The Corpse in the Closet

Do you think Yang Jian can easily walk out of this house?

A moment after Yang Jian left, Nagazawa, who was standing at the door of the house, leaned against the door and suddenly asked with a smile, "I saw him go in and then disappear from sight in no time. Mishima's perception should be accurate this time; there is indeed a vengeful ghost lingering in this house."

He's most likely in danger.

The middle-aged man's mouth moved as if he wanted to speak, but he didn't dare to. He just squatted by the roadside, smoking, his face full of worry.

"Please don't make such assumptions. Mr. Yang will definitely return safely," Keiko said.

"Since we're bored, let's have a chat. Miss Keiko, are you so concerned about Mr. Yang's safety? Shouldn't you consider your own situation more? An ordinary person could easily die here, and your Mr. Yang seems cold-blooded and a bit heartless," Nagazawa added.

"Actually, I do somewhat hope that something happens to Mr. Yang, at least so we can end this mission early. If we continue to stay here, people like us who aren't capable enough will definitely die here."

As he spoke, Nagazawa looked up at the dim sky.

It seemed that another completely rotten human head had fallen, landing somewhere in the city, but at the same time, somewhere else in the city, a pale-faced human head floated up.

Clearly, there are still many survivors in the city; this is the unfortunate fellow who was just killed by the vengeful ghost.

"Nagazawa, I think we still need to take responsibility. This is Kobe City, our place. The president has worked very hard to bring in help from abroad. Your thinking is truly shameful." The middle-aged man who was squatting to the side smoking retorted.

Nagazawa continued to smile, seemingly unconcerned by his attitude. But just as he was about to speak, he suddenly felt a tremendous force pushing him from behind.

The back door was about to close again, as if an unseen supernatural force was influencing everything in the house.

"Um?"

Nagazawa reacted quickly, adjusting his posture to brace against the door behind him, but the powerful force propelled his body forward.

"This power"

His expression changed; he couldn't resist this power. If he didn't let go and leave in time, he would probably be crushed to death by the gate of light.

"What happened?"

The others, seeing Nagazawa's condition, were shocked and realized that the house was beginning to show abnormalities. They almost instinctively backed away.

Keiko, being an ordinary person, was at a loss for what to do, while the woman named Mishima was even more distraught. Sensing the vengeful spirit lingering in the house, she fled in terror to a distance, not daring to approach any closer. If it weren't for the restraints, she would have turned and run away by now.

At this very moment.

The second floor of the house.

Yang Jian had already opened the sliding door and entered the room where the noise had just occurred.

This should be the master bedroom of this family. It is quite spacious and relatively tidy, with no signs of mess or damage. It seems that the homeowner had deliberately cleaned it before leaving. However, the stench of death lingering in this room is stronger than in other places.

It's as if this is the source; all the smells in this house waft out from here.

There's something wrong with this room.

Yang Jian had increased the number of Ghost Eye, allowing him to see every corner of the room and detect anything amiss.

Finally, his gaze fell upon the closet in the room.

The Ghost Eye could not see into that place, but they also sensed great danger, a feeling that made Yang Jian hesitate.

Under normal circumstances, he would never touch that closet.

However, the ghost child disappeared in the house, and if he might have ended up somewhere, it would undoubtedly be this closet.

"Open it and take a look."

After a brief hesitation, Yang Jian made a decision. He believed that if there were ghosts in the house, they were in the Ghost Domain of "Ghost Knocking," so the level of terror should not be high, and he should be able to withstand them.

Inner confidence prevails.

He immediately walked to the closet and used a cold, blackened hand to pull open the closet door in the room.

"Thump!"

In an instant, the corpse of an adult male fell out of the closet. The man was rotting and stinking, and had been there for many days. His appearance was unrecognizable. Strangely, the corpse was not wearing any clothes; it had been stripped naked from head to toe.

It's not just a simple corpse.

The closet was crammed with corpses. Yang Jian could roughly identify them by their limbs and exposed heads. There were at least six or seven corpses, both male and female, and they were in different states of decomposition. The newest corpse looked as if it had died just yesterday, and its body still had a healthy skin tone.

The corpses were twisted and compressed like building blocks, filling the already small closet to the brim, leaving no gaps.

Moreover, all the bodies, like the male corpse that had just fallen, were naked, and no clothing belonging to the victims could be found in the room.

Yang Jian looked at the cabinet full of corpses, his expression shifting slightly. He felt that the footsteps he had heard downstairs earlier were coming from one of the corpses.

In other words, the ghost might be one of the corpses in this closet.

As for which corpse it was, Yang Jian couldn't tell in a short time, because all the corpses here showed signs of supernatural invasion, and were not the kind of deaths that occurred naturally.

"Found it."

Suddenly.

Yang Jian's Ghost Eye darted around, and he spotted a corner of a garment where the male corpse had just fallen.

The clothes were familiar; they were clearly the style of a funeral shroud. And the Ghost Shroud had always been worn by the ghost child. If that's the case, the ghost child was attacked by a vengeful ghost after entering this house, and then dragged into this closet by the ghost, before falling into these corpses.

