Mysterious Awakening

The ringing within Ping'an Hotel immediately alarmed people on every floor.

Although not many guests were staying, even the hotel's customer service staff greatly outnumbered the guests, each guest's identity was extraordinary and deserved to be treated with serious caution.

But the more people there are, the more likely something is bound to happen.

Especially since these individuals were extremely dangerous and unstable special residents.

At this moment.

Inside a certain floor of the hotel.

This area was blocked off by security personnel; in the dimly lit corridor lay several injured people, blood flowing from their wounds and gradually staining the surrounding ground red, agonized moans and faint wails echoing around.

However, facing those with severe injuries, no one dared to easily step foot onto this floor.

The trails of blood dragged across the floor were a clear warning to others that someone on this floor did not want others to get close.

"Who the hell is causing trouble in the middle of the night, making so much noise that I can't sleep at all, damn it, can't they keep it down?"

"Hey, maybe another one has gone mad, with the evil ghost resurgence approaching, a mental breakdown isn't strange."

"Going insane here? It's practically suicide, don't they realize where this is? This is J city, who knows how many Ghost Masters are here, just wait for headquarters to send someone and this will be resolved, at this critical moment it's like throwing a life away."

"Who was it that acted this time, does anyone know?"

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In a restaurant on a nearby floor, Ghost Masters from all over had gathered, easily a dozen or more. Unable to rest easy with such commotion in the hotel, they had been gathered together by the hotel's arrangement for easier management.

"The guy's name is Lin Shan, a college student from somewhere, pretty stupid. When he first became a Ghost Master, he thought he had superpowers and abused them early on, trying to play the hero chasing the school beauty like in urban tales, only to have an evil ghost resurgence in less than two months. Luckily the idiot did one smart thing, he joined headquarters."

"Although he didn't become a leader, considering the shortage of manpower and that this guy might have some important value, headquarters allowed him to come to J city to deal with the evil ghost resurgence."

A young man with a slightly grim expression sat in the dining chair, toying with a wine glass in his hand.

"Oh, how do you know so much?" someone curiously asked.

"Of course I do, Lin Shan was my classmate."

The person sneered, "I've disliked him for a long time. The guy abused the powers of the evil ghost too much, which is why his Terror Level is higher than mine, and I've suffered at his hands."

Two Ghost Masters coming from the same school was indeed a rare occurrence.

Others cast glances their way; this person seemed to have a sizable conflict with that troublemaker Lin Shan.

"What kind of person do you guys think headquarters will send to handle this? I heard Ghost Eye Yang Jian checked into the hotel today, will they ask him to step in?" someone else murmured.

At the mention of this name, everyone present, without exception, showed a subtle change in expression.

The man who had resolved an S-level supernatural incident, Dachang City's person in charge, Yang Jian?

Although most had never met Yang Jian, as Ghost Masters who had experienced supernatural incidents, just surviving C-level and B-level incidents had been touch and go, and they were still somewhat traumatized. Thus, they could scarcely imagine that someone in this world could solve an S-level supernatural incident.

Were such ghosts really something a Ghost Master could handle?

And that wasn't all, many had seen Yang Jian's file.

Apart from that Hungry Ghost incident, he had also resolved the Huanggang Village Ghost Coffin case, the Ghost Shadow incident, the ballooning human heads in Z city, and even wiped out an entire Ghost Masters club.

Every single record in the file was spine-chilling to read.

"Indeed, Yang Jian is frighteningly powerful, but his arrival in J city today probably means he's reaching his limit. Headquarters considering this probably won't have him deal with more incidents. Besides, Lin Shan is a bit special. If they really insist on pushing Ghost Eye Yang Jian into this, he might actually fall here. Perhaps he could handle it in the end, but whether he'll die due to an evil ghost resurgence is unknown."

The previously commenting young man spoke calmly.

"Shit, if someone like that dies due to an evil ghost resurgence, wouldn't the rest of us end up being buried with him?" someone exclaimed with a start.

The more powerful the Ghost Master who dies, the more formidable the ghost they become, which is a devastating blow to others.

And just as they were discussing, the lighting in the restaurant suddenly dimmed as if the electrical circuit had been affected by something.

Hmm?

This abrupt change made everybody's eyelids twitch.

Something was off.

They immediately realized that the situation was quite bad.

"Drip! Drip! Drip!"

A sound of dripping water echoed in the suddenly quiet living room.

"Look above your heads," someone suddenly exclaimed in shock.

