Chapter 302: Miao Xiaoshan In The Ghost House
At this moment, Yang Jian had already escaped the painful process of his consciousness being killed and then reshaped, but this did not mean he had completely escaped the danger of Ghost Painting and Ghost Bride Supernatural Revival.
Although Zhang Bohua’s medicine could ensure he did not need to worry about Supernatural Revival for a short time, no one knew how long this safe period would last.
Moreover, Ghost Painting was still invading Dajing City. If Yang Jian could not control it, or restrict it by other means, then everything Jiang Shan had done would be in vain.
“So, what idea did Human Skin Paper give you this time?”
After handing Human Skin Paper to Yang Jian, Jiang Shan looked at his solemn gaze and calmly asked.
“The method it gave me is almost the same as the one it gave you. I have now replaced that woman and become the carrier of Ghost Painting and Ghost Bride Supernatural, but because my appearance and gender do not match Ghost Painting’s Killing Pattern, this means I am destined to be unable to control Ghost Painting through myself.”
Yang Jian frowned tightly. He glanced at He Yuelian beside him, who had become a dried corpse, then looked at Jiang Shan and continued:
“I cannot leave Ghost House now, because to leave here I must go through Ghost Painting, but the intelligence on Human Skin Paper says that once I enter Ghost Painting World, I will die due to the Supernatural in my body, so next you have to go into Ghost Painting and bring back a woman.”
With that said, Yang Jian looked at Jiang Shan with somewhat complex eyes.
For Jiang Shan, he now had a strange feeling, from their first meeting at Little Qiang Club to now.
Although he knew that the reason Jiang Shan valued him so much was entirely because of Ghost Painting, this powerless display of having to rely on others made him, who already had extremely strong self-esteem, feel extremely weird.
But now, he had no other choice.
“This doesn’t differ much from what I guessed. You are now the carrier of Ghost Painting Supernatural, so if you enter Ghost Painting World, it will definitely cause certain mutations. You don’t need to worry about the appearance issue. If there are no other problems, then I’ll go first.”
After extinguishing the cigarette butt in his hand, Jiang Shan took Human Skin Paper from Yang Jian’s hand, then walked toward the first floor of Ghost House.
Deceiver Ghost can change a person’s body and appearance through Supernatural, this ability is explained in the Original Work.
So Jiang Shan now only needs to casually bring back a person from Ghost Painting World, no need to distinguish gender, as long as it’s a person, he can turn them into He Yuelian’s appearance.
As for the option of turning Yang Jian into He Yuelian’s appearance, Jiang Shan had also considered it, after all, having him meet the conditions himself is better than finding someone else to replace him.
But the only conflict arose.
The two people inside Ghost House Ghost Domain could not use any Supernatural at all, because here they lacked the medium, only Ghost Painting and Ghost Bride continued to affect Yang Jian in a curse manner.
And for Yang Jian to leave Ghost House, he must first enter Ghost Painting, which became a dead loop.
Bound to the land, away from life,
Ghost follows the person.
After reaching the oil painting on the first floor, Jiang Shan walked in without hesitation.
When entering Ghost Painting World from Ghost House once again, the scenery before his eyes had not changed. In front of him was an empty desolate road, and behind him was an old wooden house.
As expected,
This wooden house was the manifestation of Ghost House in Ghost Painting World.
“Gold Bullet is still on the ground at the wooden house door, no need to replenish, but Ghost Painting World seems to have abnormalities. Supernatural has a vague surging feeling, this feeling”
Looking at the world no different from before, Jiang Shan, sensing the anomaly, narrowed his eyes.
He immediately opened Ghost Domain. After a piece of silver light covered the surroundings, that weird feeling of the soul being “hooked” away disappeared.
“Ghost Bride’s summon ghost? It seems Ghost Painting has undergone tremendous changes. Then what impact will this change have on ordinary people? Forget it, that’s not the point. The urgent matter is to find a living person first.”
In a moment, Jiang Shan guessed the probable cause of this feeling, but he did not pay attention to it, instead expanding the range of Ghost Domain to search for traces of living people.
“Hm?”
Something weird happened.
While Jiang Shan used Ghost Domain to travel and search for living people, in a full ten minutes, he saw only an empty city, without encountering a single living person.
