Terror is resurging, but only I am.

Chapter 23 He was in the coffin

Ghost topology?
What other research by Wang Ming is unknown to me?
Yan Ming was somewhat confused by the new words that popped out of the doctor's mouth in his mind.

He had never heard the relevant theory from Dr. Wang before, but now, just from hearing the general outline, he could realize the importance of the theory.

But why are you only telling me about something this big now?

Yan Ming even suspected that this was made up by a PhD, since in reality, when artificial intelligence encounters certain profound problems, it creates its own theories and data, which the questioner can't understand anyway.

Just like him now.

However, judging from Dr. Ghost's performance so far, he can even obtain precise computer passwords by exploiting the "slightly more" characteristic. Since this theory has been put forward...

It could be true.

The theory that the doctor had just mentioned echoed in Yan Ming's mind; in essence, it was quite simple.

Treat "Ghost-Ghost Domain-Human" as a whole, then reverse the evacuation point in the Ghost Domain, allowing the positions of "Human" and "Ghost" to be interchanged.

Yan Ming is currently in the ghost realm inside the ghost's belly, but according to theory, after completing the operation, he can make the ghost stay in the "human realm" inside his belly.

In this situation, the abilities that belonged to the ghosts actually became human abilities.

It feels like...

The power of a ghost is actually a form of authority. Humans replaced the ghost's position, took its ecological niche, and thus stole its authority.

So it's a story about a double, huh? It's kind of like Prometheus stealing fire.

The Ghost Thief?
"According to your theory, what should I do?"

Yan Ming continued to ask, emphasizing that the next method was crucial.

Dr. Wang thought for a moment and said:
“You can think of the Ghost-Ghost Domain-Human as a donut, and the evacuation points that once appeared in Wangcheng are the holes in the donut. At this point, you can topologically transform it into a porous torus. No matter how you stretch or deform it, as long as it doesn’t tear or stick together, it won’t be affected.”

“The evacuation point is the entrance where people leave the ghost realm. As long as you can reverse it and turn it into the entrance where ghosts enter the ghost realm, you and the big-bellied ghost will naturally be swapped.”

Yan Ming understood now. The evacuation point was a one-way passage. Originally, it was a one-way evacuation, but now it needed to be changed to a one-way entry.

It's essentially reversing the evacuation point, thus changing the relative positions of him and the big-bellied ghost.

Humans will possess the human realm, and ghosts will enter the human realm, completely opposite to the current situation.

"The extraction point was opened because of those marbles that successfully 'hit' the boundary, so you need to repeat this process and use three more identical marbles to switch the state of the extraction point passage."

"It's like a light switch; press it once to turn it on, and press it again to turn it off."

Yan Ming looked at the three marbles on the evacuation point passage. Each marble contained three small balls with the character "境" written on them.

This means that this evacuation point needs to be accessed three times before it can be opened.

He touched the two marbles from the old lady in his pocket. The old lady hadn't mentioned it yet, so it was unclear whether she didn't know he had taken them or tacitly agreed that he could take them.

That's far from enough.

Yan Ming calculated the number of marbles in his pocket. Even with extremely good luck, it would be difficult to collect enough "Realm Balls" even if all the subsequent card draws generated were "Realm Balls".

Moreover, according to Doctor Ghost, there is more than one evacuation point in the entire city of Wangcheng. He needs to reverse the evacuation points one by one.

Where can I get so many marbles?
This has become a headache.

However, Yan Ming did not feel that the road ahead was long and arduous; instead, a strange hope welled up in his heart.

He had been living in a daze for the past six months in the outside world, not knowing what else he could do. He entered the Ghost Realm to get rid of the Spying Ghost and to find other humans.

Social animals are indeed more prone to mental illness when they are separated from society.

But now things are different; the "path to becoming a demon" proposed by Doctor Ghost seems to have real feasibility.

If one can become the result of the study of ghost topology—a ghost thief—does that mean he can have his own world?
This sounds a bit like a powerful figure in a cultivation novel, who has a mysterious little world growing within his body.

However, Yan Ming is not thinking about personal power now, but about the "refuge" he had considered before. With the human domain, he can create a home for wanderers and build his own territory on that basis.

“The evacuation point is closed; we need to find another way out,” Yan Ming said.

Just then, the old woman jumped onto the large steel door and saw the marble embedded in the center of the door. She tried to pry it off but failed.

