Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 223 Dream World
"Why is there no follow-up? It clearly showed signs of paranormal activity. Could it be that it's lacking some unknown medium?"

Seeing that the young man in his father's portrait had clearly undergone a strange phenomenon, his entire body shrouded in darkness, like a vengeful ghost peering into reality from the shadows, yet there was no further movement, Yang Jian couldn't help but feel puzzled.

Seeing this, Li Hui frowned slightly.

Although he had read the original work.

He has always had a good memory.

However, the Ghost Dream storyline happened a long time ago, and the author of Mysterious Resurrection often delayed or stopped updating later on. During that time, Li Hui also read countless other novels. Therefore, he only remembered the general plot of Meishan Village, and he couldn't recall some of the details.

For example, the supernatural phenomena present in the portrait of Yang Xiaotian.

Li Hui only remembered that he seemed to be a supernatural product created by a mixture of Yang Xiaotian's memories and some supernatural elements from his ghost dreams.

Simply put, it's a fragmented vengeful ghost with Yang Xiaotian's memories. As for whether the ghost needs water as a medium to appear, Li Hui doesn't remember.

"Whether it is true or not, we'll find out by trying. If Yang Xiaotian still doesn't show up when water is used as a medium, then he's really asking for trouble."

Thinking.

Li Hui immediately took action.

The light inside the house instantly became even dimmer. No, it wasn't just the old-fashioned cement building they were in; the sky over the entire Meishan Village darkened, as if it were about to rain at any moment.

"This damn weather changes so suddenly, the forecast didn't say it would rain today."

"Alright, hurry up and pack your things, or you'll get soaked."

"..."

Villagers in the southern countryside always like to air out things on sunny days, such as bedding, clothes, cured meat and fish, sorghum, rice, soybeans, etc.

The sky was turning gloomy, as if it could rain at any moment, causing the villagers of Meishan Village to curse and start gathering up the things they had left drying in the open space outside their houses.

"Wow~"

Almost the instant the villagers finished packing up, a torrential downpour began, as if timed perfectly, soaking everything in the village with large raindrops.

Under the supernatural influence of Li Hui's ghost domain, he directly brought about a small-scale artificial rain. This rainwater was transferred from the river and pool outside the village by him using his ghost domain, gathered in the sky above Meishan Village, and the dripping trend was controlled to create a perfect artificial rain.

However, the rain only fell in Meishan Village and its surrounding areas.

However, this scene is not surprising.

Because the rain in the south is so magical, sometimes it's raining in the west of the village while the east is sunny.

Therefore, when people from outside Meishan Village passed by and saw this scene, they didn't think much of it, but simply marveled at the unpredictable changes in the weather.

at the same time.

The small room on the second floor of the building where Li Hui and Yang Jian were located was almost completely flooded.

The walls and floors inside the house were completely soaked with water, and the ceiling was in even worse condition, dripping water continuously as it was soaked through.

"Tick-tock", "tick-tock", "tick-tock"...

Some of the water dripped onto the floor of the room, forming puddles that further seeped into the ground. Other water dripped onto Li Hui and Yang Jian, as well as onto the portrait on the wooden table.

"Li Hui, what's going on?" Yang Jian looked at Li Hui with some confusion and question in his eyes.

He knew that Li Hui must have his reasons for doing such a thing, but he couldn't figure out the key to it. After all, it couldn't be that the medium for making the vengeful ghost appear was just this water, could it?

However, that is indeed the case.

No sooner had Yang Jian finished speaking than Li Hui had to respond, and the environment inside the room changed once again.

The room, which was practically a waterlogged room, suddenly changed its appearance, and all the water stains disappeared.

Furthermore, the wooden table and the portrait on it had all disappeared, replaced by a small single bed and... a young man wearing an old-fashioned shirt, with a clean and handsome face, but exuding an eerie aura.

The man looked very similar to Yang Jian, but he looked even more like the person in the portrait that was placed on the table in the room earlier!
"It actually appeared! Could it be that the vengeful spirit my father controlled before his death was related to 'water,' and that water was the medium through which the vengeful spirit appeared?"

