Mysterious Revival

Chapter 631: Chapter 628 Li Yang’s Change

The room’s door suddenly closed, as if the ghost lingering inside didn’t intend to let Yang Jian leave.

Or perhaps Yang Jian had already caught the ghost’s attention, and this change was merely the prelude to its attack.

“No need to waste time with the ghost in this room,” his gaze settled on the empty single-seater sofa in the living room.

He tried to locate the ghost, but even with a quick glance of the room that could be done almost in an eye’s blink, he found nothing.

Such a large corpse had vanished into thin air, without leaving the slightest trace behind, exceedingly strange; yet the air still carried that nauseating stench of decay, now denser than before, as if to prove the corpse was still in the house and hadn’t left.

Yang Jian stood still, a pitch-black shadow slowly rose from beneath his feet, it looked very tall, like a robust man hidden in the darkness, mismatched with his own physique.

And most importantly, the shadow had no head.

The emergence of the Headless Ghost Shadow took the place of Yang Jian’s actions, the towering shadow approached the door, ready to open it and leave.

The tightly locked door began to vibrate violently under the Ghost Shadow’s influence, making a loud sound, as if the entire door was about to be destroyed, but even so, it still wouldn’t open, managing only to crack a few slits.

“The Ghost Shadow’s abilities can’t open the door?” Yang Jian’s expression darkened, “Moreover, I can feel that the door is much heavier than usual, as though someone outside is forcibly blocking it, preventing me from leaving smoothly.”

Was it Li Yang and Jimmy outside?

Definitely not, they were outside but there was no way they could be blocking the door.

Discarding that unrealistic speculation, only one possibility remained.

The door, was blocked by a ghost.

Yang Jian stared at the door, continuing to use Ghost Shadow to ram it.

The door warped and deformed, about to shatter, at this moment through the dim light outside the living room window, he saw, through the door’s cracks, a rotten, pockmarked arm laid across the front of the door, rigidly propped there, preventing the door from opening smoothly.

Collisions between ghosts were not a comparison of strength; the Headless Ghost Shadow was powerful, but the reason it couldn’t open the door was that it couldn’t suppress the ghost outside.

Which is to say, the ghost that had sat on the single-seater sofa earlier was more terrifying than the present Headless Ghost Shadow.

“Damn it, what exactly is standing in front of the door?”

However, at this time, Jimmy outside was panting hurriedly, his entire body tense to the extreme, his face covered in cold sweat, he clung tightly to the wall beside him, glancing out of the corners of his eyes.

He witnessed a horrifying scene.

A corpse that had been rotting for many days had just run out of the room, and now stood motionless in front of the door.

“It, it’s a ghost.”

Li Yang’s heart was also pounding wildly, he dared not move, he even dared not breathe, he could only stiffen in place, pressed against the wall behind him, praying the ghost in front of the door hadn’t noticed the two of them.

As for turning around and running away.

They hadn’t even thought about it.

The way back had already disappeared, another ghost stood within the wooden staircase above their heads, stepping down the stairs to run would immediately bring it following them.

That would be death, too.

And they were less than a meter away from the Ghost Face in front of the door; if the ghost really wanted to kill them, it wouldn’t have given them a chance to escape.

Both were terrified to the extreme, each breath heavier than the next, as their violent heartbeats seemed to echo in the silent, dimly lit corridor.

“If the door can be blocked, then windows and walls can also be blocked. The ghost didn’t attack me; it just wants to trap me here. Perhaps this is its way of attacking.”

Yang Jian, however, was analyzing the situation, unaware of the plight of the two outside.

If a ghost controller were trapped here, they would die after a few days because the human body can’t overcome long periods without food, water, or sleep.

Yet, despite having faced many supernatural events, this peculiar way of killing was still a first for him.

Trapping people with a ghost?

He checked the time.

It had been ten minutes since Yang Jian entered, and if he didn’t figure out a way to leave this room soon, he would be trapped for even longer.

“It’s a pity that the Ghost Eye is suppressed; otherwise, with the power of Ghost Domain, this house would never be able to trap me… No, I can’t say that for sure, the ghost painting suppressed my Ghost Domain, but it would do the same to other ghosts. To some extent, the ghost in this room is even more special than my Ghost Eye.”

Because the ghost painting couldn’t entirely affect this place, the ghost had roamed here, even forcibly leaving a window to the outside in the living room.

Yang Jian looked at the window again.

To prove his theory, or to figure out the ghost’s pattern of movement, he walked over and tried to open the window to leave the building.

If possible, he didn’t mind taking a detour and coming back to the third floor via the outdoor stairs.

However, he had just approached the window.

Suddenly, the tightly closed door behind him creaked slightly open, and the Ghost Face blocking it disappeared.

But then Yang Jian felt a pitch-black shadow flash by his side, accompanied by a strong smell of decay.

The next moment.

Behind the dingy glass of the living room window, a black figure appeared out of nowhere, standing stiffly and eerily there, stretching out a pair of hands onto the transparent glass, pressing the glass window shut and preventing Yang Jian from opening it.

Clearly, the ghost had stopped blocking the door and was now blocking the window.

“It can only block one place at a time. If it chooses to block the door, it gives up the window as a way out, and if it blocks the window, then the door will open… This means that to leave this room, I must get two people in. One person stays to distract the ghost, and the other can avoid the blockade and leave safely.”

Yang Jian looked through the glass at the ghostly blurred figure outside and immediately thought of a solution.

