A bizarre resurrection: I, Yang Jian, am bound by a contract with the school beauty!

however.

What happened next was even more surprising to everyone.

Upon hearing Yang Jian's outrageous request, the ghost driver, composed of a humanoid black mist, not only did not become angry, but the writhing black mist became even more... cheerful?

"Ha ha ha ha!"

"Fun! It's definitely fun there, and absolutely the most fun place ever!"

In that hoarse voice.

It even exuded a sense of excitement and fawning.

The ghost driver said excitedly:

"You two have no idea how lively the hotel is these days."

"You definitely won't regret going!"

Upon hearing this...

Yang Jian's lips.

A cold yet amused smile slowly curved his lips; he seemed quite satisfied with the ghost driver's suggestion.

"Oh?"

"Then... I'll trouble you to lead the way."

"Okay!"

The ghost driver's hoarse voice became three points higher!

"Please be seated! We're off now!"

hum-

The moment the words fell.

The eerily silent taxi suddenly emitted a low and strange roar from its engine, which had been quiet all along!

The headlights were a pale green.

Like two beams of light from hell, they suddenly tore through the endless darkness ahead!

next second!

boom!

A powerful surge of acceleration suddenly came over me!

The old, rusty taxi shot off like an arrow!

It moved madly through that gray, dilapidated, and twisted eerie city at a terrifying speed that completely disregarded the laws of physics!

The view outside the window turned into blurry afterimages.

Those crooked, towering buildings, resembling the corpses of giants, sped past the car window.

The whole world.

It was as if everyone was making way for the speeding car!

Inside the Kyushu livestream room, all the viewers were stunned.

[What...what kind of speed is this?! Is this a taxi or a rocket?!]

[The ghost driver...it seems to be in a hurry to take Yang Shen there...]

[I get the feeling that it's not soliciting customers, it's guiding the big shots, afraid they'll get impatient and dissatisfied!]

This is too surreal... Everything that happened today is fucking surreal!

Audiences worldwide.

I just stared blankly at the car chase scene on the screen, which was comparable to a Hollywood blockbuster, my brain had completely given up thinking.

after all,

People's understanding of ghosts is still limited to the ghosts that players encounter.

They had no way of knowing how the world inhabited by ghosts operated, and naturally, they couldn't understand why the ghost driver was behaving this way.

Inside the Kyushu War Room.

The commander-in-chief looked at the screen and saw Yang Jian looking calm and collected, as if he were just going on a trip.

Then I glanced at the car speeding away.

A driver who seems to want to floor the accelerator into the engine.

He remained silent for a long time.

finally.

He slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, a look of relief and amusement on his face.

"It seems..."

"All our previous worries were unnecessary."

"We're still using human thinking to try and understand his behavior patterns..."

"But I forgot."

The commander-in-chief's gaze became more complex than ever before, a mixture of awe, shock, and a hint of fanaticism that even he himself was unaware of.

"He... is no longer in the same dimension as us, nor with those strange beings!"

Inside the Kyushu War Room.

The commander-in-chief's face, which had previously held a hint of relief and a wry smile, instantly turned extremely serious.

He looked at the screen.

The taxi, speeding through the dilapidated city like a ghost, watched the distorted, grotesque gray world rushing past the window, and gave its orders in a deep voice, word by word.

"Intelligence team, recording team, all personnel, pay attention!"

"From now on, you have only one task!"

"Record!"

"Record everything you see! Record everything you hear!"

"Every word and every action of the ghost driver!"

"Every scene, every detail outside the car window!"

"Analyze it frame by frame, and write it down word by word!"

The voice of the commander-in-chief.

The message, delivered clearly through the command center's broadcast system, reached the ears of every staff member, carrying an unquestionable authority.

"This is important!"

His gaze swept across the entire room, and his voice suddenly rose three points.

"This is extremely important!"

"We are the first and only people in the world to observe the interior of this eerie world so closely from a non-player's perspective!"

"We must seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!"

"You must understand that in the real world, the number of bizarre occurrences and real-world contamination events resulting from the failure of national survival strategies is constantly increasing!"

"We know far too little about these ghosts who have 'smuggled' themselves over from the supernatural world!"

"And now, Yang Jian has opened a window for us!"

"A window that allows us to peek into the enemy's headquarters!"

"If we can glean the operating rules of this strange world from this intelligence, figure out the ecological patterns of ghosts, or even find their weaknesses..."

"Then its value will exceed all our imagination!"

This statement came out.

In the entire command center, everyone held their breath!

Followed by.

