I and countless versions of myself simultaneously travel through time.

Ye Yan didn't rush to leave. He sat on the sofa, took out his phone, and downloaded an audio clip online: "The Door-Knocking Ghost."

The sound of Grandpa Qian Wanhao knocking on the door.

He was well aware of the purpose of this audio recording: by sending it out through the internet, he could attract the "door knocker" and thus alert someone of Luo Wensong's level of hospitality.

He saved the audio and locked the screen.

Then I got up and walked to the mirror, squeezed some foundation into my palm, carefully patted it onto my face, and pressed it into the powder.

It's not makeup, it's a disguise.

With a bare-faced makeup base, it looks like you're not wearing any makeup, but you've actually changed your face, especially your hands and neck.

After doing all that, he changed his clothes and went out briskly.

Two things were hanging around his neck: a miniature coffin nail and that tattered cardboard box.

Including the other one he carried, he now had three supernatural weapons, enough to deal with ordinary vengeful ghosts.

I earned 80 Fate Points in two days.

Ye Yan walked along the road, silently calculating the accounts in his mind.

As expected of top-tier combat power, it consistently provides 40 points of feedback every day, which amounts to 1200 points per month.

This deal was worthwhile.

Moreover, he has even greater ambitions; once he has accumulated enough Fate Points, he can possess this old man's body.

He brought up the panel and glanced at it.

[The Person Destined for Recovery: Zhang Dong (Currently Recovering)]

[Achievement Event: 1]

[Achievement Event: The Unlucky Ghost]

A vengeful ghost entered an old house in the mountains and was instantly wiped out.

[Achievement Evaluation: I weighed Zhangdong?]

Ye Yan watched as he observed Zhang Dong's movements over the past two days. Through the shared perspective, he could see the daily life of the old man in the ancient house.

He spends most of his time sitting in his armchair, occasionally standing up to walk around the house, or even opening the door to stroll around the neighborhood. His area is very small, just like an ordinary old man going out to bask in the sun.

It was quiet and ordinary.

Who would have thought this was the ceiling of the supernatural world?

But Ye Yan understood that there was a reason why this ancient house was located here. In the original story, after Zhang Dong died, he stayed in this old forest, waiting for the captain of Dazhou City.

Later, Yang Jian and Ye Zhen brought the captain over, and Old Qin spoke with his future self, previewing the plot decades later. And now, he has arrived here first.

As for the unpredictable events surrounding Qin Lao's advance payment, Ye Yan was naturally aware of it. However, seeing Zhang Dong's relieved smile, he guessed it was out of friendship. After all, he had been suppressing his killing patterns and refraining from indiscriminate killing in the city, and he had also tried his best to restrain his vengeful instincts when shopping.

This instinct, in short, is to kill, which is why it is called the "law of killing," and naturally it will also cause supernatural conflicts between vengeful ghosts.

[Consume 60 Destiny Points to have Zhang Dong imitate an idol trainee dancing inside the old house. Consume?]

He settled in Bengbu.

But the next option froze his smile.

[Spend 700 Destiny Points to summon Zhang Dong to fight the Wishing Ghost in front of headquarters? You can use Zhang Dong's full power to infinitely eliminate the Wishing Ghost. The current location of the Wishing Ghost is near you.]

Ye Yan: "?"

He turned his head.

The wishing ghost: "?"

The two ghosts were both startled and confused.

Ye Yan was still wondering when the wishing ghost noticed his presence. He was surprised that the ghost was of a high level and could detect him.

The wishing ghost blew a breath.

Startled, Ye Yan bristled and took a step back.

Ye Yan suddenly stopped and subconsciously looked around.

He was near his room—no, the system said "near you."

He slowly turned his head, his gaze sweeping across the end of the corridor, the corner of the stairs, and every half-open door.

The light bulb above my head flickered.

In that instant, he saw a shadow standing less than a meter away from him.

It's not an illusion.

As a ghost, his senses were a hundred times more acute than those of an ordinary person. He could vaguely perceive an extremely terrifying presence nearby. The oppressive feeling made his ghostly body tremble, sending chills down his spine.

He had experienced that feeling once.

In the old house in Zhangdong.

That kind of despair is like the helplessness of an ordinary person facing a vengeful ghost, not even knowing where to run.

He then realized that he had spent two days shopping in all the malls of Dachang City, but had not seen a single ghost tamer.

