Li Zhuiyuan, a corpse retriever, travels through a mysterious resurrection.
Chapter 6 The Trap of Human Skin
"What method?" Yang Jian felt uneasy. Did Li Zhuiyuan want to use living people for experiments?
Li Zhuiyuan wanted to use that human skin paper.
Things that can predict the future are rare, and he wouldn't easily reveal them.
But considering that Yang Jian still led his classmates to escape when facing the pursuit of vengeful ghosts, he concluded that Yang Jian was a reliable person.
Without hesitation, he took out the strange human skin paper from his pocket.
"What is this?" Upon seeing the human skin paper, Yang Jian felt a chill run down his spine for no apparent reason.
Li Zhuiyuan said, "Paper made from human skin can predict the future."
"Human skin!" Yang Jian's eyes widened as he saw Li Zhuiyuan holding it in his hand with such nonchalance, and his heart skipped a beat. He didn't know whether to describe Li Zhuiyuan as oblivious or fearless.
"You have quite a few weird things in your hands," Yang Jian couldn't help but remark.
His ability to wield the Ghost Eye in strange spaces was already terrifying enough, but what Li Zhuiyuan possessed was even more outrageous.
As an ordinary person, he always carried the sleeping ghost baby that had escaped from Zhou Zheng's belly, and had a piece of human skin paper in his pocket that could foresee the future. He had just snatched a bloodstained old newspaper from his ghost father.
Li Zhuiyuan seemed particularly interested in ghosts, which everyone else avoided.
Li Zhuiyuan picked up the human skin paper and asked, "What's the purpose of this bloodstained old newspaper?"
Soon, distorted characters appeared on the parchment.
My name is Li Zhuiyuan. By the time you see this, I will already be dead...
Yang Jian, who had come over to watch, was immediately taken aback. When he noticed that Li Zhuiyuan showed no emotional fluctuation, he suppressed his confusion.
Today, I went to Yang Jian's house, and we browsed information on the Ghost Tamer website together. Exhausted, we fell asleep when a ghost capable of altering memories appeared. He tried to alter my memories, but he failed? Yang Jian's memories were also altered by the ghost, making him believe the ghost was his father. After I saw through his deception, the ghost intervened. I saved Yang Jian while also snatching a bloodstained old newspaper from the ghost's hand.
This blood-stained old newspaper can steal a living person's face; once the face is taken, memories and life remain on it. Writing messages on a face becomes a command, influencing that person's subconscious.
Upon seeing this, Yang Jian was very glad that he had invited Li Zhuiyuan to go home with him, otherwise he might have died at the hands of his ghost father.
"That ghost has no face, so after it used this newspaper to steal a person's face and covered its own, it possessed that person's face and memories." Through the information revealed by the human skin paper, Li Zhuiyuan quickly deduced the ghost's murder logic.
"No wonder that ghost is different from most of the ghosts described on the Ghost Tamer website. It has already attacked other people, so it has the consciousness of a living person and can think for itself."
Yang Jian said with a solemn expression, "A ghost with the consciousness of a living person? Inscribing commands in memories? This ghost is too terrifying. Given enough time, who can tell whether the people around them are human or ghost?"
After learning the purpose of the blood-stained newspaper, Li Zhuiyuan didn't care how terrifying the ghost was; instead, a different thought arose in his mind.
The ghost baby in his hands fell into a deep sleep. If he took the ghost baby's face off with a blood-stained old newspaper and covered the ghost baby's face with a living person's face, would that create a special ghost tamer?
To test his theory, he continued, "Could blood-stained newspaper alter the consciousness of a ghost infant?"
Yang Jian's body trembled, and he looked at Li Zhuiyuan with a shocked expression.
He actually wanted to use something from one ghost to change another ghost?
New information immediately appeared on the parchment.
After learning about the bloodstained newspaper's abilities, I had an idea. Taking advantage of the ghost infant's slumber, I would remove its face and cover it with a living person's face, creating a unique ghost tamer—a vengeful ghost's body, a living person's consciousness.
Only those who control ghosts can truly survive in this world, and I want to be that exception. I plan to first remove the ghost baby's face with the blood-stained newspaper, then cover my own face with the newspaper, and finally have Yang Jian help me cover the ghost baby's face with the newspaper.
After accomplishing all of this, I succeeded.
"We can't trust this thing!" Yang Jian said anxiously. "Li Zhuiyuan, the human skin paper is too eerie. We can't believe what he says."
"It was verified at the school before, and the information on the human skin paper is all true." Li Zhuiyuan narrowed his eyes slightly.
He thought it was worth a try.
The fact that the ghost in Yang Jian's house failed to invade his consciousness just now shows that his mental world is strong enough to resist supernatural forces.
Yang Jian saw that Li Zhuiyuan wanted to try, so he quickly pressed down on his shoulder and advised, "Li Zhuiyuan, are you really sure? According to the Ghost Tamer website, becoming a Ghost Tamer means facing the risk of vengeful ghosts resurrecting, and Ghost Tamers are constantly tormented by supernatural forces, causing their emotions to become indifferent and gradually disappear. Can you face all of this?"
"I can handle it," Li Zhuiyuan replied calmly. "Controlling the power of vengeful spirits is very interesting to me."
The gradual loss of emotions was not a problem for him at all. He had no emotions since birth, and even now he was just a demon in his heart trying to redeem himself.
His ego, devoid of any emotion, was sealed away in his mental world.
"You..." Yang Jian wanted to continue persuading him, but seeing Li Zhuiyuan pick up the blood-stained old newspaper, he changed his words and said, "If things don't go well, I will try to save you. If a situation arises that I can't handle, I will run away."
Li Zhuiyuan nodded and covered the ghost baby's face with the blood-stained old newspaper.
Bloodstained old newspapers obscured the eerie, bluish-black face.
At first, there was no interaction between the ghost baby and the newspaper.
As time passed, after a few minutes, the ghost baby's limbs began to twitch, as if the ghost baby was struggling against the newspaper.
At the same time, the newspaper gushed forth blood.
The blood seemed to boil, soaking the entire head of the ghost infant.
Yang Jian's breathing became rapid as he stared intently at the ghost infant, ready to use the supernatural power he controlled at any moment.
Li Zhuiyuan remained calm as he awaited the outcome.
Because the ghost baby was in a deep sleep, the confrontation between the two did not last long.
After the brief confrontation ended, the ghost baby returned to calm, and the newspaper stopped oozing blood.
Li Zhuiyuan reached out and lifted the blood-stained newspaper.
The ghost baby lost its appearance. At this moment, the ghost baby was the same as the vengeful ghost that appeared in Yang Jian's house. It had no face, no features, and was just a lump of flesh.
On the newspaper was a face with tightly closed eyes and bluish-black cheeks stained with blood.
As the two watched, the face belonging to the ghost infant gradually faded and disappeared into the blood.
Li Zhuiyuan then covered his face with the blood-stained newspaper.
Yang Jian, who was standing to the side, immediately showed a look of shock.
In that brief moment, he saw the ghost baby's face reappear on the newspaper.
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