Unknown Hidden Danger

Yang Jian returned to J City once again.

His actions were hurried; after confirming the situation of the Ghost Cabinet in Dachang City, he returned without lingering for even a moment longer.

From this moment forward, his next actions will determine his chances of survival.

"Finding the source ghost in the ghost painting might be able to complete the transaction with the ghost cabinet. However, Wang Xiaoming should also send some news in the next couple of days. We'll see which side to believe then," Yang Jian thought to himself.

He eliminated some unrealistic options, leaving only these two feasible ones.

Yang Jian arrived in the city.

He was going to search for the next ghost painting, believing that the Ghost Painting Incident had become serious in the few days he had been dealing with it on social media.

It's just that nobody paid attention to this change before.

However, with the end of his feud with his circle of friends, the crisis surrounding Ghost Painting will inevitably be taken seriously again.

Yang Jian stood on the street and looked around. When the Ghost Domain covered the city before, he had discovered several places that could not be investigated. Those places were not safe houses, but places where supernatural phenomena might exist.

Only the supernatural can isolate him from the Ghost Domain aura.

However, the possibility of paranormal events occurring in this city is quite small. If there are any, they are most likely related to Ghost Painting Incident. Therefore, he is now going to investigate those unknown places.

Without hesitation, Yang Jian used the Ghost Domain to change his position.

The next moment.

He appeared in a clean and tidy alley.

Pedestrians were passing through the alley one after another, and everything seemed normal; there was no sign of the area being locked down.

"It's in that courtyard house up ahead." Yang Jian stood in an inconspicuous corner, looking at a small courtyard house with its gate tightly closed in the middle of the alley.

There are suspected signs of supernatural intrusion there.

However, the people around seemed unaware that there was something wrong with the courtyard house; otherwise, there wouldn't have been any passersby nearby.

Yang Jian strode over. He wasn't foolish enough to appear directly at a location where supernatural events might occur, but he chose to appear nearby and then grope his way over.

Soon, he stood in front of the gate of the courtyard house.

I tried pushing it.

The front door was locked, and it was locked from the inside.

"Young man, that family isn't home. They haven't opened the door for days." Just then, an old man carrying a birdcage and walking his bird kindly reminded him as he passed by.

Yang Jian subconsciously turned around and glanced at it.

"Is he a relative or a friend? Standing there won't do you any good; you need to ask for his phone number," the old man said again.

Yang Jian did not answer; the ghostly figure behind him had already seeped in through the crack in the door, an anomaly that went unnoticed.

"Creak!"

Soon, the ghostly figure broke the lock inside, and the door slowly opened.

Yang Jian pushed open the door and said, "If you have nothing else to do, sir, please go wander around somewhere else. This place isn't suitable."

After saying that, he walked straight into the courtyard house.

"That's strange, the door wasn't locked properly, it opened with a push?"

The old man found it strange, so he followed along with the birdcage and stood at the doorway peering inside.

He saw the young man who had just gone in standing in the courtyard, looking around. He seemed to be there for the first time and was not familiar with the place.

"Young man, it's not very good for you to barge in like this when the owner isn't home." The old man was worried that Yang Jian might be a bad person and wanted to keep an eye on him.

Yang Jian stood in the courtyard, not observing its layout, but rather spying on the unusual activity. If the ghost painting was here, it was most likely in one of the rooms, so he needed to use his Ghost Eye to probe.

The Ghost Eye dare not open when faced with a ghost painting.

This is a kind of restraint between the supernatural.

"No response?" Yang Jian frowned. "That's strange. I clearly found something unusual here last night. Could I be mistaken? Or has Guihua already left?"

He was well aware that the ghost drawing was movable and not fixed in one place.

Immediately, his Ghost Domain enveloped the courtyard, preparing for a thorough search.

As the Ghost Domain enveloped the area, everything here came into his view; ordinary buildings and walls could not block the Ghost Eye.

"A corpse."

Yang Jian's gaze then darkened; he saw a corpse in one of the rooms of the courtyard house.

