Chapter 56: The Spreading Black Blood
Almost at the same time,
Chen Yue was drenched in cold sweat as she watched the sudden Unexpected Change around her. The familiar fear from that day on campus assaulted her heart once again,
Through the pitch-black smog as thick as ink, she seemed to see many familiar faces,
The owners of those faces were her former high school classmates!
The stinging pain on her arm jolted Chen Yue back to her senses. She took a deep breath, then without hesitation pressed the corpse lunging toward Jiang Shan onto that deathly still, ice-cold Dead Person Ghost Face.
“!”
The instant her hands touched it, countless familiar faces appeared beside Chen Yue,
Those faces were deathly pale, their hollow eyes devoid of any emotion, staring straight at her, watching her.
Her trembling hands could not conceal the fear in Chen Yue’s heart. She felt a chilling cold rise from her spine, her body hair standing on end, as if countless hands around her were tightly strangling her heart.
Fear accompanied the stinging pain in her hand,
Only to see those few Ghost Characters spreading from Chen Yue’s hand, wriggling nonstop with her skin and flesh, as the Ghost Characters crazily crawled toward Jiang Shan’s face.
In the blink of an eye, the Ghost Characters crawled all over the Dead Face Ghost’s main body, that youth-like, ice-cold, deathly still face.
A bone-piercing chill made Chen Yue horrified.
“The Pulling Sensation of consciousness is gone.”
The moment the Ghost Characters crawled all over the Dead Face Ghost, Jiang Shan felt his consciousness was no longer accepted by the body, and even faced strong rejection!
“An Unexpected Change beyond expectations has occurred?”
Even though the Blood Ghost had taken over Jiang Shan’s body, his consciousness was still constantly fighting with the Withered Finger for control by some unknown existence inside the body.
Now, that feeling had disappeared.
Whether this was good or bad, Jiang Shan didn’t know.
And he could still normally use the Ghost Characters on Chen Yue’s body.
This was the only chance to turn the tables; he had to try no matter what, even if an unknown Unexpected Change occurred.
Back then, when he found he couldn’t reverse the hopeless situation, Jiang Shan had even prepared himself to wait calmly for death.
But when the Black Blood eroded the Ghost Characters, he suddenly discovered:
The Ghost Characters he had left on Chen Yue actually reacted. Even though they were separated by over a dozen kilometers, he could somehow activate the Ghost Characters’ ability.
One must know that previously, besides the Ghost Characters in his own body which he could control like an arm, the small portion on Chen Yue was completely unusable.
Those Ghost Characters could only serve to counter Fierce Ghost Attacks; as for their other abilities, Jiang Shan could only answer with two words:
Tattoo.
Perhaps because the Ghost Characters became a Puzzle Piece of the Blood Ghost, it thereby gained part of the Blood Ghost’s conscious Supernatural.
But no matter what,
He, who had seen hope again, would not miss any opportunity,
Seeking life from death,
That was the norm for a Ghost Wielder!
At this moment, Jiang Shan tensely watched the changes in the Dead Face Ghost. He knew that relying solely on the incomplete Ghost Characters could no longer Suppress the Dead Face Ghost.
Since he couldn’t regain Control, then he wouldn’t Control it!
The Ghost Characters’ Killing Pattern could confront the Dead Face Ghost, so Jiang Shan could force the Dead Face Ghost to do one thing through the Ghost Characters,
Restart!
Only to see the Ghost Characters beginning to converge toward the pitch-black Ghost Face on Jiang Shan’s face, the one always held in the mouth.
In the blink of an eye, that pitch-black Ghost Face was like it had been smeared with Fresh Blood; the slightly smiling corners of the mouth and the scarlet “Fresh Blood” appeared extremely Weird.
Using Ghost Characters to Steal the pitch-black Ghost Face—this was the best way Jiang Shan could think of to make it Restart.
Because every Ghost Face of the Dead Face Ghost was a separate main body. Previously, when Jiang Shan had two Ghost Faces, after opening the Ghost Domain, he could completely fill the Black Haze with the other Ghost Face,
But he had tried it, and besides being a bit scarier, it had no other effect.