She speculated, not so easily giving up: "Can we leave Wangcheng by going through this door? Although it's a bit thick, we should be able to find weapons to conquer it inside the city, right? And the area near the door might not be that thick, so maybe we can dig through the side and go in through the hole."

"That's impossible. It wasn't this door that made you leave Wangcheng, but some kind of strange force. The hospital is in the center of Wangcheng. No matter how you look at it, this door couldn't possibly let you leave the city directly, right?"

Yan Ming's words made the old woman feel a little disheartened.

"Let's get out of here first. This is a dead end, and there's nothing to see here," he continued, looking around.

The evacuation point area is intuitively different from the laboratory we just left. Many areas here are still made of earth and stone, unlike the laboratory which is paved with tiles. It looks more like a construction site.

Some prominent areas have thick dark green lines, presumably to remind players that the location is an evacuation zone.

Yan Ming noted down this characteristic, as it would be very useful for him in determining other evacuation points in Wangcheng.

The old woman, unwilling to give up, knocked on the steel door again, but eventually gave up and walked ahead to leave the area.

The entire basement was unusually quiet, with the faint sound of dripping water drifting from afar.

Yan Ming and the old woman walked carefully and quietly, trying not to reveal their location. They soon arrived at the fork in the road again, but stopped at the same time and looked at each other in bewilderment.

The fork in the road in front of us has been divided into three paths: left, middle, and right.

Are you kidding me? !

Weren't there two forks in the road when we came in?

If we go back the way we came, there should only be the way we came from and another road leading deep into the laboratory. Where did this third road come from?

Yan Ming identified the three roads. The road on the left was lined with prison-like laboratories, while the road on the right looked more normal and resembled the road they had come from.

The road in the middle was winding and rugged. Yan Ming couldn't imagine what the point of building such a winding road on the underground level was. Was it to increase the amount of work to cheat people out of money?
"Which way to go?" The old woman could tell that the road in the middle was abnormal, but she wasn't sure if it was a trap.

The ghost-eyed corpse walked at the front and chose the left path leading to the laboratory.

It's obvious that something strange has already happened. Going back the way we came probably won't lead us back, and the middle path is clearly more eerie. Perhaps we should go to the left; maybe we can find the answer in the underground experimental area.

When facing the demons and monsters in the ghost realm, information is undoubtedly the most important thing.

The ghosts here were clearly created by the experimental area, and he felt it necessary to go in and explore them.

The old woman had no doubts about Yan Ming's decision and followed the male corpse to explore inside.

The experimental area. Neat rows of cool white light tubes hung from the ceiling, and the floor tiles were spotless; everything was tidied up perfectly.

The frosted glass door was half-open, and Yan Ming could see the situation inside the operating room through the crack in the door.

The hospital bed was stained with bright red blood, and the bodies of medical staff lay on the floor.

However, only fragments remained.

It looks like a surgery was performed here and something went wrong.

However, it wasn't the surgery for that brain-damaged patient. Yan Ming remembered that her operating room was on the sixth floor of the west building, so this should be...

He looked at the dragon-seeking ruler wrapped around the arm of the ghost-eyed corpse and began to speculate.

Could this guy be the recipient of the surgery?

"Die, all die, everyone must die." The Dragon-Seeking Ruler head raised its head high like a cobra, staring resentfully at the hospital bed, even trying to attack the body parts on the ground.

Yan Ming stepped into the operating room and took a look. Judging from the state of the blood congealing at the scene, it must have happened last night. He wondered what had happened to the Dragon-Seeking Ruler to make it so full of resentment.

There was a small operating table next to it, and on the table on the tray were two tubes of reagents that had not yet been injected. There was even a drop of dark blue liquid hanging from the needle, which looked extremely ominous.

"Ouch!" The girl with the Dragon-Seeking Ruler also noticed the needle, and was so frightened that her face turned pale. The skin flakes and scabs that had formed on her face after the wound healed fell off in a cascade.

Yan Ming capped the syringe and put it away. He wasn't sure what it was for, but judging from the girl's reaction, it was definitely not a good thing.

It's at least a reagent that can cause extreme pain. If all else fails, it can be used to inject those physical ghosts; it might have a miraculous effect.

