Chapter 41: Wish Come True? Then Guess What I’m Thinking
The moment he returned to Dachang City, Jiang Shan arrived at the entrance of the construction site in Guanjiang Residential Area.
“Sigh, Zhao Jianguo.”
Jiang Shan, who was heading to the Republican Era Tile-roofed House, let out a light sigh. He really didn’t know what to say about Zhao Jianguo.
A headquarters person in charge who poured out his heart and soul?
Or a pitiful person who couldn’t change the tide?
Sometimes, people are truly powerless in the face of the flood of society. For headquarters, Zhao Jianguo was the best example.
Jiang Shan silently shook his head. These weren’t issues he should consider.
What Jiang Shan cared about now was how to balance the Ghost Characters and Dead Person Ghost Face inside him,
and whether the information told to him by the Ghost Characters and Human Skin Paper had issues. So he was now going to find the Ghost Cabinet to test it out.
Using the Ghost Cabinet’s pattern to eliminate the traps in the Human Skin Paper’s words—this genius idea was something Jiang Shan had borrowed from Yang Jian.
To be fair, Yang Jian was truly a little genius at exploiting bugs.
Many of his methods provided Jiang Shan with plenty of ideas for solving problems.
Of course, the notion of buying life with money wasn’t taught by Yang Jian, after all, Yang Jian was even more ruthless than Jiang Shan.
Jiang Shan, arriving in front of the Ghost Cabinet again, familiarly wrote the question on the paper. He didn’t tell the Ghost Cabinet his needs; he only wanted to verify the ideas in his heart through the Ghost Cabinet’s pattern.
So what Jiang Shan wrote on the paper was a rhetorical question:
“Tell me, is that thing I want in my heart what I need most right now?”
If the Ghost Characters and Human Skin Paper were information guides, then the Ghost Cabinet could make wishes come true.
So Jiang Shan thought, as long as this question was what he wanted to obtain, based on the pattern, the Ghost Cabinet would definitely answer it.
And that thing Jiang Shan wanted in his heart was, of course, the Newspaper Ghost that could alter the Ghost Characters’ killing pattern, the one constantly searching for a face,
as for what he needed most,
Jiang Shan had asked his heart countless times, and there was always only one answer.
Alive.
Precisely because of this, Jiang Shan could write these words on the paper without any scruples and let the Ghost Cabinet answer.
The word “pattern” was the biggest bug people could find on ghosts.
Fortunately, exploiting the Ghost Cabinet’s bug could exactly solve Jiang Shan’s most urgent need, though he might have to pay unimaginable conditions to the Ghost Cabinet.
But as long as a person is alive,
when facing ghosts, people always have ways to cope.
Can’t cope?
Then just die.
When Jiang Shan placed the paper about one-third into the cabinet mouth, the paper instantly vanished into the darkness of the cabinet.
This time, the time the Ghost Cabinet took to respond far exceeded ten seconds. When Jiang Shan silently counted to two minutes, the Ghost Cabinet finally replied. A line of blood-red characters squirmingly appeared below his question:
“Three Ghosts.”
Jiang Shan raised an eyebrow:
“So this Ghost Cabinet is aiming for those three ghosts in Shang Tong Building.”
Complaint aside, when he saw this demand, he couldn’t help but become serious.
Back then, when Yang Jian asked for Zhao Lei’s location, the Ghost Cabinet demanded one ghost as the initial condition.
Perhaps there was Old Qin’s arrangement in it, or maybe not, but undeniably, Caesar Grand Hotel played a crucial role in helping Yang Jian’s subsequent growth.
It could be said that Yang Jian’s wish wasn’t small for the future, nor big for the past.
So Jiang Shan didn’t understand:
The conditions the Ghost Cabinet made the wisher pay—did this condition require paying future costs in advance?
If it did,
why did it only ask Yang Jian for one ghost, but open its mouth and ask him for three ghosts?
If it didn’t,
then this wish of his seemed a bit “big.”
