Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

Zhang Qianqian!

Wasn't that the woman who died in the tenement building? Chen Ji clearly remembered that his uncle had said that when she died, a layer of skin had peeled off one of her hands!

When Yang Yu and Su Qiuyue left the domain, they were in a terrible state, barely surviving. There was absolutely no chance they could get the skin that Zhang Qianqian had left behind.

so.....

Chen Ji couldn't help but have an absurd guess: Could it be that Wang Chao used some method to go to the tenement building, retrieved this skin, and used it as bait to persuade Yang Yujin's company?

That's actually quite possible.

After all, they had always suspected that Wang Chao was a member of the Wang family.

Moreover, this person's origins are mysterious.

Even the first strand of hair that entered the tomb... If Chen Ji remembered correctly, the mother of the hair, the mother of the splitting entity, was in one of the three tenement buildings!

After hanging up the phone, Chen Ji was in a state of confusion and quickly finished packing his luggage.

Wang Chao, company, Yang Yu.

Thinking back to the birth information her uncle had brought back, Tang Qin's dying scream of "You are a 'sinner'," and Su Qiuyue's invitation to her company...

Su Qiuyue and Yang Yu have always been colleagues, and now they are more likely to be superior and subordinate.

After going around in circles, it all seems to be inextricably linked to myself.

Chen Ji remained silent for two seconds.

He now felt that perhaps it was really necessary to meet Yang Yu in person.

Of course, this will have to wait until after Sister Yu's matter is resolved.

"pen."

【...】

"pen."

I'm resting!

"I'm sorry," Chen said utterly emotionlessly, "Am I that special?"

【? 】

"I've been thinking about something."

Chen Ji said, "Why did I get you in my first domain?"

The pen has been confirmed as the A-level ghost, and smoothly opened the Netherworld.

Unlike Du Tingfeng, Chen Ji obtained the pen through a normal process, and the pen was involved in the story of repeating a grade in high school; it didn't appear out of thin air.

But that's precisely what makes it so strange.

How could an A-level monster appear in a beginner's level?!

It's like finding a max-level divine gear in a beginner's village.

Because of Du Tingfeng's presence, the bargaining chips themselves were very strong, which mitigated this sense of incongruity considerably at the time.

However, Chen Ji has now experienced eight domains and has never seen any other naturally born A-rank monsters in the domains. The few people he has encountered who possess A-rank monsters are either veteran domain entrants like his uncle and Su Qiuyue, or mysterious people like Wan Xiaoshuang.

Why didn't you mention that you also got the monkey?

That's even stranger, isn't it?

"...That doesn't count." Chen Ji coughed lightly. To be precise, the little monkey was brought out by exploiting a bug.

Moreover, the monkey's abilities fluctuate too much and it is impossible to control.

When it's powerful, it's comparable to a nuclear weapon.

Most of the time, it's a reconnaissance-type monster.

You are just an ordinary person.

The pen spoke with a hint of annoyance: "There's nothing special about your constitution."

Unlike that one-armed kid

Now, to answer your question.

Why did you get me?

[It's because you "drifted" into the domain of a repeat high school, it's that simple.]

"...Is there any difference between what you said and what you didn't say?"

Chen Ji narrowed his eyes, the sound of the pen was muffled, clearly indicating that he no longer wanted to continue the discussion.

He chatted idly with the pen, and not long after, Du Tingfeng called.

The group drove to the high-speed rail station and boarded the evening high-speed train.

Throughout the ordeal, Chen Ji remained tense, constantly thinking about the murals in the tomb and worrying that something might go wrong.

But everything is normal.

The four arrived in Yanjing.

After inquiring at the train station and checking the surveillance footage, Du Muyu was not seen in any of the footage.

The night is dark.

After resting for a night, Chen Ji received a call from Dao Wuyan the next morning.

"I went to the cemetery."

"There is indeed a record of Luo Lin's grave being moved, but it was under a pseudonym... Zhang San."

Dao Wuyan's voice was filled with helplessness; the last clue had been lost, and she could no longer provide any more leads regarding Luo Lin's matter.

After hanging up the phone, Chen Ji stared at the gloomy sky outside and sighed silently.

The rain was pouring down.

Just like the suppressed mood of the four people in the hotel.

Dark shadows had appeared under Fei'er's eyes, as had Du Tingfeng's; neither of them had slept well last night.

"Yanjing is so big, she could go anywhere."

Liu Zi frowned and said, "Brother Du, do you know why your sister came to Yanjing?"

"Have you been to Yanjing before?"

Du Tingfeng nodded slightly.

He leaned against the hotel's huge floor-to-ceiling window, watching the raindrops pelt the glass with a gloomy expression, and murmured, "After she started working, she brought me here for a trip once."

"However, neither of us likes it here."

"My sister always says that the sky here is too gray, and the grayness makes her feel very depressed."

"It's like a snow-covered desert, very dry and cold."

"Cold?" Chen Ji caught the word.

"Didn't you say before that Sister Yu might go to a very cold place?"

Du Tingfeng responded.

He rummaged in his pocket for a while and took out the letter left by Du Muyu.

She said that in her last dream, it was very cold, so cold that she kept shivering.

"She looked around and all she could see was a vast expanse of white snow. At that moment, she realized that this was our home."

Du Tingfeng's lips trembled slightly, as if he too had stood in that snowy field and felt the cold:

“There, she saw our parents.”

He waved at her and then disappeared...

"Finally, she told me that her parents were going to sleep, and so was she. Goodnight."

He fell asleep... Chen Ji remained silent, and as the poem came to mind, everything was self-evident.

Therefore, Du Tingfeng's home is a very cold place.

But it's very cold and it snows, which only proves that it's winter; it can't be limited to Yantai and Beijing.

After all, even near Tianhai, it snows in winter.

Let's look around here first.

Du Tingfeng shook his head and picked up his phone: "I arranged to meet Mr. Zhang after he gets off work."

Mr. Zhang is the same Mr. Zhang who called yesterday. He works in Yanjing and went to Tianhai on a business trip a few days ago. He happened to meet Du Muyu on the high-speed train on his return trip.

After Du Tingfeng agreed to transfer a large sum of money to him, the other party felt very indebted and arranged to meet to discuss the details of what had happened.

"where?"

"It's a science and technology park in the suburbs of Beijing. He usually gets off work around nine o'clock at night, so I'll have to wait."

"You can rest for a while longer."

Chen Ji nodded, swiped his phone, and looked at the message Wan Xiaoshuang had sent.

A string of addresses.

Wan Xiaoshuang: Xu San's home is right here.

[Wan Xiaoshuang: You should go see him, and let me know if you hear anything.]

Chen Ji sent an "OK" and then briefly explained the situation to Du Tingfeng and the others.

None of them were sleepy, so they simply followed Chen Ji.

As they left the hotel, the rain was heavy and intense. The strong wind, which shouldn't belong to late spring, carried large raindrops that kept slapping against Chen Ji's face even with an umbrella.

We soon arrived at an old residential area.

The exterior walls were dusty and gray.

Chen Ji glanced at the rental advertisements on the shared bicycles in front of the community and had a vague feeling that something was wrong. They were all advertisements for single apartments.

The "home" that Xu Sandao mentioned going back to for the New Year...

Do they really have other family members?