An unprecedented flame ignited in everyone's eyes!

They instantly understood what the commander-in-chief meant!

This is no longer just a concern for Yang Jian and Li Yao's safety!

This.

It is an intelligence war that concerns the future of the entire Kyushu region and even all of humanity!

"Yes, sir! Mission accomplished!"

The unified shouts echoed throughout the operations room.

All staff members immediately sprang into action, their fingers flying across the keyboards, their eyes glued to the screens, afraid of missing even the smallest detail.

at the same time.

After the initial excitement and shock, the chat in the Kyushu live stream room...

Gradually, some rational viewers also realized the crux of the problem.

Brothers, stop laughing just yet! This might be our best chance to understand the eerie world!

That's right! Yang Shen isn't on a spring outing right now; he's helping us infiltrate behind enemy lines!

[Look! What are those things outside the car window?!]

I feel...it seems like this world is...snowing? Gray snow?

……

Inside the eerie taxi.

The car was going incredibly fast.

The world outside the window was stretched into streaks of gray light.

Li Yao's face was somewhat pale.

The terrifying speed made her heart pound.

But what made her even more uneasy was the thing slowly drifting down outside the car window.

That's not snow.

Instead, they were patches of grayish-white, like the ashes left after burning paper money.

The ashes flew everywhere, covering the entire world and adding an apocalyptic desolation to this already dilapidated and desolate place.

Just then.

A slightly larger ash swirled and gently landed on the hood of the taxi.

"Sizzle—"

A soft sound, like boiling oil dripping into cold water, was heard.

The moment the ash touched the car body...

It acted like a strong acid, directly corroding the rusty sheet metal, creating a hole the size of a fingernail!

A wisp of black smoke billowed from the hole, carrying a burnt and rotten smell.

Li Yao's pupils suddenly contracted!

however.

The next second, something even stranger happened.

A cloud of pitch-black mist separated from the humanoid outline of the ghost driver.

It's as if it has a life of its own.

It instantly flowed to the hole, quickly filling and repairing it.

In less than a second, the hood returned to its original state, as if nothing had happened.

but.

Both Li Yao and Yang Jian, who was sitting next to her and had been observing everything silently since they got on the bus, keenly noticed it.

After repairing that hole.

The already intense, chilling aura emanating from the ghost driver weakened almost imperceptibly.

It... is expending its own power!

A knowing glint flashed in Yang Jian's deep eyes.

He looked out the window at the endless, seemingly never-ending rain of ashes, and then at the ghost driver who was constantly repairing the car body with his own essence.

He seemed to understand something.

It was at this time that...

The ghost driver, composed of black mist, let out a long, drawn-out sigh, seemingly from ancient times.

That hoarse voice carried an indescribable weariness and sorrow.

"The world is burning faster and faster..."

This sentence.

Like a pebble thrown into a calm lake, it instantly stirred up a monstrous wave in Li Yao's heart and in the hearts of all the viewers around the world!

The world... is burning?

What does that mean?

Could it be that this place, which they call a "strange world," is actually...?

Is it a world heading towards destruction, towards its end?!

This idea.

It sent a chill down everyone's spine.

Li Yao frowned deeply; she couldn't understand any of this.

And Yang Jian.

But it was as if they had already anticipated this answer.

He calmly watched the ghost driver's retreating figure, and spoke in a tone as if stating a fact:

"I saw it."

"The falling ashes will burn away the rules that make up your body."

"Therefore, you need to constantly consume your own essence to fill the voids created by the scorching."

Yang Jian's words were clear and direct.

The ghost driver's body, composed of black mist, visibly paused for a moment.

There was silence for a moment.

The hoarse voice rang out again, but this time, it carried less of the previous obsequiousness and more of the honesty one would show when facing an equal.

"That's right."

The ghost driver nodded, and the swirling black mist responded in a hoarse voice:

"In this world, all 'ghosts' need to consume their own essence to resist the burning of the ashes."

"In order to survive, and to replenish our ever-draining essence, we... began to devour each other."

"It also happened during the process of 'eating each other'."

"We were pleasantly surprised to discover that consuming those of our kind who share similar rules not only replenishes our depleted essence, but even... allows our own rules to become more perfect and powerful!"

"then……"

The ghost driver didn't say anything more.

But both Yang Jian and everyone in the live stream already understood the unspoken message.

then.

An endless, bloody feast that will engulf the entire bizarre world has begun.

The ghost began to devour the ghost.

A weak ghost.

They became food for powerful demons.

Ghosts with similar rules are prey to each other in a relentless struggle.

