Chapter 28

Run.

Run for your life.

A-fei and a few of his buddies ran as if they were fleeing for their lives. Their faces were pale, and their eyes were filled with fear, as if they had just witnessed something terrifying.

Indeed, they had encountered something very terrifying.

It seemed like... they had run into a ghost.

They didn't know how long they had been running, but they finally stopped when they were so exhausted they could barely move. They bent over, gasping for breath.

Recalling what had just happened, A-fei felt his limbs trembling slightly.

"A, A-fei, what was that person just now?" one of his buddies asked, trembling with fear.

A-fei cursed, "What else could it be? We must have run into something evil. We should go to the temple and get a talisman to ward it off. Damn, today is really unlucky. If I had known, I wouldn't have taken the less crowded route. We finally cornered someone to get some money, but we ended up running into that thing..."

But before he could finish, another companion, trembling, pointed ahead and said, "L, look, what's that up ahead?"

The thugs looked up, and their faces were immediately filled with terror.

A public restroom.

It was the place where they had encountered the evil presence earlier.

In front of the restroom stood a person, glowing with a faint red light, staring at them motionlessly.

This person was Yang Jian.

After running so far, they had somehow circled back to the same spot.

Seeing this, one of them was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground, too terrified to even run.

"Run!"

Despite being exhausted, A-fei was even more terrified of Yang Jian standing in front of the restroom. He turned and ran again.

In his panic, he didn't even think about why he had run so far and ended up back at the starting point. His only thought was to get away from this person, away from this restroom.

Yang Jian frowned, "My ghost domain is different from the old man's. The old man could make everyone in the entire school building lose their way, even affecting the walls and buildings. But I can only confuse people?"

"No, since the ghost domain is the same, it must be that I haven't mastered the method yet."

"Ghosts and humans are different."

Yang Jian took a step forward.

Suddenly, he disappeared from where he stood and reappeared in front of A-fei, who was running away.

It was as if he had moved from one end of a circle to the other.

"So that's how it works. In the ghost domain, I can appear anywhere. This makes sense. It explains why the old man who knocked on the door could appear silently after hearing the knock."

"Ah~!"

A-fei, seeing Yang Jian suddenly appear in front of him, stopped abruptly and scrambled to escape in all directions.

"Since I can change my position, can I also affect the surroundings?" Yang Jian's eyes flickered. He grabbed one of the thugs who had collapsed in fear and slammed him into the wall of the restroom.

Under the red glow, everything seemed to be under his control.

The thug screamed in pain.

In the next moment, his head was forced through a ventilation hole in the restroom door.

The hole was not large enough for a head to pass through, but Yang Jian managed to push the thug's head through the wall, with his neck stuck in the ventilation hole.

"So that's how it works...?"

Yang Jian gradually understood some of the secrets of the ghost domain.

In this place, distances were distorted, objects changed, and the scenery altered... Everything was both real and unreal, and it was completely isolated from the outside world.

The ghost domain was a world centered around the malevolent ghost, appearing and changing because of the ghost.

Yang Jian experimented with many uses of the ghost domain, using these thugs as test subjects, and gradually understood what the power of the malevolent ghost represented.

Unsolvable.

Yes, unsolvable.

To humans, the power to arbitrarily distort reality was indeed unsolvable. No wonder even bombs couldn't destroy the ghost domain.

In the ghost domain, reality was no longer what you knew it to be.

Bombs could destroy everything in reality, but how could they destroy something that existed between the real and the unreal in the ghost domain?

"If I reduce the size of the ghost domain to only cover myself, then I would exist in a state between the real and the unreal..." Yang Jian condensed the power of the ghost domain.

The surrounding red glow quickly dissipated.

The streetlights returned to normal, the neon lights on the distant high-rise buildings lit up, and the sound of car horns could be heard again.

But Yang Jian's body still emitted a faint red glow.

He took a step forward.

His body naturally passed through a wall and entered a nearby residential building.

He saw a couple in a room with the lights on, engaged in intimate activities.

Yang Jian looked at them, and they looked at him.

The couple, seeing a person suddenly appear in the room, glowing with a faint red light, were instantly filled with extreme fear.

"Excuse me, continue." Yang Jian turned and disappeared into the wall.

"Aah, a ghost~!" The couple's screams echoed in the room and even reached outside.

A ghost?

Yang Jian looked at his current state.

He was indeed becoming more and more like a ghost, if not for the human consciousness he retained.

A ghost master was truly a being that was neither human nor ghost.

Yang Jian felt a restlessness in his body. The red paper covered one ghost eye, but using the power of the malevolent ghost for a long time was still a significant burden. He felt the eye in his body becoming restless again.

"The ghost domain can only last for five minutes. After five minutes, I reach my limit."

Yang Jian checked the time on his phone and noted it down.

He exited the ghost domain state.

Today's experiment was indeed important.

He looked around.

A-fei and the other thugs were either cowering behind a trash can, trembling in fear, or had already lost their minds from the terror.

With such poor endurance, they still wanted to extort money?

"Brother, you're shaking? We're friends, right? When you're in trouble, I'll definitely help you. I'm a bit short on cash right now. Can you lend me some money?" Yang Jian narrowed his eyes and patted his shoulder.

Extort money?

He was so poor that he only had a couple of hundred yuan in his pocket. He couldn't go home now, so he needed to get some money.

"Here, here, all of it, just don't come after me, don't come after me. I'll burn incense for you, just go after someone else..." A-fei was on the verge of tears, trembling as he took everything out of his pocket.

There was only about a hundred yuan.

"Consider it a loan. I'll pay you back next time." Yang Jian took the money and smiled.

"No, no need to pay back, big brother, it's a gift." A-fei bowed his head and trembled, not daring to look at Yang Jian.

A hundred yuan? Who cares about paying it back?

He just hoped the ghost would leave him alone.

As long as it didn't bother him again, he would agree to anything.

"Extort more money in the future. That way, I can find you more easily." Yang Jian stood up, his voice slightly eerie.

"Uh, uh-uh." A-fei burst into tears.

I'm still a kid, why are you doing this to me?

He swore that he would never extort money again. He would be a good person from now on.

Tomorrow, he would help an old lady cross the street.

Yang Jian went around and "borrowed" a few hundred yuan from the other thugs.

With today's experience, they would likely give up on extorting people. Who knew if the next person they tried to extort would be a human or a ghost?

"Enough playing around, time to get serious." Yang Jian glanced around.

When he saw the thug whose head he had forced into the ventilation hole trying to pull it out, he couldn't help but laugh.

Call someone to break the wall tomorrow.

You dared to threaten me with a knife.

You were lucky I didn't show you the real ghost.

However, when Yang Jian returned home, he found the door open.

The dark room was empty.

The red newspaper that had been torn to pieces on the floor was gone.

The ghost... was gone.

"The ghost is gone?" Yang Jian's face changed.

He had prepared to fight the ghost, but he found nothing.

Did the ghost run away because it was afraid of him?

Or did it go to find another target?

"I must find that ghost." Yang Jian thought firmly.