Mysterious Revival

Outside Ping'an Hotel, the vehicles were already prepared.

Yang Jian gave them a brief glance and saw that there were no fewer than ten people ready to go for the training, as there were over a dozen special vehicles parked at the entrance.

In other words, this time, there would be over a dozen new international ghost controllers taking office after the training.

However, given the current situation, the mortality rate after they took office was bound to be quite high, since most had only managed to subdue one ghost. The threshold for a violent ghost's resurrection was easier to reach for those controlling one ghost than for those controlling two, and it was very possible that they might fall on their next assignment.

Nevertheless, Yang Jian had nothing to say about that situation.

Because he had been through it himself.

"I wonder how long this peace will last," Yang Jian mused as he looked at the lively and bustling J city, feeling an inexplicable unease in his heart.

There were too many latent terrors, many yet to surface, whether one subdued a single ghost or two, in the end, one would still face death.

His only choice was to keep struggling forward.

He got into the car.

He discovered that he was sharing a car with Zhang Lei, and he didn't know whether it was by design or someone else's arrangement.

"Yang Jian, although it's a bit awkward to bring it up, have you forgotten something?" Zhang Lei broke the silence after getting into the car and spoke up.

"Solving the problem of your violent ghost's resurrection?" Yang Jian recalled why Zhang Lei had visited him a couple of days ago.

Zhang Lei said, "It's good that you remember. I hope you can do me this favor. You don't have to get involved directly; I just need a viable method."

He was known as the Ghost Eater.

Just hearing that name made others find it inconceivable because to date, no one, whether in the country or globally, possessed the ability to eat ghosts.

The reason was simple: ghosts could not be killed.

Since they couldn't be killed, the consequences of swallowing one could only be imagined.

"I indeed have a viable method, but it would be too difficult for you," Yang Jian said after some thought.

"It doesn't matter, you just have to tell me. Living is already difficult enough," Zhang Lei asked with unwavering calmness.

He had long been prepared for the fact that resolving his own situation with the violent ghost wouldn't be easy. Experience more content on My Virtual Library Empire

Yang Jian said, "This matter starts with the Hungry Ghost case in Dachang City. Although the files on the Hungry Ghost case have been sealed, with your current level of clearance, you won't be able to view them. But I don't mind sharing a bit of information with you... To tell the truth, that Hungry Ghost was the most terrifying existence I've ever encountered among all the paranormal events."

You can tell, after all, it was an S-level paranormal incident," Zhang Lei remarked.

Yang Jian replied, "No, it's not just as simple as an S-level paranormal incident. It's about the complexity of the Hungry Ghost."

He stopped there and didn't continue.

The Hungry Ghost was not simply a terrifyingly powerful violent ghost with growth potential; part of its complexity was also due to the ghost that Zhao Kaiming controlled being mixed in, making the already dreadful Hungry Ghost even more insoluble.

Now, reflecting on it, once Zhao Kaiming's ghost took over the Hungry Ghost, perhaps it could no longer be called an S-level paranormal incident; it might be classified as SS-level.

But aside from him, no one knew of the existence of that other ghost.

"There are some internal matters that I'm not at liberty to reveal," Yang Jian glanced at the driver in front, as well as the listening devices scattered throughout the car.

Although some information could be shared, disclosing certain details would only be to his own detriment.

"If you want to solve the problem of your own violent ghost's resurrection, you would need to obtain an item from the Hungry Ghost," Yang Jian said. "Back in Dachang City, all the ghost controllers put together couldn't even defeat a single Ghost Slave of the Hungry Ghost, and we nearly faced annihilation. Wang Xiaoming almost died there. The reason I was able to turn the situation around in the end was because of that item."

At this, he opened his palm.

As a red glow shone, a thick rusty Coffin Nail appeared before them.

"Is this... a Coffin Nail?" Zhang Lei was momentarily stunned and then recognized the item.

It looked like one that had been buried in the soil, severely corroded and rusted.

"I hammered this thing into the forehead of a Hungry Ghost," Yang Jian pointed to his head, "and then the Hungry Ghost lost its ability to move, and the supernatural events in Dachang City came to an end."

