Chapter 854: Chapter 821: The Terrifying Twist

Ghosts are wandering out from the residential building not far away.

At this moment, Yang Jian is still in the throes of the Ghost Shadow’s painful invasion, unable to control himself. Although the pain has lessened considerably from before, it still does not allow him to regain his reason and maintain normal actions.

Li Yang is unable to provide any help.

He and the surviving Yang Xiaohua are hiding in the distance, watching the situation here.

They can’t deal with the supernatural event in room 301. If they really encounter it, they are certain to die, and the matter here is very serious, or else Tong Qian and Xiong Wenwen would not have been transferred away.

This arrangement is meant to minimize the loss.

But the ghost’s actions will not stop because of this.

Suddenly.

At some point, below that residential building, an eerie old man’s figure appeared out of nowhere.

No, the old man isn’t standing. Instead, he appears to be floating mid-air, and the color emanating from his body does not fit with the surroundings at all. Everything around is shrouded in red light, but this old man presents an inexplicable black and white color.

It is as if an old black and white photograph has been embedded into the real world.

Completely illogical.

This terrifying figure is the unknown supernatural being left behind when Yang Jian previously triggered the medium.

It appears to be connected to the corpse of the old man lying on the bed.

This figure is walking back and forth below, aimlessly, not heading straight for Yang Jian, nor towards Li Yang and Yang Xiaohua on the other side.

Obviously.

None of these people fit the murderous pattern of this fierce ghost.

The ghost is simply wandering.

However, this situation is quite dangerous because with the ghost so close, once it inadvertently attracts the attention of the ghost, escape is almost impossible.

Keep in mind, this ghost is unaffected by Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain, and is even now wandering within it.

“Dangerous.”

Li Yang senses something off and watches the figure of the fierce ghost wandering below with a bit of horror. His instincts tell him.

This thing cannot be confined to a room even if he were to block the door.

Its Terror Level is too high, he has no confidence in his heart.

“Is this the fierce ghost that even the captain felt unable to cope with?” he feels uneasy and increasingly tense.

Now.

Nobody knows the murder pattern of the fierce ghost.

So, all one can do is pray not to be targeted by this thing.

Meanwhile.

Yang Jian’s screams have finally subsided.

His body contorted, he lies on the ground in a weird pose, rigid all over, motionless.

The whole person is like a corpse, showing no signs of life, and his body emits a rotting stench, as if the corpse has been lying here for several days.

No one would believe that such a corpse could still be alive.

Yes.

Yang Jian is still alive.

He hasn’t died yet; the curse of the Eight-Tone Music Box keeps him conscious, even though his body has lost the characteristics of a living person’s life, he is still alive.

And this kind of being alive is different from any time before.

Yang Jian remains conscious.

While he is unable to control himself.

It is as if another consciousness is striving to take control of his body, and he is at a disadvantage.

But what’s most incredible is that he seems to be one with this consciousness.

It has become part of countless memories.

Only he is not in complete control, only eroding a part; most of it belongs to that cold consciousness.

That cold consciousness belongs to the Ghost Shadow.

However, the Ghost Shadow does not stop its assault on Yang Jian because the fierce ghost is not that clever. Even though it knows about the Eight-Tone Music Box curse and that Yang Jian cannot die, it continues to erode persistently.

The erosion process was supposed to be brief, but now it has been infinitely prolonged.

The Ghost Shadow keeps assaulting Yang Jian, but Yang Jian remains under the curse of the Eight-Tone Music Box, never dying.

Thus, a deeper entanglement has arisen.

The Ghost Shadow stopped its motion, maintaining its attack.

Yang Jian lost control of his body but remained conscious.

The best outcome one might have hoped for has not happened, but neither has the worst; the situation is now a little undecided.

“Has control of my own body been stripped away?” Yang Jian thinks this to himself.

He tries to move his fingers–

No use, he feels nothing.

Blink his eyes.

Also no use.

His eyes can only remain rigidly open, as if unwilling to close in death.

His entire being is like a puppet, stiff and immobile.

“A slight mishap has occurred on the path of harnessing the Ghost Shadow, this is an unforeseen result.” With a clear mind, Yang Jian is no longer tormented by pain, but a flood of memories surfaces in his mind with just a slight thought.

Memories intertwine, instantly informing him of many things he didn’t know before.

Buried within these memories is a city where countless people have spent decades acquiring precious knowledge.

These things are sedimented within the memories, which Yang Jian dares not recall casually.

If not for the curse of the Eight-Tone Music Box, his consciousness would be overwhelmed in an instant.

Even so, Yang Jian still gains a lot.

However, these are not important right now.

What’s important is that he has now also become a part of the Ghost Shadow.

