Mysterious Revival

Click.

A sound of metal breaking echoed as the iron chain on the abandoned building's enclosing gate was cut short; the rust-covered iron gate now opened.

Spotlights had already been lit nearby, and all the light converged inside the building, thoroughly dispelling the surrounding dimness, making it even brighter than daylight. Aside from that, the nearby security preparations were complete. From this point on, other than Yang Jian, Li Yang, and Sun Rui, no one else could enter this place.

"President Sun, we've confirmed that there's no one else inside," a person reported.

"Good, you're responsible for standing guard. Leave the rest to us. Remember, no one is allowed past this fence, don't trust any phone calls or messages unless I come out and give the order. Also, you haven't forgotten the instructions from Captain Yang, have you?"

Sun Rui spoke again with a heavy voice, "Without permission, if anyone tries to break in here and doesn't heed warnings, take them down immediately. I don't want any accidents."

"Rest assured, President Sun, we'll ensure it's done."

Sun Rui nodded. He gestured and said, "Captain Yang, after you."

Yang Jian didn't stand on ceremony and strode in, with Li Yang and Sun Rui following behind.

The land around the abandoned building was an open field overgrown with weeds and cluttered with construction debris that hadn't been cleared for many years.

He only glanced briefly before heading straight for the abandoned building.

"Just before, to avoid some troubles, I bought this building. It is now my private property, and Yang Jian can handle it however he sees fit," Sun Rui, limping with his cane, followed behind while giving a reminder.

In the past few hours, he hadn't been doing nothing.

Most of his time was spent looking through Yang Jian's information.

Especially the incident where he fought with his circle of friends, it was said that he wiped out several floors of the Ping'an Tower.

That is to say, Yang Jian's Ghost Domain could now interfere with reality.

This was a rather terrifying discovery.

"Your arrangements are even more thorough than mine, it seems there's a reason headquarters appointed you as the person in charge of this city," Yang Jian praised.

Sun Rui laughed, "Luck, pure luck."

"By the way, do you know a person named Pei Dong?" Yang Jian suddenly asked about a rather unfamiliar name.

"Pei Dong?" Sun Rui's gaze shifted, "I know him, how could I not? He was in the same batch of heads as me. I heard he's already dead."

"Not dead yet. He suffered from a Pendulum Clock curse. To break the curse, he attacked Feng Quan. If you get any information about him in the future, let me know; I might as well take out that guy when I get a chance," Yang Jian continued walking into the abandoned building as he spoke.

The interior of the building was dark and damp, and the air was thick with a musty smell. Many places on the ground even had standing water. Despite the spotlights outside, there were still areas the light didn't reach. As they walked, the echo of their footsteps filled the empty floors, creating an indescribable sense of oppression.

"Certainly, certainly," Sun Rui chuckled awkwardly.

He understood in his heart that this was Yang Jian warning him not to try anything foolish; otherwise, Yang Jian wouldn't hesitate to take him down.

Pei Dong's situation was merely a pretext, the real intention was not the stated one.

However, the more this was the case, the more at ease Sun Rui felt because it meant Yang Jian had no real designs on him; it was just a precaution.

"There are no doors here, Captain Yang; I'm of little use," Li Yang whispered.

Yang Jian calmly said, "There will be doors. Don't worry, just follow my orders."

Li Yang nodded and did not speak further.

The three seemed rather silent, with Yang Jian leading the way in the dim environment. His Ghost Eye surveyed everything, no corner could escape his observation.

However, despite being dark and damp, the abandoned building appeared to have no issues.

In fact, this was expected.

If it were so easy to find a problem, the building would likely never have been constructed since construction sites are certainly bustling with activity.

"It's very normal, isn't it? I've looked into the records for this place. Other than a few construction workers who died from falls during the building phase, nothing strange has happened. Also, before this operation, I had people come in to scout," Sun Rui said.

"You sent people to scout?" Yang Jian stopped in his tracks.

Sun Rui nodded, "Of course."

"If ordinary people could find the problem, we wouldn't need the likes of us," Yang Jian said, his eyes shifting slightly before he suddenly reached out and grabbed the wall beside him.

His hand, black and stiff, bizarrely penetrated the wall. When he pulled it back out, there was something in his palm.

"Take a look, what's this?"

In Yang Jian's hand lay a gleaming golden ring.

"A gold ring?" Li Yang was taken aback. "But why would it be in the wall? Could it be that a construction worker accidentally left it behind?"

"Accidentally left behind?" Yang Jian looked away and moved to the other side, crouching down to grab something from the cement floor.

He pulled out a women's gold necklace.

Then he looked up at the ceiling.

An old-fashioned gold bracelet suddenly fell from the ceiling onto the floor.

