Mysterious Revival

After Yang Jian had locked the out-of-control Wei Jing in the fourth sub-level of the laboratory, he didn't rush to leave.

He had Wang Xiaoming investigate the entire incident to understand what had happened after he'd been deprived of his consciousness.

"That's all I can tell you about the incident," Wang Xiaoming said, "If you have any questions, you can investigate them yourself. You're better at this than I am."

Wang Xiaoming added, "All right, you can leave now; I need to deal with Wei Jing's situation."

Yang Jian said, "I'm taking the Eight-Tone Music Box with me."

Even though he had almost died from the curse of the music box, he still planned to keep this dangerous item.

If one day he could find a way to break the curse of the music box, perhaps there might be some unexpected gains.

"Suit yourself," Wang Xiaoming didn't care.

He had studied the object and found it terrifying; delving deeper seemed to bring no significant benefits but only greater crises, so that research project had been halted long ago.

Yang Jian said, "You owe me three conditions; I'll contact you when I need them."

After speaking, without any hesitation, he went downstairs, took the Eight-Tone Music Box, and then left the underground laboratory.

Now that the danger had passed, there was no need for Yang Jian to continue using the Ghost Domain; he didn't want to face the risk of vengeful spirits waking up again so soon.

"It seems something happened in this building."

When Yang Jian returned to the lobby on the first floor, this time without any distractions, he took a careful look around.

He saw many not-yet-dried water stains on the ground, densely covering the corridors and staircase entrances, with small footprints from the Ghost Child on them. But what caught his attention was a larger, strange mark that kept appearing along the path—it looked like an adult's footprint, except it had no toes and the shape was off.

"Something entered the building while I was deprived of consciousness, which then triggered the Ghost Child's killing pattern, and so the Ghost Child was chasing that thing..." Yang Jian mused.

So far, that was all he could analyze.

"Let's follow these marks and see."

Yang Jian followed the staircase to the second floor, tracking these traces.

Because the building was not complicated, he could determine where the thing that had entered the building ended up by following these latest, not-yet-dried footprints without the need to specifically use the Ghost Domain.

The abilities of a vengeful ghost should not be used if not necessary.

A moment of convenience would only hasten the awakening of the vengeful ghost.

Following the latest footprints, Yang Jian arrived at the second floor with the Ghost Child trailing behind him; the Ghost Child still clutched a rotten Dead Man's Head, wandering about like an unruly child, albeit within a limited range, swiftly catching up once it overextended a certain distance.

As he tracked the footprints down the corridor, he stopped abruptly in front of an office door. Although the movement was slight, Yang Jian still heard faint whispers from inside—as if people were secretly discussing something.

"Are there still people here?"

Yang Jian frowned and peeked through the door slit. There was no light in the room, pitch-black darkness.

"Open the door," he commanded the Ghost Child, and then stepped back several paces to stand aside.

Whether there were people inside or another situation, having the Ghost Child in front was a prudent approach.

The Ghost Child ran to the office door and started violently banging on it with its small, dark blue hand. The force was so great that it vibrated the door frame, and the door caved in, leaving behind clear palm prints.

Yang Jian's face darkened.

If the Door Knocking Ghost had knocked like this in the past, he would've died back in the school building, never able to leave.

Thuds of enormous door knocks echoed throughout the floor.

Doctor Chen, Assistant Liu, and others inside the room were instantly awakened, their complexions changing, bodies trembling uncontrollably.

This noise was definitely not from a living person knocking; no human could possess such strength.

Had the ghosts in this building discovered them?

"What do we do?" someone asked, their face ashen and body breaking out in cold sweat.

"Let's jump from the second floor; it's not high enough to kill anyone," another person immediately prepared to escape out the window as if they had been ready for this scenario.

Seeing this, others followed suit.

At this moment, facing a ghost bursting in seemed less fearful than jumping down; even though jumping might result in encountering ghosts again or triggering a deadly ghost pattern, it was better than doing nothing and waiting for doom.

"Bang!"

With a loud noise, the office door was deformed by the Ghost Child's strike, the lock completely broken, and now the door swung open.

The light from outside poured in, revealing a ghastly child with skin tinged blue-black holding a decaying Dead Man's Head, its head slightly tilted, eyes filled with a curious and eerie crimson glow as it peered into the room.

Those alive felt chills down their spine, their hearts trembling.

The next moment.

The first assistant to climb onto the window sill didn't hesitate; he gritted his teeth and jumped down.

He couldn't wait any longer.

A real ghost had entered, that same terrifying child that had been wandering throughout the building.

"It's not dangerous, is it?" Yang Jian saw that the Ghost Child at the door hadn't been attacked, while cries of surprise came from within.

This indicated the room was safe.

"Come back," he said.

He allowed the Ghost Child to step back and decided to go in and take a look himself.

