Chapter 1133 - 1099: Wishes and Deals

Just one curse affected three captains, and almost eroded another.

This result is really hard to accept.

The fierce ghost on that ship has yet to be truly encountered, who knows what kind of danger will occur after the next encounter, it might be worse than today’s situation.

“It’s already very late today, I suggest we temporarily halt the operation, get some rest, and then visit Ghost Lake again tomorrow at noon.” At this moment, Yang Jian proposed taking a day off.

He felt that everyone in this state was not at all suited for continuing to confront the fierce ghost.

The previous contact with Ghost Lake was an enormous burden for everyone, and if they were to continue using supernatural powers, it’s not just that others couldn’t hold on, even Yang Jian himself couldn’t withstand it.

“A day off, huh?”

Li Jun looked at everyone, rather uncommonly without opposing: “I think it’s a good idea, this state is indeed not suitable for continued action, we went too hard before, affecting ourselves too greatly, so it’s good to adjust a bit.”

Cao Yang said: “It’s not just simple recuperation, previously Yang Jian had made large-scale alterations to the landscape to lock down Ghost Lake, we also need to see if the subsequent influence from Ghost Lake has spread; if not, it means the lock-down was perfect, and we then have a new choice, using this expanse of land to end this supernatural incident.”

“The supernatural lock-down strategy is quite common, I’m sure headquarters can understand, after all, our lives are more important compared to dozens of miles of land.”

Ah Hong nodded and said: “Yes, as long as Ghost Lake hasn’t influenced places outside of Zhongzhou City, maintaining control over the danger zone of this supernatural incident, then this operation can already be considered more than half successful, and previously headquarters was so urgent in requisitioning captains to handle Ghost Lake because it had invaded the water bodies, affecting many cities, even impacting Dachang City hundreds of miles away.”

“So Yang Jian’s previous actions were quite correct, whether or not the supernatural incident can be handled, whether or not the fierce ghost can be contained, first lock down the area to reduce the influence range, even if the supernatural incident can’t be resolved, as long as the scope of influence isn’t significant, it can be accepted.” Li Jun said.

Everyone expressed that they could agree with these results.

But whether the lock-down truly worked depends on the reactions of the coming days, after all, the landscape alteration happened not long ago, and whether it can completely stop Ghost Lake’s spread and how effective it will be is still unknown.

“Don’t stand here any longer, go inside the service station to rest, discuss anything else tomorrow, I’ve already confirmed there’s no one in the service station, but don’t let your guard down at night, this place isn’t far from Ghost Lake, any anomaly must be notified to the others in time.”

Yang Jian had no interest in continuing the discussion, he felt really unwell today and needed rest, while simultaneously checking his own condition.

“That’s right, there’s no rush with the issues, everyone rest first, discuss anything further tomorrow, but I don’t need sleep, I’ll keep watch tonight, you all rest easy.” Li Jun nodded and said.

Yang Jian said no more, turning and heading towards a hotel in the service station, soon disappearing from everyone’s sight.

“Looks like Yang Jian’s condition isn’t very good either.” Cao Yang mentioned as he watched Yang Jian leave first, with a slight look of contemplation.

“That’s certain, he previously fought against the senior ghost handlers of Taiping Ancient Town, and also altered the landscape using the Ghost Domain, using supernatural powers almost the whole day, under such circumstances, it’s hard for oneself not to have issues no matter how special the ghost handler is.”

Leuk San said, feeling a great relief as the curse on him weakened.

“In my opinion, the Ghost Lake incident is likely difficult to resolve completely, the final outcome is probably to handle it via lock-down, actually, all of us know that the moment Ghost Lake invaded reality it had already spiraled out of control and cannot truly be contained.”

“At least, we have to try tomorrow.” Li Jun said.

Leuk San glanced: “There was a fierce ghost that previously escaped from Ghost Lake, but that number was very small, after all, if Ghost Lake was still here, and we truly dealt with Ghost Lake, the ghosts inside once fully revived would be fatal, Ghost Lake’s existence at least maintains relative balance.”

Li Jun remained silent.

Because what Leuk San said was correct, Ghost Lake is not just a simple supernatural incident, but the subsequent explosive supernatural outbreak is daunting.

Previously, Yang Jian ordered everyone to retreat not just because of the curses on the three people, but also likely hesitating whether to continue risking their lives to resolve Ghost Lake.

“I’ll report this matter, let headquarters decide, headquarters has a professional team for analysis, we only have to tackle the task.” Li Jun said.

“I should have turned down this mission, almost died in this damn place.” Leuk San shook his head, turned, and left.

He didn’t need sleep, but also needed to adjust his condition.

“Let’s talk about it tomorrow, Li Jun, tonight take advantage of this time to report things, establish the Ghost Lake case file, see what headquarters says, tomorrow we wait for their response.” Cao Yang said.

Li Jun nodded: “Okay, I’ll contact headquarters now.”

He took out the satellite communication phone as he spoke.

Though it fell into Ghost Lake before, the phone was still functional, not hindering contact.

