Chapter 38: The Scheme Of The Ghost Characters
Suddenly, Yang Jian felt a bone-chilling cold emanating from his body, the kind of cold like touching dead person’s skin, instantly dilating his pupils!
He discovered in horror that the scarlet weird characters not only appeared on the Headless Ghost Shadow’s body, but at some point, his own body was also covered with Ghost Characters.
“My body has lost sensation?” Yang Jian was greatly shocked in his heart.
At this moment, with his entire body covered by Ghost Characters, he couldn’t even open his mouth to speak!
Jiang Shan took a brand new bank card from his pocket, then walked in front of the stiff Yang Jian, and under Yang Jian’s eyelids, he stuffed the bank card into Yang Jian’s mouth.
At this time, Yang Jian’s gaze was fixed deadly on Jiang Shan in front of him, his eyes full of killing intent as if he wanted to skin Jiang Shan alive.
“Before killing, you must be prepared to be killed, Yang Jian. I can kill you anytime now, just like killing a chicken.”
“But I’m not someone who kills indiscriminately. As long as the price is enough, I can still spare your little life.” Jiang Shan said.
As soon as the words fell, Yang Jian suddenly found he could open his mouth to speak. He spat out the bank card from his mouth, his voice somewhat hoarse as he said:
“What do you want?”
“I’m not some robber either. We’ll split the Ghost Coffin half each, but I also want that Human Skin Paper in your hand.” Jiang Shan’s tone emphasized especially on Human Skin Paper.
Upon hearing the three words Human Skin Paper, Yang Jian’s face instantly darkened:
“How does he know I have Human Skin Paper?”
After a long silence, Yang Jian’s face was still darkly unpleasant. He wanted to say something but held it back.
“How about this, I won’t bully you. I’ll just look at the Human Skin Paper for ten minutes, and we’ll still split the Ghost Coffin half each, only…”
Jiang Shan squinted his eyes and pointed at the bank card on the ground:
“Not a single cent less of the Life-Buying Money. After this matter ends, I hope it appears in my account promptly and quickly.”
Because Jiang Shan knew that at this time, outside Huang Gang Village had already been blockaded by Headquarters. Once the Ghost Messenger’s Ghost Domain disappears, Headquarters will definitely take action.
Fifteen minutes was his estimate of when the Ghost Messenger Ghost Domain would disappear, so he simply didn’t haggle with Yang Jian.
Ten minutes,
Enough time for him to get the answers he wanted from the Human Skin Paper.
“Good.”
As soon as the word “good” was said, Yang Jian felt his upper body had regained sensation. He looked at Jiang Shan with dread, then took out a battered gold box from his body and threw it over.
Although the exterior had a deep bullet hole, it was enough for detaining the Human Skin Paper.
“See you in ten minutes.”
Jiang Shan’s figure disappeared into the Black Haze, leaving Yang Jian with a dark face standing obediently in place accepting the “punishment stand”.
In a deserted corner of the Black Haze,
When Jiang Shan opened the gold box and took out the Human Skin Paper, he saw two large characters crookedly written all over the Human Skin Paper:
“Don’t! Don’t!”
And when Jiang Shan touched the Human Skin Paper, those characters seemed to be suddenly erased by some force, disappearing from the Human Skin Paper.
Before Jiang Shan could speak, characters nearly identical to Ghost Characters appeared on the Human Skin Paper, reading:
“Don’t eat me, I can tell you anything you want to know.”
“Yo, not writing ‘I am Jiang Shan, I am already dead’ anymore. It seems Human Skin Paper, this kind of Ghost with wisdom, fears the Dead Face Ghost in its body very much.” Jiang Shan thought upon seeing the words on the Human Skin Paper.
Then Jiang Shan glanced at Yang Jian and disappeared into the Black Haze.
“Ghost Characters’ prophecy ability, Dead Face Ghost’s characteristic of devouring wisdom.” These two points were Jiang Shan’s secrets for standing in this world. He couldn’t let anyone hear them, so he stayed away from Yang Jian.
Touching the strangely textured Human Skin Paper in his hand, Jiang Shan’s tone was ice-cold:
“Tell me everything about Ghost Characters. If you dare to cheat, you will die.”
As soon as Jiang Shan finished speaking, characters appeared on the Human Skin Paper:
“I have already discovered the strangeness of Ghost Characters. It told me that controlling Ghost Blood can achieve balance of the three Ghosts in the body, but actually Ghost Blood is an indispensable part for Ghost Characters to revive again. It is searching for its Puzzle Piece, it wants to regain wisdom!”
“Tell me your relationship with Ghost Characters.” Jiang Shan, knowing the answer, immediately asked.
This time, only two characters appeared on the Human Skin Paper, written as if by a madman. Jiang Shan looked for a while before recognizing what they were:
“Puzzle Piece!”
