Mysterious Awakening

In the dimly lit restaurant, bodies that had long since perished were suspended in mid-air by old, worn straw ropes. Each corpse bore a sinister smile, and their ashen eyes were wide open, uniformly focusing on Yang Jian and Xiong Wenwen’s direction, emitting a creepy, strange laughter.

From his initial encounter with Tong Qian, it was known that this kind of Ghost Face-like laughter was lethal: Ordinary people who heard it needed only a few seconds to die with a smiling face.

Perhaps even a ghost manipulator could not withstand the curse of such laughter.

It was just like the wailing of the Crying Tomb Ghost.

To avoid being killed by this cursed laughter, the only option was to completely block one’s ears, better yet to become deaf. As long as not the slightest sound could be heard, then you would be safe.

The moment Yang Jian heard this laughter inside the Ghost Domain, he knew things were not good.

Having had an encounter with the Crying Tomb Ghost, he knew that the Ghost Domain could not block out this kind of sound, it could only temporarily delay the time before the laughter killed you.

"All the corpses are laughing, but it’s absolutely impossible for every single one to have a Ghost Face. Only one corpse’s smiling face can truly kill, the rest are just deliberate coverups. I’ll activate the third level of the Ghost Domain to buy time. Within this period, you must find the corpse with the real Ghost Face, otherwise, we can only run."

Yang Jian clenched his teeth, placing his hands before the Ghost Eyes, and from the palm of each hand, a slit opened, and eyes emerged.

This time he was conservative, not expanding the area too much, just covering the restaurant, which would temporarily isolate the ghost outside from entering.

Without reason, that ghost in the corridor outside should not be able to come in when one is within the third layer of the Ghost Domain.

"So many corpses, it’s going to be troublesome to search. We might as well run. Your third layer Ghost Domain is useless; it’s being suppressed and is about to be invaded."

Xiong Wenwen was so scared that he was nearly crying, having just witnessed a very horrifying scene.

"What?" Yang Jian had just activated the third layer of the Ghost Domain when he heard this news, his eyelid involuntarily twitched.

The third layer of the Ghost Domain had been invaded?

"This is impossible. Even a Hungry Ghost can be locked down by my third layer Ghost Domain. The Terror Level of the ghosts here definitely can’t reach S-class, otherwise, the Ghost Rope couldn’t have lifted all the bodies so effortlessly... wait." Yang Jian was initially disbelieving, but then he suddenly remembered the ghost that could alter memories.

The bloodstained red newspaper.

That thing could counter his Ghost Domain, completely suppressing it.

Since the newspaper could obstruct vision, and the Ghost Eyes’ sight was blocked, the Ghost Domain couldn’t be used smoothly.

"How much time do I have left?" Yang Jian immediately asked.

"Only, only three seconds." Xiong Wenwen looked at the cartoon watch in his hand and stammered.

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No sooner had he finished speaking.

A bloodstained red newspaper appeared out of place in Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain. The paper bore the outline of a human face, with a terrifying malevolence. With the appearance of this thing, a cold breeze seemed to blow into the Ghost Domain, and wherever the bloodstained newspaper flew, the red Ghost Domain faded away as if it was being smeared out, revealing a corner of the gloomy restaurant.

As this gap was torn open, more places saw the bloodstained red newspapers blown into the Ghost Domain, creating more and more tears.

In just a moment, Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain appeared as if it would be completely torn apart.

"I’ll act, you choose, tell me the result at the fastest speed."

Yang Jian’s face dramatically changed, and immediately, he disappeared with Xiong Wenwen from the spot. He materialized under a smiling corpse that was emitting laughter.

The next moment, his Ghost Shadow stood up behind him, ready to invade the corpse to seize the Ghost Face and stop this terrifying incident from continuing.

"No, not this corpse. I saw you successfully suppress this one, but the laughter is still going on," Xiong Wenwen hurriedly shouted.

It was clear that he was using his predictive ability to inform Yang Jian of the result.

Yang Jian halted his action, quickly moving to the next corpse, ready to act again.

