Mysterious Resurrection: Starting with Controlling Sadako

Chapter 311 Answer Me! (Long Chapter!)

Receiving Teacher Wang's message in such a bizarre way was unbearable for Zhao Lei, who was already interested in the supernatural.

Excited, I immediately booked a flight to Da'an City and arrived at Shuangxi Home at dusk.

Upon meeting, Wang Liang didn't waste any time with pleasantries and went straight to the point:

"You want to become a Ghost Tamer?"

“Yes!” Zhao Lei’s eyes shone brightly.

Familiar spot, different people. Wang Liang asked Zhao Lei to sit down and made two cups of tea.

“A few hours ago, Liu Qi sat in this spot. He came to me because he unexpectedly became a Ghost Tamer,” Wang Liang said.

Zhao Lei's eyes widened, and he clicked his tongue twice: "Lucky guy."

Wang Liang's face darkened slightly: "This is not good luck. What do you take the Ghost Tamer for? Yang Jian never explained it to you clearly from beginning to end, afraid that saying too much would harm you, but you are getting more and more reckless. As your teacher, I should teach you properly what a Ghost Tamer is!"

After saying that, Wang Liang suddenly stood up and stepped forward, pressing his thumb against Zhao Lei's forehead under Zhao Lei's terrified gaze.

"Look me in the eyes!" Wang Liang shouted, pushing forward forcefully.

Zhao Lei leaned back uncontrollably, and Teacher Wang's figure suddenly disappeared rapidly from his sight.

He seemed to be falling, and the sofa behind him seemed to disappear at that moment.

His body plummeted rapidly into an abyss, seemingly without any support. Teacher Wang looked down at him with a cold expression, getting further and further away from him.

Everything in reality was drifting away from him, and in the end, only deep darkness remained around him.

Zhao Lei looked terrified, but he was still trying to remain calm. After a brief gasp, he stopped shouting and yelling.

But the feeling of weightlessness around him grew stronger, and the blurry ghostly figures that swept through the darkness increased his fear.

Each ghostly shadow that swept past seemed to tear a piece of his soul away, causing Zhao Lei to scream in agony as he plummeted to the ground.

He tried to struggle, but each attack was accompanied by a strange, chilling aura that corroded his body, leaving him icy cold and powerless to move his hands.

Under such torment, a half-rotten, stiff face suddenly swelled up in the darkness and appeared before Zhao Lei, barely a finger's width away.

A stench assaulted his nostrils, and Zhao Lei could even clearly see a maggot slowly crawling out of the rotting eyeball on the face, making his face turn deathly pale.

And at that moment, he seemed to see the face, half-hidden in the darkness, raise its hand and wave at him.

Zhao Lei's struggling body instantly stiffened. He could feel his flesh and blood rapidly rotting, and indescribable pain filled his entire body, severing his life force and seemingly extinguishing his thoughts. His mind was filled with a buzzing sound.

Suddenly, the face disappeared, and the surrounding darkness vanished as well.

The night was as dark as a curtain, the moonlight pale. In the old mountain village, Zhao Lei sat down in the middle of the dirt road, his body covered in cold sweat and trembling slightly, still unable to recover.

His body was intact, and everything around him felt real.

But then, a cold wind blew across the dirt road like a bone-scraping knife, and a tall, cold, gaping female corpse suddenly appeared not far in front of him.

His mouth opened, and two black lines on his cheeks wriggled like worms, stretching from the corner of his mouth to his ear, forming a terrifying slit.

The blood-stained fangs and dripping black blood once again pushed Zhao Lei to his limit.

The mouth of the cleaving female corpse opened and closed stiffly, and faint laughter echoed in Zhao Lei's ears.

Zhao Lei couldn't help but grin and laugh, his body trembling uncontrollably.

He felt as if every piece of flesh inside his body was being gnawed at, a pain and torment far beyond what he could have imagined before coming to Da'an City.

Just as he was about to scream in agony, a pale, icy hand suddenly covered his mouth from behind.

Zhao Lei stared in horror, and the next moment, countless pale arms dug into his body from behind, violently pulling him to the ground.

The village and the cleaving female corpse receded into the distance above him, and he felt as if he had been dragged into a hell composed of countless pale arms.

Countless dark, cold fingernails pierced his body, but a pale hand always covered his mouth, making his eyes bloodshot, yet he couldn't utter a single scream.

The pale arms around him wriggled, and then female ghosts with disheveled black hair crawled out from them, crowding him in the center.

Zhao Lei felt as if his flesh was being torn apart and bitten.

Suffocation, pain, torment.

He was falling, as if he were slowly flowing down from a meat grinder.