Feng Quan saw this and also said: “Then I’ll rest first, let me know if there’s anything else.”

Everyone was mentally and physically exhausted, and didn’t converse for long, after a brief discussion, they dispersed.

However, the service station wasn’t big, just this limited space, although everyone was resting separately, in reality, they weren’t very far apart, doing this was also to ensure each other’s safety.

At this moment, Yang Jian arrived in a room within the service station.

As soon as he entered the room, he locked the door, then quickly headed to the bathroom.

Suddenly, Yang Jian bent over and started vomiting over the toilet, a lot of blood gushing out of his mouth, like a flood gate opening, unstoppable.

His skin color lightened to a pallor visibly.

In an instant, the living body turned cold and gloomy.

“The influence on me after stealing the supernatural power of Ghost Lake is growing, Ghost Shadow can’t handle such supernatural forces, if this continues, I’ll be completely eroded by the supernatural power of Ghost Lake and become a second Ghost Lake.”

“The balance after Ghost Shadow’s crash is being disrupted.”

“Indeed, my previous caution was right, with every additional piece of supernatural, the uncertainty increases.”

Yang Jian felt his body’s anomalies and at this moment lifted his head to look at himself in the mirror.

His face looked particularly ghastly, like a drowning victim, devoid of blood.

“But without the supernatural power from Ghost Lake, I would’ve already drowned at the lake’s bottom before, there’s no way I could be alive now.” Yang Jian said and again bent over to vomit.

A large amount of blood was being lost.

This is the supernatural of Ghost Lake rejecting the blood in his body.

What filled his body now was not blood, but lake water.

“But this erosion also has its benefits, the restlessness from Ghost Eye Resurrection seems to be gradually calming down, so in the coming period, my worry isn’t Ghost Eye Resurrection, but rather the erosion of Ghost Lake on myself.”

Yang Jian understood that mastering new supernatural powers comes with a cost.

Back when he controlled Ghost Eye, rode the Ghost Shadow, these all came at a great cost before finally mastering these two supernatural powers, and now it’s the same with Ghost Lake.

“Therefore, after the Ghost Lake matter ends, I’ll have to spend my remaining time finding a new balance, resolving the influence of Ghost Lake on myself, if successful, I’ll certainly solve the problem of Ghost Eye Resurrection, open Ghost Domain to the eighth layer, besides that, also completely master the supernatural power of Ghost Lake.”

Yang Jian’s gaze shifted slightly, thinking about that eerie human skin paper.

If there’s any method to completely harness this level of supernatural power, it would be the human skin paper that knows.

As he thought, he bent over again to vomit.

It felt like he wouldn’t stop until every last drop of blood was drained from his body.

However, just at this moment.

A gust seemed to blow into the dark room, the originally closed door suddenly made a slight creaking sound, slowly opening slightly.

This movement was normally inconspicuous.

But at this moment in the restroom, Yang Jian instantly stopped vomiting, then sharply turned his head toward the door and barked: “Who?”

Despite the supernatural power influence from Ghost Lake, he hadn’t reached the point of relaxing his guard.

Just now, Yang Jian clearly remembered shutting the door as soon as he entered the room, and also locking it.

How could a gust of wind open the door?

Yet outside the restroom, everything was pitch-black, without a hint of light.

Yang Jian didn’t turn on the light, since due to his landscape alteration earlier, this service station had long been out of power.

He waited silently for ten seconds.

His expression suddenly turned grim.

No reply, which meant it wasn’t someone else looking for him.

“Is it a fierce ghost from Ghost Lake that has followed me?” Yang Jian pondered this, but the ghost eyes had already opened.

Although he was now being eroded by the supernatural power of Ghost Lake, this erosion required some time, and as the erosion intensified, his ability to harness supernatural power would grow stronger, until eventually, he lost complete control.

This is just like a resurrected ghost master.

The closer they are to resurrection, the more terrifying the supernatural power, until finally, there is no difference from a real ghost.

Under the ghost eye, the dark environment is no longer an obstacle.

At this moment, Yang Jian cautiously walked out of the toilet, holding a long gun.

The door was open, in a half-closed state.

The lock was not violently broken; it was as if someone had opened it from inside the room.

He looked again at the floor tiles.

The floor tiles were spotlessly clean, with no wet footprints.

This indicates that it wasn’t a fierce ghost from the Ghost Lake that came ashore; if it was, it would most likely leave wet footprints.

Inside the house, it was silent, with no sign of anything unusual.

It seemed that Yang Jian had just been overly sensitive, and everything was actually normal.

But Yang Jian didn’t believe it was just his imagination; he opened his ghost eye again to continue peeking inside the house.

There must be something that entered the room; he just hadn’t seen it yet.

However, even after opening the ghost eye, Yang Jian still saw nothing.

The Ghost Domain had been opened to the fourth layer; the fifth layer couldn’t be opened at will; otherwise, this building would be transported out of the real world.

