Chapter 1196 - 1162: The Opened Doors

“What do you mean by that?” Xiang Lan looked at Yang Jian, somewhat not understanding the meaning of his words.

Li Yang said, “The captain means that without controlling a fierce ghost, what you can see is very limited. But if you become a ghost controller and harness some special fierce ghosts, you can see many things that ordinary people can’t.”

“Using the supernatural to interfere with the supernatural, the truth will reveal itself.”

“I see…” Xiang Lan fell into deep thought as she carefully recalled the past experiences.

Indeed.

She had never tried this path before.

Previously, she only thought about how to leave here and find a safe room to survive. Although she had experienced being eroded by fierce ghosts, she never thought of returning to room 101 to investigate again.

It was precisely because of this that Xiang Lan never uncovered the secret of why she kept being resurrected.

“I want to use your body as a medium to explore this room again,” Yang Jian said once more at this moment.

“What?” Xiang Lan was startled, becoming somewhat wary.

But her expression changed quickly because she found her body uncontrollable at this time, as if manipulated by something, with a feeling of being turned into a puppet on strings.

“What did you do to me?” she immediately asked.

Yang Jian said, “Nothing, just temporarily took over your body. The reason your consciousness can return now is because there’s another fierce ghost temporarily residing in your body. That ghost helps suppress other supernatural things in your body, so you’re not experiencing any problems now, but dealing with the supernatural often requires paying a price.”

Ghost Shadow was still inside Xiang Lan’s body, controlling her, preventing her from moving freely.

But just that wasn’t enough.

Yang Jian couldn’t invade Xiang Lan’s consciousness to alter her memory, but he could use her as a medium to steal her actions and vision.

Quickly.

A hideous cut appeared on Xiang Lan’s cheek.

No blood flowed out, only a scarlet eyeball emerged.

“Is this…an eye?” Xiang Lan’s eyes slightly narrowed, feeling an indescribable strange sensation.

Ghost Shadow harnessed the ghost eye using Xiang Lan’s body as a medium, once again scrutinizing room 101.

At this moment.

The view in Yang Jian’s eyes underwent a dramatic change; the originally ordinary room now had many non-existent things in the vision of the ghost eye.

The old walls were weathered and peeling, leaving many weird marks.

On a broken wooden table were several faded portraits, the faces on the portraits were unclear, but one could vaguely discern that it was likely Xiang Lan because the clothes on the woman in the portrait were exactly the same as what Xiang Lan had worn before.

Besides that, there were some bowls and chopsticks on the wooden table, but the food had long decayed and turned black, unable to be eaten.

However, it was apparent that at some point someone had been commemorating Xiang Lan here.

“As I guessed, using the cursed Xiang Lan as a medium is necessary to see what the real 101 room is like.” Yang Jian controlled Xiang Lan to look around, confirming his previous assumptions.

At this moment, Xiang Lan’s neck twisted unnaturally, as she looked towards the direction of the bedroom, where the vision was distorted with strong supernatural interference in the ghost eye’s sight.

“Go in and take a look.” Yang Jian manipulated Xiang Lan’s body, making her walk towards the bedroom.

Xiang Lan couldn’t resist the Ghost Shadow’s control and could only walk step by step towards the room.

However, in her vision, everything was still normal, with no changes around her.

Yet, in the ghost eye’s vision, it was another scenario.

When Xiang Lan stepped into the bedroom.

A truth revealed itself before Yang Jian.

The room originally had an ordinary wooden bed, but now that wooden bed had disappeared, replaced by a peculiar tombstone lying upside down on the ground, with distorted black writing carved on it. However, in the ghost eye’s sight, those characters were squirming and deforming, impossible to distinguish what they exactly were.

But most importantly, under that tombstone was a person.

A person identical to Xiang Lan, to be precise, a corpse.

No.

That should be the real Xiang Lan.

Yang Jian’s expression changed; although he had never seen such a situation before, experience and intuition allowed him to make a correct judgment.

“If the corpse under the tombstone is Xiang Lan, then the Xiang Lan active outside isn’t the real Xiang Lan, just a supernatural derivative. Only this explains why Xiang Lan resurrects here every time after dying.”

“So the key to this room 101’s ability to cause resurrection is because of that tombstone in the room? Because the tombstone is placed in the room and pressed against her body, she’s perpetually tied to this room.”

