The Rules of an Endless Cycle of Transactions

"What does this mean?" Yang Jian frowned when he saw the note.

He had traded a bowl of dog's blood for a bowl of fried rice, and based on his previous deductions, he thought he had completed the deal with the ghost. But unexpectedly, the ghost cabinet made another request to him in the blink of an eye.

Should we move the ghost cabinet out?

Move out. Does it mean move out of this secret room, or move out of this old house?

Looking at the paper in his hand, another thought surfaced in Yang Jian's mind, "Why should I follow the instructions of this haunted cabinet? What if moving the cabinet triggers uncontrollable danger? Wouldn't I be digging my own grave? What would happen if I ignored these instructions?"

He felt he should make such an attempt.

Perhaps nothing will happen after Yang Jian moves the ghost cabinet out, but in that case, he will lose an opportunity to explore the secrets of the ghost cabinet.

You must reduce the frequency of your interactions with ghosts; doing so too often will only bring you bad luck in the end.

After thinking it over, Yang Jian decided to do nothing and observe how the haunted wardrobe would react.

So now he refuses to move this haunted wardrobe out.

While keeping an eye on the changes in the ghost cabinet, he also examined the plate of fried rice in his hand.

I smelled it. It smells so good!

However, Yang Jian certainly wouldn't dare to eat it. There was no need to risk his life for a bowl of fried rice. This bowl of fried rice was just the result of an experiment, and he would dispose of it later.

Ten minutes have passed since they refused to move the ghost cabinet out of the secret room.

Everything was calm, nothing had happened, and refusing the ghost cabinet's request didn't seem to pose any danger. However, out of caution, Yang Jian decided to stay a little longer, lest something unusual happen as soon as he left. It would be bad if something unexpected happened without his knowledge.

However, another five minutes passed.

It should add up to 15 minutes.

At this moment, Yang Jian's gaze sharpened, and he stared intently at the crack in the cabinet door.

A trickle of scarlet blood gradually seeped out and overflowed, filling the sealed room with a pungent, bloody stench.

Is blood seeping from this ghostly cabinet?

"Was the dog blood that was put in earlier spilled?" Yang Jian thought of the bowl of dog blood from before, but then he immediately dismissed the idea.

Because the color of the blood was different from the previous dog blood, this blood was viscous, dull, and black, as if it had been sitting for several days and had become somewhat rotten and spoiled. Moreover, the amount of blood that had overflowed far exceeded the amount of a bowl of dog blood.

As the blood flowed down, it gradually stained the wooden cabinet red and spread to the ground, pooling together and continuously spreading outwards.

In addition, the blood overflowing from the cabinet doors is increasing. Before, it was only from the bottom crack, but now, blood is seeping out from several cracks in the top cabinet doors. No, that's not right. It's not blood seeping from inside the cabinet, but rather blood droplets are gushing out from the old wood.

In less than three minutes, the old, faded cabinet had been transformed into a dull, scarlet wooden cabinet.

The blood seemed to have coated it with a layer of paint.

"This thing is very eerie; the original owner's fear wasn't without reason." Yang Jian's expression darkened slightly as he pondered whether moving the ghost cabinet out of the secret room and fulfilling its demands would quell the strange occurrences.

What if I still refuse?

Continue to observe.

He could tell that although the blood looked frightening, it was actually harmless to him. He didn't sense anything strange about it. This blood wasn't like Yan Li's Yan Li blood, which could suppress other ghosts. So he had the courage to continue letting the ghost cabinet change.

This method of allowing strange objects to gradually revive is something other Ghost Tamer would never dare to do.

Yang Jian was both highly skilled and daring.

Or perhaps he carries a ghost candle, confident that he can handle any situation.

Time continued to pass slowly, and Yang Jian observed the situation of the ghost cabinet with great care.

A quarter of an hour has passed.

The blood had already filled the ground, and the blood had pooled several centimeters higher. If left unattended, the blood overflowing from the ghost cabinet seemed capable of filling the entire secret room.

Could this be the reason why the secret room was sealed off?

Afraid of the overflowing blood leaking out?

However, at this point, a second change occurred.

As the blood gradually submerged the four wooden legs of the cabinet door, the lower cabinet door creaked open with an old, groaning sound.

A strangely swollen hand, soaked in water, reached out from the lower cabinet door and tried to open it, as if the owner of the swollen hand wanted to come out.

With Yang Jian leaving the matter unattended, Chairman Ai's cupboard door was opened halfway.

Strands of black hair hung down from within, damp as if they had just been pulled from the water.

Through the half-open cabinet door, Yang Jian saw that it was not empty, but crammed full, leaving no gaps. However, he could vaguely tell that it was a swollen corpse that had been soaked in water, or more precisely, a female corpse.

Ghost!

A ghost inexplicably appeared under this cupboard.

