Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

No one in the group is discussing this.

Even without the flight attendant's notification, the passengers, having experienced death last time, would not be able to eat the in-flight meals again.

Chen Ji reviewed the information he already knew.

Lan Meng and Liu Zi are crew members.

Sun Weiming and Qi Chen were both sitting in the back.

Zhang Peng is dead. Wan Xiaoshuang's whereabouts are unknown.

In the economy class section, he was sitting with Fei'er and Wu Zhou.

Apart from Chen Ji, no one else mentioned going to look for clues...

But the group chat remained lively.

Qi Chen: I think we're approaching this the wrong way.

Qi Chen: How many rules are there on an airplane? Takeoff and landing, don't get up, open the window shade, stow the tray table—that's all.

[Qi Chen: Last time when everyone else died, everyone in my cabin was sitting perfectly fine, but we still got haunted by ghosts.]

[Sun Weiming: Let me remind you, last time it was the Hair Ghost who killed someone, but this time it might not be.]

"If there really is more than one ghost..."

"The taboo of the other one might be different from that of the Hair Ghost," Phil said softly.

"That is, it killed Zhang Peng."

Chen Ji remained silent.

He thought for a moment, then whispered, "I need to check the restrooms in the middle section."

Nowadays, no one is willing to come out and look for clues; everyone is just waiting to reap the benefits.

But time is running out for everyone.

"The ghost hasn't appeared yet, you..."

Fei'er hesitated for a moment.

This is different from before. Zhang Peng died under mysterious circumstances, and the cause of death is still unclear.

"When I went to examine Zhang Peng's body, both the ghosts and Lan Meng and the others already knew my identity."

Chen Ji waved his hand.

He can't do nothing.

“I’ll go too,” Fei’er said immediately, but Chen Ji grabbed her shoulder.

"Wait."

Chen Ji thought for a moment and then said, "Try to act as if you are no different from an ordinary passenger."

After saying that, he immediately stood up and walked towards the bathroom.

At the same time, he glanced at everyone out of the corner of his eye.

The economy class section was almost full; some people were sleeping, while others were using their phones to pass the time.

He walked quickly to the outside of the restroom and checked the surrounding area.

There are no abnormalities for the time being; the ceiling, which was originally splattered with blood, still looks normal.

Not a single hair could be seen.

Is there anything wrong in the bathroom?

Chen Ji stood quietly outside; the bathroom indicator light was on red, meaning someone was inside.

Several people were queuing outside, and their faces showed signs of impatience.

"Why is someone always using it? It's been closed every time I come over."

The two men spoke with a slight Kunming accent, their tone quite complaining.

After that, they switched directly to communicating in their local dialect.

After listening for a while, Chen Ji realized that he could understand a little bit of what he was saying.

When he was very young, his parents took him to Kunming (then known as Changchun) on a business trip and he stayed there for a month.

"This plane must be full of people from Kunming..."

Chen Ji pondered silently. There was something he couldn't understand: how did the ghost manage to board this plane?

Was he disguised as a passenger?

Or was it "carried" along?

In any case, it must be related to Kunming, the place where it originated.

What happened in Kunming that made this plane completely full?

Chen Ji thought for a moment, then patted the man in front of him with some surprise:

"Yang Ming?"

That's a name he made up.

"?" The man turned his head.

Chen Ji glanced at him for a moment before saying somewhat embarrassedly:

"I'm sorry, I admit my mistake."

"Your voice sounds a lot like my friend's."

The man waved his hand, seemingly unconcerned.

Chen Ji chuckled: "He said yesterday that he was going to buy a ticket back to Yanjing. I thought it was such a coincidence that we were on the same plane."

The man opposite him recognized Chen Ji's Tianhai accent and spoke Mandarin somewhat awkwardly:

"Your friend will probably have to wait a while before he can go back."

"Air tickets to and from Kunming during this period have long been sold out."

A glint flashed in Chen Ji's eyes.

He sighed somewhat helplessly and said:

"That's true, everyone wants to leave as soon as possible."

This sentence can be interpreted in different ways.

The man opposite nodded in agreement.

"I don't know what's wrong this year, my mom is terrified and keeps urging me to go back to school."

The man from Kunming on the other side replied, "My family is too."

Chen Ji listened quietly.

The two naturally began discussing the "scary" big news.

It turns out that a while ago, more than a dozen people suddenly died in Kunming for no apparent reason.

These cases remain unsolved to this day.

"My friend said that catching the murderer is only a matter of time; the police are already..."

Chen Ji only finished speaking halfway through his sentence.

The man from Chuncheng across from Chen Ji shook his head, leaned closer to him mysteriously, and whispered:

"That's all a lie."

“You’re not a local, so you wouldn’t know.”

"Those people died horribly; they weren't murdered at all!"

Here comes the point.

"what?!"

Chen Ji looked somewhat frightened: "Impossible, right?"

The man from Chuncheng looked grave: "It's true! My neighbor was murdered, just last month!"

"I was at the scene when the police arrived, and I saw it with my own eyes. His body was just a skin and nothing inside!"

"Moreover... he had no wounds at all! His organs and bones just vanished without a trace!"

Chen Ji was stunned for a moment.

He immediately pressed, "Nothing else unusual?"

"I heard that someone choked to death on their hair?"

The man looked puzzled: "Where did you hear that rumor?"

“My family is in government, and this is the situation: there are more than a dozen bodies, all of whom died from organ loss.”

“There’s nothing inside their bodies,” the man emphasized again.

Chen Ji was somewhat confused.

This is not what he had imagined!

This is neither the state of everyone's deaths at the point of death, nor does it match Zhang Peng's cause of death!

Is the Kunming serial murder case related to the "hair ghost"?

Click.

At that very moment, the bathroom door lock finally turned.

The man who had finished using the restroom came out, and a long line had already formed behind Chen Ji.

The entire corridor became very crowded, teeming with people.

However, at that moment, the plane suddenly shook violently!

People in the aisle lost their balance instantly, and Chen Ji was also knocked off balance by other passengers.

beep—

The bathroom indicator light turned red.

A familiar figure emerged shakily from the food preparation area, his voice trembling with anxiety:

"Ladies and gentlemen, please note that our aircraft is passing through an area of ​​unstable airflow and will experience continuous turbulence."

"For your safety, please return to your seat immediately and fasten your seatbelt. The restrooms will be temporarily unavailable."

As she spoke, she suddenly became unsteady on her feet, but fortunately, a flight attendant behind her caught her.

It was Lanmeng.

She seemed to have taken some intensive training on how to give a briefing, and although her speech wasn't entirely fluent, it sounded quite professional.

The plane suddenly plummeted!

Chen Ji's heart sank. Normally, this kind of bumpy ride would be nothing.

But now the captain is a six-man pilot!