there, motionless.
“This is…”
No time to think further, Jiang Shan found his hands sinking into the oil painting like inserting into water. Without a word, he walked straight into the Ghost Painting.
In just the blink of an eye,
Jiang Shan’s figure disappeared from in front of Yang Jian and Chen Hao, disappearing from this “inescapable” Ghost House.
