"How could this happen?"
At that moment, Boss He panicked at the sight before him. Not only had the He Yuelian he brought in failed to help, but the moment she appeared, she enraged Yang Jian and prompted him to act instantly.
He could not understand it.
Boss He was certain that He Yuelian and Yang Jian did not know each other and had never crossed paths, much less had any reason to offend one another.
Yang Jian did not even know that He Yuelian was his illegitimate daughter.
Yang Jian gripped He Yuelian by the throat with one hand and lifted her entire body into the air. She struggled weakly, her face flushed red, like a corpse hanging from a beam, able only to watch helplessly as it happened.
The ghost shadow rapidly invaded He Yuelian's body, seeking to obtain her memories.
But something was strange.
After Yang Jian invaded He Yuelian, the memories he obtained were not those of a normal living person. Within her memories, he saw a dim expanse.
A lamp lit up in the darkness.
It was an oil lamp, giving off a faint glow that barely illuminated a patch of darkness.
"Her memories contain only an oil lamp. There are no memories at all. No, that's not right. This should be some kind of supernatural protection. Someone left a safeguard on this woman to prevent others from invading her memories. Or perhaps the problem lies with the woman herself." Yang Jian's expression shifted slightly.
His ghost shadow could read an ordinary person's memories without fail, yet it had failed on this woman, whose appearance was identical to the ghost in the ghost painting.
The oil lamp within her memories prevented the ghost shadow from eroding any further.
"I refuse to believe that lamp can