Mysterious Awakening

"What does Professor Wang want to do with Yang Jian?"

At this moment, on the rooftop, the special forces team leader Li Jun was still focused on the conversation between Yang Jian and Wang Xiaoming under the canopy in the playground ahead, but at this time, a familiar figure climbed up, asking between breaths.

The speaker was Zhao Jianguo.

Although he had been dismissed due to a work mishap and no longer worked at headquarters, his rich work experience led him to be assigned to the training base.

His main task at the moment was to receive the responsible person.

He had almost moved away from the core department.

"Not quite clear," Li Jun replied calmly. "But aren't you afraid of accidentally falling to your death by climbing so high?"

"If I accidentally fell to my death, it would be a relief from the daily worries," Zhao Jianguo said; "It's okay if you don't want to talk about it, but I heard that it's been quite unrestful at headquarters recently, and it all has to do with the team leader's plan. I'd opposed implementing this plan for a reason, it's very risky to place hopes on a small group of people. It's not good for the nation."

"Moreover, this could result in a great loss of skilled personnel. If Yang Jian is unable to be selected as team leader, do you think he'd resign?"

Zhao Jianguo laughed, "If even talents capable of handling S-class paranormal events can't be retained, it indicates significant flaws in the team leader's plan."

"But there's no better way to replace the team leader's plan, right? Supernatural events are on the rise, becoming more complex. At first, a single international ghost controller could handle an event, but now, we often require support; with the constant death of ghost controllers and the reduction of new international ghost controllers... this is a disaster that's brewing." Li Jun turned to look at Zhao Jianguo.

"Hence, we must be prepared for the situation to get out of control. Maybe we can't ensure safety everywhere, but at least we should secure safety within certain areas."

"There's nothing wrong with the team leader's plan."

Zhao Jianguo laughed, "Whether there's something wrong with it isn't for us to say anymore. Let's wait for the consequences. If this step is miscalculated, we are all sinners."

At this moment, under the canopy.

Yang Jian was staring at Wang Xiaoming, hoping for a reasonable explanation.

Wang Xiaoming looked up at the sky, "Humans are actually quite simple, not complicated. The instinct to maintain bodily functions, plus one's own thoughts and a bit of incomprehensible emotion, and ghosts, they aren't complex either. Stripping away their supernatural terror, they're not much different from us."

"If there's any real distinction, it's probably that they lack emotions and self-aware thoughts, existing in this world in a simple yet spooky way, or even within our own concepts."

"The reason why utilizing the Ghost Coffin for ghost transformation failed is that those who succeeded lost their emotions. Without emotions, the nature of the fierce ghost gradually took the upper hand, devouring the self-consciousness. What do you think is left in the end?"

Having said this, he withdrew his gaze and looked toward Yang Jian.

"A ghost," Yang Jian said coldly.

He was facing this very situation. The instincts of the Headless Ghost Shadow were influencing his thoughts, and once they had swallowed his consciousness, although Yang Jian wasn't a resurrected fierce ghost, it would be as if he was no different from one. By then, he would no longer be human, but also a ghost.

"Exactly. After the experiment succeeded, I didn't cultivate someone with ghost transformation as planned but merely nurtured a pure ghost—a new kind, with certain human features, more terrifying and more bizarre. That coffin wasn't prepared for people; it was for ghosts. It's a coffin for nurturing ghosts."

Wang Xiaoming's expression was somewhat downcast, as if the failure of the experiment had hit him hard.

Yang Jian heard the horror of that experiment in his words.

"It seems I've found the wrong person. Your experimental failure made me realize this path is impassable." After a moment, he stood up, decided to leave.

Since Wang Xiaoming's experiment could only breed ghosts and not solve Yang Jian's own issues, he saw no need to continue the conversation.

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After all, the relationship between the two was not friendly, and it seemed like Wang Xiaoming was harboring some agenda of his own.

"Although the experiment failed, I can solve your problem," suddenly, Wang Xiaoming spoke up again.

"Are you deceiving me?" Yang Jian stared at him.

Wang Xiaoming glanced at his palm, "That suicide video you gave me last time gave me a great inspiration. It's a new method to control fierce ghosts, quite extreme yet very effective. Later, I tried to analyze the purpose of your suicide and concluded that it wasn't suicide at all, but a necessary ritual. The purpose of this ritual was to actively trigger the killing rule among the fierce ghosts, causing those that would not intersect to collide because of your existence."

"There are only two outcomes to this endeavor. You die, and the ritual fails."

"You live, and the two conflicting ghosts are likely to crash like a frozen program, falling into a state of sleep that's not easily disrupted."

"Under such a state, if the ghost master is still alive, it must be terrifying, for with the fierce ghosts asleep, one doesn't have to worry about their resurrection, and the ghost master can use the ghosts' powers without restraint. Afterward, I paid close attention to you, confirming my guess was correct."

Wang Xiaoming slightly looked up at him; "You've been frequently using the ghosts' powers lately without any sign of their awakening—a luxury that someone who controls two ghosts does not possess. Even during your travels, you've utilized the ghosts' powers so extravagantly."

"So, either one of the ghosts inside of you has fallen into a sleep as I thought, or you yourself have gone mad, eager to die once the fierce ghost awakens. But I think you are still sane, so we can rule out the least likely answer, and the remaining conclusion is quite obvious."

Yang Jian's face remained calm, unmoved.

"You aren't surprised, are you? Because you left that video for me to see. When you committed suicide, you weren't sure whether you would succeed, but the method to control the ghosts was worth studying. So, that video was specifically prepared for me. For this, I must thank you. You've done better than I imagined."

"You've said so much, what do you want?" Yang Jian said, "Beating around the bush isn't like you, Bruce Pi."

Wang Xiaoming said, "Let's make a deal then. I need 'it' as a bargaining chip. In return, I will immediately devise a new plan for you to resolve your current issue, and at the same time, I will give this to you."

He took out a pitch-black, diamond-shaped, spiky object from behind the stool under him.

It looked somewhat like a large nail, but it felt oddly familiar to Yang Jian.

That rusty coffin nail.

"What is this?" Yang Jian asked.

Wang Xiaoming said, "You've seen it before. The ghost that is being nurtured inside the Ghost Coffin, although the experiment was a failure, there were still some gains. I used your method to cause it to crash, and with Li Jun's help, I crafted it into a more familiar shape for you, one that doesn't cause fear easily."

"Does it resemble a coffin nail?"

"What?" Yang Jian was shocked at that moment.

The ghost was turned into this nail by Wang Xiaoming?

"Don't be nervous; it is very stable, at least for now. You know its specialty—the ghost can make three others lose their powers brainlessly. If we ignore some side effects, its value is equivalent to that of a coffin nail," Wang Xiaoming said.

Yang Jian's emotions were in turmoil, his mind exploding with information as some bizarre puzzles were unraveled because of Wang Xiaoming's presence.

If the ghost in the Ghost Coffin, after crashing, turned into this nail, doesn't that imply that the nail that held the Hungry Ghost before was also once a ghost?

A ghost of unknown level, but one that had crashed.

Thus, the saying that only ghosts can deal with ghosts has always been true.

Yet, an even greater mystery appeared.

If the coffin nail was a ghost, then who created it?

Could the nature of other supernatural objects also be ghosts?

But if a crashed ghost could be turned into such special objects, then what about the Talisman Paper, the Ghost Cabinet, and other objects that seemed to possess almost wisdom-like supernatural qualities?

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