After eating breakfast, Jiang Shan followed the navigation guide to a construction site.
"Guanjiang Residential Area"
A massive circular archway stood before rows of buildings still under construction. At a glance, one could not even see the end of the buildings; dozens of high-rises and hundreds of residential units were all being built to luxury standards along the riverbank, standing by the water.
Although not yet finished, its overall standard already surpassed many famous tourist attractions overseas.
"Indeed, the beauty of our ancestors is still superior."
Jiang Shan, having gotten out of the car, couldn't help but sigh, but he suddenly realized a problem: he remembered that the dilapidated tile-roofed house containing the Ghost Mirror and the Ghost Cabinet was in Area D of the Guanjiang Residential Area.
But where was Area D?
In such a vast area, using a Ghost Domain would easily cause unnecessary panic, so a smart person would choose another method to find the location of Area D.
Jiang Shan had specifically bought a suit and a white hard hat today, deeply understanding one principle:
"Outside, status is something you give yourself!"
He put the hard hat on his head and then swaggered toward a group of workers.
In a short while, Jiang Shan arrived behind two workers wearing yellow hats. Just as he was about to speak, he overheard their conversation:
"Old Li, I heard you went to a nightclub again yesterday? Brother, you're almost a seven-star ladybug, slow down a bit." The man on the left was smoking and leaning on a shovel.
Hearing this, the man on the right slammed his shovel onto the ground and said righteously to the smoking man:
"Old Wang, you old bastard, who told you that nonsense? I clearly went to a foot massage parlor yesterday. I'm telling you, even if I die, I, Li Haijun, will never set foot in a nightclub!"
"The nightclub today offers 10,000 spent, get 20,000 free. And tonight, if you spend over five thousand, you get a beautiful female sommelier to come to your private room for wine tasting. Want to go, Old Li?" Jiang Shan asked.
"!"
"Go! What time? Which place?"
After Old Li finished speaking, he was about to pick up his shovel, but he suddenly realized that the voice speaking just now didn't sound like Old Wang, that old bastard.
"Which little bastard dares to fool me?"
Old Li said angrily, then he looked up and saw Old Wang, that old thing, lighting a cigarette for a young man.
He looked closely,
"Damn it!"
"White hat!"
Cold sweat instantly broke out on Old Li's forehead. He cursed Old Wang countless times in his heart.
"This old bastard, he didn't even tell me someone important was here. Next time I go to the foot massage parlor, I must rip him off with the proprietress."
Although he was cursing inwardly, he still looked at Old Wang with a smile and said:
"Old Wang, when did the leader arrive? You didn't even tell me. Hey, hey, Leader, I have a pack of good cigarettes here, please have one."
As Old Li was about to reach into his pocket, Jiang Shan quickly waved his hand to stop him, then said solemnly:
"Neither of you should think about bribing me. No cadre is that easily tested." After taking Old Li's cigarette, Jiang Shan's tone remained serious:
"Slacking off during work hours is a major taboo in our company! I won't report this to the company this time. I fine you both to run to Area D and then run back. I'll talk to the foreman about it. Do you hear me?"
Although Old Wang and Old Li had never seen Jiang Shan on the construction site before, the moment they saw Jiang Shan's imposing manner, they felt he wasn't pretending.
They speculated that Jiang Shan must be the son of some new leader, so Old Wang said nervously:
"We will follow the leader's arrangements! We'll run right now!"
"Run along, I'll supervise you two from behind," Jiang Shan said.
Following behind the two, Jiang Shan regretted it after a short while; he walked for nearly half an hour and still hadn't reached Area D.
"I should have just used the Ghost Domain."
When he finally arrived at Area D, Jiang Shan had walked for nearly an hour and a half. Sweating profusely, he waved his hand, signaling the two to leave.
After watching them walk away, Jiang Shan began searching for traces of the Republic of China tile-roofed house.
After wandering around for another twenty minutes, Jiang Shan finally spotted the Republic of China tile-roofed house he had been looking for in an area overgrown with weeds that had been abandoned for a long time.
