“Stay away from the deck? If we leave the deck, where can we go? Jump off this ship right now? Or go back to the cabin we were in earlier? Danger lurks everywhere on this Ghost Ship, there’s no truly safe area, we can only find a relatively safer place.”

Yang Jian frowned at this moment, looking around without noticing anything unusual.

However, the empty deck was silent, only darkness surrounded them. Staying here indeed wasn’t a good idea, but they had to wait for the Ghost Ship to appear in reality next time, only then could they seize the opportunity to leave the Ghost Ship.

If they hid in the cabin, by the time the Ghost Ship emerged in reality, they might miss the chance to disembark.

“Don’t worry, my pet just reminded me of this. As long as we join forces, there’s no danger in this world that can scare us. We’ll just wait on the deck and see what the Ghost Ship is up to,” Ye Zhen said with a laugh.

“Didn’t your pet tell you of any safe place on this Ghost Ship? We don’t have to proactively confront the impending danger; we should retreat when necessary,” Yang Jian said seriously.

Ye Zhen replied, “Let me ask.”

He then stared blankly, his mouth opening and closing as he communicated with the puppet corpse behind him.

Yang Jian seemed to hear that “aba aba” sound echoing in his ear again, making it somewhat difficult to accept this form of communication.

Fortunately, this time the duration wasn’t very long. After about ten seconds of communication, Ye Zhen regained his senses and immediately said, “I asked just now, and there’s no safe place. It says we’re already being watched. As long as we’re on this ship, we’ll be in danger. However, it also said the deck is the most dangerous place, and if we could hide in the cabin, we might have a chance to survive.”

“Hide in the cabin? It sounds like this ghost thing is trying to lure us into the cabin. I think the information it reveals is totally untrustworthy. No one knows how many ghosts are hidden inside the cabin. Once we enter, we might die in there. At least staying on the deck gives us a chance to escape the Ghost Ship.”

Yang Jian spoke up immediately, his gaze becoming increasingly unfriendly toward the puppet corpse behind Ye Zhen.

This thing might not even compare to the human skin paper, which at least speaks the truth, although the truth hides unknown traps. But this thing? It only communicates with Ye Zhen, and there’s no credibility in what it says.

“I think so too. You don’t think I’m that easily fooled, do you? That I’d believe anything it says?” Ye Zhen looked at Yang Jian suspiciously.

Yang Jian said, “It would be good if you had this awareness. Since we’re not planning to hide in the cabin to avoid danger, we’ll have to face the unknown peril that’s coming head-on on the deck. No one can predict what will happen then.”

“Alright, let’s not waste time talking, let’s prepare.”

With that, Yang Jian found a relatively suitable place to stay on the deck.

Ye Zhen nodded and found a place to stay as well, “I’ll stand here to form a pincer movement with you, absolutely foolproof.”

“How long until the danger comes?” Yang Jian asked.

“Seven.” Ye Zhen gestured with his hand.

“Seven minutes?”

Ye Zhen continued, “Six, five, four…”

“Alright, alright, you can shut up now. Next time when we encounter a special situation, tell me earlier.” Yang Jian quickly waved his hand to interrupt him.

“In a contest among masters, just a few seconds can determine the outcome. Leaving seven seconds to prepare is already giving this Ghost Ship face,” Ye Zhen maintained his rebellious attitude.

Yang Jian didn’t want to talk to him anymore. In this world, the only ones he could communicate with were either the puppet corpse or the Ghost Child beside him. It was difficult for normal people to maintain a conversation with someone like Ye Zhen.

Quickly.

The time Ye Zhen mentioned for the danger to arrive came.

Yang Jian felt that one must rely on oneself; he no longer expected Ye Zhen to join forces with him. He was vigilant of everything around him. Initially, he didn’t notice anything unusual around; there were no terrifying ghosts emerging from the cabin. This made him question whether the information from the puppet corpse was true or false.

But just as this thought emerged. He suddenly detected changes around him.

The light was dimming…

No, it wasn’t the light dimming, but the darkness outside the Ghost Ship was continually encroaching, like a thick black fog beginning to devour the entire ship.

And the ship’s last bit of eerie light was also rapidly extinguishing.

“I can feel the Ghost Ship is losing some kind of balance…” Yang Jian’s face changed suddenly, because he felt that his own supernatural restriction was disappearing.

It was precisely because of this supernatural restriction fading that the surrounding darkness began to envelop the Ghost Ship. If the Ghost Ship’s restriction on the supernatural was still there, the nearby darkness would never have been able to encroach.

It wasn’t the light on the ship combating the darkness, but the Ghost Ship itself.

But now, the supernatural essence of the Ghost Ship itself was fading.

One can only imagine the consequences once the Ghost Ship loses its supernatural restriction.

All the fearsome ghosts on the ship would be completely unrestrained, all resurrecting, and this was the danger that the puppet corpse behind Ye Zhen had mentioned.

Then, the darkness swept in, engulfing Yang Jian and Ye Zhen together, while the entire Ghost Ship was completely submerged in this darkness.

Even though the two were very close, they couldn’t see each other, nor could they even sense each other’s presence.

“In the darkness, the Ghost Ship loses its restrictions on the ghosts. In such a situation, the more open the space, the more perilous it is, because more ghosts gather in open spaces. On the contrary, narrower spaces are safer. No wonder the puppet corpse said the cabin might be safer.”

