Mysterious Revival - Chapter 1086 - 1052: Flooded Streets

After a brief meeting.

Yang Jian, Li Jun, Leuk San, and Shen Lin, a total of four captain-level figures, walked through the roads of this city.

They observed the strange and silent city, discussing their next course of action while patrolling.

Ah Hong, flipping through the file, said as he walked, “The Ghost Lake incident initially began four months ago. The person responsible for establishing the file was Cheng Haw from Zhongzhou City. He got entangled with this supernatural incident for a full month before disappearing. After an investigation, he was confirmed dead, and the progress of handling the Ghost Lake incident stalled… until the level was raised to A, and it was taken over by Captain Cao Yang.”

“There is no important content in the file information; this supernatural incident is a mystery.”

Li Jun said expressionlessly, “Cao Yang disappeared during the handling of this case. The only information obtained was that he was tracking another Captain Yinzi, though Yinzi is not her real name; it was a temporary name used when filing.”

“So we have to start from the beginning and investigate step by step?” Shen Lin said, rotating his shoulders.

“Pretty much,” Li Jun said.

Yang Jian squinted, his ghost eyes scanning the surroundings: “Are we certain the source is in this city? It doesn’t look like it to me.”

“The source of Ghost Lake is still unknown to headquarters. The photo of Ghost Lake on the file is one of the places infected by the supernatural.”

Ah Hong glanced at Yang Jian and said, “The supernatural event only started from this place, so we have to come here to confirm the situation. Cao Yang investigated here too, and later, when he disappeared, the signal was lost in this city.”

“There must be some hidden secret here.”

“Since the problem arose in this city, let’s just wipe it off the map. Whatever remains must have issues,” Yang Jian stopped, standing in the middle of the street.

Li Jun said, “Making a city disappear from the map? That’s too big of a move, and losing a city is a huge loss too.”

“Do you think anyone would still dare to live in this place?” Yang Jian glanced briefly.

The streets are deserted, the nearby buildings empty—this is a lifeless Dead City, seemingly hiding something unclean.

Such a city where even ghost wielders dare not tread, let alone ordinary people, except maybe those with a death wish.

Li Jun was silent for a moment.

Indeed.

This city is no longer suitable for living people.

“What if the source of Ghost Lake isn’t in this city? If this city was just affected, wiping it off the map might not be good either,” Li Jun said.

He did not agree with Yang Jian’s radical approach.

Erasing a city at the drop of a hat is really hard to accept.

“Since you don’t agree with my idea, then do as you see fit,” Yang Jian said indifferently, unfazed.

Leuk San, however, smiled and said, “Why rush, folks? Let’s walk around and see the situation first, we have plenty of time, no need to act so hastily.”

“But the sky is so overcast, it seems like it’s going to rain. In the Ghost Lake incident, rain doesn’t seem to be a good omen, does it?” Shen Lin looked up at the sky, dark and oppressive clouds hanging over the city.

“This rain won’t fall.”

Yang Jian raised his head, his ghost eyes opened, releasing a red light that immediately spread outward. The dark clouds in the sky disappeared at an unprecedented speed.

In an instant, the dark clouds turned into a blue sky.

Sunlight poured down, seemingly dispelling a considerable amount of some cold, eerie aura from the city.

The others glanced at Yang Jian.

Although they knew the terrifying power of Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain, they didn’t expect he could easily dispel the clouds over an entire city, and the scope was so large it felt somewhat frightening.

If they were targeted, there might be nowhere to run.

Luckily.

This Yang Jian was an ally, not an enemy, otherwise, it would indeed be troublesome.

“I’ve been feeling something watching us all around for a while now. Do you mind if I light a candle?”

Leuk San sensed something at this moment and pulled out a white Ghost Candle, then said.

“Alright, light it and see what happens,” Li Jun said.

Leuk San didn’t say much, directly lighting the white Ghost Candle to draw out some unclean things around them, to avoid accidents due to carelessness.

The white Ghost Candle was ignited, its flame black and peculiar.

This candle can attract fierce ghosts.

Normally, it wouldn’t be lit lightly, as it could attract unknown fierce ghosts, triggering horrific supernatural events.

But under certain specific circumstances, the white Ghost Candle could help the responsible person better locate the source of supernatural power, drawing out the hidden fierce ghosts.

It has pros and cons, depending on how it is used.

Currently, there are four captains present, two top-notch ghost wielders, such a combination destined their actions to be aggressive and bold.

The Ghost Candle’s flame flickered.

Even though Yang Jian had just dispersed the clouds, and the surroundings were bright with sunlight, the black candle flame still cast a shadow over the area.