"Do I need to find more things for you?" Yang Jian asked.

Sun Rui's morbid, deathly pallor grew even more gloomy, "Gold is not affected by supernatural powers, so the only thing that can go missing is the people themselves, their gold jewelry couldn't possibly disappear, thus it is left behind... This is the scene of the incident, those missing people have been here."

"So you're saying, there must be ghosts in this abandoned building."

He touched the cane in his hand and came to this reasoning and speculation.

Li Yang's face underwent a sudden change, as if he could already envision the scene of a fierce ghost wandering this derelict building.

Yang Jian casually threw the gold ring he was holding to one side, producing a dull sound, then slowly said, "Wrong, the ghost isn't in the abandoned building, it's just that the building was coincidentally constructed on a site where it never should have been."

"Why do you say that?" Sun Rui asked.

Yang Jian walked back and then said, "I've had this suspicion before, that the appearance of ghosts seems to seep into the real world from some Ghost Domain, not truly appearing out of nowhere, and if a Ghost Domain can hold up for a while, it can overlap with reality, yet without intersecting with it."

"It's like two spotlights shining on the same place at the same time, the beams overlap but do not affect each other."

"Therefore, this building intersects with a Ghost Domain, and although it is not affected, if there are fierce ghosts inside that Ghost Domain, they will certainly affect reality and gradually seep out, perhaps that is why this abandoned building keeps having accidents and cannot be completed successfully."

Yang Jian stopped in his tracks; he had come to the outside of the abandoned building.

"An incredible hypothesis," Li Yang exclaimed in amazement.

"So, Yang Captain, what do you plan to do?" Sun Rui asked slowly, leaning on his cane.

Yang Jian calmly said, "It's true that a Ghost Domain can block out the influence from reality, but if someone also possesses a Ghost Domain, they can use this supernatural power to counter-invade it."

"Now, I'll show you what this abandoned building really looks like."

Having said that.

His ghostly eyes suddenly snapped open.

In an instant, the sky around was dyed a bloody crimson, the nearby floodlights also turned red, and the building in front was drenched in a red glow.

However.

Yang Jian's ghostly eyes overlaid again.

This time, the third layer of the Ghost Domain opened.

The building before him quickly became blurry and started disappearing from sight.

"The building is gone?" Sun Rui gripped his cane anxiously.

"Not enough," Yang Jian said coldly.

The fourth layer of the Ghost Domain overlaid.

At that moment, something unbelievable happened.

In place of the disappeared abandoned building, suddenly, an old piece of architecture appeared out of nowhere, five or six stories high, not of modern style but of the Republic of China Period, with a dim and ominous atmosphere, as if shrouded in a layer of fog, with only a general outline visible and not very clear, like a mirage.

"This is a building from the Republic of China Period," Sun Rui's eyes widened.

Yang Jian's guess was correct; the reason this abandoned building couldn't be completed was indeed due to an overlap with a spooky location.

"Even the fourth layer of the Ghost Domain can't invade this building? It would take the fifth layer to potentially counter-invade it, which is on the same level as the Ghost Coffin, this place would be extremely dangerous if there were ghosts," he pondered with a flicker in his eyes, hesitating.

"Sun Rui, Li Yang, get ready, if I deepen my Ghost Domain, we'll be able to counter-invade it, and there are definitely ghosts inside that Republic architecture, I can feel it."

"Damn it, we're really going in? Captain Yang, won't you reconsider?" Sun Rui felt his hair stand on end in an instant.

That old and eerie building, could they really enter it and come out alive?

The moment Yang Jian issued the warning, he had already made up his mind.

The fifth layer of the Ghost Domain opened.

In an instant.

The red world collided with that mist-enshrouded Republic of China Period building.

Yang Jian's Ghost Domain began to invade, tearing through the fog, and everything before them finally came completely into view.

It was a five or six-story Republic of China style building, with windows and a door.

Above the door, a plaque hung with traditional characters "Ghost Post Office," beside it, neon lights of various colors shone brightly, as if afraid of not being conspicuous enough.

"Let's go." Yang Jian's Ghost Domain had already invaded, and with a low shout, he disappeared with the two others from the spot.

And in the instant, he attempted to break into the "Ghost Post Office."

On the very top floor of the building, the fifth floor, no, actually just above the fifth floor at a window, the window was suddenly flung open with a bang.

An eerie shadow stood there, like a living person, yet also like a cold, lifeless puppet, but it was vaguely visible that a piece of a vintage black long coat fluttered at the window.

"Thud! Thud! Thud!"

Footsteps sounded from the top floor as if a corpse was stepping on wooden boards.

Some terrifying spectral presence seemed to have been disturbed by the intrusion of Yang Jian and the others.