At that moment, everyone looked up to see the ceiling oozing blood, as if it were seeping through, with droplets already beginning to fall. The air around them seemed to become damp and cold, uncomfortable to breathe, as if trapped in a sealed container, creating an suffocating feeling.

"This is bad," the previously composed young man froze for a second.

"What's bad?" someone asked.

"Lin Shan couldn't possibly have the ability to affect this floor unless... his limit has been reached."

An evil ghost resurgence?

The very thing everyone feared most, was it about to happen?

"Quick, get out of here," someone urged in a rush.

They had no desire to be involuntarily caught in a man-made supernatural event.

Quickly, many people fled as if escaping for their lives.

And at this moment, in a certain floor.

The lights were all out, darkness enveloping the chilly surroundings, and the air was filled with dampness. Droplets of water continuously formed on the nearby walls, and the air reeked of mildew.

In the depths of the source, within a guest room.

A man, his complexion pale and swollen, was sitting in a chair with his head slightly lowered. Nearby, two security personnel and a female waitress lay in a pool of blood, their bodies cold and lifeless.

"If I can't live on, neither can others. Everyone must die, all must be buried with me..."

A barely audible murmur arose, carrying a hysterical madness, as though an Evil Ghost was whispering, chilling to the bone.

His name was Lin Shan.

Twenty-three years old, he was a university student.

He was like everyone else, studying and living normally, until one day, he accidentally fell into a pond on campus and was knocked unconscious.

When he woke up and left the hospital, he found his body was not normal anymore.

It felt as if his stomach was filled with water that he couldn't stop throwing up, no matter how much he tried. Initially frightened and uneasy, he soon discovered he could control the water he vomited.

Thinking he had gained some superpower, he began to use it recklessly, believing he had reached the pinnacle of life.

However, he quickly noticed that the water he was spewing out was becoming increasingly wrong.

It started clear, then turned murky, and finally, terrifying... as the most recent episode had seen him vomit out a swollen, ghastly white arm.

In the past, he had also expelled many other things, such as hair, fingers... broken teeth.

But then came tonight.

Lin Shan despairingly realized that he could no longer control his vomiting. The water in his belly seemed to churn violently, as if everything was about to be expelled today.

A vengeful spirit's resurgence?

He had gone through several ordeals and was no longer the naive student he once was. Through certain channels, he found out about his condition and what exactly was inside him.

It was a ghost.

He didn't want to die, but reality was out of his control.

So, he began to crazily seek revenge on everyone else. He felt instead of dying such a desperate death alone, it was better to drag everyone down with him.

After all, they didn't save him...

"Ugh!"

After a brief silence, Lin Shan suddenly bent over and threw up again.

He felt something lodged in his throat that wanted to come out, and water noises gurgled in his stomach as if waves were rolling inside.

But Lin Shan couldn't vomit it out.

His throat was too narrow, and the object in his stomach seemed too large, obstructing its release.

However, he had no control over it anymore.

Despite being unable to vomit, whatever was in his throat was relentlessly trying to force its way out, with astonishing strength as if it intended to tear him apart.

"Ahh~!"

Lin Shan's neck swelled to the thickness of a thigh; he lay on the ground in agony, writhing and wailing.

At that moment, it seemed like water was seeping out from all of his pores.

Foul-smelling, turbid, as if something was rotting in the water, it was nauseating just to catch a whiff of it.

"Whoosh..."

Time passed until finally, Lin Shan's mouth burst open, forced apart by the object in his throat, a flood of putrid water from his belly gushed out.

And in the middle of the filth, a human head with swollen skin and signs of advanced decay lay silently.

This head had half of its face damaged; eyes and teeth were missing, but the remaining half bore a strange expression, looking at the Lin Shan lying beside it.

"Wah~!"

He was still vomiting, as if some gate had completely opened, as though all the things he had never vomited before were now meant to be purged.

Without a doubt.

This ghost master named Lin Shan was in the throes of a Hungry Ghost's resurgence.

Once he finished expelling the ghost inside him, he would die, and the ghost would be completely awakened.

By then, this would no longer be a personal conflict but a terrifying paranormal event.

Meanwhile.

Zhang Lei's expression stiff, he was hurriedly taking the elevator to this floor.

Beside him, Yang Jian stood impassively, silent and unmoved.

He was originally unwilling to involve himself in this matter, but Shen Liang had sent notice that resolving this with three Ghost Candles would count as an extra merit.

Of course, these weren't the red Ghost Candles, but the white ones. Worth much less.

But considering his resources were now exhausted, Yang Jian had still decided to make the trip.

He was not alone.

Zhang Lei planned to take action as well.

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