It's not that there aren't any, but rather that he simply didn't think in that direction. Ghost tamers are extremely rare, and everyone is destined to die young. It's not like the Wang family's three generations of inheriting a ghostly legacy.

And now, a truly terrifying presence is standing right next to him.

The light flickered again.

Ye Yan wanted to run, but then stopped.

Should I avoid his sharp edge?

Ye Yan naturally had the idea of ​​controlling the wishing ghost in his mind.

This thought was not a spur-of-the-moment impulse, but rather an instinct that any ghost tamer who has reached this stage would develop. If one could control such a powerful ghost, their strength would surely leap to an unimaginable height.

But reason quickly suppressed this greed, because the wishing ghost was completely different from the ghost bus; it was not bound by any rules of killing and was a living ghost.

The ghost bus was the supernatural force suppressing him; without the Fate Point replacing the Ghost Domain's function, he wouldn't even be able to escape from that bus.

But the ghost bus has no intelligence, no thoughts; it is merely a vessel carrying supernatural rules, cold, mechanical, and calculable.

Unlike ghosts that make wishes, they have thoughts, consciousness, and their own logic and purpose.

A vengeful ghost with its own thoughts is far more terrifying than any ordinary ghost tamer could handle.

Ye Yan was unsure whether Zhao Kaiming was in this area at the moment.

The key point is that Zhao Kaiming himself did not control any vengeful spirits. He was not a ghost tamer, yet he was entangled in the curse of the wishing ghost, and was accompanied by an extremely terrifying vengeful spirit.

This state is bizarre and subtle. He is cursed yet does not die, and walks with vengeful ghosts yet is not devoured. Zhao Kaiming is like a special being walking on the edge of the supernatural.

The wishing ghost itself represents another level of terror.

It not only possesses consciousness and thought, but also has an ability that is almost "the power of words to make law come true." It is a kind of supernatural mechanism similar to making a wish, which can rewrite reality with words, and has even become one of Yang Jian's core powers.

What's even more troublesome is that it also possesses the ability to reboot on a large scale; a 40-minute reboot period is enough to render any attack against it futile.

This level of terror is beyond the limits of what most modern ghost tamers can handle.

Not counting the older generation of monsters who have already stepped into the ghost realm, there are very few contemporary ghost tamers who can directly suppress wishing ghosts.

We can even boldly say that there isn't one yet. Apart from Yang Jian and Qin Lao from the original work, who else among the new generation of ghost controllers at headquarters can resist the crisis of the supernatural era?

Ye, the scapegoat with chuunibyou syndrome, is no good. Although his scapegoat makes him almost immortal, he is no match for the wishing ghost's ability to make any wish come true and restart time. Immortality itself is meaningless. You can't kill it, but it can rewrite your ending time and time again, making all your struggles futile.

The world-famous painting was utterly humiliated after being nailed to a coffin.

Even Wang Chaling, the third generation of the Wang family who inherited the curse and could command four vengeful ghosts from two generations of the Wang family, was still not quite there.

The two terrifying ghosts that Wang Yidai transformed into were indeed powerful enough, but the Wishing Ghost's ability to restart made numbers a joke. No matter how many ghosts there were, the moment time was reset, everything would return to the starting point, and the accumulated advantage would instantly be reduced to zero.

Ironically, the person who was possessed by such a terrifying ghost, Zhao Kaiming, did not actually control any ghost.

He was simply chosen, or rather, entangled with, and later thought he could resurrect his loved ones, but to the wishing ghost, he was just a vengeful spirit that served as a trigger.

An ordinary person is accompanied by a being that even contemporary demon tamers cannot suppress head-on.

This contrast forced Ye Yan to re-examine the true nature of the wishing ghost.

What does it actually want?

The answers to these questions are perhaps more unsettling than the wishing ghosts themselves.

But Ye Yan thought of the plot related to the wishing ghost in the original work, a suitable container, a ghost body.

"Damn, so you were just after my body."

Ye Yan thought that the wishing ghost had been by his side for two days, just observing him, so he concluded that he was the best tool ghost for the ghost baby.

Who would have thought that a top-tier vengeful ghost, who follows you every step of the way, 24 hours a day, and uses the power of the mind, is simply lusting after your body?

Please, this is terrifying.

Ye Yan decided to kill Zhao Kaiming first.