Mysterious Revival

Carrying the red coffin, walking on the yellow mud path.

It was as if the people lost in this Old Lin encountered unimaginable terrifying supernatural events. The old woman who got off the supernatural bus appeared and blocked the only path forward.

There’s no possibility of taking a detour.

Because on both sides are old forests, once inside, you can’t come out.

Zhou Zheng had experienced this personally before, so everyone had a clear understanding.

Moreover, this yellow mud path doesn’t have other branches, giving no room for detours.

The dim flashlight illuminated the eerie old woman, making one feel the inner unease and shiver from a distance.

This ghost was seen before.

Suspected to be the owner of Dachuan City 301, once nearly erased Yang Jian from reality; that time seen was an old corpse lying dead on the bed, reeking of decay. But the current old woman wasn’t so severely deteriorated, just like the one in the ancient house, recently deceased.

“What, what should we do?” Yang Xiaohua was panicked, looking fearfully at Yang Jian, not daring to take another step forward.

“Is it that old person again?”

Yang Jian’s face darkened: “Sure enough, this damn thing indeed came to the ancient house; I hadn’t found it for days, yet it appeared here. There’s only one path; if no solution is found, we cannot carry this coffin past to bury it.”

After speaking, he glanced slightly back at Zhou Deng.

Zhou Deng also had a serious expression, slowly putting down the red coffin.

“Bang!”

The coffin fell, both stared at the old woman ahead, showing a desperate stance.

“We must deal with this ghost, and cannot delay too long, otherwise the coffin won’t be buried in time, causing an evil change. By then, we won’t face just this road-blocking ghost.” Zhou Deng said seriously.

“This ghost cannot trigger the medium to use the firewood knife, otherwise you will be stained with an inexplicable curse, and will be erased, so either nail it dead with the coffin nail or directly dismember it.” Yang Jian’s ghost eye moved restlessly, contemplating how to act while observing the old woman.

Leuk Qingqing seemed to recover, carrying the eagle’s corpse, cautiously retreated two steps, not daring to approach.

“We few can join forces to take on this old woman.”

She willingly offered to help.

Li Yang said: “This is the ghost from the 301 event, previously seen on the bus. I suspect this old person does not belong to now but the past; the real one is dead, we’ve seen it lying rotten on the bed in Dachuan City, no reason to be here.”

He looked at Yang Jian and shared his analysis.

“You mean, this old person once successfully invaded reality, that’s why there’s also the Dachuan City old person and the bus old person?” Yang Jian understood Li Yang’s meaning.

That’s indeed possible.

After all, supernatural phenomena are so unreasonable.

And this invasion can be understood as a reboot.

“There’s no movement.” Zhou Deng said quietly.

Everyone noticed, the old woman stood still on the yellow mud path, like long dead, rigid and numb, dressed in worn cloth, shape hidden in the dark, motionless.

If not for the special appearance location, they would never discover this old person.

“Perhaps not triggering its kill pattern, making it docile; so, strike first.” Yang Jian holding a cracked long spear took a step forward.

He even withheld the ghost shadow from casually covering the ground lest trigger the medium, letting this ghost invade.

“Nail it dead in one go.”

Yang Jian only had this thought, very resolute and decisive.

He took action immediately.

The ghost eye opened, crimson eerie light appeared at the front, dispelling the surrounding darkness.

Directly opening the Five Layer Ghost Domain.

The Five Layer Ghost Domain could send away less dangerous ghosts, imprison within, also isolate humans, protecting from ghost’s gaze, but Yang Jian didn’t think it could send away the old person ahead, hence opened the Six Layer Ghost Domain.

Red light enveloped over, the world seemed about to halt.

But the old woman herself stood there unmoving, Yang Jian couldn’t discern if the ghost was stilled by the Six Layer Ghost Domain or not.

But this didn’t affect his move.

The cracked long spear in hand flew amidst the Six Layer Ghost Domain’s activation.

In the still world, the flying long spear couldn’t be stilled.

