Mysterious Revival

Chapter 1222 - 1188: Maintaining the Self

Walking out of the Kaiser Hotel, Yang Jian did not rush to leave.

Although the door leading outside was hidden by him, the door leading inside still remained.

Once he leaves, there's no guarantee that someone won't wander into the Kaiser Hotel.

A golden door standing there on the fourth floor, anyone whose eyes aren't blind can see it. If someone from outside opens it, releasing the ghost inside, it would be a huge hidden danger.

"Change the layout of the Kaiser Hotel, completely hiding that door."

Yang Jian slightly raised his head to look at the five-story tall hotel in front of him.

The position of the door can't be changed, but the layout of the hotel can be.

So Yang Jian doesn't need to move the door, he just needs to modify the entire layout of the Kaiser Hotel, and the door's position will naturally be hidden.

Immediately.

He opened his ghost eye.

The Ghost Domain covered the Kaiser Hotel.

Without any supernatural influence, an ordinary building was moved and modified at will within Yang Jian's Ghost Domain.

Various designs, buildings, layouts, and memories appeared in Yang Jian's mind.

Soon, the Kaiser Hotel was modified in an instant.

All debris inside the hotel was cleared out, the remaining corpses were completely transferred and buried, and traces left by the supernatural were wiped away entirely.

However, strangely, the fourth floor of the hotel, with its golden door, disappeared.

The fourth floor didn't disappear, nor was it covered by the supernatural; Yang Jian simply used spatial manipulation to hide that floor, with just a little increase in height to the first, second, third, and fifth floors, making the fourth floor disappear perfectly, and the door was hidden in a layer between the floors.

But the disappearance of one floor will hardly escape notice, as most residents of this city know that the Kaiser Hotel has five floors.

However, Yang Jian's solution is simple: to build a sixth floor, turning the sixth floor into the fifth.

With supernatural influence on reality, a new Kaiser Hotel was formed like this.

Nothing has changed much, yet everything has changed.

Unless you live in the Kaiser Hotel for years, it's unlikely anyone could spot the flaw.

Of course.

If a ghost rider with a Ghost Domain deliberately investigates, the location of the door will still be discovered.

But there's no way around it; no matter how well you hide, it won't block supernatural probing.

"Alright, the matters here are finished, we should go now." Yang Jian said.

Li Yang at this time put down his phone, saying: "Captain, the hospital just called me, and just now Tong Qian has woken up."

"Is it? I thought he'd be in a coma for quite a long time, didn't expect him to wake up so soon, how's his condition? Never mind, no need to ask, we'll see when we get to the hospital." Yang Jian said.

The two immediately left.

In the next moment, they appeared in the hospital in this city.

At this moment, Tong Qian in the hospital's intensive care unit had woken up, he was sitting there, looking somewhat dazed, like he'd lost his soul, with no light in his eyes.

"Tong Qian, how are you feeling? Any better?" Li Yang asked, approaching cautiously.

At this time, Tong Qian posed a certain danger, as no one could guarantee whether this was really Tong Qian waking up or an evil ghost resuscitating.

The doctors merely watched through the ICU camera, and did not come to the ward to observe.

After all, dealing with ghost riders, ordinary people should step back.

Tong Qian didn't speak, just sat there blankly as if he hadn't heard.

Yang Jian stood aside observing, his ghost eye slightly rotating, trying to see some clues.

"Everything's normal, he has no problems and hasn't been replaced by the supernatural, just that his consciousness seems to have changed somewhat from before."

His gaze rested on Tong Qian's ghost face.

It was a face that perpetually wore a ghostly smile, unrecognizable as male or female, usually cold and terrifying, but at this moment it showed expressions beyond the smile.

At times slightly furrowed brows, at times showing a bit of contemplation.

The expressions became more diverse.

"What's happening here?" A slight doubt arose in Yang Jian's heart.

Supernatural changes are never without cause, there must be a reason, it just hasn't been detected yet.

"Tong Qian, did you hear me? If you did, hope you can answer." Li Yang continued to ask, always maintaining a bit of caution.

Suddenly.

Tong Qian's neck twisted, his ghostly smiling face turned towards Li Yang.

Li Yang was startled, thinking it was a supernatural attack, and instinctively raised his withered hand.

But soon, the ghostly smiling face spoke: "I'm fine, I just feel a bit strange."

"Strange how?" Yang Jian asked.

Tong Qian said: "Before, I could clearly feel my own face was in charge, could control my smiling face and crying face, but after waking up this time, I've found I've become the ghost face, my consciousness lingering on the ghost face, unable to go back, for me this smiling face seems to have become my original face."

"Seems your consciousness had a problem, the supernatural attack probably targeted your consciousness but seems blocked by the ghost face, causing the attack to fail, so in the supernatural conflict your consciousness might have shifted to the ghost face, you should recall that you turned your head at that time."

Yang Jian immediately began recalling past events, reasoning and analyzing.

"You controlled the ghost face to turn, consciousness was controlling the ghost face, then suffered a ghost attack erasing consciousness, under such circumstances the ghost couldn't erase ghost face consciousness, so your consciousness stayed on the ghost face. However, I can't be certain if your condition is temporary or permanent, if permanent, congratulations, perhaps you've become an anomaly."

"I don't know how long this state can last, but I feel it's not a good thing, I seem to have lost a lot of things... feels very different now."

Tong Qian's ghostly face coldly eerie, even speaking, the sound was enough to make one's skin crawl.

Yang Jian said: "Lost a lot of emotions, right? Thought process changed too, suddenly becoming unfamiliar with yourself, as if turning into someone else."

"Yes." Tong Qian said.

"That's not a bad thing, just get used to it gradually." Yang Jian said.

Li Yang at this time said: "Captain, if what you said is true, then Tong Qian's consciousness still has a moment it disappears, or gets twisted by ghost face influence, eventually turning into an extremely dangerous existence..."

"Harnessing the supernatural always comes at a cost, it depends if you can bear that cost, but now Tong Qian's ghost face is always in a dead state, impacting his consciousness very little, the only concern is when a person possesses supernatural power and lacks human emotions, how their character will twist."

"Maybe eventually become a monster, indistinguishable from an evil ghost, maybe shed human flaws, transcending both living and ghost, becoming a pure existence."

Yang Jian proposed two possibilities.

Li Yang understood, he nodded: "So it's what they call falling and retaining self?"

"You've summarized it well, a ghost rider without emotions ultimately becomes what's dependent on self-control, despite ghost attacks, ghost killing instincts remain, this instinct lurking inside and even able to influence ghost rider actions."

"Like what?" Tong Qian continued to ask.

"Some things are hard to describe in words, I'll do an experiment for you to see."

Yang Jian walked a few steps away, suddenly deliberately let out several laughs.

In the next moment.

Tong Qian's head suddenly turned, a smiling face directed at Yang Jian, at that moment it seemed as if the ghost's laughter was about to echo in this ward.

Clearly, Yang Jian deliberately triggered the ghost face's killing pattern.