Mysterious Revival-Chapter 829 - 796 Each’s Encounter

The trio Liu Mingxin, Cai Yu, and Yang Xiaohua, who had just hurried to Dachuan City, had already lost one of their number before they even steadied their feet.

The remaining two began to escape the city in panic after realizing the dangers and oddness of the place, but they soon found that while entering the city was easy, leaving it alive was not going to be as simple, especially since they were just ordinary people, without any supernatural powers.

And to be ordinary meant to be vulnerable, easily killed.

Just like Liu Mingxin before them, who met a mysterious and fiery death.

Meanwhile.

At the Dachuan City airport.

A passenger plane landed.

Li Yi, Leuk Qingqing, and the man named Guo You had also arrived in Dachuan City.

They were messengers from the third floor of the Ghost Post Office, and had decided to take part in this delivery mission, not solely relying on Yang Jian's effort.

"Li Yi, we need to contact Yang Jian as soon as possible to meet up with him early."

Guo You spoke, "Although there's no time limit for this delivery task, I believe the more this is so, the more dangerous it is. That newbie from the second floor is a bit too arrogant, and I'm worried he might lose the letter."

Li Yi checked his phone: "I made a transaction with Yang Jian, and he hasn't transferred the money to me yet. If I receive the relevant message, I'll be able to contact him right away."

"You should have asked for his cellphone number beforehand." The mature and seductive Leuk Qingqing, clad in a cheongsam, spoke up.

"He's not very talkative and seems to want minimal contact with us. He's a rather aloof person. Moreover, this Yang Jian appears to be quite extraordinary. If there was time, I would've liked to investigate him thoroughly to see what his background really is," Li Yi said.

Guo You spoke sternly, "I've already done what you just mentioned before, and unfortunately, found nothing. This Yang Jian is just an insignificant character, not as special as we imagined. In this information age, you can always find something about anyone with some status."

"How did you search?" asked Leuk Qingqing.

"Online, of course," answered Guo You.

"..." Li Yi was rendered speechless.

After getting off the plane, the three discussed their next moves while walking out of the airport.

At that moment, Li Yi's phone rang.

It was an unknown number, the caller ID indicated it was from Dachang City.

"Hello, who is this?" Li Yi answered the call.

A woman's voice, somewhat cold, came from the other side: "Hello, I am the accountant for President Yang. He instructed me to transfer a sum of money to your account, and I would like to confirm if you are the account holder, Li Yi."

"President Yang? Are you talking about Yang Jian? Yes, I am Li Yi," he quickly responded.

"What is the exact amount?" The voice was of Jiang Yan on the other end.

"Thirty million," Li Yi said.

Jiang Yan confirmed, "The amount is correct. If there's nothing else, I'll transfer the money to your account within half an hour."

"Hold on a moment."

Li Yi interrupted immediately: "If you are Yang Jian's accountant, you must be able to reach him. Could you please pass on a message? Tell him that we from the third floor have arrived in Dachuan City and hope to find and join him."

"Is that all?" Jiang Yan asked.

"Yes," said Li Yi.

"Alright, I'll convey your message," Jiang Yan replied coldly, and then hung up swiftly.

Less than five minutes after the call ended, Li Yi's phone received a notification of the money transfer.

"This Yang Jian really is a hidden tycoon, not even batting an eyelash over tens of millions," Li Yi envied, "Being a messenger is like working for free, even paying our own travel expenses. Truly, comparisons can be maddening."

"The incoming call was from Dachang City, maybe you should hire a private detective or something to look into it there, you might find information on that Yang Jian. Searching online is unreliable," suggested Leuk Qingqing from the side.

"It's too late now for investigations, and it's not very meaningful anyways, forget it. Wait, what's happening up ahead? Why are so many people standing there?" Li Yi said.

Suddenly, he noticed a line of people standing near the airport terminal's exit.

These were airport employees, flight attendants from the plane, and some passengers.

They were lined up, blocking the terminal's entry and exit doors, forming a human wall.