“And to break the curse of continuous resurrection, one only needs to remove that tombstone so that the real Xiang Lan’s body isn’t pinned down anymore.”

“So, everything here was deliberately set up by someone.”

Having seen the truth, many of Yang Jian’s doubts suddenly got resolved.

Soon, he snapped back to reality and stopped controlling Xiang Lan, letting her return to normal.

Xiang Lan felt her body regain freedom and immediately walked out from the bedroom: “Did you control me to find any clues?”

“I already know the reason for your resurrection.” Yang Jian did not hide anything and spoke directly.

Xiang Lan’s expression shifted: “Really?”

“I have no reason to lie to you.”

Yang Jian said: “The reason you can keep resurrecting is due to being cursed by a supernatural object. The real you has always been in this room and never left. The current you is like a false body, so even if you leave this supernatural place, it has no meaning. Eventually, you’ll come back.”

“The curse protected you, allowing you to survive here in a special state, but it also binds you.”

Xiang Lan was somewhat lost in thought: “So that’s it… does that mean people like us will wander here endlessly, unable to escape?”

“Theoretically, yes. After all, the real you is already dead, so leaving here is impossible. However, freeing yourself shouldn’t be too hard.”

After Yang Jian finished speaking, he added: “There’s nothing left to investigate here, let’s go to Room 100.”

Knowing the secret of resurrection means he can now kill Xiang Lan, Ah Nan, and others cursed to continually revive.

“Wait a moment.”

Seeing Yang Jian and the others attempting to leave, Xiang Lan suddenly called out to him.

“Is there something else?” Yang Jian frowned and asked.

Xiang Lan said: “Since you know the secret of resurrection here, can you tell me how to stop my continuous resurrection?”

“I won’t tell you how, but if you want to die, I don’t mind helping you.” Yang Jian replied.

He wasn’t foolish enough to leak the information.

Xiang Lan fell silent immediately.

At this moment, Yang Jian, with Li Yang and Tong Qian, had already exited Room 101.

“Captain, something’s wrong.” Just as they left the room, Li Yang looked down and his expression changed.

At the threshold of their room’s door, a dense cluster of black footprints appeared at some unknown time, pacing back and forth without leaving.

“When did this happen?” Yang Jian immediately looked around vigilantly.

There was nothing unusual.

“I had been paying attention to the surroundings, but after Xiang Lan appeared, I wasn’t as focused on the outside. This anomaly must have appeared just now.” Li Yang said.

Tong Qian said: “Are we being targeted by the ghost again?”

Though dangers abound here, being targeted by a ghost is common, but being approached without noticing, to the door, is unsettling.

“Ignore it. If it’s a ghost, I’ll act immediately if it shows itself. Let’s continue to Room 100.” Yang Jian said calmly.

“Wait a moment.” Li Yang didn’t move his steps, sensing something, and stared at the hallway.

“Creak!”

At this moment, a room’s door ahead suddenly and slowly opened for some unknown reason.

Hmm?

Yang Jian frowned.

But the situation was far from over.

Further ahead, the second room’s door also opened with a creak at some unknown time, followed by the third, the fourth… all the way down the hallway, with doors opening at the crossroads to the left and right.

“What’s happening? This hasn’t happened before.” Tong Qian’s face changed dramatically, realizing the danger approaching.

Yang Jian’s eyes narrowed slightly: “This anomaly is targeting us. It seems something wants us to die here, not wanting us to leave alive or reach Room 100.”

“Is it the ghostly work of Zhu Jian, Dong Yulan, Wang Genquan?” Tong Qian looked back and found the doors opening sounds also coming from behind.

“They don’t have that ability. There’s something else in this haunted place.” Yang Jian grew serious.

For the rooms here are haunted.

With doors usually closed, safety is somewhat ensured, but with them all open now, it means the ghosts inside can come out at any time.

“Go, move quickly, don’t hesitate.” Yang Jian suddenly commanded sharply, opening his ghost eye and moving forward rapidly with the others.

Li Yang and Tong Qian understood their situation and moved swiftly.

However, Yang Jian did not head back the way they came but instead went deeper.

He still intended to go to Room 100.

This was not reckless. Yang Jian felt that going back would be more dangerous.

If everything here is truly controlled by someone, the unknown path must be the safest as the opponent cannot foresee Yang Jian’s path of action.

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