Mysterious Revival

Chapter 655: Block everything

Headquarters was urgently contacting Liu Xiaoyu, attempting to find the key clues to control the Ghost Infant by starting with the people around Yang Jian.

This was critically important, as it was the key to salvaging this failed experiment.

Wang Xiaoming had thought about enlisting the help of others, but he dismissed the idea as soon as it arose—who could possibly stand against the combined force of a rampaging Yang Jian and Wei Jing?

Moreover, continued confrontation would only make matters worse.

As the lights dimmed, layer by layer within the building, it seemed they would soon be extinguished. The Ghost Domain began its invasion from the basement, gradually affecting this floor.

This was Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain.

The lockdown on the fifth basement floor had stalled it for some time, but it wasn’t completely impenetrable.

“The ghosts are going out the door.”

At this moment, Wang Xiaoming was making his way up the stairs and noticed that every floor’s door was open, which compounded his troubles.

What did this mean? It meant that the ghosts most likely had the memories of living people…

The spirit tablet imprisoning a ghost within the ancestral portrait was even more special than imagined.

Just as he was panting while chasing after it…

The first, second, and third floors of the building had already been corroded by the Ghost Domain, and when the Ghost Domain reached the fourth floor, an anomaly occurred.

The Hungry Ghost in the Second Stage, also known as the Ghost Child.

It was on the fourth floor.

The Ghost Child had been chasing an eerie figure that had invaded the building, but due to some deficiency, it was never able to kill or expel the intruding specter.

However, as soon as the Ghost Domain covered the floor from the third, the Ghost Child was naturally enveloped in it as well.

Within Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain, the deficiency of the Ghost Child was compensated for.

While constantly chasing, the Ghost Child now held a rotting Dead Man’s Head and stopped, tilting its head slightly as it watched the hastily fleeing apparition, no longer in a rush but observing as the figure moved further away.

The Ghost Domain continued to spread, covering the fourth floor up to the fifth.

The eerie figure roaming the building seemed to have realized something was wrong; it became agitated, footsteps quickening, leaving behind stinking puddles.

But that figure’s speed could not outrun the Ghost Domain that Yang Jian had let loose.

Thus, the eerie figure was in panic, fleeing, no longer bothering with the Ghost Child.

On a corridor on the fifth floor, a window opened.

The eerie figure immediately went to the window, attempting to climb out from the fifth floor and flee the building, realizing that the situation here exceeded all expectations and that the existence of the Ghost Child was an unforeseen variable.

A ghost of low Terror Level facing a Hungry Ghost in the Second Stage would only result in one outcome.

That is, being devoured and becoming part of the Hungry Ghost’s puzzle.

The eerie figure had already climbed onto the window.

And just as it was about to leave, the Ghost Child had already appeared behind it.

At that moment, the Ghost Child finally caught up.

A small, cyanotic palm grabbed the shadowy figure that was about to jump out of the window.

At this moment, the true form of this eerie figure was revealed—a human silhouette with a head and limbs, but without facial features, hair, fingers, or toes… It was like a frame draped in a layer of terrifying dead skin.

In the instant that the Ghost Child grabbed the eerie figure…

The dark brown dead skin began oozing liquid, seemingly in resistance.

However, the black shroud worn by the Ghost Child could withstand the damage caused by supernatural powers. Neither Yang Jian’s five-layer Ghost Domain nor the revitalized Ghost Rope could harm it. The ooze that seeped out and dripped onto the Ghost Child was blocked by the shroud, serving no purpose.

At this moment, the Ghost Child opened its mouth wide, an abyssal, dark cavity ready to swallow the ghost before it.

The Ghost Child, which had always seemed harmless, finally displayed the terror befitting its status as a Hungry Ghost in the Second Stage.

And just like that…

The eerie visitor inside the building began to wither, the copious amounts of corpse fluid vanishing.

And the Ghost Child’s belly swelled little by little.

The eerie figure writhed in the window, struggling to break free from the Ghost Child’s grasp, but it was futile. From the recent confrontation, it was clear that the ghost that had entered the building was no match for the Ghost Child; it had only been delaying time.

As Yang Jian’s out-of-control Ghost Domain covered the area…

The Ghost Child gained the ability to roam freely within the Ghost Domain, so the eerie figure could not escape.

Soon…

The body of this eerie person vanished, leaving only a dark brown human skin that fell to the ground.

The Ghost Child was drenched, as if having taken a bath, reeking of the stench of death. It stared at the dark brown skin on the floor, pausing as if to judge whether the skin met its killing criteria. After some deliberation, the Ghost Child made its move. Opening its mouth wide, it reached out to devour it.

But just at this moment, the Ghost Child suddenly turned its head and stopped, its blood-red pupil-less eyes looking in the direction of the first floor lobby.

Then, the Ghost Child disappeared on this fifth floor.

Because its murder pattern was triggered again, something was trying to leave the building, so it went to stop it.