"Maybe they're doing some training, let's not bother with that. We should find a place to stay first, have a meal. There's no hurry to get to Mingyue Community; that place is definitely dangerous. We must stay away until we are certain," Guo You said.

However, as the trio was about to leave,

A click echoed.

The airport suddenly fell dark.

All the lights were extinguished in an instant, as if someone had turned off the main switch.

The vast waiting hall was instantly enveloped in dimness.

Li Yi paused in his steps and frowned.

"It seems something is not right... Are there fewer people in the airport than before?" Leuk Qingqing looked around, her beautiful face showing concern and hesitation.

"I wasn't paying much attention before, but now that you mention it, there does seem to be something off," Guo You noted as well.

They weren't careless, but such a place didn't usually raise alarm for them, as crowded areas are subconsciously considered safe, and they had never encountered danger in such public places before.

However, some irrational eerie changes around them alerted the three.

Li Yi immediately took out a small glass vial from his pocket, containing yellowish and murky water.

"Isn't that a bit wasteful?" Guo You's face changed, saying so.

Clearly, he knew what was in the vial.

"Better safe than sorry, just a bit won't be wasteful. This delivery task is also rather unique; there's no need to economize," Li Yi opened the vial and the yellowish murky water was poured onto the ground.

But before hitting the ground, the water turned into a sinister red in mid-air.

Like a pool of thick, frightful blood.

The water had become blood.

The unnatural and eerie change conveyed to the three a terrifying reality.

Nearby lurked a malevolent ghost.

"What?"

Guo You's eyes widened, his heart clenching.

"Let's go, this place is haunted," Li Yi growled, immediately turning to leave.

The others, snapping to their senses, quickly followed.

They didn't head towards the exit, but instead ran towards the apron, planning to escape the airport via the landing area; it's always safer in open spaces, and any danger could be spotted in advance.

This was common sense.

The messengers from the third floor had already memorized it.

However, the trio soon felt another unsettling chill.

In the direction of the emergency exit ahead, stood three well-dressed flight attendants with light makeup. These flight attendants had good figures and pretty faces, three beauties in fact. Yet now, these three beautiful attendants displayed rigid smiles, standing still as if they were marionettes.

No.

Their eyeballs were still moving, and their gazes were eerily watching everyone.

"There's something wrong with these people," Guo You yelled.

"Don't stop, just rush through," Li Yi said with a cold expression. "They're just living humans that have been eroded by fierce ghosts, not necessarily real ghosts."

Despite the pervasively creepy aura, he did not panic and make any foolish decisions, still choosing the correct way to escape.

But their situation was much better than Cai Yu's and Yang Xiaohua's.

The messengers on the third floor had started to acquire some paranormal items from their delivery tasks, and they had some ability to protect themselves, not as utterly helpless as ordinary people.

Soon.

The three of them successfully rushed out of the airport and came to the tarmac, temporarily escaping danger.

Back at the now-blocked emergency exit.

Three headless female corpses still stood there, with several heads rolled to the side, and the surrounding area fell into a silence akin to death.

But very quickly.

Someone walked into the deserted hall, picked up the heads from the ground, and put them back on the corpses.

The heads of the three beautiful flight attendants were mixed up, but this seemed to hamper nothing; even with switched heads, everything still looked oddly normal.

After the heads were placed back onto the necks, the flight attendants resumed normal movements.

But they looked confused and sluggish, as if they were conscious but couldn't quite remember what had just happened.

Like puppets on strings, it seemed as though another consciousness was controlling them.

Everything before was like sleepwalking.

And they couldn't leave this state, unable to regain control of their bodies.

"We can't stay in this city any longer. The fierce ghosts have even invaded such a large public place as the airport. This means the city has lost control. We must go, we must leave here as soon as possible," Li Yi said with an ugly expression, gasping for air as he looked towards the airport in the distance.

It seemed like there were quite a few figures peering in this direction.

Even though the surroundings were empty, he felt very unsafe.

"If we leave, what about the mail delivery task? If the letters aren't sent out, we'll die too," Guo You said from the side.

