The one sitting up from the coffin was not a ghost.
It was Feng Quan, Dachang City's first person in charge.
He had gone missing because of the supernatural incident in Huanggang Village. Judging by the timeline, he had been missing for more than three months.
Yet Feng Quan was still alive after being missing for so long.
That alone was an unbelievable thing.
Living alone in this terrifying ghost village for so long—anyone else should have died long ago.
Although Yang Jian did not know how Feng Quan had survived, he had no mind to concern himself with that now.
Faced with Yang Jian's questioning,
Feng Quan merely said calmly, "I actually reported the situation here to Headquarters long ago. If you came here to act, you should have been able to obtain that file. Anyone who read it should know about my circumstances. To be honest, in my current state, I can't explain the situation to you personally. I can only barely control the villagers and give you some hints. But that control is very fragile. After all, my condition is terrible right now."
"And at first, I couldn't be certain what your group of Ghost Tamers had really come here for."
"As for that old woman, I did lead her over. That cough wasn't meant to deliberately mislead you. It was only to remind you that someone was helping you, not opposing you, so you would focus your attention on that ghost instead of me."
"Unfortunately, you misunderstood what I meant."
Yang Jian said angrily, "Don't think you can just wash your hands of it. Without your warning, I wouldn't even have known there was someone like you in this place. I read that file. It had been redacted—the key information had been erased."
"You may have