Mysterious Awakening

"This hotel is really nice, with a great view. From here you can overlook J City, and the rooms are huge—top-grade presidential suites. Brother Tui, you've got it good. Usually, it would cost over eighty thousand a day to stay here. Even I wouldn't want to shell out that much."

After putting down the bottle, Wan Delu let out a sigh of relief and looked around Yang Jian's large guest room with an air of familiarity.

With his financial resources, he could definitely afford a place like this. His behavior was merely an attempt to cozy up, with a hint of brown-nosing.

To rise from nothing and become the boss of a listed company, one may not have many other skills, but the ability to socialize and entertain is surely second to none.

"You better keep your voice down, or it wouldn't be too good if someone from downstairs comes up with a kitchen knife because you disturbed them," Yang Jian said as he opened his luggage bag, arranged the weapons inside, and also carried the gold box with the human skin paper on him.

Starting now, he would not let it out of his sight.

It was both a lack of trust in the human skin paper and in the environment here.

"It can't be that exaggerated, can it?" Wan Delu said, slightly startled.

Yang Jian replied, "The Ping'an Grand Hotel is located in a bustling district of J City. Didn't you notice anything odd the moment you entered the hotel?"

"Very few people stay here; it's eerily quiet, which is not normal. And the security guards, as well as the staff, they don't seem like ordinary people... they're like well-trained agents. Moreover, if headquarters arranged for me to stay here, that means everyone who stays at this hotel is not human."

"Maybe they're Ghost Controllers like me."

Yang Jian took a handgun that he carried with him and only after placing his luggage properly did he come over and say, "Besides, other Ghost Controllers aren't as easy to deal with as I am. Their minds are somewhat abnormal, and if provoked, they could do anything, especially when they see that you're an ordinary person."

Cold-blooded killers among the Ghost Controllers, influenced by fierce ghosts and driven mad by fear, were indeed not normal.

Yang Jian considered his consciousness still very clear up to this point, which was a slight advantage over the other Ghost Controllers.

However, that was only for now... he couldn't avoid being influenced by fierce ghosts. With his body deteriorating, the instincts of the fierce ghosts had started to affect him somewhat.

Therefore, he had to resolve this issue during his trip to J City.

"No, no way it's that scary," said Wan Delu, his recently calmed heart suddenly racing again.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Before he could finish speaking, a knocking sound immediately came from the door.

Startled, Wan Delu hid behind the sofa, crouching on the floor and shivering like a salted fish.

"You're too scared. Even if someone were really out to kill you, hiding would be useless," Yang Jian remarked indifferently, not paying much attention as he walked over to open the door.

He looked through the peephole before opening it.

There was no one outside.

Yet, the knocking continued.

Yang Jian frowned, wondering if this knocking frequency wasn't off, he might have thought he'd encountered another Ghost Door Knocker incident.

"No one there, but the door is being knocked? What's this about? They say there are no supernatural incidents in J City, right? Am I just unlucky to have encountered one? Or is this someone playing a prank?" he wondered.

Considering for a moment.

The knocking persisted, as if someone was standing just outside the door.

With a wary expression, Yang Jian still opened the door.

He couldn't believe that a supernatural event would occur in the Ping'an Grand Hotel in J City, having some faith in the headquarters' capability to handle such matters.

Though he had seen no one through the peephole earlier, upon opening the door, a man with a regular appearance revealed a stiff smile, standing there eerily, like a corpse.

"A ghost? No, a Ghost Controller," Yang Jian recognized the man's identity at first glance.

"Is there something you need?"

"Hello, my name is Zhang Lei. I've come to J City specifically for training. I heard that Ghost Eye Yang Jian just checked in, so out of curiosity, I came to visit. I hope I haven't inconvenienced you," the man who introduced himself as Zhang Lei said.

Zhang Lei?

Yang Jian recalled the Ghost Controller files from headquarters.

"The Ghost Eater Zhang Lei."

Suddenly, a file came to mind, and he narrowed his eyes, saying, "The files mentioned you're quite special, controlling just one ghost and able to consume others."

"I never expected you to have seen my files," Zhang Lei said, his pale, rigid face showing a trace of surprise.

"I've encountered the ability to consume ghosts myself, but it wasn't in a human," Yang Jian commented.

Zhang Lei nodded, "The Hungry Ghost incident in Dachang City? It's indeed similar to mine, which is why I have some matters I'd like to consult with you about."

"I don't have time today, let's do it tomorrow," Yang Jian replied, neither rejecting nor accepting, instead choosing to postpone.

"Alright, I'll visit you tomorrow. Sorry for the disturbance just now," Zhang Lei said as his stiff smile twitched before he managed to suppress it and then turned to leave.

Yang Jian's expression shifted, "Can't even control your facial expressions anymore? You're practically a completely rigid corpse, and your condition is very bad."

The Ghost Eater?

Only a Hungry Ghost could consume ghosts, and only human skin paper could swallow ghosts.

How could this Zhang Lei, as a Ghost Controller, have the ability to consume ghosts? Did he really think ghosts were a dish to be eaten at will? Even if a Ghost Controller randomly stuffed ghosts into his body, it would not simply result in controlling two or three ghosts, but certain death.

Although the files didn't mention Zhang Lei's ability to consume ghosts, it didn't affect Yang Jian's judgment,

There were only two possibilities: either the fierce ghost was intentionally keeping him alive, like Zhao Kaiming, deliberately gathering fierce ghosts to brew a more terrifying existence.

Or... the ability was truly powerful, but it would only be used a few times before the fierce ghost revived.

In any case, Yang Jian shouldn't have too much contact with this Zhang Lei, because there was no benefit, only trouble.

"He was quite polite to me, was it because I have imprisoned a Hungry Ghost with the same ghost-consuming ability?" Yang Jian pondered, "He fears me, yet seeks a way to prevent the ghost's revival from me."

"It seems there's more than one person who sympathizes with my plight."

He then thought about his own situation.

Facing the same underlying problems and constantly nearing the brink of death.

How many Ghost Controllers would survive in the end, only heaven knew.

Your next journey awaits at

After closing the door, Yang Jian decided to deal with Wan Delu's matter first.

The man still had information that Yang Jian wanted.

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