Wang Liang shook his head and activated the supernatural power of the ghost blood.
Cold black blood gurgled out from the soles of his feet and spread outward, the stench of blood permeating the air. Beneath him, it formed a puddle of black blood, its surface reflecting Wang Liang’s figure.
Once the black blood had formed, Wang Liang’s severely burned body began to rot on its own. His whole body stiffened, and he fell backward rigidly into the pool of blood.
But very soon, a pale hand reached out from the ghost blood on the ground, and a brand-new, completely unharmed Wang Liang climbed out of it.
The clothes on his body were still largely burned and tattered, but his injuries had fully recovered. There was no trace of burns left at all.
“Heh, a new discovery.”
Wang Liang wanted to restore his physical condition before making second contact with the old woman ghost later, but he no longer had any photographs on hand to perform an alternative reboot.
All the photos he had brought with him before coming here had been burned away when he approached the old woman ghost just now.
So he tried summoning the ghost blood, forming a reflection on the surface of the blood, and using that as the medium for a reboot.
However, the reflection of Wang Liang formed on the surface of the ghost blood was naturally the same as Wang Liang in reality: badly burned over a large area, with his clothes in tatters.
Previously, when releasing Sadako’s curse on the reflection cast on the surface of the ghost blood, Wang Liang had only gone as far as summoning a derivative Sadako. He had never carried out an alternative reboot with it.
So Wang Liang did not know whether rebooting a reflection that likewise appeared heavily burned would restore his body to its original state,
or whether it would merely copy and paste him, rebooting him once again in a burned state.
Now the result was out. It seemed that as long as there was a medium capable of rebooting, then no matter what state the medium was in before the reboot, and no matter whether the version of him in the reflection was healthy and intact,
after the reboot, Wang Liang’s physical condition would definitely be restored to perfect health.
At most, the clothes formed by the supernatural would be exactly the same as the medium used before the reboot—completely mirrored and copied. If they were burned and tattered clothes, they would remain burned and tattered.
Of course, items like the coffin nail and the phone definitely could not be copied and rebooted. The fact that the clothes on his body could be copied and rebooted along with him was already an inexplicable supernatural phenomenon.
After repairing his body, Wang Liang waited here for half past two in the morning to arrive.
The watch on his wrist had already been burned, leaving Wang Liang unable to determine the passage of time.
Moreover, after becoming deeply involved in a supernatural incident, due to supernatural interference, a person’s sense of time could sometimes become blurred. It might seem as if only ten or so minutes had passed, when in reality several hours had already gone by in the outside world. Such things were entirely possible.
This was also one of the terrifying aspects of the supernatural. If one could control this supernatural power involving time, then one would possess the so-called ability to reboot time. That was an ability even more powerful and troublesome than Sadako’s alternative reboot.
Yang Jian’s ghost eyes had potential in this regard. The ghost domain formed after layering the ghost eyes could, at the sixth layer, freeze the surrounding environment; at the seventh layer, reboot time for himself; and at the eighth layer, even reboot time for an entire area.
Wang Liang was somewhat envious of such an ability, but he believed that as long as he could control more movie ghosts and continue surviving, sooner or later he would also gain command of this power.
While waiting, Wang Liang idly swept his gaze over this supernatural land.
In this supernatural land, from here all the way to the distant boundary shrouded in thin mist and impossible to see clearly, Wang Liang was the only living being.
In the firepits scattered across the ground, corpse after corpse was being burned by dark-orange ghost fire, crackling and popping.
Changxing Road had already been sealed off for some time. Human corpses could not possibly keep burning here forever.
Even if time was chaotic in some places within this supernatural land, if the corpses of most ordinary people kept burning here the whole time, sooner or later they would probably be reduced to ashes.
This dark-orange ghost fire was not like Li Jun’s ghost fire, which only burned the supernatural. This ghost fire would even burn real-world objects, flesh, and blood.