“Besides, there’s another method, which is to move faster than the ghost and leave before it can block the next exit… But this would require Ghost Domain to achieve.”

With that thought.

Yang Jian turned and called out to the outside, “Li Yang and Jimmy, are you there?”

“Mister Yang, I, we’re still here,” came Li Yang’s voice from outside.

At this time, Li Yang and Jimmy were still sweating profusely, but they had let out a huge sigh of relief because they heard Yang Jian’s voice from inside and saw that the Ghost Face at the door had disappeared.

They had survived the most dangerous moment, and now it was a bit safer.

But the next words from Yang Jian made Li Yang’s legs tremble.

“I need someone to come into the room, Li Yang, come and help me,” Yang Jian said.

“What?” Li Yang’s voice trembled.

Yang Jian said, “Hurry, don’t waste my time.”

Li Yang’s face changed, and after hesitating for a moment, he bit his teeth and cautiously peeked inside.

He saw Yang Jian standing in the living room inside, seemingly looking out the window.

“Just now, I saw that ghost enter the room,” Li Yang said. “If I go in, I might die.”

“You won’t die, this ghost is not that scary,” Yang Jian said, looking at him. “Do you think I have any reason to lie to you? If you want to keep staying outside, that’s fine, but doing so will waste at least half an hour, or maybe an hour. I am confident of surviving during that time, but I’m afraid you may not be.”

“There are more ghosts here than I thought. I remember there’s still one lingering on the stairs outside, right?”

“I understand.”

Though Li Yang was frightened, he was still clear-headed and knew that trusting Yang Jian was his only way out alive.

Even if entering the room could mean death, he had to accept that risk.

At that moment, he cautiously took a step forward and slowly entered the room.

The air was filled with a murky stench of decay, and the surroundings exuded an indescribable eeriness.

“Come to where I am,” Yang Jian instructed.

Li Yang nodded, sensing no immediate danger. He relaxed a bit and hurriedly quickened his pace into the living room.

“Do you see the silhouette outside the window?” Yang Jian pointed at the person pressing their hands against the glass outside.

“I see it,” Li Yang’s throat moved as he spoke, finding it hard to talk.

Yang Jian spoke with unnatural calm, “The ghost is outside the window, and your only task now is to stand here and watch it. Once I leave the room, you must immediately turn and run out. I’ll be outside to restrain the ghost. It shouldn’t be difficult for an ordinary person like you.”

“Okay, I’ll try,” Li Yang said, somewhat understanding Yang Jian’s plan.

He needed to make the ghost reveal itself.

The best way was to switch places, letting Yang Jian appear outside the door.

“Good.”

After speaking, Yang Jian turned and left, moving quickly. In mere seconds, he was out of the room.

Indeed, his guess was correct.

The ghost remained outside the window, not hindering Yang Jian’s departure.

Between two people, the ghost could only choose one.

“You can come back now,” Yang Jian called from outside the door.

Upon hearing this, Li Yang turned and ran towards the door, seeing Yang Jian there waiting to catch him.

But as fast as he was, the ghost in the room was faster.

A dark shadow seemed to flash by instantly, and a cold wind blew through the silent surroundings.

“Bang!” The door, only a few meters in front of Li Yang, suddenly slammed shut.

Instantly.

His steps froze, and he stood there, then pressed desperately against the door, hoping with all his heart for it to open.

He could only escape alive if the door opened.

Otherwise, he would become Yang Jian’s replacement, trapped to die in here by the ghost—even the sight of an exit would be useless.

“Has it finally appeared?”

Yang Jian stood outside the door, looking coldly at the corpse propped against it.

It was then that he could see the face of the corpse.

The corpse of a foreign man who had been dead for a long time, but it was so decayed that one could not discern his features at all, only make out that it should be a male.

“Is this the ghost manipulator who controlled a ghost? A member of that team?” Yang Jian glanced at the other corpses nearby.

Then, without hesitation, he took off his glove and reached out with his ghastly pale hand to directly grab the corpse.

He now didn’t need to suppress the Ghost Eye, so the Ghost Hand still had one suppression slot available.

Immediately, the corpse propped against the door lost some strange power, and the decaying body started to collapse, crumbling as if falling apart.

“Creak!”

The firmly shut door opened at that moment.

Seeing the door open, Li Yang rushed out, gasping for breath.

“I told you, you’d be fine,” Yang Jian nonchalantly threw the corpse back into the room and closed the door.

He didn’t imprison the ghost because he didn’t want to waste time, and he didn’t have the tools to do so at the moment, opting instead to abandon it.

Normally, he would have simply taken it and sold it.

After all, in the supernatural circles, a captured ghost was quite valuable. Half a year ago, they fetched a price of a billion, and the price would only be higher now, not to mention they were hot commodities. Supernatural incidents had been escalating, and the level of attention far surpassed before, with many consortia and states starting to study and get involved at any cost.

“Yang Jian, I—I feel something is wrong with me,” Li Yang said after catching his breath, lifting his head to look at Yang Jian. His face was paler than a corpse’s, and signs of livor mortis had begun to faintly appear on his haggard face.

Seeing him like this, Yang Jian’s expression changed. He glanced at the motionless decayed body at the door, then at Li Yang, realizing something, and said with a light laugh, “I don’t know whether to say your luck is good or bad. But I still have to remind you, you have now become a ghost manipulator.”

“The ghost has attached itself to you.”

“What, what?” Li Yang looked at him with astonishment, completely incredulous.