Li Yi replied with annoyance, "Didn't you see what just happened? There's not a single normal living person in the entire airport. This is just the tip of the iceberg. If we go further into Dachuan City, we'll never make it out alive, let alone complete any mail delivery tasks. The difficulty of this third letter has already exceeded our previous understanding."

"This letter wasn't prepared for us; it was meant for Yang Jian. The difficulty of the delivery task is assessed based on the messenger's approximate strength."

"Did Yang Jian and Li Yang increase the difficulty of this delivery?" Leuk Qingqing looked at him.

Li Yi said; "Obviously, otherwise how could it have turned out like this? We almost perished just getting off the plane."

"The Ghost Post Office wants us to deliver letters, not to die. If all the messengers die, then the Ghost Post Office has no reason to exist anymore, right?"

"Let's not talk about that for now. Look, what's happening with that airplane?" Suddenly, Guo You pointed at the sky and said.

A passenger plane was landing in the sky, but it seemed to be off course and was flying towards them. And it was getting closer and closer, apparently with no intention of stopping.

"Run, the plane is out of control, it's going to crash into us," Li Yi's eyes widened in terror.

"Fuck!" Guo You cursed loudly, turning to run.

The three of them fled once again.

They were acutely aware that the airplane losing control meant that it had also been invaded by malevolent ghosts. Inside, there might not be a single living passenger, only things neither human nor ghost.

Their desperate escape wasn't the only one.

Yang Xiaohua and Cai Yu were in the same boat.

Cai Yu was covered in blood at the moment, his face twisted in agony, limping heavily as Yang Xiaohua supported him towards an old district of the city.

They were still in Dachuan City, having not yet left.

It wasn't that they didn't want to leave; they simply couldn't. They could only keep running and hiding, no longer able to recognize exactly where they were, only knowing that they hadn't left this urban area.

And Cai Yu was having rotten luck, getting hit by a car while on the run.

Fortunately, the impact wasn't severe; otherwise, he would already be a corpse.

Yang Xiaohua wasn't faring well either. Her face had abrasions, and her clothing was worn in many places, the damage from dragging herself on the ground to dodge vehicles.

Recalling that scene, both still had palpitations.

Cars were going out of control from all directions, hurtling straight towards them.

Even more terrifying was that Cai Yu, who could have dodged, was unexpectedly pushed by a stranger who suddenly appeared beside him, nearly dying under the wheels of a car.

"Stop, let's stop for a moment," Cai Yu panted, his complexion pale, weakly leaning against the wall as he sat down.

"We can't stop, this place isn't safe," Yang Xiaohua was still in shock, scanning the surroundings.

No people could be seen, nor any noise heard.

But she wasn't convinced it was safe.

Grabbing her arm, Cai Yu said, "Yang Xiaohua, listen to me, if we keep going like this, we won't be able to get out of Dachuan City. Although it looks normal on the surface, this place has been completely invaded by vengeful ghosts. Anyone who enters here either gets assimilated or killed. We've already been targeted."

"And in my state, I can't keep running, I dare not go to a hospital, and seeking help isn't realistic."

"But we can't give up," Yang Xiaohua said, biting her lip and trembling slightly.

It was the first time she'd felt so desperate. She hadn't even seen the face of a ghost but was already struggling to live. She felt that upon entering this place, the whole world seemed against her, and perhaps everyone in the city was a ghost.

"Now there's only one way," Cai Yu coughed and spat out blood.

Yang Xiaohua asked, "What way?"

"You can't trust anyone in this city, but there's an exception to everything. Yang Jian must have entered this city by now. If you can find him, you might survive. If you don't, you're certainly going to die."

Cai Yu felt pain all over his body, but his mind was clear, thinking of a way to stay alive.

Seeking help from Yang Jian.

In order to survive, it wasn't shameful.

"No, wait, we have another way. We have letter paper; Yang Jian gave us a few sheets of it, which can get us back to the Ghost Post Office and out of here." As she mentioned Yang Jian, Yang Xiaohua suddenly remembered those black, dirty, special sheets of paper.