To survive, to become strong.

In order to survive one more day in this world that is constantly burning, they launched the most primitive and brutal battle!

This moment.

At the Kyushu Operations Command Center, everyone gasped in shock!

A colossal mystery was suddenly revealed before them!

They finally understood!

Why are the ghosts in the national survival dungeon filled with such malice towards each other?

Why those ghosts?

They harbor such strong covetousness and murderous intent towards players who possess strange items!

original……

Their survival mode is to devour!

This is the most fundamental, bloody law of the jungle in this world!

"I see... I see!"

The commander-in-chief muttered to himself, his eyes flashing with a sharp light, "Quick! Write this down! This is top-level intelligence! The ecological niche of ghosts is mutual predation!"

While everyone was still immersed in this incredibly shocking truth...

The ghost driver continued talking.

"And it was at this very moment!"

Its tone suddenly became somewhat excited and fervent.

"The 'Heavenly Way'... has descended."

"A path connecting our burning world to another world... has been opened!"

"We've heard that in that world, there are no ashes of life that are constantly burning!"

"If we can get through this, we can escape this eternal torment and fear!"

"That world, for us, is paradise!"

Upon hearing this...

Yang Jian and Li Yao understood instantly.

The "other world" mentioned by the ghost driver is undoubtedly their real world!

The so-called "Way of Heaven" probably refers to that mysterious "National Fate Survival" system!

The ghost driver's hoarse voice revealed an irrepressible excitement.

"And me."

It smiled, and the black mist writhed violently, as if showing off a priceless treasure.

"Not long ago, after finally completing a mission, I received a... 'ticket' to that world!"

Tickets?!

These two words, like a thunderclap, exploded in everyone's ears!

They thought of the sudden death of that player from the Angry Sea Kingdom. Could that be the ticket that the ghost driver was talking about?

it,

They will also go to the real world more than once.

Until it remains in the real world forever, becoming people's eternal nightmare?

however.

Before everyone could recover from this astonishing news...

The ghost driver suddenly changed the subject.

The hoarse voice, carrying a hint of probing and curiosity, drifted over leisurely.

"Speaking of which... you two have a very strong 'human' aura about you."

"This kind of taste is impossible to find in this world, unless..."

The ghost driver paused for a moment, his tone becoming somewhat playful.

"...Compared to you two, you must have devoured quite a few 'players' from that world, right?"

boom!

These words left Li Yao's mind blank!

This also made audiences around the world instantly understand the real reason behind Ghost Driver's previous "enthusiastic" attitude!

After all that trouble!

It wasn't out of any sense of awe!

It was because it detected the scent of "humans" on Yang Jian and Li Yao!

In its understanding.

Humans could not possibly exist in this world.

Yang Jian and Li Yao are such powerful "kinds".

Therefore, there is only one answer!

These two terrifying "ghost bosses".

It must have hunted and devoured a large number of "players" who were teleported from the real world, which is why it still has a "human scent" on its body!

I've figured that out.

The ghost driver's next words were perfectly logical.

Its hoarse voice carried an undisguised calculating undertone.

"Two people."

"Getting into my taxi comes at a price."

Even if it's a ghost.

"You also need to pay the proper fare, otherwise, it won't be easy for you to get off my bus..."

Upon hearing this, the whole world was momentarily stunned.

Good guy!

So all that previous flattery was fake; the real purpose was right here!

Are even ghosts using tricks now?

"oh?"

"I don't know what you want for the fare."

Yang Jian asked curiously.

If he simply wanted the eerie props or their lives, the ghost driver wouldn't have said so much nonsense.

So what does it want?

"I want it."

"A promise between the two of you."

original.

That's its real purpose!

It's not offering unconditional favors at all; it's engaging in an exchange of equal value!

It believes that Yang Jian and Li Yao are "man-eating" ghost bosses, so it wants to exchange a ride for a promise from them!

Li Yao was completely dumbfounded.

She opened her mouth, but for a moment she didn't know how to respond to this utterly absurd misunderstanding.

promise?

A ghost asked this person for a promise?

What on earth is all this?!

however.

Yang Jian, sitting next to her, remained completely expressionless throughout.

His deep eyes gazed calmly ahead.

After listening to Ghost Driver's outrageous "declaration of the deal," the corners of his mouth suddenly curled up in an enigmatic arc.

He neither admitted nor denied it.

He spoke in a casual, indifferent tone, as if he were chatting.

"promise?"

"Can."

"But this fare isn't enough. I need you to tell me everything you know about the hotel."