Chapter 468: 465 Chapter Deception
“Ah, huff!”
In the dark, the desperate breathing of someone running for their life could be heard. Although the breaths were already weary, the person dared not stop running.
Holding a Ghost Candle in her hand, Huang Ziya revealed deep fear in her eyes as she fled alone.
She dared not stop.
Because she could feel countless Ghost Ropes descending from above, drifting towards her.
She needed to buy time.
To give Yang Jian and the others a final chance, only then might they all possibly survive.
But the courage she had mustered at that moment could not sustain her forever.
When darkness began to erode her vision, when she had already lost her way and was all alone…
With no help and overcome by fear, Huang Ziya cried while she ran, her tears flowing uncontrollably.
Her spirit was on the verge of collapse.
However, Huang Ziya clenched tightly to a strange doll in her hand.
It was her only hope now.
Yang Jian had said that in a critical moment, she just needed to drop a drop of blood on the doll, and it could save her life, ensuring she wouldn’t be killed by the Ghost Rope.
Huang Ziya felt she had been foolish. Yang Jian’s words might have been a deception because someone needed to sacrifice themselves to create an opportunity.
She was filled with immense regret. Had she known, she wouldn’t have volunteered to rush out.
But now, it was too late for regrets.
All Huang Ziya could do was to believe in Yang Jian’s words, to trust that the doll in her hand would really work, and to have faith that their plan would succeed.
In the darkness, her breathing became heavier and her pace slowed down.
She no longer had the physical strength to continue.
Soon, she would collapse on the ground, exhausted, and that would be her chance to use the doll.
At this very moment.
The opportunity had arrived for Yang Jian.
He had successfully removed the face of the ghost.
Looking at the blood-stained old newspaper with its blackened, serene yet eerie dead face, a chilling unease surged in his heart.
Was this memory manipulation really effective?
If it wasn’t, what then? He had used all his methods and had exhausted everything usable.
It could be said that he had reached this point with nothing left, even facing the danger of the ghost’s resurrection. If he failed now, there was nothing left to do but wait desperately for death.
At that moment, the ghost had lost the ability to move.
Thanks to the cooperation of Yang Jian, Zhang Lei, Wang Jiang, and others, they had managed to suppress the ghost to just eight.
The ghost had chosen to use Ghost Rope with its remaining energy. Even though its indiscriminate attacks nearly killed them all moments ago, it ended up losing its mobility. This is because controlling Ghost Ropes does not require it to move; the ropes would independently seek to kill others.
And because Yang Jian and his group had not achieved an absolute suppression, the ghost was not able to trigger a restart function.
Having lost its ability to move and unable to restart for a second wave of attacks, the ghost could only stand there as rigidly as a corpse.
Like it had crashed.
So, this was the perfect opportunity to act.
But this chance had been created by Yang Jian, who risked his life several times and exhausted all his resources. There would not be a second chance like this, nor could it be replicated. Even under the same conditions, he couldn’t guarantee that they would reach this stage again.
Without wasting a single second.
He quickly picked up the blood-stained old newspaper, ready to start altering the ghost’s memory to make it misjudge the number of its own kind.
The number of ghosts it believed it had should be nine, so what number should he change it to make the ghost misjudge?
Should he directly make it believe that there is only one ghost?
Yang Jian’s gaze shifted as he prepared to make the change, but then froze.
Even if the number of ghosts was changed, how were they to leave this place? At best, it would only ensure that no one would be attacked by the ghosts for a while, but they would still be trapped in the Ghost Domain.
The Ghost Domain seemed unsolvable.
“The chance to alter memories comes only once. Once I give the face back, there may be unforeseen changes. If it doesn’t work as expected, then this opportunity will be wasted,” Yang Jian did not dare to be careless and furrowed his brows deeply.
“Yang Jian, the ghost seems unable to move now, but the surrounding Ghost Domain is still here, and there’s no way to see the exit. What do we do next?” Wang Jiang looked at the vast darkness around him, still very anxious.
The ghost was restrained, but what next?
Zhang Lei said, “Stop bickering. Yang Jian is thinking of a solution. We’ve come this far, which proves Yang Jian’s method is correct. I can feel we’re at the last step, and we absolutely cannot make a mistake now.”
“We need to hurry. It looks like Qian Yi is about to kick the bucket,” another unfamiliar Ghost Controller remarked, tasked with observing the surroundings.
He saw Qian Yi, suspended in mid-air, had already passed out due to excessive blood loss. Although still breathing, death seemed imminent.