Standing Up

A young couple, looking terrified, squatted by the roadside, washing the blood off their faces with bottled water they had just bought from a nearby supermarket.

The blood wasn't theirs, but that of the deceased Yang Jian.

When Yang Jian was attacked for the first time, his neck was severed in half, and blood splattered everywhere. A couple who had just passed by were particularly unlucky and got sprayed on. Recalling the horrific scene of the man's head being severed, they still couldn't help but shudder.

"What terrible luck! What happened to that person? Their neck suddenly split open!" the boyfriend in the couple said, still shaken. Looking at the blood-stained tissues on the floor, he asked, "Am I still covered in blood?"

"It's almost clean, but there's still some residue on the clothes that I can't wash off." My girlfriend was still shaken; she was almost scared to death.

"If it can't be washed off, forget it. I'll just go back and change my clothes. By the way, what's going on with this street? Why is everything glowing red? Am I seeing things?" The young boyfriend shook the water off his hands and looked around.

Because there were many people on the street and nothing unusual happened, he didn't feel scared at all.

At this moment, his girlfriend suddenly tugged at his arm, her eyes revealing fear and unease.

"What's wrong?" the young boyfriend asked curiously.

His girlfriend raised her hand, her fingers trembling slightly, and pointed to the other side of the road not far away, where they had been sprayed with blood.

"That person stood up, stood up, but had no head."

The young boyfriend followed his gaze, and his eyes immediately narrowed, a chill running down his spine.

At this very moment, at the spot where the accidental death occurred, a headless corpse stood there, stained with congealed blood. The gaping wound on its neck was gruesome and continued to drip residual blood.

Judging from the clothes on the body, the young boyfriend was quite certain that it was the passerby whose head had just been suddenly severed.

"No, it can stand up without a head? Is it even human?"

He muttered to himself, then realized something and felt a chill run down his spine. He immediately pulled his girlfriend forward, saying, "Quick, let's get away from here. I have a really bad feeling about this."

This young man wasn't the carefree type who enjoyed excitement and novelty. He sensed a terrifying danger, though he didn't know what it was. Something just felt off, so the best course of action was to stay away.

Stay away from that headless male corpse, stay away from this strange street shrouded in red light.

However, they weren't the only ones who noticed the headless corpse standing up.

Most people didn't pay much attention, thinking it was a prank, or perhaps a plastic mannequin placed at the entrance. In addition, most people were discussing the strange phenomena on this street, so the existence of the corpse was overlooked. Even those few who noticed something was wrong quickly moved away.

Those trapped on this street would never have imagined this.

The headless corpse that suddenly stood up was a ghost that was reviving. No, in some ways the ghost had already revived, but Yang Jian usually controlled and suppressed it. Now that the suppression was gone, the ghost was released again.

"It's a success."

However, at the same time, at the feet of the headless corpse standing upright, on a head split horizontally in two, a strange red eye tore through a layer of scalp and appeared at the back of the head.

After a period of perception, Yang Jian's consciousness finally located an eye.

A Ghost Eye remained on the back of his head.

At that moment, his vision returned, his Ghost Eye darted restlessly, and that unique perspective reappeared in his mind.

"So my head has split in two, and my consciousness is residing in the upper half of my head. No wonder I can't feel my ears and eyes." Yang Jian realized that he now only had the part of his head from his hair to his forehead, and the half of his brain that had been cut off under his skull.

Yang Jian wasn't too surprised by his current state.

Having gone through so much, he can accept whatever his body becomes; there's nothing to be surprised about.

The only thing that made Yang Jian uneasy was that, as his Ghost Eye darted around, he saw his own corpse standing right next to him, completely still.

Before the attack, Yang Jian clearly remembered that he was lying on the ground and saw his own body fall to the ground.

However, at this moment, the corpse began to move on its own.

