Mysterious Revival

Altering my memory?

When Li Yao heard these words, she initially did not react, but after thinking it over carefully, she found Yang Jian's statement somewhat odd.

Altering memory? How?

Hypnosis, brainwashing, or perhaps using some banned drugs to subject oneself to inhumane experiments?

Li Yao's gaze shifted, and she considered all the possibilities within a short time, but none seemed to fit the current situation, unless... Yang Jian was referring to using some kind of ghost's ability.

Only that would make sense of Yang Jian's words.

"You couldn't possibly alter my memory in such a short period. I've seen your file, and although you've subdued two ghosts, none of them have such a bizarre ability. Wait... the recent paranormal events in Z City, I recall someone in the archives mentioned a ghost capable of tampering with other people's memories."

Suddenly, Li Yao thought of something, her pupils contracted with a hint of horror as she stared at Yang Jian.

This Yang Jian... had been to Z City.

The incident in Z City was handled by him. Even though the ghost had been transported back to headquarters, as the key figure who personally dealt with the paranormal event, he might have hidden something.

"Oh, you've realized it? Your brain is not bad, and your intelligence capabilities are indeed good. I didn't handle the Z City case long ago, and I tried my best to delete any information regarding that ghost's abilities from the archives. It seems it must have been Feng Quanyi or Guo Fan who accidentally heard something similar from me, which then was recorded in the archives."

Yang Jian did not expect to keep the information completely sealed.

As long as it didn't become common knowledge in a short period, that was enough. With the myriad of paranormal events in this world, who would be so idle as to obsess over such a trivial piece of information?

"But you don't even control that ghost, so how could you possibly invade someone's memory?" Now Li Yao was truly panicked. Although she didn't believe Yang Jian had such means, she believed the current situation even more.

If he wasn't confident, why would Ghost Eye Yang Jian dare to deliberately create a paranormal event in J City?

And the target was only her.

Expending so much effort to deal with an ordinary person was a big deal for a ghost wielder.

Yang Jian revealed a trace of a smile, "That's why I say you office workers are naive, completely unaware of how fast the world changes. Previously sitting there boasting about how the paranormal could perhaps pose no threat, I had to try very hard to hold back from laughing."

"You should be grateful that the memory-altering ghost was dismantled by me and no longer poses a threat; otherwise, if that thing invaded headquarters or controlled a few ghost wielders and spread from there... could you handle the consequences?"

Upon hearing this, Li Yao suddenly understood the implication of Yang Jian's words and a chill involuntarily ran down her spine.

If things were as he said, and the ghost invaded here, with memories altered, then J City would face a terrible disaster.

Because no one could be certain whether their loved ones, friends, or even themselves had not had their memories tampered with, becoming part of the ghost.

"So you extracted that part of the ability from the ghost and now control it yourself?"

At this moment, Li Yao had secretly started recording on her phone. If her memory was really altered, then this recording would be evidence.

She believed that no matter how her memory might change, with her intelligence, she would definitely find discrepancies upon hearing this recording.

But she had forgotten that this was the Ghost Domain.

The supernatural space that Yang Jian had created for her alone; how could he, a man who had solved numerous paranormal incidents, make such a mistake?

"You don't need to fish for information from me, nor do you need to deliberately stall for time; it's useless, because no matter how much you know, it won't matter. I'll make you forget everything soon. Moreover, you don't need to resort to any tricks, like secretly recording, because from the moment you entered my Ghost Domain, you lost any chance to resist."

He was now holding that old, bloodstained newspaper and walked over with large strides.

The hand that Li Yao was stealthily holding her phone with trembled, her face growing increasingly frightened.

"No, this can't be possible, my phone is specially made, your Ghost Domain can't affect Gold, that's an unchangeable fact."

Yang Jian hadn't even walked two steps before he was already in front of her. The sudden appearance made her retreat again and again, but Yang Jian did not stop her, simply smiling lightly, "What made you think that your phone, the car you drove earlier, and even the clothes on your body are real?"

"At the end of the day, office workers like you, who haven't dealt with fearsome ghosts, can't comprehend the terror. Do you know what you look like in my eyes right now? A woman with nothing but a seductive and attractive body."

"Those smart little moves and tactics you think you have are nothing more than a joke to me."

"And me taking a few minutes to talk to you is really just to see how childishly you'd react to true horror, so that you can understand what real ignorance is."

"No, it can't be possible, this can't be happening, I don't believe it, I don't believe it, at most you could give me hallucinations, you couldn't possibly do this."

Hearing this, Li Yao was completely panicked.

If what Yang Jian said was true, then perhaps it was just as he said, she was standing naked somewhere, foolishly pretending to drive, listen to music, call for help... and other such actions.

Ridiculously laughable.

"Want to prove it? After all, these documents will never record information like this, just as some news only records the victim's death but not the process of being killed, when in fact, that process is very important."

Yang Jian said, "Just like the phone in your hand is actually a slipper."

