Another Aberration
The second opening of the door was supposed to take only thirty seconds, and although the time hadn't been exceeded yet, the unusual situation behind the door had already made everyone in the room tense.
Two footsteps.
They almost overlapped, and although they weren't easy to distinguish, this anomaly was very easy for people who frequently dealt with the paranormal to spot.
Is a ghost following Li Jun?
Everyone had the same thought in their minds, and then they remembered the corpse in that old brick house.
But
Liu San's eyes flickered slightly; in his view, there were two other possibilities.
Perhaps what's behind the door now isn't Li Jun and one ghost, but two ghosts; Li Jun is dead.
As for the third possibility...
Liu San then shifted his gaze to Wang Xiaoming, who was standing at the entrance of the corridor outside the room. If the information that Professor Wang had revealed earlier was true, then something incredible was about to happen.
Time passed second by second.
The footsteps behind the door grew clearer and clearer, without any pause in between.
Soon, the old, dark red door frame shook violently, as if something was supporting it from behind.
"Something's about to come out," Su Fan said, glancing at his phone.
But nothing was displayed on the phone's screen; only two overlapping figures were vaguely visible. The two figures appeared behind a door frame emitting a faint light. There was no indication of danger, nor were there any death warnings for the characters; it seemed to be just an ordinary phenomenon.
The next moment.
Behind the door frame, in the darkness where nothing could be seen, a human leg stretched out.
The person was wearing a pair of dirty, smelly, and slightly tattered trousers. Through the ripped holes in the trousers, everyone could clearly see that the skin on the person's leg was no longer the normal skin color of a living person, but rather black and bluish, like a corpse that had been abandoned somewhere for a long time without being dealt with.
With just one leg, resembling that of a dead man, emerging, the small room was immediately filled with a putrid stench.
Is it a ghost?
Instantly, everyone's expression changed drastically.
The worst has happened.
The first one to emerge wasn't Li Jun, but a ghost.
It's highly likely that Li Jun is already dead, and the so-called footsteps were just a deception; they weren't Li Jun's footsteps at all, and the remaining footsteps must have been a ghost's.
"Quick, close the door!" Cao Yanhua shouted hurriedly from outside the room upon seeing this, cold sweat appearing on his face.
Sure enough, opening the door a second time was too difficult; a ghost emerged after only thirty seconds. The first time the door was opened, nothing happened for thirty seconds; the anomaly only appeared after nearly a minute.
"Wait a little longer." However, Wang Xiaoming, who was standing next to him, stopped him.
"What?"
Cao Yanhua stared at him in shock. "Are you crazy? You want what's behind the door to infiltrate the room? This is Headquarters, what if something goes wrong?"
"I know, let him out," Wang Xiaoming said calmly. "If there are any problems, hold me directly accountable."
"What exactly are you planning?" Cao Yanhua, who had been able to hold back her temper before, shouted at him directly this time.
Wang Xiaoming's attitude made him realize that Professor Wang must have made some arrangements behind his back, perhaps related to some experiment.
"Whatever it is, I need a result; it's very important," Wang Xiaoming said, unusually serious.
"More important than the lives of the people in this room?"
Wang Xiaoming replied succinctly and effectively, "Yes."
The argument was transmitted into the room via walkie-talkie, and Su Fan, Liu San, Xu Yiping, A Hong, and Old Qin all heard it clearly.
They could have easily ignored the two men's orders and simply closed the door for their own safety.
Ghost Tamer's impromptu decision is unstoppable; it cannot be halted by a mere word.
They hesitated for a moment.
An old man with a cane and a face full of age spots stopped the group of people who were about to make their move.
A brief delay, less than ten seconds, and the result was already achieved.
The owner of the rotting human leg behind the door had successfully crossed the darkness, passed through the eerily old door frame, and forced his way into the room.
The room instantly dimmed, and the stench of death in the air grew even stronger.
A slightly emaciated corpse with a dark complexion and lifeless eyes stood stiffly before the crowd.
"Impossible."
Cao Yanhua stared intently at the corpse that had emerged through the dark yellow glass, letting out an incredulous gasp.
"Are you kidding me? He's alive?!" Su Fan gripped his phone tightly, his pupils constricting.
"Is it a person or a ghost?" A hint of doubt appeared on Liu San's sickly, sallow face.
The corpse before him was undoubtedly the one he had personally taken from the rafters of that old house. Moreover, this corpse was not nameless or an unknown ghost; it had a name on its body.
Wei Jing.
But Wei Jing was already dead.
The cause of death is the resurrection of a vengeful ghost.
The resurrected ghost is none other than the protagonist of their previous supernatural events, the terrifying vengeful spirit codenamed "Ghost Messenger."
The corpse stood there stiff and motionless, but its empty, white eyes seemed to be surveying everything in the room.
