Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

The sports equipment room wasn't very big; it was more like a small factory, with a large iron gate at the entrance.

The door was not closed, leaving a crack, and the rusty lock was still on.

The burly man, limping, leaned against the wall and said, "I'll keep watch at the door for you."

"Come out quickly after you're done searching, don't linger in there."

Chen Ji nodded, and together with Du Tingfeng beside him, they pushed open the door, slipped inside, and disappeared.

The sun had just risen, and it was not yet fully bright outside, while the interior was pitch black.

Chen Ji rubbed his eyes before he could fully see what was inside the room.

This place clearly looks like it has been through a fire!

The surrounding walls were charred black, and most of the paint had even peeled off, revealing the gray bricks underneath.

The overhead iron beams and the tall skylight next to them also bear obvious traces of smoke.

Most of the equipment inside the room had been burned, and the remaining items were warped and twisted by the heat.

The ground was covered with black charcoal and ash.

There was even a lingering, pungent smell of smoke in the air.

When did the fire occur?

Du Tingfeng was a little confused. They had been running exercises next to this small house for two days in a row and hadn't noticed anything unusual about it.

"Within one day."

Chen Ji picked up a handful of cigarette ash from the ground; it was still slightly warm.

The two exchanged a glance, both seeing the other's worry:

Could the last diary entry have already been burned?

"Let's look for it first."

After saying that, Chen Ji pointed to the right and gestured for the two of them to search the area.

He then walked toward the equipment area of ​​the equipment room, which was almost a ruin, but several sealed iron cabinets could still be seen, without much damage.

He opened each cabinet one by one to check, touching every nook and cranny, but found that most of them contained only dumbbells, some flattened ping-pong balls, tennis balls, and the like.

Another cabinet contained medals and certificates, most of which had melted and emitted an unpleasant odor, even though the cabinet door was closed.

Suddenly, Chen Ji twitched his nose. He detected a very faint but extremely pungent odor in the strange smell of melting plastic and metal.

It smells like gasoline!

Following the smell, he moved aside a shapeless black object and found several large buckets of clear, yellowish liquid in the corner.

"Du Tingfeng".

He had just shouted out when he heard a surprised murmur from the other end.

"I have several barrels of gasoline here!"

Chen Ji's eyes narrowed, and he immediately walked over. Sure enough, there were several buckets in the right corner of the room.

He calculated that there were probably close to ten barrels.

“I have some too.” Chen Ji frowned. “Why are you putting so much gasoline here?”

"The school doesn't need it either."

Upon closer inspection, they discovered that four or five of the buckets had been emptied, leaving only a small amount of residue at the bottom.

"Never mind that." Du Tingfeng rummaged through the rubble on the ground. "I haven't found the diary anywhere."

"I didn't even see a trace of paper."

The two switched areas and searched again, even cleaning up the ashes on the ground.

But still, there was no result.

A minute later, Du Tingfeng sat in the middle of the equipment room on a burnt-out pool table.

He frowned and looked around the room.

"Either the Ouija board is lying, or the diary has been burned."

Chen Ji took out his pen, ready to summon the creature on the spot:

"I'll ask it."

Just then, the iron gate was pushed open with a loud bang.

The burly man looked impatient: "You still haven't found it?"

As he opened the door, the bell for the morning reading class suddenly rang, echoing throughout the entire campus.

"They've all started class," he was complaining when he suddenly paused, "What's wrong with this room?"

"It was burned, of course. The diary is probably gone too," Du Tingfeng scoffed.

The burly man stared intently in his direction, a hint of suspicion in his eyes.

Isn't that right next to you?

"Brother, we've searched the whole house, there's nothing there at all—"

Du Tingfeng stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence, his eyes filled with disbelief as he looked to the side.

A piece of draft paper lay quietly on the pool table beside him.

"How can it be?!"

He suddenly stood up and turned to look at Chen Ji: "Were there any papers on this table before?!"

Chen Ji shook his head, staring intently at the paper, and suddenly felt a chill run through his body.

The broken pool table is just two steps from the entrance; you can see it as soon as you come in.

There was nothing on it before.

He grabbed the paper and saw that the date on it was still shiny, clearly indicating that it had been written not long ago.

【June 11】

"This is the third diary entry."

Chen Ji said in a deep voice, and looked over with Du Tingfeng:

I think this is the last time I'll record this.

Li, Meng, and Yue are all gone.

This dorm room, where we used to chat all night, is so quiet now, with only me left.

I lay on the moon's bed, wanting to cry, but not a single tear came out.

It was the Ouija board that killed her, making her afraid of being expelled, which is why she reported us to Teacher Zhang.

Upon seeing this, Chen Ji felt as if a thunderbolt had struck him. He looked sharply at Du Tingfeng, and both of them were stunned!

"It was Meng Yue who betrayed us."

Chen Ji murmured, all the clues have come together, this is the reason why Li Xiaoli and Guan Meng were killed by the female teacher in this world.

He suppressed the newly arising questions in his mind and looked at the diary again:

Teacher Zhang said that informers can be exempted from punishment.

She lied to us!

What awaited the four of us was a notice that we would be expelled from school next Monday, and endless humiliation.

Li and Meng were sent home after school the day before yesterday.

They had been repeating their studies for three years. Their family was in dire straits, and even their previous tuition fees were borrowed from various sources.

Li Gang had just returned home when she was brutally beaten by her family...

Early yesterday morning, the two of them held hands and jumped into the lake together...

Yue knew about this news before I did. She must have been unable to bear the guilt and remorse in her heart, which led her to choose to jump off the building...

If she hadn't told on them, would everything have been different?

I can no longer describe my feelings for her; it's neither love nor hate, I can't tell.

But when I made that decision, I think I probably already knew the answer.

Apart from the rooftop, the rooftop where we often chatted and played during breaks, there was nowhere else in this school that I would miss.

The people at this school are too.

All those who look down on me and ignore all of this, as well as the dormitory supervisor and teachers, you all deserve to die.

I have made up my mind. Tomorrow morning, everyone in this campus will be buried with them in the fire.

Li, Meng, Yue; don't be afraid, after it's all over, I will come to be with you...

Chen Ji looked up; he already knew about the hidden traps in this survival mission.

If it's just a matter of not breaking taboos, they can get through the first two days, but by today, they are doomed!

He turned to look at the two of them, speaking very quickly:

"This morning, she will massacre the school and kill everyone."

"Go to the rooftop of the teaching building; that's the only way out!"