Cai Yu shook his head: "It's no use. I already asked Li Yi and the others; this letter paper can't be used after receiving a delivery task. It can only be used after completing the delivery, or if there is no delivery task."

"What? There's such a thing?" Yang Xiaohua's eyes narrowed, feeling a glimmer of hope extinguished.

"The Ghost Post Office would never give us such a big convenience, cough cough." Cai Yu coughed up more blood.

This was a sign of internal organ damage.

If not treated promptly, his chances of survival were slim.

But he didn't dare to go to the hospitals in Dachuan City.

Cai Yu continued, "Go find Yang Jian. If one of us can live, then that's something. Li Yi seems to know Yang Jian's location. I'll give you his contact information. Also, don't try to leave the city. You won't be able to leave alive. We are already trapped."

"What will you do?" Yang Xiaohua asked.

Cai Yu replied, "Call an ambulance and take a gamble. If it's people who come, I might be saved. If it's not... *cough cough*, that's as far as I go."

Yang Xiaohua fell silent.

It was a gamble, but the odds of winning were slim.

Yet there was no other option.

"Don't hesitate any longer. Haven't enough messengers from the second floor died already? It was them before, now it's us, that's the fate of us unlucky ones. Even if we survive this time, what then? Move to the fourth floor, continue delivering messages; it might be better to just be free from all of this." Cai Yu waved her hand, gave her Li Yi's contact information, and then signaled her to leave quickly.

Yang Xiaohua's expression changed unpredictably; she knew that what Cai Yu said was true.

Seeking help from Yang Jian was indeed the only way out at this moment.

The chances of escaping from here were getting smaller by the minute.

And the closer you get to the center of the city, the less likely you are to be attacked.

The ghosts seemed to be deliberately herding people into the center of the city.

But the city center was definitely not a hundred percent safe. She guessed that there was something even more terrifying there.

After all, the location of Mingyue Community was still unconfirmed.

The destination for delivering the message remained a mystery.

"Cai Yu, take good care of yourself. I really can't help you anymore. If I make it out alive, I'll try to come and check on you. If you die, then I will deliver the last words you prepared to your family," Yang Xiaohua said.

Yang Xiaohua helped Cai Yu to the stairwell of an old residential building, then pursed her lips, wiped the blood from her face, and turned her head to leave immediately.

There was no time for indecision now.

She had already been seen entering this old urban area, so if she doesn't move quickly, she would soon be killed too.

Cai Yu watched her leave with a bitter smile, not complaining about anything, just taking out her phone to dial the emergency number.

"I knew I shouldn't have come to Dachuan City just to take a look. With that look, I've led myself to vanish. Indeed, a messenger from the second floor getting involved in the tasks of the third-floor messengers is too much of a stretch. Wang Shan was right, and right now he's probably sitting at home watching TV and sipping on cola," he regretted his choice a bit.

But it was too late for regrets now; after all, who would have thought that just getting off the car to refuel and buy a pack of cigarettes, you could never return.

"What a hopeless world," Cai Yu sighed, touching his pocket to find that the last cigarette had been smoked on the road, which made him curse subconsciously.

Soon.

The sound of an ambulance rang out in the small alleys outside the old urban area.

But Cai Yu was already drowsy, unable to pay attention to whether there were any dangers around him.

Over with Yang Jian and Li Yang.

Other than an inconsequential car accident they encountered earlier, everything had been calm since they checked into this five-star hotel.

"Captain Yang, there's news. I've had people look into various data from Dachuan City and found a peculiar piece of data about three months ago. Dachuan City had already started a massive outflow of people at that time, and our headquarters had asked Li Leping about this phenomenon. At that time, Li Leping explained that it was for their own good," Li Yang said.

"It seems that the outflow of people was not normal but was intervened. It could be that Li Leping drove people out of Dachuan City," Captain Yang replied.

Li Yang responded, "Are you saying that three months ago, Li Leping had already discovered the paranormal events in the city? Unable to deal with them, he had to consider the bigger picture and drive people out of Dachuan City to ensure their safety?"