He has taken the step to become a ghost with a living person’s consciousness.

“The Ghost Shadow can control me, logically, I should also be able to control it. Even if not entirely, at least there is the possibility of some movement starting. It’s definitely not a complete loss of control,” Yang Jian thought very calmly.

He tried to make himself move.

Whether it was a hand or a foot, as long as he could move, the deadlock could be turned around.

Yang Jian made an effort to try, to move his body, to snatch back control from the Ghost Shadow.

Meanwhile.

Having left Room 301, the black-and-white terror ghost of Mingyue Community was now gradually approaching Yang Jian.

This approach was not intentional.

It was just that Mingyue Community was so small, Yang Jian was not far away, and there were few paths nearby, so it made sense for the ghost to drift closer after wandering around.

The ghost was drawing nearer.

Yang Jian still lay on the ground in a rigid, twisted position. He felt he couldn’t wrestle complete control from the Ghost Shadow, but he did manage to wrest back a part of it.

Soon.

Yang Jian’s hand began to move.

Though this hand had lost its sensation, not feeling pain nor tactile feedback, it still moved according to his will.

His consciousness seemed to operate outside of his body.

The sensation was very strange, like using his consciousness to control a Puppet Person.

“Indeed, my guess was correct. My consciousness exists within the Ghost Shadow. Anything the Ghost Shadow can control, I too can control. It’s just a matter of degree. If I can wrest back all control, then I will complete this transformation, solving the problem of my own ghost’s revival,” Yang Jian reflected on this as he had done the same before.

Though there was some deviation, the effect was still achieved.

His hand had started moving, but the control was clumsy, like an infant taking its first steps, completely unable to move smoothly.

This required some time to adapt.

However, the Wanderer ghost would not give Yang Jian this time.

That eerie black-and-white old figure had now appeared about five meters away from Yang Jian’s body.

Although Yang Jian couldn’t move, his vision was very clear, and moreover, the ghost was still within his Ghost Domain.

“A ghost that invades reality through a medium. No, this can’t even be considered a true ghost. This is a ghost from the past, yet it appears in the present… and there is still such a ghost existing now. This mode of reactivation is very much like a Ghost Dream.”

He stared at the ghost intently.

Through analysis, he thought of another paranormal event.

Ghost Dream.

The ghost in the dream reactivates in this way: if the ghost from the first day is not killed, it will continue to kill on the second day and the cycle continues.

Only this ghost came out following the medium of Yang Jian’s Firewood Knife; it is uncertain which era’s ghost it is.

Very close now.

The wandering ghost had now approached within about three meters of Yang Jian.

At this point, one of Yang Jian’s hands could barely move. Although it wasn’t agile, at least there was some control.

The rest of the body still could not move, still very rigid.

The Ghost Shadow was still preoccupied with resisting the Eight-Tone Music Box, so it had no time to control Yang Jian’s body.

This was an opportunity, a silver lining amid the misfortune.

During the duration when the curse of the Eight-Tone Music Box ends, the Ghost Shadow will temporarily cease other actions.

“It’s not wandering, it’s coming for me.”

Afterward.

Yang Jian, through the ghost’s wandering route, suddenly realized a terrifying fact.

Although the ghost was wandering, it was doing so centered around himself, constantly wandering closer.

The process was slow, but it was indeed happening.

“Could it be that I’ve already triggered the ghost’s killing pattern and just don’t know it yet?” Yang Jian’s thoughts raced.

However, at this moment.

The ghost had already stood next to Yang Jian and stopped.

Next, a disturbing scene that seemed incomprehensible began to occur.

Yang Jian’s body was rapidly fading in color, as if he was about to be wiped from this world, turning black-and-white, and then completely vanishing.

But the ghost in front of him was gradually gaining color, as if it was breaking free from the shackles of the past, fully invading the present world.

And this process was irreversible, not even affected by the Ghost Domain or the Ghost Shadow.

“What kind of joke is this? This ghost can erase my traces in reality and replace my invasion into the present.”

Yang Jian realized his dire situation and felt a chill in his heart.

He was like a beacon, attracting the past ghost, which then had to kill him to return completely to the present.

This is more than a reset.

It’s outright transmigration.

The ghost from the past returns to the present.

If this was the case, the old lady he had seen before might still be alive. Although the old lady of the present is dead, it does not prevent the possibility that she might still be alive.

Because by killing just one person, the past self can enter the present world.

At this moment.

Yang Jian understood why he was not affected the first time he triggered the medium in Room 301.

At that time, the owner of Room 301 was still alive.

She didn’t need to invade here.

But later, when he triggered the medium, the owner of Room 301 had died, the ghost was revived, hence the loss of control, and the ghost followed him back.