“If it’s not hidden in the Ghost Domain, then there’s only one other possibility…”

Yang Jian took out an eerie pair of scissors entwined with hair from his body.

If the Firewood Knife could use fingerprints and footprints as a medium to see who or what passed by, then the Ghost Scissors could reveal every curse.

The next moment.

The vision around him changed, and various terrifying curses appeared around him.

Dripping blood, approaching footsteps, whispers behind him, and scattered broken bodies nearby.

None of this was real; it was a manifestation of fierce ghost curses and murder rules.

Yang Jian stared at everything around him.

Finally, he saw that at his feet, blood was flowing, forming a scarlet trail stretching into the distance.

“Is this… a new curse? When did this happen? I didn’t see this curse before when I had the Ghost Scissors.” Yang Jian’s expression shifted slightly, and he pursued the bloody trace.

The next moment.

His pupils sharply contracted.

The bloody trail connected to a red-painted wooden cupboard—that was the Ghost Cabinet.

The curse of the Ghost Cabinet had reappeared.

But it wasn’t just that that shocked Yang Jian; what shocked him was that there was a terrifying ghostly figure standing in front of the Ghost Cabinet.

The figure was eerie, old, and lifeless, making one’s heart palpitate.

Yet it felt strangely familiar.

As if he had seen it somewhere before.

Yang Jian quickly searched through his memories.

That’s right.

He had seen that figure when investigating the ghost beside Zhao Xiaoya.

The ghost was said to be able to grant people’s wishes.

“I remember now, the Wish Sticker.” Yang Jian suddenly understood what might be going on.

At that time, after he entered the Ghost Lake, he used the Wish Sticker to create a supernatural conflict with the Ghost Cabinet and saved Ah Hong.

Afterward, he thought he had dispelled the curse of the Ghost Cabinet and didn’t give it much thought.

Now, it seemed there might be more trouble than he anticipated.

Not only had he provoked the curse of the Ghost Cabinet, but he had also attracted the fierce ghost beside Zhao Xiaoya.

“But why is that fierce ghost blocking the Ghost Cabinet?” Then Yang Jian noticed a detail.

The fierce ghost was standing in front of the Ghost Cabinet.

This way, the Ghost Cabinet couldn’t be opened, and the transaction couldn’t continue, and similarly, the fierce ghost following Zhao Xiaoya didn’t entangle with him; instead, it entangled with the Ghost Cabinet.

“Could it be that the wish-granting ghost and the Ghost Cabinet are stuck together, so the ghost didn’t entangle with Zhao Xiaoya, nor did it with me, and likewise, the Ghost Cabinet couldn’t proceed with its next transaction with me.” Yang Jian observed, quickly drawing conclusions in his mind, attempting to analyze the current situation.

“If that’s the case, as long as this balance remains unbroken, both Zhao Xiaoya and I are safe.”

“This curse isn’t such a bad thing; at least for now, it is.”

“But if I were to use the Ghost Scissors to cut through this curse now, what would happen? Would both the ghost and the Ghost Cabinet disappear from this world forever, or would there be some other unknown change?”

At this moment, Yang Jian had an impulse to try once again.

If it was as he thought, then the ghost and Ghost Cabinet would remain in an eternal stalemate, unable to entangle with anyone, and no one would know of these two opposed existences, naturally preventing any successors from being tainted by these two curses.

But Yang Jian abandoned this idea.

He was afraid that if he failed to mediate properly, he would become the one to suffer the most, targeted by both the Ghost Cabinet and the fierce ghost, forced to complete the Ghost Cabinet’s transaction and fulfill the fierce ghost’s wish.

After all, now was not the time to invite trouble.

He put down the Ghost Scissors.

All traces of the curse disappeared from his sight, but Yang Jian still looked warily towards the corner of the room.

The ghost was still there.

“Being able to maneuver among these ghostly things and still survive until now, I must say, it truly is a miracle.” Yang Jian rubbed his head.

He hadn’t forgotten, stored in his memory was an Evil Hound.

The Evil Hound was still lurking.

Yang Jian didn’t even dare to sleep anymore, fearing that he would be chased and bitten to death by the Evil Hound in his dreams.

The Evil Hound biting people to death had precedents; that woman from Taiping Town had died like that, in her sleep.

Meanwhile.

Li Jun and Ah Hong were organizing today’s information and reports, submitting the matter to headquarters and establishing a Ghost Lake incident file.

Cao Yanhua hadn’t slept all night; he was too focused on the progress of the Ghost Lake incident.

Following Feng Quan, Li Jun’s information was even more detailed.

Although the information was fragmented, headquarters had dedicated personnel to analyze and organize it, even supplementing missing parts, so repetitive inquiries to Li Jun weren’t necessary.

After compiling it, when Cao Yanhua received the Ghost Lake report, he couldn’t help but heavily pound his desk.

His expression wasn’t pleasant.

Because between the lines, Cao Yanhua only reached one conclusion: the Ghost Lake incident is unresolved.

It’s not a problem that can be handled.

Rather, it fundamentally cannot be handled.

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