462: The Man Who Eats Ghosts
After contact with a ghost, the level of danger will sharply increase because any patterns you could find before will become invalid, and the vengeful ghost might undergo some unexpected and eerie changes due to the exorcist’s touch or resistance.
This change is unpredictable, and you can only rely on the ghost within your own body to fight back.
If unable to withstand it, then death is the result.
Therefore, it’s easy to survive in paranormal events, but it is extremely difficult to completely imprison a ghost.
However, the ghost that Yang Jian and his team are facing is no longer a common one found in paranormal incidents, but an almost insoluble ghost, capable of annihilating any exorcist team. Surviving such an encounter is an incredible struggle.
At this moment.
Yang Jian invaded the ghost’s body, trying to reduce the number of ghosts.
But his action was hindered, all the ghosts in his body were suppressed, a deadly restraint, since from now on he has become an ordinary person with no ability to resist.
Meanwhile, the ghost was not affected in the slightest and still had the ability to move and kill.
Watching the ghost, with its back to him, slowly turn its head around, Yang Jian’s neck and even his entire spine seemed to be controlled somehow, also involuntarily twisting along.
His bones seemed to be forcibly turned by an invisible power, making a cracking sound, as if his whole body was about to be snapped into several pieces by the ghost using some incomprehensible curse, to be killed alive.
Yang Jian trembled all over due to the pain, with cold sweat pouring down his face.
He could actually escape.
Abandoning an arm, breaking free from the restraint, and turning to leave might allow him to temporarily steer clear of danger and preserve his life.
But Yang Jian did not do so, as doing that would eliminate any possibility of survival afterward; he had to fight.
Clearly.
At this moment, as the fierce ghost turned its head back, Yang Jian, being targeted, triggered its murder rule.
This was a new kind of eeriness, a new way of killing, and Zhang Lei had some understanding of this ghostly ability; it was not originally the ghost’s, it had belonged to an exorcist named Zhao Hao.
Zhao Hao was also one of the trainees of this batch, just like them.
But now, it’s clear that the exorcist Zhao Hao has died, and this ghost dubbed “Ghost Turns Back” had been seized by the ghost in the Ghost Coffin. Maybe it had already become a part of its bodily puzzle, its abilities fused into the ghost.
If that’s the case, then it’s terrifying.
No matter what, Zhang Lei must stop the event of Ghost Turns Back from happening.
Once the ghost’s neck is fully turned to its back, one of them will surely die, and looking at the current situation, the person targeted by Ghost Turns Back is obviously Yang Jian.
At that moment, Zhang Lei clenched his teeth and charged forward, tearing open his shirt.
Below the shirt was a gaunt, sunken chest, with hardly any flesh, just a layer of greyish-brown human skin tightly clinging to the ribs as if part of a dried-up corpse, and in the middle of his sunken chest was bizarrely embedded a human head.
The head had a nose and a mouth, complete with facial features, closed eyes, in a state of decay, emitting a stench of corpse.
The others, seeing this scene, felt their eyelids twitch and their hearts were startled.
While every exorcist had their peculiarities, few were like Zhang Lei with a Dead Man’s Head growing on their chest.
Without a doubt, that Dead Man’s Head was the ghost on Zhang Lei.
And what was even more terrifying was that below the Dead Man’s Head on Zhang Lei’s chest, down his stomach, was outlined a silhouette of a torso with four limbs.
From top to bottom, the outlines of the arms, legs, and torso became from clear to blurred.
As if, that Dead Man’s Head was parasitizing on Zhang Lei’s body, gradually gestating a new form.
It was somewhat similar to the Hungry Ghost of Dachang City but completely different from the Hungry Ghost.
Because this ghost itself was a decaying human head.
Zhang Lei had already approached the ghost; facing the corpse that was slowly turning its head to him, he said nothing and directly pounced, holding the turning head of the corpse in his embrace.
Daring to embrace a ghost directly?
The others watched in astonishment.
Leaving everything else aside, Zhang Lei’s courage indeed far exceeded that of the average person.
Actually, Zhang Lei had no choice in the matter. His handling of supernatural incidents was quite crude, simply finding the ghost and then tightly embracing it.
As long as a ghost made contact with him, the rotten Dead Man’s Head that grew out of his chest would wake up and devour the ghost whole.
But this ability was very dangerous. After successfully dealing with two supernatural incidents and consuming two ghosts, the rotten Dead Man’s Head on his chest had already started to outline a body. He felt that if this continued a few more times, he might give birth to a horrifying creature similar to the Hungry Ghost.
That’s why he sought out Yang Jian, looking for a way to resolve his problem.
Now, the issue wasn’t about worrying whether his own ghost would revive, but about withstanding the attack of this ghost.
After Zhang Lei embraced the ghost, the rotten Dead Man’s Head on his chest eerily came to life at that moment, its eyelids flickered open, revealing a pair of white, slightly decayed eyes, and then its mouth opened as if to swallow the ghost he held in his arms.
Zhang Lei did not entertain the thought of swallowing this ghost entirely.
He would be satisfied to just devour the ghost’s head because as long as the head was consumed, the Hungry Ghost’s turning attack would be blocked, and Yang Jian would not be killed by another of the ghost’s abilities.
The mouth of the rotten head grew larger and larger, as if it were connected to hell itself, capable of consuming everything.
The unnaturally stretched mouth now covered the ghost’s head, forcibly swallowing the position of half of its skull.
“Crack! Crack!”