"By the same token, if you can get your hands on this Coffin Nail and nail it into the ghost inside your body, then your problem with the Ghost Slave's revival could be resolved."

The existence of the Coffin Nail was no secret. A high-level class of people knew about it, like Zhao Kaiming, Guo Fan, Li Jun, and others who had seen the Hungry Ghost with the Coffin Nail in its head. It was just that the majority of people were not privy to the details.

Zhang Lei's gaze shifted, and then a wry smile with a hint of stiffness appeared on his lips, "That's indeed difficult, where could one possibly get something that can restrain an S-grade specter... So this is how the Dachang City incident was concluded."

"It's not that I don't want to help you, it's that I'm also powerless," he said nonchalantly, waving his hand and the fake Coffin Nail in his hand disappeared.

"Wait a second." Zhang Lei suddenly grabbed Yang Jian's hand, hesitating a bit.

Yang Jian looked at him, "What is it? The thing in my hand isn't real; it's just a fake, created by the Ghost Domain."

"I know, but I feel like I've seen it before." Zhang Lei's expression was very grave, then he showed a look of remembering.

Yang Jian's gaze sharpened: "Impossible, you've never been to Dachang City, so how could you have seen this thing?"

"It's not in my memory... there are some things that I can't really explain to you, because they're unexplainable, but I really feel like I've seen it. Let me think," Zhang Lei deeply furrowed his brow, as if searching for a shattered memory within his mind, or possibly a small fragment inadvertently encountered in some spooky location.

He had indeed seen the Coffin Nail before.

Had it not been for Yang Jian making the Coffin Nail visible, he would not have recalled it at all.

Yang Jian pondered, watching Zhang Lei in anticipation, hoping he would indeed remember something.

Although he knew that Zhang Lei couldn't have seen the Coffin Nail from Dachang City, he realized that Zhang Lei might have seen another Coffin Nail.

Nobody said there was only one Coffin Nail.

"I remember now." Suddenly, Zhang Lei recalled something, raising his head with a bit of surprise he said.

But the instant he opened his mouth, Yang Jian's Ghost Domain covered the carriage, hiding this key piece of information, so as not to let it leak out.

"Where?" Yang Jian immediately asked.

Zhang Lei said, "That Coffin Nail doesn't exist in my memory; it's a memory of a ghost. I ate that ghost, and its memories may still linger in my mind... But I don't know where that thing is, it's like a dream, an uncannily strange place that I can't even imagine."

"I can't be sure about the location of that place, but I'm certain it truly exists."

Yang Jian said, "That's some information. Go on, it might be worth considering."

Zhang Lei had already recalled that fragment, but it was still very vague: "I only remember the surroundings being dim and pitch-dark, without any light... There was a graveyard there, and in that graveyard, there was a gate, with wooden pillars and iron doors, old and in disrepair, practically falling apart, and that Coffin Nail was hammered into one of the wooden pillars next to it."

"There?"

The description immediately changed Yang Jian's expression.

The spooky place that the supernatural bus had taken him to, before he got off the bus, he had also passed by a graveyard.

That graveyard stretched endlessly, making one feel fearful.

But he had not seen the gate entering that graveyard.

Maybe he had missed it at the time, as who would seriously look at the graveyard outside under those circumstances.

"Maybe I really should have met you earlier," Yang Jian said, his gaze shifting, then he spoke somewhat helplessly.

It had been less than a month since the last supernatural bus incident, and not much time had passed. If he'd known that he had barely missed a Coffin Nail, he would have trembled with regret.

But then, after thinking it over, Yang Jian felt that even if he had known about the existence of that Coffin Nail then, he wouldn't have dared to take it.

Who would dare jump off that bus and enter that spooky graveyard?

That place was nothing like Hongfa Temple in Dachang City. The Coffin Nail under the temple seemed dangerous, but it was actually safe; even the temple's abbot had played there as a child without any issues and had run out fine.

Yang Jian was certain if he had gone to that graveyard, the odds were he would have been doomed.