Chapter 1459 - 1426: Puppet Corpse

In the depths of the ship’s cabin, a fierce ghost appeared openly in front of the two people, walking slowly with heavy footsteps towards them.

Even though there was suppression of ghosts on the Ghost Ship, it did not stop its steps at all. It seemed that this ghost was completely unaffected and could move freely on the Ghost Ship.

“It’s targeting us now. Who’s going first? Or should we work together to deal with this thing?” Ye Zhen asked seriously.

“I’ll handle it. I’ll nail it dead with the Coffin Nail directly. We can’t get tangled up with this thing for too long. If one ghost can walk out of the cabin of the Ghost Ship, then a second and third can too. So we must quickly deal with it, then find the helm and figure out how to leave here swiftly.” Yang Jian said in a deep voice, still choosing the safest method.

Ye Zhen nodded: “Since that’s the case, it’s up to you to shine.”

After speaking, he stepped aside to make room for Yang Jian to act.

Yang Jian, holding his long red spear, walked forward a few steps, then stopped, waiting for that fierce ghost to come closer.

The Ghost Face still showed a strange smile as it walked towards Yang Jian.

But as the distance closed, something bizarre happened. As the ghost got closer, its originally tall figure appeared even larger, as if it was continuously swelling. Not only was the ghost’s body getting bigger, but the entire corridor was also enlarging.

No, not right, it wasn’t the ghost getting bigger, but Yang Jian and Ye Zhen were shrinking.

Was it a supernatural interference causing sensory illusions, or were they genuinely being influenced by the supernatural and continuously shrinking?

Yang Jian’s expression shifted slightly, noticing this change. Without hesitation, the red spear in his hand was immediately thrown out, trying to stop this change from continuing. He did not want to wait till the end to act.

In this situation, his attack could not miss.

The next moment.

The red spear pierced through the ghost’s body in front of him, and along with it, the suppression of the Coffin Nail appeared.

Thinking this might successfully put the ghost to sleep, rendering it incapable of movement, reality surprised Yang Jian.

The ghost with its body pierced, continued advancing with a strange smile on its face. A large chunk of flesh was forcibly torn from its chest, leaving only an empty chest cavity, and that remaining chunk of flesh resembled a curled-up corpse with a head and hands, only now that corpse was impaled by the Coffin Nail and unable to move.

By discarding a large chunk of flesh from its chest, the ghost managed to evade the Coffin Nail’s constraint.

“This isn’t just one ghost, it’s multiple ghosts gathered and stitched together. Its head, body, limbs, are all different ghosts. This thing is something never seen before, a type never encountered in the supernatural circles previously.”

Yang Jian narrowed his eyes at this moment, his ghostly eyes perceiving everything before him, revealing a hint of insight.

“Are you really capable? If you’re not, let me handle it. I’ll show you my might.” Ye Zhen waved his hand, not wanting to hear Yang Jian analyze too much.

“It’s not that simple. It is a product of multiple ghosts gathered together, almost like a ghost wielding multiple ghosts. Such a supernatural gathering will surely brew more terrifying entities. Let’s work together, otherwise one person dealing with it might suffer greatly.”

Yang Jian didn’t want to take risks, wanting to join forces with Ye Zhen to deal with the ghost before them in the safest way.

“So troublesome. You’ve become timid since you became the Enforcement Captain at headquarters. Leave it to me.”

Ye Zhen snorted coldly, immediately charging forward, pulling out the long sword from his waist once more.

The twisted long sword was engraved with a bizarre and terrifying Ghost Face, a face not to be looked at. If a living person glimpses it, they’ll meet a tragic death. Even if Yang Jian’s ghostly eyes looked at it once, the ghostly eyes would suffer a supernatural attack and immediately shut. Besides, the long sword also bore other supernatural marks.

It can be said that at the moment Ye Zhen drew the sword, the supernatural attack had already begun.

Apparently, the ghost before them had seen thoroughly that frightening Ghost Face on the sword, seemingly affected, its steps instantly halted, but this situation lasted very shortly, no more than five seconds, before the ghost began moving again.

