Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

Chen Ji's expression changed slightly.

This is worse than his worst-case scenario...

Worse.

Humanoid creatures have also hatched from the cocoons inside red-eye flights.

A ghost with no facial features, only a physical form; its entire body was tightly wrapped in a gray membrane.

Chen Ji clearly remembered that although the ghost had grown two heads and two arms, it was not yet fully hatched.

The two demon heads share a single torso, so strictly speaking, it can only be considered one.

Moreover, it did not emerge from the cocoon.

But the one in the tomb not only emerged from its cocoon, but there were three of them.

Based on his experience with red-eye flights, Chen Ji roughly deduced that the evolutionary stages of the Hair Ghost are as follows:

A single strand of hair → a hair cocoon → a gray ghost body grows from the hair cocoon → the single ghost body splits into other limbs and a head.

And the final stage is what we see right now.

The gray ghost body successfully split completely, and the three ghosts separated into independent individuals.

After telling his uncle his speculation, Chen Ji frowned slightly.

He faced two more crucial questions.

First, is the blue brick still useful against the gray ghost body?

Chen Ji remembered very clearly that once the hair strands turned into cocoons, the blue bricks had to be struck onto the host of the cocoons, otherwise it would be ineffective.

But there's nothing here anymore; there's no host, and even the cocoon itself is lifeless.

The second question is...

Where did these three ghosts go after they emerged from the cocoon?

Holding the baby monkey tightly, Chen Ji gazed at the cocooned area behind him.

That was the deepest part of the underground palace, pitch black, where even the ever-burning lamps couldn't reach the top... like an abyss.

But it is also the only road that leads deep into the tomb.

There are no roads around.

Chen Yuetan explored the surrounding area where there was light, but only saw bare brick walls and no other exit.

Wusu rode on his back, holding a piece of blue brick in his hand as well.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Yuetan tensed up and turned on the flashlight behind the hair cocoon.

The blinding light instantly illuminated the underground palace.

To everyone's surprise...

There was nothing there.

There were only two stone doors, wide open, leading nowhere.

Chen Ji breathed a slight sigh of relief.

The instant he saw the cocoon emerge, his brain automatically conjured up a terrifying image.

Three gray, limbless ghostly figures crouched in the corner, their bodies like newly hatched chicks, hairless and with wrinkled skin, their entire bodies wrapped in a wet amniotic sac, constantly watching them from the darkness.

The moment the flashlight is turned on, he will rush to Chen Ji's side.

"It seems they exited through the stone gate..."

Chen Ji pondered and said, "I wonder if the hair ghosts that Zeng Guichuan encountered last time are these ones?"

The group walked past the ever-burning lamps and ventured deeper into the underground palace.

The candlelight flickered dimly, swaying even without a breeze.

The two shadows stretched long and distorted on the ground.

Chen Ji walked silently.

He paused, recalling what had just happened.

A strange feeling swept over his entire body.

Extremely subtle.

Something feels off... It's like when Mom was impersonated by a ghost. You couldn't see anything wrong with her, but something just felt off.

What's the matter?

What exactly did he overlook?

Chen Ji's breathing quickened slightly, and he turned around to look again, but everything behind him was normal.

Click.....

Click.....

Chen Ji suddenly stopped in his tracks, hearing the sound of gravel scraping against each other!

A small pebble rolled out from under Chen Yuetan's feet and slid down to Chen Ji's feet.

Uncle stepped on some gravel...

Chen Ji was stunned for a moment, realizing that he was being a bit paranoid.

He kicked the pebble forward, watching it briefly disappear into the shadows before rolling towards the open space ahead—

shadow......?

They didn't move forward.

Chen Ji stared quietly at his own shadow.

He suddenly realized something.

It was only after I crossed the ever-burning lamp that I realized something was wrong.

At that moment, he was standing in front of the light source, and the position of his shadow became the ground directly in front of him.

And at that time...

My own shadow seemed somewhat distorted.

It was as if the shadow of something overlapped with one's own shadow.

The moment that thought crossed his mind, Chen Ji felt a sudden chill.

A few drops of foul-smelling liquid slid down his cheeks and dripped onto his clothes, leaving a dark, damp stain.

pat.

More water droplets....

He fell from above his head to the ground.

【die】

A red light suddenly flashed in Chen Ji's eyes.

"The devil is above us!"

Chen Ji's mind went blank. He only had time to shout before his body instinctively retreated to the side!

A chill ran through his body as he saw a very long black hair silently hanging in mid-air where he had been standing.

If Chen Ji hadn't dodged...

The strand of hair had already touched the top of his head.

Chen Yuetan immediately shone the flashlight upwards, and his pupils suddenly contracted!

Under the stark white light...

An extremely contorted creature, like a gecko, was crawling on the ceiling.

Its limbs were unusually long, and its wrinkled, gray skin was as thin as a cicada's wing, tightly wrapping around its deformed skeleton.

On that head, which looked as if it had been squeezed, there were deep, dark eye sockets with two grayish pupils embedded in them.

His dry lips were slightly parted, inside which was a wet, sticky clump of hair that looked like it had just been pulled out of a sewer.

Water droplets were still dripping from the ends of the hair onto the ground.

This is the final form of the Hair Demon!

Chen Ji felt a chill run down his spine; his initial guess was correct.

The ghost was indeed originally hiding in the darkness.

Before the flashlight was even turned on, it darted up to the ceiling and hid above Chen Ji's head.

The shadow also overlapped with Chen Ji's shadow.

He used this to disguise his existence and almost harmed Chen Ji.

On the other side, Chen Yuetan immediately knocked off a piece of blue brick and threw it at the ghost!

The moment the broken brick touched the hair, it deformed, stretched, and climbed upwards along the hair at an extremely fast speed.

However.....

The ghost closed its mouth and cut off the strand of hair, which fell to the ground along with the blue brick.

It itself was completely unharmed.

Chen was horrified to see that after cutting off the hair, it tilted its head slightly and stared at the blue bricks on the ground.

Then, he swallowed the hairball in his mouth.

The ghost seemed to realize that the "blue bricks" could restrict hair strands, so this move wouldn't be very effective against Chen Ji and his companion.

It has the ability to think.

And the reaction speed is very fast....

In an instant, Chen Ji thought of the Red-Eye flight, where the Hair Ghost could even communicate with those who entered the domain.

However, judging from the current situation, it doesn't seem to have any intention of communicating.