Chapter 58: New Life? Or Death?
Jiang Shan’s current situation is very special.
Ghost Characters, Ghost Blood, Blood Ghost—these three ghosts have reached a fragile balance in his body, but he has not controlled any of them.
These three ghosts seem to have taken Jiang Shan’s body as a container.
Jiang Shan, who appears to have controlled four fierce ghosts, can actually only use the Dead Face Ghost on his face that is about to revive, and he cannot even use the Ghost Characters that he once controlled.
After all, Ghost Characters has become a puzzle piece of the Blood Ghost. If he cannot control the Blood Ghost, Jiang Shan may never be able to control Ghost Characters again.
“Sure enough, this world wants to take people’s lives everywhere. Even though I luckily started with a heavenly hand, it’s still turned out like this.”
He went from being a ghost wielder who controlled two fierce ghosts to one on the verge of fierce ghost revival. This change made Jiang Shan smile faintly. He stood up from the pit, then walked to the side of a small blood puddle.
An old straw rope was soaking in the blood puddle, and the straw rope was emanating a weird aura.
“I can’t take this either.” Jiang Shan scratched his head and muttered.
Back when he had Ghost Characters, that Ghost Characters was like a portable little gold. As long as it was attached to his hand, Jiang Shan dared to directly touch any ghost.
Of course,
too terrifying ones were out of the question.
“Damn, why is my head full of blood shackles? Right, isn’t that finger still stuck in my head without being taken out?” Touching his head, Jiang Shan suddenly remembered that withered finger.
At that time, because his body was controlled by the Blood Ghost, the withered finger was left in his head when the restart restored his body, and it still hadn’t been removed until now.
If he remembered correctly, that finger had pierced through his brain and was fully stuffed into his head.
But now, not only had he not died, he hadn’t even felt any unusual sensation.
Thinking of this, Jiang Shan’s expression changed slightly. It seemed the changes in his body had exceeded his imagination.
If it were the old him, being pierced through the brain by the withered finger would absolutely mean he couldn’t survive.
This wasn’t an issue of controlling or not controlling a fierce ghost.
When Wang Yue was “headshot” by this withered finger back then, Jiang Shan was certain he had died almost instantly,
without even a chance to struggle.
And now he had only controlled the Dead Face Ghost and was on the verge of revival. There was even less reason he could survive in this situation,
so the answer to the problem could only come from his body.
“Chen Yue, it’s Jiang Shan. Have Sister-in-law drive over to pick me up. I’ll send you the address in a bit. Remember to come too, bring the specially made gold leaf from my room, and get me a set of clothes. Hurry.” Jiang Shan called Chen Yue.
“Okay, I have your address, Jiang Shan. You don’t need to send it.” Chen Yue on the other end of the phone replied.
Actually, just a few minutes after the black haze spread, Jiang Qingwu, unable to reach Jiang Shan by phone, called Chen Yue. After asking a series of questions about Jiang Shan, she sent Chen Yue the location of Jiang Shan’s satellite phone.
“That address is wrong. Just come to the one I sent you.” After saying that, Jiang Shan hung up the phone.
When Jiang Shan encountered the Blood Ghost curse, he had sent his satellite phone to a suburb in the completely opposite direction from his location.
Not for any other reason—he didn’t want these ghost wielders to interfere with him. That’s also why, after so much time, no ghost wielder team had ever come here.
In that situation, Jiang Shan didn’t dare entrust his life to others.
Sometimes, those people in fancy clothes are more terrifying than ghosts.
The must-die future had already changed. Now, Jiang Shan’s top priority was to solve the fierce ghost revival problem.
According to Jiang Shan’s estimate, the Dead Face Ghost’s revival would probably happen in the next two or three days, and the balance of the three ghosts in his body could collapse at any moment.
So he decided to spend the next few days on the Ghost Bus, using the Ghost Bus’s suppression to delay the revival of these four ghosts.
Jiang Shan knew clearly in his heart that although the third ghost he controlled wasn’t the expected Newspaper Ghost,
the Blood Ghost’s characteristics and terror level were no weaker than the Newspaper Ghost’s—in fact, even stronger!
If he could make these four ghosts in his body reach balance, he would be the first person in this Supernatural Revival Era!
“I must ride the Ghost Bus. Now these four ghosts are all on the verge of revival. Relying on the Ghost Bus’s suppression power can delay my life, and maybe even find a way to achieve balance.”
“If I can get that face-covering cloth printed with the crying face, maybe I can use the Crying Face to balance the Dead Face Ghost, but doing so carries too much risk.”
