At this moment, Yang Jian dared not waste a bit of time because he knew that even if Ye Zhen appeared, it would be difficult to stall the ship’s captain from returning to the Ghost Ship, so he must complete his mission before Ye Zhen fails.

Through the gap created by the spectral bus collision, Yang Jian had now entered the cabin of the Ghost Ship.

It was pitch black here, giving the impression of stepping into a boundless abyss.

However, after entering, Yang Jian did not feel strong spiritual disturbance, nor was his own supernatural power suppressed, which should be because the captain left the Ghost Ship.

He reopened the Ghost Eye.

The darkness faded from his sight, and Yang Jian could see everything around him using the Ghost Eye’s supernatural power.

“This looks less like a cabin and more like a mysterious junkyard.”

Yang Jian seriously surveyed the area and found things piled up in disorder: a stench of soil, broken tombstones, collapsed houses, and even remnants of city ruins. In addition, he saw some corpses mingled with the junk, not decayed, likely because some spiritual power lingered on them.

While observing, Yang Jian also looked for traces of the spectral bus.

Soon, he made a discovery, finding a rusty, twisted, deformed car door beneath some ruins, undoubtedly part of the spectral bus.

Nearby, other damaged parts were scattered.

“The ghost in the spectral bus is hidden in the front section, where the driver sits; since the door fragment is here, the front should be ahead.” Yang Jian continued to walk forward.

He actually felt somewhat apprehensive about this place, not wanting too much to venture deeper.

Continuing to search forward, Yang Jian found other parts of the bus; he saw broken windows and some already deformed seats, but now those things were just ordinary junk, as their supernatural power had dissipated, making them appear very old now. If not for Yang Jian’s memory, they would be hard to recognize at a glance.

“The surroundings are relatively safe; for now, I don’t sense danger approaching. But I can’t be careless; this is, after all, the deep part of the Ghost Ship’s cabin.”

Yang Jian was very cautious because he was not in peak condition now and had lost his supernatural weapon; facing a terrifying ghost, he could only protect himself.

Continuing deeper.

Yang Jian’s Ghost Eye scanned, capturing every detail around him without missing any part.

Yet he still hadn’t found the ghost on the spectral bus.

But he believed the ghost certainly remained dormant within this eerie junkyard; it just required patience and a bit of luck now.

“Where is it? Where exactly?”

Yang Jian kept searching, gradually becoming anxious in his heart because the longer the delay, the higher the chance of his action failing. If he failed, all would be lost; no one could deal with the Ghost Ship anymore, and he’d miss the opportunity to imprison the captain completely.

At that time, it was unknown how many people would die.

Thus, the pressure on his mission this time was incredibly intense.

“That’s… a damaged old coffin? It seems there’s someone inside.” One of Yang Jian’s Ghost Eyes rotated, seeing a coffin half-buried in the soil.

But the coffin had lost its lid, and its body decayed extensively, probably due to a lack of supernatural power to sustain it.

Yet lying in such a useless old coffin was a person, more accurately, a corpse, well-preserved and fresh, not appearing to have been deceased long, but as if just interred, except the corpse’s face was painted with a ghostly white makeup, likely too much foundation.

“It’s not makeup; it’s lime. The corpse’s face is plastered with lime, and this corpse is a young woman.” Yang Jian’s Ghost Eye rotated, examining again attentively.

Given the raised chest and fine skin of the fresh corpse, it was likely a female corpse.

“It’s most likely a fierce ghost, best not to disturb this thing, or it might be dangerous.”

Yang Jian didn’t approach, opting to veer aside and keep his distance. Even though he felt no abnormality on this corpse, the decayed coffin continued to agitate his nerves, because in his experience, anything associated with coffins was terrifying.

Ghost Envoy, Ghost Lake, Ancient House Elder, Baishui Town…

The reason for this is that in the Republic of China Era, people had a habit of sealing terrifying things they couldn’t handle inside coffins.

And by distinguishing coffins’ colors, one could ascertain the contents within to some extent.

A black coffin signifies extreme danger, a red coffin signifies burial of someone.

But the damaged coffin couldn’t indicate its color anymore.

Just as Yang Jian was about to bypass it.

Suddenly, on the other side of that coffin, he saw some scattered artifacts from the spectral bus, including a peculiar chair slanted into the earth. Though the chair was completely deformed and severely damaged, Yang Jian could still identify it as the driver’s seat of the spectral bus.

“Might it be there?”

Yang Jian fixated on the damaged seat without hesitation, immediately moving toward it.