Jiang Shan felt a bit depressed. The duck hadn’t even reached his mouth yet, and he had to give away three chickens, and he didn’t even know what the Ghost Cabinet’s subsequent conditions would be.
“Should I really make this transaction?” Jiang Shan fell into thought.
After thinking it over, he ultimately decided to complete this unfair transaction with the Ghost Cabinet.
Because ever since the Dead Face Ghost had two Ghost Faces,
Jiang Shan discovered that as long as he activated the Ghost Domain, its strength would always remain at the level of Yang Jian’s Ghost Eye’s third-layer Ghost Domain.
This meant— the Dead Face Ghost’s Ghost Domain strength couldn’t be changed; it would only continuously strengthen as the number of Ghost Faces increased!
For example, Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain could be activated at one layer, three layers, five layers.
But now, as soon as Jiang Shan’s Dead Face Ghost’s Ghost Domain was activated, the Ghost Domain strength would always remain at three layers.
When he first discovered this, Jiang Shan was quite smug, but as he used the Ghost Domain more times, he realized that the revival of the Dead Person Ghost Face was becoming hard to suppress.
After all, continuously activating a high-strength Ghost Domain would accelerate the Fierce Ghost Revival at a terrifying speed!
Before experiencing the Huanggang Village Incident, Jiang Shan felt he could live another five months.
But now, feeling the bursts of stinging pain on his face, in less than three months, the Dead Face Ghost might fully revive inside him.
Therefore, at this moment, Jiang Shan desperately wanted to find the most suitable ghost for him to control.
“Know balance, understand anomaly, create dead machine, neutralize curse.”
This was the foundation of his existence in this world.
“Damn, these three boxes really took my life.”
At two in the afternoon, when most workers were taking their lunch break, Jiang Shan finally moved those three gold boxes in front of the Ghost Cabinet.
Even though Jiang Shan knew the boxes contained Ghost Wielders’ corpses, smelling the rotten stench of the corpses still made him feel repulsed.
After slightly calming his mood, Jiang Shan pried open these three boxes one by one.
Although they were very heavy overall, the gold wasn’t thick. Though it took great effort, he could at least force them open.
With the three boxes opened together, a thick stench of rotting corpses assaulted him.
“Urgh, no, no, give me a cigarette to suppress it.”
Jiang Shan looked at the corpses in the boxes. Even though he had mentally prepared himself,
when he truly saw the scene before him, Jiang Shan’s face still darkened uncontrollably.
Each box contained half a corpse, bound with many golden wires like a zongzi, wrapped countless times.
Two of the corpses even had hideous bullet holes all over, and if looked at closely, one could even see traces of abuse on them.
Clearly, these three Ghost Wielders had suffered inhumane treatment to varying degrees before death.
Although the grass on Paul’s grave was already half a meter high, some of the capitalists and ambitious people behind him were still living happily.
As a fellow Ghost Wielder, Jiang Shan couldn’t help but feel a surge of anger, but he quickly suppressed it.
In the face of absolute power, endless rage was just entertainment in others’ eyes.
“Missionary? Just wait until the day I go teach him some Chinese ‘teachings.'” Jiang Shan thought to himself.
For now, he set these matters aside. Jiang Shan’s hands were now covered with Ghost Characters.
“Buddy, rest in peace in your next life. You’re still carrying a ghost on you. Even if buried, you won’t find peace. You offended brother!”
Jiang Shan grabbed a mutilated corpse of a Ghost Wielder with his hand and unhesitatingly threw it toward the Ghost Cabinet.
The corpse had just touched the darkness inside the Ghost Cabinet when it was immediately grabbed by something.
“Bang~!”
The broken, rotting corpse was instantly pulled into the cabinet, vanishing into that pitch black, as if falling into some abyss. With the corpse’s disappearance, the opened wooden door slammed shut.
“Bang~! Bang~!”
After repeating the process three times, the condition of three ghosts was fulfilled.
