Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 345 Summoning Yang Jian Again
In the middle of the night, everyone was urgently woken up by Jiang Jin. After hearing about the missing layer of the Russian nesting doll and the warning-sounding television footage of Sadako, Yu Tianlun's expression became extremely solemn.

He realized that the situation was worse than he had anticipated. Sadako was not only powerful, but her attacks were also becoming increasingly bizarre and difficult to defend against. She might even possess some kind of "guaranteed hit" or "instant kill" characteristic. Even Jiang Jin's life-saving item had been used up without him realizing it.

“This is too dangerous.” Yu Tianlun said in a deep voice, his gaze first falling on Xu Yinqiu. “Yinqiu, your profession is more inclined towards support and healing. Facing this kind of curse that is directly at the level of rules is too risky. You… use the return rune to leave first.”

The others' expressions immediately changed. Xu Yinqiu was gone, so who would be the wet nurse?

Upon hearing this, Xu Yinqiu gently shook her head, a serene yet resolute smile appearing on her face: "Commander, I won't leave. If I leave, no one can save your SAN value from dropping."

She paused, then looked tenderly at Yu Tianlun: "Before coming to this instance, I met with Yin Dong and her boyfriend. That young man is a good person; he's genuinely good to Yin Dong. I gave him a sum of money, enough for him to pay the bride price, and got my stepmother's approval so they could get married smoothly. Even if... even if I really can't go back this time, Yin Dong will have found her place, and I won't have any worries."

She raised her head, looked directly into Yu Tianlun's eyes, and said in a soft but resolute voice, "When I chose to follow the commander, I was already fully prepared."

Looking into Xu Yinqiu's clear and firm eyes, Yu Tianlun's throat bobbed, and finally turned into a silent sigh.

When he was expelled from the team, even Lin Ye, whom he trusted the most, chose to protect himself. Only Xu Yinqiu, the team doctor who was usually inconspicuous, resolutely followed him and left.

Yu Tianlun wanted to take her away from this dangerous place, but on the other side was his most trusted deputy and brother-in-arms, Jiang Jin, whom he also couldn't abandon. Moreover, Xu Yinqiu was right; if she left, there would be no way to replenish their sanity.

On the other side, Lian Xuan was also repeatedly persuading his younger brother Lian De: "Ade, listen to your brother, you should use the rune to go back first! This dungeon is too evil. Kong Huaizheng died mysteriously, and even the vice leader almost died... You can't stay here!"

Lian De, his neck stiff, retorted, "Brother! We'll go together! How can I leave you here alone!"

"Nonsense!" Lian Xuan rarely lost his temper with his younger brother, but his eyes were full of anxiety and regret. He said in a low voice, "I've made up my mind. I'll stay. I'm a medium. Even if... even if I really die, my soul can exist in another form. As long as you return safely, the captain and the others will take care of you for my sake when they come back!"

For him, he would give his own life to protect his younger brother, with whom he had depended on each other since childhood.

“Brother,” Lian De shook his head again, “don’t you know me? Am I that kind of person?”

Takamiya Yui gripped his sword tightly, his heart filled with resentment and hatred. He craved power, craved to live, all for the day he could enter the [Undying Curse] instance and avenge his wife's murder at the hands of the Old Core Organization. But to retreat now filled him with resentment. If he could only flee from Sadako, what would he do when facing the even more terrifying Kayako?

Seeing the tragic atmosphere and arguments within the team, Jiang Jin took a deep breath, suppressing his own sense of helplessness, and said in a deep voice, "Everyone, calm down. I don't want any of you to sacrifice yourselves. The return rune is still your biggest guarantee. Once, and I mean once, you sense any signs of danger that you can't resist, don't hesitate, use the rune to evacuate immediately! Only by surviving can you have a future!"

He surveyed the crowd, his gaze hardening: "But before that, we can't just sit here and wait to die. I need to try and summon some strong reinforcements."

Having said that, Jiang Jin no longer hesitated and submitted a summoning request to the Reincarnation System.

