Chapter 196: 196 The person who walked out of the Ghost Mirror
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
Several consecutive gunshots echoed throughout the neighborhood, brief and urgent.
The sound was loud; even Yang Jian in his room heard it.
Is this… gunfire?
Immediately, Yang Jian frowned and became alert.
Why would there be gunshots in a normally quiet community?
“Could it be Zhang Wei testing a gun? No, something’s off about the sound, the gunshots are too hurried, not like test firing… More like returning fire as if someone’s in danger.”
While he was pondering, suddenly, something caught his peripheral vision.
Yang Jian abruptly saw the black cloth covering the Ghost Mirror bulging outwards, outlining the shape of a palm.
It was as if a hand had suddenly reached out from within the Ghost Mirror.
“What’s going on?” Yang Jian instantly tensed up.
The Ghost Mirror had been fine for several days; why was there suddenly activity today?
Could it be related to the earlier gunfire?
Or was it that, imperceptibly, some balance within the mirror had been broken and a ghost was trying to come out?
But before he could contemplate further,
as the black cloth covering the mirror was yanked down by the palm, the Ghost Mirror appeared before him once more,
Inside the mirror, a person identical to Zhang Wei was stretching his hand out of the mirror, his face showing a look of horror as he struggled to leave. However, eerie hands, greenish, pale, and decaying, reached out from all around the mirror, seizing Zhang Wei’s body and legs and relentlessly dragging him back into the mirror.
It seemed that the ghost inside the mirror was unwilling to let this Zhang Wei go.
“This is different from before,” said Yang Jian, his expression unchanged.
Previously, the ghost that looked just like Zhang Wei stood inside the mirror, motionless for three days without taking any initiative to step out.
But now…
“Brother Tui, save me~!” Zhang Wei struggled to push his head out of the mirror, like a drowning person coming up for air and calling for help.
Quickly, the hands inside the mirror pulled Zhang Wei back in,
this time, Zhang Wei had no strength to resist and was dragged further and further away.
“Could it be…” Yang Jian remembered the words on the human skin scroll.
If the message revealed by the human skin scroll was true, then the current Zhang Wei…
The next moment,
Yang Jian rushed to the front of the Ghost Mirror and, just as Zhang Wei’s hand was disappearing into the Ghost Mirror, he immediately reached in and grabbed his arm.
The warmth of a living person traveled from his arm, confirming that this Zhang Wei was alive and not a ghost.
“Just as I suspected.”
Yang Jian yanked hard, trying to pull Zhang Wei out.
But countless hands behind Zhang Wei offered him relentless resistance. Before Yang Jian could pull him out, the force made him stick to the mirror, with half of his body pulled in, instantly overwhelmed.
The force emanating from the mirror was surely not human; if it weren’t for the fact he was stuck outside the mirror, he would have been pulled inside the Ghost Mirror immediately.
“Trying to compete with me for a person? All of you, get lost,” Yang Jian’s ghost eye opened.
A red glow permeated into the Ghost Mirror, then enveloped Zhang Wei.
Hoping to use the method that saved his cousin to rescue Zhang Wei.
However,
when he attempted the transfer, it failed.
On Zhang Wei’s ankle lay a skinless, bloody hand clutching tightly; even the Ghost Domain seemed unable to affect it, and the Ghost Domain itself felt somewhat restricted.
“What kind of thing is this, able to grasp a person even within the Ghost Domain?” Yang Jian was shocked.
He could influence other palms, but that one hand remained unaffected.
There was no other way. If the ability of one ghost was not enough, then the ability of two ghosts should suffice.
The black ghost shadow under Yang Jian’s feet also merged into the Ghost Mirror.
This was a dangerous move.
Once the Ghost Shadow was also pulled in and acquired a ghost’s body, it was uncertain whether it would counterattack him after leaving the Ghost Mirror, especially since the human skin paper’s warning still lingered in his mind.
But with the entrance of the Ghost Shadow,
Yang Jian felt the tremendous pulling force disappear.
The hand that was grasping Zhang Wei’s ankle seemed to have chosen to let go.
“Bang~!”