Mysterious Awakening

Chapter 582: Chapter 579 Stand Up

A young couple squatted by the side of the road, their expressions filled with terror as they used the bottled water they had just purchased from a nearby supermarket to wash off the blood on their faces.

The blood wasn’t their own, it belonged to the now-dead Yang Jian.

When Yang Jian was first attacked, his neck was almost completely severed, and blood sprayed everywhere. The couple, who had just happened to pass by, were unfortunate enough to get splattered. Even now, they couldn’t stop trembling as they recalled the horrific scene of the man’s head splitting apart.

"We’re really out of luck, what was wrong with that guy, his neck just split open all of a sudden,” said the boyfriend, still shaken, as he looked at the bloodstained tissues scattered on the ground and asked, “Is there still any blood on me?”

"It’s almost all wiped off; there’s just some on your clothes that won’t come out,” replied the girlfriend, also terrified, nearly scared to death.

"Forget about it if it won’t come out, let’s just go home and change clothes. Speaking of which, what’s wrong with this street now, why is everything glowing red, is there something wrong with my eyes?” the young boyfriend flicked the water droplets off his hands and looked around.

...

Since the street was crowded and nothing particularly unusual was happening, he did not feel the least bit afraid.

"What’s wrong?” asked the curious boyfriend.

The girlfriend, her hand trembling, pointed across the street to where they had been sprayed with blood.

"That person, he’s standing up… but he has no head.”

The boyfriend also looked in that direction, his eyes suddenly narrowing, a chilling coolness racing to his scalp,

At that moment, the body of the person who had died in the accident stood rigidly there, headless, with congealed blood staining it, the dreadful wound on its neck still dripping residual blood.

From the clothing on the body, the young boyfriend could be very sure that it was the same person who had unexpectedly lost his head earlier.

"How can someone stand up without a head? Is that even a person?”

He muttered to himself, then realizing something, a shiver ran down his spine and he quickly pulled his girlfriend forward, “Come on, let’s get away from here, don’t stay around, something feels very wrong.”

This young man wasn’t the carefree, thrill-seeking type. He felt a terrifying danger, although he didn’t know what it was, something was definitely off, so the best thing was to distance himself.

Distance himself from the headless male corpse, from this strange street enveloped in red light.

However, they weren’t the only ones who had noticed the standing headless body.

But most people didn’t pay much attention, thinking it was some kind of prank, or mistaking it for a mannequin placed at the storefront. Furthermore, most people were discussing the peculiar phenomenon of the street, so the existence of the body was overlooked. Even if a few people noticed something was wrong, they quickly moved away.

Those trapped on this street could never imagine,

That the suddenly standing headless body was in fact a ghost coming back to life. No, to some extent, the ghost had already come back to life; it was just that Yang Jian used to control it, suppress it, but now, without this restraint, the ghost was released once again.

"It worked.”

At the same time, beneath the standing headless body, from a head split horizontally into two halves, a pair of eerie red eyes tore through a layer of scalp and appeared at the back of the head.

After some time, Yang Jian’s consciousness finally found an eye.

A ghost eye remaining at the back of his head.

At this moment, his vision returned, the restless ghost eye moving around, its unique perspective once again emerged in his mind.

"So my head has actually split into two halves; my consciousness resides in the upper half of my head, which explains why I can’t feel my ears and eyes,” Yang Jian realized he now had only the top part of his head, from his hair to his forehead, along with the halved brain under the skull cap.

Yang Jian wasn’t too surprised by his current state.

After everything he had been through, there was nothing he couldn’t accept about the changes in his body, nothing that warranted any overreaction.

The only thing that unsettled Yang Jian was seeing his own body standing still next to him, motionless, as he controlled the ghost eye.

Before the attack, Yang Jian clearly remembered being face down on the ground, seeing his own body fall.

But now… the body had started moving on its own.

"Is it the instinct of the Ghost Shadow controlling the body?” Yang Jian’s controlled ghost eye moved and he noticed there were no black shadows around his headless body.