"Is the ghost's instinct to control the corpse?" Yang Jian controlled the Ghost Eye to turn around, and he saw that there were no black shadows around his headless corpse.

In other words, the headless ghost has now taken over his body.

The headless ghost figure paired with the headless male corpse seems to be a very fitting match.

"The corpse isn't moving because the headless ghost is in a 'frozen' state and doesn't have the ability to kill on its own. It will only be attacked if someone touches it," Yang Jian analyzed the current state of his corpse.

"But this state won't last long. The headless ghost is missing my head, so it will definitely go looking for other heads."

"And in the fourth level of the Ghost Domain, once the headless ghost begins searching for its head, everyone here will become its parts."

"We must put his head back together as soon as possible."

Yang Jian immediately understood the situation around him and knew what he had to do.

The Ghost Eye spun again, emitting a faint red glow, as it tried to move its head back onto its neck.

But it failed.

One Ghost Eye cannot open another layer of Ghost Domain within the fourth layer of Ghost Domain.

The Ghost Eye cannot conflict with one's own power.

"We need to find someone to help us, to use the most direct method to put my head back on my neck, otherwise I won't be able to go back once the ghost finds the other heads." Yang Jian felt anxious.

The headless ghost will instinctively seek out fresh human heads to put back on its neck.

Therefore, when the headless ghost has better limbs, Yang Jian's broken head will not be accepted; it will instinctively reject it.

Just like when the headless ghost took the initiative to replace his own hand with a ghostly one.

If you encounter a better, more powerful hand, then of course you'll have to discard your own, almost dead, hand.

Fortunately, the headless ghost had lost its ability to move without being stimulated after it crashed. Otherwise, after Yang Jian fell asleep, the headless ghost would have tried to piece together its own limbs. Back in Dachang City, when it was with Jiang Yan, the headless ghost had attacked Jiang Yan uncontrollably on several occasions.

It was only because Yang Jian was startled awake and suppressed his anger that Jiang Yan was unharmed; otherwise, she would have been dead long ago.

"The 'dead state' of the vengeful ghost isn't a panacea. Once the headless ghost's instincts grow stronger and it begins to act and kill, the dead state will gradually dissipate until it is fully revived."

"It's not too late."

Yang Jian's clear mind started working again, and he began to consider his next move.

When one is unable to speak or hear, someone needs to piece their head back together and put it back on top of the body.

It's not particularly difficult, but it's almost impossible for ordinary people to do.

First, they couldn't understand this terrifying phenomenon; second, they lacked the courage.

Third, Yang Jian didn't want to waste time asking these passersby for help, lest it delay his own rescue.

"We need an experienced Ghost Tamer." His head was starting to ache.

Where can I find someone?

Moreover, they must be drawn into these four layers of Ghost Domain.

Furthermore, the people you bring in need to be trustworthy and do things according to your instructions, rather than coming in only to end up dead.

But even in this brief moment of reflection...

The headless corpse standing beside Yang Jian started moving again. This time, instead of twisting its body haphazardly, it waved its hands, took steps, and stiffly began to walk towards the direction with the largest crowd.

Step by step, each step was heavy.

However, the ghost's adaptability was astonishing; before it had taken more than a few steps, the crooked corpse began to straighten itself.

After taking a few steps, he could walk freely like a normal person, just like when he first saw this ghost in the mall.

The ghostly figure's instincts are rapidly awakening.

Yang Jian even speculated that if the ghostly figure were to take someone else's head, it would likely awaken from its slump.

"I don't have time to think. If I give this headless ghost any more time, it will control my Ghost Eye, and then I'll just have to wait to die."

Yang Jian was unwilling to think too much and could only make the safest option.

Immediately.

His one and only Ghost Eye darted around, looking in the direction of the Ping An Hotel.

The next moment.

The fourth layer of the Ghost Domain began to spread towards the Ping An Hotel.

He cannot open or close the Ghost Domain, but he can control the direction in which Ghost Domain covers.