Mysterious Revival

"Did it work?"

Wang Xiaoming felt a flash before his eyes and entered into a red world.

It was still the hospital, the same ward, but the gloomy atmosphere had vanished, and the terrifying figures around had disappeared without a trace.

He wasn't surprised; his research into fierce ghosts was deeper than anyone's, and he knew he had been forcibly brought into the Ghost Domain by Yang Jian.

"I don't know if it can be considered a success, I only temporarily dealt with a rather powerful ghost, but I can be sure, it's definitely not the Source Ghost—those things outside are still there."

Yang Jian's expression was grave, "Although we won this time, we also lost."

What he meant by winning was only this one time; losing meant losing the whole situation.

Being unable to resolve the Source Ghost, Dachang City's fall was only a matter of time, and their group had sustained heavy losses. Even he himself no longer had the capital to continue contact with the fierce ghosts, if this wore on, even if he could control two ghosts, he would face the danger of the fierce ghosts' revival.

"What a pity."

Wang Xiaoming's expression remained calm, "But this is also within my calculations. After all, in my view, the success rate was less than thirty percent. What does your ghost look like inside here?"

"It's the missing Ye Feng," Zhang Han said.

"Really? Is the ghost on his body also here?" Wang Xiaoming asked.

Yang Jian said, "Exactly, it looks exactly like Ye Feng, only it's much more difficult to deal with. This thing can recklessly control the ghost inside Ye Feng's body."

"It looks like our previous deduction was correct—there exists a Fourth Stage Ghost Infant," Wang Xiaoming said.

"A Fourth Stage Ghost Infant? Does that mean those ghost masters who died before will reappear before us in some unknown way? A fusion of ghost masters and Ghost Infants?" Yang Jian's face suddenly turned pale.

Wang Xiaoming said, "According to the current situation, that is the case."

"How can we avoid being targeted by the Fourth Stage Ghost Infants? There's no way to deal with this thing now, we must protect ourselves," Yang Jian said. "That is, to find out the pattern of the Fourth Stage Ghost Infant's killing."

"My personal deduction is... breathing," Wang Xiaoming said.

Breathing?

Yang Jian said, "What kind of joke is that, even breathing isn't allowed?"

"Normal breathing is fine, but it won't work if you breathe in this kind of gloom."

Wang Xiaoming said as he lifted his hand and looked at the somewhat bruised back of his hand, "Breathing this gloom these past few days, my skin color is gradually turning the same bluish-black as the gloom. Coupling this with my previous investigation into your classmate Wang Shanshan, this is a curse, similar to a kind of branding."

"After the Ghost Door Knocker event, you should understand what it means; it's probably similar in nature to that."

"Professor, but the entire city has breathed in this gloom, what do we do?" Zhang Han said in shock.

Wang Xiaoming said, "That means the Fourth Stage Ghost Infants will go and kill the entire city's population."

"This place is a cage, the fierce ghosts are predators, and we are just prey to be hunted, no one is an exception. However, there should be very few Fourth Stage Ghost Infants, and their attacks on others have a high degree of randomness, after all, a city's population... is a lot."n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"Indiscriminate killing, huh?" Yang Jian's face looked terrible.

Wang Xiaoming continued, "Comparing the number of Third Stage Ghost Infants to the number of Fourth Stage Ghost Infants, I speculate that ordinary feeding is insufficient for their growth. Those Third Stage ghosts, in my view, have already stopped growing. It turns out that derived ghosts do have a limit after all."

"And from the first wave of attacks, these Third Stage Ghost Infants could be eradicated at some cost."

"So for the moment, it seems, ghosts below the Third Level no longer pose a threat. Moreover, their attacks are one-off. As long as you fend off their first attack, you won't trigger their conditions for attacking people again, and you're temporarily safe."

"Yes, to put it simply, if you encounter a ghost, don't run and scream at the same time; that'll guarantee your death."

Zhang Han said, "Wait, Professor, if the Fourth Stage Ghost Infants don't grow in a normal way, then what do they rely on?" Stay updated with empire

"Eating ghosts."

Wang Xiaoming said calmly, "The ghosts devoured by the Ghost Infants will be controlled by them, which will also allow the Ghost Infants to grow. They are like you ghost masters, only different in essence. As for why it would take the appearance of Ye Feng, that's not important, identity has never been key for a ghost."

