Mysterious Revival

Yang Jian instructed Feng Quan to light white Ghost Candles at four positions in the city to draw out supernatural influences, attempting to find some useful clues through his methods. Some progress has been made, but it would take some time to confirm the remaining details.

However, while he was searching for clues, others were not idle either.

In a desolate apartment building in Zhongzhou City.

A lone figure, Leuk San, appeared there. This Leuk San was clearly not the same Leuk San who had been with Yang Jian, Li Jun, and Shen Lin previously; this was a paper humanoid.

It looked exactly like Leuk San.

Impossible to tell apart.

This paper humanoid Leuk San expressionlessly approached an apartment in this desolate building.

As if having foreseen it.

The paper humanoid Leuk San found a key in a small flowerpot at the doorway and effortlessly opened the apartment door.

A rank stench rushed out.

With a strong moldy smell.

Leuk San walked in and glanced around briefly.

The living room looked as if it had been soaked in water, leaving behind water stains, and the walls showed patches of mold. The atmosphere was dark and damp. He reached out and switched on the room’s light, but it flickered a few times before going out completely, unable to turn back on.

Leuk San said nothing; he ignored the dim living room and instead headed straight towards the bathroom.

This apartment’s bathroom was quite large, with a fairly luxurious decoration, and the shower area included a bathtub.

However, the bathtub was filled with murky water, and alarmingly, the water was faintly boiling, bubbling, with strands of black hair barely surfacing before quickly sinking back.

Something seemed to be soaking in the bathtub’s water.

Leuk San’s eyes moved numbly, then he walked step by step to the water-filled bathtub.

Suddenly.

He reached out towards the bathtub.

“Splash~!”

In an instant, the serene bathtub water splashed violently. A thick stench emanated as if something abruptly grabbed Leuk San, causing him to stumble towards the tub. But soon, Leuk San snorted coldly, and a supernatural confrontation unfolded as the bathtub’s water returned to calmness almost immediately.

At this moment, beneath the restored calm surface, black hair floated up, and the faint outline of pale limbs emerged on the water’s surface.

Leuk San showed no reaction and directly pulled out whatever was in the water.

It was a woman’s corpse, dead for some time, yet inexplicably not swollen or decayed by soaking. Although a cadaverous smell wafted from it, the corpse’s skin remained firm and elastic, though bloodless, rendering the skin exceptionally white.

The female corpse was dragged out from the bathtub and thrown onto the bathroom floor.

But astonishingly, the corpse’s hands clung tightly to Leuk San’s arms, embedding its nails deep into his arms.

If it were an ordinary person, the arm would be crippled.

However, beneath Leuk San’s arm was not the flesh and blood of a living human, but emptiness, nothing at all.

The paper humanoid Leuk San gazed at the female corpse and, without a word, dragged it out of the bathroom and threw it into the living room.

The previously extinguished living room light now flickered once again.

Some supernatural interference had caused certain anomalies in the surroundings.

Leuk San remained silent. He raised his hand and directly plunged it into his eye socket, then forcefully tore off half his face, which wasn’t skin but a face drawn on paper, made of yellow paper akin to those used for mourning the dead.

He did not discard the torn face but instead pasted it onto the wet female corpse’s face.

The female corpse lay motionless, sunk into deathly silence.

A bruise-like handprint was clearly visible on the neck of the female corpse.

It was squeezed by Leuk San.

The paper humanoid Leuk San now began to dismember his own body piece by piece, adhering the torn yellow paper onto the female corpse.

As time passed, the paper humanoid Leuk San’s body became more broken and incomplete, but the yellow paper on the female corpse increased.

The duration of this process was unknown.

Until all movements ceased.

Leuk San vanished.

Yet the female corpse on the ground was now fully covered in yellow paper, slowly merging like a wound closing. Moreover, the female corpse’s face no longer resembled its original form but had become the likeness of Leuk San.

The paper humanoid seemed to have replaced the female corpse.

The two merged into one.

However, the reason why Leuk San did this remains unknown.

It is only known that the paper-clad female corpse, Leuk San, seemed to have fallen into slumber, with no sign of awakening soon.

No matter what happens.

Only one thing is known: Leuk San is using this method to investigate the source of Ghost Lake, tracing supernatural traces.

Elsewhere in the city.

Shen Lin and another Leuk San appeared at a high point in the city, not yet submerged by floodwaters.

The two walked along the road without speaking a word.

