Chapter 7: Rescue
The Knocking Ghost stood motionless in place, the darkness around it that originally showed no trace of light began to slowly fade, and the gray fog that was originally covered with Dead Person Ghost Faces actually began to dissipate, with the ghost faces in it now completely gone.
Ghost Domain is disappearing!
“Am I still alive?”
Jiang Shan, with only half an eye socket left, suddenly opened his eyes.
Suffocation, pain.
This was all of his feeling upon waking.
Jiang Shan rotated his rotting eyeball that was about to fall out and scanned the surroundings,
His entire body had been rotted by the Knocking Ghost’s Ghost Domain, exposing red and black fat and organs, the flesh on his thigh bone had rotted away leaving only white bone, yet despite this he still stood in place, never falling down.
The intense suffocation made Jiang Shan’s consciousness blur again, but the ice cold in his brain kept stimulating his nerves nonstop.
The pain from his entire body rotting brought his spirit near collapse, fearing he would go mad, he silently counted in his heart:
“One, two, three, nine hundred twelve, nine hundred thirteen.”
The time of pain is extremely long, because it allows one to truly and clearly feel the passage of every second, and similarly the pain makes every one of those seconds memorable.
Rotting was still occurring, even if extremely slow, but over time, its terror became apparent.
The eyeball in the eye socket that had lost support suddenly fell out; even if it didn’t fall, it had already lost the ability to focus under the rotting from the Knocking Ghost’s Ghost Domain.
Darkness had already enveloped Jiang Shan’s heart ten minutes ago.
He couldn’t see anything, couldn’t hear anything.
Only the pain from countless nerves in his body kept reminding Jiang Shan over and over that he was still alive.
“Better to just die like this.”
“Let me die.”
Scientifically speaking, Jiang Shan, who was left with only skull and brain, with his entire body highly rotted, should have been sent for cremation by now, but the Fierce Ghost’s supernatural kept him from dying, and even allowed him to maintain a standing posture with just a few bones.
“One thousand two hundred sixty-one”
The already numb Jiang Shan suddenly felt an abnormality on his face, but now he could do nothing, only quietly wait for the unexpected change to occur.
One by one different dead person’s faces began to continuously change on his face, pale deathly still faces without exception all belonging to the faces of the dead.
One, two, three.
After an unknown number of changes, it finally stopped at a Dead Person Ghost Face resembling a youth.
The feeling of suffocation disappeared.
When Jiang Shan counted to “one thousand four hundred twenty-three,” the Ghost Characters that were originally frantically emitting supernatural suddenly went silent,
The bone-piercing chilling cold in his brain disappeared.
Only the pain of his entire body rotting like being cut by a thousand knives and ten thousand scrapes continued.
“One thousand six hundred ninety-eight, one thousand six hundred ninety-nine”
Clear cold moonlight passed through thick clouds and sprinkled over Dachang City, and also sprinkled into this school where Fierce Ghosts gathered.
If not for the corpses all over the ground, this sports field might really be very beautiful under the moonlight.
“Ah! Jiang Shan!”
Chen Yue, who had just woken from coma, discovered that the gray fog had completely disappeared, and she, already at the school gate, hurriedly ran toward Jiang Shan’s position.
She clearly remembered the door that the Knocking Ghost knocked on, at the school south gate, the entrance to the teachers’ apartment.
But as soon as she arrived, she saw a terrifying scene,
Jiang Shan’s entire body highly rotted, the empty eye socket of half his skull had nothing in it!
He died!
He really died?!
The original joy in Chen Yue’s heart vanished, sadness and regret filling her heart.
“If I had pulled him to run together back then, maybe he wouldn’t have died.”
But Chen Yue didn’t know, the four Fierce Ghosts had come precisely for Jiang Shan,
This was the “gift” this world sent to Jiang Shan, this outsider.
Although there were no maggots or flies, the rotting meat stench was still so strong even from afar that it made Chen Yue uncontrollably dry heave.
The pitch-black night made it hard to see clearly,
As she walked close, she suddenly trembled all over, scared speechless, looking in horror at the humanoid figure behind Jiang Shan.
!
Knocking Ghost!
Remembering that deathly stillness, oppressive knocking sound, her heart couldn’t help but crawl with fear.
Her voice carried fear, low voice:
“Are you still alive?”
Although Jiang Shan couldn’t see people or hear sounds, in this nearly half hour of painful torment, he discovered he had controlled that Dead Face Ghost, every minute he would activate Ghost Domain once.
Because he found that at this frequency, the rotting caused by the Knocking Ghost to him could be minimized, even approaching none.
And Jiang Shan remembered, the knocking sound segment that triggered the Knocking Ghost Killing Pattern had already spread on the forum,
Now he just needed to wait for the moment the Knocking Ghost left, and he could escape this situation.
But unexpectedly this time in the Ghost Domain, he actually discovered Chen Yue’s existence.
She really dared to come back to find me.
Jiang Shan bitterly smiled in his heart, he had never thought Chen Yue would come back to find him; if it were him, he might have already long escaped the school.
Through her lip movements, Jiang Shan deduced her words.
A pale, indifferent youth human face vaguely appeared on half of Jiang Shan’s face, indistinct, emitting a cold aura.
This was that Dead Person Ghost Face; Jiang Shan activated Ghost Domain, and hazy gray fog instantly enveloped Chen Yue.
“!”
Chen Yue, enveloped by gray fog once again, felt her heart turn to ashes; she didn’t regret re-entering the Ghost Gate, only that she hadn’t yet written a letter to her parents or made a phone call.
“Am I still going to die after all?”
Chen Yue murmured in her heart, but a line of scarlet text suddenly appearing out of thin air made her expression light up with joy.
“I’m not dead.”
“I need you to help me with something; if you agree, stay; if not, go back the same way now.”
The scarlet text kept changing:
“This help might carry life danger; if you’re willing, wait for me one minute; if you’re still in place after one minute, I’ll tell you what to do.”
The scarlet text in Jiang Shan’s Ghost Domain was precisely the Ghost Characters.
It had its consciousness devoured by the Dead Face Ghost, completely dead machine now; the current Ghost Characters could appear anywhere in the Dead Face Ghost’s Ghost Domain.
Although Jiang Shan didn’t know the reason for its dead machine, he guessed it was because Ghost Characters, like Human Skin Paper, was a Fierce Ghost with living human consciousness.
And the Dead Person Ghost Face not only devoured living human consciousness, but also Fierce Ghost consciousness without mistake.
This was why Ghost Characters had exposed emotion back then, urging Jiang Shan to quickly leave the school.
Ghosts also have fear of ghosts.
Not long after Jiang Shan controlled the Dead Person Ghost Face, the Ghost Characters suddenly fell into dead machine.
Remembering the pattern of Fierce Ghosts dead machine, perhaps this type of ghost with wisdom had already perfectly dead machine itself, then been controlled by living human consciousness.
Otherwise Jiang Shan couldn’t explain why this type of ghost could retain wisdom.
When Jiang Shan activated Ghost Domain once again, he found Chen Yue surprisingly hadn’t left, immediately his heart was filled with mixed feelings.
Helping others requires paying with one’s life; Jiang Shan asked himself honestly, he wasn’t that great.
This favor, he remembered it.
Suddenly the Ghost Characters became irritable, the scene presented in his mind made Jiang Shan’s heart tighten, and then he no longer hesitated; Ghost Characters appeared out of thin air in front of Chen Yue again;
“I need you to go find my mobile phone, search on the forum for Thunderbolt Dharma King’s post, find that segment of knocking sound, then listen to it once more.”
“Okay.”
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