Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

"It's...it's an illusion!"

"Yes, yes, it must be from the medicine..."

Zhang Ting murmured, her brain unable to withstand the extremely bizarre scene before her, automatically activating its defense mode.

Chen Ji sighed and looked at the watch on his wrist.

7:18:30

Instead of retreating as Tang Qin and even Zhang Ting had guessed, he straightened his collar, his expression showing no sign of panic, and walked forward step by step.

The target was the gate, which was surrounded by dozens of people wearing Tang Qin's face.

He...has he gone mad?

Zhang Ting stared wide-eyed, covering her mouth tightly as she looked at the dark mass of people surrounding her, like a dark cloud.

Behind her, the sound of hurried, chaotic footsteps followed, coming from the dozen or so security guards that Tang Qin had sent!

Chen Ji walked forward at a leisurely pace, and heard the noise behind him.

He looked up at the street corner, where the streetlights suddenly began to flicker...

......

At every one of the twenty-three intersections, every traffic light is green.

Du Tingfeng held the steering wheel with one hand, looking at the chips on the dashboard, where a row of intricately engraved numbers kept changing.

3700.

3800.

Two seconds later, the number jumped up to 4000!

"Holy crap, what incredible luck!"

"I should have bought a lottery ticket instead of coming to pick him up."

Du Tingfeng glanced at the chips and gave a soft snort.

It was rush hour, but the road in front of him was completely empty, without a single car in sight.

Just then, a car approached from the intersection ahead, and judging by its route, it was heading in the same direction as Du Tingfeng.

The driver glanced at the silver sports car behind him in the rearview mirror with a hint of envy, but when he turned his head, his eyes showed surprise.

"That's strange. This road is usually jammed with traffic, what's going on today?"

Before he could finish speaking, his phone rang; it was his boss calling.

"Hello, Mr. Zhang."

"Oh, you mean the plan needs to be revised and we need to have a meeting in ten minutes?"

"Okay, okay, I'll go back right away."

A few seconds later, the car that had been blocking Du Tingfeng's way immediately turned into the next small intersection.

The highway leading west was deserted once again.

......

Click—click.

On this street, the hospital buildings, the streetlights, and even the lights in the residential area across the street all suddenly flickered twice.

The next second, the entire area was plunged into complete darkness.

The power is out!

Tang Qin stood in the office on the second floor, and her vision was instantly plunged into darkness, making it impossible for her to see anything below!

Not only Chen Ji, but also those people who were originally exposed under the streetlights, coming and going at the door, and who were being manipulated by her!

A faint, almost imperceptible thread dispersed from the center of her left pupil, transforming into countless strands of light that connected with the crowd below. It was impossible to see or capture them, but at that very moment, it suddenly snapped.

"Damn it!"

She yelled and flung aside the doctors surrounding her, then ran downstairs in a hurry!

She could feel a strong backlash exploding in her eye sockets, causing a sharp, needle-like pain deep inside her eyeballs!

Even more terrifying, she suddenly saw dark shadows peeking at her from behind walls, by doors, and in every shadow!

Tang Qin immediately covered her left eye, preventing it from opening even a little, but the eyeball kept twitching, as if trying to break through her palm to see something.

She took out her phone, dialed a number, and almost as soon as the beep ended, she yelled:

"I've been hit by a backlash!"

"Why did the power suddenly go out in this area?! I told you, the hospital lights must never go out!"

A man's voice said helplessly from the other end of the phone:

"Sister Qin, don't rush."

"I know your abilities are temporarily disabled. I'm on my way to the hospital entrance."

"However... it's a bit congested."

The man's voice sounded somewhat puzzled: "The oncoming lane is perfectly fine?"

Just then, an extremely piercing sound suddenly came from the microphone, like tires screeching violently against the ground.

Tang Qin took a deep breath, suppressing her intense anger, cursed into the phone, and then threw the phone into her pocket.

A strong sense of unease suddenly arose in her heart.

Their deployment was very meticulous; in addition to the hospital's own defenses, there were guards at the hospital gate and the intersections on both sides.

The left and right intersections, along with Tang Qin sitting in the hospital, formed a triangle that blocked all of Chen Ji's escape routes!

Moreover, the other two are not ordinary people either...

But why is her heart beating so fast?

Tang Qin looked up and saw that the headlights of cars ahead were flashing sporadically, and the people who were riding bicycles and delivering food had returned to normal.

However, they all stopped at the hospital entrance, forming a loose yet solid human wall that separated Tang Qin inside from Chen Ji outside.

"Ah, okay, I'll be there in five minutes..."

"Damn, I'm so tired, let's stop here and have a drink of water."

Some people stopped to make phone calls, some leaned against their bicycles to drink water, the security guard was smoking, and even stray dogs deliberately lay on the ground at the entrance, making it impossible for her to squeeze through!

Tang Qin's right eye suddenly contracted; something was wrong!

Everything is too much of a coincidence!

"Jingle Bell......"

"Say!"

“I saw Chen Ji.” Another lazy male voice rang out.

"Nonsense, he's right at the door, less than two meters away from me!"

"Then why didn't you grab him?"

The man's voice had a slightly mocking tone.

Tang Qin ignored him and forcefully pried open the person in front of her, but just as she made a small opening, an SUV suddenly drove up from the underground parking garage and blocked her way.

She could even see Chen Ji sitting on the stone block in front of the SUV, as if waiting for someone, looking very relaxed.

Waiting for others...

"Isn't the hospital entrance completely blocked?!"

Tang Qin's heart sank suddenly as she looked towards the doorway!

This is a two-way street. One side is completely blocked and can't move, while the other side is empty and there isn't a single car!

Just then, the roar of an engine rapidly approaching suddenly rang out at the end of the road!

Two blinding beams of light illuminated the entire road.

On this narrow, crowded two-way street, a silver sports car sped by at nearly 130 km/h.

Strangely, the road ahead of him was completely empty, with no people or cars, just like a specially designed racetrack!

Tang Qin's heart pounded, and she immediately shouted into the microphone:

"Xu Sandao, quick, stop that silver sports car!"

The voice on the other end of the phone was slow and deliberate, while the background noise was very loud.

"Sister Qin, I can't go, my car was hit by someone."

"It's the same on the other side."

The silver-white sports car arrived at the hospital entrance in the blink of an eye, moving very smoothly without encountering any obstacles, and then suddenly came to a stop.

The car door slowly rose, like a pair of pure white wings unfolding gently, embracing Chen Ji.

A few seconds later, with a roar of the engine, the sports car sped away from the area.

Tang Qin's hand, which was covering her left eye, trembled uncontrollably. She couldn't accept that Chen Ji had escaped so easily and casually right under her nose!

She remained silent for a long while, and just then, the hospital lights flickered and finally came back on.

The crowd that had been blocking the entrance returned to normal, and with the resumption of traffic, sirens blared incessantly in front of the hospital.

Tang Qin took out her phone and dialed a number that wasn't in her contacts, but which she remembered vividly.

"Hey."

"Chen Ji... still managed to escape."

"The person who took him away was also an entrant to the realm."

Tang Qin paused, then slowly lowered her hand from her left eye, where blood was gushing out.

One of her eyes was calm, but the eyeball that had just emerged was filled with extreme greed, fixedly turned in the direction the sports car had driven away.

"And one more thing."

“I sensed it… The person who took Chen Ji away possessed a strange artifact of at least grade A.”

"No, wait."

"It's Super A-grade..."