The third floor of the Hospital.
When Yang Jian reached the end of the Third Floor Corridor, what greeted him was not the Stairs, but an Eerie passage, at the far end of which was a "door."
The door was not particularly large, similar to the doors of other rooms in the Hospital. At this moment, the door was open, revealing a world filled with Mist beyond it.
Wisps of grayish-green Mist occasionally drifted out from the passage behind the door towards the outside.
"This is...?"
Yang Jian, standing before the door, frowned and cautiously surveyed the door in front of him. He was certain that the Eerie passage behind this door definitely led to some Supernatural Land.
The wind blowing from the passage behind the door was exceptionally Chilling and bone-piercing, carrying a faint Corpse Odor.
"The real Fierce Ghost is at the other end of that passage behind this door, isn't it?" Yang Jian thought to himself.
Even without entering, this Chilling Aura told him that there was definitely a ghost at the other end of the passage!
"Grayish-green smog, this is a Ghost Domain, just like Feng Quan encountered in Huanggang Village. One of the Fierce Ghosts controlled by that Ghost Controller named Feng Quan was a Fog Ghost!"
"A Ghost Domain formed by Mist; the area enveloped by the Mist is his Ghost Domain!"
A sharp light flashed in Yang Jian's eyes as he judged: "So the world of grayish-green smog at the other end of this passage is a Ghost Domain? Perhaps even this passage and this door are just a part of that Ghost Domain?!"
Having made this discovery, Yang Jian did not act rashly. He reached into the bag on his back and took out a metal box.
The box was entirely Gold in color, completely forged from Gold, and it was sealed very tightly, with the lid welded shut.
After thinking for a moment, Yang Jian still opened the Golden Box. Yang Jian possessed great strength, and the welded lid could not stop him from opening it.
Inside the Gold-colored box lay an old "parchment" that looked quite aged.
But in Yang Jian's eyes, he preferred to call this "parchment" Human Skin Paper!
Yang Jian reached out, took the Human Skin Paper out of the Golden Box, and opened it.
As the Human Skin Paper was unfolded, several lines of text quickly appeared on the paper, which was previously blank.
【My name is Yang Jian, when you see this sentence, I am already dead...】
【I am you from ten years in the future!】
【Now I am communicating with you through some special method...】
Yang Jian was completely immune to the unchanging opening lines of the Human Skin Paper. He ignored the uninformative words on the paper and said: "Stop with the nonsense. I want to know, what exactly is at the other end of this passage?"
【Ghost!】
The previous lines displayed on the Human Skin Paper quickly vanished, and a huge character for Ghost appeared out of thin air, almost occupying the entire paper.
Then, the large character "Ghost" also disappeared, and other content reappeared on the Human Skin Paper.
【My name is Yang Jian, when you see this sentence, I am already dead...】
【At 8:20 AM, I discovered an Eerie passage at the end of the Third Floor Corridor in the Hospital. I suspect the Fierce Ghost is on the other side of the passage!】
【At 8:24 AM, after hesitating, I chose to go in to check it out and lock down that Fierce Ghost.】
【At 8:25 AM, upon entering the passage, I was attacked by the Fierce Ghost. That ghost was Terrifying, and I couldn't resist it. At 8:30 AM, my attempt to resist the Fierce Ghost ended in Failure, and I died in the passage!】
The text stopped appearing here; no further text emerged.
"If entering the passage leads to an attack by a Fierce Ghost, then what is that ghost's Killing Rule? It can't just be walking, can it?"
Yang Jian did not choose to fully believe the content on the Human Skin Paper, but what did appear could still serve as a reference.
"An attack by a Fierce Ghost just by entering the passage?" Yang Jian's eyes moved, and he couldn't help but silently praise his own vigilance.
Without knowing the details, even though Yang Jian was a Ghost Controller who controlled two Fierce Ghosts, a sudden attack by a Fierce Ghost with a very high Terror Level still had a high chance of severely injuring him.
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Footsteps, footsteps...
In the Eerie street enveloped by the grayish-green smog, Ghost Shadows flickered indistinctly. Dense Ghost Infants of various stages gathered towards the center of the street, some walking, some crawling.
In the center of the street, there was a dark area with a diameter of five meters.
That was a Ghost Domain formed by Black Mist, the Mist churning and spreading. It separated the space inside from the outside world, forming a Separate world existing between the illusory and the real.
"This shouldn't be happening. Logically, with my body being a Stage Four Ghost Infant, I should be a Ghost Slave to the Starving Ghost. Why am I being attacked?!"
"Could it be that the Starving Ghost at this time has already developed self-awareness and intelligence? Or is it being controlled by the Wish Ghost, which is why it is commanding a host of Ghost Slaves to attack me?"
In the Black Mist, Su Mu Bai looked coldly at the Ghost Infants surrounding him. A thoughtful expression appeared on his dark blue, corpse-like face.
According to his previous assumptions, the scene before him should have been impossible.
But since it has happened, thinking too much is useless. Once he meets the Starving Ghost, the truth will become clear.
The dense Ghost Infants in the street were the King of Hell for Ordinary Persons, but Su Mu Bai did not take them seriously.
"Although the number of Ghost Slaves is large, they are insignificant in the face of a true Fierce Ghost. As long as they are not Stage Four Ghost Infants, I can kill as many as come!"
Ghost Slave and Fierce Ghost seem to differ by only one word, but the gap between them is heaven and earth. In the Original Work, Yang Jian could eliminate large groups of Ghost Slaves below Stage Four as easily as chopping vegetables, with just a wave of his hand.
Although Su Mu Bai at this moment could not achieve such exaggeration, his Terror Level had significantly increased after acquiring the Ghost Body, and his Ghost Domain Strength was infinitely close to a two-layered Ghost Domain.
The five meters around him was his absolute territory. Ordinary Ghost Infants couldn't even enter, and even if they did enter his Ghost Domain, they would be killed by Su Mu Bai in an instant!
"The Ghost Slaves are not worth worrying about. The one that truly requires vigilance is the Starving Ghost in the grayish-green smog at the end of the street. As long as I can successfully nail it down with the Coffin Nail, this trip will not have been in vain!"
Su Mu Bai tightened the rusty Coffin Nail in his hand, and instead of retreating, he charged directly towards the end of the street.
The Black Mist Ghost Domain enveloped the five meters around Su Mu Bai, but he chose not to use Ghost Domain Teleportation, intending to run on foot instead.
The Starving Ghost's Ghost Domain Strength was superior to his. When two Ghost Domains collide, cancel each other out, invade, and suppress one another, running on foot was actually safer and simpler than using Ghost Domain Teleportation under these circumstances.
At the same time.
At the end of the street, where the grayish-green Mist was densest.
A strange, Terrifying Shadow flickered in and out of sight within the Mist.
"The Source of Ghost Infants, the real... Starving Ghost?!" Su Mu Bai's heart stirred as he looked at the Shadow in the Mist.
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A bit pathetic. The chapter I stayed up late writing last night didn't save, and when I woke up, everything was gone. I had to rewrite it based on memory, and it definitely won't be as good as the chapter I wrote yesterday.