Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

Buzz buzz...

Flies the size of beans buzzed around Du Tingfeng.

His previously hazy eyes suddenly cleared as the countdown on his watch ended!

Everything that had just happened flooded his mind.

He was lured to the village by a fly!

Looking around, the layout here feels so familiar...

It is the Zhou residence.

The vermilion gate was tightly locked. Du Tingfeng tried to push it, and heard a loud bang from outside. The new wooden planks that had been used to reinforce the gate seemed to have come loose.

But the original door could not be pushed open no matter what.

Without panicking, Du Tingfeng quickly thought for a moment:

Flies clearly do not belong to the abilities of these six ghosts; rather, they seem more like strange creatures.

Who used the strange object?

In this situation, the other three survivors have no reason to use strange objects against him; therefore...

It's a ghost!

By the way, the exit of the Domain River has not yet been opened, which means that this domain has not ended yet, so the ghost is not dead!

why?

Didn't Li Fengxiu already kill them all? Du Tingfeng even threw the heads of "Jiang Zhong" and "Chang Hao" into the sheepfold himself—

and many more.

Du Tingfeng's eyes suddenly narrowed.

"Wu Gong", "Chu Jing", "Jiang Zhong", "Chang Hao", "Li Fengxiu", "Xiao Yan".

All six of them are indeed dead.

But ghosts are not them.

Du Tingfeng sighed in frustration. They had been overlooking the fact that when ghosts first appeared... they were invisible!

What died were merely six empty shells, while the ghost escaped after the shells were destroyed!

However, they are unlikely to survive for long in this state, otherwise the ghosts would not be in such a hurry to find a body after coming out from under the locust tree.

This means one thing.

One of the six ghosts has chosen its new target, which is...

Du Tingfeng.

A wisp of grassy scent drifted into his nostrils...

......

Yin Ziqin felt a chill all over her body.

The ghost really didn't die.

Because, once again, she felt the chilling sensation she had when her long hair brushed against her body on the donkey cart that day.

"Jiang Zhong"... still managed to entangle with her!

So, it was indeed "Wu Gong" who used a strange object to lure Du Tingfeng away!

Meow!

Black Sheep Li Fengxiu roared furiously at the air, for it could also smell the grassy scent that had reappeared on Yin Ziqin!

The ghost couldn't harm her in her green-eyed state, but it could replace Yin Ziqin right in front of her.

The madman, who had been silent all along, staggered over, his voice incoherent:

"Ame ah ame!"

"You can't reach them, go, go!"

He seemed completely unconcerned about being chosen by the ghost. He scratched himself and went back to the sheepfold to continue playing with the gray sheep.

Yin Ziqin closed her eyes tightly; the madman hadn't lied.

Li Fengxiu did not leave; she kept fluttering around the air, but could not touch the ghost.

Now... what should we do?

The situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and Yin Ziqin felt utterly hopeless.

She realized that they were missing a crucial piece of information—the key to survival.

But Jiang Zhong's fingernails had already slid down her waist all the way to her toes...

A twinge of pain came.

Yin Ziqin felt utterly powerless, her past experiences in the region flashing through her mind...

After persisting for so long, is it really going to end so hastily?

That's good, at least I don't have to live in constant fear anymore.

Yin Ziqin silently clenched her hands, awaiting the inevitable end...

A few seconds later, she suddenly opened her eyes.

The imagined pain of being skinned alive did not occur. Instead, something soft and limp suddenly pressed against my waist!

Like... a belly?

Yin Ziqin turned around abruptly, her pupils contracting sharply as she stared in disbelief at what she was seeing!

What the hell is this? !

A middle-aged woman, looking like she had contracted a plague, had purple spots all over her face, protruding veins, and an extremely swollen belly!

Standing there, stunned, she seemed to share Yin Ziqin's disbelief.

Li Fengxiu's eyes suddenly lit up!

Before Yin Ziqin could react, Li Fengxiu bit off the middle-aged woman's neck and dragged her aside, the scene was extremely bloody.

The figure standing behind the middle-aged woman had a solemn expression.