Initially, everything seemed normal around them, with nothing particularly strange happening.

But soon, a gust of wind blew over, bringing a foul odor.

The air was filled with a stench of rot, a smell all too familiar to everyone present, the smell of decomposing corpses, only diluted by some dampness, creating such a unique rotten stench.

The stench was faint at first.

But as the Ghost Candle burned, the smell became increasingly strong.

Clearly.

The strange entities were attracted, and supernatural phenomena started appearing around.

At this moment.

In a nearby shop.

This shop was deserted, but in its dim restroom, despite the tap being off, it strangely turned itself on.

Muddy water flowed out noisily, quickly filling up the basin, and that stench originated from this turbid water.

Not only that.

The floor drain in the restroom seemed blocked by something, overflowing with water, occasionally sprouting dense black hair.

It seemed a clump of female hair had clogged the drain.

The muddy water flowed out from the restroom, spreading into the shop, then out towards Yang Jian, Li Jun, and others in the street.

This occurrence eerily resembled the scene previously shown to Yang Jian by the Ghost Cabinet.

Was it foresight?

Or was the Ghost Cabinet revealing the truth here, luring Yang Jian into a transaction?

The dry pavement now began to dampen.

Nearby shops, buildings, even walls started showing damp patches, forming water droplets, continuously dripping down.

Although not a drop of rain was falling from the sky, it felt as if the city was constantly enveloped in rain; this disparity from reality created an unspeakable sense of eeriness, and as the white Ghost Candle continued to burn, this phenomenon became increasingly pronounced.

“No rain, yet indications of it,” Feng Quan touched his cheek, mud falling off his face.

The grave soil dampened, as if about to squeeze out water.

“There’s someone at the window.”

Suddenly, Yang Jian’s ghost eye locked onto the window on the fourth floor of a building to their right.

A horribly pale, severely bloated body stood there, its head bald as if the scalp had decayed and peeled off. Its flesh appeared loose, making it nauseating to behold.

Yet this grotesque corpse twisted its neck toward their direction.

No.

It was actually facing the direction of the Ghost Candle.

“It’s a regular person who died in Ghost Lake, tainted by the supernatural, becoming this monstrous thing,” Shen Lin said calmly, scrutinizing the corpse.

“And it’s not the only one,” Leuk San said.

As his words fell.

Nearby shop doors opened, revealing pale and bloated shadows, and even fingers soaked white were stretching out from nearby sewer drains… Moreover, water droplets kept emerging from the walls, which at some point had grown thick with moss and water plants.

A single Ghost Candle had attracted the supernatural, and even begun to interfere with the surrounding environment.

The commotion wasn’t just limited to the surroundings; at the very end of the street within sight, strange figures emerged, and even water was dripping from above everyone.

This wasn’t rainwater.

It was a phenomenon caused by supernatural interference with reality.

Everything was both real and unreal.

“In this situation, it’s no wonder Cao Yang met his end.” Ah Hong, the woman, took a deep breath but quickly covered her mouth.

The stench was overwhelming, as if a bloated corpse were right by her mouth.

The true source hadn’t appeared yet, but the supernatural had already invaded reality, forming a real Ghost Domain.

This singular Ghost Lake incident was definitely not simple.

“A good city shouldn’t be overrun by this filth.” Li Jun took a step forward and snorted coldly.

He couldn’t tolerate this situation.

Behind his sunglasses, two eerie Ghost Flames flickered and quickly grew more intense.

Immediately, buildings nearby inexplicably caught fire, with green Ghost Flames raging within, quickly consuming the surrounding structures, then spreading to ignite one building, two buildings, three buildings… until both rows of buildings along the street were ablaze, extending to the very end of one’s sight.

The ghostly green light reflected on everyone’s faces, not producing any warmth but rather a chilling coldness.

Under the blaze of the Ghost Flame, the water stains on the ground vanished, those bloated, stench-emitting uncanny corpses dissolved into inconspicuous piles of ash, and the moss and water plants on the walls disappeared as well.

All the supernatural phenomena were disappearing at an unbelievable speed.

The air was no longer humid, instead growing somewhat dry.

In the confrontation with the supernatural, the Ghost Flame clearly was more terrifying, burning away all that was eerie.

“Li Jun,” Ah Hong called out.

She saw the makeup on Li Jun’s face was melting.

Even though Li Jun was peculiar, the Ghost Flame’s burn would dissolve even ghost makeup, which would be dangerous.

Li Jun noticed his condition too, and immediately retracted the Ghost Flame.

