Chapter 1

Pain!

It hurts!

It hurts too much!

Li Le Ping, who was sound asleep, felt an intense pain in his head, as if someone was drilling into his brain.

He tried to get up but found his limbs unresponsive, as if he was experiencing sleep paralysis. His consciousness was also unstable, making it difficult to clear his thoughts.

This state lasted for an unknown amount of time, and the sharp pain gradually began to subside…

Seizing the opportunity, Li Le Ping suddenly straightened his back, opened his eyes, and completely shook off this bizarre state.

“Phew…”

He took deep breaths, his heart pounding.

“Where am I?”

Li Le Ping instinctively observed his surroundings, his eyes filled with confusion and bewilderment, which soon turned to fear.

For a moment after waking up, his vision was blurry, but he gradually began to see the environment around him clearly.

It looked like someone's living room, but it was neither his familiar bedroom nor his own living room.

Suddenly,

Another wave of intense pain hit his mind, accompanied by a flood of memories.

With the emergence of these memories, Li Le Ping learned many things he wanted to know.

“Dakou City… Dachang City… Li Le Ping…”

“Damn…”

“This is… the world of mysterious revival…”

For some unknown reason, he had actually traveled through time, to a world from a novel he had read before.

In this novel, there was a character with the same name as him.

Li Le Ping, holding his aching head, felt at a loss and even powerless.

Several key pieces of information instantly made him realize what kind of world he had entered.

The world of mysterious revival is one of the most desperate worlds for ordinary people.

The reason is simple.

In this world, ghosts exist.

Ghosts cannot be killed.

Only ghosts can deal with other ghosts.

Ordinary people can only survive by understanding the patterns of ghosts and finding their weaknesses.

This is the basic setting of the world of mysterious revival, and also the most powerless setting for ordinary people.

Having no choice but to accept reality, Li Le Ping began to explore the living room.

He wanted to find out why he had fainted on the living room floor.

Soon, he noticed a card lying face down on the floor.

The card had only two crooked traditional Chinese characters, not the simplified characters he was familiar with. The ink was old, and it looked as if it had been written with a brush, but not by a normal person.

【Forget】

Li Le Ping reached out to touch the card.

The yellowed and blank back of the card felt sticky, almost like…

“A photo?” Li Le Ping's face showed a hint of surprise.

Who would put a photo on the floor?

Li Le Ping's face was filled with doubt, but he decided to see what was on the photo.

Without hesitation, he immediately flipped the photo over.

The next moment, the first glance at the front of the photo made him throw it away in fright.

A chill enveloped him, and extreme fear spread throughout his body.

The photo was a color one, but the image was blurry, giving it an old-fashioned feel, like a photo from the 1980s or 1990s.

The background seemed to be a desolate open space, and in the center was a woman wearing a cheongsam from the Republican era. To be precise, Li Le Ping wasn't sure if she was human.

Her face was indescribable, as it was obscured by a strange fog in the photo, making it impossible to see her features. He could only determine she was a woman by her figure and clothing.

However, upon closer inspection, he noticed that the woman's posture was full of death. Her head was slightly lowered, and her arms were straight and tightly pressed against her sides, like a stiff doll standing still.

Her blue top revealed arms and neck with patches of livor mortis.

“This is… a ghost…” Li Le Ping's heart trembled.

Immediately, this thought sprang to his mind.

“But, in the world of mysterious revival, are there ghosts or haunted places related to photos?”

Li Le Ping tried to recall the origin of the photo on the floor.

But the next moment, his eyes widened as if he had seen something terrifying.

His memories seemed to have a gap, with no images, only a foggy darkness filling his mind.

In the middle of the fog, there was a person.

A woman wearing an old-style cheongsam, with an indistinct face…

“What a joke?” Instantly, Li Le Ping's hair stood on end.

This ghost had already entered his mind?

More accurately, it had entered his memories.

“Calm down, calm down.” Li Le Ping kept reminding himself to stay composed.

Involvement in supernatural events, the more panicked and hasty one becomes, the more dangerous the situation becomes.

“There's a ghost in my memories…” Li Le Ping knew he was still alive, which meant he hadn't been targeted by a ghost or attacked by a powerful ghost yet.

“Or, have I already been attacked by a powerful ghost?” He considered another possibility.

Perhaps the original Li Le Ping had been killed by a ghost, and he had just happened to travel through time into Li Le Ping's body at that moment?

“Wait.”

He suddenly focused his gaze on the photo on the floor.

Ignoring the terrifying figure in the photo, Li Le Ping flipped it over again.

The back still had the crooked black characters.

Two simple words—Forget.

“Could this be a Forget ghost?” Li Le Ping exclaimed, “Did I travel through time to a period when Li Le Ping had just harnessed the Forget ghost?”

“So, is that why there's a gap in my memories, and I can't recall the origin of this photo?”

“But, how did he harness it?”

“And where did this photo come from?”

The ghost in the photo and the one in his memories were identical.

This couldn't be a coincidence.

In an instant, Li Le Ping thought of many things.

In the original story, the Forget ghost that Li Le Ping harnessed was of great importance.

Because…

“Damn.”

Suddenly, Li Le Ping's face turned grim as he forced his thoughts back.

He wanted to recall the origin of the photo, but every time he tried to think about that memory, the image of the indistinct ghost would appear in his mind.

The Forget ghost in his memories.

He didn't dare to recall that memory anymore.

Perhaps the original Li Le Ping had used that memory to harness the Forget ghost.

For now…

No one knew what might happen if he continued to recall it.

Those who harness the power of ghosts are called ghost masters, but ghosts can also gradually control people.

Recalling the past like this would only continuously stimulate the revival of the Forget ghost in his memories.

Picking up the photo, Li Le Ping opened the door of the house.

Rather than sit and wait for death, he decided to take the initiative.

The story of mysterious revival is told from Yang Jian's perspective, but the supernatural events in the plot were in their early stages, and what Yang Jian experienced was just the tip of the iceberg.

What Yang Jian hadn't experienced, Li Le Ping naturally couldn't know more about.

Now, he could only go outside and explore on his own.

Maybe checking the neighborhood surveillance would reveal something?

But as he opened the door, something inexplicable happened.

Outside, the familiar staircase was gone.

The building that existed in reality had disappeared.

In its place was a dark, indistinct area.

In the darkness, a winding, blurry path stretched out, with rows of streetlights extending into the deeper darkness, leading to an unknown destination.

At the end of the darkness, there seemed to be a building, indistinct and shrouded in a fog, only its rough outline visible, like a mirage.