The Ghost Child, moving freely within the Ghost Domain, arrived at the entrance in the blink of an eye, holding a rotten Dead Man’s Head, and set its sights on a new target—two figures invisible to others, but perceptible to the Ghost Child.

As the two figures gradually became visible in the middle of the lobby from within the Ghost Domain, it became clear that they were the eerily composed Yang Jian and Wei Jing.

With the Ghost Domain out of control, the Ghost Child dealt with the intruder in the building, but now it was facing two top ghost controllers controlled by ghosts.

Yang Jian and Wei Jing, under the ghost’s influence, did not attack the Ghost Child. It seemed that the ghost controlling them did not want to linger here; they wanted to leave this place and head somewhere else. It was just that in leaving the building, they triggered the Ghost Child’s murder pattern, drawing it to them.

This was a situation nobody had anticipated.

The Ghost Child stood at the doorway, its drenched body, tilting its head, staring at Yang Jian and Wei Jing in front of it.

At this point, Yang Jian with the strange expression took a step forward, disappearing, attempting to use the Ghost Domain to leave the building directly, without intending to walk out step by step.

However, the next moment…

The just vanished Yang Jian reappeared in the lobby, retreating several stiff steps backward. He had been stopped.

The rotten Dead Man’s Head in the Ghost Child’s hands opened its eyes, its ash-colored eyeballs turning slightly, like a resurgent fierce ghost, staring motionlessly at Yang Jian in front, unleashing a terrifying ghostly force invisibly upon Yang Jian, who was forcefully pushed back.

And the suppression created by the stare of the rotten Dead Man’s Head was persistent.

Under this suppression, Yang Jian, controlled by a ghost, seemed to be in retreat, becoming motionless, standing there like a cold corpse.

This was a confrontation between ghost and ghost.

It appeared that the Dead Man’s Head had a slight advantage, but not a significant one, because on Yang Jian’s forehead, a ghostly eye was still restlessly moving, signifying that the Ghost Domain still enveloped the building. However, the spreading had ceased, no longer reviving.

The suppression was not thorough, just a temporary balance had been achieved.

But it was not just the uncontrollable Yang Jian who wanted to leave the building.

Wei Jing also began to move. He couldn’t use the Ghost Domain because the coverage of the ghostly eye affected him, but this didn’t hinder his actions.

Wei Jing with the strange expression started to walk towards the outside of the main door, also eager to leave,

Even without the Ghost Domain, he would walk out if he had to.

The Ghost Child’s murder pattern wasn’t aimed at just one person but all people, even ghosts. Even if Yang Jian was controlled by a ghost, it would still attack the current Yang Jian, unless Yang Jian spoke to change its murder pattern.

But obviously, Yang Jian was currently unable to do that.

Wei Jing took step after step.

As the entity known as Ghost Envoy, after being invaded by other ghosts, he would become even more terrifying than before.

At this moment, the Ghost Child tilted its head, looking at Wei Jing and then Yang Jian, seemingly without its own thoughts, uncertain whether to stop Yang Jian or Wei Jing. After all, it had only been born a few months ago and everything was still very confusing to it.

But it was not merely a Second Stage Ghost Infant; it was a unique entity, born of the Ghost Eye Yang Jian, the living person Wang Shanshan, and the Hungry Ghost.

Such an exception could not be found anywhere else in the world.

So the Ghost Child possessed the eeriness of ghosts as well as a few characteristics of the living.

Right now, the Ghost Child seemed to be thinking, growing, because it had just devoured a ghost, gaining the condition to continue to grow. According to the Hungry Ghost’s rules, the Ghost Child should have reached the Third Stage by now.

Although there were no apparent changes in the Ghost Child, undoubtedly, some unknown changes had occurred.

Quickly, it made a choice, and at this time, it actually put down the eerie head in its hands.

The rotten Dead Man’s Head continued to stare at Yang Jian, maintaining a deadlock with no movement from either side.

Meanwhile, the Ghost Child itself moved in front of Wei Jing, its ferocious, blood-red eyes staring at him, waiting for Wei Jing to cross the lobby door before attacking him.

At this moment…

Violent gasps accompanied by hurried footsteps emerged at the first-floor staircase.

Now, Wang Xiaoming had climbed up from the fifth level below. He was a bit weak, and it was somewhat hard to run all the way up from the bottom, so he was now leaning against the wall, face flushed, gasping for air.

“I made it in time.”

When he saw what was happening in the lobby on the first floor, his eyes narrowed slightly, surprised and with a bit of unexpected delight.

The Ghost Child had actually stopped Yang Jian and Wei Jing.

No.

Right now, only Yang Jian had been stopped; Wei Jing was still active and about to confront the Ghost Child.

Ghost Envoy versus Hungry Ghost.

Although it wasn’t a confrontation at the source, Wang Xiaoming was still looking forward to the outcome.