However, the ghost’s eyes had somehow already shut.

At this moment, Ye Zhen had already attacked.

However, just as Ye Zhen rushed to the ghost, he suddenly stumbled, unsure if his body was affected, but his foot tripped over something, causing him to fall head first to the ground, rolling several times before finally stopping.

Yet Ye Zhen, who had stopped, was now motionless, lying on the ground like a corpse.

“A leg tripped Ye Zhen?”

Yang Jian saw a pale, skinny, dead man’s leg, resembling a bamboo rod, stretched out from a nearby cabin room, laying across the corridor with no warning, any passerby would be tripped to the ground by this leg.

Moreover, being tripped isn’t merely a simple fall, most likely accompanied by a certain deadly Supernatural Curse, otherwise, Ye Zhen would have stood up by now.

The ghost before them wouldn’t stop its attack due to Ye Zhen’s fall. Although its eyes were closed, it was already locking onto Ye Zhen.

Its tall body started to squirm strangely, and the entire figure collapsed instantly like a house, directly covering Ye Zhen lying on the ground, burying him underneath.

The collapsed limbs continued to wriggle, emitting sharp sounds and truly eerie laughter.

Ye Zhen was like food being consumed by the ghost, now being digested.

However, Yang Jian had already arrived. In an instant, the Ghost Flame surged, engulfing everything around, swallowing the fierce ghost before him completely. Even though on the Ghost Ship one couldn’t use Supernatural Power for long, such transient supernatural was enough in the battle against the fierce ghost.

The ghost flames burned, emitting a roasting sound.

The ghost covering Ye Zhen started to writhe frantically, showing signs of wanting to stand up.

“Not enough.” Yang Jian reached out, the spear he had thrown earlier appeared in his hand instantly with the appearance of the ghost domain along with the Ghost Flame.

He whispered a wish: “With this cut of mine, I’ll surely repel the fierce ghost before me.”

Once the wishing ended, Yang Jian’s cut descended. The dismantling of the Firewood Knife coupled with the supernatural of the Wishing Ghost erupted at that moment. Such a supernatural attack was exceedingly deadly, even dreadful fierce ghosts were hard-pressed to withstand it.

After the cut of the Firewood Knife, the ghost before him was instantly torn open a hideous gash, and the large body covering Ye Zhen was affected by some supernatural power, sent flying backward, then its body divided into five or six pieces amidst continuous rolling.

But looking down, Ye Zhen, who was just lying on the ground, was nowhere to be found.

Yang Jian quickly realized something, and he stared at the shattered and fragmented limbs.

He saw most of the limbs struggling, writhing, like a group of fierce ghosts awakening, while Ye Zhen was influenced by the supernatural power, curling up into a ball, like a piece of flesh, about to be filled into the chest of that fierce ghost just now.

Due to Yang Jian’s attack interrupting the ghost’s assault, Ye Zhen avoided the possibility of becoming a part of the ghost puzzle.

But the danger had not yet passed.

The scattered limbs gathered once more, and the ghost’s tall silhouette gradually emerged again.

And at this moment, Ye Zhen opened his eyes and came back to consciousness.

Upon waking, Ye Zhen’s body stretched directly, various wounds disappearing, he was once again intact, the ability of the Scapegoat Ghost bringing him back to life.

“I warned you not to act impulsively and carelessly, this ghost is very unusual, especially on the Ghost Ship where we are all restricted. We must be more cautious, a slight mistake could really lead to our deaths here,” Yang Jian said.

As he spoke, the Ghost Flame was extinguishing, and the scars left by the Firewood Knife on the ghost were disappearing.

All the supernatural effects were being erased by the Ghost Ship.

“You underestimate me, Ye. Just now, after accidentally tripping over that ghost thing, I could have gotten up, but as the ghost attacked me, I suddenly discovered that while the ghost was riding me, I was also riding the ghost. So, I was experiencing the feeling of manipulating the fierce ghost,”

Ye Zhen stood up, confidently said.

“But you almost became a part of the ghost’s puzzle just now,” Yang Jian said.