Everyone felt themselves being watched by this thing, and a chill ran down their spines.
Is this corpse a ghost or a human?
"Cough cough!"
At that moment, a slightly painful cough rang out, and Li Jun, his body charred black, emerged from behind the old door frame. When he saw the others who had come out earlier, as well as Old Qin standing in the room, he knew that the plan had succeeded.
Relieved, Li Jun collapsed to the ground, feeling both pain and helplessness.
From the start of the operation until now, he's already lucky to have survived the resurgence of the vengeful spirit.
However, now, the excessive use of the Ghost Domain has caused his body to be further invaded by ghost fire, and the pain is unbearable for him, to the point that he can no longer even stand up.
"It seems my choice was right. You are indeed still alive, Wei Jing."
Suddenly, Wang Xiaoming's voice came through the walkie-talkie, breaking the deadlock.
"What?"
The next moment, everyone's eyes widened, shocked by the news.
The person in front of me is really Wei Jing?
"An anomaly?" A hint of emotion appeared on Old Qin's wrinkled face.
If what Xiao Wang said is true, then Wei Jing in front of him is an anomaly among Ghost Tamer, just like him.
"I should be dead already, Professor, how did you know I was still conscious?" At this moment, Wei Jing, who stood there like a stiff, rotting corpse, finally spoke.
His voice was strange, as if he had incomplete vocal cords, and his tone was cold and devoid of any emotion, so indifferent that it was frightening.
"I received some incredible information from something, and decided to conduct an experiment out of curiosity."
Wang Xiaoming's voice came from outside the room. "Although I can't understand why you're still alive, I estimate that the Infinite Restart by the Ghost Messenger has restored you, who originally died from the resurgence of the vengeful ghost, to a state where you might still be alive. After all, the Ghost Messenger's restarting is a restart of themselves, and since you died in the ghost coffin, it's possible that you were also restarted. Assuming you were successfully restarted, then with the invasion of the ghost painting, this state will likely continue indefinitely, since the Ghost Messenger can no longer deal with you when dealing with the ghost painting."
"So, based on the information I've received, there is indeed a possibility that you are still alive. However, the source of this information is too bizarre, and I need to conduct further experiments."
"It seems something happened after I died," Wei Jing said coldly. He didn't know what had happened after his death, nor did he know the information about the Ghost Messenger.
All he knew was that when he regained consciousness at some point, he was already hanging from the roof beam by a rope.
However, after regaining consciousness, Wei Jing was unable to do anything. The old, rough straw rope was tightly binding him, causing his body to slowly die.
He thought he would die again, but as he watched his body grow cold, die, rot, and stink, his consciousness remained intact.
The body is dead, but the mind lives on.
Wei Jing remained in this incomprehensible and bizarre state.
Until some point the balance was broken, and his body was laid down.
However, the confirmation that Wei Jing was still alive shocked everyone even more.
Is this even allowed?
Did the Ghost Messenger also reset Wei Jing to when he was still alive?
"Wei Jing, are you a human or a ghost now?" Su Fan couldn't help but ask. He looked at his phone, which only displayed the word "danger."
This proves that Wei Jing, who looks like a corpse, is still terrifying.
Wei Jing said numbly, "I don't know what I am now. Rather than a human, I'm more like a ghost. I seem to have become part of the ghost coffin."
As they spoke, the darkness in the room grew even deeper.
It was like a Ghost Domain, eerily unsettling.
"No rush, I need to conduct further experiments," Wang Xiaoming said slowly, his expression growing increasingly serious as he stood outside the door.
Because he was thinking about something else.
"It revealed to me that Wei Jing is still alive. Did it know I would try to rescue Wei Jing? Or is Wei Jing's existence also crucial to it? Or is Wei Jing's appearance merely to prove that 'it's' words are credible, and a trap is laid in the next step?"
"Of course, we can't rule out the possibility that Wei Jing is a decoy, and the information is also a decoy, and the real purpose is to target me."
"Does it want to pique my interest, to be studied by me, and to escape Yang Jian's control?"
In an instant, Wang Xiaoming pondered the matter of the human skin paper a great deal.
In any case, he did gain something unexpected from borrowing the human skin paper from Yang Jian.
"That's enough discussion. Wei Jing's matter is classified as confidential, and no one is allowed to disclose it to the outside world." Cao Yanhua immediately stopped the others from asking questions.
To be honest, Wei Jing's appearance also shocked him.
But Cao Yanhua knew very well that now was not the time to worry about these things. Whether Wei Jing was still alive or not would not affect the overall situation. The most urgent task now was to finish other things.
Wei Jing's problem will be put on hold for now.
Seeing this, Old Qin immediately closed the door, preventing other strange things from happening.