A New Feng Quan
Looking at the image of Feng Quan's face stuck to the ghost newspaper in his hand, Yang Jian's first task was to erase the traces of the ghost's alteration and then add the content he wanted to modify about the memory.
"Judging from the handwriting on this ghostly newspaper, it's less about a ghost being able to alter memories and more about the implantation of malevolent thoughts."
Yang Jian hesitated for a moment, then reached out and wiped away the messy writing on it.
The writing wasn't difficult to erase; it was just words written with an ordinary pen. After a few smears, the writing became blurred and quickly disappeared, mixing with the bloodstains next to it.
Then, he found a pen in the room, thought for a moment, and wrote the first line: Forget all grudges between you and Yang Jian, remember that Yang Jian saved you many times, he is your savior.
Let's settle our previous grievances with a single sentence.
The second sentence: You are very grateful to Yang Jian, willing to help Yang Jian, and obey his orders without considering the consequences.
This change is to make Feng Quan Yang Jian's future assistant. As for the other memories, Yang Jian does not plan to touch them, because the more memories are altered, the easier it will be for him to realize that he has a problem. Therefore, blindly altering most of the memories is a very foolish thing to do.
However, Yang Jian felt that modifying two places was still not enough to be safe.
He added another point: You and Yang Jian have a very good relationship. Anyone who tries to sow discord between you is a bad person. Stay away from such people.
"This way, I can avoid anyone noticing that something is wrong with my relationship with Feng Quan and alerting Feng Quan. After all, Feng Quan is a smart man, and I can't let him realize that his memories have been altered," Yang Jian thought to himself.
He then added a few more lines.
Some of Feng Quan's personality traits were altered, and some of his vengeful tendencies were eliminated. Even if he were to discover one day that his memories had been tampered with, his personality traits would prevent him from doing anything terrible.
After finishing, Yang Jian checked it and said, "That's about it. As long as the memories are altered as expected, I can rest assured."
"Wait, I don't know if it will succeed or not. I need to add a verification message."
Suddenly, Yang Jian added one last comment, "People like to call Yang Jian 'Brother Leg'."
This is crucial.
If Feng Quan's memory has been successfully altered, then the first thing he'll say when he wakes up will definitely be "Brother Leg." If not, then the memory alteration has failed.
After doing all this, Yang Jian made sure nothing was missed, then grabbed the strange newspaper and covered Feng Quan's face again.
However, contrary to expectations, his face did not return to his body smoothly and remained stuck to the blood-stained old newspaper.
"A face can only be taken off, not put back on?" Yang Jian frowned immediately.
He then realized what the problem was.
Because Feng Quan is not the ghost that alters memories; that ghost can put a face on something, but Feng Quan doesn't have that ability.
Removing the face, altering memories, and then putting the face back on—that's the ghost's ability.
Yang Jian has only obtained this ghost newspaper so far, so this ability is not perfect and has flaws; it is an incomplete supernatural ability.
"No wonder the method for controlling the crying and smiling faces on the human skin paper chose Tong Qian as the target. Because Tong Qian is a ghost, only she can reasonably change any face without this problem. So, does this mean my experiment is going to fail?"
His eyes flickered slightly.
An alternative approach has been considered.
That was to use the ghost image to restore Feng Quan's face.
Because the headless ghost has the ability to piece together bodies, whether it's a human body, a ghost body, or even something that isn't a body.
Like shadows, they fit together perfectly.
"We have no choice but to give it a try."
Yang Jian used part of the headless ghost shadow to continue suppressing Feng Quan's corpse, while another part invaded the ghost newspaper through his palm.
The suppression of the headless ghost was very successful.
Immediately, Feng Quan's face, which was pasted onto the newspaper, fell off.
At the same time, the ghost newspaper returned to its previous state, stained with blood, ancient and eerie. The words Yang Jian had just written on it had also disappeared. It was unclear whether it had lost the ability to alter memories or whether the memories had been changed.
Whether successful or not, Yang Jian has to get his face back on first.
The ghostly figure coalesced into a black hand, which took away the face and then covered Feng Quan's head.
The assembly was easy; it was completed in no time.
However, Yang Jian was unsure whether it would achieve the desired effect, since these were two different kinds of ghosts doing the same thing, and whether it would produce the same result would only be known after the results came out.
"I need to leave within five minutes at most, whether it's successful or not. I can't stay here too long." Yang Jian checked the time and realized that he had been using the Ghost Domain for a bit too long this time, and the number of times was quite frequent.
Although the headless ghostly figure suppresses the Ghost Eye, there's still one thing to be careful about.
Besides, this hotel isn't a safe place. Leaving sooner and sealing it off sooner would be the best way to put an end to this mess. Moreover, Tong Qian, who's already a ghost in Z City, is still waiting for me to deal with.
Time passed little by little.
About two minutes later, Feng Quan made a movement.
After his face was reattached, he seemed to regain consciousness all at once, waking up from his deep sleep and abruptly opening his eyes.
Feng Quan came back to life.
Yang Jian's gaze immediately sharpened, and he stared intently at him.
The face transplant was successful, but what about the memory alteration? Was that also successful?
"Brother Leg, why are you looking at me like that?" Feng Quan looked puzzled. He glanced around and then said gratefully, "I thought I was going to die here. It turns out you saved me again. You suppressed my vengeful spirit's resurgence."
Yang Jian breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing the words "Brother Leg".
The memory alteration was successful.
Otherwise, Feng Quan would never have called himself that.
"It's alright, I'm glad you woke up. Now it's time to go, the hotel is dangerous." Yang Jian calmly put away the ghost rope and the ghost newspaper.
"I'm so sorry to have troubled you," Feng Quan said, looking ashamed.
Yang Jian said, "Survival is the most important thing; nothing else matters."
"You're right, it's already a miracle that we survived," Feng Quan nodded.
Judging from his expression and the emotions in his eyes, Yang Jian felt that his plan had succeeded, and he was also certain that his headless ghost shadow could indeed replace the ghost that had altered his memories and pieced together a human face.
This also means that the ghost newspaper in his hands will come in very useful in the future.
He has already chosen his next target.
That's Tong Qian.
The method of control described on the human skin paper still needs to be implemented, but the most urgent task now is to deal with that ghost. We can't let that ghost stay in Z City any longer, otherwise the entire city might fall under its control, and then we'll have to consider the social repercussions if we want to deal with it.