Chapter 332

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Chapter 332: The Ghost Who Wants Consciousness

"Leave a piece of your nail inside its heart, after all, the relationship between you two is not of a ghost and servant, but it needs to establish a paranormal connection in this way."

The old man continued to examine the zombie, to prevent any accidents from happening.

Chu Jiang agreed and used his index finger to cut his thumbnail, while also adding the power of interfering with reality.

A small piece of the nail was successfully cut off and immediately wrapped and swallowed by the heart of the [Will].

What Chu Jiang didn’t expect was that the heart not only didn’t let go of his hand, but instead clenched even tighter, as if it wasn’t satisfied with just that small piece of nail.

Even the eyes of the [Will] glowed red, staring fixedly at Chu Jiang.

"Something doesn’t seem right," Chu Jiang frowned and informed the old man about what he had sensed.

The old man was also surprised, "Not satisfied? Then it might want to become a higher level existence…"

"Higher level?" Chu Jiang didn’t quite understand, "Is there an existence of SS-class above S-class?"

The old man shook his head, "No, in our time, we called those powerful ghosts ‘disasters’. Whenever they appeared, they would often cause a catastrophe."

"Although there is no stronger existence than a natural disaster level, but I believe you have also discovered that certain ghosts have something unexplainable and mysterious, they seem to have their own consciousness, no longer just simple instinct-driven killers."

"And it’s not just the S-class ghosts that you mentioned, who can reach this level, even some ghosts with lower levels of terror might have consciousness."

"I’m not sure how exactly they surpass this threshold, but I do know that the more powerful the ghosts become, the more instinctively they want to have consciousness."

Chu Jiang nodded thoughtfully when he heard this.

As far as he knew, there were only two ghosts that definitely had consciousness, namely Ghost Diary and the deity of the Holy Word Religion.

Ghost Diary not only displays words, but its words are clearly not just repeating Chu Jiang’s thoughts, it has some judgments and likes and dislikes of its own.

As for the deity of the Holy Word Religion, that’s a bit terrifying, it manipulates its followers in secret, infiltrating every aspect of their lives.

Compared to the followers of false gods who are universally condemned, a majority of Ghost Masters abroad are astonishingly unaware of the existence of the Holy Word Religion; this shows that the manipulation ability of this "Sleep Talking" is definitely more than just instinctual.

As for the Ghost Buddha, Ghost Bride, false gods, they are all suspects, Chu Jiang dare not be certain, even the Ghost Mirror, the sealing artifact, is also a suspect.

By the way, does Chess Ghost count? It only poses a C-level threat to humans, and its level of scariness is not particularly high. But it still remembers Xu Shengtian and is trying to come back to play chess with him again.

Meanwhile, as Chu Jiang was pondering, the old man continued to speak:

"Like Black Sun, which I believe you have also seen before, it shows growth from infancy to adolescence. In reality, it is unconsciously imitating the process of human growth."

"But Black Sun is only experimenting and has not succeeded yet. Otherwise, its ability to infect humans would be even more terrifying."

"If you want to control Black Sun in the future, let me help you break it back into its original form as a sun. This way, it won’t mysteriously develop consciousness inside you, which could be troublesome."

Chu Jiang was a bit stunned listening to this. This old man is really deranged, talking about breaking things so casually?

"So what should I do now? I can’t just give this hand to a zombie, right?"

On hearing Chu Jiang’s question, the old man contemplated for a moment. "If you’re willing to make a sacrifice, you can give it your thumb. Perhaps it wants to obtain some of the power from the top-ranking ghost in the same series, in order to complete its own evolution."

"Of course, there is no guarantee of success, and this zombie might even fall back into a slumber as a result."

Chu Jiang hesitated a little. "Can a broken thumb grow back?"

"And after it gains its own consciousness, will it willingly submit to me?"

"Growing it back is not a problem. After all, this is not just a severed limb, but a solidified part of supernatural power, it will self-heal when consumed."

"As for whether it will still obey your commands…" The old man pondered for a moment. "I’m not sure, it’s too complicated when it comes to the consciousness of a ghost. Even the previous Ghost Master only noticed this aspect but didn’t delve into it."

This made Chu Jiang even more hesitant. "Maybe I should just forget it. The effort doesn’t seem proportionate to the reward."

The old man smiled faintly. "If you really lack the power of this ghost right now, then you can indeed give up."

"If you don’t really need it though, you can take a chance. Ghosts, especially those of a catastrophic level, will have more possibilities after gaining consciousness."

"Even if the worst happens and it doesn’t listen to your commands, you can always be decisive and seal it away in a diary."

"Anyway, Chu’s Jiang’s power is ultimately its counter, and absolute superiority is absolute superiority. That’s hard to change."

Chu Jiang thought for a moment. It seemed like he really didn’t lack the power of this ghost if he could successfully control the Black Sun and further unleash the power of the Ghost Diary.

"Okay," Chu Jiang nodded slightly, "Let’s give it a try."

After speaking, he looked at the white-haired zombie and said, "Although you may not understand human language, I still have to say this: if you bite my finger, you have to work for me in return, or else I’ll see you in the diary."

As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Jiang decisively cut off his own thumb, and without hesitation, forcefully pulled his right hand out, so that this guy wouldn’t really try to swallow his whole hand.

The broken thumb was quickly enveloped by the heart and absorbed.

At the same time, the red glow in the zombie’s eyes suddenly extinguished, and the strong smell of death on its body rapidly receded, even the area beneath its feet shrank back.

After a few seconds, it fell backwards stiffly, as if it had really become a corpse.

The old man had anticipated this and took out a coffin, putting the zombie inside, and personally nailed seven anchoring nails.

"Put the coffin away and continue to watch for any signs of movement," he said.

"If it’s fast, it may have results in a few months; if it’s slow, it may take years to calculate."

Chu Jiang agreed and put the new black coffin into his left hand.

Of course, he also thought about it. If it really comes to a critical moment and he needs to use the power of this ghost, but it can’t wake up for a while, then, well, see you in the diary…

After dealing with this matter, Chu Jiang and the old gentleman continued to sit down and talk, and this time Chu Jiang brought out the Ghost Mirror.

The old gentleman was somewhat surprised when he saw this mirror, "Sky Observing Ghost Mirror? Where did you get this?"