Two Ghosts

Yang Jian stared intently at the screen of his phone.

An email appeared on the screen, displaying a special document.

Archives of paranormal events in Huanggang Village, Dachang City.

Scrolling down, some relevant information began to appear:

In a certain month of a certain year, a supernatural event occurred in Huanggang Village, Dachang City, and the entire village disappeared overnight.

Below is a satellite image.

All the buildings in the village's location, along with the villagers and even the village's chickens, ducks, and dogs, have disappeared from the satellite image; the area around it is completely empty.

It's like someone has erased a hand-drawn picture with correction fluid.

Only a blank space remained.

No, it's not that nothing was left.

In the very center of the village, something inexplicably appeared.

A coffin.

The picture was very clear; Yang Jian could even see the shape, color, and even some minute details of the coffin.

This coffin is exactly the same as the one in the mourning hall.

The only difference is that the coffin in the center of the village in the picture is open, and a blurry figure is standing next to it.

I can't see it clearly.

It was as if it were being interfered with by some force; even the most advanced satellites couldn't capture a clear image of it.

However, continue scrolling down.

Three days after the strange events in Huanggang Village, the village, which had mysteriously disappeared, reappeared, but the villagers never returned. Overnight, the entire village became a ghost village, deserted and empty.

The incident had a significant impact, and Feng Quan Ghost Tamer of Dachang City, was in charge of the investigation.

The Dachang City Ghost Tamer Feng Quan in this document should be Zhou Zheng's predecessor.

At 12:50 PM on a certain day of a certain month of a certain year: Feng Quan Ghost Tamer, arrived at Huanggang Village.

At 1:15 PM, Feng Quan officially entered Huanggang Village.

The action data ends here; what follows is a dialogue-style document.

"It has been confirmed that all the villagers have disappeared, and they may have died at the hands of vengeful ghosts."

"Out of caution, I didn't venture too far into the village."

"I saw the coffin; it was open. The figure next to the coffin in the satellite image is definitely not there. I personally believe that figure is a vengeful ghost, but the level of danger is unknown."

"Nothing seems to have happened today, so I've decided to risk staying in Huanggang Village for another day, at least to find out if that vengeful ghost is actually in the village."

"I heard footsteps outside at night."

"A vengeful ghost has appeared."

"My situation is terrible. This village is strange and very unusual. I'm afraid I won't be able to get out. I suggest sealing off the entire village."

"I've done my best and all I could. Please don't touch that coffin, that coffin."

There were only a few scattered reports, just a handful of sentences.

However, it can be seen from these simple dialogues that the Ghost Tamer Feng Quan should have died in Huanggang Village in the end, and did not leave alive.

Furthermore, some of the dialogue information was deliberately edited, resulting in the omission of many clues.

These clues should be extremely important.

"The entire Huanggang Village disappeared from the world overnight. Although it reappeared later, is the village that reappeared still the same village?"

Yang Jian clenched his fists tightly; "If not, then what are the villagers in this village now?"

Looking at the villagers busy in the mourning hall and the old man chatting in the alley, everything seemed so normal.

Apart from the vengeful ghost lurking in the village, there was nothing particularly unusual about it.

"Since the villagers no longer exist, are all the villagers in front of us ghosts?"

Realizing this, he felt a chill run down his spine.

He stared at an older woman sitting in front of the door washing clothes, and the woman returned Yang Jian's polite smile.

He couldn't sense any ghostly characteristics from these villagers.

"No, impossible. This guess is wrong. The villagers can't all be ghosts, because there can't be that many ghosts here, and they haven't shown anything strange about themselves. There's not even any sign that they're being controlled by vengeful spirits."

Yang Jian dismissed this terrifying conjecture.

He had seen people controlled by ghosts; they were eerie and peculiar, just different from normal people.

But these villagers didn't feel that way.

But if these villagers aren't ghosts, how do you explain that they've lived here for so long without being attacked by vengeful spirits?

What is it that they haven't realized yet is that all the villagers of Huanggang Village have mysteriously disappeared long ago, following the first supernatural event?

And there were the words left behind by Feng Quan.

What does "Don't touch that coffin" mean? What will happen if you do?

"We can ignore everything else for now. The most urgent thing is to imprison the ghost in the coffin. That's a confirmed fact. But what I can't be sure about is that there's only one ghost in this village Plague Ghost that's coughing is different from the ghost that killed He Sheng and Ouyang Tian. If my guess is correct, then where is the second ghost?"

Yang Jian now hesitant to make a move.

He had a vague feeling that there was a deep connection between the two ghosts.

The ghost was so fierce that it could even kill the Ghost Tamer.

The other ghost wasn't ferocious; it seemed to intentionally gather these Ghost Tamer together each time, as if trying to prevent them from being killed alone.

If that's really the case.

Therefore, the first ghost to be imprisoned should be the fierce ghost that killed the two Ghost Tamer.

However, if the wrong ghost is imprisoned, another Plague Ghost that is trying to stop the evil spirit might be imprisoned first.

Without restraint, who knows what that ferocious demon might do?

Upon realizing this, Yang Jian was both shocked and frightened.

Fortunately, I didn't act rashly last night, but chose to observe and confirm things first.

"Yang Jian, you're actually alright? That's wonderful! Something happened. The entire village was sealed off by a vengeful ghost. We couldn't leave by car and had to return to the village. And just last night, we were attacked by the ghost. We thought you were done for. It seems we were just unlucky. That ghost targeted us first. Luckily, we reacted in time and didn't succeed, otherwise another one of us would have died."

At that moment, the sound of a car engine suddenly rang out.

Three sports cars drove up and parked on the side of the road.

As soon as Zhang Han got out of the car, he excitedly recounted what had happened last night.

Yang Jian suddenly came to his senses and looked at Zhang Han with some surprise and doubt.

Based on that statement alone, he was completely certain of his previous guess.

There are two ghosts in the village.

A Plague Ghost, a vicious ghost.

One is inside the coffin, the other is wandering outside.

"No more deaths will occur. If you cooperate with me, this supernatural event can be resolved," Yang Jian suddenly said, staring at him intently.

Bonus chapter for the Alliance Leader (Flowing Swastika Night) (The Tenderest Lover)

Three chapters are still owed, because the two Alliance Leader four more chapters. The rest will be added tomorrow.