Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

11:50 p.m.

Wan Xiaoshuang opened her eyes; she was dreaming.

It was very dark; the lights weren't on.

She also discovered that Hong Tian had disappeared, but time was running out. She didn't have time to think about it and immediately began searching Li Bi.

As expected, there was no card. Wan Chengzhong would not entrust important clues to Li Bi, as there was a possibility of being discovered.

She quickly found a small knife.

Small knife...

Is it a prop needed for the substitution method?

Based on Wan Xiaoshuang's early understanding, there are generally only a few ways to find a scapegoat:

1. Obtaining the birth date and time is a priority that is rejected because neither Wan Chengzhong nor the other person have tried to obtain relevant information.

2. Obtain the personal items of the person being replaced.

3. Blood.

Wan Xiaoshuang gradually became certain of her guess. She touched her chin thoughtfully.

Ever since she shared her concerns about the domain with Chen Ji, one question has been lingering in her mind.

Excluding the most special case, Hong Tian, ​​why did the ghost first entangle Li Bi and Wan Chengzhong?

And why didn't the others get hurt?

At first, Wan Xiaoshuang thought it was because of the card.

According to Teacher Zhan, Huang Ying learned about the substitution method by being dragged into the water and finding it on a ghost. Everyone knows that ghost stories are not credible.

The card that records the method of taking someone else's place may not be a way to survive at all, but a curse.

But she immediately overturned her idea.

Because Wan Chengzhong was threatened with death first, which forced him to obtain the card, it means that Wan Chengzhong's encounter with the ghost occurred before he received the card.

What was that opportunity?

Is it an object, an action, or...?

An idea?

Wan Xiaoshuang glanced at Li Bi again.

Ironically, Li Bi was both unlucky and lucky. She was haunted by a ghost, but she also happened to know how to find someone to die in her place.

Wan Xiaoshuang's expression shifted slightly. After a moment of thought, a bold decision came to mind.

There is a fifty percent chance that this decision could lead to her death.

However, there is also a 50% chance that it is a key clue.

Without hesitation, Wan Xiaoshuang cut off a small section of Li Bi's hair, then casually pricked the other's fingertip with a knife, squeezing out a drop of blood into her water bottle.

After doing all this, she shook the water bottle, watching the drop of blood spread in the water...

Nothing happened.

"I hope I'm wrong."

Wan Xiaoshuang murmured to herself as she stuffed the water bottle into her hidden waist pouch.

Tick.

Her gaze shifted to the window.

It's raining.

......

11:55 PM.

The warm yellow light illuminated the room.

Hong Tian huddled in the corner, clutching a strand of black hair tightly in his hand... He wasn't dreaming.

He was the only person awake in the room.

Hong Tian stared intently at the sleepwalking figure on the bed, his eyes bloodshot and bulging.

That's Teacher Zhan.

Teacher Zhan's face was pale and her whole body was swollen from being soaked in water.

He should have been fast asleep, but instead, he stood on the bed, head raised, arms outstretched in a strange way...

......

Exactly twelve o'clock midnight.

Downstream Village.

Lightning flashed and thunder roared; large raindrops fell into the Jiagu River, and the river, no longer calm, surged with turbulent waves...

The rain was torrential, and the water level was rising at a visible rate.

Wow - Wow -

Several figures slowly emerged from the water.

There were men and women, old and young.

Like duckweed, it drifted with the current, rising and falling, towards the town several miles away...

A sharp flash of lightning streaked across the night, illuminating the dark river for a fleeting moment.

Under the white light, these corpses, which should have been dead for many years, were all staring blankly into the air with their eyes open!

Rumble!

A piercing clap of thunder, accompanied by someone's anxious voice, suddenly pierced Chen Ji's ears.

"Chen Ji... wake up!"

He suddenly opened his eyes!

He was still unable to recover from the extremely uncomfortable feeling of drowning in his dream when the drowning ghost came looking for him again, just like the night before.

But this time, he was woken up by someone.

The person who woke him up was none other than Wan Xiaoshuang!

"what happened?"

A very bad premonition suddenly rose in Chen Ji's heart. He immediately sat up and saw that Li Bi, who was beside him, had also opened her eyes groggily.

"The house is going to flood!"

what? !

Chen Ji instantly regained consciousness, and at that moment, he finally felt that the bedding beneath him was ice cold.

A damp mist drifted through the air.

The ground is completely flooded, and the water level is still rising.

A cold, damp breeze hit Chen Ji's face, making him shiver.

Wan Xiaoshuang frowned and pointed to the window: "The window was shattered by the strong wind, and the rain was heavier than we expected. When Teacher Zhan was woken up, the room was already full of water."

"How come it's so fast?" Chen Ji immediately looked at the clock, and it was already two in the morning.

But what sank even deeper into his heart was... Hong Tian had disappeared.

"After Teacher Zhan woke up, Hong Tian was gone, and the room was completely flooded."

Wan Xiaoshuang spoke quickly. She was lying on the outermost floor mat and was the first to be woken up. Teacher Zhan only had time to give her one instruction before rushing out to inform the other students.

The group immediately checked their answers and confirmed that Hong Tian had not appeared in the dream either.

Hongtian's bedding was empty, already soaked by the water on the ground.

This reminded Chen Ji of Ah Gou's death, but even if Ah Gou was taken away by the drowned ghost, he still appeared in his dream, didn't he?

His nose twitched slightly as he smelled a faint fishy smell from the river.

Chen Ji turned on his flashlight and looked around. Suddenly, he noticed a strange mark on the wall in the corner of the room, in a place that hadn't yet been flooded.

He touched the wall, feeling its rough texture against his fingertips.

"Was Hong Tian killed by a drowned ghost?"

Li Bi's tone was inexplicably anxious.

"uncertain."

Chen Ji looked at the few grains of sand on his fingertips and murmured, "He used to stay in the corner while we were sleeping."

No one knows what happened to Hong Tian during his dream, causing him to crawl from the bed to a corner and then mysteriously disappear.

Logically, everyone should have fallen asleep and woken up at the same time. However, considering the mud and sand on the wall, and the fact that Hong Tian didn't appear in the others' dreams...

It's very likely that Hong Tian didn't sleep at all.

Where can he go?

According to Wan Xiaoshuang, when Teacher Zhan woke her up, the door was still closed. She was sleeping on the outermost side and did not notice any signs of anyone leaving her vicinity.

Another clap of thunder sounded...

Rainwater continued to overflow into the house because the location was too low-lying.

"Teacher Zhan told us to go to the teaching building to take shelter from the rain first," Wan Xiaoshuang said solemnly. "The buildings there are higher up, so at least we won't get flooded."

This is undoubtedly the best choice, because everyone knows that the first middle school student ghost could appear using water as a medium.

There are also ghosts from tour groups that could attack at any time.