"Not this one either," Xiong Wenwen told him again.

"Damn it."

Yang Jian cursed silently, already breaking out in a cold sweat; his Ghost Domain was being invaded while outside the laughter of ghosts continued incessantly. Once it reached its limit, he would have to retreat.

This operation could only end in failure.

But he didn’t give up hope. Since he had chosen to face the challenge head-on, he wouldn’t easily back down; otherwise, hesitating would only waste his power.

It wasn’t easy for a Ghost Controller to take action even once; the cost was too high.

The fourth body, no.

The fifth body, also no.

Yang Jian’s luck clearly wasn’t great. In front of nearly thirty bodies, after making five or six choices, the odds of success were only about one in six.

But now, the limit had been reached.

The conditions didn’t allow him to continue with trial and error, because his Ghost Domain was already on the verge of collapse.

Around him, the red Ghost Domain was no longer visible—only a dimly lit restaurant surrounded by cold winds blowing in all directions, with bloodstained newspapers emblazoned with human faces swirling around, closing within a one-meter radius of Yang Jian, many of the papers almost pasting themselves onto his face.

Once stuck on, Yang Jian couldn’t be sure he could hold on any longer.

This wasn’t like the time he was attacked at home and could leave whenever he wanted—here, other horrors existed. A moment’s error could very likely result in his death.

"We can’t keep trying, run for it! The ghost from outside the door has already come in, it’s right in this restaurant. Once the Ghost Domain is gone, we’ll be killed instantly. I’ve foreseen this outcome," Xiong Wenwen was screaming on the verge of collapse, having predicted his and Yang Jian’s death for the first time.

He had not seen this outcome before.

In other words, this operation had to stop here. Continuing to struggle arbitrarily would lead to the scenario Xiong Wenwen had foreseen.

So a change had to be made.

Yang Jian gritted his teeth and had no choice but to give up. He immediately withdrew the Ghost Domain and took out a red Ghost Candle.

The moment the Ghost Domain was withdrawn, the bloodstained red newspapers surged towards him.

At the same time, the sound of heavy footsteps in the restaurant quickly approached. It was the same ghost that had appeared outside the corridor previously and had, during Yang Jian’s operation, already entered the restaurant and was now lurking nearby.

This thing wasn’t deliberately targeting Yang Jian; it was an unknown horror attracted by the white Ghost Candle he had used earlier.

The death Xiong Wenwen had foreseen was due to this ghost.

Beyond that ghost, the eerie laughter echoing inside the restaurant was even more chilling. The laugh carried a curse akin to that of an Evil Ghost, and in just a moment, Xiong Wenwen’s mouth began to curl up involuntarily into a smile that was gradually mirroring those on the corpses.

"We’re definitely dead this time, definitely dead. Yang Jian, can you hurry up?"

Xiong Wenwen started to cry, realizing he had foreseen several outcomes, all of them death.

If not dying with a smile, then being killed by the ghost that entered the restaurant, or by the resurrection of a fierce ghost... The only way out he could foresee was two.

One of them was lighting the Ghost Candle.

Yang Jian timed it precisely.

In this moment of crisis, a light flared up.

In his hand, he held a red candle with a sinister green flame burning on it, illuminating the surrounding darkness.

The Ghost Candle was successfully lit.

As soon as the Ghost Candle’s light appeared, the situation around them instantly changed.

The bloodstained newspapers blown by the cold wind at that moment could no longer approach the area covered by the candle’s light, swirling chaotically in the dim restaurant, unable to attack Yang Jian.

The strange and terrifying laughter was also cut off at that moment, and Yang Jian and Xiong Wenwen, bathed in the candlelight, seemed to become deaf, no longer able to hear that sound.

The worsening situation was halted at that moment.

Even the restaurant’s doors were suddenly pulled open then, and a tall dark figure could be seen taking heavy steps, slowly beginning to turn and leave. It seemed to have given up on lingering to attack Yang Jian and Xiong Wenwen, or perhaps this ghost didn’t satisfy the conditions to kill them, having previously been forcibly attracted by the white Ghost Candle.

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