Ye Zhen immediately retorted, “Nonsense, I did it on purpose. Even if I became a puzzle, it’s me controlling the ghost, not the ghost controlling me. If you don’t believe me, I’ll show you the supernatural power I just siphoned from the ghost.”

After saying this, Ye Zhen’s body gradually swelled, becoming larger, some supernatural influence affected his body, giving him some characteristics beyond ordinary people.

“See that?” Ye Zhen’s body then returned to normal.

“That’s it? Nothing else?” Yang Jian asked, “It just enlarged your body, doesn’t seem like much of a change.”

“You’re wrong. When my body grew larger, the supernatural power also grew stronger. Although it lasted a very short time, it’s undoubtedly an increase in strength,” Ye Zhen said seriously.

“…” Yang Jian wasn’t very convinced by Ye Zhen’s words.

He just felt that Ye Zhen was lucky to inadvertently obtain some supernatural power.

At this moment, Ye Zhen turned to look at the reassembled ghost. The ghost had stood up again and opened its eyes, revealing the same creepy smile as before. What’s more, the hollow in its chest had been filled back in, because Yang Jian had just retrieved the spear, and that nailed part of the body returned to the ghost.

“I now know more about this ghost than you do. Its weakness isn’t in the head, nor in the chest, but here…”

With those words, the twisted long sword in Ye Zhen’s hand fiercely stabbed forward.

Directly piercing through the ghost’s belly.

A strange and shrill cry echoed in the dark cabin.

The next moment, the tall body disintegrated again, like building blocks, breaking into many pieces, each piece representing a fierce ghost, and the core was actually the ghost’s belly.

The belly was also a ghost, and as it wriggled, a real scene quickly unfolded before the two.

It was a corpse with broken limbs, covered in scars. The body was small, about the size of a seven or eight-year-old child. Yang Jian couldn’t even tell if this was a corpse or a doll because the body was so pristine, with no signs of rot, nor any smell of decay.

But without a doubt, the core of the fierce ghost was this thing.

It could control other fierce ghosts to form a more terrifying ghost.

And after this corpse appeared, the corpse’s head bizarrely rotated from front to back and then stared at Ye Zhen with its large black eyes, as if wanting to say something.

“What a sinister thing, no wonder the King Organization threw it on the Ghost Ship,” Yang Jian was alarmed internally, very wary of this thing.

But Ye Zhen at this moment slightly furrowed his brows, as if he heard some sound, but only he could hear it, and no one else could.

Perhaps it’s because he’s been targeted by the ghost in front of him.

“Ye Zhen, stay alert, don’t be fooled by this thing,” Yang Jian shouted when he noticed Ye Zhen’s unusual demeanor.

Yet Ye Zhen slightly opened his mouth, seemingly speaking, but no sound came out, though it looked like he was communicating with the doll corpse in front of him, but no one could understand the content of their conversation.

“Such a stubborn guy.” Yang Jian again felt the headache coming on.

This Ye Zhen really is recklessly bold because of the Scapegoat Ghost, even daring to play with such a sinister doll corpse. Doesn’t he fear getting burned?

“Be quiet, I, Ye, am fine. It’s talking to me, and I’m asking it about the situation here, having it tell me where the ship’s helm is,” Ye Zhen spoke at this moment, revealing some information to reassure Yang Jian.

“Extracting information from a ghost comes at a price; don’t trust what these ghosts tell you,” Yang Jian warned again.

This scene seemed familiar, reminiscent of when he previously asked questions to the human-skin paper.

“Looks like it’s cooperating with me, Ye. Probably subdued by me, let me continue communicating with it.” Ye Zhen didn’t heed Yang Jian’s advice. After speaking, he continued to open his mouth silently, communicating with the doll corpse in front of him.

Seeing this, Yang Jian didn’t advise anymore. Since Ye Zhen wants to deal with the ghost, let him be, hoping he can really find out something.

Thus, the eerie doll corpse and Ye Zhen remained in a deadlock, motionless, with their mouths open, not knowing what they were saying or exchanging, but judging by the mouth shapes, Yang Jian felt they were both saying the same phrase, very simple indeed.

“Aba Aba Aba…”

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