Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

At the same time, everyone felt that the donkey cart suddenly became much heavier!

This feeling was extremely obvious, especially for Tan Xiangsong, who was at the very back. He saw the car floorboards sink down several centimeters!

"babble--"

The donkey raised its neck and brayed in pain, exceeding the limit of what it could pull!

The wheel started sliding backward uncontrollably.

Tan Xiangsong quickly braced his body against the back of the cart, desperately trying to stop it from rolling backward!

His face was almost pressed against the wood, and at that moment, Tan Xiangsong suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck.

Chu Jing's hair, icy cold, slid down the back of his neck.

"Chu Jing!"

Tan Xiangsong gritted his teeth and shouted, "Move over there a bit, don't touch me!"

Chu Jing remained silent.

Tan Xiangsong clicked his tongue in annoyance, and suddenly his pupils contracted sharply!

and many more.

Chu Jing was to his right.

But the trajectory he just sensed was a straight line from top to bottom...

unless.....

Chu Jing was sitting on the piece of wood above his head, looking down at him...

Tan Xiangsong slowly turned to the right, but he couldn't see Chu Jing at all.

All around, there was only thick fog.

.....

Chen Ji's shoulders were marked with deep indentations from the rope.

He found himself surrounded by smoke.

But in this situation, no one can find anyone else.

It took eight people pulling the cart together to barely keep it from rolling backward.

This is uphill; if anyone lets go, the donkey cart will slide downhill irreversibly.

Tan Xiangsong and Chu Jing, who were at the very back, were bound to be knocked down.

Moreover, Chen Ji clearly realized... why the cart couldn't be moved.

Because something sat on the log, causing the weight to exceed the donkey's load!

The sudden appearance of this strange fog has confirmed what's up there.

ghost.

Chen Ji gripped the donkey rope tightly; his first suspicion was that of the goat.

But then I thought, whether a goat is spying or catching someone, it always approaches step by step... It doesn't have the ability to suddenly appear!

Their long-held fears about cutting down the locust tree have indeed come true.

A new ghost is right behind Chen Ji!

Why did it appear at this time? Was it in retaliation for the invaders cutting down the locust tree?

Various thoughts surfaced in Chen Ji's mind. Suddenly, his whole body tensed up, and his head dropped instantly.

An invisible hand, icy cold...

He was stroking his cheek.

.......

Wu Gong felt ice-cold all over.

A soft rustling sound gradually approached from above his head.

Until it was so close, it felt like it was right next to my ear.

Wu Gong's leg suddenly trembled violently!

Even through his cotton trousers, his legs felt as if they were immersed in a river, so cold they stung!

This is not a sheep.

In that instant, Wu Gong made up his mind.

He could feel a hand pressing down on his leg, from bottom to top, with great force.

The initial sound came from above... So, whoever this ghost is, at this moment, it is hanging upside down on the wood.

In human form.

Many different faces flashed through Wu Gong's mind, and his thoughts raced.

Who is it?

Which ghost is it?

Li Fengxiu, Village Chief Zhou, Old Lady Zheng...

Or was it Ah Jian who brought them?

Wu Gong did not overlook A Jian's strange behavior all along.

His thoughts were abruptly interrupted, and his hand instinctively reached into his pocket, ready to use that life-saving contraption if things went wrong!

First, the chin.

Then there's the mouth.

Nose, eyelashes, forehead...

Wu Gong kept his eyes tightly shut, and an invisible face was pressed tightly against his skin!

He could feel... the lips on that face twitching.

The ghost laughed.

The next second, that bone-chilling cold vanished abruptly.

The fog then dissipated.

The donkey's panting finally began, the wheels rolled, and it slid forward quite a distance.

The noise reached my ears... and then the ghost disappeared.

Wu Gong turned to look at the people around him; their expressions ranged from tense to terrified.

His heart sank into his stomach.

.....

"what happened?"

Ah Jian looked at them strangely: "What's all the noise about?"

He seemed completely unaffected by the fog, nor had he been touched by any ghosts.

With a final pull from Chen Ji and Du Tingfeng, the donkey cart smoothly made its way up into the alleyway.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and immediately stepped back, letting Ah Jian continue pulling the donkey.

After a quick, hushed exchange, it was confirmed that the ghost had touched everyone.

"It touched Tan Xiangsong's neck, its hair brushed against Xiao Du's waist, and then it touched my and your face..." Wu Gong looked at Chen Ji and said with a frown.

"It's like making a mark."

Chen Ji said thoughtfully, "The first person to be touched by a ghost was Tan Xiangsong."

Is there any explanation for this?

"Was it because he chopped into the wood and drew blood—"

"Ouch!"

As Wu Gong was speculating, he suddenly swayed and fell into the muddy ground beside him!

Standing next to him, Chu Jing immediately pulled Wu Gong up, looking apologetic.

"Watch where you're going!"

Wu Gong's calm expression suddenly shattered as a foul stench wafted around him. He touched his backside and found his hand covered in cow dung!

It got so soft and sticky from being soaked by the heavy rain that it couldn't be wiped off no matter how hard I tried.

Chu Jing knew that she had accidentally tripped Wu Gong, and kept apologizing, but every "I'm sorry" was accompanied by uncontrollable gagging.

"vomit--"

"This smell..." Du Tingfeng sniffed and silently pulled Chen Ji back.

"It's Chu Jing again."

Reaching a secluded spot, Du Tingfeng said helplessly, taking out his chips.

The value continues to fluctuate around 3500.

"Chu Jing?"

Chen Ji glanced at the chips and suddenly paused.

"You mean..."

He looked at Du Tingfeng with some disbelief and saw the other man nod silently.

"Hmm, it means exactly what you think."

Du Tingfeng pointed at Tan Xiangsong: "When Tan Xiangsong was cutting down the locust tree and drawing blood, he was with Chu Jing."

"He was at the very back, yet he was the first to encounter the ghost, and then you were at the very front."

"Back then... he was still with Chu Jing."

"I was curious before, why my passive skill showed that I had pretty good luck, but we were the first team to encounter a goat after entering the domain."

After that, the black goat went to two other companies.

"...Because of Chu Jing?"

Chen asked hesitantly.

"Perhaps." Du Tingfeng raised an eyebrow: "She might have a special constitution, or it could be because of some strange creature? It might attract ghosts and bad luck to those around her."

"But it shouldn't be that serious."

"Also, she herself is fine."

According to Chu Jing's description, she wasn't really touched by the ghost just now; she only felt a chill around her before the ghost left.

"Why didn't that goat catch us—oh, your bargaining chip." Chen Ji suddenly realized that if that were the case, then Du Tingfeng's passivity would just offset Chu Jing's bad luck!

At the same time, he suddenly remembered Chu Jing's hesitant expression earlier.

She probably knows this herself, but she doesn't dare to say it.

That's why Chu Jing was so surprised when she learned that the first person to be arrested was Hua Yilan.

Because Hua Yilan and she had never met!

Perhaps in the previous realms... it was always the people around her who were first noticed by the ghosts.

Chen looked at Chu Jing with extremely complicated emotions, and saw a trace of guilt in her eyes...

It was clearly not just because Wu Gong was tripped up and fell into the cesspool.