Mysterious Revival

"Yang Jian rejected Professor Wang's plan."

Soon, the temporary command center outside Dachang City had already heard the conversation between Wang Xiaoming and Yang Jian.

"Ridiculous."

Cao Yanhua slammed the table fiercely, "He should follow the plan. This is about the life and death of an entire city; he should not be so reckless."

"Yang Jian has always been like this. I told you he wouldn't agree to Professor Wang's plan. I understand him; he has his own ideas. However, it's useless now; Yang Jian is already in action, and we can only trust him," said Zhao Jianguo.

"You understand him that well? How high do you estimate his chances of success are?" asked the special operations team leader, Li Jun, on the side.

Zhao Jianguo said, "A hundred percent certainty, there's no possibility of failure."

"You trust him that much?" Li Jun was somewhat surprised.

"Because this matter can only succeed, not fail. If he fails, Yang Jian will also die. Since he dares to act, it means he is very confident. I believe in that," Zhao Jianguo said.

Cao Yanhua said, "Now we can only wait for good news from Yang Jian. Are the things ready?"

"Outside," Zhao Jianguo said.

"Let's go have a look."

Cao Yanhua walked out, followed by a few others.

They came to a tent guarded around the clock by special personnel. Inside, there was nothing but a strikingly conspicuous golden chest in the center.

It had taken tons of gold, with a thickness of five centimeters. Once sealed, the chest would be like a solid block of iron, impossible to open.

This was the coffin prepared for the Hungry Ghost of Dachang City.

"Spoiling that ghostly thing with a golden coffin," Cao Yanhua knocked on it, feeling somewhat heartache.

"The danger level is too high; only this can ensure absolute safety," Zhao Jianguo said.

However, at this moment, a communicator ran over in a rush, "Minister, there's a special situation."

"What happened?" Cao Yanhua asked.

"Yang Jian's location has detected the signal of the ghost manipulator Zhao Kaiming," the communicator said.

"What? That's still possible? Hasn't Zhao Kaiming been offline for a long time?" Cao Yanhua asked.

Zhao Jianguo said, "It should have been detected by Yang Jian's satellite-located mobile phone. Every ghost manipulator's mobile phone has at least three ways of location tracking, and the common satellite one is just one of them. There is also a locator function between ghost manipulators. Zhao Kaiming disappeared from satellite tracking and hasn't appeared for several days.

Now it seems that he must have found a way to turn off the satellite tracker, but he overlooked the locator between the ghost manipulators."

"That's correct, the signal was received through Yang Jian's phone," the communicator said.

Li Jun said, "The professor suspected before that he didn't die. The Hungry Ghost incident in Dachang City is deeply related to him. The entire incident, from emergence to outbreak, had the shadow of Zhao Kaiming. We wanted to investigate him, but after the spiritual events completely erupted, we had to put it aside temporarily.

If the incident ends, and Zhao Kaiming is still alive, the professor suggested that I immediately apprehend Zhao Kaiming."

"Who was in charge of Zhao Kaiming? Why haven't I heard any reports about this issue?" Cao Yanhua said.

"Shen Liang was responsible for him," said Zhao Jianguo.

"Where's Zhao Kaiming's file? Bring it up to me," Cao Yanhua said. "Also, bring a copy of the phone recordings from the communicator and the recent assessment reports."

After an investigation.

Cao Yanhua in the command room got angry again, threw the file, and pounded the table, "Damn it, this man's spiritual assessment report is so poor, he's no longer suitable to be a ghost manipulator, why was he still appointed in Dachang City?"

"Minister, did you forget? Zhou Zheng died, and the position of the ghost manipulator in Dachang City was vacant. Yang Jian's spirit was also affected in the Huanggang Village incident and was not suitable to take over the position. So Shen Liang reported to you, suggesting to use Zhao Kaiming temporarily until we found a suitable replacement.

Later, Dachang City has been pretty normal, and the matter was forgotten," said Zhao Jianguo.

Cao Yanhua's face turned red.

"The main issue is still about manpower. If we had qualified ghost manipulators, who would want to use someone with mental problems like Zhao Kaiming? And Zhao Kaiming had also gained merits before; his appointment was in line with the procedure. If you talk about mental issues, many of those ghost manipulators ready to enter Dachang City all have some problems," Zhao Jianguo said.

"Qualified ghost manipulators like Zhou Zheng and Tong Qian are becoming increasingly rare; they're almost all dead."

The more qualified the ghost manipulator, the more responsible they are, the more they strive, and the faster they die.

This is a very cruel reality.

"Notify Yang Jian about this matter right away, tell him to be careful of Zhao Kaiming," Cao Yanhua said. "We'll discuss the rest after the Dachang City incident is over."

