Chapter 1054 - 1020: The Thing Buried on the First Floor
On the first floor of the hall, Yang Jian, Wang Yong, Li Yang, and others continued to face the assault of vengeful spirits. The situation was still under control; despite the dangers, they managed to temporarily resolve them.
The only concern was, they didn’t know how long this curse would last.
If it drags on too long, many will succumb to the resurgence of the spirits.
Meanwhile,
At the atrium on the first floor.
Ye Zhen was walking at the atrium, and as he accidentally stepped into nothingness, he did not disappear but instead fell into a strange supernatural space.
This place was identical to the post office’s first floor.
However, the walls and floor were not made of stone or wood but were plastered with sheets of black letters, making it seem like a world made of paper. The eerie part was that each sheet of black paper had names dazzling like blood, Zhang Lei, Zhao Feng, Qin Kai…
These names were unfamiliar to Ye Zhen, but some of the couriers found them vaguely familiar.
They were all names of deceased couriers.
The black letters with blood-red names formed a place filled with death and the bizarre, as if foretelling that the entire post office was built with the lives of countless couriers, and Ye Zhen’s fall into this place might also mark the end of his life here, becoming another innocent life under the Ghost Post Office.
“Oh, you creatures are audacious, daring to attack me suddenly. Fine, very well, today I’ll show you my skills,” Ye Zhen was a bit angry.
After all, he disappeared as he walked. It was quite humiliating if word got out.
So, Ye Zhen wanted to solve the troubles here swiftly and then meet up with Yang Jian. If he could not display his extraordinary talents in front of Yang Wudi, then what was the point of this support mission?
Without hesitation.
He reached out, spreading the Ghost Domain, attempting to tear apart everything in front of him.
The sheets of paper with red names were suddenly torn, with cracks extending, seemingly trying to destroy the eerie place built by these letters.
However, the cracks only stretched about four or five meters and then stopped.
The cracks quickly began to restore, the traces disappearing.
Though the cracks were restored, the red names on the black letters blurred, the red blood seemed to melt, dripping from the paper.
“I see.” Ye Zhen mused upon seeing this.
He roughly understood some of the dynamics of this strange place, and he was quite confident he could easily escape.
But he didn’t want to leave just yet.
Having been humiliated, he felt the urge to wash away the disgrace with the blood of the spirits.
Ye Zhen stepped on the ground paved with black paper, looking around, trying to find the source of the paranormal.
Soon, he found it.
Under a wall plastered with black letters, a corpse lay motionless on the ground, its body also covered with black paper, resembling a wrapped mummy, yet more like an ancient corpse displayed in a museum, the sheets of paper forming a precious Gold-threaded Jade Garment.
From time to time.
The papers on the corpse peeled off, but soon new sheets fell and adhered to the corpse.
In a cycle, the corpse couldn’t ever reveal its true form, perpetually sleeping here.
But this dead body wasn’t truly asleep; it remained the source of the paranormal.
Originally, this place wouldn’t have manifested.
But because the management of the post office chose, the tearing of black letters disrupted the balance of the entire building, causing this supernatural space to appear on the first floor.
Couriers couldn’t enter here, as entering meant death.
Each sheet of black paper bore couriers’ names, including Li Yang, Wang Yong, and Yang Xiao… However, oddly there was no Yang Jian.
Ye Zhen wasn’t a courier; he forcibly entered as an outsider and hadn’t started any letter delivery tasks, thus wasn’t affected by the post office’s curse.
This allowed him to remain safe here.
“Is it that ghost thing?” Ye Zhen fixed his gaze on the corpse, snorted, and approached confidently.
Soon,
He arrived next to the corpse.
With a grasp of the hand.
The black paper peeled off the corpse, and as he flicked them away, the falling letters quickly faded from black to white. The white paper bizarrely bore lines of black handwriting, clearly spelling two words: Ye Zhen.
White paper with black letters, it possessed a potent curse.
Ye Zhen suddenly froze, standing still, his body rapidly chilling, life fading, with cold aura enveloping him.
Instantly, he seemed to transform into a corpse.
Yet, swiftly after, the coldness disappeared, his body warmth returned, life signs reappeared, but within a second, the situation worsened again, he died once more… This cycle repeated five or six times.
Finally, Ye Zhen roared, “A mere curse intends to kill me?”
All cursed letters fell to the ground, quickly disappearing, seemingly losing some kind of paranormal support, directly weathered away.
Without the paper cover, a jagged opening appeared ahead.
The corpse revealed its true form.
The body was pale, drained of blood, yet its skin was still very elastic, as if it hadn’t long passed away, plus some features hinted it was a female corpse, and a very beautiful one at that.
“Despicable.”
When faced with this corpse, Ye Zhen didn’t hesitate, stepping on it and punching down.
The corpse shook violently, the nearby ground cracking, walls collapsing.
Another punch.
The ceiling shook and cracked, even some light appeared overhead; this supernatural space was disturbed, unable to maintain.
“So, it was your ghostly setup,” Ye Zhen vented his anger then; the female corpse was deformed and twisted under his blows.
Meanwhile, the supernatural space rapidly distorted and vanished, and finally, the phenomena returned to reality, everything came back to the post office’s first floor.
Ye Zhen stood in the atrium’s position, but the female corpse disguised by black paper still remained, beginning to show in front of others.
“Back, is it?”
Yang Jian’s ghostly eye twitched, seeing Ye Zhen suddenly appear on the black letters. Clearly, he was alright, safely returning, but apparently, his foot was on a spirit, deformed.
Wait.
Something’s off.
Abruptly.
As fewer black letters covered the female corpse, its image gradually cleared.
It was a female corpse without arms, its arms seemed dismembered, incomplete.
Moreover, the corpse had no head.
The head was instead composed of several sheets of black letters.
Furthermore, the corpse had no legs…
“Is that part of the jigsaw from the body in the glass bottle?” Yang Jian immediately recalled.
The female corpse in the glass bottle had head, arms, but lacked a body, also a missing thigh, unable to fully piece together.
If the body was fully found, then the remaining leg should be in room 501 on the fifth floor.
“No wonder no one had ever found this entire female corpse, it was buried on the post office’s first floor, only when the post office is out of control can the burial place manifest,” Yang Jian understood now.
Yet, Ye Zhen was still destroying the corpse.
Bruises appeared on the body, a result of Ye Zhen’s blows; if this continued, the corpse would soon be completely shattered, making it challenging to reassemble into a complete female corpse.
“Ye Zhen, spare that corpse for a moment, I need that incomplete body; it’s useful to me,” Yang Jian immediately halted him.
Ye Zhen lifted his head abruptly, “What? Yang Wudi, you fancy this? Truly worthy of defeating me, so unique, fine, since you like it, I’ll let you have it.”
Then he hurled the corpse toward Yang Jian.
“…” Yang Jian’s face darkened.
The corpse had a lot of black letters stuck on it still, the letters bearing one red name after another, looking extremely eerie.
However, the corpse had never acted out of the ordinary.
Yang Jian didn’t speak; he merely examined and decided to set it aside temporarily.
“Don’t underestimate this thing; it possesses a strong curse that can kill someone instantly.”
Ye Zhen said, “Luckily, it’s me handling, otherwise anyone else would have fallen.”
“Wait, I think I heard something again? Seems like someone is singing…”
Then he perked his ears as if hearing something eerie, immediately without a word, rushed up the stairs, wanting to face a new opponent.
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