Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

What happened next was no different from the story told by Teacher Zhan, except that it was actually something he and Huang Ying experienced together.

The turning point was in the Jiagu River.

Huang Ying discovered that Huang Weiyi was a ghost, and immediately afterward, her surroundings completely changed, transforming into Jia Guhe!

The truth is far more terrifying than the original story.

When Huang Ying realized what was happening, it was too late. Her body was upside down, and her head was being held underwater. The ghost that was trying to drown her was the ghost in the yellow hoodie.

In a state of extreme panic, Huang Ying quickly choked on water and suffered from oxygen deprivation, and then...

She then lost consciousness.

But when she woke up again, she found that her head had somehow emerged from the water and was even gradually approaching the shore.

Only then did Huang Ying realize that someone was supporting her waist and swimming her towards the shore!

It's Teacher Zhan.

Huang Ying was completely exhausted, and in her hazy state, she suddenly realized something.

Teacher Zhan's head never broke the surface of the water.

She immediately looked down and was horrified to discover that it wasn't that Teacher Zhan wouldn't look up, but that he couldn't!

His feet were being gripped tightly by a pale blue hand, and the ghost in the yellow hoodie was trying to drag them all into the water.

Gradually, Huang Ying felt the hands on her waist slowly loosen, as if she had completely lost her strength.

Finally, I gave her a push on the back.

With strength from who knows where, despite being bound by the ghost, Teacher Zhan still managed to forcefully send Huang Ying onto the shallows.

But he himself... could never come up again.

Before Huang Ying could even reach out, Teacher Zhan was dragged to the bottom of the river by the ghost, and his figure disappeared in the blink of an eye.

She stared blankly as everything happened, unable to move. After a long while, she fled into the woods as if she had lost her soul. In the woods, she found the small card she had been carrying.

The substitution method.

No one knows what Huang Ying was thinking. In any case, she quickly returned to the riverbank and saw the corpses floating on the river in the distance.

They are still holding up their arms in a supporting posture.

That's Teacher Zhan.

He has already drowned.

Huang Ying plucked out her hair and threw it into the river; soon, a figure wearing a black leather jacket surfaced.

From its pale face, Huang Ying could tell that it was also a ghost.

The substitution method requires one person to sacrifice the hair of another.

But Huang Ying threw away her own hair.

Faced with this ghost, Huang Ying proposed a deal: she wanted to exchange her own life for Teacher Zhan's return.

For some reason, the ghost agreed.

The ghost did not kill Huang Ying immediately, but told her that the moment she died would be the moment Teacher Zhan was resurrected; afterwards, the ghost kept implying that she could also choose to have someone else die in her place.

After returning home, Huang Ying discovered that her body was undergoing strange changes, and she knew that she was dying slowly.

She ultimately did not listen to the ghost's bewitchment.

A few days later...

She knew it was time.

Huang Ying quietly left her home and went to Teacher Zhan's dormitory.

Sure enough, she saw the bewildered Teacher Zhan there, just like the night she encountered the ghost, sitting by the window reading a book.

However, Teacher Zhan's memory of that period has become blurred and distorted.

He pressed Huang Ying for details about what had happened, but Huang Ying didn't say much, only recounting how she had found a way to die in someone else's place.

Huang Ying also had her own selfish motives.

Huang Ying hopes that one day, Teacher Zhan will find out what really happened, and she hopes that even if she dies, someone will still remember her.

Then she jumped into the river.

But the story doesn't end there.

She became a drowned ghost, but only after becoming a ghost did Huang Ying realize...

Teacher Zhan did not actually come back to life.

He would occasionally revert to the state he was in when he drowned in his dreams, raising his hands high as if supporting something.

That ghost tricked her!

What's even more terrifying is that even after she becomes a ghost, she is still forcibly controlled by the black-clad ghost because of the transaction.

After an unknown amount of time, the two boys arrived at the banks of the Jagu River.

One of them caught the attention of the man in the black leather jacket.

Under the ghost's manipulation, Huang Ying placed the diary in the teacher's office, hoping that the boy would discover the way out hidden in the diary.

But he didn't.

And it led to Zhang Wenxuan's death.

After Zhang Wenxuan became a ghost, he harbored extremely deep resentment, perhaps because his experiences were very similar to those of the black-clad ghost, who was unable to control him.

He wanted revenge, but he couldn't because Zhang Wenxuan was blind; all his facial features had been dissolved by water.

His deskmate also turned into a ghost, but his malice was much greater than Zhang Wenxuan's.

Even on its deathbed, the middle school student ghost still hated Zhang Wenxuan, believing that Zhang Wenxuan must have tampered with things, causing its attempt to die in place of him to fail.

And then...

It means that those who enter the domain have appeared.

The story that follows is what Chen Ji and the others experienced firsthand.

After hearing all this, a complex look appeared in Chen Ji's eyes.

The truth is actually like this.

In this story, Huang Ying is a complete victim, but she is also a perpetrator who indirectly caused the deaths of many people.

Through control, the black-clad ghost is gradually corrupting Huang Ying's soul. Before long, she will become like the other ghosts, unable to suppress her malice towards humans.

"and many more."

The boy suddenly wrote in his notebook:

"Who told you all this? Did Huang Ying come back?"

Zhu Guang nodded, then shook his head, and slightly stepped aside, gesturing for the group to enter the house.

"You'll understand once you go inside."

The four of them slowly entered the room; the floodwater in the dormitory had receded.

Hong Tian was lying motionless on the bed, while Teacher Zhan sat on the side of the bed and raised his head heavily after hearing footsteps.

Chen Ji's gaze narrowed slightly.

Under the sunlight, Teacher Zhan's face looked even whiter than before.

His lips were slightly bluish, and his whole body exuded a faint chill, as if he had been immersed in river water for a long time.

"So you've all grown up."

He said in a daze.

These words silenced the children. It was clear that Teacher Zhan had overheard their conversation and understood that the newcomers were not his students.

"Teacher, Huang Ying's story..." Chen Ji hesitated, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

“I told Zhu Guang,” Teacher Zhan said softly. “After the rainstorm, I regained my memory.”

Chen Ji nodded hesitantly, but this was still not enough to explain his doubts, because Zhu Guang's words contained a lot of Huang Ying's inner thoughts.

As if knowing what he was thinking, Teacher Zhan looked out the window and slowly began to speak:

"Huang Ying has appeared in my dreams."

"The first half of the story is what I experienced myself; the rest, she told me."

“She was there every night.”

“She didn’t want me to know I was dead, so every time I woke up, I would forget her existence… until today, when I remembered everything.”

This is why Teacher Zhan only remembers Huang Ying and Zhang Wenxuan.

It's not just because the memories they left behind were so profound, but also because only these two people appeared in Teacher Zhan's dream!