Normally, during Ghost Painting’s invasion of reality, it would bring some unlucky people into this world.
Although the probability is not high, with Dajing City’s population of over ten million, even if Ghost Painting has not fully invaded it, it should not be that in this world spanning hundreds of kilometers, not a single humanoid figure is seen.
“Something’s wrong. This world is constructed by Supernatural, and living people truly exist. Even if they all died, traces would be left, it absolutely should not be like this.”
Standing on a tall building, Jiang Shan, who had stopped, continued to think:
“I previously entered Ghost House directly from Dajing City, so the approximate time of Ghost Painting’s Unexpected Change cannot be determined. Then if looking for problems from me”
Jiang Shan suddenly thought of something and immediately withdrew his Ghost Domain.
And when the silver light completely disappeared from his surroundings, everything around him indeed underwent earth-shaking changes.
He was not standing on any tall building at all, but in the middle of a road, and the “people” Jiang Shan had always wanted to find also appeared. The ground around him was full of shriveled corpses, just a glance showed over a hundred bodies.
“Is this the real Ghost Painting World? The reason I saw illusions is entirely because Dead Face Ghost’s Ghost Domain affected Ghost Painting’s Ghost Domain, causing what appeared before my eyes to be wrong.”
“Previously I could normally see everything in Ghost Painting World with Ghost Domain, but now it has been affected. It seems Ghost Painting’s Ghost Domain has become more terrifying due to Ghost Bride’s Supernatural.”
Jiang Shan guessed that the previous scene appeared perhaps because certain Supernatural shielded his perception.
After all, the answer is fixed: this world must have living people, or corpses. If I didn’t see them, it’s largely because there’s a problem on my side.
And the fact was indeed so.
Because Yang Jian failed to control it, Ghost Bride, which was originally a Ghost Painting Puzzle Piece, its Supernatural was naturally stolen by Ghost Painting.
This led to the current scene, its Ghost Domain Strength and characteristics were changed, and it seems to have gained an additional Killing Pattern, an extremely terrifying Killing Pattern.
“All dead?”
While Jiang Shan was checking the corpses of a few strangers nearby, he suddenly saw a watch on a man’s wrist.
“The time on the watch is frozen at three eleven. So this man arrived here ten minutes ago, but in just ten minutes, he was killed by Ghost Painting’s Supernatural?”
Noticing this anomaly, Jiang Shan frowned. Perhaps because of the protection of Supernatural Power, he only felt a vague pulling sensation.
This feeling was very weird, as if his life was a sticky booger, with a hand always trying to pull it out.
“Summon ghost. For Ghost Wielders, it summons the ghost in their body, as for ordinary people, it summons their life?”
At this moment, Jiang Shan guessed in his heart that this weird feeling should be the cause of these ordinary people’s deaths.
“Things have become tricky. My current position is at least over an hour’s journey from Ghost House. If I stay near Ghost House waiting, who knows when someone will appear.”
Thinking of this, Jiang Shan frowned.
Because of Dead Face Ghost Ghost Domain’s characteristics, he now cannot bring people to move, and if relying on luck to wait for people, no one knows how long it would take.
A sudden problem was placed before Jiang Shan.
“For ordinary people to survive here for a long time is almost impossible. It seems I can only leave Ghost Painting and send someone from the Present World into Ghost House.”
Combining the current situation, Jiang Shan immediately made a decision.
Relying on living people in Ghost Painting to save Yang Jian was almost impossible. After all, ordinary people without Supernatural Power entering here have a high probability of certain death, and even if surviving living people were found, he has no ability to bring them into Ghost House.
Rather than gambling on luck here, it’s faster to go to the Present World near Ghost House and throw a living person in.
Soon,
After finding the golden pistol left behind earlier, Jiang Shan returned to the Present World.
Under using Ghost Domain to travel, in just two minutes he crossed the entire Dajing City and arrived near Ghost House.
“Miao Xiaoshan? Why is she here?”
Jiang Shan, dragging an unconscious woman in his hand, had just come here from Death Row Prison. Through Ghost Domain, he surprisingly saw Miao Xiaoshan holding Ghost Candle and a few girls inside Ghost House.
