Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

"It's definitely not that simple, it's just that it's too lazy to explain it to you in detail."

Xu Yuanshuang shattered Li Bo's illusions.

"However, it is said that the abilities and costs of A-level monsters are well balanced, so you don't need to be in too much of a hurry."

Xu Yuanshuang changed the subject, saying somewhat perfunctorily:

"Think of a way, find some funny jokes to tell it, maybe that will work."

The pen made no comment on their conversation and lay quietly in Li Bo's hand.

"Sister Shuang..."

"What if it's not satisfied with any of the jokes I tell...?"

Li Bo asked cautiously.

"Not satisfied?"

Xu Yuanshuang smiled and patted his shoulder.

"Then you can only die."

.......

After a while.

Li Bo saw the street with the red umbrella people for the second time.

He walked very, very slowly, his mind racing.

Previously, Xu Yuanshuang had promised that Li Bo could use the fountain pen temporarily.

But once the curse is lifted, it must be delivered to her as soon as possible.

After giving her slightly threatening instructions, she went straight to the magazine office based on the information in the book and provided by Li Bo.

It was as if a vengeful ghost was chasing her from behind!

"Why are you in such a hurry, Sister Shuang?"

Li Bo muttered to himself, no longer thinking about it, and continued racking his brains to make up jokes for the pen.

He had already said it more than a dozen times, but the pen didn't react at all.

The only response Li Bo received was a few large, faint characters on his arm:

Not funny

Li Bo sighed heavily, looked at his body, and a trace of anxiety flashed between his brows.

For some reason, the red cloth is spreading faster and faster, and now it covers half of his body!

Looking west

The pen wrote in Li Bo's palm.

There's a billboard in that direction.

Li Bo quickly wrote down the shop's address on the billboard.

The pen didn't tell him what to do after combining the three place names.

But Li Bo already had a rough idea.

The place to break the curse should be at the center of the three locations.

[Li Bo]

Suddenly, the pen started writing and drawing on his hand again.

"what happened?"

Li Bo was taken aback.

How did you escape from the last domain?

"..."

Li Bo's expression suddenly changed. He stammered for a long time, speaking very vaguely.

You dreamed about him again last night, didn't you?

The moment those words appeared on Li Bo's arm, he was jolted!

He immediately felt a bone-chilling cold emanating from every pore of his body!

"How do you know?!"

Li Bo asked in horror.

The pen did not answer, but continued writing:

[Li Bo]

Stay away from water sources after you go outside.

He might turn into a water ghost and come back to haunt you.

In an instant, Li Bo thought of the domain from last time again...

[Reservoir]

There's only one ghost inside.

It's a water ghost that only seeks out scapegoats.

He thought of the man who had entered the realm with him...

At the last moment, he pushed himself into the water to buy himself time to escape!

After leaving the domain, every midnight he would think of that one glance he saw when he turned back as he fled into the domain river.

In the pitch-black lake, a man emerged from the water, his upper body pale and his damp, swollen body covered in seaweed...

He just stared at Li Bo with a sinister gaze, seemingly never to look away, that venomous look...

"What...what do you mean?"

Li Bo trembled all over. Could it be that the ghosts in the realm could also chase him into the real world?

Don't overthink it.

I'm a ghost too.

People of the same kind are always better able to understand each other's thoughts.

The pen moves very slowly.

Its rustling, sliding sound was like someone laughing sinisterly...

.....

In a secluded alley.

Du Tingfeng and Chen Ji stood in the shadows, quietly watching Li Bo's slowly moving figure.

They first went to the area next to the hotel, and then followed Li Bo after he came down.

What exactly is the fountain pen trying to do?

Chen Ji frowned.

Du Tingfeng leaned against the wall and chuckled softly:

"Let's eliminate the wrong options."

In his hand was also a copy of "The Red Umbrella Girl".

Upon seeing the book, Chen Ji immediately thought it offered a way out.

However, Du Tingfeng shook his head.

His reasoning was simple:

"This book is an adapted version."

"As for Liang Ming's original manuscript... let's not talk about the one in that ghost book, let's just talk about his first draft."

"Look, is there any way to save the cursed person from living?"

Du Tingfeng meant that since the curse in the book was the same as his experience, it proved that Liang Ming's previous setting was indeed like that.

However, following the gaze of the Red Umbrella Ghost, this setup is most likely not a way out.

Instead, it's a dead end!

"And the trajectory of the pen confirmed my idea."

Du Tingfeng continued.

The red cloth covering him was spreading at a different rate than that covering Li Bo's body, maintaining a steady pace and only reaching his thighs at this moment.

"A fountain pen will never do anything good."

Du Tingfeng concluded, "We just do the opposite of what it does."

Chen Ji shook his head helplessly; Du Tingfeng clearly had some prejudice against fountain pens.

However, he didn't refute it, but instead changed the subject:

"Xu Yuanshuang already knows about the fountain pen."

Du Tingfeng nodded.

"Isn't that what you wanted?"

Chen Ji smiled and said, "Not really."

"After all, I didn't know there would be anyone from the company here before I came in."

The two exchanged a smile and didn't discuss the topic further.

In the distance, Li Bo gradually approached the last location, clearly hesitant.

The red cloth on his body was climbing up faster and faster, until it reached his chest.

Chen Ji saw him look at his palm, wondering what the pen had said to him.

In the end, Li Bo chose to move forward.

The weather in Xianggang is like a child's face; one second it's fine, and the next it's pouring rain.

Li Bo watched as the rainwater slid off the umbrella, turning into drops of blood, and a chill ran down his spine.

He stopped at the last location, tilting his head high, searching for the third marker.

The next second, Li Bo suddenly froze, standing there like a statue...

In his line of sight...

Nothing!

There was only torrential rain and a gray, overcast sky!

"What about the last place name?!"

Li Bo broke out in goosebumps all over his body. He suddenly had an extremely strong, bad premonition!

"pen!"

The blood vessels in Li Bo's eyes bulged, as if the red cloth covering his body was rapidly spreading upwards!

His teeth were practically grinding to powder. What a way out! What a fucking joke! This damn pen was just lying to him!

Li Bo felt a stinging pain as if his skin was being ripped off alive, and blood kept flowing out from the gaps in the red cloth!

A stench he had smelled before, a mixture of rotten flesh and fresh blood, filled Li Bo's nostrils.

That was the smell he emitted himself.

The first location...

I almost got hit by a car.

That whistle sound.

The third location...

A sudden downpour. (Note: Chapters 105 & 107)

The two figures with red umbrellas that Li Bo initially saw gradually overlapped with his current self in his mind.

Just as the red cloth was about to cover their heads...

Li Bo trembled all over, a bitter smile appearing on his face. He finally realized something!

"So it was I who, step by step, transformed myself into a Red Umbrella Person...?"

This joke is very funny.

【Thanks】

The pen bowed politely and wrote down the last two sentences.

Immediately afterwards, he slid lightly from Li Bo's hand to the ground.

The pen bounced in the pool, splashing up tiny droplets of water, like a happy little duck playing in the water, about to swim away into the distance.

Until a hand blocked its escape route.

Chen Ji stuffed the pen into his pocket and frowned as he looked at Li Bo in front of him...

His body slowly dissipated like smoke until it vanished into nothingness.

All that remained was a copy of "A Ghost Story Every Day".

Chen Ji picked up the ghost book, turned around and called out to Du Tingfeng:

"Let's go."

"It's almost time for Fei'er."

"Now... there should be an additional [Red Umbrella Ghost] in the alternate dimension."