Chapter 29: The Twelve-hour Death Killing Pattern
There are twenty-seven minutes left before I die?!
Cold sweat dripped from Jiang Shan’s forehead. He looked at Zhao Leihu, who had completely turned into a Ghost Tree, and fell into deep thought.
“Why did Zhao Leihu turn into a Ghost Tree first? He and I only differed by half an hour. Didn’t we enter the Village together?”
After realizing he would also turn into a Ghost Tree, Jiang Shan stopped obsessing over whether he had touched a Ghost Tree.
He discovered that contact might be one part of the Ghost’s Killing Pattern, but it was not absolute.
There must be other conditions that cause people to suffer the Ghost’s Curse!
Just as Jiang Shan got out of the car, the half-asleep Guo Dezhong on the car saw Jiang Shan leaving and hurriedly followed. He walked to the tree, unzipped his pants, and said:
“What’s wrong, Brother? Did you discover something?
Seeing that Jiang Shan did not answer him, Guo Dezhong continued on his own: “I wouldn’t dare get out if you didn’t. I was about to burst.”
Seeing Guo Dezhong’s actions, Jiang Shan instantly thought of something!
Going to the bathroom!
If opening his Ghost Domain counted as contacting the Ghost Tree, then Zhao Leihu’s earliest “contact” with the Ghost Tree was not at the Hotel entrance, but on the Road when they went to the bathroom!
From the time their group went to the bathroom until Jiang Shan entered the Village and opened his Ghost Domain, it was about half an hour!
Calculating from the time Zhao Leihu’s group went to the bathroom until death, Jiang Shan got a number:
12 hours!
Therefore, the Killing Pattern of this Ghost Tree Forest is: directly or indirectly contacting the Ghost Tree means certain death after twelve hours!
Thinking this way, everything made sense.
Now the Ghost’s Killing Pattern had been found, but the gloom in Jiang Shan’s heart did not dissipate. He took a thick rope wrapped in Gold from the car and handed it to Guo Dezhong, saying:
“If you see me walking in circles or standing still in a moment, don’t hesitate—pull me out immediately!”
“Remember, only if I stay Alive can you live on.”
Guo Dezhong hurriedly nodded in fear and took it.
Seeing this, Jiang Shan unhesitatingly walked into the Ghost Tree Forest. Even with the Dead Face Ghost’s Ghost Domain fully opened, he found himself lost.
At this moment, he felt as if he were deep in a dense forest, surrounded entirely by Ghost Trees!
“What a terrifying Ghost Domain!”
For this Ghost Tree Forest, Jiang Shan felt only deep Fear.
The Dead Face Ghost’s Ghost Domain in the Ghost Tree Forest spread less than one meter.
Then Jiang Shan felt the pull from the rope. Following the direction guided by the rope, after just a few steps, his view suddenly cleared.
He was back at the Hotel entrance.
At this time, Jiang Shan’s back was soaked with cold sweat. As soon as he came out, he unhesitatingly activated the Ghost Characters’ Prophecy ability.
Jiang Shan felt that every time he used the Ghost Characters’ Prophecy, the Ghost Characters underwent some indescribable changes silently. He couldn’t detect them, but he could always vaguely sense them.
So he was unwilling to use this ability of the Ghost Characters too much, but now, he had no other choice.
“Tell me! How can I leave here!” Jiang Shan repeated in his heart constantly.
The feeling of Peeping came again.
The Ghost Characters slowly emerged in Jiang Shan’s mind reluctantly, saying:
“Perhaps if the Dead Face Ghost devours one Ghost and obtains a Human Face, I can live on.”
The scarlet Ghost Characters disappeared.
“Devour another Ghost—that means I must Control another Ghost. But where to find a Ghost? The Woods!”
Jiang Shan thought that there were exactly Two Ghosts in the Woods, right?
He looked down at the time:
3:31
Then Jiang Shan turned to Guo Dezhong and said:
“Go to the Third Floor and wake everyone up. Tell them that to stay Alive, they must grab all lighting equipment and come downstairs within two minutes—no waiting for those who oversleep or can’t be woken! You won’t be harmed by touching those trees. Go quickly!”
“Okay.”
Seeing Jiang Shan’s stern expression, Guo Dezhong involuntarily grew nervous. Without hesitation, he rushed into the Hotel.