Yang Jian thought to himself, while preparing to make a move at any moment. A fierce ghost appeared before him, which would be a mental test for anyone.

However, something unexpected happened soon. The ghost in front of him, dressed in old-fashioned clothes and looking remarkably like him, suddenly opened its mouth and spoke: "To be honest, you are far more outstanding than I imagined!"

"Ok?"

Upon hearing this, Yang Jian's eyes narrowed sharply, his heart nearly leaping out of his chest, his eyes filled with astonishment and uncertainty.

He never expected that the vengeful ghost in front of him would actually speak.

This completely overturned his previous worldview and gave him a huge shock. In his opinion, the fact that a vengeful ghost could speak was more terrifying and unbelievable than any of the supernatural events he had ever encountered before!

In Yang Jian's mind, the actions of the vengeful ghost were like a pre-programmed computer program, a ruthless killing machine that acted according to a specific behavioral pattern and had no thought process.

If a vengeful ghost speaks, and speaks with such rich personal emotion, it proves that the vengeful ghost has gained consciousness, and perhaps even more than that.

Yang Jian had previously encountered a ghost that seemed to possess the intelligence of a living person—a newspaper ghost that had lived with him for an unknown period of time, holding a blood-stained old newspaper. However, he had never seen that ghost speak; it still followed some kind of behavioral pattern.

The fact that this vengeful ghost is now uttering such emotionally charged words is not something a vengeful ghost would do. Instead, it sounds more like a human being, or perhaps the other party is an anomaly among ghost tamers, or perhaps his father.
Upon thinking of this, Yang Jian immediately asked, "What exactly are you? Are you an anomaly with the memories of a living person? Or... are you actually my father?"

However, when Yang Jian asked the question, the strange figure that looked exactly like his father did not respond. Instead, after saying the same thing to Yang Jian, he turned his attention to Li Hui, who was standing to the side.

He then said to Li Hui, "You are very special. You are far more powerful than any ghost tamer I know, and far surpass me at my peak."

"But your physical condition is also very strange. You're like an ordinary person, yet you possess such powerful supernatural abilities. How did you manage to do that?"

As he said this, Yang Xiaotian's face was full of doubt, as if he had never seen such a case before.

"And in this nightmare world, you can actually use the supernatural, and the supernatural abilities you wield are not blocked. Is that because of the tattoo on the back of your hand?"

As soon as these words came out.

Li Hui didn't react at all, his expression remained calm, but Yang Jian's expression changed, because after Yang Xiaotian's reminder, he discovered that all the evil spirits and supernatural beings he controlled within his body had disappeared.

Not only did the ghostly eyes and ghostly feet disappear, but even the ghostly headless figure that replaced him after he hanged himself also disappeared.

"What's going on?" Yang Jian frowned as he realized this, as everything was beyond his expectations.

Furthermore, Yang Jian himself did not realize that his personal emotions had become more complex at this time, making him more like a normal person.

Before this, due to the influence of the supernatural, he even replaced the headless ghost, causing his personality to become uncontrollably cold and his human emotions to gradually disappear. At this time, all the emotions of normal people returned.

"Li Hui?" After pondering for a while, Yang Jian, still unable to figure it out, turned his gaze to Li Hui, his eyes questioning.

Seeing this, Li Hui said to Yang Xiaotian, "You don't need to be too curious about me. It doesn't matter whether you know about my affairs or not. You are already a dead man. Right now, your existence is only to delay the revival of the ghost dream so that the success rate of your arrangements in life can be increased."

Speaking of which.

Li Hui paused for a second or two, then continued, "However, I want to say that you can rest assured about the matter of Ghost Dream. Now that we are here, we will naturally handle it properly. As for you, just go and die in peace."

"Contribute the supernatural pieces of your body to make that dog more complete. Only then will your plan have a chance of succeeding."

Li Hui knew that the ghost dream supernatural phenomenon had been divided into six parts. One part was on Yang Xiaotian in front of him, and another part was buried in the fishpond, the small temple, and the woods outside the village. The last two parts of the supernatural phenomenon were on the dog that Yang Xiaotian kept and on the real ghost, respectively.

