Chapter 1383 - 1350: Crashed Person
“Did I see it wrong, or is there really a problem over there? How can reality be distorted like this?”
From a nearby building, Miao Xiaoshan looked in shock at the changes near the Peace Hotel, a bit skeptical of her own eyes.
“The collision of the supernatural affected reality. Yang Jian is confronting that ghost,” Liu Qi also focused intently on the scene not far away, not wanting to miss a single detail.
At this moment, in their view, reality was already distorted and overlapping. Sometimes, countless identical buildings filled the area; sometimes all constructions were upside down, and sometimes the same thing appeared innumerably, continuously overlapping together.
Both the ghost’s and Yang Jian’s figures had long vanished within, buried under countless twisted realities, impossible to glimpse.
In reality, only a short moment passed, but deep within that supernatural collision, a long time had already elapsed.
The collision had ended.
The distorted reality returned to its original state, and the Peace Hotel reappeared in view.
Yang Jian was now standing in front of the hotel’s main entrance, motionless as if he had fallen into a slumber. Even the ghost eye on his forehead had stopped turning, becoming somewhat dazed.
“Let’s go over and take a look.” Seeing the matter concluded, Liu Qi immediately led Miao Xiaoshan away from the building.
They weren’t the only ones.
Not far away on the street, Wang Shanshan, Zhang Wei, and Brother Eagle were also quickly approaching. They too wanted to ascertain Yang Jian’s condition.
“Be careful, the ghost might still be nearby. There were significant changes around here. The red piece of wood I was holding earlier broke for no reason, seemingly losing its supernatural power,” Brother Eagle cautioned, advising them not to be careless.
Soon enough.
The group gathered but did not dare approach Yang Jian immediately, as they weren’t sure if it was safe yet and needed to observe carefully.
“Brother Tui, how are you? Are you alright?” Zhang Wei shouted loudly.
At this moment, Yang Jian wasn’t asleep; he had just fallen into confusion during multiple restarts and collisions, but now that the restarts had ended, his befuddled consciousness was rapidly recovering, though it would take some time.
After a while.
He regained clarity and gradually opened his eyes.
“What a fleeting yet endless period.” Yang Jian’s gaze flickered as he sensed changes within himself.
Through multiple supernatural collisions, his ghost eye fell into a dead state, though not all ghost eyes were out; six had gone dead, and the remaining three still required other supernatural powers to balance and suppress them.
“It seems the limits of the Wishing Ghost are only this much. Just six ghost eyes went dead—this didn’t reach my expectations. Given this ghost’s terrifying level, I thought it should have made the seventh ghost eye enter a complete dead state,” Yang Jian pondered silently, then glanced at the pool of water on the ground.
“Perhaps it’s the Ghost Lake affecting the Wishing Ghost, as the presence of this lake water suppressed part of the Wishing Ghost’s supernatural power, thus reducing its horror level.”
He remembered.
The ghost was confronting him under the suppression of Ghost Lake, not in its best state.
“But it’s enough. Six ghost eyes dead mean I can use the Six Layer Ghost Domain freely, use the Seventh Layer Ghost Domain to restart myself at will, and even extend the restart time of the Eight Layer Ghost Domain to about twenty minutes or more, approaching the ghost eye’s limit. If I face danger again, I can attempt to activate the Ninth Layer Ghost Domain, without worrying about the ghost eye’s revival as before.”
Yang Jian silently calculated in his mind, feeling this upgrade was significant.
“Yang Jian, are you alright?” At this point, being a ghost handler, Liu Qi cautiously approached and asked again.
Yang Jian snapped back to reality and said, “I’m fine. I just had some disorientation during the fight with the ghost, but I’m recovered now.”
“That’s good,” Liu Qi sighed in relief and then asked, “What was the result? What about the ghost?”
“The ghost is still inside the Peace Hotel, but now it’s quiet. This supernatural event is essentially over,” Yang Jian said, looking at the Peace Hotel before him.
Throughout the process of multiple restarts, the Peace Hotel also returned to its original state, without damage, and with all the lights now on, in the absence of supernatural interference. Everything was normal except that there was no one inside it remaining.
“Brother Tui, what are we waiting for then? Let’s go into the hotel and settle it while it’s down, don’t give it a chance to recover. I’ll go first, you guys catch up,” Zhang Wei said urgently, holding an axe, and ran into the hotel.
Liu Qi took a look and said, “Yang Jian, should we stop him?”
“No need, the ghost poses no threat anymore,” Yang Jian said calmly.
His ghost eyes had six dead; the ghost was also not in good shape, caught in a dead state.
The repeated restarts and collisions didn’t seem as simple as those outside perceived. Yang Jian himself couldn’t count how many times he had fought against the ghost during that timeframe.
The ghost eye moved.
He checked the time, it was now twelve o’clock one minute past midnight.
