The Ghost Shadow wants to steal a person’s memory while they are still alive; otherwise, once the person dies, the memory will be incomplete.

The longer the person’s been dead, the less memory can be stolen.

Yang Jian mercilessly strangled Ah Nan, then took advantage of the moment before Ah Nan drew his last breath to directly extract the memory.

But he found that the invasion of the Ghost Shadow wasn’t going smoothly.

Inside Ah Nan’s body, a force of supernatural power was resisting the Ghost Shadow’s intrusion, trying to repel it.

“This guy is a Ghost Slave,” Yang Jian’s eyes subtly shifted as he sensed an Evil Ghost residing inside Ah Nan’s body.

The Terror Level of that Evil Ghost wasn’t low; relying solely on a Ghost Hand wouldn’t be enough to suppress this Ah Nan, otherwise, the Ghost Shadow’s intrusion wouldn’t be so unsuccessful.

The only explanation is.

This Ah Nan chose not to resist.

Or perhaps Ah Nan knew that the moment Yang Jian acted, his fate was sealed, and resistance was meaningless as it couldn’t change his outcome.

However, as the Ghost Shadow continued to invade, something strange happened to Ah Nan’s body; it began to disappear bit by bit.

Like an object long stored away suddenly seeing daylight and being weathered into nothingness.

The deeper the invasion, the faster Ah Nan’s body vanished.

Yang Jian’s face slightly changed, seemingly realizing something.

There was a supernatural power inside Ah Nan’s body maintaining his life and simultaneously sustaining his body; once life ended, the body would immediately disappear.

The Ghost Shadow’s invasion seemed to be considered a type of ‘death,’ disrupting a certain balance within Ah Nan’s body and causing it to disappear.

Very soon.

The Ah Nan in Yang Jian’s hand disappeared silently before his eyes, leaving not even a trace of clothing, completely dissipating into nothingness, and he didn’t manage to extract Ah Nan’s memory.

“Disappeared?” Tong Qian’s eyes subtly moved: “It seems like he must have resurrected in a different room, otherwise, even the body wouldn’t be gone.”

“This Ah Nan entirely relies on supernatural force to survive; Captain, your earlier speculation might be right. People here might never be able to leave this place. At the moment of leaving, they might encounter this situation, disappearing directly.”

Li Yang observed this situation and deduced a conclusion.

“But not everything was left behind; the supernatural force inside his body remained,” Yang Jian’s Ghost Eye spied.

His Ghost Hand was not empty but held a cold, twisted shadow.

The shadow was human-shaped, not existing in reality; even though the Ghost Hand gripped it, it couldn’t suppress it, still struggling relentlessly to escape its bonds.

As a Ghost Slave, Ah Nan was dead, but the ghost was only in a stage of resurrection, not completely out of control.

After a while, if Yang Jian wanted to grasp this thing with one hand, it wouldn’t be so easy.

“Send it to Ghost Lake.”

Without hesitation, Yang Jian pressed the twisted, cold shadow hard, forcibly plunging it into the water accumulation beneath his feet.

The cold water led to an unknown place, quickly swallowing the Evil Ghost completely from sight.

“Now that Ah Nan has resurrected, his memories have vanished; even if we find him again, it’s useless, and our clues are cut off,” Tong Qian said.

Yang Jian said, “No, there’s still something to be said. The reason Ah Nan chose not to resist and let us kill him is that he left the choice in our hands. He knew he wasn’t our match, so he used his death to exchange for a chance.”

“A chance to resurrect Xiang Lan.”

Having said this, he looked at the Dead Man’s Head that had fallen nearby.

It was Xiang Lan’s Dead Man’s Head, but it was dismembered from the Evil Ghost.

This Dead Man’s Head of Xiang Lan might be the reason she didn’t resurrect.

“He wants us to resurrect Xiang Lan and then ask her where the recorded information is,” Li Yang immediately understood Ah Nan’s thought.

Tong Qian said, “No wonder he didn’t resist. If he chose to counter us, we might hold Xiang Lan accountable.”

“Li Yang, take this Dead Man’s Head; we’re going to Room 101 to take a look,” Yang Jian immediately said.

Regardless, Room 101 certainly contains a secret about continuous resurrection, which alone makes it worth investigating.

Moreover, since Room 101 is considered a room for resurrection, it most likely is safe, unlikely to harbor other Evil Ghosts.

If there were a ghost, resurrecting people in this room would have no meaning.

Very soon.

Ah Nan’s death was left behind, and they sprang into action again, heading directly to the door of Room 101.

Yang Jian opened the room without hesitation.

This room’s setup was basically the same as other rooms: a small living room, a bathroom, a bedroom. The furniture was also simple — a wooden table, several stools… — but the style seemed old-fashioned, unlike modern furniture styles, full of a sense of time.

If it weren’t known in advance the special nature of Room 101, anyone coming here wouldn’t feel anything unique about this room.

The group walked in and looked around.

“Very ordinary, nothing special, but it can be sure there are no ghosts in this room; it’s safe.”

Li Yang said, “But the wall lamp behind the door is on. I don’t know what this lit lamp signifies. When we passed other rooms before, some lamps were dark, and some were slightly bright.”

“The lamp at the door might symbolize certain information; perhaps lit rooms signify safety, and dark rooms signify danger,” Tong Qian said.

