Nighttime Shadows

Night.

On the bed on the second floor of the apartment building.

Yang Jian lay on the bed facing the ceiling, spread out in a large "X" shape, forcefully occupying almost the entire bed.

Wearing her pajamas, Jiang Yan didn't want to sleep on the floor, so she could only pitifully curl up to the side, guarding her own little patch of land, like a maidservant in a landlord's house.

The two were already fast asleep.

The room was quiet with the lights off and dimly lit, save for the occasional sound of a car horn.

But then a car headlight flashed past the window, slightly brightening the already dim room.

Changes in light.

The space around the bed gradually darkened.

On the wall behind Yang Jian, something was vaguely wriggling in the darkness, undergoing changes he was unaware of.

"Beep!"

A car drove by, its headlights shining through the window again.

The room brightened again from dark.

When the light shone on the wall above the bed.

Suddenly, a dark shadow appeared out of nowhere.

Logically speaking, since Yang Jian and Jiang Yan were both sleeping in bed, their shadows shouldn't have appeared in this direction.

However, things turned out to be quite bizarre.

The shadow stood there upright like a person, and was slowly moving.

If you look closely at the shadow, you can see that...

This shadow has no head.

The area above the neck was empty, with only the bright wall visible. The shadow of the head seemed to have been cut off by something, and it simply didn't exist.

While Yang Jian was asleep.

The headless ghostly figure began to act restlessly again.

After all, it was a vengeful ghost.

Furthermore, when controlling a second ghost, the suppression between ghosts cannot be perfectly achieved; one will always be stronger and the other weaker.

To maintain balance, the Ghost Tamer must control the scales; otherwise, they will lose control if they are careless.

Just like a toppled stack of blocks.

Everything painstakingly built will collapse in an instant.

The crisis of the vengeful ghost's resurgence will occur again.

The headless ghostly figure slowly moved forward along the wall.

It went down the stairs and then walked along the living room toward the front door, seemingly determined to continue its obsession.

To piece together a body.

The black shadow was stretched long, as if it had become a thin thread, and the headless ghost's body gradually twisted. Before it could even leave the door, it had already been pulled out of shape, leaving only a long black shadow on the ground.

We tried several times in different directions.

The headless ghost ultimately couldn't get too far from Yang Jian.

It seemed to have become Yang Jian's shadow, forever unable to escape this host.

Finally, the headless ghost slowly retreated and stood gently by the bedside.

It remained motionless, like a dead corpse.

I don't know how much time passed, maybe more than half an hour.

The headless ghostly figure that had been standing motionless suddenly moved again, slowly reaching out its hand towards Jiang Yan, who was sleeping beside it.

Having no other choice, it could only select this body.

However, it froze again just as its hand was halfway out.

It's like a machine, prone to intermittent malfunctions.

It cannot fully control its own actions.

But what horror has in abundance is time and patience.

Another hour or so passed.

The headless ghost moved again, and this time it touched Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan was completely unaware of what was happening around her.

However, just as the headless ghostly figure was gradually merging into Jiang Yan's body, it suddenly froze, its shadow pausing.

At this moment, Yang Jian, who was fast asleep, suddenly sensed something and abruptly opened his eyes.

When he opened his eyes, he saw a tall, thin, headless shadow standing by the bedside, and half of the shadow's body had already merged into Jiang Yan's body next to him.

Jiang Yan's face was pale and her body was gradually getting cold, but she was still fast asleep.

If she continued to sleep, she feared she would be killed by the headless ghost in her sleep without even realizing it.

"Damn it."

Yang Jian felt a chill run down his spine, cursed under his breath, and immediately stopped the headless ghost's actions.

It was as if the five Ghost Eye embedded in its body opened at once.

A crimson light descended.

In an instant, the headless ghostly figure was pinned down by the Ghost Eye and fell to the ground, transforming back into a shadow.

Everything immediately returned to calm.

It was a close call, but no real harm was done.

"Will this headless ghost cause trouble if we don't pay attention to it?"

Yang Jian sat up, his brows furrowed deeply. He was wide awake, filled only with a nameless fear.

I finally managed to sleep relatively soundly tonight, without that restless urge to recover, and without feeling paralyzed in bed.

But unexpectedly, after resolving one hidden danger, another one has been left behind.

We should be more cautious about this headless ghost from now on.

Even Yang Jian himself didn't know when this ghost would cause trouble. The safest way was to be vigilant 24 hours a day, and to control it as soon as there was any unusual movement, thus maintaining this fragile balance.

But wouldn't that mean he wouldn't need to sleep all day long?

Can this person handle it?

Yang Jian fell into deep thought.

"I thought I didn't have to worry about my situation for the time being, but now it seems that it's only a little better than before. The resurgence of the vengeful spirit is still there, it's just taking longer."

Even after controlling the second demon, the danger still remains.

Late at night.

He didn't sleep all night.

He didn't feel tired, perhaps due to some changes in himself.

In the past few days, while arranging for Jiang Yan to acquire gold, Yang Jian was also trying to figure out the uncontrollable pattern of the headless ghost.

He discovered.

There is absolutely no pattern to it.

The headless ghostly figure would appear out of his control at least three times a day, and at most six times.

Furthermore, the duration of the operation is uncertain.

The duration can range from over an hour to nearly two hours, to less than a minute.

The fluctuations are significant.

It's a completely uncontrollable and uncertain factor.

Fortunately, even when out of control, the headless ghost wouldn't attack him, but instead targeted others around him.

Jiang Yan has been attacked at least five times in the past few days.

She just never knew it.

How can we completely suppress the headless ghost?

On this day, Yang Jian opened a newly forged gold box.

Inside was a dark brown human skin.

In Huanggang Village, the human skin paper that even ghosts could devour was seen by Yang Jian as something even more terrifying than a vengeful ghost.

Ever since that incident, he had been extremely wary of this human skin paper, so much so that a couple of days ago, Yang Jian specially had a gold shop make a new gold box and put the human skin paper inside.

The parchment inside the golden box remained completely still.

No black characters appeared; it did not respond to Yang Jian.

"After this human skin swallowed that ghost, it underwent some kind of change that I don't know about, and this change is still continuing," Yang Jian pondered.

Since there was no response, he didn't ask any further questions.

The box was immediately closed and locked.

He won't open it again unless absolutely necessary.

This thing is very strange, so we shouldn't rely on it too much, lest we fall into the trap set by the evil spirit step by step.