"Chen... Chen Ji!"

Yin Ziqin was stunned: "What did you do?"

Only then did she notice that Chen Ji was carrying two pale pink skeletons on his back.

Where is Du Tingfeng?

Chen Ji didn't answer her; his brows were furrowed tightly.

The fact that he was able to find Yin Ziqin here, and that everything happened ahead of schedule, could only mean that Du Tingfeng had used his influence.

Yin Ziqin quickly told Chen Ji everything that had just happened.

Chen Ji's expression kept changing, and he already knew that Du Tingfeng had made his move in advance to protect Yin Ziqin and Chu Jing from harm.

But the most crucial issue now is that the person who lured Du Tingfeng away was Wu Gong!

In terms of theatrical roles, that would be the "eldest brother"!

However, the three skeletons he dug out from under the locust tree at the foot of the mountain did not match the size of his elder brother.

"Let's go, let's go to the back mountain first!"

Chen Ji made a quick decision: he wanted to go back to the back mountain to dig up the remaining three skeletons!

The two of them ran off with Li Fengxiu, while Chen Ji quickly explained the situation to Yin Ziqin.

He first recounted everything he had seen in the cellar, and then said:

"After I threw the note to Du Tingfeng, I was going to meet up with Hua Yilan, but then I remembered the second painting."

"Then I discovered that even if Li Fengxiu killed the ghost, would the spirit inside really die? The ghost was invisible from the very beginning!"

"Then I suddenly realized something: this is implying that in order to pass the level, Li Fengxiu must kill the ghost's true form!"

These are the six siblings who were initially buried in the coffin.

The process of a ghost replacing a person is "to put the other person's body onto one's own soul".

Based on this, Chen Ji deduced that as long as the original bodies and souls of the six siblings were combined, their original forms would transcend time and reappear!

And the medium... is the skeleton beneath the tree!

Sure enough, the trick worked.

One of the six siblings who replaced "Jiang Zhong" died completely.

But Chen Ji's expression remained extremely anxious, because Du Tingfeng was currently facing a life-or-death situation!

Although the opponent still has the [Umbrella·Two Extremes], that strange thing has huge side effects and the process of using it is extremely painful, and it will cause bones to be pulled out and skin to be scraped off!

But now, going to the cave in the back mountain and then back to the village takes at least twenty minutes round trip...

If only he and Hua Yilan had realized the significance of that painting sooner...

Ok?

Chen Ji suddenly paused, "Where's Hua Yilan? Was she replaced by a ghost?"

“No, to be precise, she never appeared at all.” Yin Ziqin shook her head.

What's going on? Chen Ji was a little confused. Since Li Fengxiu came to the sheepfold, it proved that Hua Yilan had successfully returned to the cave to transmit the message, but why didn't she come with her?

"Fengxiu, was Huayilan in the cave when you arrived?" Chen Ji asked immediately.

Li Fengxiu nodded.

"What is she doing?"

Li Fengxiu thought for a moment, then suddenly stopped in her tracks.

It then laboriously squatted down, its two hooves digging frantically into the mud...

.......

Du Tingfeng's arm suddenly went limp, fluttering like a sleeve.

A large, scarlet umbrella floated above his head.

Du Tingfeng had no choice but to use [Umbrella - Two Extremes] because "Wu Bow" almost killed him!

This was the first time he had used this strange object.

[White: With the umbrella facing upwards, a 10-minute protected area will appear beneath it.]

[Price: Bone extraction]

The longer it is used and the more people it protects, the greater the cost will be, until all 206 bones have been removed.

Although the chips are unusable, the passive position remains, and the price is currently hovering around 3000-3500.

This also caused Du Tingfeng to lose the finger bones in his left hand first, and now his entire arm bone has also disappeared.

My right hand is throbbing slightly.

"Fortunately, the side effects of the chip are gone..." Du Tingfeng smiled bitterly. If the side effects were still there, he would have suspected that the first bone to be removed would have been his skull or spine.

-----One more chapter until the end of this arc, I'll update in about an hour, a big update!---------