Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

"Then?"

Zhu Guang asked.

Teacher Zhan shook her head and said with a melancholy tone, "She only said that one sentence before she left."

"I felt something was wrong, and when I chased after her, I saw her walk into the river by herself... I don't want to talk about what happened after that."

Chen Ji seemed to be deep in thought.

"Huang Ying is a very smart girl. A few months ago, she even won first place in the county's spelling contest..." Teacher Zhan's voice trailed off, "If it weren't for that phone call from her parents that day..."

Gradually, his voice became completely inaudible until he sighed and then waved to Chen Ji and the other person.

Chen Ji and Zhu Guang wisely left.

On the loess slope.

"After going through so much, is it still impossible to escape?" Zhu Guang's expression was complicated.

Contrary to their initial expectations, Huang Ying was not fragile at all. On the contrary, her will to survive was so strong that she was able to escape even after experiencing being trapped in a maze of ghosts and being tricked into drowning in a river.

It's safe to say that 99% of adults would be terrified in that situation and would be completely unable to think rationally.

Huang Ying was even able to think of taking a shortcut to avoid the ghost.

But the outcome remained unchanged.

Being haunted by a ghost means certain death.

Huang Ying's death appears to be a suicide on the surface, but now it seems that it was most likely the work of a ghost, though we don't know exactly how.

"Oh, right." Zhu Guang suddenly remembered something and looked at Chen Ji: "What did you say Huang Ying said to her grandparents in the middle of the night?"

Chen Ji seemed to be thinking about something, and after two seconds he said, "She said one for one, but she's not willing."

"Oh."

Zhu Guang stroked his chin: "Then the person she chose to take her place should have been her grandfather or grandmother, but for some reason, Huang Ying didn't use them in the end. Perhaps she couldn't bear to, or perhaps she didn't dare."

"maybe."

Chen Ji said, "It might have been used, but it didn't work."

His gaze swept almost imperceptibly toward the student dormitory.

So what Wan Chengzhong got from Huang Ying's room was most likely the card on Huang Weiyi Ghost's body... Just as he and Wan Xiaoshuang guessed, the method recorded on the card required someone else to die in his place.

I just don't know the specific method.

But it definitely requires close contact with the person being replaced.

Putting that matter aside, Chen Ji brought up another issue, one that he had been pondering:

"Huang Ying should have developed the same symptoms as Hong Tian."

"What?" Zhu Guang was taken aback, then his eyes flashed as he suddenly remembered Huang Ying's strange behavior before her death, which was not just delirium!

"...(Huang Ying) stayed at home all day, and she would not see anyone who looked for her... Until the day she committed suicide, she was wearing a pink long-sleeved jacket, and her face was deathly pale, just like a dead person."

Chen Ji recounted.

"It was June then."

Zhu Guang felt a chill run down his spine. He glanced at the short sleeves he and Chen Ji were wearing. The temperature was approaching 35 degrees Celsius, so it wouldn't have been any different a few years ago.

So... why did Huang Ying wear long sleeves?

Why don't you go out?

Is it fear of ghosts, or is there some strange change happening to her that she's afraid others will discover?

"Huang Ying is about to harm her grandparents. Whether she actually does it or not, the fact that she has this idea is definitely not as simple as being scared by a ghost."

Chen Ji speculated, "She must have experienced something similar to Hong Tian. Huang Ying found herself slowly turning into a floating corpse, and the threat of death forced her to try to take her place."

This thought made Zhu Guang fall silent. No one expected that what happened to Hong Tian was not an isolated case, but a recurrence of what Huang Ying experienced a year ago!

"Professor Zhan provided a great deal of information."

Chen Ji concluded, "What I just said is only part of what we can see, but there's one more thing I need to think about."

"It's that person or ghost who looks exactly like Huang Ying on the teaching building in the ghost wall."

Why wasn't she drowning?

.......

Li Bi leaned against the tree, watching the woman outside the dormitory door.

Wan Xiaoshuang...

She murmured, making no attempt to hide from being discovered, her gaze glued to the other person like a piece of chewing gum.

Wan Xiaoshuang seemed oblivious to the fact that someone was watching her, still staring blankly at the sparrow.

Li Bi withdrew her gaze.

She gazed at her clenched hands, which rested on her knees.

The pale skin on top was thin and tightly wrapped around the protruding bone, with blue veins clearly visible.

She loosened her grip slightly, revealing a bone-white die inside.

Will Hong Tian make a move?

She asked the man behind the tree in a soft voice.

"meeting."

Wan Chengzhong gave a brief reply.

"Are you so sure?"

"Hmm." Wan Chengzhong crumpled the piece of paper in front of him into a ball. It was covered with writing, the handwriting was beautiful, and it belonged to Li Bi.

"His desire for a substitute death was far greater than any of ours..."

"After all, he was the only one who had already shown symptoms."

Li Bi remained silent.

The sunlight made her face even whiter.

Wan Chengzhong said, "Let's see how things go tonight and how to arrange accommodations. Hong Tian is just a plan B; he's half-dead and might not be able to successfully deal with Chen Ji."

“Save your dice to stall Chen Ji. I’ll deal with Wan Xiaoshuang; you can’t handle her.”

"Is that so?" Li Bi scoffed. "If she's so capable, how could she have been kicked out of the Wan family?"

"...Hurry?"

Wan Chengzhong glanced at Li Bi indifferently.

"After stealing the A-grade ghost collected by the Wan family, she ran away."

Li Bi's expression changed instantly: "How is this possible?!"

"It's a long story. There's a ghost... a strange creature that helped her." Wan Chengzhong waved his hand irritably, his face grim. "My father said that he hoped that when he saw Wan Xiaoshuang again, he would see her severed head."

"She's going to die in the domain, so we can't take her head out, but we might be able to get the strange creature."

He changed the subject, his tone becoming stern: "So, no matter what you're like now, don't forget that our goal is to kill Wan Xiaoshuang."

"then what do I do?"

Li Bi was silent for a few seconds, then asked again, her voice trembling slightly.

She stared at the water bottle she had thrown far away, a few minutes earlier, in which a reflection had appeared.

It's her.

It is saying:

【bright】

【sky】

【See】

Having said that, the bloated, drowned ghost gave a sinister smile and disappeared into the water...

Just like what Wan Chengzhong experienced.

"I've already picked someone out for you."

Wan Chengzhong calmly said, "Li Yinghe."

"Don't look for the boy, that person is a bit strange, I can't see through him."

"Zhu Guang has other uses as well."

"Once I've finished my business here, I'll help you deal with Li Yinghe. Don't rush."