Chapter 127: Chapter 127 Nighttime Shadows

Night.

On the bed on the second floor of the apartment building.

Yang Jian lay on his back facing the ceiling, spreading out in the shape of a big character, strongly occupying almost the entire bed.

Jiang Yan, in her pajamas, didn’t want to sleep on the floor and could only curl up pitifully on the side, guarding her small patch, resembling a maid in a landlord’s house.

Both of them were already fast asleep.

The room was silent with the lights off, with only the occasional sound of car horns coming through.

But as the headlights of a passing car swept in from outside the window, it briefly illuminated the dim room considerably.

The light shifted.

The area around the bed gradually darkened.

Behind Yang Jian on the wall, something was squirming in the darkness, undergoing some changes unbeknownst to him.

“Drip!”

A car drove past, casting its lights through the window once again.

The room shifted from dark to light.

When the light reached the wall above the bed.

Suddenly, a pitch-black shadow eerily appeared there.

Logically, with both Yang Jian and Jiang Yan sleeping on the bed, there shouldn’t be a shadow in this direction.

However, the situation was eerily strange.

The shadow stood stiffly there, like a person, and it was slowly moving.

If one looked closely at the shadow, they could notice.

This shadow… had no head.

There was nothing above the neck but the illuminated wall; it was as if the head’s shadow had been forcibly chopped off, it simply didn’t exist.

Taking advantage of Yang Jian’s slumber,

the Headless Ghost Shadow once again moved on its own, restlessly.

After all, it was a fierce ghost.

And while controlling a second ghost, the suppression between ghosts couldn’t be perfect; one side would always be a bit stronger and the other a bit weaker.

To maintain balance, the ghost controller himself had to manage the scales, and negligence could lead to a loss of control.

Just like tumbling blocks,

everything so painstakingly built would collapse in an instant.

The crisis of the fierce ghost’s revival would occur once again.

At that moment, the Headless Ghost Shadow slowly moved along the wall, inching forward.

It descended the stairs, then walked towards the front door through the living room, as if to continue its obsession.

To piece together a body.

The black shadow was stretched very long, almost like a thin line; and the form of the Headless Ghost Shadow became increasingly distorted. Before it could even reach the front door, it was stretched and pulled into an unrecognizable shape, leaving only a long black trail on the ground.

It tried several times in different directions.

Ultimately, the Headless Ghost Shadow couldn’t stray too far from Yang Jian.

It seemed to have become Yang Jian’s shadow, never able to escape this fate.

In the end, the Headless Ghost Shadow slowly retreated, returning to stand by the head of the bed.

It was motionless, like a dead body.

After how long, maybe more than half an hour,

the motionless Headless Ghost Shadow suddenly began to move; it slowly reached out its hand towards Jiang Yan, who was asleep beside it.

Having no other choice, it could only opt for this body.

However, just as its hand had extended halfway, it froze once again.

It was like a machine that occasionally malfunctioned.

It could not completely control its own actions.

But what horror lacks the least is time and patience.

Another hour passed.

The Headless Ghost Shadow moved again, this time it touched Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan felt nothing and was completely unaware of the horrifying event unfolding beside her.

But just as the Headless Ghost Shadow gradually merged into Jiang Yan’s body, its form hesitated and abruptly froze.

At this moment, Yang Jian, who was deep in sleep, suddenly sensed something and jolted his eyes open.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a tall, slender, headless shadow standing by the head of the bed, with more than half of its form already merged into Jiang Yan’s body beside him.

Jiang Yan’s complexion was somewhat pale at this moment, and her body was gradually becoming cold, yet she was still fast asleep.

If she continued sleeping like this, she was likely to be silently killed by the Headless Ghost Shadow in her dreams without ever knowing.

“Damn it,”

Yang Jian’s heart chilled, and he cursed under his breath as he immediately stopped the actions of the Headless Ghost Shadow.

It was as if the five ghostly eyes embedded in its body opened all at once.

A crimson glow shrouded down.

In an instant, the Headless Ghost Shadow was pinned down by the ghostly eyes and fell to the ground, once again becoming a mere shadow.

Everything quickly returned to silence.

It was a close call.

“So, if I don’t keep an eye on the Headless Ghost Shadow, it starts to act up?”

Yang Jian sat up, his brow deeply furrowed, sleep completely forsaken, only a nameless fear remained.

He had managed to sleep relatively well that night, without the restless stirring of revival or being paralyzed in bed.

But, he hadn’t expected that solving one problem would leave behind another.

From now on, he would have to stay alert for the Headless Ghost Shadow.

Even Yang Jian himself didn’t know when the ghost might act up, so the most foolproof method was to stay vigilant 24 hours a day, ready to intervene at the first sign of trouble, maintaining this fragile balance.

But didn’t that mean he would have to forgo sleep day and night?

Could a person withstand that?

Yang Jian fell into deep thought.

“I thought I wouldn’t have to worry about my own condition for a while, but it seems that it’s only slightly better than before. The threat of ghostly resurgence still exists; it’s merely been delayed.”

Even after controlling a second ghost, the crisis was still looming.

In the latter half of the night,

he didn’t sleep at all.

And perhaps due to some changes in himself, he didn’t feel tired.

These past few days, while Yang Jian was arranging for Jiang Yan to acquire Gold, he was also trying to discern the pattern of the Headless Ghost Shadow’s loss of control.

He found,

there was no pattern to follow.

The Headless Ghost Shadow would lose control at least three times a day, or as many as six times at its worst.

And the duration of its actions was also unpredictable.

At its longest, it could last for more than an hour, almost two hours, and at its shortest, it was less than a minute.

The fluctuations were huge.

Completely an uncontrollable and uncertain factor.

However, it was fortunate that even when the Headless Ghost Shadow was out of control, it chose not to attack him but targeted people around him instead.

Jiang Yan had been assaulted at least five times these past few days.

She just didn’t know it.

“How can I completely suppress the Headless Ghost Shadow?”

That day, Yang Jian opened a newly cast Gold box.

Inside was a dark-tan human skin.

The human skin talisman from Huanggang Village, powerful enough to devour even ghosts, had shown itself to be more terrifying than malevolent spirits to Yang Jian.

Ever since that time, he had been extremely wary of the human skin talisman, so much so that he had a Gold store cast a new Gold box especially for it in the past few days and had the talisman carefully locked inside.

The human skin talisman inside the Gold box was silent at this moment.

No dark script emerged, and it did not respond to Yang Jian.

“This human skin underwent some change after swallowing that ghost, a change I am unaware of, and it’s still ongoing,” Yang Jian pondered.

Since there was no response, he did not probe further.

Immediately, he closed the box and locked it.

He resolved not to open it again unless absolutely necessary.

This thing was exceedingly strange and couldn’t be relied upon too much, lest he step by step fall into the trap set by the malevolent spirits.