Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

Chen Yuetan listened to the sounds outside.

Even without seeing it with your own eyes, everyone can tell that the demons of greed and anger are fighting.

because.....

A series of thunderous roars echoed continuously in the distance!

At the same time, the walls of the side chamber where they were staying were shaking slightly, and countless pieces of gravel fell down.

The aftershocks of the wrathful demon even reached this place.

"wait."

Chen Yuetan said softly and sat down on the ground.

The small side room was quickly filled with two adults and a child, while the only remaining ghost huddled tightly in a corner, occupying only a tiny space.

The mad ghost seemed completely oblivious to the sounds outside, utterly dazed.

Its pure white pupils radiated a clear sense of foolishness.

They are still communicating silently with the little monkey.

The little monkey sat impatiently on the grotesque ghost's bloated head.

It had tried to coerce and entice the ghost several times to take away the original strand of hair, but the ghost simply refused.

Chen Yuetan glanced at them, then turned to look at Chen Ji, who was deep in thought to the side:

"What are you thinking about?"

“The ‘Split Mother’…the Mother.” Chen Ji had already told his uncle what the pen had said, and now pondered, “Where could that ghost be?”

According to the pen, the mother is not in the Yunnan Grand Tomb.

"In the real world, the most likely place to encounter ghosts and vengeful spirits is a large tomb."

"Uncle, do you think this 'mother' could be one of the source corpses?"

Chen Yuetan was taken aback, and after a moment's thought, said, "The possibility... is not very high."

"We now know of two large tombs."

"One is here, and the other is that unnamed 'Tuotuo Mountain'; but you said the source corpse there is some kind of forging demon."

He raised a finger:

"First of all, this large tomb belongs to the ghost infant, and we did not see anything related to the forging ghost."

"If the 'Mother' is also a source corpse, then why are her offspring found in another ghost's tomb, and why can her hair serve as a key?"

"Furthermore..." Chen Yuetan listed a second reason: "The 'Mother's' abilities don't seem to be as strong as the ghost infant's or the blacksmith's ghost."

The ghost baby's heart transformed into Urumqi beer; a head that had been dried up for countless years devoured everything, instantly killing the mud doll.

Not to mention the blacksmith's seemingly "creative" ability, which allows him to create strange objects such as pens.

"Mother" is very strong, but to be honest, her abilities are still somewhat inferior to those of the Source Corpse.

Chen Ji seemed to be deep in thought. Thinking of the little monkey's contemptuous attitude towards its "mother," he couldn't help but feel that Chen Yuetan's words made sense.

The Three-No Monkey, or Little Monkey, clearly felt that "Mother" was inferior to him; Little Monkey couldn't possibly be the Source Corpse, which proves that "Mother's" strength should not be among the top of all ghosts.

"lets change a topic."

Chen Yuetan shook his head: "Our 'mother' might be somewhere in the realm; it's hard to say whether we'll ever meet her in this lifetime."

"Let's make a bet. Who do you think will win between those two ghosts outside?"

Chen Ji became interested.

He thought for a moment, and together with Chen Yuetan, they wrote their guesses on their palms.

"What's the stakes?"

Chen Yuetan countered, "What do you want?"

Chen Ji immediately opened his mouth, but then closed it again before he could speak.

A moment later, a faint dimness flashed in his eyes, but it quickly disappeared.

What I originally wanted to say turned into another question.

"If I win... I want to know, why is that galaxy 'unlucky' for me?"

Chen Yuetan remained silent for two seconds.

He neither nodded nor shook his head.

Chen gave his uncle a complicated look, pursed his lips, and changed his request to a third one:

"Or you could tell me... what happened in your last domain."

Chen Yuetan was taken aback: "Didn't I tell you?"

"I've talked about it a little bit."

Chen Yuetan touched his hair somewhat awkwardly and said, "You can change the bet; it's not a secret."

He deliberately avoided recalling his teammate's death, and since Chen Ji hadn't asked much about it, he naturally didn't bring it up either.

"The timeline of that domain is before the millennium."

"This is my tenth domain. Apart from Yanmei and Xiaotian, everyone else in the team went in with me."

A faint melancholy appeared in Chen Yuetan's eyes.

"Yanmei was unlucky; she didn't survive her ninth trial and passed away in early 2017."

He nodded to Wusu, and a few seconds later, the child spat out a crystal-clear daisy.

Pure white as jade, without a trace of decay, like an immortal flower.

"Her strange object was brought out by a colleague who entered the domain with her. That person was from the third team, and later handed the strange object over to the bureau."

"This flower became our team's mascot, but in the end... only I was able to hold it."

Chen Ji listened silently to the past, gazing at the little white flower.

The little white flowers swayed gently, as if listening to Chen Yuetan's story.

It has been quietly accompanying Chen Yuetan for almost ten years now.

"In short, a total of six people entered the domain that time."

Chen Yuetan said, "About a month after entering the domain, we completed our mission, but we were also hunted down by all the native inhabitants of the domain."

"The exit of the Yuhe River has opened... but we will die before we can even get there."

“I used the power of another strange object to force the pocket watch to activate three times in a row, sending A Yang and Xiao Song—Su Qiuyue—out.”

"However, the exit of the Domain River was also disrupted and closed ahead of schedule, so I had to stay in the Domain."

The pocket watch was damaged, but it was repaired after Wusu was born.

Chen Ji roughly knew this. He thought for a moment and was about to ask his uncle what the mission in that domain was when he suddenly paused.

The commotion outside subsided.

The struggle has come to a conclusion.

The two exchanged a glance and began the next step of their plan.

Holding a piece of the madman's rotten flesh, Wusu followed behind them and quietly left through the side room.

......

Outside the sealed room.

The scene was a mess; the ever-burning lamps were smashed, the mummified corpse had been dismembered, and countless severed limbs were scattered on the ground.

A huge creature was lying on the ground.

The giant, grayish-white skeleton was still twitching slightly, its entire body bound by strands of black hair.

On the ceiling, a wet creature wobbled precariously...

Its body was covered in gashes, its left shoulder was empty, and one of its arms was broken, with no possibility of repair.

The greedy ghost's left arm had already been bitten off and chewed to pieces by its own brother, leaving not even a bone fragment.

But it still won.

The greedy ghost stared coldly at the figure of the angry ghost, pondering how to deal with this foolish creature.

To be honest, this result is not bad...

At least, when he returns to his cocoon, there will be one less ghost competing with him for nutrients.

It slowly climbed to the wall, pondering its next move.

It returns to the mother cocoon, slowly repairing itself...

Or should we go to the madman's side chamber, take those two away, and absorb their nourishment?

This is the second time it has been deceived by those two humans.

The greedy ghost believed that they had most likely fooled the foolish ghost completely and were definitely still alive at this moment.

While pondering, it didn't discover...

The paper figure that had disappeared during the fight was now stuck tightly to its back like a tiger skin plaster.

Facial features gradually emerged on the paper.

(I'll post the next chapter after I board the plane and get home.)