"So, we've had six ghost masters who died so far. Does that mean there will be six Fourth Stage Ghost Infants?" Zhang Han said.

"Who knows, maybe there will be more. Ghosts recorded in other supernatural files in Dachang City could possibly be devoured by the Ghost Infants as well. This is an indiscriminate sweep, but based on my years of research, I surmise that this gluttonous feast is ultimately prepared for just one ghost."

"The Ghost Infant that crawled out of Zhou Zheng's stomach, which I consider the Source Ghost, code-named Hungry Ghost. No, if that ghost succeeds, perhaps calling it Hungry Ghost would no longer be suitable; maybe we'll need to find a new code name for it."

"Damn it."

Yang Jian couldn't help but swear.

Zhang Han, who normally cursed now and then, shivered all over.

This was not a major paranormal event at all, but rather a ghost-raising game.

However, just as the three were in the middle of discussing, Yang Jian's expression suddenly changed, and he sharply turned towards a certain direction after sensing something.

The view within his Ghost Eye was different from that of ordinary people; they could not see through the Ghost Domain, but Yang Jian could, and the gloom couldn't block his sight.

"What do you see?" Wang Xiaoming asked.

Yang Jian's face showed an expression of terror as he saw a thick mass of dark cyan gloom rushing from the direction of the hospital's surgery room. It surged like a tidal wave, engulfing everything in its path, and he saw walls and floors vanishing within it.

And in the depths of that gloom, it seemed something was lurking.

At this time, Wang Xiaoming and Zhang Han also realized that Yang Jian's Ghost Domain was quickly shrinking.

It seemed to be crushed back by something even more terrifying, unable to expand out.

"Quick, hurry up, get out of here, something is coming."

Zhang Han hurriedly grabbed the trolley: "Use your Ghost Domain to get us out of here."

"Go."

Yang Jian did not hesitate. The Ghost Domain turned into a red light that swept out the window into the distance, and in an instant, they all vanished from the spot.

In the blink of an eye, the three of them were now standing on the rooftop of a building hundreds of meters away.

"Wait a second, where's the box? There was such a big box right next to me," Zhang Han asked as soon as he found his footing, realizing an important item was missing.

"You left it behind?" Wang Xiaoming looked toward Yang Jian.

Yang Jian's complexion was ugly. He said, "The Ghost Domain transfer failed. In that moment, it seemed like the box was grabbed by something."

Looking towards the hospital hundreds of meters away.

Where they had just been was now a dark patch, with a figure standing dimly in the blackened hospital room, under the window. A specially made box hung outside the window, seized by a blackish-green hand.

The hand was a good two to three meters long, stretching out from inside the room, eerie and terrifying.

"Snatched away?" Wang Xiaoming said indifferently: "It seems we have truly failed right at the last step."

"If only we hadn't lingered there for that moment, this wouldn't have happened," Zhang Han regretted.

Wang Xiaoming said, "Perhaps carrying that box could have brought the ghost to our door, and it might be possible that we would all have ended up as its company in the grave. What's done is done, and there's no need to dwell on what-ifs. Besides, this mission was a failure from the beginning. Even if we had taken the box, it wouldn't have changed the overall situation."

"Maybe with that longevity cloak owned by Ye Feng, there was still a chance to turn things around." Zhang Han was somewhat reluctant to give up.

"Ye Feng himself is already dead, obviously the longevity cloak is unreliable."

Wang Xiaoming's voice turned cold: "We lack a powerful means to restrain that Source Ghost; without this capability, we can't imprison it. That finger was our last chance, and from the moment it was used on the wrong ghost, we had already lost. Moreover, the Ghost Candle has been used up, and we're out of means to create opportunities.

In such a situation, we can't even get close to that Source Ghost."

"No one understands our current predicament better than I."

Though that was said, not achieving even the slightest comfort in success was still a blow to morale.

"Let's go," Yang Jian said, although he too was very reluctant.

But he knew Wang Xiaoming was right; he and Zhang Han no longer had the right to deal with that ghost. Although he suspected that what had just appeared might have been the Source Ghost.

But all methods had been used up, and he himself was nearly at the point of revival as a vile ghost.

The situation was too desperate.

Moreover, the most crucial point was that the Source Ghost was beyond a Fourth Stage Ghost Infant in power. Even that finger might not have been able to nail it down. The risk of direct contact was just too great.

Unbeknownst to them, this paranormal event had already evolved into the most terrifying and desperate insoluble mode.