Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

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"I need to check on those three."

Chen Ji suddenly said.

“The Helmet Ghost lured us here, and it definitely wasn’t just to mine coal.”

He immediately stood up, leaned against the wall, and slowly moved towards Lao Yang.

Twenty minutes had passed since the ghost wall incident, and Chen Ji could feel his body gradually stiffening, while Xu Sandao, who was already injured, had almost completely lost the ability to walk on his own.

He went through the timeline in his mind again.

All the existing ghosts are connected in some subtle way.

Everything happened within ten minutes: Liu Yunfeng was the first to die, Liu Er appeared and ran away, and then the shockwave struck.

During this process, Lili, the coal miner, and the thugs all mysteriously appeared in the abandoned mining area.

Among all these people and ghosts, only one is truly unique.

That is, Liu Er.

His appearance was always accompanied by a red jacket.

Liu Er's death was even stranger; his body was torn in two, but one piece was nowhere to be found.

All I know is that it's in the west.

The question now is: How exactly did Liu Er die?

Assuming it was due to scrap, then the last forging ghost must have thrown out at least two pieces in batches.

However, no waste was found on Liu Er's half-dead body.

If it's because of a ghost, then it's related to the helmet ghost.

Because this is the only ghost that has always been separate from the other ghosts and has no corpse.

But why did they die in a different way than the miners?

Chen Ji vaguely sensed that his two hypotheses might not be independent, but rather connected.

The reason is the scrap material from the forging demon.

A conjecture suddenly arose in his mind, a conjecture that could explain all the questions and might even solve their current predicament.

However, there is currently no evidence...

clang!

A loud clanging sound rang in Chen Ji's ears.

Chen Ji looked up and saw Lao Yang standing alone beside Lili, the couple like two statues.

"Uncle Yang."

Chen Ji called out softly, "How is Auntie?"

Old Yang shook his head gloomily:

"Still alive, but it's no different from being dead."

Lili's hands were still warm, and her heart was beating slowly, but no matter what Lao Yang said, even if he tried to provoke her with the children and her parents, Lili remained unmoved.

"I have a question," Chen Ji suddenly spoke up: "Approximately which direction are we in right now?"

Old Yang paused for a moment: "The westernmost part."

"Is it also west of where Liu Er died?" Chen Ji immediately asked.

"Correct."

Chen Ji immediately looked around.

But still, nothing was seen.

There was only a dead mule on the ground.

“…I think Liu Er’s body is right here,” Chen Ji said abruptly.

"what?"

Old Yang frowned: "Why?"

“When we were assembling Liu Yunfeng’s body parts, the body’s hand moved slightly, pointing to the west,” Chen Ji said. “This just confirmed my guess.”

"...What's your guess?"

Chen Ji: "The helmeted ghost dismembered Liu Er and took the waste from his body."

"What I suspected before was that the three miner ghosts with their heads smashed were killed because they witnessed Liu Yunfeng's waste being taken away."

"But then I remembered that the 'witnesses' never mentioned the three miners at the scene of Liu Yunfeng's death."

Old Yang mentioned, "The three miners died in very scattered places."