“Who is whose Puzzle Piece?!” Jiang Shan immediately asked again.
After waiting a long time, no other content appeared on the Human Skin Paper, only the two words “Puzzle Piece” remained.
Jiang Shan looked down at his watch and found that the ten minutes were about to end soon, so he simply didn’t dwell on it.
“Tell me, which Ghost should I control to balance the Ghosts in my body.” It was for this question that Jiang Shan forced a transaction with Yang Jian.
After waiting a few seconds, text appeared on the Human Skin Paper:
“I already know Ghost Characters’ intention. Since Ghost Characters wants to find its Puzzle Piece to strengthen itself, I can similarly find its Puzzle Piece for Dead Face Ghost—Crying Face Ghost. When I control both Ghost Blood and Crying Face Ghost at the same time, the Ghosts in my body will achieve balance.”
Looking at the words on the Human Skin Paper, Jiang Shan fell into thought:
He knew Human Skin Paper was a Ghost, and Ghosts follow their most basic pattern, meaning every word on the Human Skin Paper was true.
But this differed greatly from the Ghost Jiang Shan wanted to control in his heart. He had also thought of Tong Qian’s Crying Face Ghost, and that Grave Crying Ghost’s crying face covering cloth.
“This can only continuously strengthen the terror of two core Ghosts. Balancing Dead Face Ghost and Ghost Characters is balance, isn’t balancing Dead Face Ghost and Ghost Face also balance?”
Jiang Shan felt that the Human Skin Paper had set a trap for him in the text.
Although he couldn’t verify the truth of every word on the Human Skin Paper, there was one Ghost that could solve this problem for Jiang Shan—Ghost Cabinet!
Although it required paying some unbearable price,
But for Jiang Shan, if he couldn’t find a fulcrum to balance these two Ghosts in his body, he wasn’t far from Fierce Ghost Revival.
Touching his already numb, insensate face,
Jiang Shan felt the Dead Face Ghost was gradually replacing his original facial skin.
When the Ghost Face fully grows on his face, he will be completely killed by this Ghost.
Even his consciousness would be annihilated.
Ten minutes had arrived, and Jiang Shan’s figure appeared in front of Yang Jian.
Seeing Yang Jian’s face still extremely unpleasant, Jiang Shan played with the Human Skin Paper in his hand while smiling at Yang Jian:
“Why such a bad face? One matter is one matter. With money and goods exchanged, we’re still good brothers.”
Yang Jian took back the Human Skin Paper without speaking, silently putting it into the gold box.
Jiang Shan calmly lit a cigarette, then patted Yang Jian’s shoulder:
“Drive for me in a bit. I don’t feel like driving anymore. Consider it a condition for restoring your freedom.”
Yang Jian: .
After the Black Haze dissipated, the piercing sunlight almost blinded Jiang Shan. At this time, he heard Zhang Han’s voice from not far away:
“Brother Jiang! Give me a smoke!”
“Scram.”
Soon after, an SUV loaded with a vermilion-lacquered coffin and some strange things, along with a blue sports car, drove on the main road out of the village.
Not long after driving, as the car was about to merge onto the main road, Jiang Shan saw through the car window that at the intersection, alert lines had already been set up.
Moreover, many places around had been blockaded, with over a dozen vehicles parked there, and temporary tents set up on the nearby flat ground, with quite a few people observing from the side.
At this time, Jiang Shan turned to Yang Jian who was driving and smiled:
“Our God of Wealth is coming. Remember, this coffin’s value is more than you imagine. Don’t let a few bucks send you off. When the time comes, squeeze them for all they’re worth for me, buddy!”
“Got it. And don’t smoke in front of me.” Yang Jian frowned, wanting to fan away the smoke around him.
“Wine is the essence of grain, the more you drink, the younger you get. Cigarettes are the soul of a man, the more you smoke, the more spirited you get. Understand, little Yang?”
“.”
Jiang Shan and Yang Jian hadn’t had too many emotions annihilated by Ghosts yet. Both being eighteen or nineteen-year-old youths, they weren’t as cold as imagined.
But Yang Jian seemed to have quite some opinions about Jiang Shan, so from beginning to end, Yang Jian’s face was very sour.
Brothers, I made some revisions to the previous chapters. I thought about it for several nights and finally changed the protagonist’s initial Ghost newspaper to Newspaper Ghost, because the Ghost Newspaper is a supernatural item, not a Ghost. And to not affect the protagonist’s early core Puzzle Piece, I left a simple foreshadowing at the end of chapter 21.
Very sorry for affecting brothers’ reading experience. Once again, I apologize to all brothers, but I guarantee to you brothers that the protagonist has a core Puzzle Piece, combat power won’t collapse, growth path won’t collapse. Hope brothers understand, thanks everyone!