Finally, he landed again.

It was dark and cold; he lay on his back in a patch of straw.

A strange, eerie wind swept across the straw, and the swaying straw seemed to beckon to him like eerie figures.

Zhao Lei wanted to get up, but couldn't.

Despite having just experienced such a hellish ordeal, he still had no injuries on his body, as if everything that had just happened was merely a dream.

But his whole body was still trembling uncontrollably, still tormented by the countless female ghosts that had just devoured him.

The soil next to his head loosened, and Zhao Lei glanced over out of the corner of his eye and discovered that it was actually a head made of straw, with a strange smile on its face.

"Ahhh!"

Zhao Lei screamed in agony. He felt something wriggling inside his body, sucking his blood. It was a strange pain unlike anything he had experienced before, but equally unbearable.

puff.

A clump of blood-stained straw squeezed out from Zhao Lei's face, followed by more straw sprouting and spreading from all over Zhao Lei's body, weaving his flesh and blood together.

Just as Zhao Lei was about to reach his limit, a man wearing a dirty red and green striped sweater appeared in his field of vision.

His face was pockmarked, bearing the gruesome scars of severe burns. With a sinister smile, he raised the bloodstained iron claw on his right hand and swung it down in front of Zhao Lei's nearly unfocused gaze!
Inside the villa,
Zhao Lei, who seemed to be asleep, suddenly opened his eyes, sat up abruptly from the sofa, and gasped for breath.

His body was trembling uncontrollably, his eyes filled with terror, and he hurriedly looked around.

Zhao Lei immediately spotted Teacher Wang across the sofa. Teacher Wang was taking a small sip of tea. Upon seeing him, she put down her teacup, smiled, and asked:

"Oh, you're awake? How are you feeling?"

"This...this is a dream?" Zhao Lei asked subconsciously, his voice trembling.

He looked at his still trembling hands; everything that had just happened felt so real, so painful and torturous.

"Sort of. It was a shallow dream woven from some of my memories and supernatural elements, allowing you to experience some of the pain I went through after controlling the vengeful spirit, which is also the pain that you will inevitably have to endure after becoming a spirit tamer."

Wang Liang tapped the table lightly, looking seriously at Zhao Lei, who was still in shock.

"This is what it means to be a ghost tamer. Taming vengeful ghosts isn't as glamorous as you think. Most ghost tamers have psychological problems, they're like madmen. Do you think they want to be like that? They're tormented to that state by the vengeful ghosts inside them all the time."

Every ghost tamer, after controlling a vengeful spirit, enters the countdown to the end of their life—one or two years, several months, or even just a few days!
The ever-approaching death gradually changes a person. Without controlling more vengeful spirits, without using vengeful spirits to balance other vengeful spirits, one will die sooner or later; even so, it's just delaying death a little longer.

You say Liu Qi is lucky, but do you know what he went through? Now that you've personally experienced that kind of pain, do you still want to become a Ghost Tamer? Answer me!

Wang Liang suddenly raised his voice at the end of his sentence, like a teacher reprimanding a student, which startled Zhao Lei and brought him back to his senses.

He stared at Teacher Wang with somewhat unfocused eyes, opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a word.

He had previously witnessed Zhou Zheng's madness when using the vengeful spirit, and seen Yang Jian's agonizing roar as he led them to escape with those scarlet eyes.

He vaguely realized it, but he was never fully clear about it, and even subconsciously avoided it, only hoping that one day he could also have those special abilities and become a special person.

When Teacher Wang picked them up on the pedestrian street, he gave them a talisman. He didn't have a chance to ask any questions at the time and was still in a daze. Teacher Wang didn't come to the later gatherings either.

As for Yang Jian, he had privately asked Yang Jian about this matter.

Yang Jian was unwilling to elaborate on this, only telling him not to get involved in supernatural events, saying that the consequences would be unbearable, but without clearly telling him what those consequences were.

So he refused to accept this and continued to explore places where the supernatural might exist, ignoring the dangers involved.

It wasn't until just now that he learned that a Ghost Master's life would enter a countdown after controlling a vengeful spirit, and he truly realized what kind of torment a Ghost Master would endure after controlling a vengeful spirit.

"I'll give you one night. If you still want to become a ghost tamer, I can help you, but you'll have to stay in Da'an City and work for me from now on. This means you'll have to deal with vengeful ghosts, come into contact with the supernatural, and frequently experience the pain and torment you just went through."

As my teammate, I will help you deal with the resurgence of the vengeful spirit and control the second ghost, but I cannot guarantee that you will survive.

