Chapter 351 - Chapter 351: Chapter 350 Curse Against Curse
Chapter 351: Chapter 350 Curse Against Curse
“The Ghost Fog encompassed a much larger area than I had imagined. From the outside, it seemed to only cover the area of a hotel, but walking into it felt like entering a world shrouded in mist, where distance seemed to lose its meaning.”
Yang Jian opened his ghost eye and unfolded his own Ghost Domain, having already walked in the Ghost Fog for five minutes.
Normally, by now he should have entered the Caesars Grand Hotel, but at the moment, he was still on the road, with not even a shadow of the hotel in sight.
The space within the Ghost Fog seemed to have expanded manyfold.
However, Yang Jian wasn’t worried about that, what concerned him more was the ghost hidden within the Ghost Fog.
From the moment he had entered the Ghost Fog, Yang Jian faintly sensed that something within the dense, gray fog was following him.
Occasionally, the fog would condense as if forming the silhouette of a person standing by, watching him, and sometimes a vague sound of footsteps would follow from behind.
These subtle noises all proved that there was indeed something in the thick Ghost Fog.
Fortunately, the Terror Level of this ghost didn’t seem high and it hadn’t invaded Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain, so he had been safe up to this point.
“We’re here.”
It took nearly ten minutes for Yang Jian to finally move through the Ghost Fog and stand in front of the Caesars Grand Hotel.
The journey was unexpectedly smooth.
The hotel looked no different from when he had visited the day before; it appeared normal but exuded strangeness from every corner.
This time, however, Yang Jian’s purpose was not to find people or to confine any ghosts. His goal was to minimize the potential dangers of the hotel and facilitate his next move.
If he were to barge in as he did last time, even if Yang Jian believed he could make it out alive, Xiong Wenwen and Luo Su Yi would surely perish here.
Though Yang Jian could remain indifferent to the lives and deaths of Luo Su Yi and Lin Luomei, from a broader perspective, the death of any ghost controller was not a good thing.
Yang Jian walked into the hotel lobby and saw many footprints on the tiled floor, as if someone had been repeatedly entering and leaving the hotel. These footprints varied in size, but they were all the same in texture: dry, darkened, with a faint stench of decay.
It was as if they were left by shoes soaked in the liquid from decomposed corpses.
“Is this the trace of the ghost from the second floor?” Yang Jian looked up towards the direction of the hotel’s second floor.
The deep hallway extended into darkness, void of any light, yet oddly enough, the door to the second floor was wide open, as if someone had recently walked up the steps to the second floor.
“There are ghosts on the second floor, while Guo Fan and Feng Quan went missing on the fourth floor, which is even more dangerous. Current information suggests that the first floor of the hotel is relatively safe for the time being. But since the ghost on the second floor is actively moving, it might wander down to the first floor at any moment.”
“So I must act quickly. If the ghost that alters memories has successfully attacked Guo Fan and Feng Quan, they must be aware of my arrival. Just like them, as an Interpol officer, I have a GPS-enabled phone that can track my location.”
With a slight shift in his gaze, Yang Jian immediately strode forward.
He was headed to the hotel’s surveillance room, the location of which he had learned the previous night while doing his homework.
He had a rough yet clear understanding of the hotel’s layout and architectural structure in his mind, even having consulted the hotel manager through staff members to confirm the hotel’s internal structure.
The information was without error.
Yang Jian passed through the lobby, remaining very careful and cautious along the way.
However, he noticed that as he ventured deeper into the hotel, the Ghost Fog that enveloped the outside seemed to have less of an effect here. At first, outside the front door, there was a thick fog, but as he moved into the hotel, the Ghost Fog grew less dense.
This was not good news, but rather a sign of potential danger.
The inability of the Ghost Fog to penetrate the hotel indicated that something even more terrifying within the hotel imposed restrictions on the Ghost Fog.
“This should be the place.”
Yang Jian didn’t follow the hotel corridors; instead, he used the power of his Ghost Domain to move directly through walls, proceeding straightforwardly until he reached a room with a firmly locked door.
This was the hotel’s surveillance room. He had asked the hotel manager about it, and the room also had broadcasting equipment that could transmit announcements throughout the entire Caesars Grand Hotel.
