Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

"Scrap material has appeared!"

Chen Ji gave a low shout and immediately turned to look at Xu Sandao, only to see the other staring straight in a certain direction with a look of astonishment on his face!

And so it went, with each thumping sound every ten seconds...

Chen Ji suddenly heard a "ho ho" sound, like a bellows being pulled, coming from behind him.

Someone's throat is ruptured.

It's not Pan Yin.

Pan Yin was still staring blankly at his surroundings.

"Xiao Fei!"

Old Yang's terrified voice suddenly rang out in the mine tunnel!

Chen Ji suddenly turned his head and saw Xiao Fei clutching his throat, lying on the ground, his youthful face full of confusion.

A ray of white light spilled out from Xiao Fei's hand, which was covering his throat.

His pupils suddenly dimmed.

Chen Ji's mind went blank; it all happened too fast!

In just that short time, the scrap of the forging demon actually appeared among them, causing Xiao Fei to die on the spot!

But something even more terrifying happened—

Without any warning, a deafening explosion suddenly resounded throughout the entire underground mining area.

Bang!

Everyone's ears went deaf for a few seconds, followed by intense tinnitus, and all sounds became muffled.

The earth is shaking and the mountains are shaking.

Chen Ji was knocked to the ground by the shock. In a daze, he saw Lao Yang suddenly pull Xu Sandao up, his mouth opening and closing incessantly.

A few seconds later, he finally heard what Lao Yang was saying:

"run!"

"It's going to collapse!!"

Bang!

A large, dark rock crashed down, landing beside Chen Ji and splashing him with dust!

Chen Ji's mind instantly cleared up as if he had been doused with a bucket of cold water!

Without saying a word, he suddenly stood up and lunged at Xiao Fei, trying to take away the glowing unidentified object.

But the waste was firmly embedded in Xiaofei's neck, seemingly fused with his flesh, making it difficult to pull off.

More and more stones are falling...

Chen Ji gritted his teeth and had no choice but to abandon this place for the time being, turning around and fleeing with Lao Yang!

The mine lights began to flicker violently, and the wooden supports creaked and groaned, on the verge of giving way under the pressure of the shaking.

The three of them ran like madmen!

pat!

The miner's lamp suddenly went out.

Chen Ji's heart sank, and at that moment, he suddenly felt a large handful of coal falling from above—

Immediately afterwards, a large rock slammed into his helmet.

The helmet cracked instantly.

A sharp pain shot through Chen Ji's head. He only had time to shout before everything went black and his consciousness faded into chaos.

.....

I don’t know how long it took.

Chen Ji slowly opened his eyes, his head throbbing as if he had been hit with a stick.

He was dizzy and could only hear Xu Sandao whispering beside him. Old Yang sighed heavily.

The air was extremely stagnant, as if it had stopped flowing.

It was pitch black except for a single, flickering light in mid-air... It was a firefly, but it was too dim.

“Xu Sandao…” Chen Ji’s throat felt parched and unbearably dry.

The sound of dragging footsteps rang out, and Xu Sandao approached, a dim firefly perched on his shoulder.

"woke up?"

He whispered to Chen Ji what had just happened.

It turned out that during the escape, Chen Ji was knocked unconscious by a falling rock, while Xu Sandao was injured in the leg by the collapsing wooden frame.

Old Yang rescued the two of them, and not long after, the previous mine tunnel completely collapsed.

The mine tunnel was pitch black, and it was only thanks to Lao Yang's experience that the three of them managed to escape danger.

But a bigger problem has emerged.

The alleyway was like a maze, and without any lights, the three of them were completely lost.

"I wonder how many more people have died in this accident..." Old Yang murmured somberly.

"Liu Yunfeng is still underground."

Chen Ji recalled the fleeting glance he had given before he fled.

In the dimly lit mine, Liu Yunfeng stood stiffly in place, his head facing west, motionless.

"How long will it take for someone to come to the rescue?" Xu Sandao asked.

"I don't know," Old Yang sighed. "Maybe no one will come."

After all, the second appearance of the Forging Demon would cause even more people to go missing.

The mine is probably in complete chaos.

Chen Ji remained silent, his mind equally in turmoil.

First, the blacksmith appeared, then Xiao Fei died, and then they were trapped here.

The only good news is that they've finally figured out what "waste" is.

However, he didn't have time to remove the waste.

"Xu Sandao," Chen Ji said in a low voice, "what just appeared shouldn't be the first piece of scrap."

"Moreover, they probably threw away more than one piece last time."

The logical chain is as follows:

The Forging Demon appears -> throws out scrap -> the scrap appears inside Xiao Fei's body -> only Xiao Fei dies, everyone else is fine.

Five people died last time.

After listening to Chen Ji's guess, Xu Sandao pondered for a while and said, "All we know now is that Liu Yunfeng was the first to die suddenly."

"So regardless of the others, there will definitely be a piece of scrap embedded in Liu Yunfeng's body."

However, no one reported this.

"Who was Liu Yunfeng with when he died?"

Chen Ji recalled the incident and found that there were very few details about it.

Everyone was just hearing it from others; the news had been passed around several times.

"do not know."

“Go outside and investigate further.” In the dim light of the fireflies, Xu Sandao’s face was tense: “Our primary task now is to escape the mine.”

Otherwise, they wouldn't need ghosts; they would be trapped here and die on their own.

The air here was extremely thin and very stuffy, and Chen Ji and Xu Sandao were both feeling a little breathless.

Old Yang took the fireflies with him and explored the area by their faint light.

A few minutes later, his voice came from not far away:

"There's a dead end ahead."

No wonder I felt so bored.

"We can only go back," Lao Yang said, his brows furrowed. "Be careful, I don't know where we are now."

The three of them supported each other and groped their way back in the dark.

Because the fireflies had been used multiple times, they could only illuminate a tiny area in front of them, and the ground was littered with broken stones and wood, making their progress even slower.

Reaching the fork in the road...

Old Yang took a different mine tunnel.

A few minutes later, there was another fork in the road.

Xu Sandao limped along, stepping through a puddle of water: "Is the mine really that big?"

"Ah."

Old Yang continued to explore the area: "Nobody cares. We just dig wherever there's coal. I don't even know how many mining areas there are."

Moreover, miners come and go here, and when a new batch of people arrive, most of them will choose to contract a working face themselves.

Over time, it is estimated that there are hundreds of alleys in Tuotuo Mountain, and countless branching paths leading to various zanzimian (a type of noodle shop).

"As long as we can find a main alleyway, that will be fine."

Old Yang muttered to himself.

I don't know how much time passed...

His face gradually turned anxious.

"and many more."

Old Yang said, walking to the rock wall to observe the structure of the fault.

"The coal in this area... is almost all mined out." He clicked his tongue. "How did we end up here?"

The three entered a long-abandoned mining area!

The next chapter will be posted later tonight, while it's being revised.