One more variable added yet another layer of shadow to the operation.

At this moment.

Yang Jian, who had already entered the campus, was very carefully heading towards the bathroom on the third floor of the teaching building.

Inside his Ghost Domain, he was very safe, but outside his own Ghost Domain.

In that gloomy campus, Yang Jian scanned the surroundings and felt a chill run down his scalp.

The campus looked as if it were hosting a sports meet, with terrifying figures standing still like tombstones on the ground. Looking around, these figures filled every corner of the vast school.

Whether on the green belts, in the small river of the campus, by the entrances of the buildings, or at the windows of various floors, all were occupied by these ghostly figures.

And most of them were Fourth Stage Ghost Infants.

The number was not just tens or hundreds, estimates were over a thousand, or even more.

Once Yang Jian opened his mouth to say a word, all the Fourth Stage Ghost Infants would awaken and tear him to pieces; even with his Ghost Shadow to fight back, he reckoned he could not eliminate so many ghosts. And the First Stage Ghost Infants lying on the ground, their pair after pair of pitch-black pupils without any irises were like cameras, watching everything around them.

Anyone caught in their sight would be attacked.

Seeing and hearing, triggering these two conditions was too easy; any ghost controller who entered here would be seen or heard.

A dead end.

Only Yang Jian could use the Ghost Domain to hide himself and move unhindered before so many ghosts.

"Ye Feng must have accidentally entered here and was unaware of the Ghost Infants' method of killing, which is why he awakened the Ghost Infants and died," he thought to himself.

Honestly, the death of Ye Feng was somewhat a pity.

His Ghost Cloth could fend off any ghost attack, and with his Ghost Tooth, he could even bite through the Ghost Domain. If he had been alive for the plan afterward, that time at the hospital wouldn't have nearly been a complete wipeout.

However, he had walked into a dead end, surrounded by a horde of ghosts. Not to mention one piece of Ghost Cloth, even a hundred would be useless.

After all, ghost controllers have limits, while ghosts do not have these concerns.

"We've arrived."

Yang Jian had reached the stairwell, just three floors up to the bathroom door.

He still remembered the time when his class fled down this corridor, running and dying along the way, all killed by the Door Knocking Ghost, leaving only a few of them alive.

He glanced at the side of the corridor.
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He did not see the corpses of his former classmates, which the Door Knocking Ghost must have taken away as Ghost Slaves. During the second Door Knocking Ghost incident downtown, he had even seen Wan Zihao's body.

It had rotted beyond recognition.

Without lingering on the past, he did not dwell on those classmates.

Using the Ghost Domain, Yang Jian directly stepped up to the second floor, then with another step, arrived at the third floor.

The bathroom door was slightly ajar, looking very normal inside, without any signs of strangeness. Perhaps the haunting was gone, and it had returned to normal. He still remembered that when the door had first opened, a ghastly pale hand had reached out.

He had almost been killed by a Ghost Slave back then, but it was also because he entered that door that he was able to live until now.

After Yang Jian walked in, he immediately frowned.

A certain door had disappeared.

The bathroom was still a bathroom; it had simply been out of use for several months.

"No, I'm wrong, the place I am looking for is not in the school, it's near the pedestrian street downtown," Yang Jian's gaze flickered as he remembered the characteristics of the Ghost Domain, and he realized something considering the current situation.

He did encounter the Door Knocking Ghost in the school initially, but later the location of the Door Knocking Ghost changed, and so must have the Ghost Domain. The school he saw at that time was not the real school, but one created within the Ghost Domain.

That's why he appeared on the pedestrian street in the blink of an eye when he first escaped.

Because the Ghost Domain had shifted from the school's location to somewhere near the pedestrian street, it was just that the real world and the world of the Ghost Domain were out of sync.

He had been misled by inertial thinking.

"I must go back to the pedestrian street first, from there I can find that strange space again and retrieve the Coffin Nail." Yang Jian turned sharply to leave.

However, his satellite-located cellphone lit up.

A message came through.

"There's a mole, abort the mission~!"

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Yang Jian scrolled down further and saw: "Zhao Kaiming is nearby, be careful."

Zhao Kaiming was still alive?

He furrowed his brow, but just as he was contemplating, suddenly, the bathroom door creaked open as if pushed by something and a shadow walked in from the darkness.

The person ignored the isolation of the Ghost Domain and walked directly into it.

Yang Jian's hair stood on end, and he was startled.

Someone could break into the Ghost Domain where he was hiding?

Who could it be?

The Fourth Stage Ghost Infant Ye Feng or the Source Ghost?