Yang Jian's face instantly darkened.

He knew things weren't that simple; if he didn't help the haunted cabinet, things would get out of his control.

Nothing happened for the first fifteen minutes, but after fifteen minutes, blood began to seep out.

The blood was harmless, but it was very strange.

This seems to serve as a warning.

In the second fifteen minutes, after the warning ended, Yang Jian still hadn't moved the ghost cabinet out, so the ghost appeared in the lower cabinet door and tried to open it to come out.

What will happen once this swollen, submerged female corpse is unpredictable.

They either need to settle scores with Yang Jian and kill him, or the Ghost Cabinet has disrupted some kind of balance, causing a situation similar to the resurgence of vengeful ghosts.

Neither situation would be a good thing.

And the ghost appeared after only a half-hour delay; what if it had been a day, ten days, or a hundred days?

Could this haunted wardrobe cause even greater harm?

The experiment has achieved its objective.

Yang Jian felt it was time to stop. There was no need for him to directly confront a ghost just for an experiment; it wouldn't do him any good.

"What would happen if I moved this haunted wardrobe out now?"

He wanted to see what the result would be if he fulfilled the requirements.

Immediately, Yang Jian ignored the female corpse struggling to emerge from the cupboard below as it gradually opened its doors. Instead, he used his Ghost Domain to send the ghost cupboard, along with himself, directly out of the old house and onto the roof of a high-rise building in the residential area.

Outside, the sun was shining brightly, and it was even quite hot, completely unlike the gloomy and terrifying atmosphere inside the old house.

Yang Jian stood on the rooftop, next to a bowl of fried rice, but opposite him was a wooden cabinet smeared with blood.

Incredibly, the blood seeping from the cabinet stopped less than three seconds after he brought it out.

Moreover, the cabinet door below, which was gradually opening, creaked shut as if blown by the wind.

Even the wet, drooping female corpse's hair that had been hanging from the crack had disappeared.

All the strange occurrences subsided in an instant.

"I fulfilled the requirements of this haunted cabinet, which is why it has remained calm again." Yang Jian pondered for a moment, and after confirming that the eerie situation would not happen again, he tried to open the lower cabinet door.

Let's see if that swollen, submerged female corpse is still there.

I opened it carefully and took a look.

The room was completely empty. What had happened before seemed like a hallucination, as if it had never occurred. The lower cupboard still contained only three wooden walls; there was no sign of the female corpse.

But Yang Jian knew this wasn't a hallucination, because there were a few strands of black hair and some damp stains left inside the cupboard.

All these signs indicate that a corpse was indeed here just now, but it has disappeared for some unknown reason.

Although the blood spilling from the cupboard had stopped, the remaining blood dried under the scorching sun and formed a layer of dark red paint on the old cupboard.

The ghost cabinet has been completely renovated.

It seemed as if it foreshadowed the reappearance of something that had been sealed away for a hundred years in this world.

Yang Jian sat on the sun-baked cement block, gazing at the newly renovated haunted cabinet, lost in thought, "I wrote down my request for a bowl of fried rice, but the cabinet demanded a bowl of blood. I complied, the fried rice appeared, the deal was done. But then the cabinet demanded to be moved out of the old house, and this condition came along with the fried rice. I refused, and the cabinet started acting strangely. A fifteen-minute warning, and ghosts started appearing after half an hour. Yet I managed to restore the cabinet to normal."

"If we calculate it this way, wouldn't it be two requests to fulfill one condition? This kind of transaction is too unfair. Wait, let me think about it from another angle. When Ghost Chef makes a request to me, can I turn the tables and make a condition to Ghost Chef?"

While pondering, Yang Jian suddenly realized a crucial problem.

This is something worth exploring; it might actually be possible.

"No, that's not right. If the Ghost Chef fulfills my request when I make it, then the Ghost Chef should continue to make demands of me. In this way, the transactions will keep going and will never stop. Moreover, as the transactions progress, the 'amount' of the transactions will become larger and larger. Right now, I might just want a bowl of fried rice, but after dozens of transactions, the Ghost Chef might ask me to kill everyone in the world."

Suddenly.

Yang Jian shuddered, recalling the words left by the original owner. "You will have everything, and you will lose everything. Be careful."

This is an unequal exchange, because ghosts can bear everything, while humans cannot.

Therefore, Yang Jian's decision not to make any demands and to work for the Ghost Chest for free means that the infinite cycle of transactions has been interrupted. If he were to be greedy and continue to make demands, then the transaction would continue until one party could no longer bear it.

But it's clear that the one who suffers the loss is the human.

The rules may be equal, but the difference between humans and ghosts makes this transaction inherently unfair.

"Two conditions for one requirement—that's the true function of the Ghost Cabinet. The greater the value of the required item, the greater the price to pay." Yang Jian came to this conclusion after trying for a long time.