Among a row of old, dilapidated buildings, there was a tile-roofed house built of blue bricks with a Republic of China style. With just one glance, Jiang Shan confirmed it had to be the one.
Due to long-term neglect, amidst the eerie atmosphere of the overgrown and dilapidated tile-roofed house, Jiang Shan sensed a strangeness emanating from a Fierce Ghost.
To prevent anyone from disturbing him, Jiang Shan unhesitatingly activated his Ghost Domain, enveloping everything around him in Grey Fog.
The Grey Fog spread.
Then he pushed open the dilapidated main door of the old house and walked straight toward the second floor.
The hallway on the second floor was dim and damp, like an Abyss swallowing everything without light, but in the area covered by the Ghost Domain, as long as there was no Gold obstruction, Jiang Shan knew everything.
He first went into the first room and appeared directly in front of a mirror.
It was a Republic of China style dressing mirror, half a head shorter than Jiang Shan.
But Jiang Shan only glanced at it before leaving there and going into the second room.
It wasn't that he looked down on the Ghost Mirror, which possessed the ability to resurrect, but because this mirror was a crucial component for Yang Jian to control the Headless Ghost Shadow that resulted from the Deadlock.
Jiang Shan did not want to overly influence Yang Jian's early growth.
Because before he transmigrated, he had read a statement: Yang Jian's name was already decided by Old Qin, and Old Qin could communicate with his future self. Moreover, most of Yang Jian's experiences and trajectory of growth were related to Old Qin.
Regarding Old Qin, this terrifying Anomaly of the Supernatural World, Jiang Shan did not want to be strangled by him for interfering with Old Qin's plans.
"Yang Jian can become a god, he can end the supernatural in this world; why can't I?"
"Putting that aside, I'm not even sure if I can survive like Yang Jian."
In this world full of Fierce Ghosts, Jiang Shan truly had no certainty of survival.
With that thought,
After observing the room, Jiang Shan walked up to the Ghost Cabinet. He glanced at the old, dim Ghost Cabinet before him, then glanced at the three items on top of the cabinet, choosing to ignore them.
"Riddlers are the most annoying."
"It's a good thing I don't have to decipher them anymore."
After complaining, Jiang Shan took out the paper and pen he had prepared from his pocket and wrote a sentence: "Where is the Newspaper Ghost?"
Immediately after, he stuffed this piece of paper into the cabinet door.
Although the Ghost Character had always told him that the third ghost required controlling Ghost Blood to achieve internal balance among the Fierce Ghosts.
But when Jiang Shan first possessed the Newspaper Ghost, he discovered that the Newspaper Ghost could actually modify the Killing Pattern of the Ghost Character, an ability the Newspaper Ghost never displayed in the Original Work.
Therefore, Jiang Shan guessed that the Newspaper Ghost's ability to modify the Killing Pattern was only effective on the Ghost Character.
Coupled with the description in the Original Work regarding the Caesar Hotel, it was not difficult to deduce: the Newspaper Ghost was looking for a face.
This face could be Tong Qian's Smiling Face, or the Grave Crying Ghost's Crying Face, but Jiang Shan vaguely felt that the Dead Face Ghost was the one it truly wanted to find.
Jiang Shan sought the Newspaper Ghost not only to find the Dead Face Ghost's Puzzle Piece but also to restrain the strange Ghost Character within him.
Back in the school, when Jiang Shan first controlled the Ghost Character, the Dead Face Ghost, and the Newspaper Ghost simultaneously, he could clearly feel that the three ghosts seemed to form a whole, actually resisting the supernatural power of the Knocking Ghost at the same time!
Jiang Shan only briefly experienced that feeling of balance for a few minutes.
Thinking of the Ghost Character that had deceived him, a chill still ran down Jiang Shan's spine.
Therefore, even though the Ghost Character had entered Deadlock, he remained highly vigilant toward it.
It was simply because, having been deceived once, Jiang Shan understood a principle:
"Human hearts are too cold, I dare not touch them; the Ghost Character is too dirty, I cannot trust it."
Here we go, brothers, stable updates, maybe an occasional burst. Hahahaha.