Because it was winter and the weather was cold, the body did not decompose, nor did it emit any stench. It simply lay stiffly on the bed, as if it had fallen asleep some night a few days earlier and never woken up again.

"A ghost once appeared here and killed the owner of this courtyard house, but then the ghost disappeared, seemingly leaving after the murder. This isn't a ghost painting, because ghost paintings can restrict my Ghost Eye, so this must be a paranormal event that has never occurred before."

Yang Jian frowned slightly.

He didn't want to deal with what was happening here; finding the source of the ghost painting was his top priority right now.

Other paranormal events are currently unrelated to him.

"Sir, let's report this to the police," Yang Jian said, turning to the old man from before.

"Young man, what did you just say?" The old man carrying the birdcage seemed not to have heard him clearly.

Yang Jian pointed to the side and said, "Someone is dead in that room. They've been dead for at least three days. If it weren't for the cold weather, the body would be rotting by now."

"Young man, you can't joke about something like this." The old man seemed quite surprised.

Yang Jian didn't say much, and immediately turned around to leave the courtyard, intending to go elsewhere.

But soon...

He hesitated for a moment, then stopped.

Because Yang Jian's Ghost Eye had been watching the corpse in the room, he had just discovered that the corpse was mutilated, with one hand missing, as if it had been forcibly removed by something.

"Why only take one hand?" Something suddenly occurred to Yang Jian.

He seemed to recall a paranormal event.

The Ghost Pinching Person on the plane when I first arrived here.

The source of the paranormal events was a ghostly hand, but he had already controlled this hand, making it his palm.

However, the supernatural event did not end there. The cause of the incident came from a bottle, a golden spirit bottle, which was suspected to contain a ghost.

The ghost and the ghost hand are one and the same.

Moreover, Yang Jian personally released the ghost in the soul bottle in order to survive the Ghost Coffin Incident at the training base. His purpose was to increase the number of ghosts on his side to resist the suppression of the Ghost Messenger.

"After the last Ghost Messenger incident, I couldn't find that ghost in all three layers of the Ghost Domain. Could it be that the ghost slipped away at some point and entered the city? Zhang Hui's death was very strange last time; he was suspected of being attacked by an unknown supernatural force and died in a hotel."

"Ghost Tamer couldn't withstand the ghost's attack and died overnight, without even sending out a distress signal."

Yang Jian pondered for a moment, seemingly beginning to sense the seriousness of the situation.

A ghost is killing people in the city.

The number of people killed was small, even insignificant, which is why it didn't raise much alarm.

If we were to judge this paranormal event, its danger level would only be classified as C-class.

However, given that Ghost Tamer had already died, Yang Jian believed that this incident was at least B-class.

"I've already resigned. Let the other people in charge handle this." Yang Jian shook his head slightly, deciding to move on to the next potential problem area.

He abandoned this place.

He strode out the door, and as soon as he turned the corner, he disappeared from the spot without attracting anyone's attention.

"Young man, wait a minute."

The old man carrying the birdcage followed, but after he went outside, he never saw Yang Jian again. After hesitating for a moment, he decided to help close the door first, and then report the incident to the police.

Then the old man made a phone call.

Soon.

The courtyard house has been sealed off.

A body was carried out in a body bag.

"There were no signs that the door had been opened before, so who discovered the body here first?"

Chen Yi was in charge here. He rushed over because he was worried that the matter might involve Guihua.

"The person who reported the incident was an elderly man, but Yang Jian was the first person to enter the area, and his surveillance footage has been found nearby," a staff member said.

Chen Yi's gaze sharpened. "Yang Jian? Is this guy also investigating paranormal events?"

"Okay, I understand. Seal off this area and don't let anyone in or out for the time being."

But as the two groups appeared one after the other, no one knew that an invisible, chilling aura had vanished from the room where the corpse had been, as if it had been blown away, or as if it had left with one of the people who had entered the room.

However, no one noticed this subtle change.

Even Yang Jian, who had just been here, didn't notice anything.