The sound of Yang Jian reached the room, and Doctor Chen immediately noticed. He saw the Ghost Child turn around and run away again, realizing that the situation might be turning around, he quickly said, "Everyone, wait a moment, perhaps the danger has been lifted, that's Yang Jian's voice."

Although Doctor Chen did not recognize Yang Jian.

But he had already looked over his file, along with the personal information of some of the top ghost manipulators at headquarters.

"So it's you guys," Yang Jian turned on the light in the room, glanced over, and recognized these people.

He had met Doctor Chen and his assistant during his first visit here two days ago.

"Mister Yang, hello," Doctor Chen wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and hurriedly stood up from the ground.

Yang Jian did not speak but turned and left, "I was just taking a casual look, there's nothing to worry about, the paranormal event here has been settled, you all can leave at any time."

"Wait a moment."

Doctor Chen quickly followed him out, but when he saw the Ghost Child chasing the rotting Dead Man's Head around the hallway, he was so frightened that he couldn't help but stumble back several steps.

The ghost is still here?

Why has it not attacked Yang Jian?

Wait a moment.

Could it be that the ghost was brought here by Yang Jian?

In an instant, Doctor Chen thought about a lot and then it dawned on him, he looked at Yang Jian with astonishment.

This man can actually control this ghost?

If he wasn't mistaken, this should be a Hungry Ghost from the Second Stage, right? He had seen the file, and it matched the profile of the Hungry Ghost closely.

"Is there something you need?" Yang Jian turned around, his expression impassive.

Doctor Chen, still shaken, took his eyes off the Ghost Child and then said, "Mister Yang must have come to the second floor to investigate the peculiar events that occurred in this building before."

"You're quite smart, with good observational skills. You could tell at a glance what I am doing. Do you have any leads?" Yang Jian said.

Doctor Chen said, "Indeed, earlier I heard footsteps coming into the building from outside, and then that ghost... a ghost was chasing something that had invaded the building, even passing through this hallway several times."

"I can see that," said Yang Jian.

"The last time was around the fourth or fifth floor."

Doctor Chen said, "I heard a noise and could roughly make it out, you might want to check the area around the windows on the fourth and fifth floors."

"Not bad, somewhat useful,"

Yang Jian nodded, "You can save me some time. But why are you telling me all this? You don't happen to need something from me, right?"

"No, no, just trying to offer whatever little help I can to Mister Yang," Doctor Chen forced a slight smile.

Yang Jian looked at him calmly. Since Doctor Chen didn't have any issues with him, it was most likely an overture.

After all, Yang Jian was now considered a top-tier ghost manipulator equivalent to a team leader. If he could survive into the future, he was sure to be a person of high status, whereas Doctor Chen was merely a scientific researcher, even if the principal of a laboratory, but at the end of the day, he would still need to rely on some people, some power to survive.

"I understand," Yang Jian left after dropping that line.

The Ghost Child picked up the Dead Man's Head that had rolled away and followed him to the fourth and fifth floors to investigate.

Doctor Chen watched as Yang Jian and the Ghost Child disappeared into the staircase, and only then did his tightly-wound nerves relax a bit, and he couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief, his back drenched in cold sweat.

"What a dangerous character..."

"Doctor Chen, why do you contact Mister Yang knowing he is a dangerous person? His current state is very special, just now I was watching his eyes, and he looked at us as if he was looking at corpses, not sensing any human emotion, I'm still shaken just from being glanced at by him," said Assistant Liu in a lowered voice.

"Can't help it, the resurgence of evil spirits is intensifying, and in the future, if nothing unexpected happens, these types of people will be in control, and Yang Jian's name will undoubtedly be among them," Doctor Chen said with a sigh. "It's better to greet him in advance, get to know him, and leave some impression; who knows if we might have to turn to him in the future."

Although he was a scientific talent, at the end of the day, he was still just an ordinary person.

Assistant Liu immediately understood and nodded seriously.

Although ghost manipulators are scary, ghosts are even scarier. At least when facing ghost manipulators, you still have a chance to live, but when it comes to ghosts, frankly speaking, an ordinary person has nothing to do but await death.

At that moment, Yang Jian followed the traces to the fifth floor.

Next to a window, he saw a puddle of water on the ground, and floating motionlessly on that puddle was a piece of dark brown Dead Man's Skin, with a dark greenish-black small handprint on it, which must have been left by the Ghost Child.

Human skin paper?

Yang Jian was first stunned, then his eyes narrowed.

What kind of joke is this, how could human skin paper appear here? He remembered that he had previously put it in a box and then buried it underground with the Ghost Domain.

Without knowing the exact location and lacking a considerable level of Ghost Domain, it's impossible to retrieve it.

But before he could think any further.

The Ghost Child saw the piece of human skin paper on the ground and immediately ran over, grabbed it, and stuffed it into its mouth.

Immediately, the Ghost Child's cheeks bulged out, as it intended to eat the human skin paper outright.

"Quick, spit it out," Yang Jian immediately shouted.