In an open area of the training base.
Yang Jian, Zhang Lei, Wang Jiang, Huang Ziya, and another person gathered together in a small circle.
A white candle stood in the middle of them.
Once lit, the candle was extremely strange, giving off black light. The black light enveloped them, as though they had been submerged in darkness.
The candlelight flickered.
A cold, sinister presence shrouded the area. In this quiet, empty, dark environment, the slightest disturbance was enough to set everyone's taut nerves quivering.
The ghost candle had been burning for over ten seconds.
Everyone looked grim. From this moment on, a real ghost could appear nearby at any time. They needed to remain alert to every movement around them and identify the ghost's location immediately.
Yang Jian crouched down and opened his duffel bag, seemingly making preparations at speed.
"Although I feel like I shouldn't ask this, I still have a suggestion. Why don't we leave the ghost candle here and go look for the others? Since the ghost candle attracts ghosts, we shouldn't need to stay here, right?"
The unfamiliar Ghost Tamer looked at the burning candle on the ground and proposed what he considered a safer approach.
Without looking up, Yang Jian said, "Do you think the ghost candle will keep burning normally after we leave? The ghost might blow it out. Or after the candle draws the ghost here, the ghost might leave again. There's also the possibility that the candle itself will be attacked. I've used ghost candles around ten times now and encountered plenty of unexpected situations. I considered your idea long ago."
His experience handling supernatural incidents had reduced the chances of him making mistakes.
And the higher the level of the supernatural incident, the lower the margin for error. One wrong