Mysterious Awakening-Chapter 590: The Revival of Yang Jian?

"It's time to investigate what exactly is going on."

After dealing with Huang Ziya's issue, Yang Jian's deep voice echoed in the empty room, sounding like a ghoul whispering to itself.

He was still maintaining the fourth level of the Ghost Domain, unchanged.

Because maintaining the state he was in before his supposed death was the safest course of action. It would not only conceal him but also block outside information. So far, he had not been attacked, which meant that this was somewhat effective. Even if it wasn't, it was still best not to actively disrupt the equilibrium.

While his voice seemed to still echo in the room, Yang Jian had already disappeared.

He reappeared on the street he was on before.

He stood where he had supposedly died.

There was a patch of congealed blood on the ground that was vividly in sight, and some shattered fragments that had fallen from the body remained.

Apart from that, Yang Jian saw the fallen satellite phone and the eerie Eight-Tone Music Box beside it.

Huang Ziya hadn't taken the music box with her, and Yang Jian hadn't asked her to do so either, because who knew whether the curse of the music box would infect a second person? The safest approach was to leave it there without minding it since it wouldn't get lost within the fourth level of the Ghost Domain.

Yang Jian picked up his satellite phone and saw an unexpected text message on it.

"Yang Jian involved in an unknown supernatural incident, suspected to be deceased..."

"It's a notice from headquarters; they must have determined my status through the phone and think I might be dead," Yang Jian thought. But then he frowned, "Wait, this information isn't right. How could headquarters be sure I died in a supernatural incident? Or did they confirm it?"

He suspected that his attack might have been man-made, but the headquarters defined it as a supernatural incident.

This conflicted with his own conjecture.

"I need to clear this up," Yang Jian decided to contact his operator, Liu Xiaoyu.

But then he found that the phone signal was missing, and he couldn't make contact.

What a joke.

The phone had maintained communication during the Hungry Ghost incident; his fourth-level Ghost Domain simply couldn't block the signal. Many bystanders were able to make calls for help on their phones.

"Headquarters must have cut off my signal," Yang Jian's eyes shifted as he discovered that in addition to being unable to make contact, many functions of the phone were also locked.

This was a sort of software self-protection program, designed to prevent information leaks. Unless the headquarters actively unlocked it, many functions would not be available. Just like when he received Zhou Zheng's satellite phone, he had to wait for the operator to passively contact him, and he couldn't contact the operator himself.

"The information indicates it's a suspected death, but this approach almost confirms that I'm already dead. Otherwise, why cut off the signal? If I were still alive, wouldn't this be a huge mistake at work?"

"There's a problem."

Although young, Yang Jian was extremely sensitive to anything that seemed illogical due to his encounters with many dangerous supernatural incidents.

He felt that the strange attack he suffered previously and the headquarters' illogical attitude seemed to be deliberately covering something up. If he had simply encountered a supernatural incident, headquarters would surely send someone for rescue, just like when Wang Xiaoming was trapped in the Ghost Envoy's domain.

But now.

Yang Jian's vision pierced through the Ghost Domain, and he saw everything around him clearly.

The whole area was locked down.

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Other than Huang Ziya, who had left, the Ping'an Hotel was empty.

Not even a single vehicle was on the streets.

"This is in preparation for dealing with my ghostly resurrection... which means I'm now being treated as a dead person?" The various signs suggested that to those outside, Yang Jian was already considered a deceased ghost master.

Otherwise, they wouldn't handle it this way.

"I need to find someone to clear things up, and it has to be discreet," Yang Jian thought. Since the headquarters was treating him as dead, he could pretend to be dead for a while and disappear from everyone's sight. However, he had to understand the truth.

Liu Xiaoyu.

Yang Jian thought of her.

Being a headquarters staff and his dedicated operator, she should know something, and as she was an ordinary person, contact with her wouldn't cause any accidents.

Only... Liu Xiaoyu should be at headquarters at this time.

Going to find her openly was definitely not an option; the situation there was more complicated than he had anticipated.

"But at this point, why worry so much? Since the headquarters thinks I'm dead, I'll let them know what should happen after my death..."

