Mysterious Revival

Chapter 1097: Chapter 1063 Strange Ancient Town

“We’ve arrived. This is it.”

Nighttime.

Leuk San brought Yang Jian back to the front of that temple again.

Unlike during the day, the temple’s doors were closed at night, and it was extremely silent, without a sound.

“It’s too late, the temple is closed. When I came before, the temple doors were still open. They were closed not long ago, but there’s an elder guarding the temple inside, holding an enamel tea cup, slightly hunched, with one eye.” Leuk San said.

He explained some of the situation inside the temple.

“That person took down one of my paper figures. I think teaming up with you would be more reassuring. After all, we still have to deal with the Ghost Lake, and I don’t want to waste too many paper figures here.”

But as Leuk San was speaking, Yang Jian had already stepped forward and pushed open the heavy temple doors.

The doors creaked, making a sharp friction sound.

In the silent night of the ancient town, it was particularly clear, and the sound traveled far, likely heard by nearby residents.

After the temple doors were pushed open, a whiff of burning paper floated out, and it was dark around, with only two unremarkable oil lamps lit in the middle of the temple.

The flames on the oil lamps were small, flickering lightly, not enough to illuminate the entire temple. Instead, the flickering lamps added to the eerie atmosphere.

Yang Jian glanced around and strode into the temple.

“Be careful.” Leuk San reminded.

Yang Jian said, “If even such a loud noise when opening the door didn’t catch the attention of the person you mentioned, either he’s deaf, or he’s not here. If he were, he would have already come to stop us.”

“What, are you scared?”

He turned back to look.

Leuk San was still standing outside the temple, not daring to enter.

“Even if he acts again, this time he faces both of us, so he must reconsider. Just don’t use a paper figure as a decoy; otherwise, you’ll not only offend the people in this temple but also me.”

Yang Jian added, “Also, Li Jun is very dissatisfied with what you did in the last ghost painting event.”

“Honestly, I have some opinions too. If you keep this up, you’ll eventually offend all the captains.”

“I already used a paper figure before, but it still died, so I’m a bit cautious.” Leuk San said, now walking inside, looking around cautiously.

After all, losing a paper figure here for no reason still upset him.

Yang Jian stood inside the temple, observing.

Nothing seemed unusual, and the building was a normal structure.

The only odd thing was the rows of spirit tablets in the center of the temple.

He glanced over them, calculating in his mind. There were seven rows from top to bottom, each with a varying number of spirit tablets, at least close to a hundred in total, which was quite a lot.

In front of the spirit tablets were offering tables, incense burners, oil lamps, and a fire bowl.

There were ashes in the fire bowl, indicating that paper had been burned here, and it happened not long ago.

“The paper has burned out, the incense too, and the person is gone. It seems everything here ended before six o’clock.” Yang Jian scanned the area with his ghost eyes.

He didn’t find the elder guarding the temple.

Nor did he see any supernatural phenomena.

“It’s safe here at night.”

After saying this, he looked back at Leuk San.

“I’ll find that old man.” Leuk San’s expression turned a bit grim.

Having dragged Yang Jian here, only to come up empty-handed without finding the one-eyed elder, they’d clearly taken a loss.

“Chances are, he won’t be found.”

Yang Jian said, “The whole ancient town is filled with a mystery I can’t even fully comprehend. Even if your paper figures scoured the entire town, they wouldn’t uncover the truth.”

“This place evokes a deep entanglement with some supernatural space, similar to what Shen Lin mentioned before. It’s a junction, so many inexplicable things happen here.”

“Even so, there must be a ’path.’ Give me time, and I can find it.” Leuk San said.

Yang Jian didn’t respond, merely staring at the rows of spirit tablets ahead.

The spirit tablets were inscribed with different names, lacking dates of death or birth, exceedingly simple.

Even though he knew many, none of the names were familiar to him—they were all strangers.

Curiosity piqued, he nevertheless memorized all the names; they might be useful later.

This was the benefit of the completed Ghost Shadow, allowing him to instantly recall memories, making it truly photographic memory.

Meanwhile, as Yang Jian and Leuk San came up empty, elsewhere in the ancient town…

There was an old pier.

Shen Lin, Li Jun, and Ah Hong had waited from day to night, but it was still several hours away from the right moment.

However, as ghost wielders, patience wasn’t something they lacked.

Compared to facing a real ghost, waiting was a relatively easy task.

It was now past nine o’clock at night.

There were no streetlights in this part of the ancient town, making it extremely dark.

On the dim roadside stone.

Two eerie Ghost Flames flickered; those were Li Jun’s eyes beneath his sunglasses.

He had no eyes, couldn’t see anything, but his Ghost Flame possessed the Ghost Domain, and wherever the fire illuminated was the Ghost Domain, so he could know everything around through the Ghost Domain.

