Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

“But since the beginning of this year, Wan has lost interest in your affairs.”

Niu Jinniu said, "It's a long story, but it's related to the disappearance of the company's founder."

“Wang Chao,” Chen Ji said, “I know he has been missing for many years.”

"Correct."

Niu Jinniu nodded.

"After Wang Chao disappeared, the company searched and found his notes, in which we learned of your existence."

At this point, Niu Jinniu hesitated.

"But all of this is predicated on Wang Chao's identity."

Chen Ji's heart stirred, and he exchanged a slight glance with his uncle, who then gave him a meaningful look.

"Wang Chao is not a Domain Visitor."

Niu Jinniu said very directly, "He's not an ordinary person either."

"Is he a ghost?" Chen Ji asked.

“Rather than calling him a ghost…” Niu Jinniu paused for two seconds, “it’s more accurate to say that he was just a ‘tourist’.”

“Through his notes, we discovered that he appeared simultaneously in the present, the past, and the future; at the same time, he was the one who predicted the end of the world.”

"Your image."

Chen said calmly, "I already know."

"He said I would open the gates to the end of the world, right?"

Niu Jinniu looked at him suspiciously, only to hear Chen Ji say, "Zeng Guichuan is dead."

"He told me that before he died."

These words caused Zhuang Xiubi and Niu Jinniu's expressions to change. The two sat up and stared at Chen Ji with surprise and uncertainty in their eyes.

"Chen Ji!"

"Do you know what you're talking about?!"

Chen Ji gazed at them silently, offering no reply.

He understood that Yang Yu and the others didn't want him to die partly because of their past friendship with Chen Yuetan, and partly because they hoped that Chen Ji could be controlled by them before becoming a Source Corpse.

"Actually, there's not much difference between you and Zeng Guichuan's side."

"Zeng Guichuan wanted me dead, so he sent Tang Qin to find me; you want me to live, but only to live a life of ignominy within your jurisdiction, right?"

"The similarity is that you didn't ask for my opinion?"

Niu Jinniu remained silent.

Zhuang Xiubi gently closed her eyes.

Chen Ji looked at them and knew very well that the reason these two remained silent and actually listened to him was because Zeng Guichuan was dead!

Moreover, Chen Ji overheard Zeng Guichuan's last words, so the answer to who killed Zeng is self-evident.

"The bats were also present."

Chen said coldly, "You can ask Zeng Guichuan about his death when he has the strength to return to the company."

Behind him, Chen Yuetan smiled faintly. He had known about all this last night, but he hadn't told the two directors.

Niu Jinniu... Although this person had no ill intentions towards Chen Ji, he still did not treat Chen Ji as an equal.

Ultimately, it's because these directors have come into contact with far too many people entering the domain; no matter what happens to Chen Ji in the future, he hasn't even passed the ninth domain yet.

In Niu Jinniu's eyes, Chen Ji was no different from his apprentice Wei Gu.

Niu Jinniu, his face tense, pulled out his phone and made a call.

The call didn't go through.

Zhuang Xiubi whispered in his ear.

Chen Ji interrupted their conversation.

"I only want to know one question."

His tone was much gentler than before, easing the tension somewhat: "You didn't come to Tianhai just to find me, did you?"

"I guess Wang Chao's disappearance has caused your plan to modify ghosts to stagnate, right?"

"..."

Niu Jinniu nodded silently.

He paused for a few seconds before saying, "You've seen Kui Gu, haven't you?"

“I have no children, and he has no parents. Although I am his coach, I also raised him from a young age.”

"You gave him a pair of ghost eyes so that he could survive the apocalypse?" Chen Ji roughly understood.

Niu Jinniu responded.

"The chances of me personally experiencing the apocalypse are very small," Niu Jinniu said with a wry smile. "Maybe the domain will be destroyed next time; but I don't care."

He pointed to himself, then to Zhuang Xiubi: "She's already this old, she's long since taken life and death lightly, and so am I."

"We martial artists believe in following the natural course of things, but the groin is not an option, absolutely not."

"He is still too young."

Niu Jinniu briefly explained that the reason he put the ghost eye on Wei Gu was to give him two more lives!

“When a person becomes a ghost, they will inevitably go through the stage of death, but a person cannot be brought back to life after death, so Wang Chao’s method is going against the will of Heaven.”

"It can be said that with his method, 99% of people... according to that kid named Wusu, are bastards, neither human nor ghost, mentally deranged, and ultimately replaced by malice."

Chen Ji's eyes flickered slightly. He thought of Wu Jinbao, and of the Wang family in the domain that his uncle had visited last time. It seemed that it was indeed true.

But how could Zeng Guichuan still be rational?

Niu Jinniu seemed to know what he was thinking.

“Strictly speaking, Zeng Guichuan did it because he didn’t care; he was indifferent to killing people.”

"but."

Niu Jinniu held up one finger: "He is indeed more stable because he has an 'essence' within him!"

He then gave a brief explanation of the essence of the matter, but Niu Jinniu actually knew less than Chen Ji.

"This essence was provided by Wang Chao, with part given to Zeng and part to Wan!"

"That's exactly how they managed to maintain their balance even though their entire bodies were transformed into ghosts."

Chen Ji remained expressionless, but a strange emotion stirred within him.

Others may not know this...

But he knew very well that the so-called essence was for forging strange objects.

Hearing this, I suddenly felt a jolt.

Isn't the true form of a ghost?

How did the second source corpse, the Creation Ghost, use waste materials to fix the ghost into the monster?

Recalling the fact that even ghosts can decay, Chen Ji's thoughts suddenly diverged. If that's the case, then the "essence," or what might be called waste, could indeed have a stabilizing effect...

"I took a different path."

Niu Jinniu calmly said, "I have no essence, so I waited until Kui Gu lit up the star before installing the ghost eye on him."

“The Ghost Star has already accepted him, and the star in Kui Gu’s hand is his anchor point.”

Chen Ji's expression changed slightly. This time, he finally understood why Kui Gu, despite having ghostly marks on his body, still looked like an ordinary person.

Niu Jinniu is really bold!

Isn't this considered exploiting a bug?

This path is clearly very unstable. Once the third star lights up, no one knows whether Gui Su will notice anything.

What Chen Ji could hear at that time was: "The Zhenshui Earthworm" "saw" you.

"If one day you can prove that Wang Chao was wrong..."

Niu Jinniu said with a wry smile, "I'd like to trouble you to help me remove the ghost eye from Wei Gu."

"I know he'd rather be an ordinary person, but in the face of the apocalypse, ordinary people are nothing but ants..."

Chen Ji nodded silently.

Then Niu Jinniu got to the point, saying that the "essence" was around Tianhai, and that their return was also to compete with Wan for the essence.

But nobody knows the exact address.

Chen Ji discovered something from their conversation: the original Tuotuo Mountain might have disappeared, or the waste materials might have been moved to another place.

Even Wan Yaohong made no progress.

But Zeng Guichuan knew exactly where Tuotuo Mountain was.

Without saying anything more, Chen Ji stood up and promised Niu Jinniu that he would help them find the truth.

His original intention was to track down these directors to find Du Muyu, and now Wan Yaohong is the biggest target.

Pushing open the door, Chen Ji saw that Wei Gu and Wu Su had disappeared and swiped to open his phone.

The phone screen displayed the latest message from Wan Xiaoshuang:

Chen Ji

I have arrived at Tianhai.

I need your help to enter my ninth domain.

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Tomorrow I'll enter [Domain·Drowning]