Jiang Shan calmly analyzed what to do next.
Although the ghosts in his body were all on the verge of revival, no matter what.
Jiang Shan planned to go back and sleep first. After a whole night of highly tense nerves plus torment beyond what a human could endure.
At this point, he was on the verge of collapse, and sleeping to rest was something he absolutely had to do.
“Next, take a bath and see what changes have occurred in my body.”
Smelling the strong bloody stench on him, a trace of disgust appeared on Jiang Shan’s face.
This was a good sign. Perhaps because he hadn’t controlled a fierce ghost for long,
or maybe because he hadn’t used supernatural powers frequently, but either way, this expression at least proved he still had the emotions of an ordinary person.
Lying in the blood pit back then to survive was purely a desperate measure. Now, Jiang Shan just wanted to take a good bath.
After searching around, about a hundred meters to the northwest, he found a small river.
Without any hesitation, he quickly tore off the rotten cloth strips on his body and plunged headfirst into the river water.
The autumn river water was especially icy in the early morning and evening, but Jiang Shan not only felt nothing, he even thought the temperature of the icy water was just right.
After washing off all the blood,
Jiang Shan walked to the riverbank. Borrowing the light of the newly risen sun, he noticed:
His body was no different from the frozen corpses in the morgue. The exposed parts of his body were pale to the point of showing no blood color at all, and the dark veins under his “fair” skin made this body even more eerie.
“My body isn’t quite normal. It seems not just the surface has changed.”
Jiang Shan frowned, and he immediately bit a finger, discovering that the blood flowing out wasn’t red, but black.
Moreover, when he bit his finger, there was no pain at all.
“No sense of pain?”
Next, Jiang Shan walked to a millstone-sized rock by the riverbank. He estimated this rock was at least fifty or sixty pounds.
When he lifted it with both hands, he felt extraordinarily light.
“It seems my body has left the scope of ‘human.’ My strength has been enhanced, other changes unknown, but I can still get injured. So this body shouldn’t be a ghost. Then what’s my situation now?”
Jiang Shan didn’t know if this was good or bad. He only knew that now he was neither an anomaly nor a normal human, but in a clever state between human and ghost.
It seemed he was imperceptibly transforming toward the direction of a ghost.
“I’ll take it one step at a time.”
Returning to the original spot and waiting for about an hour, the sun had fully risen above the horizon. Chen Yue and Yan Li’s wife finally drove over.
As soon as she got out of the car, Chen Yue’s face suddenly reddened. She got out with her eyes closed and handed Jiang Shan a set of black custom suit.
Seeing it was actually a suit, Jiang Shan couldn’t help but ask:
“Ah, Chen Yue, why did you bring a suit? This clothes is too hard to wear.”
“You told me to get clothes. What clothes do you have in your closet? This suit is Yan Li’s. Aren’t you going to thank Sister-in-law?” Chen Yue, still with her eyes closed, replied indignantly.
“Hahahahaha, then I might have remembered wrong. Thanks, Sister-in-law.”
After fussing around, Jiang Shan finally put on that custom black suit.
Chen Yue, who had just opened her eyes, saw Jiang Shan’s haggard face and said heartbrokenly:
“Get in the car and rest well. Whatever you need to do next, I’ll do it for you.”
Jiang Shan didn’t refuse. He told Chen Yue everything about Yan Li and asked her to find a time to properly bury Yan Li.
Although this should have been done by Jiang Shan himself, his time was already running short.
Compared to the original work,
Yan Li in this life had kept his complete corpse.
Knowing he would spend the next few days on the Ghost Bus, Jiang Shan handed over all household matters to Chen Yue and told her many things to watch out for.
“Chen Yue, go to the car and get me the gold leaf.”
After getting the gold leaf, Jiang Shan quickly walked to that small blood puddle and wrapped the Ghost Rope with the gold leaf.
After putting it in the trunk, he got in the car and asked Chen Yue:
“Did you buy the house in Guanjiang Residential Area?”
“Yes, we bought a fully furnished one. We’re almost done moving.” Chen Yue replied.
“Good, then Sister-in-law, take me to Guanjiang Residential Area. I want to go there and sleep for a bit. After moving, you all live there.”
“In the next few months, avoid going to the urban area as much as possible, or don’t go at all. Also, don’t wander around in Guanjiang Residential Area. Stay away from Area D.”
After saying that, he fell into a deep sleep in the car.
No female lead! No female lead! No female lead!
Important things said three times!
Thanks for the brothers’ support!!!