The further you go, the harder it becomes to control vengeful spirits. You might die in a paranormal event, in an enemy invasion, or in the resurgence of a vengeful spirit that you can no longer resolve.

This could be months later, or even years if I'm lucky. I can't guarantee it. You're an adult now, so put away those playful thoughts and think about it seriously. Give me your answer tomorrow morning.

After saying this, Wang Liang got up and left.

Zhao Lei has great potential. In the original story, he was influenced by the newspaper ghost. With the abilities of an ordinary person, he was still able to leave clues for Yang Jian before losing consciousness.

But he was unaware of what a ghost tamer would experience, or what dealing with vengeful spirits meant, so in the original story, he died.

Outside the villa, Xu Yin and Zhang San were casually chatting, leaning against the iron gate on either side.

"Another one. Hey Xu Yin, what's the background of this kid and the one who came at noon? Brother Wang has turned down so many visitors these days, but he's only met with these two. They both look very young."

"Wow, and there's also that little girl, Lin Luomei. What do you think? It's a bit strange for her to speak through a megaphone, but she's not bad looking."

"Oh right, she said she's treating us to dinner tonight. What should I wear?"

Xu Yin stood to the side with her arms crossed, her expression indifferent, too lazy to pay attention to Zhang San, who was a chatterbox. Zhang San didn't mind and kept talking non-stop.

Xu Yin suddenly sensed something, turned around, and saw Brother Wang standing at the window on the first floor of the villa.

"Xu Yin, come with me."

After saying that, Wang Liang turned and went into the house.

"Yes." Xu Yin quickly went inside.

Zhang San shuddered when Wang Liang spoke, immediately abandoning his casual demeanor and standing outside the door with a serious expression.

He only glanced at Xu Yin's back out of the corner of his eye, wondering what Xu Yin was doing inside.

In the underground safe house, Wang Liang asked Xu Yin to sit down:

"How is the situation regarding the resurgence of the vengeful spirit?"

Xu Yin paused for a moment before saying, "I think I can hold on for another month or two. I'm not sure. I've been feeling the vengeful spirits inside me more and more often lately, especially when my injuries haven't fully healed. But I can still manage. And now that I have two more teammates, the pressure is even less."

“Shortly after I arrived in Da’an City, you joined us and handled many paranormal events. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that you are the real person in charge of Da’an City,” Wang Liang said.

Xu Yin quickly replied, "How could that be? If Brother Wang hadn't cleared out all the paranormal events in Da'an City first, neither I nor Zhang San would have had it so easy."

Wang Liang waved his hand and continued, "You've done so much, your achievements are enough. Do you want to control a second ghost and continue to work for me?"

Xu Yin suddenly fell silent. His family had died because of him, and he had done too many wrong things.

Brother Wang saved him, and he wanted to use the little time he had left to do things for Brother Wang.

He didn't care about being able to control a second ghost. He thought he would die whenever he was supposed to. He was content to do more for Brother Wang before that happened.

But now, a month has passed since he was rescued by Brother Wang. Although he doesn't want to admit it, his mindset has indeed changed somewhat, and he no longer has such a strong desire to die. Especially with the addition of new teammates, Zhang San's incessant chatter, although annoying, has undeniably dispelled some of the loneliness in Xu Yin's heart.

What's more, there's Brother Wang, and he wants to do things for Brother Wang.

Zhang San is so unreliable, and Lin Luomei is just a hostage brought back by Brother Wang. Brother Wang is often away on business trips, so he has to help Brother Wang keep an eye on Da'an City.

Thinking of this, Xu Yin broke the silence, raised her head, and said firmly:
"I want to control a second ghost. Brother Wang, as long as you still need me, I want to continue helping you."

Wang Liang chuckled; he did have some personal charm, after all.

Ghost blood gushed out from beneath his feet, and several bloody arms reached out, each clutching a piece of bone.

He had already decided on the perfect ghost for Xu Yin.

Wang Xiaoqiang's Ghost Skull is a very special ghost. It is not very terrifying, but it can greatly ensure the survival of the ghost tamer.

Even if the head is cut off, as long as the skin is still intact, the ghost can piece it back together and revive the spirit.

Xu Yin's vengeful spirit can cause the flesh of others to split open, but it will also split open to some extent on its own.

However, cracks don't mean decay. As long as the skin is still there, the ghost skeleton can piece it back together little by little, let alone the cracked flesh.

If Xu Yin were to control this ghost, his abilities wouldn't gain any new tricks, but he could use his Pain Ghost even more recklessly.

Recovery is also faster afterward, and there's no need to wear bandages all the time.

However, it also has its drawbacks. After the ghost skeleton possesses the body and replaces the original bones, it is, after all, a vengeful ghost. The living person's body will be eroded from the inside out and gradually decay.