The closet door closed, and everything fell silent, but the ghost child was trapped inside and unable to get out.

He roughly assessed the situation and concluded that this was likely the case.

"Even a ghost child dressed in a funeral shroud could be attacked and dragged into the kitchen without any resistance. The ghost in this house is very fierce, and it doesn't seem to be brought by the Door-Knocking Ghost. It's probably a local Kobe City paranormal event. This house is a haunted house, but the Knocking Ghost Incident just happened to happen here, so it brought the haunted house into the picture."

Yang Jian felt a strange sense of dread.

If that's the case, then once the ghost here gives up suppressing the ghost child, it will most likely turn to attack itself.

"We can't give up on the ghost child; it still has a lot of room to grow. We can't let this haunted house trap it here." Yang Jian knew the ghost child wasn't dead; at least the ghosts in the house weren't strong enough to kill it.

So he decided to take action.

He reached out again and pulled the body out of the closet.

Yang Jian's Ghost Hand possesses an unparalleled ability to suppress a ghost. This was obtained from the Ghost Coffin, where he stole a piece of the Ghost Messenger's puzzle. Moreover, it does not weaken over time or with increased use, representing a significant improvement over the pirated version he obtained before.

The corpses that the ghost hand touched showed no strange phenomena; they were easily pulled down by him.

As the corpses continued to fall to the ground, Yang Jian discovered the ghost child buried inside.

The ghost child's body was squeezed between two corpses. Its bluish-black arm was pushing, but the ghost child could not push away the corpse pressing down on it. The corpse was like a heavy coffin, pressing down on the ghost child and making it unable to move.

It wasn't that the ghost child wasn't strong enough, but rather that these corpses possessed supernatural abilities, making them different from ordinary dead bodies, and thus impossible to defeat simply by brute force.

But the area around the ghost child was wet, with corpse fluid constantly flowing down, and the decomposition of the nearby corpses was accelerating.

Although the ghost child was being suppressed, it was also using the corpse fluid to rot the bodies.

Based on this situation, the ghost child will eventually be able to escape, but it will take a long time.

"Has the ghost not appeared yet?"

Yang Jian moved a male corpse off the body, allowing the ghost child to regain some mobility, but his Ghost Eye remained alert to every movement around him.

Soon, the ghost child was able to move.

It jumped out of the closet and regained its freedom.

"Take out that head," Yang Jian said.

He felt he had been too conservative. If he had taken out the rotting human head from the backpack on the ghost child's back earlier, the ghost child might not have ended up in this situation. After all, the ghost child's weakness was his lack of ability to fight other ghosts.

This was intentional on Yang Jian, in case things got out of control and he became difficult to deal with.

The ghost child began to take the dead man's head out of the backpack behind him.

But at that moment, it seemed that the ghost child's departure disrupted some kind of balance within the house, diverting the ghost's attention.

At this moment, the sliding door of the room where Yang Jian was located was suddenly slammed shut. At the same time, the rotting corpses scattered on the ground all opened their eyes. In addition, the cabinet door where many corpses had been piled up suddenly began to move.

Something is about to emerge from the bottom of those corpses.

Yang Jian noticed these anomalies. He only saw tattered clothes piled up under the corpses. These clothes were covered in blood and must have been taken from the dead bodies.

"Leave here."

Yang Jian didn't want to get entangled with the ghosts here, so he immediately prepared to leave with the ghost child.

The ghost child held a dead man's head in his hands. As soon as the head appeared, a pair of numb, grayish-white eyes stared at the closet in front of him.

The noise from the closet immediately subsided.

The ghost child then turned and left with Yang Jian.

The commotion in the closet resumed and showed signs of intensifying, but this time the direction the person was facing had changed.

The sliding door to the room had been tightly closed, but as soon as someone stared at it, it slammed open again.

Some kind of supernatural influence within this house is being suppressed.

Yang Jian quickly evacuated, soon leaving the room and heading up the stairs to the second floor.

But as soon as he left, all the remaining corpses in the closet fell out, each one with its eyes open, as if it had died with its eyes open.

But at the very back of that closet, where those tattered clothes were buried, a strange corpse suddenly sat up straight.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Upon reaching the first floor, Yang Jian heard the sound coming from above again—the heavy sound of corpses stepping on wooden planks.

Unlike before, the direction of the sound changed again; it seemed to be coming down the stairs.

"Are they targeting me?"

Yang Jian's gaze darkened, and he quickly led the ghost child away, retracing their steps back the way they had come.

However, this house has been affected by a ghost, causing some unknown changes. The interior layout of the house seems unchanged, but once you actually enter, you will find that the house is complicated and eerie. Even though it is only a few steps away from the door, Yang Jian insists on moving forward in the corridor.

The gate seemed to have vanished in front of us.

But looking back, the layout at the back hadn't changed at all.

The corpse that emerged from the closet was still moving. Although Yang Jian didn't see the ghost chasing after him, he could clearly hear it coming down the stairs, constantly approaching him at a rapid pace.