Mysterious Revival

Chapter 656: 653

The peril that occurred within the building of the Ping’an Technology Experimental Base was unknown to Liu Xiaoyu, who was at that moment in the urban district.

She was on suspension and not at headquarters, but that evening she received a very urgent call from headquarters. The call was from a former colleague named Qin Meirou.

“Liu Xiaoyu, there is an emergency. There’s been a situation with Professor Wang, and we need your cooperation in the investigation,” Qin Meirou said rapidly, but because she was once responsible for Yang Jian for a time, she knew quite a bit about his affairs.

She naturally became involved in the investigation.

“Elder Sister Qin, what happened?” Liu Xiaoyu instinctively sat up in bed as soon as she received the call.

Even though it was around one in the morning, her professional habits allowed her to immediately switch into work mode.

“It’s about the Ghost Infant.” Qin Meirou spoke very quickly. “There is a Ghost Infant around Yang Jian. Do you know about this?”

Ghost Infant?

Liu Xiaoyu was immediately startled; she recalled the events from a couple of days prior when she had gone to the suburban villa to see Yang Jian. She had been frightened by the eerie child. Later, had it not been for Yang Jian asking her to keep it a secret, she would have reported the incident with the Ghost Infant.

“I know.”

It seemed impossible to conceal it any longer, so she immediately answered.

Qin Meirou said, “Now I’m asking you, who, apart from Yang Jian, has had contact with the Ghost Infant, or who does Yang Jian trust the most and who has he recently returned to Dachang City to meet with? This investigation is very urgent, and many colleagues are already getting involved. I have several names here: Jiang Yan, Zhang Wei, Zhang Liqin, Zhang Xiangu, Zhang Han… Wang Shanshan, Wang Bin.”

In an information-driven society, there are few secrets.

In such a short time, headquarters already knew who Yang Jian had met with and seen on his last return to Dachang City.

Of course, this investigation wasn’t without basis; in Dachang City’s Shangtong Tower, Zang Hua was Yang Jian’s contact, and many situations could be understood through him.

“Among these names on the list, who do you think is most likely to have made contact with Yang Jian’s Ghost Infant?” Qin Meirou pressed, “Time is pressing, and Professor Wang is facing great danger. You must be very precise and quick with your answer because there is no time to investigate everyone.”

“Let me think.”

Liu Xiaoyu frowned, deep in thought.

Having kept in regular contact with Yang Jian, she was quite familiar with several people around him and even understood the nature of their relationships with Yang Jian very well.

“Wang Shanshan, it’s Wang Shanshan. The Ghost Infant must be related to her.”

Very quickly, Liu Xiaoyu said earnestly, “Wang Shanshan was Yang Jian’s classmate from No. 7 Middle School. After Zhou Zheng died and the vengeful spirit revived, the Ghost Infant appeared at the school, and Wang Shanshan was attacked by it and suffered its curse. Yang Jian even asked me for information about Ghost Slaves to save her.”

Although these details were from some time ago, her memory was good; she not only recalled them but also relayed the causes and effects.

“Okay, I’ll contact Wang Shanshan immediately,” said Qin Meirou.

As long as they knew who the most suspicious person was, headquarters could quickly locate them.

Only a few seconds had passed.

A phone call was directed to Guanjiang Residential Complex in Dachang City.

Inside a high-rise apartment building.

This was the home of the Wang Bin couple.

Although it was a time when everyone would usually be asleep, at this moment, the Wang Bin couple’s phone, as well as the phone in the next room where Wang Shanshan was, all rang simultaneously.

The whole family was awakened.

Wang Shanshan, who was lying in bed, also opened her eyes and looked at her brightly lit phone. The caller ID showed the name: Yang Jian.

She hesitated for a moment before answering the call.

However, the voice on the other end was not Yang Jian’s but that of a man: “I’m Wang Xiaoming; you should know me. We met during the Hungry Ghost incident in Dachang City.”

The call was directly transferred.

Wang Xiaoming, located on the first floor of the experimental base, was on the line, directly stating his identity to save a lot of hassle since he had met the people around Yang Jian while in Dachang City. Although not very familiar with them, they had met face to face and knew each other, so they weren’t complete strangers.

This disclosure of identity could reduce suspicion and gain trust.

“I know you, Professor Wang,” Wang Shanshan spoke faintly, her tone cold, like an ice princess, emotionally detached.

“I’ll get straight to the point. Yang Jian is in trouble. He has been invaded by a ghost. Currently, the Ghost Infant with him is in combat with another ghost, and the situation is very perilous. I must now save Yang Jian, and to do so, I need to make use of the Ghost Infant.”

“So, can you control the Ghost Infant?” asked Wang Xiaoming, eager to know if this Wang Shanshan was a contingency that Yang Jian had left behind.

After careful investigation by headquarters and Liu Xiaoyu’s confirmation, this Wang Shanshan was the most likely candidate.

Wang Shanshan went silent for a moment, not immediately responding. She was considering the authenticity of the call. Although she had met Wang Xiaoming, she remembered that Yang Jian didn’t have a good relationship with him. The fact that he was calling at this time could indicate a genuine emergency, but it might also be a scheme or a trap.