The Ghost Flame that had engulfed a whole street now began to rapidly extinguish.

The buildings were still the same as before, nothing had changed, not even a piece of clothing in the shops or a few scraps of paper by the roadside had burned.

Only the supernatural phenomena had been burned away.

“Changing the climate, burning a city, creating myriad manifestations, are all Captains this fierce? It’s hard to imagine there are over a dozen as powerful as you.” Shen Lin scratched his head, feeling a bit awkward.

Leuk San looked at him with a peculiar expression.

You’re the most unconventional one here.

A person who doesn’t exist in reality, only appearing in memories.

Furthermore, it’s still unclear what ghost he controls or what kind of terrifying supernatural power he possesses.

Yang Jian ignored this, only saying, “A meaningless act. You burn Ghost Flames, dispelling merely some supernatural phenomena attracted by the Ghost Candle. These things are not important; if the source isn’t dealt with, more and more of them will come.”

“Testing the waters isn’t bad either.”

Li Jun said expressionlessly, his skin seeming to melt, revealing a stranger’s dead, emotionless face beneath.

Like there’s another person hidden under the heavy makeup.

“The Ghost Candle is still burning.” Yang Jian glanced over.

After Li Jun stopped the burning, the surrounding supernatural phenomena reappeared.

The air turned humid again, water stains once more appeared by the roadside, with everything reverting to the way it was before.

Clearly, the suppression of the Ghost Flame by Li Jun was effective, but as Yang Jian said, it was a meaningless act.

Countering the supernatural with one’s own condition is very unwise.

Unless you can identify the source and resolve it once and for all, nothing can be changed.

Yang Jian, Shen Liang, and Leuk San remained rational, even Feng Quan and Ah Hong understood this, so there were no actions taken.

Only Li Jun was somewhat impulsive.

However, given such a personality, it’s no wonder headquarters sent him to handle supernatural incidents.

Li Jun looked around, refraining from taking any more action, keeping his composure.

“As long as the Ghost Candle isn’t extinguished, the supernatural phenomena will grow stronger, eventually possibly even attracting the true source over.”

Leuk San said, “But I don’t think things are that simple. If a single Ghost Candle could manage that, it wouldn’t have resulted in the disappearance of two Captains one after another, though I think it should be tried; what are your opinions?”

“Let the Ghost Candle continue burning; I want to see what this city will become.” Yang Jian calmly stated.

“We need a truth, not just wandering around a deserted city.” Shen Lin added.

Everyone agreed; they all wanted to see what changes this white Ghost Candle would bring.

After consolidating their opinions, the Ghost Candle continued to burn, without plans for it to be extinguished.

And Li Jun kept his cool and refrained from further action.

Soon, the supernatural phenomena appearing nearby exceeded those seen before, with even the streets starting to flood, murky water constantly streaming down the walls, the entire city becoming drenched.

As if an invisible downpour was pouring down.

Strangely, even as the flooding increased, there was no sign of it lessening, with the street’s drainage systems seemingly completely ineffective.

So very soon, the water on the ground reached about ten centimeters deep.

Leuk San had no choice but to hold the Ghost Candle, to prevent it from extinguishing.

“This is very wrong; despite burning for so long, no vengeful ghost has attacked us, only supernatural phenomena escalating.” Yang Jian frowned.

Logically, with the burning of a white Ghost Candle, nearby ghosts should definitely be drawn over.

Yet, no ghost appeared.

Only those drowned, pale dead people were drawn out.

Or perhaps, the emergence of a ghost is missing some conditions?

Yang Jian looked at the water accumulating on the ground, pondering.

If the appearance of a ghost requires a medium, the water here should be more than sufficient.

Thinking in reverse.

If such a conspicuous use of the Ghost Candle didn’t draw out the ghost to kill, then how did others die?

How did Cao Yang meet his end?

“There’s too little information, we know nothing, so all we can do is keep trying, gathering more info.” Yang Jian took a glance at the white Ghost Candle in Leuk San’s hand.

At this moment.

The drain entrances on the ground were continuously gurgling out water, while murky water was flooding out of nearby buildings as if a dam had been opened.

The water level on this street was continuously rising.

It was reaching Yang Jian’s knees now.

His ghost eyes peered into the distance, showing other parts of the city with similarly high water levels.

If this trend continues, the water will soon rise to several meters, even tens of meters.

At that point, this city would cease to be a city, instead becoming a lake.

Could this actually be where the true Ghost Lake lies?

Not a lake in reality, but a lake formed by a congregation of supernatural phenomena.

Such a thought crossed Yang Jian’s mind.

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