But after Wang Liang roughly swept his gaze over them, he discovered that some of the corpses in these firepits were clearly no longer human in shape, almost just charred masses burning inside, impossible to distinguish what they had once been.
Yet the corpses in a few of the firepits were actually still quite intact, and they were not Tie Ge and the other three who had only died yesterday. This was clearly abnormal.
In other words, among the firepits burning here, there was a high probability that the bodies of malevolent ghosts were being burned within them, constantly serving as nourishment for that old woman ghost.
After all, ghosts could not be killed.
Thinking of this, Wang Liang got up and walked over, weaving between the firepits. When he passed one of them, he stopped.
What was burning in this firepit was a middle-aged man dressed in an old-fashioned long robe, lying quietly in the flames with his eyes closed.
But what was strange was that as the ghost fire burned, it did not even burn through the man’s clothes.
“The Eerie Value went up. What’s burning in this firepit isn’t a human, but a malevolent ghost! I’ve picked up a bargain!”
During his brief confrontation with the old woman ghost earlier, the system’s Eerie Value had increased by 9%, reaching 26%. If he made contact again, it could continue rising.
And now, after Wang Liang waited in front of this firepit for a while, the Eerie Value finished recording and had already reached 31%.
Seeing that the Eerie Value had finished recording, Wang Liang suddenly had a whim. Cold ghost blood surged out beneath his feet, Sadako’s curse spread, and he summoned two derivative Sadakos to crawl out of the ghost blood.
Then Wang Liang controlled the two Sadakos, making ghost blood emerge from their hands, before having them reach into the firepit in front of him and begin tugging up and down at the middle-aged male ghost’s clothes.
Was this the distortion of human nature, or the collapse of morality?
Wang Liang did not care. In any case, he felt that this piece of clothing might be a supernatural item made from a malevolent ghost, something valuable. It reminded him of Ye Feng’s ghost burial shroud in Dachang City. He could not let it go.
The dark-orange ghost fire burned Sadako’s arms, scorching them until charred cracks appeared.
But ghost blood flowed over Sadako’s arms, delaying the time before they were burned away. Before their arms were completely destroyed, they tugged at the clothes frantically.
The malevolent ghost being burned in the firepit was in a dormant state. The two derivative Sadakos did not expend much effort and easily stripped the old-fashioned long robe off the ghost’s body.
But at this moment, Wang Liang frowned, because after the long robe was pulled off the ghost’s body, before it could even be taken out of the firepit, this robe—clearly not of a modern style—was suddenly burned to ashes by the dark-orange ghost fire and ceased to exist.
“A wrong judgment. This wasn’t a supernatural item. The reason it could remain intact was because of the malevolent ghost inside the firepit.”
Seeing this, Wang Liang immediately lost interest. He no longer looked at the naked male ghost in the firepit, turned his head, and left.
After leaving this firepit, Wang Liang continued searching for other firepits burning with malevolent ghosts.
However, he did not know whether it was because the malevolent ghosts that the old woman ghost could easily burn into dormancy with ghost fire were not strong, or because dormant malevolent ghosts provided slightly less Eerie Value than normal ones.
In any case, the malevolent ghosts Wang Liang found and recorded in several firepits all provided very little Eerie Value, around 1% to 5%. That middle-aged naked male ghost had actually provided the highest amount.
Something big is happening, something big is happening!!!!! February 28th—today there’s a seven-star alignment, a rare celestial phenomenon! Those of you who want to transmigrate had better seize the chance!
Review the must-memorize rules for transmigration in advance, and brush up on the general plotline of Mysterious Revival. Who knows, it might come in handy.
Those drinking tonight should also be careful. Be ready at any moment to open your eyes and find yourself facing the old man knocking at the door!
If you really transmigrate, brothers, just obediently follow Yang Jian. Don’t get cocky and gamble on probabilities. Oh right, test Yang Jian first and apologize to Yang Jian. At worst, you’ll just end up sweeping floors in Guanjiang Residential Complex.