Before long, a figure quietly appeared.

He was a young man dressed in modern casual clothes, with an unhealthy pale complexion and indifferent eyes, as if he had no interest in anything in the world.

"Yang Jian, we meet again." Jiang Jin breathed a sigh of relief and greeted him.

Yang Jian nodded slightly in response. His gaze swept over everyone present, and his indifferent eyes made everyone except Jiang Jin and Yu Tianlun subconsciously avoid his gaze.

“Everyone,” Jiang Jin introduced, “this is Yang Jian, a Ghost Master from the Horror Dungeon.”

However, it was Lian De who reacted the most strongly!

His eyes widened, his mouth gaped open enough to fit an egg, and he pointed at Yang Jian, so excited he was incoherent: "You, you...you're Yang Jian?! That Ghost Eye Yang Jian?! The protagonist of 'Mysterious Revival'?! Holy crap! Vice Commander, you actually managed to summon him?!"

His sudden outburst of excitement left everyone bewildered.

Lian De, disregarding his loss of composure, darted to Yang Jian like a fan meeting their idol, bombarding him with questions: "Great God Yang Jian! It really is you! How's your world doing? Are supernatural events still happening? Ghost messengers, ghost paintings, ghost mirrors... have all those S-level incidents been resolved? And also, is it true that the 'Ghost Post Office' is the predecessor of the 'Hell Apartment'?"

Yang Jian frowned slightly at the barrage of questions and replied indifferently with six words: "What is a ghost post office?"

He seemed to have never heard of it before; it seems the story hasn't progressed to the Ghost Post Office part yet?
Yu Tianlun, who was standing to the side, couldn't stand it anymore and pulled the agitated Lian De back, explaining, "Lian De, calm down. The Ghost Post Office is just a tribute and collaboration between the original author and his predecessor, Hell Apartment."

Lian De calmed down slightly, but was still incredibly excited. He turned to his bewildered brother, Lian Xuan, and began to explain: "Brother! You don't know unless you read novels! This Yang Jian is amazing! His life story is practically a legend! He was just an ordinary high school student who was accidentally drawn into a supernatural event and gained a ghost eye. From then on, he struggled to survive in a world overrun by vengeful ghosts..."

Lian De began to recount Yang Jian's experiences in great detail, from the Ghost Mirror incident, Huanggang Village, to the struggle with Xiaoqiang Club, handling the Ghost Painting incident, becoming the person in charge of Dachang City... He spoke with great enthusiasm, as if he had experienced it all himself.

Although Lian Xuan was still a bit confused, he could sense the extraordinary nature of this man from another dimension from his brother's excited description and the suffocating pressure emanating from Yang Jian. "What a pity," Lian De said, his tone tinged with regret, "The novel 'Mysterious Resurrection' was serialized until the second half was shut down because of the fall of Edo. The part where the Ghost Post Office became the Hell Apartment was blocked. All the supernatural novels on the internet were wiped out. Not only this book, but also Fox Tail's 'The Mysterious Immortal,' Little Dragon's '13 Mingke Street,' and Black Fire Seed's sequel to 'Hell Apartment,' 'Devil Apartment,' were all taken down. More than half of the books on my bookshelf were gone! I never expected to meet Yang Jian in person today, Vice Commander. I really envy you. You've met Li Yin from 'Hell Apartment' and Yang Jian from 'Mysterious Resurrection'!"

"Black Seed, the author of 'Hell Apartment,' later wrote a sequel?" Jiang Jin was a little surprised. "What happened to Li Yin after that?"

After all, in the blood-letter mission at the fruit shop, Jiang Jin was essentially saved by Li Yin.

"He made a cameo appearance in 'The Devil's Apartment,' but the details of the plot are unclear. However, after the fall of Edo, it is rumored that the Black Spark disappeared completely, and some people believe that he was controlled by the Meme Contamination Monitoring Department. Although his works are far less successful than those of authors like Fox Tail Dragon, the Monitoring Department generally acknowledges that 'The Hell Apartment' has the highest meme danger among all completely rule-based dungeons."