Leuk San’s sallow face shifted slightly, occasionally glancing in Shen Lin’s direction.

Shen Lin seemed quite at ease, like a tourist strolling through the city, with a faint smile on his face, as if he didn’t take the dangers here seriously, or perhaps he was confident that the dangers here were nothing to him.

Leuk San was quite apprehensive of this person who had long been designated as the team leader and had entered the supernatural circle early on.

Not just him; he believed that Li Jun and Yang Jian also had the same thought.

“If you’re just going to wander around, you won’t find any clues. If you plan to slack off, then forget I said anything,” Leuk San said.

Shen Lin smiled slightly and said, “Since I agreed to handle the Ghost Lake incident, it’s naturally impossible for me to slack off. Otherwise, I would offend many people, and I wouldn’t be foolish enough to slack off at this moment.”

“So, what do you plan to do?” Leuk San asked, seeming to find Shen Lin a very clear-headed person.

Having taken on the Ghost Lake task, no matter what thoughts he had previously, at this moment, he should put in effort to resolve it. If he still thought of slacking off, he would definitely face repercussions afterward.

“I’m already doing it,” Shen Lin said, pointing around.

Leuk San immediately sensed something and looked around.

At this moment, everything around was dramatically changing; the standing water beside them rapidly disappeared, pedestrians appeared on the once-dead silent street, and cars drove by… Scenery was changing, as if they returned to a moment before the Ghost Lake incident, no longer at the moment they were just in.

This transformation happened quickly.

In the blink of an eye, the bustling and lively Zhongzhou City replaced the previous Dead City.

“This is…” Leuk San, the paper man, couldn’t help but slightly change his expression.

This phenomenon was somewhat beyond his understanding.

However, Shen Lin seemed accustomed, stepping onto the street and blending into the crowd, moving forward, yet appearing out of place, standing out as if those passersby were truly passersby and he was the protagonist.

The sense of discord was apparent, yet indescribable.

“Shen Lin.”

Leuk San called out, hurriedly following up, trying to understand the reason, because he, too, was caught up, trapped in this bizarre city.

But nearby pedestrians formed a stream, blocking his path, seemingly intending to separate him.

“Get out of the way.”

Leuk San felt somewhat angry, his face turning gloomy as he grabbed a person squeezing towards him.

A bizarre scene occurred.

The pedestrian had been fine originally, but as Leuk San strangled him, the normal skin tone quickly turned pale, followed by water oozing out of the eyes, nose, and mouth, turbid water flowing continuously, and the body quickly bloated.

A normal person turned into a drowned corpse in the blink of an eye.

The stench hit his face, and Leuk San hurriedly shook off the corpse.

However, after being shaken off, the corpse lay on the ground for a moment but quickly got up again, and the standing corpse restored its previous normal appearance.

Completely devoid of the watery, drowned appearance.

“This…”

Leuk San stared at those seemingly normal pedestrians, understanding roughly in his heart.

This city seemed to have restored to its former appearance, but in reality, nothing had changed. All the pedestrians were dead, the prosperity just an illusion.

“But it seems I lost Shen Lin; he deliberately shook me off, not wanting me to uncover his secrets. Although this was expected, being shaken off so easily is a bit embarrassing.”

He took a deep breath, no longer pursuing Shen Lin, choosing instead to linger in place.

Meanwhile.

Shen Lin, mingling among the pedestrians, was still so prominent, conspicuous, even though he was no different from the others, but a normal person glancing over would surely overlook the pedestrians, noticing only him at first glance.

However, while walking, Shen Lin glanced at a young man approaching from the opposite direction.

The young man, around twenty, was handsome but gave off an eerie vibe, like a walking corpse, highly abnormal.

As Shen Lin passed by the young man, he raised his hand and patted his shoulder.

The crowd moved, jostling.

The young man approaching mysteriously disappeared without a trace.

At that moment, when Shen Lin looked up again, he had become that young, handsome man, with a slight smile at the corner of his mouth, continuing forward.

At this moment.

He was no longer conspicuous or abrupt but perfectly blended into the city crowd.

Now, Shen Lin was no longer Shen Lin but a young man living in this city.

He replaced that young man, about to experience everything the young man had, including death.

And at the moment Shen Lin experiences that young man’s death, the killing pattern of Ghost Lake and some secrets would be revealed before him.

Everything in the city was rehearsing in some incredible way.

Only at this moment, Shen Lin was added as a witness to the city.

The truth will soon be unveiled.

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