Chapter 99

Clear footsteps came from outside the body bag.

They approached, gradually getting closer to where Yang Jian was.

Having been in this eerie silence for a long time, Yang Jian was very clear about what the sudden appearance of footsteps meant.

Although he wanted to go out and take a look to confirm what ghost was outside,

the risk was too great, so Yang Jian did not dare to act.

He was not afraid of the headless ghost or the mysterious and eerie disease ghost in the village. The only thing he feared was the fierce ghost that could easily kill a ghost tamer. The existence of this ghost was a mystery, as no one had seen it, and those who had seen it might already be dead.

No one had encountered it.

Because those who encountered it were also dead.

The only way to understand this ghost was through the deaths of the three ghost tamers.

"I am alone now, isolated. According to previous speculations, the balance in the village has been broken by me. That fierce ghost is now hunting ghost tamers... Once found, no one can survive."

"Are the footsteps outside the ghost looking for someone?"

Yang Jian's heart tightened, and he couldn't help but feel nervous.

The body bag he was lying in was placed in a wasteland, overgrown with weeds.

If not carefully searched, it would be hard to find in such an environment.

However, a ghost might not rely on vision to find people, but rather some kind of perception or certain conditions.

Yang Jian couldn't be sure he wouldn't be found by the fierce ghost. Lying here was a gamble, and the stake was his life.

The footsteps came closer again.

He could even judge that the ghost was less than three meters away.

Almost right beside him.

"These footsteps don't have a cough... It's not the disease ghost. So, it's either the fierce ghost or the headless ghost I released, but I think the probability of it being the fierce ghost is higher."

Yang Jian thought to himself, making no sound at all, and also prepared to use the Ghost Domain at any time.

This was not the time to worry about the ghost reviving.

"Step, step, step~!"

The footsteps passed by him and stopped at the direction his head was facing.

The direction his head was facing was the opening of the body bag.

To breathe, Yang Jian had left a small gap for air to circulate.

"Have I been discovered?"

Yang Jian's palms were sweating, and he almost held his breath.

If he was discovered at this moment, the chance of dying here was at least eighty percent.

Whether facing the fierce ghost or using the Ghost Domain to fight, the outcome would be the same. He didn't have the ability to contain a ghost of this level.

One minute, two minutes, three minutes...

Yang Jian only knew that a considerable amount of time had passed, but he didn't know exactly how long. At such a time, he didn't even dare to make the sound of opening his phone, who knew if such a subtle action would immediately expose his whereabouts.

Finally, after fifteen minutes.

Yang Jian, inside the body bag, suddenly heard the footsteps start to leave.

Yes, the footsteps sounded and gradually moved towards the direction of the village.

The ghost was leaving.

Hearing the footsteps gradually fade away, Yang Jian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Success, I've avoided this search. I can almost judge that as long as I stay in this body bag, the ghost will almost certainly not find me, and I will remain safe."

Thinking about this, he felt more at ease.

This was very important.

If the body bag was not safe, then there was no safe place here.

But Yang Jian did not appear very happy, as the crisis was only temporarily缓解. If he didn't come up with a plan, he would still be sitting and waiting to die.

After careful consideration, there were only two paths ahead.

Wait for the headless ghost to cause trouble and see if it can restore the village to its previous state.

The second option was to take the initiative...

"Let's wait and see." Yang Jian restrained his impulse and decided to wait a day to see if there were any changes.

If the headless ghost's wandering in the village was effective, a day should be enough to see results. Otherwise, the headless ghost's actions would be considered a failure, and it would disappear like the other ghost tamers.

Although the waiting time was long, it passed quickly.

Unconsciously,

Yang Jian had already spent a day in the body bag.

His phone showed this.

Since the footsteps appeared once, there had been no more sounds around, but during this time, his body had shown abnormalities. A ghost eye, no matter how he tried, could not be closed... It was no longer under his control.

Was the ghost reviving more intensely?

Or was he being threatened in some invisible way, causing the ghost eye to open involuntarily, just like when he saw the passing ghost in Jiang Yan's apartment?

Regardless, this waiting could not continue.

The stalemate had to be broken.

At noon on that day,

Yang Jian carefully opened the body bag and secretly looked outside.

It was pitch black.

He couldn't see clearly at all.

The terror continued to envelop the village.

"Use the ghost eye." Yang Jian took a deep breath and extended his palm.

On the back of his hand was a crimson eye.

Through the ghost eye, he surveyed the surroundings.

The vision transmitted by the eye was a world shrouded in red light.

But it wasn't hard to see that the village still existed.

Only the hall where the coffin was placed had disappeared.

At the doors of other houses, Yang Jian saw villagers standing there numbly and eerily, motionless... like corpses.

But in the next moment,

These motionless villagers suddenly turned their heads to look at the hand outside the body bag.

Each pair of eyes was hollow, without pupils, as if filled with darkness, giving a bone-chilling fear.

"Damn!"

Yang Jian couldn't help but curse and quickly pulled his hand back into the body bag.

Curiosity killed the cat.

This village was indeed terrifying. He was sure that if he went out, he would be surrounded and killed by these ghosts, with no chance of escape.

The villagers were still relatively normal before.

Since the balance was broken, the village had become increasingly frightening.

Just surviving like this was not a solution.

In a desperate situation, he had to rely on this last resort.

Yang Jian reached into his pocket and took out the piece of human skin paper he was most reluctant to use.

Then he turned on his phone screen to illuminate it.

The human skin paper displayed a line of writing.

"Having been in Huanggang Village for only three days, I am already at a dead end. In a desperate situation, I took out the human skin paper again, hoping it could tell me the answer to this crisis."

"But I was disappointed, as I did not get what I wanted from it."

"Perhaps I will die here."

"It, is too terrifying..."

Yang Jian's gaze sharpened: "If I survive, I will trade a ghost with you."

The human skin paper changed again.

The previous writing disappeared, and new writing appeared.

"I think it's safer to complete the unfinished transaction with the human skin paper first. In return, I might be able to tame a second ghost... There might be a turning point in the Huanggang Village incident."

"Tame a second ghost? Wait, this information is different from the previous one. The previous information only showed that I would get a method to tame a second ghost, but this is directly taming a second ghost." Yang Jian's eyes narrowed.

Indeed.

This ghost had a hidden move.

It could help him tame a second ghost?

Damn, why didn't it say so earlier? If it had, he wouldn't have come here.

No, that's not right.

Yang Jian remembered the last sentence: "It, is too terrifying..."

"It" referred to the ghost in Huanggang Village.

Was this describing his own feelings, or revealing the human skin paper's fear of the ghost?

If the latter,

Then,

The human skin paper was also afraid!

"Turns out you also don't shed a tear until you see the coffin. If I want to leave here, I have to tame a second ghost. You know that relying on the power of the ghost eye is not enough to fight the ghosts here." Yang Jian's expression changed.

Indeed, the previous speculation was correct.

This level of ghost was beyond his ability to handle.

No wonder ghost tamers came and died one by one.

To survive, the minimum requirement was to tame a second ghost.

In simpler terms, he was too weak.

Too weak to survive.

So, the human skin paper compromised. Previously, it only told him the method to tame a second ghost, but now it was directly helping him tame a second ghost?

But what was the cost? What would happen once the human skin paper got a ghost?

Could he bear it?

Or would he release something even more terrifying?

"It doesn't matter now. It doesn't matter at all. Even if I have to make a deal with a demon, I have to get out of here." Yang Jian gritted his teeth. "Alright, I agree. Let's start the transaction."

The writing on the human skin paper began to fade away.

Finally, a few large characters appeared: "The transaction with the human skin paper has begun..."