Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

Picking up the draft paper from the table, Chen Ji stared at the clues on it:

Luo Lin and Jiang Lei from the Thirteenth Bureau stayed at Dao Wuyan's house.

Zeng Guichuan's health "deteriorated"

(The same human skin as Wu Jinbao; but it moves freely; it glows slightly; and it can freely transform back into human form)

[The circumstances of Rohlin's death]

(What were the sheet-like objects in the abdomen of the corpse?)

After thinking for a moment, he added a few more points:

[Jiang Lei of the 13th Infantry seems to be experiencing memory confusion, possibly related to the tapeworm (the kind found on Teacher Zhou)]

A real estate company from Hunan and Hong Kong is handling the aftermath for Zeng.

"Xianggang..." Chen Ji was taken aback. He seemed to have heard this place name many times recently.

Who else has an art gallery in Hunan and Hong Kong?

Wan Yaohong!

Before making the call, Xu Sandao casually mentioned that Wan Yaohong was stationed in Xianggang!

Chen Ji recalled the photos provided by Wan Xiaoshuang: Wang Chao was the backbone, with Zeng Guichuan and Wan Yaohong surrounding him like stars around the moon.

Were these three the initial team of the "company"?

Chen Ji seemed to be deep in thought.

He previously worked in the energy industry; while Wan Yaohong is likely involved in real estate.

Both of these industries have benefited from the dividends of the times and have developed rapidly over the past two decades.

Lost in thought, Chen Ji suddenly noticed something and looked towards the door. His uncle was carrying Wusu in.

He seemed to be in a good mood, and was carrying a black bag.

He immediately told his uncle about Zeng Guichuan's strange behavior. After listening, Chen Yuetan simply raised his eyebrows, as if he had expected it.

He was more concerned about Jiang Lei, after all, this person could be considered his senior, and he had met him a few times.

"No wonder he's always so blank-minded..."

Chen Yuetan shook his head: "At the end of 13 or 14, Jiang Lei entered the domain and never came out again."

"It is very likely that the tapeworms have affected his thinking and memory abilities, which is extremely fatal in the domain."

Chen Ji nodded, agreeing.

"The timing of this incident is bad," Chen Yuetan sighed.

"In 11, the Thirteenth Bureau was still the Special Spirit Domain Research Institute*, which was not large in scale and was more of a research institute set up by the country to investigate the nature of the Domain River."

"More inclined towards exploration and containing strange creatures."

"When Jiang Lei went to Yunnan, the old director died in the domain, many people resigned, and the deputy director Yu Tianrong was still in the twelfth domain and had not come out for a long time."

"There are no people in the institute who can assist him."

"The following year, after Yu Tianrong was released, he applied to his superiors to reorganize the Special Zone and recruit new people again..."

"The Thirteenth Bureau was only officially established at that time."

"Unfortunately, she also disappeared in the domain less than two years later."

Chen Yuetan spoke calmly, recounting his experience at the 13th Bureau.

Even with a nation as a backer, those who enter the domain are still uncontrollable and could die there at any time.

Spanning twenty years, countless lives have been silently extinguished, vanishing into the annals of time.

Only the Yu River continues to flow quietly, seemingly unchanged for eternity...

Of course, Chen Yuetan and Chen Ji now know that even the Yu River will one day dry up.

After a while.

Chen Yuetan went downstairs to buy food, while Wusu rummaged through the black bag for a while and took out a toy four-wheel drive race car.

With a gentle push, the race car "whooshed" and slid rapidly across the floor.

Chen Ji didn't pay much attention.

Only after a few seconds... when the race car crashed into his feet and stopped, did he glance at the ground.

"Ok?"

Chen Ji was taken aback.

The blue and white car body... doesn't it look just like his childhood toys?

He clearly remembers that when he was five years old, his parents bought him a set of four-wheel drive cars. His favorite one was a blue and white car, which he even brought to school to show off.

Later, it seemed that a corner of the car's rear wing had been broken off, so he put it in the cabinet...

Chen Ji immediately picked it up, his eyes narrowing in surprise!

Sure enough, the left rear wing of this car was missing a piece, and it looked exactly like the one he played with when he was a child!

But... shouldn't this car have been sealed up at his previous home, No. 203, Sunshine Garden Community?

Did my uncle go to his house when he went out this morning?