After passing the laboratory, Yan Ming arrived at the ward area, which was the hospital's real high-risk ward area. There wasn't even a small window for visiting patients; there was only a small opening under the thick iron door, and you could barely see what was inside by lying down.

It's a coffin.

The sturdy coffin was made of black wood and had many tight restraints on its surface, seemingly to prevent anything inside from escaping.

"boom--"

Suddenly, there was a loud bang, as if something inside the coffin had kicked the lid, causing the entire bed holding the coffin to shake.

"Snapped."

Immediately afterward, Yan Ming heard one of the restraint straps break. His expression changed, and he stared intently at the coffin.

What exactly is inside?
Why use this coffin to suppress it?
Was it a monster created by Dr. Zhang using other methods?
The hands of a ghost tailor?
Yan Ming instinctively felt that the ghost in this coffin was different from the one in the psychiatric ward outside, but as for what aspects were different...

He guessed that the ghost here might have been stitched up by Dr. Zhang, making it extremely unstable, just like the girl with the dragon-seeking ruler coiled in the hands of the ghost-eyed corpse.

Yan Ming glanced back and saw that the girl with the Dragon-Seeking Ruler also looked horrified, shrinking back involuntarily. Her cervical vertebrae tightened involuntarily, pressing against the Ghost Eye's arm, while her head hid behind the corpse, only daring to show a pair of fear-filled eyes, nervously staring at the ward.

This human-like behavior made Yan Ming feel different; the ghosts he had encountered before would not have acted this way.

The girl with the Dragon-Seeking Ruler escaped from the underground experimental area; the ghosts here are indeed different from those outside.

What exactly is Dr. Zhang experimenting with?
"what?!"

The old woman seemed to sense some danger as well. With a ferocious expression, she approached the small door under the ward and instinctively breathed into it.

"boom--"

This exhale seemed to stimulate the ghost in the ward, and it kicked the coffin lid again, trying to open the coffin and escape.

"Clap clap."

This time, two of the restraints broke. If it happens a few more times, all the restraints on the coffin will surely break, and it will probably be absolutely impossible to suppress the ghost inside.

"It's very fierce, should we run away?" The old woman's feline intuition told her that what was inside was terrifying and difficult to resist.

Yan Ming made a quick decision: "There's nowhere to run. There's another ghost waiting for us over there. If we don't know its abilities, we definitely won't be able to escape."

Without hesitation, his ghostly eye entered the ward and opened inside the coffin, squeezing out a crack in order to peek inside.

However, despite his exceptional night vision, he couldn't see anything; the coffin was empty.

empty?

At that moment, the coffin lid suddenly slammed up and down with a loud bang, followed by the snapping of the restraints.

It wasn't a ghost that had become ethereal, otherwise how could it have touched the coffin lid?
and many more……

Yan Ming, who was outside the door, suddenly realized something. He laboriously bent down and looked up. He saw a thin, ghostly figure lying on the ceiling, struggling to pull on the coffin lid, just like a child playing with a bouncy rubber band.

At this moment, the ghost realized that it had been discovered, so it turned its head 180 degrees to the back and put its hand to its mouth to make a "shush" gesture.

Hush

Don't talk.

Yan Ming was shocked. He instantly realized that the ghost in the coffin had already escaped when the ghostly figure on the ceiling first pulled the coffin lid!

There are two ghosts!

The ghostly figure on the ceiling came to save it, but it escaped the moment the coffin was first lifted. The reason the ghostly figure continued to pull the coffin lid open was...

Get their attention!

There's something behind us!
Realizing this, Yan Ming hurriedly stepped aside from the ward door. He felt that the ghost in the coffin had escaped from the ward and was preparing to launch a fatal attack on him and his grandmother who were caught off guard.

As he dodged, a gust of foul wind swept over the old woman, tearing her in two almost effortlessly. The force of the palm strike was undiminished, threatening to pierce through his body as well.

In a flash, Yan Ming summoned his true form's demon eye and reached out to try and push the attack aside.

"boom--"

Yan Ming dodged to the side, and the attack was affected by Ghost Eye's hands, hitting the ward door and leaving a deep scratch mark on the iron door.

"boom!"

When the third sound of a coffin lid being closed echoed from inside the ward, Yan Ming felt the surrounding scenery change instantly, as if some mechanism had been triggered.

Then his ghost eyes saw his own reflection.

It's the ghost eye in the coffin.

Because he was in a coffin.

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