"Speaking of which," Li Shang suddenly spoke up, "We at Yongmeng have investigated some timelines in the horror instances between 2021 and 2025, and these works have all been continued. However, the reincarnation system forbids us from bringing back related media, such as books and DVDs, and even if we finish reading them in the horror instances, we will forget them after returning."

Yang Jian ignored these discussions; he had already fully accepted the fact that he was the protagonist of the novel's world.

Yang Jian looked at Jiang Jin and said, "Jiang Jin, I ran into Wang Shanshan a while ago."

Jiang Jin was somewhat surprised: "Her? Wasn't she already a reincarnator? Can she go back?"

Yang Jian replied, "Yes, you can go back. She told me that her mother, Wang Haiyan, had died in a horror instance. She said she herself wouldn't live much longer, and her SAN value drop potential had reached A+ level."

He paused, then looked at Jiang Jin: "She also said that she recently met your wife, Liu Yan. Liu Yan told her that she had to do something and didn't know when she would be back."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Jin's heart tightened, and his hand instinctively reached for the wedding ring on his finger.

Liu Yan went to the [Terror Resurgence] instance again?
The fact that the wedding ring hadn't become a keepsake pendant proved that Liu Yan was still alive, but his wife's whereabouts and the so-called "matter" made him worried.

He nodded, his voice low and deep: "I understand."

Forcibly suppressing his longing for his wife, Jiang Jin took out the coffin nail he had obtained from the [Terror Resurgence] instance where Yang Jian was, and said to Yang Jian, "Yang Jian, I'm here to ask you to use this to help me seal off a terrifying entity in this instance."

He then handed the videotape to Yang Jian, letting the latter carefully watch the ten rules.

A barely perceptible ripple flashed in Yang Jian's indifferent eyes. "It seems that in this world, this Japanese female ghost is quite terrifying. In my world, she would probably be rated as an S-class vengeful ghost."

He could sense the thick resentment and distorted rules permeating this instance, which differed from the killing patterns of pure vengeful ghosts, but its level of danger was undeniable.

He then asked, "Do you still have the knocking ghost in your hands?"

For Yang Jian, the knocking ghost left a deep impression; after all, it was the first ghost he encountered. It was also the beginning of his transformation from an ordinary high school student into a ghost tamer.

Jiang Jin nodded: "It's still there. I'll use it if necessary."

Yang Jian pondered and said, "I guess we'll have to use it then. However, I don't think we can necessarily win against the Knocking Ghost's ghost domain alone."

He held Sadako in extremely high regard.

Jiang Jin looked at Yang Jian and suddenly made a suggestion: "Yang Jian, I can exchange a Reincarnator Watch for you and officially become a Reincarnator. With your strength and characteristics, if you choose the medium profession, you can fundamentally solve the risk of the vengeful ghost resurrecting in your body. After all, the Reincarnator system is different from the power rules of your world."

Becoming a reincarnator? For the first time, a thoughtful expression appeared on Yang Jian's indifferent face.

Indeed, for Yang Jian, the resurgence of the vengeful ghost is a Damocles' sword hanging over his head forever.

But becoming a reincarnator means... stepping into a much wider but also more dangerous world, facing countless unknown and terrifying instances, and needing to struggle with the mental erosion of declining SAN values ​​for the rest of one's life. Just look at Wang Shanshan; she faced a life-or-death situation at LV1 after only a short time as a reincarnator.

Upon hearing this, Lian De's eyes lit up instantly. He looked at Yang Jian excitedly, wishing he could agree on his behalf.

With this great god as our helper, what is there to fear in the future!
Yang Jian remained silent for a moment before slowly speaking: "...I can consider it."

Becoming a reincarnator is no small matter. Even someone as powerful as Yang Jian needs to weigh the pros and cons.

Seeing that he did not refuse, Jiang Jin was also delighted, which added a new variable to the future fate of the Nirvana team.

(End of this chapter)