Chen Ji immediately returned the race car to Wusu and opened the black bag that Chen Yuetan had brought home.

The first thing inside is a document:

Newborn Birth Certificate

[This is to certify that Chen Ji, male, was born on July 13, 2006 at 7:20 PM at Tianhai City Maternal and Child Health Hospital.]

[Father's name: Chen Yueshan]

[Birth Mother's Name: Zhang Sufen]

Below is a small footprint and the hospital's official seal.

"Isn't this my birth certificate?"

Chen was stunned. He then found his mother's medical records and ultrasound reports from when she was pregnant with him in the bag, as well as his wrinkled photos from when he was just born and his 100-day photos.

These are all records that prove his birth, some official and some left by his family.

Chen Ji frowned slightly as he looked at Chen Yuetan, who was carrying food and pushing the door open to enter:

"Uncle, you've gone back to Sunshine Garden?"

As he spoke, he waved the documents in his hand.

Chen Yuetan nodded naturally and said, "No one lives in that house, so I took back some of your important documents."

"Oh."

Chen Ji nodded somewhat hesitantly.

Chen Yuetan acted normally, telling Chen Ji to keep the documents safe, and then brought up another matter.

"There's a notice posted downstairs."

"It was posted by the local police station to warn residents in the area to be vigilant against theft. They said there were several reports of illegal intrusions before the Lunar New Year, and the suspects have not yet been found."

“The scope of the reports is very wide. Several neighborhoods near our home have experienced similar incidents, and even the villa area in the mountains has seen similar cases.”

Chen Ji recalled that he often heard this kind of news before the Lunar New Year.

However, it's not very common in recent years. Nowadays, everyone uses mobile payments, and people generally don't keep too much cash at home.

This matter didn't leave much of a ripple in Chen Ji's mind, but Du Tingfeng did mention it when he called him in the afternoon.

"The house next to mine was broken into."

Du Tingfeng said, "He was a homeless man, with a scruffy beard, wearing a tattered down jacket he'd picked up, and seemed to have some mental problems."

"I don't know how he bypassed security, but he ran away before the police arrived."

The two chatted about the matter for a bit, and then Du Tingfeng asked him to come to the hospital and look after Du Muyu. He was going to drive to a hospital in the next city to ask a specialist if it would help Du Muyu's condition.

Chen Ji agreed.

After he finished packing, he told Wusu not to open the door for outsiders, and then he entered the elevator...

16th floor, 15th floor... slowly descending.

On the right side of the display screen, another elevator is going up in the opposite direction.

After a few seconds.

Ding dong.

opened the door.

A soft sniffling sound came from behind.

It was springtime, and the temperature was rising, but the person who came out of the elevator...

However, he was wearing an inappropriate cotton hat for the weather and a dirty down jacket.

He raised his head, his melancholy eyes sweeping across the corridor, then sniffed, and finally walked towards the house Chen Ji and the other two rented...

Boom, boom, boom.

No one answered.

The man waited in silence for a long time. Suddenly, he raised his head sharply, his bloodshot eyes widening in shock!

They instantly moved in front of the peephole.

He vaguely saw a bright black eyeball inside the cat's eye, looking out...

Snapped!

The door was suddenly opened.

Caught off guard, the man was pushed back several steps by the door.

He was about to go up to it, but his eyes suddenly froze as if he had seen a monster.

A five- or six-year-old boy, holding a toy car, stood quietly watching him from inside the doorway.

"Who are you looking for?"

"That's what the boy said."

The man stared intently at the child's face, his gaze almost unable to leave the red birthmark between his eyebrows, his forehead covered in cold sweat!

"Who are you looking for?"

The boy repeated his question.

The man didn't answer, turned and ran. He didn't even wait for the elevator, but ran straight down the emergency exit, as if he didn't dare to stay on this floor for even a second longer.

"?"

Wu Su closed the door and went back to playing with the race car that Chen Ji had discarded.

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*【Special Spiritual Realm】

As Chen Yuetan mentioned earlier:

“I was recruited into the official team in 2013, when I had already entered the domain.”

"Just the year before, the Special Spirit Realm Research Institute was reorganized, upgraded, and divided into teams, and was later renamed the Thirteenth Bureau."

"Before 2012, these matters were actually handled by the Special Area Institute, the predecessor of the Thirteenth Bureau."

The Chuncheng case occurred at the end of 2011, when Jiang Lei was a researcher.