"That should be it," Li Yang nodded.

Yang Jian shook his head, "When the time comes, just ask Li Leping directly. You're looking in the wrong direction with the data; such social phenomena are just superficial. You might as well directly investigate Li Leping's daily life and movements. After all, the actions of a person in charge can affect an entire city."

"The paranormal events are the root cause," he added.

Li Yang nodded and continued his investigation in that direction.

"Knock! Knock! Knock!"

All of sudden.

There was a knock on the door outside.

The sound startled Li Yang, almost causing him to jump up instinctively.

It was scary to be startled by the knocking of a living person.

"What an uncomfortable knocking sound. If I ever live in one place for a long time, I'll definitely remove the door so that no one can knock when entering or leaving," Yang Jian also strongly disliked the sound.

It could evoke some very frightening memories.

"I'll open the door."

Li Yang immediately got up and opened the door.

A female server entered with a food cart, wearing a slightly stiff smile, "This is the lunch sent by our boss to the two guests, hoping it meets with your tastes."

Li Yang looked at the server and found something odd about her.

But he couldn't pinpoint it.

A vague sense of dissonance.

"Just put the stuff down and leave," Li Yang said coldly, refusing to interact with ordinary people and appearing very unsociable.

"Okay, if you need anything else, you can contact us anytime," the server replied politely, and then turned and left.

Li Yang walked in and said, "Captain Yang, it was a server delivering meals."

Without turning around, Yang Jian asked, "Really? Did you check if there was a shadow behind that server?"

"Huh?"

Li Yang realized the importance of his oversight only after being reminded and immediately changed his expression and rushed back to the door.

At this point, the server had not gone far, still walking down the hallway.

The light from the ceiling cast a bright and clear shine.

However, no shadow could be seen beneath the feet of the departing server.

"Damn it."

A chill running down his spine, Li Yang cursed silently, feeling he'd been too careless, missing such a crucial detail.

Yang Jian had meanwhile approached the food cart, lifting the lid of the silver platter on top, to fall silent immediately.

Instead of food, the dish contained a freshly severed head with eyes tightly closed and a ruddy complexion—as if recently deceased.

Upon opening another platter.

It revealed the head of a young and beautiful woman with braids, as pretty as they come.

"Is this our lunch?" Yang Jian's eyes cast a faint red glow.

"There's definitely something wrong with this hotel. That Li Leping, he needs to die."

"Wait, something's not right. If the server was just here to deliver two heads, it makes no sense... it would only raise our alertness and fail to affect us in any way," Yang Jian realized something, and immediately said, "Li Yang, close the door, block it."

Li Yang was momentarily stunned before slamming the door shut with force.

But the very next moment.

The entire building began to shake violently, and an ear-splitting roar erupted from outside.

It seemed like a massive explosion.

The very next moment.

This five-star hotel building was engulfed by bursts of flames, the powerful blast wave shattered the glass of surrounding buildings, and an unexpected demolition of a building unfolded at the center of the city.

The building collapsed in an instant, becoming a pile of rubble amidst billowing smoke, leaving behind debris scattered everywhere.

Pedestrians passing by nearby halted in their tracks, standing motionless as if they had all been petrified.

Nobody stopped to rubberneck, nor did anyone take note of the building's sudden collapse.

But in that rubble.

The topmost floor, which housed a presidential suite, remained intact, with even the furniture undamaged.

The explosion and collapse of the building seemed not to have affected that room in the slightest.

"Intent on blowing us both up in this building in one fell swoop? That's quite extreme.

The window of that room opened.

Yang Jian, with a blank expression, walked out from inside.

"Li Leping must have lost his mind; he's trying to kill us." Li Yang was both angry and frustrated, unable to accept the situation.

It was only because he had used the Door-blocking Ghost to block the room he was in that he was unscathed from the explosion just now.

If it had been later, they might indeed have been blown to death.

However, it would be quite difficult to actually kill Yang Jian since he possessed the Ghost Domain.

"We must find Li Leping. As for the mail, let's set it aside for now." Yang Jian covered his mouth and nose, emerging from the smog-filled ruins.