Yang Jian was slowly coming to understand the words of the puppet corpse, finding that the earlier statements might not have been wrong.

Yet even so, they couldn’t hide in the cabin, because they had to disembark. To disembark, they had to wait on the deck for the right moment, and they couldn’t hide away.

“The ghosts on the Ghost Ship are all terrifying creatures the King Organization doesn’t want to confront, each one immensely horrifying and difficult to handle.” Yang Jian’s heart gradually sank. He decided to use the paranormal ability of the Ghost Lake to see if it could take him away from here.

But reality told him it wasn’t that easy.

The paranormal ability of the Ghost Lake seemed to be isolated and couldn’t cross the supernatural barrier to invade the Ghost Ship.

Even though Yang Jian’s feet were already damp, there was still no water accumulating.

The lack of accumulated water meant he couldn’t use the supernatural power of Ghost Lake to leave this place.

“The ghost is already here.”

Suddenly, Yang Jian felt a strong sense of crisis, a danger that came rushing at him like a tide in the darkness, sending chills down his spine.

He could hear hurried footsteps on the deck, the sound of corpses crawling on the ground, and even some incomprehensible whispers… various terrifying supernatural noises emerging one after another.

“I can’t stay passive, I need to take action.”

Yang Jian’s gaze was cold and resolute, without hesitation, the Ghost Eye opened.

Soon after, faint green Ghost Flame began to appear around, igniting everything nearby and dispersing much of the encroaching darkness.

However, the moment the firelight illuminated the darkness, Yang Jian’s pupils suddenly constricted, for he saw a woman in a white dress, with indistinct facial features, tilting her head and looking over.

Yang Jian instinctively raised the red spear in his hand, but when he blinked, the woman in the white dress with blurry features disappeared immediately.

Thinking it might have been a false alarm, but when he blinked again, the eerie woman appeared once more.

This time the ghost was closer to Yang Jian, less than five meters away.

“Once you see the ghost, just blinking once will make it disappear, blink again and it will reappear, closer to you the second time…” Yang Jian seemed to understand the killing pattern of this fierce ghost.

“In that case, I’ll dismember this ghost.”

Yang Jian didn’t blink and strode forward, cutting at the ghost decisively with the red spear in his hand.

However, the dismemberment with the Firewood Knife was ineffective, as if hacking at air, passing right through the ghost without causing it any harm.

“It’s non-corporeal; a ghost that exists in consciousness. When you see it, the ghost is already within your sight and doesn’t exist in reality. If people react too slowly, blinking continuously, the ghost can kill almost instantly, with no time to figure out the pattern of killings.”

Yang Jian realized something immediately.

His experience in dealing with the supernatural was too rich; even brief encounters and probing could allow him to determine the killing pattern of the fierce ghost.

However, Yang Jian still had a way to deal with such ghosts.

He quickly retrieved a Copper Coin from his body.

It was a supernatural item obtained from Sister Hong, if thrown, the ghost would surely go to pick it up, and the moment it picks it up, the ghost would manifest in reality; even invisible ghosts would reveal themselves at that time.

Swiftly, the Copper Coin was thrown accurately in front of the white-clothed ghost with blurry features.

The moment the Copper Coin hit the ground, the ghost before him made a move, indeed bending over to pick it up.

“Opportunity.” Yang Jian squinted, raising the Firewood Knife in hand, waiting for the moment the ghost touches the Copper Coin.

But things didn’t seem to go as smoothly as imagined.

Just then.

A muddy arm suddenly stretched out from beneath the deck, quickly approaching the Copper Coin.

There wasn’t just one ghost nearby; other ghosts would also be attracted by the Copper Coin and go to fetch it.

“The second ghost? No. There’s also a third ghost…” Yang Jian thought of changing his target, but then his body suddenly trembled.

Behind him, he felt a cold breath; a human head with tangled hair emerged from his shoulder, twisting its neck constantly, reaching toward the Copper Coin on the ground.

The cold Dead Man’s Head seemed without arms, just the neck enduringly extending, emitting the sound of bones snapping, creaking.

“The fourth ghost also appeared.”

Thinking those were all the ghosts nearby, Yang Jian was about to act when he saw something in the darkness quickly crawling towards him.

At that moment, he regretted throwing the Copper Coin, feeling it might have been a mistake.

The Copper Coin was like a white Ghost Candle that drew all hidden ghosts nearby into sight.

“Since they’ve all appeared, deal with them together so they don’t lurk around and make me uneasy.” Yang Jian’s gaze turned cold, and he directly reached out the Ghost Hand to grab the Dead Man’s Head probing from behind his neck.

Then, with a stroke of the knife.

The endlessly elongating neck was severed, leaving a cold human head in his hand.

He casually tossed the head away, Yang Jian’s Ghost Flame raged, wrapping up the rapidly approaching terrifying figure, burning it without restraint.

“Nail that hand down for me.”

Yang Jian then whispered a wish, also throwing out the spear to prevent the Copper Coin from being lost, stopping the arm stretching from beneath the deck.

The red spear flew out, accurately pinning the muddy arm with the supernatural wish.

In an instant, he thwarted the approach of three fierce ghosts.

And the ghost in the white dress with indistinct features wasn’t concerned with what was happening around it; it continued bending down, slowly reaching for the Copper Coin.

Yang Jian remained inactive at this moment, still waiting for the moment of contact between the ghost and the Copper Coin.

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