Meanwhile, Jiang Shan opened the SUV’s trunk, glanced at the Gold Box, and couldn’t help feeling a bit heartbroken.
“This Box definitely can’t be taken.”
Jiang Shan knew clearly that the car couldn’t be driven, no one could carry this Box, and taking it would only be a burden, so he decided to leave it here.
“The top priority is to take these things.”
Jiang Shan held a Gold Corpse Bag in his left hand and a Gold Stick in his right. He looked at Guo Dezhong and the others rushing down from upstairs and said:
“Turn on all your lighting equipment. Follow behind me in a moment—this is the last chance for survival. Everyone must cooperate! If anyone doesn’t, I’ll kill you without hesitation!”
Jiang Shan’s tone carried no human Emotion, utterly ice-cold. When the crowd approached and saw his dead-like face, they were filled with extreme terror.
They had never seen a Ghost.
So at this moment, they felt that the young man before them, with a dead face and an aura of gloom and coldness emanating from his entire body, was the evil Ghost that had crawled up from Hell!
Because the crowd had seen the Ghost Tree Killing People,
No one in the group dared to stand up and oppose Jiang Shan. On the contrary, every face was filled with Fear and Unease.
And at this moment,
Jiang Shan had no mood to care for their Emotions. He glanced at Chen Yue and saw that she was carrying an elderly, haggard Middle-aged woman on her back. He couldn’t help frowning and said:
“Guo Dezhong, go help this girl carry her. Carry her well, and I guarantee you can dodge one Fierce Ghost attack.”
Hearing this, Guo Dezhong’s eyes lit up, and he walked to Chen Yue.
Finally, at Jiang Shan’s signal, Chen Yue placed her mother on Guo Dezhong’s back, then looked at Jiang Shan with gratitude.
Now, time was pressing, and Jiang Shan did not say much more to Chen Yue.
He counted the group—ten people including Guo Dezhong. Seeing everyone’s sleepy, dazed looks, he couldn’t help saying:
“If we don’t Escape from here tonight, everyone—including me—will die! If you’re still sleepy, turning into a tree lets you sleep forever! I’ll say it one last time: turn on all lighting equipment. If anyone runs around or talks nonsense, I’ll send them on their way first!”
With that, Jiang Shan pulled out the Pistol, coldly scanned the crowd, then looked down at his Watch:
3:35
“Guo Dezhong, distribute the Gold Rope from my car to them. Everyone tie together—quickly!”
The road from the center of Chen Family Village to the Village entrance was very close. Jiang Shan estimated it would take only about ten minutes to walk out of Chen Family Village from the Hotel.
Now, he had only twenty-one minutes left.
Jiang Shan recalled the information Wang Xiaoqiang gave him about the two Ghost Wielders from the Little Qiang Club:
Light-fearing Ghost Zhang Tao,
Hanging Ghost Liu Yuanyang.
For the Hanging Ghost, Jiang Shan was not very clear about this Fierce Ghost’s Killing Pattern, but for the Light-fearing Ghost, Jiang Shan had a very clear impression.
Zhang Tao, codenamed Light-fearing Ghost, had joined the Little Qiang Club the day before yesterday. He was a university student from a key University in Dachang City.
The first time he saw him, Jiang Shan was attracted by his attire.
Black coat, high-top black shoes, black pants, mask, and sunglasses on his face.
This reminded Jiang Shan of the Russian teacher Belikov from the language textbook—almost his entire body hidden in Clothes.
Later, from Wang Xiaoqiang, Jiang Shan learned that the Ghost Zhang Tao Controlled would involuntarily Attack upon seeing light. Even after being Controlled by Zhang Tao, there was still some uncertainty, so Zhang Tao wrapped himself up tightly.
This was also why Jiang Shan gathered all the survivors together—he needed them to use light to trigger the Light-fearing Ghost’s Killing Pattern.
The more people, the greater the chance of triggering the Fierce Ghost Killing.
And this Ghost was exactly the target Jiang Shan planned to Control to turn into a Ghost Face!
Seeing the rope mixed with thin Gold thrown to the crowd, Jiang Shan led everyone straight into the Ghost Tree Forest.
Early morning time:
3:36
Night, deathly quiet
