Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

pain.....

It hurts.

Chen Ji stumbled and ran, blindly heading towards the exit based on his hazy memory...

But the profile picture looks like it's about to explode.

Blood mixed with sweat blinded Chen Ji, and the fishy smell assaulted his nostrils.

His vision went black, and his hands trembled as he reached for the back of his head. His hair was wet with blood and some sticky liquid, and it felt muddy to the touch.

A piercing pain shot through the festering sore...

"Where is this?"

"9, 9... no, we've reached District 7..."

"I want to escape!"

He was breathing heavily, feeling a buzzing in his head, and heard dragging footsteps behind him—

Bang!

Chen Ji fell heavily to the ground, his mouth full of blood and foam.

His head had been ulcerated from two heavy blows, and part of his scalp had been torn off.

The heavy sound of the impact echoed through the mine tunnels...

The bone is breaking.

His ribs were broken while he was still alive.

At first, Chen Ji was able to curl up and protect himself, but soon he lost all his strength.

He heard his own heart howling in anguish, weeping because of the intense pain!

But to no avail.

Gradually, Chen Ji completely lost consciousness...

But he did not die.

Perhaps half a day, or perhaps only half an hour, he woke up again.

Chen Ji didn't know how this body could still open its eyes after being beaten like this.

To be precise, even with his eyes open, he couldn't see very clearly... Only one eye still retained some blurry vision.

His hands kept groping the rough ground, but his fingers, after being crushed by that leather shoe, became as limp as noodles and he couldn't muster any strength.

Wow - wow -

The baby's cries drifted into Chen Ji's ears, and he felt as if he were hallucinating.

"Daqiang"

"go home"

"I want to go home."

Chen Ji was stunned.

His body was actually slowly crawling forward!

*Smack*—A round thing was flattened, maybe it was an eyeball?

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Ji finally reached out his hand... and touched a cold rock wall.

This is a dead end.

"Dead end"

An endless despair drifted and spread in Chen Ji's heart, threatening to extinguish the last vestiges of life in this body.

Then the door appeared.

Like an illusion, the door, which was clearly as black as ink, emitted a dazzling light...

Because there is a luminous object embedded in the very center of this door.

It was more dazzling than any scrap material Chen Ji had ever seen!

The image of that starry river surrounded by pure white immediately came to mind!

The opposite of Yuhe.

Then, everything went black before his eyes, as if he were being shielded by something.

"Will I have this kind of life once I go in?"

"It doesn't need to be perfect."

"I just want to go home."

"Stay with them"

Chen Ji was taken aback and blurted out these words uncontrollably!

Old Sun saw something, but Chen Ji didn't!

He suddenly raised his head, as if listening to someone speak, and after a long while, he murmured:

"Can becoming a ghost slave and opening the door really make it happen?"

"I do"

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Ji felt that the heart of this body could no longer hold on.

Old Sun is dead.

But Chen Ji didn't leave... instead, he adopted a God's-eye view, overlooking everything.

After a long time.

Footsteps approached; it was Tang Scorpion. He seemed unable to see the black door.

He turned over Old Sun's body, seemingly intending to take it away, but then froze.

Old Sun clutched a piece of parchment tightly in his hand.

Chen Ji silently observed all of this and roughly guessed that Old Sun had obtained it when his vision was blocked.

Tang Scorpion left with the parchment.

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

Suddenly, a figure appeared in mid-air, exactly like the corpse lying on the ground, with a dent in its head.

The ghost's eyes were numb, and its blood-stained face was expressionless.

It stared silently at its own corpse for a while, then walked away.

When he returned, he was holding that helmet in his hand.

The ghost pieced the fragments together, wiped them clean, and put them on his head to cover the dented wound.

It tapped the surrounding walls several times, seemingly marking something...

Chen Ji vaguely saw that there was a groove in one of the places!

The shape is very similar to waste!

The ghost approached the pure black door, took the scrap from the middle, and then squatted down next to Old Sun's corpse.

Chen Ji's eyes suddenly widened!

The ghost actually embedded the scrap material into Old Sun's corpse, and even more bizarrely, the corpse instantly returned to the state it was in before Tang Scorpion injured it!

Then, he stood up in a daze.

Chen Ji's perspective shifts again...

He returned to Old Sun's body.

He watched himself walk back from the well.

"I feel so dizzy."

"How did I get here?"

Old Sun has lost his previous memories.

But instinct led him toward his wife's dormitory...

.....

Many images flashed by.

The colors are vibrant, and they're all about spending time with family.

The other scenes were incredibly dim and barely visible.

Chen Ji slowly began to understand that this might be Old Sun's obsession, and that was why the Helmet Ghost would put waste in the corpse to keep it moving around in the well.

But can this really last forever?

The image froze.

Chen Ji sat on the kang (a heated brick bed).

His wife, who was standing nearby, kept saying that Lao Yang's wife, Lili, had gone missing.

"Sigh, Lili might... I didn't dare tell Lao Yang, but she's probably dead."

"will not."

Chen Ji said.

At the same time, he felt a sense of doubt creeping into his heart.

How did I know?

"She's gone to enjoy a life of luxury."

"Why...why would I say that?"

He saw a hint of fear on his wife's face, as if she had been frightened by what he had just said.

The two were silent for a while.

As if possessed, he said again:

"Don't rush..."

"We'll be there soon too."

The sound was so soft that his wife didn't hear it, and even he himself didn't notice it.

But Chen Ji heard it.

......

"call!"

Chen Ji's eyes snapped open!

There was silence all around.

His hand was touching the bloodstains on the yellow hard hat.

"what happened?"

Xu Sandao stood to the side, somewhat nervous.

After questioning, Chen Ji discovered that, in Lao Yang and Xu Sandao's eyes, he had only touched the helmet and immediately exclaimed in surprise.

He stayed in Lao Yang's memory for so long, but in reality, he was gone for less than a second.

"I've confirmed it. It's the Liu brothers who are helping us... pinpoint the location of the last piece of scrap."

Chen Ji paused for a moment before speaking softly.

He felt the remaining scraps in his pocket trembling slightly.

This may be the true meaning of "saving others is saving yourself".

"The Helmet Ghost is Old Sun, but Old Sun is not the Helmet Ghost."

Chen Ji thought for a moment and then explained what he meant.

The Helmet Ghost is the ghost that Old Sun transformed into after his death. Later, he used scrap materials to create another version of himself and erased his memories.

The reason is still unknown, but it is likely related to his obsession before his death.

The helmeted ghost is unlike any other ghost.

Because it is a "ghost slave".

Everything they did was for the purpose of opening that pure black door.

Old Yang was confused about this, but Xu Sandao understood that the gate was indeed the tomb gate, and the forging ghost was indeed the source corpse.

"So...you mean, Old Sun has been bewitched by a ghost?"

"Correct."

Chen Ji nodded.

After seeing the starry sky behind the door, Old Sun asked, "If I go inside, will I have such a perfect life?"

But Chen Ji knew that there was nothing there except pure white.

The ghost's bewitchment also blocked Chen Ji's vision, preventing him from knowing what else Old Sun had seen.

But the most crucial issue now is...

"Finding only the helmeted ghost is useless."

Chen Ji frowned; the pain he had experienced from Lao Sun still made him feel numb.

"The waste is in another old Sun's body."