Meaning, the Headless Ghost Shadow had taken over his body.

The Headless Ghost Shadow paired with the headless male corpse seemed to be a perfect match.

"The body isn’t moving because the Headless Ghost Shadow is in a stalled state, lacking the initiative to kill unless someone touches the Headless Ghost Shadow,” Yang Jian analyzed the current state of his body.

"But this won’t last long, the Headless Ghost Shadow is missing my head, and it will certainly go in search of another head.”

"And in the fourth layer of the Ghost Domain, once the Headless Ghost Shadow begins its search for a head, everyone here will become components for the Ghost Shadow.”

"I must reattach my head as soon as possible.”

Yang Jian immediately understood the situation around him and also knew what he had to do now.

His ghost eye rotated again, emitting a faint red glow, as he tried to move his own head directly back onto his neck.

But he failed.

A single ghost eye cannot open another layer of the Ghost Domain within the fourth layer.

The Ghost Eye could not conflict with its own power.

"I need to find someone to help, to use the most direct method, to put my head back on my neck, otherwise once the Headless Ghost Shadow finds another head, I won’t be able to return,” Yang Jian felt an urgency.

Because the Headless Ghost Shadow would seek a fresh head to place on its neck, it was innate instinct.

So when the Headless Ghost Shadow had a better body, Yang Jian’s damaged head would not be accepted, it would instinctively be rejected.

Just like when the Headless Ghost Shadow actively replaced its hand with a Ghost Hand.

When it encountered a better Ghost Hand, of course, it would discard its own decaying hand.

Luckily, after the Headless Ghost Shadow malfunctioned, it had already lost the ability to move without being stimulated; otherwise, after Yang Jian fell asleep, the Headless Ghost Shadow would have gone to find limbs to reattach by itself, like that time in Dachang City when it attacked Jiang Yan several times uncontrollably while he was with her.

It was only because Yang Jian was awakened that he suppressed it and Jiang Yan was unharmed, otherwise, she would have died long ago.

"A ghost malfunction isn’t all-powerful, once the innate needs of the Headless Ghost Shadow become stronger and it starts to move, to kill, the state of malfunction will gradually be lifted… until it fully revives.”

"There is still time.”

Yang Jian’s clear thinking was running again, as he began to contemplate his next move.

Unable to speak or hear, he needed someone to help put his head back and place it on the body.

The difficulty wasn’t very high, but almost no ordinary person could do it.

First, they couldn’t understand such a terrifying phenomenon, and second, they didn’t have the courage.

Third, Yang Jian didn’t want to waste time asking these passersby for help, lest it delay his self-rescue.

"I need an experienced necromancer,” his half head even started to ache.

Where to find someone?

And also draw them into this fourth layer of the Ghost Domain.

Moreover, the person brought in had to be trustworthy, to follow his orders, and not come in just to handle his own remains.

But in the short time he pondered,

The headless corpse standing beside Yang Jian began to move again. This time it wasn’t a random twisting of the body but rather shaking its hands and taking steps, its stiff body began to move towards the direction of the largest crowd.

One step, another step, the footsteps were very heavy.

But the Ghost Shadow’s adaptability was astonishing; before it had walked a few steps, the lurching corpse began to regain its balance.

After three or five steps, it was walking as freely as a normal person, just like when he first encountered this ghost in the mall

The Ghost Shadow’s instincts were rapidly awakening.

Yang Jian even guessed that once the Ghost Shadow attached someone else’s head, it would probably wake up from its malfunction.

"There’s no time for me to think, if I give the Headless Ghost Shadow any more time, it will control my Ghost Eye, and then I can only wait to die.”

Yang Jian was unwilling to think further, and could only make the safest choice.

Immediately.

His only ghost eye rotated, looking in the direction of Ping’an Hotel.

The next moment.

The fourth layer of the Ghost Domain began to spread towards the direction of the Ping’an Hotel.

He was unable to open or close the Ghost Domain, but he could control the direction of the Ghost Domain’s coverage.