Because Yang Jian’s item was made from a firewood knife, coffin nail, and gold, none could be affected by the Ghost Domain.

Next second.

The long spear pierced through the old woman’s body.

But eerily the old person wasn’t nailed to the ground, still stood still, seeming like the coffin nail never touched the actual body, just a superficial shadow.

“Succeeded?” Yang Xiaohua was both shocked and delighted.

“No, it failed.” Li Yang’s tone was somber, exceptionally serious: “The old person still stands there.”

“But obviously nailed it…” Yang Xiaohua said astonished.

Li Yang said: “Nailing it’s not this situation.”

Zhou Deng’s eyes widened: “What situation is this? Is this old person like the ghost shadow on the mansion wall before, can’t be touched?”

“No, even worse than that.”

Yang Jian’s expression was indescribably dark: “Afraid Li Yang guessed right, this old person once invaded from past to now… but such invasion seems not thorough, a difference exists.”

“Then what?”

“Thus, this ghost doesn’t exist in the present but in the past, hence difficult to affect it, yet it easily strikes us.”

“No way, can it work like that? Isn’t it cheating? Then aren’t we doomed, cannot even fight desperately.” Zhou Deng understood Yang Jian’s words.

The ghost and they might have a time lag.

“Not entirely helpless, only if one could recalibrate time, pull this ghost from past to reality, then we can deal with it.” Yang Jian thought of Dadong City’s Wang Chaling’s Republic Era Ancient House’s pendulum clock.

The supernatural pendulum clock can recalibrate, reboot nearby area time.

Once rang, can pull oneself and ghost into same chaotic timeframe, able to touch them then.

Zhou Deng’s face turned black: “This solution is worthless like not saying; do you think you’re Jesus, can reset time.”

“Besides, there’s another way, far from practical.” Yang Jian fell silent.

Another way is to go to Dachuan City to handle the source ghost of the 301 event, namely this resurrected old woman; solving the source naturally solves here.

Yet saying this now is futile, so he didn’t say it wrong.

These were the only two ways he thought.

One utilizing the pendulum clock reboot, second solving the source.

“Captain, the ghost, moved.” Li Yang exclaimed.

The originally motionless old person ahead started moving, stepped stiffly yet slowly, walking towards the group.

The moment he moved, the surrounding darkness seemed to press in, making the area even eerier.

People instinctively retreated a few steps, having a sudden urge to turn around and flee.

But Yang Jian didn’t budge; his eyes glimmered, contemplating a solution.

There must be some method to deal with this fierce ghost; if not, this mission to deliver the letter is a dead-end task, and the letter can’t be delivered, meaning the post office wouldn’t have given him this red letter.

“Unless I open another layer of Ghost Domain, it’s possible to reset the surroundings, and if I persist long enough, I might be able to pull this old man back… but the Eight Layer Ghost Domain may have too many risks.”

Yang Jian hesitated too.

If he directly opens the Eight Layer Ghost Domain, the reset time would be too long; once the fierce ghost revives, then it’s over.

He is currently a Ghost Shadow crash, his consciousness replacing the Ghost Shadow, but that’s all; if the Ghost Eye resurrects, he’s afraid he’d be directly trapped in the resurrected Ghost Eye Domain, and even if he doesn’t die, it would be difficult to extricate himself.

“Try the old method; if it doesn’t work, trigger the medium and see.”

Yang Jian steeled himself, striding forward to meet the old man.

The supernatural weapon is still up ahead; he can’t abandon the weapon and flee.

During the walk, he took out an old eerie doll from his body. This eerie doll was full of cracks, like it had been hacked into several pieces and finally pieced back together, and the doll’s eyes were set backward, looking a bit odd.

Back then, he used this eerie doll to track down the old man who invaded reality, causing supernatural conflict and preventing the fierce ghost’s appearance.

It might still be useful now; at worst, the eerie doll could at least hold off the fierce ghost.

Yang Jian immediately turned the eerie doll in his hand upside down.