Li Yang shook his head and said, “No, it might not be right because some rooms had lit lamps, but when I passed by, I could clearly feel the danger lurking behind those rooms.”

“Don’t discuss the issue of the wall lamp; look around, we need to understand why this room allows continuous resurrection.”

Said Yang Jian as he headed towards the bedroom.

“I’ll guard the living room, Tong Qian, you check the bathroom,” Li Yang said.

Tong Qian nodded and immediately headed to the bathroom.

Yang Jian, upon entering the bedroom, saw a wooden bed, covered with bedding, though similarly old, but very clean, without dust, and without any stain. The room even had a fragrance that seemed like a scent of perfume, giving the illusion of entering a woman’s boudoir.

He lifted the bedding to examine the bed.

“Nothing special, just like any other room, but where is this scent coming from?”

Yang Jian frowned, holding his cracked long spear, and the Ghost Shadow behind him began to spread around.

He wanted to find a medium to determine who had been in this room.

However, a bizarre scene unfolded.

Holding the Firewood Knife, with the Ghost Shadow covering him, any medium left by anyone could be triggered, but here there was none.

Clean.

Very clean.

Not even a footprint was left, as if no one had ever entered this room.

“Has this room been reset?” Yang Jian could only speculate in his mind.

Only this could erase all the lingering traces.

At the same time.

Tong Qian entered the bathroom of this room.

The bathroom was small, with only a bathtub, a washbasin, and a mirror.

She tried turning on the tap.

No water came out.

She touched it; the tap was dry, which indicated that the room had been out of water for a long time, not just a day or two.

“Too normal.” Tong Qian frowned, feeling a bit puzzled and confused.

Although the room looked old, there was no paranormal interference in it. Yet, in this haunted place, a room devoid of any paranormal elements was abnormal in itself.

Tong Qian looked at the mirror again at this moment.

Her face suddenly changed.

At this moment, there was nothing in the mirror, it did not reflect her appearance.

“Is something wrong with the mirror?” Tong Qian immediately thought of the Ghost Mirror placed in the safe room on the top floor of Shangtong Tower in Dachang City.

However, when she examined the mirror, she found that there was nothing wrong with it.

The mirror was normal, not a paranormal one.

Yet, the mirror truly did not reflect Tong Qian’s figure.

“Yang Jian, come over and look at this mirror, is it a problem with me, or are we all the same?” Tong Qian immediately shouted.

Soon.

Yang Jian left the bedroom and came over. After understanding the situation, he also looked at the mirror.

The mirror could not reflect his figure either.

“Seems like we are the same, I’ve never seen this situation before,” Tong Qian said.

Yang Jian frowned, “If the mirror has no problem, and we have no problem, then the issue must be with this room.”

“Li Yang, bring over that head.”

“Coming.” Li Yang in the living room immediately came over, still holding that head.

Yang Jian took the head and placed it in front of the mirror.

A strange scene appeared.

Xiang Lan’s head appeared in the mirror.

“Indeed, this room is rejecting us, only presenting for specific people,” Yang Jian partially figured it out.

Xiang Lan still exists, and many things in the room were hidden, only then can she interact with the most authentic Room 101, while others only see a fake Room 101.

Or rather.

Xiang Lan and Room 101 have already become one entity, perhaps even a part of the room.

So some people’s inability to die might just be because of this.

Rather than saying they suffer from a curse, it’s more like they are part of the curse.

The so-called living is just a nominal living.

In reality, they are already dead; they just reappear relying on the paranormal, similar to a Ghost Slave.

“If this room only recognizes Xiang Lan, we can completely create a Xiang Lan using the Deceiving Ghost’s supernatural power,” Li Yang suggested.

Yang Jian shook his head, “No, it won’t work. What Xiang Lan looks like is not important, her uniqueness is. The paranormal only recognizes the same paranormal. Xiang Lan happens to have the same paranormal within her. She’s like a puzzle piece within the room, indispensable and unique.”

“So the Xiang Lan I created with the Deceiving Ghost is of no use, but the situation just now allowed me to understand something.”

“Why did Ah Nan go to the second-floor restaurant at the start, why care about Xiang Lan’s head, why did Xiang Lan’s resurrection fail, why did she not appear in Room 101?”

Yang Jian squinted his eyes, “There is only one explanation, Xiang Lan is not dead yet, or has not completely died, so the resurrection’s paranormal was not triggered. She has been in some half-alive state.”

As soon as these words were said, Tong Qian and Li Yang immediately looked at the pale-skinned, eyes-closed, cold, yet unrotted head.

“Clearly attacked by a ghost, she looks dead,” Tong Qian said as she stared at it.

“The consciousness may still be there, just the body was taken over by the ghost, or perhaps Xiang Lan wielded some kind of supernatural power to protect her consciousness, but the body was overtaken by the ghost, so she’s in a state of losing control.”

Yang Jian said, “Such situations are common and not unusual in the paranormal world.”

He himself had experienced such a situation.

When the Ghost Shadow lost control, he used the Eight-Tone Music Box curse to protect his consciousness. As a result, the consciousness was fine, but the body was controlled by the Ghost Shadow, causing outsiders to believe he was dead.

“So now we can only kill her once more for her to resurrect in this room?” Li Yang asked.

Yang Jian said, “That’s one way. Another way is to restore balance, allow her to wake directly, without the need to lose her memory. As for the lost body, it’s no problem, I can get a headless body and attach this head to it.”

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