When he finished speaking, Li Yao looked down at her phone in her hand, and it had indeed turned into a slipper.

At that moment, she felt like she was going to collapse.

No wonder the distress signal after being sent out for so long hadn't stirred any response; from the very beginning, what she was holding was not a phone at all.

"Take your clothes, for example..." Yang Jian said.

"Stop, please stop talking..."

Li Yao covered her chest, crouched on the ground, and began to cry hysterically, "You'll regret this, you'll definitely regret it. You can't keep this hidden forever. As soon as I get the chance, I will kill you, kill your whole family, and make you disappear from this world forever."

Her confidence, her intelligence, her pride, they were all toyed with by Yang Jian, becoming worthless. The sudden contrast and blow were too much for her to bear.

He was just a loser student, just lucky to have become a Ghost Controller. At most, he was a newcomer of about half a year, while she? She had grown up in a privileged family, beautiful, smart, sexy, with a master's degree... Even if supernatural events didn't occur, she was a winner in life.

But why, why did she have to suffer this humiliation from Yang Jian today?

Yet Yang Jian seriously said, "I have no doubt you really want to kill me, even my whole family, but getting involved in the struggle between Ghost Controllers as a common person means you have to be prepared to risk everything. Dealing with ghosts requires you to gamble with all you have, because one misstep leads to losing everything."

"So you are naive, and this naivety makes me see your foolishness. If you wanted to interact with me, you should have prepared for the worst, be very careful with your words, and not let me catch any hint of a threat."

"If I ever feel threatened, and you don't take me down immediately, then I can declare you've already lost this fight."

"Do you know how ghosts kill people? No warning, no reason, no notice, and you wouldn't even know you've been targeted by a ghost until the moment of your death, only then realizing how perilous your situation has been."

"So, if you want to deal with me, you've got to be like a ghost—strike unexpectedly, catch me unprepared and kill me before I even realize what's happening, just like how I handled you today."

At this moment, Yang Jian slowly took out that eerie, blood-stained old newspaper and without a hint of hesitation, placed it over Li Yao's beautiful face.

A strong sensation of suffocation surged, and Li Yao began to struggle violently.

She tried to tear off the thing sticking to her face. Yang Jian did not stop her, because she couldn't tear apart this strange newspaper at all.

After all, she was just human, an ordinary woman, powerless even against the weakest of supernatural beings.

Yang Jian stood by, looking down at Li Yao as she struggled on the ground, waiting for what would happen next.

In just about ten seconds, Li Yao stopped moving and lay on the ground motionless, without even a breath, as though she had died.

But Yang Jian knew she wasn't dead, instead, her face along with her memory had been taken away by the strange old newspaper.

Yang Jian bent down and picked up the blood-stained newspaper.

Stuck to the newspaper was a lifelike female face with closed eyes, which still displayed a hint of despair and fear on the lingering expression.

"Compared to most, you are lucky, at least I won't kill you, but now, let me consider how you will greet me, a stranger, in what manner?" Yang Jian's gaze shifted subtly.

Holding this strange newspaper, he had been pondering its use for some time.

While its ability was simply altering memory, the difficulty of altering memory was significant, for he was not a true ghost and couldn't change a person's thoughts at any given moment.

Of course, just forgetting some memories was easy.

People are inherently forgetful, and forgetting memories unfavorable to oneself does not result in any discrepancies.

The hardest part is implanting a nonexistent memory.

For instance, if Yang Jian made this Li Yao call him "Daddy".

The moment she woke up and checked, she would immediately become suspicious, as such imposition severely contradicts reality; even if she were convinced, others would not believe it.

Therefore, such alteration is foolish and unfeasible.

"The only way to make Li Yao loyal to me without suspicion and even willing to betray some people is to work on emotions," Yang Jian's gaze shifted subtly.

Emotions are the most incomprehensible and uncontrollable things.

And within emotions, there are familial love, friendship, romantic love, and so on.

Familial love is out of the question, Yang Jian and Li Yao were not related.

Friendship was even less likely; this was their first meeting, they hadn't known each other since childhood. To forcefully implant a childhood sweetheart identity would create significant inconsistencies.

So that left only one option: romantic love.

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Yang Jian thought it through thoroughly for roughly half an hour, selected several plans in his mind and finally chose to implant a nonexistent romance in Li Yao while also minimizing the chances of mistakes after altering memories, to avoid raising suspicion.

Although toying with a woman's emotions this way was admittedly despicable.

He felt no guilt whatsoever.

For Li Yao, the consequence was merely falling in love with someone she shouldn't, but for Yang Jian, a single misstep meant death.

"Forget everything that happened after eight o'clock today."

"From the moment you met Yang Jian, you felt a strong attraction to him, developing feelings of love that will turn into an unwavering love when you wake up next time. You will trust Yang Jian and be very willing to help him, as well as his family and friends..."

Yang Jian began this terrifying game of memory manipulation.

When Li Yao woke up again, she would be completely changed, unaware of how it all came to be.