But no sooner had he stepped out.

The previously immobile pedestrians nearby immediately resumed their activities, walking down the streets as if nothing had happened.

But this apparent normalcy was precisely what made it all seem so abnormal.

The sudden collapse of such a large building would definitely cause panic and crowd gathering.

Yet now there wasn't a single onlooker in sight.

It was as if the collapse of this building was a minor affair, not drawing anyone's attention.

Yang Jian stood on the street, covered in dust, his gaze cold as he watched the oblivious pedestrians, and then his eyes fixed on a pale-faced man, to whom he strode over.

His icy left hand gripped the man's neck and pinned him to the ground.

But before he could interrogate him, Yang Jian found the man already motionless on the ground, a cold, slightly decomposed body.

A head had rolled off the neck and onto the side of the road.

"The head and the body are rotting at different rates, it seems the body has decayed faster, whereas the head is relatively intact..." Yang Jian fell silent.

A bad feeling arose in his heart.

People without shadows, mismatched heads, like zombies assembled from building blocks.

All of it eerily resembled a paranormal incident he had experienced before.

Dachang City, Furen Mall, Headless Ghost Shadow incident.

At this moment, Yang Jian turned to look behind himself; he had a shadow, but the shadow was missing its head.

And these people had no shadows at all.

At that time, Yang Jian's phone vibrated with an incoming call.

He had a caller.

"It's me, Yang Jian." Yang Jian, his eyes emitting a red glow, cautiously observed his surroundings before answering the call.

"Hehe, it's me, your adorable little housekeeper. Miss me much? Super cute." Jiang Yan's voice came from the phone.

"Speak human language."

Turning away, Yang Jian said, "I've got something to deal with here, I don't have time to chat with you."

"It's like this, I've just sent the money to Li Yi, and also, Li Yi asked me to tell you that he hopes to meet up with you," Jiang Yan said; "Well, that's about it."

"So, those guys are here too?" Yang Jian mused.

"Give me his mobile number; I'll contact him depending on the situation."

Jiang Yan said; "Okay, then when are you coming back from your trip, so I can arrange your airport pickup?"

"Can't come back for now." Yang Jian said: "Also, there's something I need to tell you."

"What is it?" asked Jiang Yan, curious.

Yang Jian replied: "Remember Furen Mall?"

"Of course, it's where we first met, how could I forget." Jiang Yan wondered. "What about it, is there a problem?"

"Back then I asked you a question; whether that ghost thing had a head. Now I can tell you, that ghost does have a head; it's just that I didn't find it at the time. It has appeared now, and many people here have already had their heads switched by that thing." Yang Jian immediately hung up after speaking.

At the top floor of Shangtong Tower in Dachang City, inside an office.

Jiang Yan put down her phone and was momentarily stunned, a jumble of terrifying memories surfacing in her mind.

"Jiang Yan, are you alright? You seem out of it. Are you feeling unwell; do you need a doctor?" Zhang Liqin asked with concern.

"No, I'm fine," Jiang Yan touched her neck, swallowing nervously.

She feared finding a gash on her neck, the skin peeled back to reveal a crimson flesh.

But soon after, Jiang Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

She reconfirmed that she was normal, that her body hadn't been switched, nor had her head.

"Damned Yang Jian, why scare me? Wuu wuu, knowing full well I'm timid." Jiang Yan let out a wail, slumping onto the couch and burying her head into a pillow.

"Wait, I hope nothing's happened to him."

Soon after, Jiang Yan became anxious again, worried that Yang Jian might have encountered some mishap.

This business trip had clearly embroiled him in another terrifying supernatural event.

In the center of Dachuan City, Yang Jian, after hanging up the phone, immediately turned and said, "Li Yang, locate Li Leping's satellite phone, let's find him. No matter what, Li Leping can't be uninvolved. Let's find him and talk about it."

"Okay."

Li Yang promptly began the location process.

Meanwhile, Yang Jian found a car on the roadside that he could start, and then he immediately drove Li Yang towards the located area.