Around five-thirty in the morning, on the pedestrian street of Dachang City, Wang Liang was driving slowly along when he suddenly stepped on the brake.
The next instant, the rows of streetlights that had originally been glowing white flickered a few times, then abruptly turned a blood-red, radiating an eerie crimson light.
Reflected on the round bulbs of each streetlamp were blood-red eyes, swaying left and right as though they had come alive. It was bizarre and chilling.
Seeing this, Wang Liang sat in the car and murmured under his breath.
“Ghost Eye Yang Jian has come online.”
Yang Jian had indeed not died. Just like in the original plot, he had controlled the Ghost Eye and led people out of the Knocking Ghost’s ghost domain.
The strange red streetlights on the road flickered with a faint sizzle. Immediately afterward, everything along the street returned to normal, and the streetlights once again gave off a soft white glow.
But on the formerly empty pedestrian street, seven people had suddenly appeared. There were men and women among them, all pale-faced, fear still lingering in their eyes, as if they had just witnessed something utterly terrifying.
“Huff, huff… We’re out!”
“This isn’t the school. Where are we?”
“I-It looks like… Yanhua Road Pedestrian Street.”
“It really is that pedestrian street. My house is nearby. We left the school!”
These seven were students from Wang Liang’s class, and also the only students left in his class now: Yang Jian, Zhang Wei, Wang Shanshan, Miao Xiaoshan, Zhao Lei, Sun Ren, and Liu Qi.
By the roadside, the seven who had escaped recalled the scene of being surrounded by countless ghost slaves and the Knocking Ghost just moments ago, their faces still white with fright.
They had not been the only ones walking at the end, but when a swarm of ghost slaves closed in on them at the last moment, another batch had died. And the range of the ghost domain Yang Jian had hastily opened for the first time was not large; it had also been suppressed by the Knocking Ghost’s ghost domain. In the end, only the seven of them remained.
After narrowly escaping death, none of them wanted to move at all. They simply sat down on the roadside, calming the panic and fear in their hearts.
After sitting down, Zhao Lei had only just let out a breath when he suddenly noticed the car stopped in the middle of the street.
“Hiss… Why is there a car parked in the middle of the road over there? Its headlights are still on, and there seems to be someone inside?!”
“If the headlights are on, of course there’s someone there. Ah, wait—n-no way, it couldn’t be a ghost, right? It’s… five-thirty in the morning! Why would that car have its headlights on and be parked in the middle of the road? It’s not like we’re blocking it,” Liu Qi replied. At first he did not care, but then he suddenly caught the problem.
“Wuwu, don’t scare me.” Miao Xiaoshan and Wang Shanshan were both about to cry, instinctively pressing closer to Yang Jian.
“That’s not right! How is it already five-thirty in the morning? Did we really stay in that ghostly place for that long?!” Sun Ren gritted his teeth and spoke at this moment, having discovered another problem.
“Yang Jian, look!”
Yang Jian’s nerves had been stretched taut the entire time. In truth, the moment they came out, he had noticed that place immediately. Now he stood up at once.
“Better safe than sorry. Everyone stand up. It’ll be easier to run.”
“Don’t scare me, Leg Bro. I’ll run first, and you remember to cover the rear.”
Zhang Wei patted the dust off his backside and stood up as well. Compared with the fear and panic on the others’ faces, his expression looked much more natural.
Of course, it was also possible he was simply big-hearted.
The others stood up with trembling fear. After experiencing the Knocking Ghost incident, the survivors all treated Yang Jian as their backbone. Some of them had even developed a strong dependence on him, the sort where whatever Yang Jian said now was law.
“That person’s getting out. Should we run? Hm? Teacher Wang!”
Zhao Lei and the others had originally still been watching the person getting out of the car with some fear.
After all, in the early morning, a car had suddenly stopped on a street with no other people or vehicles besides them, and now someone was getting out of it. To them, having just experienced a haunting, this situation was far too sensitive.
But once the person in that car stepped out, Zhao Lei immediately cried out in shock, and the others reacted the same way.
“Wait first. We still can’t be sure it’s really Teacher Wang. How could Teacher Wang be here? Have you forgotten what happened back at the school just now? Teacher Wang’s phone called, Qian Wanhao answered it, and then that old man was drawn over.”
Yang Jian spoke with a dark expression. The look on his face did not reveal any joy because of Wang Liang’s appearance. He still stopped the others very warily and looked ahead on guard.
This was not only because, in the ghost domain earlier, the Knocking Ghost had used Teacher Wang’s phone to call once, but also because he had previously seen what seemed to be Teacher Wang’s corpse.
Hearing Yang Jian’s words, the others also reacted. They hurriedly retreated and shielded Yang Jian in front of them.
Back in the Knocking Ghost’s ghost domain, among the pile of ghost slaves that had surrounded them at the end, there had also been some of their classmates who had already died.
This Teacher Wang in front of them really might not be a living person!
“Aren’t we already out? Can those ghost things follow us out too?” Miao Xiaoshan hid behind him somewhat fearfully, tightly clutching the clothes on Yang Jian’s left arm as she asked.
Wang Shanshan beside her did not speak, but her reaction was even more exaggerated than Miao Xiaoshan’s. She directly hugged Yang Jian’s right arm tightly.
She had been attacked by a ghost infant before, so she feared these things even more than the others did, and because of that, she depended on Yang Jian even more.
Yang Jian kept both eyes fixed on the figure in the distance who had gotten out of the car and was walking toward them. He raised his left hand and patted Wang Shanshan’s hands, which were holding his right arm.
“Loosen up a bit. Otherwise, if I have to make a move later, you’ll interfere with me.”
Wang Shanshan quickly let go, but she still hid behind Yang Jian, clutching a corner of his clothes just like Miao Xiaoshan.
As that person drew closer and closer, everyone’s hearts rose into their throats. The skin on the back of Yang Jian’s hand split open, and a blood-red eye opened there, its eyeball swaying eerily.
“It’s me.”
Wang Liang waved at Yang Jian and the others, who looked as though they were facing a great enemy by the roadside, and approached them.
“Can ghosts… talk?” Zhang Wei hid in the back and cautiously asked Yang Jian.
Yang Jian hesitated a little. He was not sure either, but up until now, he truly had not seen a ghost that could speak normally. Even the ghost infant that had crawled out of Zhou Zheng’s belly had only let out miserable, piercing shrieks.
Although he found it unbelievable, after that shout, Yang Jian felt in his heart that this Teacher Wang walking over in front of him might be real.
Especially after Teacher Wang drew closer, he could see that at least on the surface, this Teacher Wang looked very normal, not like those controlled dead people with numb eyes and stiff limbs.
After Wang Liang approached, the ghost eye on the back of Yang Jian’s hand trembled slightly, then returned to calm.
Considering that Teacher Wang had also controlled a fierce ghost, Yang Jian felt this was normal enough, but he still prepared to ask something first.
“Teacher Wang, stop there first. Where is your phone?” Yang Jian called for Wang Liang to stop and asked cautiously.
Wang Liang stopped walking.
“I lost it in the ghost domain when I was confronting that ghostly old man. I’m sorry. Looks like it brought you all trouble.”