Chapter 368: The New Feng Quan
Looking at Feng Quan's face stuck to the Ghost Newspaper in my hand, the first thing Yang Jian had to do was to erase the traces altered by the ghost previously and then add the content he wanted to alter the memories with.
"Judging by the handwriting on this Ghost Newspaper, instead of saying the ghost can alter memories, it's more like planting a malicious thought."
Yang Jian pondered for a moment before reaching out and wiping away the messy handwriting above.
The handwriting was not hard to erase; it was just written with an ordinary pen. It only needed to be rubbed several times, and the handwriting already became blurred, then mixed with the bloodstains next to it and quickly disappeared.
Next, he found a pen in the room and after some thought wrote down the first line: Forget any grudge between you and Yang Jian, remember that Yang Jian has saved you many times, he is your lifesaver.
He cleared the previous grudge with that first sentence.
The second sentence: You are grateful to Yang Jian, willing to help him, and follow his orders regardless of the consequences.
This alteration was to make Feng Quan into a helper for Yang Jian in the future. As for other memories, Yang Jian did not plan to touch them because the more memories were altered, the easier it was for someone to notice something wrong with themselves, so blindly altering most memories was a very foolish act.
But changing two places, Yang Jian felt, was still not enough insurance.
He added another line: Your relationship with Yang Jian is very good, and anyone who tries to sow discord between you two is a bad person; stay away from such people.
"In this way, it would prevent someone from noticing something off with Feng Quan's relationship with me and reminding him, especially since Feng Quan is a clever man. I can't let him realize that his memories have been tampered with," Yang Jian thought to himself.
After that, he added a few more lines.
He altered some of Feng Quan's personality traits, eliminated some of his vengeful tendencies, so that even if one day he found out his memories had been tampered with, his personality would prevent him from doing something terrible.
After finishing, Yang Jian checked again: "That should be about right, as long as it really alters the memory as expected, then I can rest assured."
"Wait, I don't know if it will be successful or not, I need to add a piece of information to test it."
Suddenly, Yang Jian added one last line: "Likes to call Yang Jian 'Brother Tui'."
This point was crucial.
If Feng Quan's memory had been successfully altered, then the first words upon waking up would definitely be calling himself Brother Tui; if not, then the memory alteration had failed.
After completing all this and making sure nothing was overlooked, Yang Jian took the eerie newspaper and covered Feng Quan's face with it again.
However, contrary to what he had expected, his face did not smoothly return to his body, it still clung to the bloodstained old newspaper.
"The face can only be taken off, not put back on?" Yang Jian immediately frowned.
Then he realized the problem.
Because Feng Quan was not the ghost that tampered with memories, that ghost could affix the face, but Feng Quan did not have that ability.
Removing the face, altering the memory, and then attaching the face were the ghost's abilities.
Yang Jian had only obtained the Ghost Newspaper at this stage, so this ability was not perfect and had flaws; it was an incomplete supernatural phenomenon.
"No wonder the methods on the human skin paper for controlling the crying and smiling faces have chosen Tong Qian as the target... Because Tong Qian is a ghost, and only she can properly switch any face without this issue. In that case, is my experiment doomed to failure?"
His gaze flickered mildly.
He considered an alternative method.
That would be to use a Ghost Shadow to reattach Feng Quan's face.
Since the Headless Ghost Shadow itself had the ability to stitch together bodies, whether it was a human or ghost body, or even non-bodily things, it could join them.
Like a shadow, it fitted perfectly together.
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"We can only try."
Yang Jian used part of the Headless Ghost Shadow to continue suppressing Feng Quan's body, while another part invaded the Ghost Newspaper through the palm of his hand.
The suppression by the Headless Ghost Shadow was very successful.
Immediately, the face of Feng Quan that was glued to the newspaper fell off.
At the same time, the Ghost Newspaper returned to its previous appearance, stained with blood, ancient, and odd. The words that Yang Jian had just written also disappeared, either because it had lost the ability to tamper with memories, or the memories had already been altered.
Whether successful or not, Yang Jian had to attach the face back now.
The Ghost Shadow condensed into a black hand, took the face, and then covered Feng Quan's head with it.
The attachment was easy, done immediately.
But whether it would have the expected effect, Yang Jian was not certain since it was the work of two different ghosts. Whether it would yield the same effect had to be seen after the results manifested.
"Five minutes at most, successful or not, I must leave this place. I can't stay here too long." Yang Jian glanced at the time, feeling that his use of the Ghost Domain this time was a bit long, and also quite frequent.
Although the Headless Ghost Shadow was suppressing the Ghost Eyes, caution was still necessary.
Moreover, this hotel was not a safe place. It was better to leave earlier and seal this place off as part of wrapping things up. Besides, Tong Qian, who was already a ghost in Z City, was still waiting for him to deal with her.
Time passed by little by little.
About two minutes later, Feng Quan's body began to move. Discover exclusive tales on My Virtual Library Empire
After having his face reattached, he suddenly seemed to regain consciousness, awakening from his slumber and opening his eyes abruptly.
Feng Quan came back to life.
Yang Jian immediately focused his gaze tightly on him.
The face was successfully reattached, but had the memory tampering succeeded as well?
"Brother Tui, why are you looking at me like that?" Feng Quan's face showed confusion. He looked around and then said gratefully, "I thought I was going to die here. Sure enough, it was you who saved me again. You suppressed my fierce ghost revival."
Hearing the words "Brother Tui," Yang Jian immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
The memory tampering had succeeded.
Otherwise, Feng Quan would never address him like that.
"It's okay, it's good that you're awake. We need to leave now, the hotel is very dangerous," Yang Jian said casually as he retracted the Ghost Rope and Ghost Newspaper.
"I'm sorry for the trouble, I feel ashamed," Feng Quan said, looking embarrassed.
Yang Jian said, "What's most important is that you survived. Don't worry about the rest."
"You're right, being alive is already fortunate," Feng Quan nodded and said.
Judging by his expression and the emotions in his eyes, Yang Jian felt that his plan must have succeeded. He was also convinced that his Headless Ghost Shadow could indeed replace that ghost that tampered with memories to reattach faces.
This also meant that the Ghost Newspaper he held would prove to be of great use in the future.
He had already chosen his next target.
It was Tong Qian.
The method to control it described on the human skin paper still needed to be applied. However, the current priority was to deal with that ghost. He couldn't allow the ghost to continue staying in Z City; otherwise, the entire city could fall under the ghost's control, and by then dealing with it would have to take into account social impacts.
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