Chapter 45: Rider of the Embroidered Shoes

At this moment, inside the Ghost Tamer Training Base.

Yang Jian today talked with Wang Xiaoming about some matters concerning his own bodily condition.

Fortunately, with today's medical methods, it is enough to restore Yang Jian's body, which had begun to rot and stink after death, to normal.

Although this method cannot maintain bodily functions for long, it is sufficient for him to handle a Supernatural Incident.

However, this situation of his body dying undeniably shows that his Dead Machine is not perfect.

At this moment, Yang Jian took out the Golden Box that stores the Human Skin paper.

"Indeed it is an imperfect resurrection, there must be a trap? Wang Xiaoming's words are not without reason; from the moment I first used the Human Skin paper to revive myself, I was already being used, stepping into a trap," he said.

Yang Jian's face turned grim, his heart heavily suppressed.

"Either, continue following the Human Skin paper's plan."

"Or reject its plan, but then it would be almost impossible for any other method to solve my current situation, because my condition is too complex, especially after Wang Xiaoming's experiment failed."

At present, the Human Skin paper's scheme for him to ride the Fierce Ghost can no longer be used.

Because Yang Jian cannot determine how many traps actually exist within, and the Human Skin paper is not guaranteed to succeed.

With the dual concern of traps and failure probability, Yang Jian no longer dares to gamble.

"If there is no hope from the Human Skin paper or Wang Xiaoming, the only remaining method is the Ghost Cabinet."

His gaze flickered as he took out a Photo, which depicted the portrait of the Ghost Bride before her death.

No, now aside from the Red Cap on her head, the Ghost Bride is not much different from the woman in the painting.

"My transaction with the Ghost Cabinet is not yet complete; the Ghost Cabinet wants me to find the person in that Photo, presumably the Ghost Bride on the bus, but I cannot determine the Ghost Bride's current location."

"The Red and White Double Evil vanished without a trace after its last appearance in the livestream room."

"Even if I locate it again during this period, when I return to Dachang City, it will have gone somewhere unknown."

But I can't just write to the Ghost Cabinet, 'It's somewhere, I guess.'

The Ghost Cabinet certainly isn't that easy to fool.

Yang Jian had conducted experiments; that thing is also an inexplicably bizarre object that must be fulfilled accurately and genuinely. If you try to be sly, it may release a ghost to hunt you.

If the remedy comes too late, he could be killed by the ghost released from the Ghost Cabinet.

In Yang Jian's mind, a solution to his problem suddenly arose.

By using the information revealed by the Human Skin paper to fulfill the Ghost Cabinet's demand, then leveraging the post‑transaction opportunity to make his own request.

"No, that won't work."

But Yang Jian quickly dismissed the idea.

The price of directly asking the Ghost Cabinet to solve his own problem must be huge; although the Ghost Cabinet might comply, he could not bear the next transaction.

He must plan for his future; he cannot focus solely on this transaction's success and ignore what comes later, since his body might malfunction again.

"If I want the smallest cost to gain the greatest benefit from the Ghost Cabinet, there is only one way."

"Let the Human Skin paper devise a survival plan for me, then hand it to the Ghost Cabinet for revision; this might remove the traps in the plan, and merely revising the plan should be an affordable cost."

Yang Jian pondered, and soon thought of a decent scheme.

He opened the Golden Box, took out the Human Skin paper, and prepared to see if he could confirm the Red and White Double Evil's location through it.

But just as Yang Jian was about to open the box,

Outside the training base, an inexplicably eerie darkness was silently spreading.

First, the guard lights at the distant base went out; then several nearby buildings fell into death‑like silence, and panicked voices of a few Ghost Tamers from the dormitory that had been suddenly engulfed by darkness were heard, but soon the searchlights in the firing range dimmed dramatically.

The surrounding environment grew inexplicably cold.

Only Yang Jian's attention was fixed on the Human Skin paper in his hand; he did not notice the distant abnormality for a moment.

On the Human Skin paper, as usual, a sentence emerged: 'My name is Yang Jian; when you see this sentence, I am already dead.' Before the sentence could finish being written, it vanished, and then a bizarre large character appeared, filling the paper: 'Ghost!'

"Hm?" Yang Jian immediately furrowed his brows, and vaguely felt an inexplicable agitation from the ghost inside his body.

It is a very terrible feeling; its appearance generally indicates two possibilities.

Either his Fierce Ghost has revived, or an abnormality has arisen nearby.

On the other side.

After night fell, Hao Zhang did not return to his dormitory, but wandered outside.

After a day, he successfully gathered information on Qian Yi, who is the Rider of the Embroidered Shoes.

That guy is also now inside the training base, and because they are all novice Ghost Tamers, Hao Zhang's assigned dormitory is not far from Qian Yi's.

"Hey! I shouldn't know you, right? Why are you so interested in what I'm doing?"

Hao Zhang stood on a chair in the dormitory hallway, when a man in a suit and leather boots approached him.

Noticing Hao Zhang looking, the man said coldly:

"I've noticed that starting this afternoon, you have looked at my dormitory door at least seven times, and each time I pass by, you stare at me."

"Sometimes you observe briefly, other times you stare at me for a long time."

"And I've observed that when others walk through this corridor, you basically glance once and lose interest."

Obviously, the newcomer is Qian Yi.

Noticing Qian Yi's arrival, Hao Zhang did not answer him, but glanced at the leather shoes on his feet.

Seeing Hao Zhang's gaze shift, Qian Yi's expression turned cold.

Wearing women's embroidered shoes has always been a taboo for him; Hao Zhang's constant stare at his own feet clearly violated Qian Yi's taboo.

"Silent? Then die. In your next life, remember not to always be curious about other Ghost Tamers, probing their ghosts."

Qian Yi stepped forward, intending to kick Hao Zhang.

However, as he lifted his foot, Hao Zhang's figure suddenly vanished.

"Tap tap tap!"

A crisp Footsteps sounded in the corridor behind Qian Yi.

Qian Yi snapped his head around to look behind, but saw no one, yet the eerie Footsteps still kept sounding; when he turned, the Footsteps seemed to come from another direction.

It is worth mentioning that whether before or after he turned, the Footsteps were in the direction behind Qian Yi's head.

"I see, a Ghost linked to Footsteps?"

Qian Yi sneered; the Ghost he commands is the embroidered shoe, no wonder the kid kept staring at his own feet.

But now that he has already acted, even if he figures everything out, Qian Yi will not stop.

However, at that moment, the corridor suddenly fell into darkness.

The whole corridor lost its light; even when Qian Yi turned on his flashlight, he could not see anything around.

In the dark corridor, only that eerie Footsteps kept sounding behind Qian Yi.

"Did he do it?" Qian Yi's eyes narrowed.

But he quickly dismissed the thought.

Because after the darkness appeared, he could feel his embroidered shoe beneath his feet stirring, somewhat like a Fierce Ghost reviving, but more so uneasy.

And from the just‑seen Hao Zhang, Qian Yi felt no such sensation.

There was a timed issue; the wrong chapter was posted earlier, now reposting.

(End of chapter)