Not only that, if the Ghost Face’s main body in the Black Haze was attacked by a Ghost Wielder or a ghost, the Dead Face Ghost’s Supernatural would drop sharply, and it might even have part of its Supernatural Stolen.
This was also why Jiang Shan always only used one Ghost Face each time.
So the purpose of the Ghost Characters was not to Steal the Supernatural of that Ghost Face, but to make the Dead Face Ghost feel Threatened through the Ghost Characters.
He wanted to force the Dead Face Ghost Face to Restart, relying on these remaining Ghost Characters, relying on the Supernatural confrontation between ghost and ghost!
Although he didn’t know if the Supernatural of these Ghost Characters alone could force the Dead Face Ghost to proactively Restart like the Wishing Ghost when sensing a Threat.
But at this point, this was the only path left.
Win the bet, live.
Lose the bet, just die.
The Ghost Characters on the pitch-black Ghost Face became increasingly scarlet—that was the Ghost Characters’ Killing Pattern crazily confronting the Dead Face Ghost in a Supernatural clash!
Either one side completely Suppresses the other.
Or both Dead Machine, or the Dead Face Ghost Restarts.
One-third Probability—for Jiang Shan, that was already very high.
The Ghost Characters were always incomplete. After about half a minute, that scarlet began to fade, just like dried blood imprinted on that Ghost Face.
“Still can’t do it?”
Noticing the anomaly in the Ghost Characters, Jiang Shan smiled bitterly in his heart. Now he had only a few seconds left to Control the Dead Face Ghost. The moment these Ghost Characters were completely Suppressed, he would have no hope at all.
So what Jiang Shan was thinking now was to use these last few seconds, through the Ghost Domain, to Transfer Chen Yue away.
As for the previous plan…
Through the Ghost Domain, he glanced at his corpse that had already been assimilated by the ghost. Forget the head—now he couldn’t even Transfer a single hair.
After all, his corpse now was no longer human, but a ghost, an Anomaly’s ghost.
“Live well.”
Jiang Shan sighed in his heart, then Chen Yue’s figure disappeared from this suburb. When she left, her face still carried a trace of bewilderment.
After Transferring Chen Yue to Yan Li’s home.
Next was handling the Detainment issue of the Dead Face Ghost.
Bringing all Ghost Wielders before him was definitely not feasible, after all, Jiang Shan didn’t know the exact situation with the Blood Ghost.
If this group of Ghost Wielders got wiped out at once, forget whether Dachang City would be finished—once Yang Jian was done, This World would be done.
Although “people die and birds face the sky,” after integrating into This World, he knew that every person in This World was a flesh-and-blood Existence.
But if he let the Dead Face Ghost Resurrect unchecked…
“Someone who’s about to die anyway—doing a good deed, maybe I won’t have to go to Hell after death.”
Just as Jiang Shan finished self-mocking and was about to make a decision, he suddenly found his consciousness returning again!
“Hm? The Dead Face Ghost has actually been Suppressed?!”
Jiang Shan, who had barely had a dozen seconds of “trial use” of the Dead Face Ghost thanks to the Ghost Characters, surprisingly found he could drive the Dead Face Ghost again.
Through the Ghost Domain, Jiang Shan saw:
Black Blood transformed by the Blood Ghost constantly surged from his seven orifices, spreading along the skin of his face toward that pitch-black Ghost Face.
By the time Jiang Shan noticed, the Black Blood had already eroded more than half of the Ghost Face.
Perhaps because of that Black Blood, he could Control the Dead Face Ghost once again.
But Jiang Shan knew clearly:
The Black Blood’s target was not that Ghost Face, but the Ghost Characters on the Ghost Face!
While the Black Blood was still spreading nonstop toward the Ghost Face, the Dead Face Ghost’s mouth moved!
Along with the Ghost Face and Black Blood, the Dead Person Ghost Face chewed nonstop like eating a meal, slowly swallowing that pitch-black Ghost Face with its teeth.
As it chewed, that youth-like face gradually faded, as if invaded by Darkness. When the entire face turned pitch-black as ink, a strand of eerie smile emerged.
In this book, I’ve done some secondary creations on certain characters, which won’t affect the subsequent Plot, just to add some appeal to the book. If it’s not written well, I hope brothers will tell this little brother more. Gratitude for brothers’ support!