What surprised Jiang Shan was that judging from Ghost Candle and Miao Xiaoshan’s conditions, although they looked panicked and had some bruises on their bodies, not one showed despair in their eyes.
This meant they had not encountered any overly terrifying Fierce Ghosts, or possibly not been attacked at all.
But this was not what caught Jiang Shan’s attention. What he cared about was that if deduced from them not encountering Fierce Ghosts, then the Ghost Candle in Miao Xiaoshan’s hand had been burning for at least half an hour.
And Ghost House was over forty kilometers from her dormitory building. Forget walking, even running, a normal person could not reach here in half an hour.
By this deduction, how they arrived at Ghost House becomes simple.
“It seems they relied on Ghost Candle to accidentally enter Ghost House from Ghost Painting World, but they remained in the reality-level Ghost House because of Ghost Candle?”
Jiang Shan did not rush into Ghost House, because he was very curious about Miao Xiaoshan and the others’ current state.
Ghost House is divided into two levels.
One layer is the Ghost Domain level, that is, after entering Ghost House, the Republic of China style decoration inside that Ghost Wielders see, completely different from the modern luxury villa seen before entering Ghost House.
And inside Ghost House, whether Ghost Wielders, Fierce Ghosts, or living people, their medium with reality will gradually disappear over time.
Thereby creating an illusion similar to “suppression” and “exile”.
As for the other layer, before entering Ghost House, outside Ghost Wielders can see inside Ghost House through Ghost Domain, and even ordinary people can see through means like mirror reflections and telescopes.
Five-layer villa, Western European decoration.
And this is Ghost House’s weirdness.
But now Miao Xiaoshan and the others who entered Ghost House surprisingly did not enter the Supernatural Space constructed by its Ghost Domain, but stayed on the reality level.
This scene made Jiang Shan’s eyes flicker.
“Red Ghost Candle can protect the user for a certain time. Actually, it achieves this by shielding Fierce Ghosts’ perception and the medium on the user. The conflict of the medium disappearing seems to have caused a problem with Ghost House’s pattern, which is why Miao Xiaoshan and the others remain in reality.”
“Ghost House’s weirdness goes without saying. If used reasonably, it can not only let Ghost Wielders avoid some fatal curses, but also has high concealment. If used as the core of a ‘Haunted House’, the most difficult handling problem will be solved.”
Jiang Shan knew now was not the time to consider these. He did not handle Miao Xiaoshan and those girls, not because he didn’t want to, but because he couldn’t.
Without Red Ghost Candle, even if Jiang Shan opened Ghost Domain, the moment he stepped into Ghost House.
Even Dead Face Ghost, which can contend with Ghost Painting Ghost Domain, would still be suppressed, and he would enter Ghost House Ghost Domain’s Supernatural World like most people.
After throwing the woman brought from Death Row Prison, whose appearance had been modified by Deceiver Ghost Supernatural, on the ground, Jiang Shan looked at Yang Jian and slowly said:
“We can begin.”
Yang Jian nodded slightly. He suddenly let go of the Ghost Hand he had been holding with He Yuelian, then held the hand of the woman on the ground whose legs had been broken by Jiang Shan.
The moment he held that woman’s hand, visibly, both that woman and Yang Jian, who had returned to normal appearance, their bodies began to shrivel to different degrees.
And that woman on the ground screamed in terror, like a dying mad dog, drooling, face distorted.
In her consciousness, a woman wearing Red Wedding Dress, perfect in appearance, beautiful beyond human limits, was walking step by step from afar, constantly approaching her.
But she could not move and could only stay in place, watching the other approach.
An inexplicable fear swept over the woman’s brain like a tide. No matter how perfect the woman opposite looked, at this moment she was like seeing the god of death, her consciousness on the verge of collapse.
And as that perfect woman gradually approached, some memories not belonging to her began to appear in her mind. These memories were scattered like fragments, impacting her consciousness and the last line of defense in her psyche.
The Supernatural that He Yuelian once experienced now reappeared on this death row inmate woman.
But the death row inmate who had killed people did not even have He Yuelian’s firm will.
In less than a minute since Yang Jian held her hand.
This woman’s consciousness, who killed her entire family including her mother-in-law, died silently under the conflict and influence of Supernatural.