The pain ghost's self-harm can somewhat inhibit the erosion by the ghost skeleton, but it cannot completely avoid it. Eventually, there will be a day when the flesh and blood are completely rotten, and that will be the time when the vengeful ghost revives.

After Wang Liang explained the ghost's abilities to Xu Yin and outlined the rough plan he had devised for her, he gave Xu Yin the choice.

"That's roughly it. The plan is rather rough, but this ghost poses little threat and is not too risky to control. At the very least, it will make you a ghost tamer who can control two ghosts. As for how long the resurgence of the vengeful ghost can be extended, that depends on the situation."

“I am willing to control this ghost.” Xu Yin agreed without hesitation.

"Okay, then I'll release the suppression."

Wang Liang allowed the bloodied arm to release the bones one by one.

Freed from its restraint, the bones rolled spontaneously on the ground and pieced themselves together.

A strange and eerie skeleton swayed and stood up from the ground, as if it might fall to the ground at any moment.

The skull creaked as it moved, and its two hollow eyes, once revived, immediately fixed their gaze on Xu Yin, who was closest to it, and swayed as it moved closer.

Xu Yin swallowed hard and stood still, restraining herself.

The ghost skeleton extended a skeletal hand that touched Xu Yin, and then strangely turned into a pool of viscous, yellowish-white liquid that seeped into Xu Yin's skin.

"hiss!"

Sweat beaded on Xu Yin's forehead, but she stubbornly kept quiet.

He felt the vengeful ghost eroding his body, flowing through his blood, clinging to his bones, and then melting them!
Xu Yin's hand suddenly drooped down, limp and lifeless, but then gradually straightened up as new ghost bones filled his palm.

As time passed, the ghost skeleton completely merged into Xu Yin's body, and Xu Yin had long since collapsed to the ground.

The ground beneath him was stained with red sweat and some white, unidentified liquid.

Xu Yin's body trembled on the liquid until one moment he finally let out a deep breath.

Wang Liang remained calm throughout, observing until the end, at which point he reached out and helped Xu Yin up.

"How does it feel? What's it like to control two ghosts?"

Xu Yin clenched her fist, feeling the balance conflict between the two ghosts within her.

The resurrected demon tried to tear apart the flesh and blood throughout his body, but the ghostly skeleton's supernatural power quickly pieced the flesh and blood back together.

After a period of conflict, the two sides gradually settled into a strange balance and eventually calmed down.

Xu Yin said happily, "It feels great. The tormenting throbbing has weakened to a level I never imagined before. It's like I just controlled a vengeful ghost. And now I can use the Pain Ghost with less worry, without having to worry about tearing myself apart."

Wang Liang nodded in satisfaction and patted Xu Yin on the shoulder.

"Go ahead, do your job well, and adapt to the current situation as soon as possible."

"Ok!"

After Xu Yin left, Wang Liang went back upstairs. Night had fallen, and the living room was completely dark.

Zhao Lei remained seated on the sofa, seemingly unmoved, his eyes vacant.

Wang Liang shook his head, didn't go over, and went straight upstairs to sleep.

the next day,
When Wang Liang woke up from Freddy's dream and came downstairs, he saw Zhao Lei immediately get up and look at him after seeing him.

Zhao Lei had faint dark circles under his eyes, as if he hadn't slept all night, and his eyes looked somewhat tired.

But the frivolity and desire for 'superpowers' that he had shown when he rushed over yesterday afternoon were gone from his eyes.

There is only a kind of composure that comes from careful consideration.

"I've thought it through, Teacher Wang. I still want to become a Ghost Tamer. This is my own decision, and I'm willing to bear the consequences."

Having gone through what happened at school, I can no longer calmly pretend nothing happened while studying or working. I want to experience the real world.

Seeing Zhao Lei's expression, Wang Liang nodded, said nothing more, and waved his hand, saying:

"follow me."

"Ah."

Zhao Lei followed Wang Liang to the safe house in the basement.

Wang Liang took out a piece of paper and handed it to him. It contained a list of some of the vengeful spirits he had imprisoned who were suitable for being controlled, most of whom were ghost tamers he had killed.

"The more terrifying the ghost, the faster the vengeful spirit will revive. I don't recommend you choose it. Controlling it is not 100%, and you may die directly in the process of controlling it."

I recommend you choose this stinking ghost. Its level of terror is moderate for a ghost tamer. I even threw it into a ghost fire basin and burned it for a long time. It's not exactly crashing now, but burning it for so long has suppressed the ghost's resurgence to a very low level.

