Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

"The director of the Thirteenth Bureau!"

Chen Ji was startled, but what he found even more unbelievable was that Yu Tianrong had actually entered the thirteenth domain!

Suddenly, Yuhe's post popped into his mind.

The poster is Su Qiuyue, a former member of the 13th team.

"...[9-12 subdomain]: Very few people can reach this range."

【12-.....】：Unknown, I've only heard that some people fall within this range.

The 12th domain and above is another stage.

It is an extremely mysterious stage, which even Su Qiuyue, who has entered the 9+ sub-domains, is completely unaware of.

The person Su Qiuyue was talking about might be Yu Tianrong.

I looked at the painting in front of me again.

Since it's not a photograph, it can only roughly depict the profile.

Yu Tianrong looked to be in her thirties or forties. She had a low ponytail, simple features, and some freckles on her face.

But he was extremely calm and composed, gazing intently at the village before him.

"Could this be her thirteenth domain?"

Chen Ji's heart suddenly skipped a beat. If that were really the case, it would be a difficulty that they could not even comprehend.

It is the end point of the Yu River.

The source from which the demons escaped during the apocalypse.

It is also highly likely that it is a large tomb, and that it belongs to an unknown source corpse.

Chen Ji had a vague feeling that Yu Tianrong hadn't "disappeared," but there was a 99% chance that she had died in the thirteenth domain.

"She's not dead."

Chen Yuetan seemed to have seen through his thoughts and suddenly spoke up.

"After I left the territory, I returned to the bureau."

"Have you ever wondered why the Thirteenth Bureau has had such a low profile over the years?"

Chen remained silent and nodded.

Chen Yuetan gazed at Yu Tianrong's portrait with a complex expression, and slowly explained:

"Firstly, without her, the bureau is like a pile of loose sand."

"Also, one of the strange objects she left behind is still functioning, proving that she is not dead."

He then explained the strange object: it was not very useful and of extremely low level, but it could determine the life or death status of those entering the domain.

[Road Sign]

Three states:

"活" indicates to the right.

Death: Indicates to the left.

“It’s really not very useful…” Chen Ji said softly.

But he suddenly thought that it would have been great if his uncle had possessed this strange object seven years ago.

"So the road signs are always pointing to the right?" Chen Ji roughly understood.

Chen Yuetan shook his head.

"Do not."

"This [road sign] began to operate without stopping shortly after Yu Tianrong entered the domain."

"Most of the time the indicator points 'up'; but at times, it points 'down'."

"I heard..."

Chen Yuetan was silent for a few seconds before saying, "Now, it's even changing its 'up' and 'down' directions at a rate that changes every second."

""up and down"?"

Chen Ji was stunned: "Doesn't the [road sign] only have two options? Left means death, right means life, what do up and down mean?"

“…”

Chen Yuetan cleared his throat; clearly, he was also somewhat confused.

"They studied it for a long time... and finally concluded that 'above' is a domain."

"The 'below' is reality."

Yu Tianrong is constantly crossing the boundaries between the realm and reality.

But it changes every second, that's impossible!

No matter how strong Yu Tianrong is, she is still just a human. She is not the Flash, so how could she teleport and jump around repeatedly?

It's impossible that her body split in two, one half in the realm and the other half in reality, right?

"So, the Thirteenth Bureau has been looking for her all these years?"

After a moment's pause, Chen Ji finally guessed.

"Correct."

"This is the bureau's top secret."

Chen Yuetan then explained that his experience was very similar to Yu Tianrong's; both of them were trapped in the domain but managed to escape under impossible circumstances.

The Thirteenth Bureau hopes to use his experience to find Yu Tianrong.

However, Wusu's identity is too complicated.

If he were to cooperate with the bureau's investigation, Wu Su's background and abilities would easily be questioned.

At the same time, Chen Yuetan still had many things to do after leaving the domain, such as finding the great tomb and rescuing Chen Ji, and could not spend most of his time searching for someone who had disappeared without a trace.

Therefore, Chen Yuetan resigned from his job at the bureau.

“However, I promised the bureau that I would assist them after I finished my work,” Chen Yuetan added.

Unexpectedly, a portrait of Yu Tianrong was found in the tomb.

He took a picture of the mural and then led Chen Ji to the starting point of the mural.

Begin watching in chronological order.

The first half was actually a continuation of the clay sculpture.

It depicts a village filled with countless coffins, now deserted.

This is much more detailed than the clay sculptures.

"Judging from this painting, the old woman and the clay figures are all villagers from the same village."

"They were all killed by the ghost baby."

Chen understood perfectly.

He looked closely at the opened coffins and saw the headless body of the old woman, a family of more than ten people with dark skin, and so on.

Chen Ji couldn't help but suspect that this village was the one at the end of the Yu River.

"I wonder what became of the man in the last clay sculpture..."

He thought to himself.

The next painting explained his question.

The man was eaten by the ghost baby.

The portrait is extremely detailed, with bits of flesh flying everywhere, and a ghostly infant squatting under a banyan tree, devouring human bones.

The blood stained the soil under the banyan tree red.

Chen Ji observed the details of the painting intently, and when he saw the corner, he discovered a man's head.

He couldn't help but be startled.

The severed head is gazing sadly at the mural on the left, which depicts the mountain village.

But this man's face....

The clay statue doesn't reveal much, but in the mural, the lowered eyes, the melancholy expression, and the beauty mark at the corner of the eye are striking.

Besides not having any birthmarks, her skin was also whiter.

This person is practically a carbon copy of the maintenance worker at Liting Apartments!

The Wang family.....

Wang Su, Wang Lijun, and that repairman, what was his name again?

He suddenly heard his uncle's surprised voice behind him:

"Wang Yunfei?"

Chen Ji's brain was buzzing!

His mind nearly went blank; he stiffly turned his head, unable to believe what he had just heard.

"uncle......"

"How did you know... his name is Wang Yunfei?"

Chen Ji's expression was so terrifying that Chen Yuetan paused for two seconds before hesitantly replying:

“I saw this child in the last domain.”

"He helped me find the exit of the Yu River."

child?

Chen Ji caught the word, and in an instant, an extremely incredible conjecture suddenly occurred to him:

"Was your last domain the Auspicious Garden?"

Upon hearing this word, Chen Yuetan's expression changed drastically!

His eyes were filled with suspicion, and after a moment, he opened his mouth and said a name that Chen Ji could not hear.

Just like when Wusu couldn't say it.

"...Next to Jixiangyuan." But Chen Ji heard the next sentence.

Three tenement buildings.

The original site of Liting Apartments was Jixiangyuan.

Chen Yuetan had been there, which is why I've heard of his name.