Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

As soon as he sat down, Zhang Heng felt drops of sweat dripping onto his legs.

"Tsk."

He gave a slightly disgusted snort and silently pushed Ah Ming back a little.

Amin's fat face was deathly pale, sweat dripped from his nose in the center of his forehead, and his eyes were barely open under his chin.

On the side of his face, a slit that looked like a mouth kept moving.

"Brother Heng... I can't see, I can't see anymore!"

"How far are we from the door...?"

Zhang Heng didn't want to answer for a moment. For some reason, the dazzling white light made his mind a mess.

"Brother Heng..."

"Heng-ge, why aren't you saying anything...?"

"Brother Heng, please talk to me, I'm begging you!"

Amin kept muttering in a trembling voice.

The extreme pain and the terror of not being able to see anything made him extremely tense.

Zhang Heng ignored him.

After a few seconds of silence, Amin asked weakly again, his voice filled with a confused and disoriented tone:

"Brother Heng, do you really think I can get out of here alive?"

"Hey."

Zhang Heng closed his eyes, forcibly suppressing the irritation in his heart.

After a moment, he spoke, his tone strange:

"I'll take you out."

"Stop arguing now, be quiet, okay?"

Amin remained silent.

After a while, he suddenly called out softly:

"Brother Heng..."

Zhang Heng frowned, barely suppressing the urge to throw him down.

"what happened again?"

"Why are you……"

"You've been touching my head?"

what?

Zhang Heng's heart skipped a beat.

His hands were neatly placed beside him.

He had barely opened his eyes when his pupils immediately contracted to a thin slit...

Almost instinctively, Zhang Heng lifted Amin up and shrank behind his fat body!

His back was immediately covered in a dense layer of cold sweat!

He never expected that the domain would set such a trap at the exit!

In that very second, Zhang Heng saw...

Two very thick, sparsely haired monkey fingers squeezed through the hole in front of the chair, only millimeters away from Amin's head!

At the same time, he suddenly felt a chill run through his body for no apparent reason, as if something was staring straight in his direction.

It's the macaque's eyeball.

It saw Amin!

In front of the chairs where Zhang Heng and A Ming were sitting was a hole.

Right in front of the macaque's left eye after it lowers its arm!

At that very moment, after sensing that completely undisguised malice...

He understood the last rule.

[We must not let the macaques see us.]

swish—swish—

Something soft, like hair, scraped against the wall.

Zhang Heng lowered his head, letting Amin cover his upper body, and his heart trembled violently.

He didn't know what had happened....

All that was known was that Ah Ming, who was sitting on his lap, suddenly felt much lighter.

It's like he lost half his weight in a single second...

......

Chen Ji was not far behind them.

He didn't hide behind any furniture, but lay on the ground.

A large white bed sheet completely covered Chen Ji's body.

Chen Ji slightly lifted the bed sheet, his face expressionless.

He could clearly see two enormous fingers with sharp nails...

They were forced to squeeze from the square into the tunnel.

Then, they took away the short, fat man's entire lower half of his body, from head to toe.

The short, fat man's body was torn vertically in two.

The compass that nearly killed Chen Ji slipped from the short, fat man's hand and fell onto the tall man's leg beneath him.

Chen Ji withdrew his gaze and shrank into the bed sheet.

This bed sheet was taken by Chen Ji when he returned to the previous bed during the last time it was dark.

He could no longer hide behind the bed, because the darkness was getting shorter and shorter, and the walking distance between the two people of different heights confirmed Chen Ji's previous guess.

In any case, it was impossible for them to walk from the bed to the door during a dark time.

However, the chair placed not far from the exit was a trap.

Before Chen Ji even switched places, he had already discovered...

That chair is too close to the door, and it's located in the due north area!

That's within the macaque's line of sight!

Chen Ji knew this because he almost died because of it during the second flash!

At that time, Chen Ji was hiding behind a sofa on the floor below.

And when the red light of the word "death" flashed again...

He also saw the macaque's finger reaching in that direction.

At the critical moment, Chen Ji crawled under the sofa, completely covering his body, thus escaping his inevitable death.

However, a few dozen meters away from him, in the line of sight of the macaque's other eye, another newcomer was not so lucky.

She was grabbed by the macaque and torn in the same way.

Pulling himself out of his thoughts, Chen Ji lay quietly under the white sheets, motionless like a corpse.

He silently counted his breaths, waiting for darkness to descend.

Very few people realize that the object of cover is not fixed in one place.

To guess this, one must first discover that the ghosts are above the entrants, but cannot see the people below.

Therefore, it can be inferred that the object of avoidance is merely symbolic.

The components of the hiding place include, for example, cabinet doors, bed sheets, blankets, sofa leather...

If it can serve as a form of "covering", how can it not be considered a means of avoidance?

Of course, disassembling bedding is much simpler and quicker than disassembling other furniture.

Chen Ji wasn't the only one who thought of this.

The bed he took the sheets from was already in a mess, and the blankets on it were gone.

He did not see the blanket in the road ahead, which proved that the person who took the blanket had already left the tunnel.

This method is feasible.

The last time his position was switched was too sudden; otherwise, Chen Ji could have easily taken the bed sheet and wouldn't have been hanging outside the passage to survive.

The bloodstains on the sheets were slowly spreading.

The ghost that Chen Ji had never seen with his own eyes had already crawled over his head, blindly searching for its prey.

soon.....

The tunnel plunged into darkness for the fourth time.

Chen Ji, draped in a bed sheet, quickened his pace and headed towards the exit.

He heard something slide to the ground, which instantly drew the sound of ghostly footsteps from the side.

It should be half of the corpse of a short, fat man.

Chen Ji's gaze darkened, but unfortunately, the tall man had already taken the compass from the corpse.

In the silence, a faint sound of a door sliding could be heard, but it was too faint.

The tall man left quietly.

A few seconds later, the lights started flashing again...

This time, the darkness lasted only one minute.

But Chen Ji had already touched something hard.

A thought flickered in his mind, and he slowly pushed the door open, then stepped out.

The "Don't watch" phase is finally complete.

As if sensing Chen Ji's arrival, the space flickered with faint light after the door closed automatically.

This is a platform with bright blue paint on the walls and sponge boards pieced together on the ground, painted with small flowers and grasses, which is very whimsical.

The only exit from the platform is a slide!

"Is this the entrance to 'Don't Listen'?"

"Or... a children's playground?"

Chen Ji was slightly taken aback, then looked around.

There is no other way out except for this slide that leads to who-knows-where.

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If you're confused by the maps in these two chapters, I've uploaded an explanatory diagram.