“No movement, everything is very calm. The ancient town at night is much quieter than during the day, everything seems to have fallen into a slumber, which makes me uneasy instead.” Li Jun said in a calm voice.

“Isn’t calmness better? Why feel uneasy?” Ah Hong said.

Shen Lin, beside him, said, “Even the supernatural has become so regular, which can only mean that whatever is hidden behind the ancient town becomes more frightening. Is the Ghost Lake incident unrelated to this? No one knows.”

“But what must be clear is that this is an S-level supernatural event.”

“Dealing with a supernatural event, only to discover an even bigger supernatural presence, that feeling must not be good… wait, someone’s coming.”

Suddenly.

Shen Lin gestured, noticing someone approaching along the night road, he immediately whispered a warning.

In the darkness, the two eerie Ghost Flames suddenly went out, and Li Jun’s figure disappeared.

Shen Lin also vanished.

Ah Hong took a few steps back, quickly blending into the darkness, as if merging with everything around.

The three of them quickly hid.

Between two old houses, footsteps could be heard on an inconspicuous cobblestone path.

The footsteps came so abruptly, as if appearing out of thin air, but on the other end of the path, no one was seen passing by, it was just at some moment, at a particular time, that person suddenly appeared on the road.

A shadow appeared on the cobblestone path of a woman around fifty, much older-looking, with many wrinkles on her face, carrying a wooden basin filled with clothes, walking towards the abandoned old ferry.

The middle-aged woman’s attire was very outdated.

The style and craftsmanship of the clothes didn’t seem to belong to the present era, more like something from decades ago.

“This person is strange.” Li Jun observed in secret, unable to resist the urge to subdue the woman and question her.

But he held back his impulse.

The situation was unclear; taking action would be reckless.

The middle-aged woman said nothing, her face indifferent, her movements skilled, even in poor night visibility, she quickly went down several steps, reaching the riverbank, began putting clothes into the water, and started washing them.

The splashing sound of water at the riverbank echoed.

The sound of the woman washing clothes came from the surroundings.

“In the dead of night, this woman isn’t sleeping, doesn’t even have a light, washing clothes by the river, do you think this is normal?” Ah Hong whispered in the darkness, the voice only audible to Li Jun and Shen Lin.

“I can acquire her memory, but it carries certain risks. What do you two think?” Shen Lin said.

Evidently, he intended to take action.

Li Jun glanced over, thought for a moment, and said, “She’s an ordinary person, at least she appears to be. If you judge wrong, you would kill her.”

“Naturally, regardless of right or wrong, she would die. Of course, there’s another outcome, which is that we get killed by her.” Shen Lin chuckled.

“Forget it, playing with an ordinary person’s life isn’t a joke, the idea of taking action is canceled. Wait for her to leave, there’s still time.” Li Jun said.

“As you say.” Shen Lin said, he only had the thought of taking action, not a necessity.

The three of them waited until around eleven.

Finally.

The woman by the river finished washing the clothes, picked up the wooden basin again, and walked back, returning to the previous alley.

However, when the woman entered the alley.

Leaned against the wall, hidden in the Ghost Domain, Li Jun glanced at the woman’s wooden basin.

It turned out to be empty, not a single piece of clothing inside, holding nothing but a wooden basin untouched by even a drop of water.

“How could this be…” Li Jun was startled.

He distinctly heard the woman finish washing clothes and put the wet clothes back into the basin.

Why, after all that time washing, was it not even damp with a drop of water?

“Regretting it? You can still make a move now.” Shen Lin smiled.

Li Jun’s expression fluctuated, he finally waved his hand, stopping Shen Lin’s action; “Since we decided to wait, then we’ll wait, you don’t need to make a move. The matter of the ancient town, I’ll investigate it later. The Ghost Lake event is most critical now, everything else can be temporarily put aside.”

Ultimately, he didn’t want to add complications.

Because it was already past eleven, there was less than an hour left until the operation time.

“Maybe you’ll regret this decision, clearly, whatever is hidden in the ancient town is more dangerous than Ghost Lake, Yang Jian realized this and that’s why he went to investigate that non-existent street, Leuk San is also uneasy, therefore, he wants to explore the ancient town as well.” Shen Lin said.

“Oh, let me mention something else, that couple Yang Jian encountered during the day—now they’re dead.”

“Dead?” Ah Hong recalled at this moment.

During the day, Yang Jian stopped a couple holding masks.

“Did Yang Jian kill them?”

Shen Lin laughed, “How could he, Yang Jian wouldn’t spare a glance at such small fry, let alone take action against them. They died in an inn in the old town, and it looks… like a natural death, the innkeeper is collecting their bodies now.”

He didn’t use the Ghost Domain, yet he had a perfect grasp of what was happening.

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