The real ghost, Yang Xiaotian, and the big black dog all possess consciousness, and they are all qualified to compete for the position of the source of the ghost dream.

Yang Xiaotian just didn't want to be one, so he became a ghost and fought with that big black dog.

However, even the real vengeful ghosts in this dream world are just ordinary people, and an ordinary person naturally cannot defeat a large wolfhound. So, every time a ghost and a dog fight, the dog usually wins more often.

However, the ghost's characteristic is that a new ghost will appear every day, which means that it and the big black dog will keep fighting.

And with each victory a dog wins, it gains more supernatural power, until it completely controls everything and becomes the source of all ghostly dreams!

Right now, Li Hui wants to replicate Gui Meng's supernatural abilities, so he naturally hopes that the supernatural abilities are as complete as possible. For this reason, Li Hui doesn't even mind helping the dog completely control Gui Meng.

Because Li Hui had done experiments before.

The same ghostly phenomenon can only be replicated once with the phone tattoo. Otherwise, he could have done nothing but capture Yang Jian's ghost eye and keep replicating it.

With the supernatural forces combined, he will be able to do what Yang Jian could do at the end of the original story. At that time, even Zhang Dong will only be able to call him 'Dongzi' in front of him...

.........

"What a joke! You know everything I've planned in this regard? Just who are you?"

at the same time.

in the room.

Yang Xiaotian was quite shocked after hearing Li Hui's words.

"If I hadn't never met you before, I would really have suspected that you were one of my rivals from that era!"

I can tell.

What Li Hui just revealed has far exceeded Yang Xiaotian's expectations.

He never told anyone about the contingency plans he had made before his death, not even his closest relatives. Yet now Li Hui clearly showed that he knew all of this. How could he not be surprised?

"Who I am is not important to you. What is important is that I can help you complete those arrangements, and you have no right to refuse because the stakes between us are not equal."

Li Hui said calmly, "Most importantly, I am also helping you to break free. You have been trapped here for more than ten years. What you have been waiting for is for that dog to replace the vengeful ghost as the source of the ghost dreams. And this is what I am happy to see. Therefore, we have the same goal."

"As for my purpose in doing this... I can only say that I had selfish motives, but it will not affect the final result. That dog was raised by you before you died, and it will naturally belong to Yang Jian afterward."

"This can be considered killing four birds with one stone. You can get liberation, that dog can replace the vengeful ghost as the source, Yang Jian can get a powerful assistant, and I can also get what I want in the meantime!"

Li Hui's tone was filled with strong confidence.

He couldn't fathom what reason Yang Xiaotian might have to refuse his offer.

Just as he just said, the two sides are not on equal footing. Even if Yang Xiaotian disagrees, Li Hui can forcefully complete all of this. Yang Xiaotian should know that he has such power.

"It seems I have no right to refuse you at all." After a moment of silence, Yang Xiaotian looked at Li Hui and said this in a flat tone, with no expression on his face, making it impossible to tell what he was really thinking.

“In that case, come with me. I’ll take you to find that dog. It usually stays in that grove of trees.”

talking.

Yang Xiaotian took the lead, stepping out of the room and heading outside. Behind him followed Li Hui and Yang Jian, who looked completely bewildered and had no idea what was going on.

Outside, it was a world of light rain.

However, this rain has nothing to do with Li Hui anymore. It is not the 'artificial rain' he created using the Ghost Domain, but rather a supernatural manifestation of Ghost Dream.

In other words, although the view outside the building still resembles that of Meishan Village, it is actually now a ghost dream world.

Yang Jian's actions are the best example of this.

At this point, he could no longer perceive the supernatural power of the ghost eye, ghost foot, and headless ghost shadow within his body.

Even after leaving the room on the second floor of his old house and coming outside, it was the same; nothing had changed, as if he had returned to being an ordinary person.

Tap tap, tap tap tap...

Li Hui and his two companions walked along the village path toward the woods outside the village, but before they could leave the village, a strange figure appeared in front of them.

(End of this chapter)