Once turned, the eerie doll’s eyes came alive seemingly, began to dart around, bizarre and sinister; in such a situation, no one dared to look into its eyes, for once targeted, the eerie doll would transform into a fierce ghost and pursue you until it completely kills you in an unknown manner.

The eerie doll targeted the old lady before him.

The elder’s eyes were dull and gray, without a hint of vitality, but as long as her eyes were open, it would be easy to trigger this eerie doll’s killing pattern.

Immediately.

The pair of eyes, like two black glass beads, locked onto the old lady before them.

The target was set.

The eerie doll in Yang Jian’s hand began to stir, no longer quiet.

The eerie doll struggled, emitting strange shrieks, with terrifying strength; Yang Jian felt that if he forcibly stopped it, this eerie doll might even strive to kill him.

He quickly released it, setting the eerie doll down.

Once on the ground, the eerie doll immediately crawled toward the old lady, but after a few crawls, it vanished.

Indeed, it vanished.

Ordinary people couldn’t see it, but Yang Jian’s Ghost Eye observed clearly.

The eerie doll circled the old lady, seemed to have targeted her, yet never attacked.

“It also can’t break through this barrier to attack the elder. The eerie doll knows the target is here but can’t reach it,” Yang Jian took a deep breath, feeling this method isn’t working.

“Then trigger the medium and see; lure this fierce ghost to attack me actively, maybe something will change.”

He accelerated his steps, charging forward.

Getting closer and closer to the elderly.

The surrounding atmosphere grew chillier.

The next moment.

He arrived before the old man, nearly touching her.

However, Yang Jian attempted to sidestep, reaching behind to grab the cracked spear standing on the ground.

Suddenly.

A horrific scene unfolded.

The expressionless old lady stretched out a wrinkled, aged arm and grabbed Yang Jian’s wrist.

It felt familiar, similar to when he faced the supernatural incident at 301.

But this moment was even more perilous.

Because there was nowhere to escape, not even room to retreat.

This ghost, which supposedly doesn’t exist at present, was nonetheless clinging to Yang Jian resolutely.

Indeed.

According to Yang Jian’s earlier prediction, even though it doesn’t exist in reality, its supernatural power could affect reality.

It defied all logic.

Yang Jian felt as though not just a hand was gripping him, but an icy supernatural force shackled him, with no means to break free.

He tried to rid himself of it, but the restraint seemed rooted, immovable.

“This is bad.” At that moment, Zhou Deng immediately rushed forward.

Though uncertain if he could be of help, he must try; otherwise, if Yang Jian falls here, they would all face annihilation together.

“Don’t come.” Yang Jian quickly said in a deep voice.

Zhou Deng staggered for a moment.

Then a horrific scene unfolded, frightening him; his own body started to fade, while the contour of an old lady appeared to form mid-air, as if materializing… yet himself grew increasingly faint, as though being erased, disappearing from this world.

“Just as expected.” Yang Jian’s eyelids twitched seeing this.

He had worried about this scenario earlier and thus used the eerie doll first, avoiding being erased like last time, and redirected the attack.

The attack hadn’t emerged yet; it had already been carried away by the eerie doll.

However, Zhou Deng approaching seemed to have drawn its attention again.

This ghost seems not only capable of targeting one person.

“Once you’re erased, a second elder would appear, and then we’d face two elders,” Yang Jian refrained from struggling, opting to restart himself directly.

He aimed to reset to before being touched by the old lady.

The next moment.

He broke free from the shackles, swiftly seizing the cracked spear.

“I can resist this erasure.” Leuk Qingqing approached in high heels, her red cheongsam particularly striking.

Upon nearing, she too faded, but soon resisted the effect.

Just like last time.

Leuk Qingqing grabbed Zhou Deng, swiftly retreating, hoping to remove the fierce ghost’s influence.

At that moment, Zhou Deng also donned the Human Skin Mask.

Identity shifted, now he was the fierce ghost.

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by novlove.com