After everyone had left the room, Yang Jian looked at the Ghost Painting again.
The Ghost Painting had not changed at all, and the ghost inside had not followed them out. That was good news. For the time being, he could safely lock this room up and leave the Ghost Painting here.
Although this thing was dangerous, he felt that he needed to keep this exit for now, because it was the only entrance and exit to the Ghost Painting that he had under control. It might come in handy someday.
"I need to go back and try the transaction with the Ghost Cabinet." Yang Jian felt that he had found the source of the Ghost Painting, which should count as completing the transaction.
But to be safe, he still reached out and touched the Ghost Painting.
The suppression took effect.
At that moment, the cold and eerie aura in the room began to dissipate, and the lights immediately returned to normal. Then, the window on the wall changed shape and became the frame of an oil painting. The pitch-black exit vanished, reverting to the appearance of an oil painting, but the scene within the painting had changed.
The background had become a deep, narrow alley, with a city lying silent in a dim world far away. Yet at the entrance of the alley, the figure of a woman with blurred features was clearly visible. No one knew when that ghost had arrived there. It seemed that if Yang Jian and the others had been a few minutes later, the entrance would have been blocked by the ghost.
*The world in the background has grown larger. It is no longer just a residential area like before. Sure enough, the Ghost Painting cannot stay in one place for too long. It