Mysterious Revival - Chapter 1378 - 1345: The Truth Behind the 40-Minute Reboot
The red Ghost Domain is dissipating, and the darkness enveloping the entire hall is fading away.
The rusted old knife in Yang Jian’s hand slowly lowered as well, his ghost eye still turning, eagerly observing the result of the collision just now.
In an instant, many things happened, and even he didn’t know what the situation would turn into next.
“Succeeded?”
At this moment, Liu Qi stood up in some surprise. He saw that the ghost behind Miao Xiaoshan had its head already rolled onto the ground, and the headless body stood motionless in place.
“But… Miao Xiaoshan is gone.”
The spot where Miao Xiaoshan was previously sitting was now completely empty, with both her and the chair disappearing without a trace.
The others were also startled.
In the blink of an eye, a living person just disappeared into thin air like this. Could it be that Miao Xiaoshan was attacked by a ghost at that time, and the ghost made her vanish?
Actually, Miao Xiaoshan didn’t disappear because of a ghost; she was transported away by Yang Jian’s Five-layer Ghost Domain and was no longer in reality.
However, just as Yang Jian can send people away, he can also pull them back through the Ghost Domain.
Yet, when Yang Jian’s ghost eye peered ahead, his face immediately darkened.
In the world isolated from reality by the Five-layer Ghost Domain, Miao Xiaoshan’s figure appeared there. Her body seemed to float in mid-air, motionless, while blood specks floated around her, because at this moment her head had cracked open, deformed, and her eyes were dim and lifeless.
It was clear that in the final contest between Yang Jian and the ghost, although Yang Jian had chopped off the ghost’s head, the ghost also killed Miao Xiaoshan in its final moment.
The Five-layer Ghost Domain could have safely sent Miao Xiaoshan away, but an accident still occurred.
“She’s already dead, no longer breathing.”
Yang Jian’s ghost eye confirmed without doubt that Miao Xiaoshan was now a corpse.
“What, Miao Xiaoshan is dead?” Upon hearing this news, everyone else widened their eyes.
The joy of having just successfully chopped off the ghost’s head vanished instantly.
To have lost an important friend for the sake of dealing with a ghost was a result unacceptable to everyone.
Yang Jian glanced at the time at this moment.
It was not yet midnight; the current time displayed as 11:59, perhaps just a few seconds until today passed.
His eyes flickered, weighing the situation in his heart.
Since Miao Xiaoshan hadn’t been dead for long, using the Eight Layer Ghost Domain to restart the area, he could completely bring back a person who had already died. He had done such things more than once, so it was a familiar task. If the person had been dead for too long, then there would be nothing he could do.
“Should I use the restart to save Miao Xiaoshan?” The reason Yang Jian was hesitant was because once he performed the restart, the ghost would also recover.
Then, his previous efforts would all be in vain.
After all, after the restart, the ghost’s actions might become unpredictable, making it perhaps not so easy to chop off its head again.
However, as Yang Jian was considering, anomalies had already occurred around him.
Yang Jian’s consciousness blurred for a moment, and the same sensation occurred to Liu Qi, Wang Shanshan, Zhang Wei… and everyone else in the hotel.
“What’s going on, why all of a sudden…”
He detected something off and tried to resist this supernatural force that was blurring his consciousness.
But very quickly.
His consciousness returned to clarity, and the others also regained their clarity. They all felt the same as Yang Jian, showing no differences due to their ghostly possession or being ordinary people.
As their consciousness returned to clarity, the scene in front of them reappeared in their vision.
The surroundings were no longer pitch black, but brightened up again. All the lights turned on, but the people surrounding them at this moment had disappeared, as if something massive had changed during that brief moment of consciousness blur, but everything came so quickly that no one even reacted.
However, these changes weren’t the most shocking; what struck Yang Jian the most was at the table, where the previously missing Miao Xiaoshan appeared again, and the reappeared Miao Xiaoshan wasn’t dead; she was alive and well, her head intact.
“This is bad.”
Yang Jian’s face changed unpredictably, and then he realized something and stood up abruptly.
Such a dramatic change happened in an instant, even bringing back someone who had died; this could only mean one thing: a restart.
But he hadn’t used the restart just now.
So if he hadn’t used the restart, then within the hall, the only one who could have initiated it…
Yang Jian’s gaze moved to behind Miao Xiaoshan.
Behind her was empty; the ghost that had its head chopped off was now gone, nowhere to be found.
“What time is it now?” Yang Jian asked.
Zhang Wei immediately looked at his watch: “Eleven twenty. Damn, what’s going on? Is my watch broken? A watch that costs over a million, and this is the quality? It can’t even show the correct time.”
As he spoke, he took the watch and knocked it hard against the table, then looked at it again.
