Mysterious Resurrection: The Peddler

Chapter 98 Gray and White Border (First Chapter)
Holding the gun, Cao Yang carefully pushed open the office door, and was greeted by an unpleasant musty smell and a chill that made the hair on his neck stand on end.

"The degree of restoration is quite high. I have taken over Peng Cheng's position for several months, so the moldy and damp office in other people's memories has been simulated by the ghost."

"But fortunately the electrical equipment was not damaged."

Cao Yang fumbled to turn on the light. Although the light was also the same dim color, it was much better than groping in the dark.

"Wait, if Peng Cheng's office is simulated, does that mean there is a ghost rider named Peng Cheng in this building now?"

"We can't rule out this possibility, but no one here should know Peng Cheng's identity, so even if the ghost simulates this person, it may not be able to restore his supernatural powers."

Cao Yang searched the office with a serious expression, and finally found two body bags in a hidden corner. Judging from the appearance, they should be made of gold. But Cao Yang knew that there was no gold here, and the body bags in his hands were also simulated by the evil spirits.

As for whether this thing can restrict the actions of evil spirits, no one knows. Although Cao Yang believes that God will not create a stone that he cannot lift, evil spirits are not God. Ghosts will only act according to rules. Even intelligent ghosts will find it difficult to go against their instincts at certain times.

"Just keep it for now. It's better than nothing."

After leaving Peng Cheng's office, Cao Yang took the elevator to the first floor, only to find that the door to the lobby on the first floor had been opened at some point, and he could even see the street outside.

"Is it my imagination?"

There were many ordinary people on the first floor. They ran towards the door as if they were escaping for their lives, trying to leave this building that was so strange that it broke their cognition.

Cao Yang did not follow him out. His intuition told him that there was no way out outside, and it might even be an abyss of greater despair.

"The building in my memory can be regarded as a ghost den to some extent. Moreover, the building was constructed based on the memories of some people inside the building. Someone has entered Peng Cheng's office, so it was simulated. My office itself is isolated by gold, so the evil spirit cannot restore it."

"But a person's memory cannot be limited to this building. There are also homes, houses, and roads. If a person's entire memory of Otsu City is obtained by the evil spirit, then the evil spirit den is likely to cover the entire Otsu City, and there is no doubt that it will lead to another S-level incident."

Cao Yang's guess was correct. On the satellite map of the headquarters, with Beichen Building as the center, the surrounding streets and roads were disappearing at a steady rate. To be more precise, they were covered by the supernatural. If Otsu City was a layer, then there was now a supernatural layer that was covering up the entire Otsu City bit by bit.

"Deputy Minister, do you want to send support?"

The chief of the think tank, Xu Jianxian, was also not calm at this moment. Although the expansion of the ghost den was not fast, judging from the current trend, if it was not nipped in the bud, this would undoubtedly be the next case of starving ghosts.

"Let Li Jun go and give him the ghost candles and surrogate dolls. Tell him not to go deep into the disappeared streets, but to collect as much intelligence as possible from the periphery. Now that Cao Yang has lost contact, Li Jun must not allow any more problems to happen."

Cao Yanhua rubbed his sore eyes and said in a deep voice. After receiving the order, Li Jun immediately prepared to set off. He had recently controlled the second ghost, so he didn't have to worry too much about the resuscitation problem, which was just right for this trip.

Memory Building, Cao Yang thought again and again, and finally decided to walk out of the building, but the scene outside seemed to confirm his guess: there was only a building and three surrounding streets in sight, and all of them were grayish and yellowish in color, like a huge portrait.

Not only that, the gray and white world seems to have a "border", and the place outside the border is all thick darkness. However, this border is steadily extending into the darkness, expanding the territory of this gray and white world.

"The situation is not good. The memory world is expanding. Otsu City is not big. If this trend continues, the whole city will fall in less than a week." Cao Yang did not try to approach the border. He returned to the building, but found several more corpses in the building, which was cold and weird.

"This time it's not a peaceful expression, because this is the world of memory. Ghosts and humans are in the same dimension. People will naturally be afraid when they see ghosts."

Ignoring the corpses, Cao Yang stopped an ordinary person who was trying to escape and asked:
"How did these people die? Did you see the murderer?"

But the man's mind had already been taken over by fear, and he stammered and couldn't utter a few complete sentences.

"Forget it. I'll ask you questions, and you just nod or shake your head. Otherwise, I'll shoot you. Do you understand?"

Cao Yang said viciously and showed his pistol. The man nodded frantically, fearing that his head would be split open.

"Did these people die suddenly and inexplicably?"

The man shook his head.

"Were they killed by ghosts?"

The man nodded frantically, his eyes full of fear, and he kept struggling to escape. Cao Yang had to put the gun to his forehead, which made him much more obedient.

"The third question is, do they have any common characteristics before they die, such as what actions they took or what words they said?"

"No."

The man suddenly stopped stuttering, but as soon as he finished speaking, his eyes began to blur and his whole body turned cold. In less than a few seconds, he turned into a corpse.

"Damn it, for a moment I actually overlooked that the pattern of ghosts might be related to memories. My question caused him to accidentally trigger the pattern."

Cao Yang threw the corpse aside and through the window he found that the memory world was expanding again. It now seemed to be almost at the edge of Otsu University, which was about 1/6 of Otsu City.

"It is now certain that the law of ghosts is memory. From the question just now, it is very likely that if you recall the appearance of a ghost, or the existence of a ghost, you will be killed. I have never seen a ghost, so even if there is a ghost in my memory, I cannot restore the image of a ghost or the way it kills to avoid being attacked."

Time is passing, but Cao Yang, who is deep in the memory world, cannot sense it and can only make judgments based on the time provided by the device. However, the time provided by the device is also simulated by the spirit, so he can only judge how much time has passed, but cannot confirm the real time in the outside world.

At Otsu University, Li Jun was carrying two suitcases and looking solemnly at a distance not far away. There was a gray-white boundary line, and the two sides of the line represented the supernatural and reality.

There was a dead silence all around, and the gray world expanded silently but fatally. Fortunately, Cao Yang handled it in time and evacuated ordinary people in the surrounding area in advance. In addition, the deputy minister paid great attention and coordinated mobilization, so the casualties in Otsu City were not serious, at least compared with the starving ghosts.

(End of this chapter)