Wang Xiaoming had never dealt with the human-skin paper before. He had only borrowed it for half an hour and obtained a great deal of information. He did not believe the content written on it, but Wei Jing's existence proved that the information on the human-skin paper was real.
It carried a certain degree of credibility.
That was precisely why Wang Xiaoming had devised this plan involving the ghost coffin and the spirit tablet to solve the Music Box Curse inside Yang Jian's body. As for a trap, he had not guarded against one, because he had thought that, in the end, either Guo Fan or Yang Jian would survive. Thus, he had not worried about causing either of them to die.
But why was Guo Fan a ghost?
There was absolutely no reason for it.
Wang Xiaoming froze where he stood. He was thinking, analyzing, gathering all the clues together and linking them into a logical chain.
No supernatural phenomenon could be entirely without patterns. So long as one carefully observed and studied it, one could find the cause of everything. What seemed unreasonable was actually reasonable at certain moments; one simply did not know it, with one's thinking still stuck in the past, and thus could not make sense of it.
"When Guo Fan used the ghost candle to lure Ghost Painting away from the outskirts, he switched places with the ghost inside the spirit tablet. Then he... lost control. Guo Fan's loss of control caused Ghost Painting's operation to fail, but afterward, for some unknown reason, he recovered again and did not die from a ghost's revival."
Suddenly, Wang Xiaoming seized upon an important clue.
"In other words, Guo Fan had already 'died' at that time? He died because the evil ghost in the spirit tablet revived.