What he intended to do was to upload an audio file from his phone and broadcast it throughout the entirety of the Caesars Grand Hotel.
This audio file contained the knocking sounds of the Door Knocking Ghost that Yang Jian had always kept.
It might also be the only remaining recording on the internet. This recording has a terrifying ability to summon the Door Knocking Ghost, and all those who hear the knocking sounds will be sought out by it.
“In this situation, there’s no need to explore the hotel slowly. By broadcasting the knocking of the Door Knocking Ghost through the hotel’s PA system, I can have the Door Knocking Ghost deal with the potential terrors within the hotel for me. I am also curious to see what happens when a ghost hears the knocking sounds—will the result be the same as it is for humans, who get killed by the Door Knocking Ghost?”
As Yang Jian uploaded the audio file, he thought to himself.
As for Feng Quan and Guo Fan, who had lost contact on the fourth floor, he had given up on rescuing them because the cost was too great and not worth it, and he couldn’t guarantee whether they had already become Ghost Slaves.
Of course, if they were really okay and could survive the Ghost Door Knocker incident, they would naturally be able to escape the trap after Yang Jian’s next move.
However, Yang Jian would not jeopardize his own plan for their sake at this moment.
This was the only safe and viable plan at present.
Soon, the audio file was successfully uploaded, and after fumbling on his own for a while and consulting a professional through his smartphone, he learned how to broadcast.
“The curse is spread through sound, so as long as one doesn’t hear it, they are unlikely to be affected. But just to be on the safe side, I should leave this place temporarily after the broadcast is effective,” Yang Jian set the time for the broadcast.
He set it for half an hour.
The time is a bit long.
This was to ensure that the Door Knocking Ghost could be lured over as quickly as possible, in order to avoid unexpected changes over a prolonged period.
After setting everything up, Yang Jian pressed the play button and then rapidly evacuated the Caesar Hotel without looking back.
“Tss tss~!”
As he was evacuating, the hotel’s PA system started blaring, first with a burst of chaotic electrical noise that was somewhat piercing to the ears.
Following that, a dull, eerie knocking sound began to emanate from the hotel’s speakers: thump, thump-thump, thump, thump-thump…
The curse of the Door Knocking Ghost began to spread.
Since the hotel was already in a state of lockdown, Yang Jian wasn’t worried about innocent people getting involved. Those who could stay in the hotel were either Ghost Slaves of the memory-altering ghost or real ghosts. The only ones at risk of unintended harm were possibly Guo Fan and Feng Quan.
But they should have seen the files on the Door Knocking Ghost incident. If they were still alive, they might be able to guard against the Door Knocking Ghost’s deadly knock.
Using Ghost Domain to move through walls, he left the hotel in just a few seconds.
Yang Jian once again found himself enveloped in the Ghost Fog.
The Ghost Fog cut off all the sounds from the surroundings; the broadcast should have taken effect by now, but there was no sound to be heard.
“With this Ghost Fog, the knocking sounds should be well contained, not allowing them to spread indiscriminately,” Yang Jian bravely left his Ghost Domain and stood in the Ghost Fog to listen for a while.
Only once he was certain he couldn’t hear anything did he feel at ease.
However, just after stepping out of the Ghost Domain, Yang Jian suddenly saw a human silhouette emerging from the thick, grey mist ahead of him.
“Do these ghostly things appear anytime and anywhere? But now the Ghost Fog is still effective, at least it can block the hotel for me. Once I solve this supernatural incident, thinking about how to get rid of this Ghost Fog won’t be too late,” he thought.
He still decided not to interact with the ghosts in the Ghost Fog at that moment.
Firstly, he didn’t want to waste energy, and secondly, he didn’t want the Ghost Fog to disappear at this time.
Immediately, Yang Jian used the Ghost Domain again and quickly left behind the dense fog.
If he didn’t have the Ghost Domain, he believed that even a necromancer who controlled two ghosts would get lost here and find it difficult to leave.
Very soon.
Yang Jian walked out of the Ghost Fog and quickly moved away from the Caesar Hotel.