Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

Yin Ziqin hid behind a pillar in the corridor.

She saw Xiao Yan carry a plate of food into the main room and never come out again.

Based on their social standing, that should be Old Mrs. Zheng's house.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yin Ziqin quickly slipped to the side of the betrothal gifts!

Ever since she entered the Zheng residence, a question had been lingering in her mind:

Why hasn't the groom shown up yet?!

Is he really in this house? Is he dead or alive? Nobody knows anything about him!

Without further hesitation, Yin Ziqin sniffed and yanked open the mahogany box.

When you can see what's inside...

Her eyes widened in disbelief, and her stomach churned uncontrollably...

......

Jiang Zhong sat in the room, lost in thought.

He suddenly lifted his eyelids and saw Yin Ziqin walk in silently, like a cat.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Zhong immediately noticed that Yin Ziqin's face was extremely pale.

"The betrothal gifts...the first box contains sheep!"

"A dead sheep!"

"What?" Wu Gong, who overheard the conversation outside through the door, asked in surprise, "Only sheep? Nothing else?"

Yes, and...

Yin Ziqin's lips twitched slightly, as if she felt nauseous: "That's a human-sheep."

She will never forget the disgusting scene she saw when she opened the mahogany box.

The sheep was chopped vertically in half; the meat was sticky, slightly greenish, and the fat seeped out from the cut like melted wax.

Because it had been trapped in the box for too long, the mutton had begun to rot and smelled terrible; the wool was soaked in blood plasma and dried into long, brown strips.

Only at the edges and corners can one vaguely see that the sheep was originally gray.

But the most terrifying thing is...

"A human head grew on the sheep's body."

Yin Ziqin murmured in a daze, "A boy's head."

"What?!" Jiang Zhong stood up in shock. "Who is he?"

"I do not know."

Yin Ziqin looked solemnly out the window and saw Xiao Yan carrying a food box as she walked out of the old lady's room.

"However... he had a string of brass keys hanging from his hoof."

"There are two words engraved on it."

"The Zhou Residence".

.....

Chang Hao's stomach rumbled.

Perhaps because he rarely eats whole grains as a modern person, Chang Hao experienced a sudden stomach cramp.

He glanced out the window, but didn't see A-Jian or A-Bu, so he got up and walked towards the door.

"Where are you going? Take me with you!" Tan Xiangsong shouted immediately.

"The latrine!"

Chang Hao rolled his eyes at him, and Tan Xiangsong sat down awkwardly.

Ten minutes later.

Chang Hao frowned as he wandered around a side path.

He finally found the outhouse, not in the courtyard, but in a narrow alley at the very back of the Zhou residence.

This area seems to connect to the servants' quarters, with the kitchen at the far end, and four or five dilapidated tile-roofed houses built next to it.

So many servants' quarters....

Are A-Jian and A-Bu inside now?

Chang Hao's heart skipped a beat.

He looked around to make sure no one was nearby, then stealthily approached the servants' quarters.

Gradually, a sigh came from behind... Judging from the voice, it was Ah Jian!

"...I've already told you..."

"The master's words aren't an imperial edict... If you secretly poured it out, who would know..."

"You know perfectly well that Brother Hammer got addicted to it and then disappeared!"

Ah Chui?

Who?

The third servant!

Chang Hao was shocked. There were indeed more than two servants here, but according to A Jian, A Chui had already disappeared.

Ah Chui disappeared after eating it.

Given Abu's obsession with mutton, it's certain that Ah Chui also eats mutton.

It's addictive after you eat it... What are the consequences?

Ah Jian's voice came again: "Did you steal some of the food that the Li family sent to Master this morning?"

That plate of lotus root slices stuffed with meat this morning was delivered by the Li family!

This was important information, and Chang Hao immediately wrote it down.

He hid by the wall and eavesdropped for a while longer...

But Ah Jian stopped talking.

After a long silence.

Suddenly, a heart-wrenching wail came from inside the house—

"What—"

sheep?

Chang Hao was stunned for two seconds.

His eyes suddenly shifted from confusion to fear, and a wave of extreme dread washed over him!

Could it really be as I've always suspected, that if a person eats a sheep, they will turn into a sheep?!

Why is A-Jian talking to Abu, who has turned into a sheep? Can Abu still understand?

Chang Hao pondered quietly for a while, and soon after, he squatted down and crept quietly along the wall.

He was going to peek through the window crack to see Abu's condition.

Even when Abu turned into a sheep, it didn't kill Ajian; and its wailing revealed that Abu was extremely vulnerable at that moment.

Perhaps... the sheep that mutated from eating meat is different from that black goat.

Chang Hao speculated that even if they were discovered, there wouldn't be much danger.

He slowly raised his head and peeked through the crack in the window...

A strong, pungent smell of mutton hit my nose.

Chang Hao first saw A Jian sitting on a broken kang (a heated brick bed), with his back to the window, as if he was in a daze.

His gaze shifted downwards...

Suddenly it froze.

"Meow—help—me......."

The sound was a mixture of sheep bleating and human wailing, emanating from the mouth of the strange creature on the ground.

Abu's eyes were tightly closed, and his chubby face was contorted with facial features.

It stood on the ground.

To be precise, it was its four hooves that were standing on the ground, slipping from time to time, as if it hadn't yet adapted, and its own hands and feet had turned into sheep hooves.

Chang Hao's heart pounded!

This is indeed different from yesterday's black goat....

Abu's head is still human-shaped, but the area below his neck has completely turned into a sheep's body, and even his thighs are the same!

Only the lower legs retain the human skeletal structure, but they are covered with a thin layer of gray down!

Judging from Abu's appearance, this transformation process must be extremely painful, and it's only a matter of time before it completely turns into a gray sheep, except for its calves!

"I do not know what to do."

Ah Jian murmured in a daze.

"However, the master probably can't take care of you right now... You'd better escape to the back mountain before that woman arrives."

Chang Hao was speechless for a moment.

He stared at the strangely shaped gray sheep-man on the ground, a multitude of questions swirling in his mind.

Abu and black goats are two different breeds.

Abu's head still looks like a human's, but his movements and postures are exactly like a goat's.

The black goat looked exactly like a goat, but its behavior was no different from that of a human.

Moreover, their fur colors are different; one is gray and the other is black.

Master Zhou made them eat meat so that the newcomers would turn into gray goats...

Furthermore, Ah Jian also said that the master can't care about Ah Bu anymore. Why? And who is that woman?

Is it Li Fengxiu?

Chang Hao frowned, pondering as he slowly backed away.

Suddenly, his ears twitched.

A series of light footsteps came from not far away, as if they were about to turn into this alleyway—

Chang Hao immediately hid in the crack between the walls of the two servants' rooms!

He took a mirror out of his pocket and looked outside...

The person who arrived was indeed Li Fengxiu.