The final deadline had passed too. If the ghost had really won, it would have appeared before Yang Jian according to their deal, but now everything was calm, with no ghost in sight.
“You all did a good job this time, delaying enough time. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been such an easy win,” Yang Jian stated.
“If we lose and all die, what are you going to do?” Wang Shanshan came over and asked at this moment.
Yang Jian replied, “I never planned to carry out this game with the Ghost General completely. If the ghost wins prematurely and kills you all, I will intervene to reverse life and death and bring you all back.”
He can activate the Eight Layer Ghost Domain to restart on a large scale, which is the equivalent supernatural power to the Wishing Ghost.
The Wishing Ghost cheats, so he will cheat too.
“No wonder you’re willing to let them take risks, you’ve been prepared all along. I worried for nothing,” Liu Qi laughed.
“Let’s go in and take a look, I’m thinking about how to handle this ghostly thing,” Yang Jian said.
Everyone, with a bit of curiosity, walked into the Peace Hotel again.
The hotel’s lights were dazzling; although empty, it had lost that eerie chilling feeling.
Upon entering.
In the middle of the hotel lobby stood a strange object, something like a red cabinet, yet appeared in a humanoid outline, you could even see those blurred sunken features, at first glance it looked like a wooden red figure with eyes closed as if sleeping.
Though this red wooden figure appeared normal at the moment, getting closer, one could clearly feel an indescribable sinister vibe.
“Bang!”
In the next step came Zhang Wei, carrying an axe, actually cleaving toward this red wooden figure.
The wooden figure stood firmly in place, didn’t move an inch, taking a solid axe hit.
“So hard?” Zhang Wei retracted the axe, his hands numb from the shock, looking at the wooden figure with some surprise.
However, the red axe still left a mark on it.
From that split opening, scarlet blood continuously flowed out, as if this wooden figure was a living person.
“Zhang Wei, don’t chop randomly, Yang Jian has already put this ghost into a crash state, if you chop recklessly, what if you wake the ghost?”
Liu Qi walked over, hurriedly used his gloved hand to pull Zhang Wei back, stopping his reckless behavior.
The ghost is crashed, not dead, it still has the possibility of waking again in the future.
“Sure enough, the Wishing Ghost and the Ghost Cabinet merged into one, it used the Ghost Cabinet as its body.” Yang Jian stared at the wooden figure for a moment, finding it somewhat unbelievable.
Perhaps to the Wishing Ghost, the Ghost Cabinet wasn’t its best vessel, but it had a supernatural conflict with the Ghost Cabinet, the Wishing Ghost had no choice but to either control the Ghost Cabinet or be controlled by it.
As a result, the Wishing Ghost won, it controlled the Ghost Cabinet, possessed the supernatural of the Ghost Cabinet, while also being influenced by the Ghost Cabinet’s rules, although it freed itself from Zhao Xiaoya’s restraint, it fell into an even larger constraint.
“Brother Tui, what do you plan to do with this thing? Put it at home as a figurine or chop it for firewood?” Zhang Wei tapped the unmoving wooden figure and asked.
Wang Shanshan glanced, “It’s a ghost, not a toy, would you dare put it in your room?”
“Why wouldn’t I dare? I don’t believe it dares to come and hit me suddenly when I’m asleep,” Zhang Wei said.
Yang Jian said, “There’s no box big enough to fit it for now, I plan to put this thing in the safe house and deal with it later.”
Shortly.
Water appeared beneath the wooden figure’s feet, then it sank into the water, completely disappearing from sight.
Upon seeing the wooden figure disappear, everyone was assured that today’s paranormal incident ended without danger.
“Since it’s all clear now, Yang Jian, I’ll head out first, contact me if anything comes up,” the eagle was rather unrestrained, left immediately after the matter was settled, without lingering.
“Hey, don’t rush off, we had a lot of fun just now, stay and join us,” Zhang Wei shouted.
The eagle waved his hand as he walked away, disappearing through the door without turning back.
Yang Jian said, “The gathering’s over, let’s rest a bit and leave later.”
“There’s always something unusual happening at every gathering,” Wang Shanshan said.
Miao Xiaoshan said, “This time was just bad luck, don’t take it too hard, after all, everyone’s safe and sound.”
“Encountering a supernatural event is inevitable, we should still gather,” Liu Qi also said.
Wang Shanshan said, “None of us who survived from No. 7 Middle School are lucky, Yang Jian is right, too much contact with the supernatural only brings misfortune, and this misfortune seems to follow for life, never to be rid of.”
“You’re overthinking it, many ordinary people also encounter supernatural events, they’re just unlucky, meet their end the first time and never have a chance for a second,” Liu Qi said.
“I’ll check the Peace Hotel and Dachang City, you guys rest here for a while.” Yang Jian at this moment still needed to clean up.
He needs to restore everything, erase the traces left by the ghost, while checking for any errors.
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