Mysterious Resurrection: What If

Chapter 222 Forgotten (Part 9)

During the out-of-control incident in Dajing City, the Paper Man fell into a long period of silence. Faced with the three S-class vengeful ghosts, the Paper Man decisively chose to shrink behind Yang Jian.

Furthermore, when Yang Jian returned from the moon and asked about the Black Flame, the human skin paper simply gave up and said it didn't know.

Yang Jian understood immediately.

This piece of paper is not omniscient; it cannot predict some supernatural events that are particularly terrifying.

It also has its limits, still adhering to the nature of a vengeful ghost, unable to defy its own rules of killing.

Human skin cannot lie, so it chose silence.

This can be described as an unconventional type of crash, a type of crash that belongs only to the kind of vengeful ghosts that are paper cutouts.

After careful consideration, Yang Jian decided not to directly ask about Li Leping's whereabouts, to avoid a repeat of the incident where the paper effigy was rendered useless by questioning. He asked instead:
"Where is Mingyue Residential Area?"

Yang Jian has confirmed that Li Leping is in 301. Once he figures out where Mingyue Community is, finding 301 will be easy.

The initial text quickly disappeared, and new writing appeared on the blank human skin.

It remains crooked and twisted, as if it were carved bit by bit by a dead person's finger.

"I came to Dachuan City in order to wake up Li Leping, but I failed."

"Mingyue Community has been hidden away. A heaven that can accommodate the entire city has completely isolated Mingyue Community."

"By the time I realized the medium was that statue, it was too late..."

"Heaven?"

Yang Jian stared at those two words, his brows furrowing slightly.

My earlier judgment was indeed correct; the foreigner dressed as a priest was very interested in Li Leping.

According to Li Jun, the group of foreigners they had seen in their memories came from an organization called "Heaven".

However, the heaven mentioned on the parchment is clearly not just a simple name, but a real place.

Is it something like a ghost realm?

But something that can achieve this level of achievement is definitely not just a simple extension of the ghost realm.

To completely isolate the Mingyue residential area, the area must be extremely large, and the level of supernatural terror must be sufficiently high.

Otherwise, the first person to die would definitely be the one who takes action to isolate the infected person.

If Yang Jian were to approach rashly, he might be attacked by an unknown force.

However, Yang Jian was already used to this practice of using paper to conceal hidden pitfalls within information.

"If the Ghost Eye's Ghost Domain is fully activated and maintained, I can also achieve something similar to building a city within the Ghost Domain."

With his ghostly eyes fixed on the words on the human skin, Yang Jian pondered quietly.

"But humans have limits and cannot maintain this forever. This so-called heaven must have been achieved through some means, otherwise the ghost tamer could not have done it to this extent."

My gaze fell on the last sentence.

“Medium, statue…”

"Is this all that's needed to maintain this...?"

Just as Yang Jian was pondering, all the text on the human skin paper suddenly disappeared, and then another piece of crooked text quickly appeared.

This time, it was very fast; they appeared almost instantly.

The feeling was as if the paper was actively "speaking" on its own.

A slight strange look appeared in Yang Jian's eyes. This was the first time he had ever encountered a situation where the human skin paper had revealed so much information on its own initiative.

His gaze swept over the crooked handwriting. "With Li Jun's help, I successfully brought Mingyue Community back to Dachuan City through that medium."

"But Li Leping completely lost control..."

"The out-of-control Li Leping indiscriminately attacked the city. Faced with the increasingly out-of-control situation, I had no choice but to take full action."

"I paid a heavy price; Li Leping died."

"When I was preparing to imprison the ghost inside him, I forgot what could protect me from a vengeful spirit's attack..."

"I failed. I should have found that location sooner... Room 301... Li Leping's real location..."

"Something's strange..."

Yang Jian stared at the new content on the human skin.

"This damn thing is trying to kill me again."

Yang Jian absolutely did not believe that the human skin paper would be so kind as to tell him so much information. The more it said, the more suspicious its motives became.

The person who possesses that heavenly kingdom is very likely the priest that Li Jun pointed out. His own supernatural abilities must be extremely terrifying, even more so than when Yang Jian first met him.

Li Leping's loss of control may not be the key issue...

The paper emoji hopes I will find the location of heaven as soon as possible.

But if I actually did that, it would only provoke the priest's retaliation, and facing the out-of-control Li Leping and the priest, I would surely die.

"If we continue reasoning like this..."

The jumbled clues were quickly pieced together, and a gradually complete idea was forming in Yang Jian's mind.

During the raid, the priest risked his life to appear in front of the team leaders just to catch a glimpse of Li Leping and check on his condition.

Based on this, Yang Jian judged that Li Leping's existence must be extremely important to the priest.

At that time, Wang Xiaoming began to lay the groundwork for Li Leping's loss of control.

In his plan, he felt that Yang Jian and his group alone were not enough to ensure safety; he also needed to add the priest, an unstable factor…

But if we look at it from a different perspective...

The priest's role was to separate Mingyue Community from Dachuan City.

In other words, even if Yang Jian and his group failed, it would be equivalent to indirectly imprisoning the out-of-control ghost of Li Leping.

Wang Xiaoming was gambling, gambling that the team leaders involved could snatch Li Leping away from the priest…

"There's one captain left whose name we don't know. He's probably Wang Xiaoming's backup plan to prevent Li Leping from being taken away by the priest. But he's also the most dangerous. If we're not careful, he could be attacked by both Li Leping and the priest at the same time."

"Who could it be?...

As the crimson ghost eyes swept across the city, Yang Jian suddenly thought of someone.

"Shen Lin..."

However, Yang Jian immediately dismissed the idea. Li Leping had approached Shen Lin, but Shen Lin's mother had stopped him. Shen Lin was also caught up in a strange supernatural event and couldn't possibly be free to come over...

A red light flashed in the ghost's eyes, and its hand unconsciously tightened its grip on the human skin paper. Yang Jian was still unable to deduce who the last captain who arrived here was.

“But the information on this can be used as a reference. Ye Zhen should be here. He definitely has what Wang Xiaoming gave him. We can help him find Li Leping.”

Putting away the human skin paper, Yang Jian stopped thinking about it. This time, the human skin paper provided a lot of information. It seemed that it was eager to kill Yang Jian now, or rather, it had been afraid of him since he returned from the moon and was now controlling the black fire.

Looking at Li Jun and Zhao Lei squatting not far away, the streetlights on the side of the street were broken, with only a few flickering lights remaining.

(End of this chapter)