Mysterious Awakening-Chapter 604: The Sealed Area
Chapter 604 -601 The Sealed Area
Yang Jian had indeed left.
But he did not return to Dachang City. Although he wanted to, there were more important matters at hand.
Fang Shiming was right; killing him was going to be difficult, especially when both parties knew almost everything about each other.
So, Fang Shiming fled, choosing not to keep fighting with Yang Jian, because he realized Yang Jian was in a special state. If they continued, he was certain to lose, and this keen awareness was extraordinary. If he hadn’t been so clear-headed, Yang Jian might have succeeded long ago.
Unable to kill Fang Shiming and unable to hold him, Yang Jian thought of his last resort.
A supernatural event once occurred in the city under Tong Qian’s responsibility.
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Yang Jian once entered the Caesar Hotel with Xiong Wenwen, Lin Luomei, and Luo Su Yi. A vengeful ghost wandered inside the hotel. They almost got trapped there, unable to escape because the ghost’s killing method was very unusual; it didn’t need to see or touch people, it could kill just by stepping on their footprints.
Of course, that wasn’t the purpose of Yang Jian’s trip. His aim was for a certain item.
The ghost seemed to possess a strange supernatural object, an old, rusted knife.
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"If I could obtain that supernatural object, maybe I could have the ghost’s ability to kill by stepping on footprints… But I can’t be sure whether the ghost and that object are one entity, or if they exist separately.”
Yang Jian didn’t rest.
The curse of the Eight-Tone Music Box echoed in his mind like a death knell. Although the curse could last for a few days, there was no guarantee.
After all, there was very little data gathered, and the duration of the curse was unstable. Some people might survive for three days, others for five, but there was also a chance that the unlucky ones would only last a day.
Even headquarters couldn’t fully understand it.
"We’re here.”
Yang Jian used Ghost Domain to travel instantly, arriving at his destination in less than a minute.
Caesar Hotel!
This was a locally famous hotel, but due to the supernatural event, it, and the surrounding area, remained sealed off. No one dared to set foot here. Even at night, there were patrols to prevent the daring and skeptical from sneaking in for an adventure and accidentally releasing the ghost.
Yang Jian took a moment to observe.
The hotel had undergone some changes since he had been there last. The walls, windows, and even some of the ventilation ducts had been completely sealed with cement, leaving no gaps. There were also many infrared alarms nearby; they would be triggered by the living as well as the dead.
Clearly, Tong Qian had upgraded the protection after Yang Jian had left.
"The ghost in the hotel doesn’t have Ghost Domain, and with the hotel being completely sealed, the corpse couldn’t have left on its own. So, it’s very likely that it’s still inside, and with my current state, I should be able to completely imprison the ghost here.”
Yang Jian evaluated himself and felt quite confident.
When he first came to the hotel to address the supernatural event, he only had control over two ghosts.
Now, he controlled three ghosts, had three slots to suppress ghosts, the Undying Curse from the Eight-Tone Music Box, and enough information about the situation; otherwise, he wouldn’t dare to enter this place alone.
After a cautious observation, Yang Jian used Ghost Domain to pass through the thick cement walls and directly entered Caesar Hotel.
There was no light inside the hotel. With both water and electricity shut off, even if there were lights, they would be mere decorations.
The first thing Yang Jian felt upon entering was darkness and oppression. Besides that, the murky air was faintly permeated with the stench of decaying corpses, a smell that lingered and seemed to fill the entire hotel.
"The ghost has been wandering around this hotel.”
Yang Jian looked down.
The dusty floor bore many footprints of varying shades. They were all the same size, probably from the same person, no, from the same ghost. The footprints were black, a color formed by the decay of body fluids that had leaked from the ghost’s body.
The hotel’s floors were covered with these disordered black footprints, and Yang Jian even saw footprints on the low walls, indicating the ghost had tried to walk along them at some point.
But the footprints on the wall stopped just over a meter high and did not continue.
However, Yang Jian had taken a precaution during his previous visit: he had used Ghost Domain to remove all the tiles on the five floors of the hotel, erasing all footprints left by those who had passed through.
If he didn’t do this, the ghost, after he left, would wander recklessly for some time, killing who knows how many people.
Now, although the ghost’s footprints covered the hotel, it hadn’t killed a single person.
Because no one had entered the place since the incident, it was impossible for the ghost to find footprints to step on, thus it couldn’t trigger its murderous pattern.
Yet such a simple rule of murder had been discovered by Yang Jian only after risking his life.
"The ghost isn’t on the first floor.”
Yang Jian remained cautious, because there were still mysteries in the hotel he did not understand, so he only tentatively covered the first floor with the Ghost Domain.
After confirming the absence of the ghost on the first floor, he extended the Ghost Domain to the second floor.
Immediately.
No trace of the ghost was found on the second floor either; everything was arranged just as it had been before, no different whatsoever.
The Ghost Domain covered the third floor.
At this moment, Yang Jian’s brow furrowed, a hint of puzzlement arising.
In one of the third floor’s private rooms, he actually discovered a corpse.
Immediately.
Yang Jian went to that private room on the third floor.
He wasn’t mistaken; indeed, there was a corpse curled up in the corner, already dead, emanating a foul stench.
"This is not a body left over from the last paranormal event, but one that died later, death time… not more than fifteen days, and not killed by the ghost either, the corpse shows no clear signs of being severed,” Yang Jian made a rough assessment of the body’s condition.
But he was puzzled.
The Caesar Hotel had already been completely closed; he had confirmed this from the outside earlier, and under the coverage of the Ghost Domain, Yang Jian discovered that even the sewers had been sealed off, making it impossible for anyone to enter without breaking through the walls.
Therefore, the likelihood of someone sneaking in was very low.
"No cellphone on the body, no identification… this is an unidentified corpse.”
Yang Jian couldn’t find any information on the body, only vaguely deducing it was that of an ordinary female, definitely not a ghost controller.
A ghost controller’s death wouldn’t look like this.
"Although strange, there’s no need to waste time on this ordinary woman’s body.”
After confirming there was nothing wrong with the body, Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain continued to cover the fourth floor of the hotel.
He was very careful while searching the fourth floor.
Because on the fourth floor of the hotel there was an additional mysterious passage which he had once explored; it was an unknown place of mystery, with only doors like those of guest rooms, and the ghost was suspected to have come out from there. Moreover, what made him weary was that the rooms were not decorated in the style of the hotel.
They resembled the style of an old inn, and some rooms were believed to be dangerous. Yang Jian hadn’t dared to randomly enter any room before, only entering rooms numbered 13 and 31 due to information guiding him.
"The ghost isn’t on the fourth floor… nor the fifth floor.”
"Is it just like last time, disappearing into that corridor that doesn’t belong inside the hotel?”
After confirming there was nothing special in other areas, Yang Jian alone came to the corridor on the fourth floor.
A red carpet stretched along the ground deep into the passageway ahead.
On both sides of the corridor were individual guest rooms, each with a room number plate hanging above, starting from 1, 2… extending onwards. The end of the corridor was not visible, unknown how many rooms were inside, nor where it stretched to.
Yang Jian was certain that everything inside was real, not an illusion created by the Ghost Domain.
"Find that ghost quickly.” He did not hesitate and for the second time stepped into the somewhat familiar passageway.