The time was still moving normally, and it still displayed eleven twenty.
“Stop knocking, your watch isn’t broken. My clock also shows it’s eleven twenty,” Wang Shanshan said.
“It’s the same here too.”
Miao Xiaoshan said, then added somewhat puzzled: “But just now I clearly remember the time was eleven fifty-nine, and the ghost had already appeared behind me.”
“It’s a reset. The ghost used its most terrifying supernatural power to reset the entire area, turning back the time by forty minutes. That’s why this phenomenon occurred,” Yang Jian said calmly.
Liu Qi was also skeptical at this moment. He stared at the time repeatedly, finding it unbelievable, but reality told him Yang Jian’s explanation was correct.
The whole area indeed reset, and time went back forty minutes.
However, despite the reset, everyone’s memories seemed to remain intact, unaffected by the reset.
Yet this scene felt familiar to Yang Jian.
A forty-minute reset, so precise and spanning such a long period, Yang Jian had only encountered once since entering the supernatural circle, and that was during the Hungry Ghost incident.
Back then, during his first action, he almost used the Coffin Nail to imprison the Hungry Ghost. As a result, the Hungry Ghost reset and turned back time by forty minutes, causing the first action to fail.
“Isn’t the forty-minute reset the Hungry Ghost’s supernatural power? How could it appear here… Wait a minute, could it be that I’ve always misunderstood? Maybe the Hungry Ghost can’t reset at all; the one who can actually reset has always been the Wishing Ghost, because during the Hungry Ghost incident, Zhao Kaiming was still alive, and the Wishing Ghost was still by his side.”
Yang Jian’s face suddenly changed.
The truth behind that long-misunderstood matter from a year ago was finally revealed today.
The reset is the Wishing Ghost’s ability.
And upon realizing the ghost could reset, everyone present was extremely shocked.
“Are you kidding me, it can reset and roll back forty minutes? How is there such a cheat? This is totally hacking,” Zhang Wei cursed.
“The supernatural power can actually accomplish this, it’s just unbelievable.”
Wang Shanshan thought this matter was absurd, even more so than the dead coming back to life.
Miao Xiaoshan also nodded: “This has completely exceeded my understanding of the supernatural.”
Liu Qi couldn’t help but take a deep breath. Now he finally understood how terrifyingly abnormal the top supernatural ghosts in this circle were. Just a moment ago, they had clearly won, the ghost’s head had been cut off, yet with a reset, everything went back to forty minutes ago and started all over again.
But after starting over, would the previous strategy to imprison the ghost still be effective?
And even if the second attempt succeeded, what about another reset by the ghost?
Resetting again and again means the ghost has countless chances to make mistakes, while they only have one. If they lose even once, it’s over.
“It was my mistake; I didn’t realize the one with the ability to reset is the Wishing Ghost. Forty minutes of reset time is enough to change everything,” Yang Jian said, taking a deep breath.
“That ghost is cheating, Brother Tui, what do we do now? Let’s just admit defeat straight away; this isn’t winnable.”
Zhang Wei quickly explained to everyone: “Let me state clearly, I’m not scared, nor are we lacking in skill, but the other side can reset and cheat.”
Liu Qi smiled wryly: “No one would blame you for thinking that. Right now, I can’t think of any way to win. Yang Jian’s plan earlier was already perfect—lowering our guard, luring the ghost over, and detaining it in the last minute, leaving the ghost no place to hide and no time to harm our families, even unmasking the ghost’s disguise.”
“But if there’s a do-over and the ghost knows Yang Jian’s plan in advance, how can we win?”
The only relief was that this ghost didn’t kill indiscriminately; otherwise, the loss would have been greater. Even with a reset, it’s just another confrontation with the ghost, without a large cost.
“It’s too early to think about surrendering and admitting defeat. If the first plan doesn’t work, then come up with a second, a third. It’s not time to give up. I believe we’ll be the ones to win in the end,” Yang Jian said, his gaze steady.
This reset may have exceeded his expectations, but it was something he could accept.
After all, the ghost’s reset also saved Miao Xiaoshan, at most making this a draw, with no losses on either side.
Since the ghost wants to go again, Yang Jian is willing to go again.
With this experience, Yang Jian vowed to block the ghost’s reset the second time, giving it no chance to start over.
While they were discussing,
inside the Peace Hotel, commotion arose once more.
The ordinary people who had entered the hotel earlier were now leaving quickly, moving as if controlled, heading outside and then dispersing by car.
Not only the ordinary people who had entered the hotel earlier, but even the hotel’s staff were leaving.
Soon, the hotel, which had been crowded, became desolate.
Clearly, all this was the ghost’s doing.
After its first failure, the ghost seemed to have another course of action.
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