Despite the coffin nearby, under such circumstances, he wouldn’t fear this slight danger.

Very soon.

Yang Jian arrived beside the chair. He attempted to lift the chair out of the soil, but no matter how much strength he used, the chair remained unmoved, as if it were integrated into its surroundings, making it impossible to budge.

Frowning, Yang Jian quickly switched strategies. The Ghost Shadow behind him reappeared, and rapidly began to erode the broken chair along with the soil beneath it.

He tried to use the Ghost Shadow’s supernatural power to counter the influence of the Ghost Ship.

However, when his Ghost Shadow covered it, Yang Jian felt both surprised and delighted.

The delight came from discovering the ghost on the supernatural bus below; unfortunately, the ghost was incomplete. It was just a shriveled head and half a broken body. This seemed to have collided with the Ghost Ship, being shattered forcefully, and the ghost was completely in a deadlock with no revival tendencies.

In other words, once Yang Jian removed this half ghost, he could maneuver this supernatural power without worries.

But the bad news was, he found, astonishingly, that the broken chair, the incomplete ghost, or the filthy soil—all were merged due to some supernatural influence, becoming a single entity.

This situation was like everything here was part of the Ghost Ship, and it was impossible to take any one thing away.

“So this is the secret of the Ghost Ship, it is formed from numerous terrifying and bizarre things coming together, the captain being the complete ghost formed by these supernatural entities. That’s why the captain is so terrifying. Although some ghosts haven’t stayed long enough on the ship to become part of the puzzle and be absorbed by it.”

At this moment, Yang Jian understood some of the situation.

But now wasn’t the time to think about these things, he had to find a way to get that half ghost out.

Unfortunately, the Firewood Knife wasn’t at hand; otherwise, Yang Jian could try using the knife’s supernatural power.

Yang Jian continued attempting to invade with the Ghost Shadow.

Then he discovered that the half ghost was connected to the rotten coffin beside it, and the rotten coffin was connected to the Ghost Ship.

He couldn’t take out that half ghost but realized he could shake the rotten coffin.

“So to extract the half ghost on the supernatural bus, I must dig out this coffin first?” Yang Jian’s gaze shifted to the female corpse there.

This was not good news.

But oddly enough, his Ghost Shadow could shake the coffin.

It was as if deliberately making him dig out the coffin.

Yang Jian explored for a while, coming to a conclusion.

It wasn’t that he could shake the coffin, but the coffin resisted the Ghost Ship’s erosion. Otherwise, the female corpse would have already merged with the ship and couldn’t be preserved so perfectly.

And because the coffin resisted the Ghost Ship, it became damaged and rotten itself, looking like it wouldn’t take more than a few months before it completely decayed, becoming part of this pile of sludge.

After the exploration ended, the Ghost Shadow swiftly retracted.

At the same time, a small piece of wood was unearthed by the Ghost Shadow.

This was part of the rotten coffin. One side of the wood piece was decayed, but the other side was relatively intact, showing traces of red paint.

“This is a red coffin, most likely from the coffin shop in Taiping Ancient Town, like the one of the old man in the ancient house.” Yang Jian pinched the wooden chip lightly, turning it into powder, showing the coffin was already very fragile.

“Plastered face, buried in a red coffin, it seems a ghost tamer from the Republic of China Period prepared it for their aftermath. I just don’t know why this coffin ended up in the Ghost Ship; perhaps the woman did this deliberately before she died.”

“Now the situation does not allow to care whether the female corpse in the coffin will revive as a ghost; action must be taken immediately.”

Yang Jian no longer hesitated, covering his hands with Ghost Shadow and directly reached into the decayed coffin, grasping the female corpse and pulling it up fiercely.

It was not as heavy as imagined; the female corpse was immediately pulled out of the coffin by him.

With the coffin’s protection, indeed, it did not become a part of the Ghost Ship’s puzzle, but after pulling it up, Yang Jian quickly tossed it aside.

As the female corpse moved, the coffin seemed to lose a balance, collapsing and completely decaying. Simultaneously, this raised mound began to rapidly collapse.

Yang Jian seized this opportunity, immediately attempting to take away the half ghost from the bus.

Very soon.

He succeeded.

The female corpse in the coffin was freed from the Ghost Ship’s grasp, causing the ghost on the nearby bus to be freed too.

When Yang Jian pulled his hands from the filthy sludge, he unearthed a lifeless, broken corpse.

“Finally found you.” At this moment, Yang Jian’s lips curled into a smile.

But he didn’t notice that the female corpse he tossed aside had already disappeared from where it landed.

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