Yang Jian casually dropped his phone and picked up the Eight-Tone Music Box that was still cursing him.

Then, he opened his ghost eyes.

This time, he didn't just open four of his ghost eyes, but all nine of them.

Under the circumstance of no more than four overlapping layers of the Ghost Domain, the curse of the Eight-Tone Music Box wouldn't be affected, which had been confirmed. Temporarily opening a five-layer Ghost Domain wouldn't have an impact either. As for whether it would if kept open for a prolonged period, Yang Jian didn't know, but he felt that he didn't need to take such a risk since the situation wasn't as bad as he had imagined.

The next moment.

The Ghost Domain, which only covered one street, began to expand rapidly at an almost unbelievable speed.

In a short time, it had covered three or four nearby streets, then almost an entire urban district, followed by a significant part of the city area... and the scope was still growing.

However, Yang Jian couldn't maintain a four-layer Ghost Domain over such an extensive area, so he opted to sustain a three-layer Ghost Domain.

If he wanted to expand the range further, then he would have to reduce to a two-layer Ghost Domain.

But a three-layer Ghost Domain was already enough.

More than half of the city area was covered, including the location of the headquarters.

Yang Jian stood on the street, his nine ghost eyes overlapping into three, casting an eerie red glow and forming three segments of the Ghost Domain. These segments, akin to a jigsaw in a ghost painting, fitted together to form an even larger Ghost Domain.

At this moment.

Almost every ghost master in the city felt it.

"This is..." Li Jun, who had been observing the situation nearby, suddenly raised his head.

Ordinary people didn't notice, but he could see clearly—the whole world seemed to be covered by a red light, and a feeling of being watched by a strange gaze surged in his heart. He looked around and found that the scope of the red light exceeded his imagination; everything within his sight was engulfed.

"Did Yang Jian's ghost awaken?"

A chill crept into Li Jun's heart as his worst fears seemed to be coming true.

"Yang Jian's Ghost Domain?" In a restaurant near the hotel, Zhang Lei paused, feeling a touch of surprise.

"Hey, hey, hey, no way, is this starting to happen already?" Cao Yang, walking along a street, came to a halt, his expression indescribably solemn.

He, too, recognized the terror of this Ghost Domain.

Suddenly, it was as though a vast part of the city was engulfed, without any warning, without time to react.

It was as if... a nightmare was beginning.

"This is bad."

In a villa in a certain district, Guo Fan was taken aback, the joy he felt upon hearing of Yang Jian's death dissipating completely.

"I said it before, with Yang Jian dead, don't celebrate too soon, now look what's happened," Zong Shan's brows knitted tightly as he looked out the window.

A world swathed in red light, with no other colors to be seen.

Headquarters.

There was an area here which the Ghost Domain did not affect, but other places couldn't avoid it.

"Hmm?" In a room, an old man covered in age spots, his dull eyes lacking vitality, shifted slightly, looking in the direction of Yang Jian.

"Wooo!"

In a dormitory, Liu Xiaoyu lay on her bed, her face buried in her pillow still mourning for Yang Jian's death, oblivious to her surroundings and seemingly unaware of anything else.

Ping'an Tower was also within the coverage of the Ghost Domain.

Those who were discussing how to deal with Yang Jian's corpse were, at that moment, all stunned.

"It's Yang Jian's Ghost Domain. This color, this feeling of being watched, there's no mistaking it... The ghost inside his body has come out," Jang Shangbai suddenly stood up, running to the window to look outside, his face turning dark: "This scope, it's shockingly large; half the city is gone."

Using some landmark buildings, he could discern which areas were and weren't affected by the Ghost Domain.

But it was precisely because he figured it out that Jang Shangbai looked particularly grim.

"Damn, are you trying to scare me? Covering half the city upon revival?" someone jumped up from their chair, a look of disbelief on their face.

Jang Shangbai pointed towards the distance and said, "It's easy to recognize. That building over there has lost its light. Starting from there to this end….saying half the city is an understatement. Thankfully, the Ghost Domain extended towards the suburbs; otherwise, the entire city would be inside its reach."

"Does that mean that from now on we could be attacked by ghosts at any moment?" someone else voiced their deep worry.