She had received many messages about telephone fraud.

However, the matter concerned Yang Jian’s safety, so after a brief silence, Wang Shanshan said, “I can command the Ghost Infant; it will listen to me.”

“Very good,” Wang Xiaoming breathed a sigh of relief as he spoke.

His previous judgement had been correct; Yang Jian indeed had a fallback plan, and this Wang Shanshan genuinely could control the Ghost Infant.

“Listen closely to what I’m about to tell you…” He began to persuade Wang Shanshan, asking her to command the Ghost Infant to follow his instructions. If successful, there was still a chance to turn the dire situation around.

However, at this moment,

Although the out-of-control Yang Jian was immobilized, watched by the decaying Dead Man’s Head, Wei Jing had made it to the entrance of the first-floor lobby.

The Ghost Child was outside the doors, watching Wei Jing.

As Wei Jing stepped halfway through the doorway, the rule that those who leave would die was instantly triggered. The Ghost Child moved then, as if its ghastly nature had been awakened. It pounced on him, its tightly closed mouth opening once more.

The pitch-black void of its mouth seemed ready to swallow Wei Jing alive.

But the next moment,

Wei Jing halted in his tracks. Faced with the oncoming Ghost Child, he reached out and grabbed it.

His darkened palm seized the Ghost Child by the throat, and the previously fierce ghost seemed suppressed. It closed its mouth, its body went limp, like a lifeless infant, suddenly devoid of its supernatural power, no longer able to move.

In this instant, the Ghost Envoy seemed to establish dominance over the Hungry Ghost.

The Ghost Child had lost.

However, at that moment, the dirty, black mourning clothes on the Ghost Child began to stir. The sleeves rose and wrapped around Wei Jing’s arm, seemingly resisting the suppression, unwilling to let it continue. The wet corpse fluid on the Ghost Child seemed to have dried up, failing to display any trace of the supernatural.

“Bang!”

With a rigid and cold swing of his arm, Wei Jing flung the Ghost Child in his hand like a lifeless body, crashing it to the ground before it finally hit a nearby wall and stopped.

The Ghost Child’s body was twisted, still without a twitch.

Controlled by the ghost, Wei Jing continued forward, his resolve clear—he wanted to leave this place and head somewhere specific.

“Wei Jing is unstoppable,” noted Wang Xiaoming, his face darkening as he continued the call: “Is the Ghost Infant not as powerful as we thought, or is the truly out of control one not Yang Jian, but Wei Jing?”

“The ghost from the spirit tablet is not in Yang Jian, but in Wei Jing?”

Yet Wei Jing hadn’t gone far.

The Ghost Child, flung to the floor, suddenly opened its eyes. Its eerily crimson pupils fixed on Wei Jing again, and its contorted body rose, becoming wet once more, reverting to its previous state.

The suppression was only temporary; once Wei Jing let go, the Ghost Child could move again, not completely dead.

The next moment,

The Ghost Child vanished from the spot and reappeared on Wei Jing’s back. Its blue-black arms wrapped tightly around his head, with drips of corpse fluid continuously falling, as if intending to invade Wei Jing.

Wei Jing came to a stop.

His head mechanically turned to glance at the Ghost Child clinging to his back.

The Ghost Envoy’s suppression manifested again.

Immediately, the Ghost Child lost its ability to move, once again becoming like a dead infant, softly falling off Wei Jing’s back and lying motionless on the ground.

“The gap is too wide.”

After two attacks from the Ghost Infant, even the most foolish could tell the current situation. Biting his teeth, Wang Xiaoming directed over the phone, “Wang Shanshan, I need you to transfer the Ghost Infant’s control to me temporarily. It won’t be for long, just an hour will suffice.”

“The Ghost Infant only listens to Yang Jian and me. There has never been a third person who could command it,” said Wang Shanshan.

“Since it can obey your orders, likewise, you can issue a command for it to obey mine,” Wang Xiaoming reasoned. “The situation has changed dramatically. If you’re left in charge of commanding it, things will undoubtedly spiral out of control here.”

Wang Shanshan was unaware of the situation on site. How could the Ghost Child make the right decisions based solely on Wang Xiaoming’s verbal instructions?

Attacking Wei Jing repeatedly like this was bound to lead to accidents.

Now, the key to breaking the situation was for Yang Jian to wake up.

If Yang Jian did not awaken, then Wei Jing would certainly leave this place, and where he would go or what he would do after that, Wang Xiaoming did not know. However, his intuition told him it would definitely be connected to the Ghost Envoy incident.

The jigsaw theory had been validated.

Should the Ghost Envoy complete this last piece of Wei Jing, perhaps not even ghost drawings could confront the Ghost Envoy.

What consequences that would bring, no one could predict.

“Okay, I’ll try letting the Ghost Infant temporarily obey your command, but only for today,” Wang Shanshan was persuaded on her end, willing to trust Wang Xiaoming this time.