After all, he was his student, so their relationship was naturally close. Wang Liang gave Zhao Lei, that stinking devil, his choice.

Moreover, there is a ready-made plan to control a second ghost, which can be used at any time in the future.

"Okay, then I'll choose this one," Zhao Lei nodded in agreement.

If he had been given the choice a day earlier, he might have picked the scariest and most powerful ghost and taken a gamble.

But now, he no longer has those thoughts; he considers more, taking the future into account.

Wang Liang opened a golden box and placed a ghost fire basin inside. The foul-smelling ghost and the ghost's breath had been burning inside for a month.

Wang Liang reached directly into the will-o'-the-wisp and pulled out a curled-up, shriveled humanoid flesh and blood.

After Zhao Lei took a deep breath and prepared himself.

Wang Liang opened his ghostly domain, but instead of enveloping Zhao Lei, he superimposed the foul-smelling ghost on the same spot as Zhao Lei.

Then weaken the ghost realm's strength, allowing the foul-smelling ghost to gradually invade reality and erode Zhao Lei's body, so that Zhao Lei can gradually find a balance between himself and the vengeful ghost.

Such erosion would be unbearable for ordinary people, but perhaps last night's dream had a great impact on Zhao Lei.

After a night of deep thought, Zhao Lei had changed a lot, and now he was just like Xu Yin, remaining silent.

Even as his body trembled violently and his eyes were bloodshot, he only let out a low growl when he was suffering the most intense pain from the corrosive effects, without screaming in agony.

Time passed, and Zhao Lei lay on the ground covered in sweat, struggling to get up.

"I succeeded, Teacher Wang."

“Very good, go and rest. Xu Yin will come to pick you up and help you arrange accommodation. You will be following Xu Yin from now on. Take a good rest these few days.”

"it is good."

Zhao Lei struggled to his feet and walked outside. He was a little unsteady at first, but became more and more stable, and finally strode out.

Wang Liang watched Zhao Lei leave, and was fairly satisfied with the changes in Zhao Lei. Just like that, he had gained another ghost tamer under his command.

"Since we're here, let's make some more tapes."

Wang Liang cracked his neck and took down some cassette tapes that Xia Wei had prepared earlier from the shelf next to him.

He has made quite a few cursed tapes in the past few days. Some contain the Slit-Mouthed Woman's Slit-Mouth Curse, some contain Fred's Dream Curse, and some contain cursed tapes that can summon derivative Sadako.

This method of production is not complicated, especially since he doesn't have to worry about the resurrection of vengeful spirits and can use supernatural abilities at will.

He has already made a batch and given it to Xu Yin and others as team resources, but he still asked them to use it cautiously.

Because of the curses contained in these tapes, unless he is aware of them and deliberately tries to control them.

Otherwise, if it is released when he is not around, the curse it attracts will not discriminate between friend and foe; whoever gets close will suffer a terrible death.

The Slit-Mouthed Woman and Freddy's cursed tapes are more dangerous because of their different abilities. When these two tapes are used, they can launch an indiscriminate attack on a wide area almost instantly, making it difficult to escape or avoid.

Therefore, Wang Liang only allowed Xu Yin and others to use the Sadako tape when dealing with paranormal events, and to use the Kuchisake-onna and Freddy tapes cautiously depending on the situation.

Time passed day by day, and the team leader's plan to go to Beijing, which Zhao Jianguo had mentioned, was getting closer and closer to being finalized.

Su Xinxi even called to discuss the specific time for him to enter Beijing, and they finally settled on five days later.

But on the very day Wang Liang and Su Xinxi confirmed the time, an unexpected change occurred.

After hanging up the phone with Su Xinxi, Wang Liang got out of bed in his pajamas and walked out of the bedroom.

He's been having a very relaxed time lately, a complete change from last month.

After all, there was a lot to do after arriving in Beijing, so he simply took advantage of the time beforehand to completely relax and hardly thought about anything else.

It was already evening, and Wang Liang was about to go downstairs for dinner.

Although he can go without eating now, not to mention the effects of the vengeful ghost on his body, just the reboot alone restored his physical condition.

But Wang Liang has maintained a normal routine lately, trying to act like a normal person.

But after pushing open the bedroom door, Wang Liang suddenly stopped, his brows furrowed, and a chilling aura emanated from him.

The grayish-white ghost domain was instantly released, enveloping the entire residential area, and then further enveloping the entire city of Da'an.

The ghost domain lasted for less than a second before Wang Liang withdrew it, and he did not find anything unusual outside.

But now, at his feet, by the bedroom door, lies a yellow paper envelope, unsigned and unsealed.

(End of this chapter)