Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

That one glance sent chills down Liu Zi's spine!

The next second, in a daze, he suddenly smelled a faint, earthy odor in his nostrils.

"If anyone's going to die, it should be Xu Yuanshuang first!"

Liu Zi gritted his teeth, and without saying a word, jumped into the elite man's luxury sports car and drove towards Ah Xiang's village house!

He was certain that he was faster than Xu Yuanshuang, and if he arrived at the village house earlier, he might be able to find a way to leave this area before the buried ghost appeared!

In the back seat, Liang Xiaobao was unaware of what had just happened; all he could see was Liu Zi's extremely anxious expression.

but......

Liang Xiaobao sniffed and rolled down the car window.

The car's high speed caused a sudden rush of wind into the vehicle, dissipating the smoke from Liu Zi's body.

"Brother Six!"

Liang Xiaobao suddenly exclaimed, "Why does the car smell so strongly of earth?!"

A wind that can disperse all smells...

But the wind couldn't blow away the increasingly strong earthy smell emanating from Liu Zi!

Liu Zi's heart sank. He took several deep breaths but did not answer Liang Xiaobao's question.

His mind was racing.

Why did another ghost appear on the same day that the Red Umbrella Curse appeared?

Moreover, he has already experienced the curse of the "memorial portrait," so why is he being targeted by ghosts again?

Besides, Liu Zi had just glanced at the draft of "The Joke in the Soil," and the ink on it hadn't dried yet.

The first line of this new ghost story reads:

"...After all the ghost stories were told, on the last day..."

In the first draft, there were three or four ghost story titles that none of the participants had ever experienced.

For example, [elevator], [early morning phone call], [ghostly call for food], etc.

This proves that the ghosts buried alive should never exist today!

Liu Zi's thoughts continued; he had long felt that the appearance of this ghost was too strange.

It is quite possible that if the group had arrived at this cemetery before all the curses appeared, they would have only unearthed a piece of paper.

Not a ghost!

However, what Liu Zi just witnessed contradicted his guess.

Liu Zi frowned deeply, then took out his phone again, trying to contact Tian Qinghe and the others again...

What he didn't know was that his guess was correct!

His prediction was correct; under normal circumstances, this is the future direction of the domain!

Before the last ghost story is told, anyone who comes here will only dig out a piece of paper and realize that "Liang Ming's story" is not here.

The storyline involving Inspector Chung leads to a false ending, but it doesn't violate the rule of "one ghost every day".

However, Xu Yuanshuang's "One Line Connection" has such strong side effects that it completely eliminates the restrictions on burying ghosts alive.

The Buried Alive Ghost will no longer be subject to the original rules regarding time, number of attackers, and so on, which is why it will appear earlier.

This is what the side effects refer to as... "alienation".

"beep--"

"beep--"

Answer the phone!

Liu Zi roared inwardly!

"beep--"

"Hello? Liu Zi?"

As if hearing Liu Zi's thoughts, Tian Qinghe's anxious voice finally rang out on the other end of the phone.

Xu Yuanshuang went to your place!

"She brought a ghost back with her!"

Liu Zi shouted immediately, and his words made Liang Xiaobao, who was in the back seat, turn pale instantly!

"This is impossible!"

Immediately, four astonished voices rang out.

Liu Zi quickly recounted what had just happened, his doubts, and the identity of the buried ghost.

It turns out that the ghost buried alive in "A Joke in the Ground" was actually the magazine owner.

He was dragged into the soil and buried alive while filling the cenotaph.

However, when everyone dug up the tomb, they could no longer find him.

"A joke hidden in the soil..."

Amidst the gasps of the other side, Chen Ji's anxious voice suddenly rang out.

"Liu Zi, get over here as soon as possible!"

"Quickly, we have to get that [Joke in the Ground] before the Buried Alive Ghost appears!"

Liu Zi's eyes narrowed, and he immediately pressed, "You've found a way out?"

Chen Ji immediately hummed in agreement, but his voice was trembling instead of joyful.

"To make a long story short, the reason why 'Liang Ming's Story' didn't work before wasn't because we were looking in the wrong direction, but because we were missing this page of content!"

"Two routes, Zhong Sir and Zheng Zhongshan, combined..."

Only then can the true ending be achieved!

Liu Zi's brow relaxed slightly, but he kept his foot firmly on the accelerator.

"I'm faster than her, don't worry."

"Besides, that ghost's current targets are only me and Xu Yuanshuang. As long as I can escape before she dies, that's fine."

However, several exclamations could be heard in the background of the phone call.

Chen Ji's voice was intermittent:

"It's not that simple—"

"Xu Yuanshuang will transform the ghost—unrestricted...possibly—"

"Everyone—will die!!"

Among the newcomers this time, only Chen Ji knew both the side effects of "A Thread of Connection" and the existence of the Buried Ghost.

And Xu Yuanshuang.....

He was sitting in the back seat of a taxi at that moment, looking very nervous.

"Why such a strong earthy smell?"

The taxi driver complained and rolled down all the windows.

He slammed on the brakes, his attention diverted as he gazed enviously at the luxury sports cars speeding ahead, constantly overtaking other vehicles.

"It's good to have money, when will I be able to sell this kind of car?"

Xu Yuanshuang didn't even look at the car in front of her; she was still worried about what kind of ghost would appear after midnight.

She didn't even notice...

My back is hunched over to almost 90 degrees.

Perhaps it was because Xu Yuanshuang dug the grave, or perhaps it was for something else.

A strong, earthy smell wafted from behind Xu Yuanshuang.

......

The same flavor also appeared in Ah Xiang's village house.

It wasn't strong, just faint, but it still caught the attention of Chen Ji and the other three.

Tian Qinghe kept glancing outside the door, her expression very serious.

Du Tingfeng had already fallen silent, and the red cloth was wrapped around his waist in circles.

It will completely cover the whole body in less than an hour.

During this period of waiting for the barrier of the other dimension to weaken...

The four of them went over Fei'er's previous account again.

【The Story of Liang Ming】is actually about how Liang Ming gradually became mentally weakened after experiencing financial hardship and the death of his mother.

Then, a ghost book appeared, which gave him endless inspiration, allowing Liang Ming to conceive one ghost story after another.

At the same time, it further affected his mental state, causing him to be sometimes frantic and sometimes lucid.

From this, the four people discovered two anomalies:

First, this story mentions that after conceiving all the ghost stories, Liang Ming, under the influence of ghosts, decided to seek revenge.

However, the process of revenge is not mentioned at all; instead, the narrative abruptly jumps to the last paragraph:

[With this, Liang Ming's story comes to a complete end.]

Second, in the original story synopsis, there was indeed a second person who was pulled into the alternate dimension.

However, Liang Ming did not write at all about how he conceived the story of "Other Dimension".

The other stories, however, all have a complete fabrication process.

It was these two anomalies that made the four people in the village house realize something!

The story of Liang Ming in the alternate dimension is incomplete.

This was confirmed after Liu Zi called!

Why did new clues only appear after the Zhong Sir-magazine storyline and the Zheng Zhongshan storyline appeared in Tian Qinghe's clue book?

Because neither of these two storylines is complete!

If you only go to the magazine office and end up in the cemetery, you'll only get a photo of "A Joke in the Ground".

As for Chen Ji and his group, they only searched with Zheng Zhongshan. Although they found the "Story of Liang Ming," they still couldn't open the exit of the Domain River.

When the two are combined, Liang Ming's story is complete, leading to the true ending!