Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

".....Amitabha."

The young monk Huici behind him sighed, closed his eyes, and clasped his hands together.

Kelly Chen looked at Hui Ci respectfully and nodded silently, her lips moving as if she were reciting something.

After a long pause, she finally spoke seriously:

"The victim's death was too bizarre, and no one can disclose the details of the case until a suspect is found."

She looked at the group of people very seriously, hesitated for a moment, and then said:

"The fact that someone died while wearing a red wedding dress has likely already generated a lot of supernatural rumors."

After all, according to local rumors in Hunan and Hong Kong, the woman dressed in red is the one most likely to become a vengeful ghost after death.

"Officer Chen."

Xu Yuanshuang suddenly said, "But it's already all over the newspapers, saying that this case is related to a gang?"

"How is this going?"

Policewoman Kelly Chen looked somewhat embarrassed. She waved her hand and shook her head, saying:

"Those are all rumors."

"Actually, we haven't confirmed anything yet. All we know is that the deceased, Ah Xiang, had social connections and was associated with a gang member."

She rummaged through her pockets and found a black and white prison photo. The man in the photo had a sinister look in his eyes and was covered in tattoos.

"His name is Zheng Zhongshan, codename Mountain Tiger."

Kelly Chen gave a brief introduction: Zheng Zhongshan is nearly 40 years old and is considered well-known in a local gang. He was once arrested and imprisoned for gang fighting.

After he got out, he met Ah Xiang somewhere, and they got married a year later.

After that, the two rented a village house and lived together.

"Where is he now?"

Chen Ji asked, "This could very well be a key clue."

"Disappeared."

Kelly Chen said, looking very upset, "She disappeared a few days ago. Ah Xiang even came to the police station to report her missing."

Phil said thoughtfully:

"Could he be the murderer?"

This is also the speculation of other entrants.

Ah Xiang's death could point in two directions:

First, she was killed by a ghost.

Second, this is just a simple murder case, but Ah Xiang may very well become a vengeful ghost.

If the second possibility is true, then finding Ah Xiang's killer might be a way out.

“This is a major direction for our investigation,” Kelly Chen nodded.

Chen Ji glanced at Ah Xiang's blood-red wedding dress again, a hint of confusion flashing in his eyes.

He always felt that it couldn't have been Zheng Zhongshan who killed him.

For whatever reason, if Zheng Zhongshan wanted to kill his wife, there was absolutely no need for such a grand display, or even to dress the corpse in a red wedding dress.

"Less than twelve hours have passed since the landlord reported the incident, and this is all the information we have collected so far."

Kelly Chen then glanced at her watch.

"Superintendent Chung called me earlier. He's my senior colleague, and he'll be coming over this afternoon to assist us with the investigation."

"Please, everyone, search around again to see if there are any clues I may have missed."

After saying that, she took out several pairs of disposable gloves and some transparent sealed bags from a box and handed them to the nine people.

After a while.

Fei'er straightened up, but she didn't see anything. She looked at Hui Ci next to the corpse.

The young monk Huici clasped his hands together, a hint of pity on his face, as he chanted the Rebirth Mantra for Ah Xiang.

Will this work?

She walked up to Huici and suddenly said something.

Only after she had finished reading did Huici turn around and say calmly:

"It's no use."

"If you mean, to prevent her from turning into a demon."

Fei'er tilted her head, looking at the monk with some suspicion.

Huici continued:

"Just for peace of mind."

Fei'er: "I don't understand what you mean."

Huici smiled and patiently explained:

"Is such that."

“Think about it, suppose Ah Xiang suddenly appears in front of the two of us, and I have recited scriptures for her, but you haven’t.”

"If she really becomes a ghost, who will she kill first?"

Hui Ci pointed at Fei Er: "It's you."

"After all, Ah Xiang should at least give me a way out, considering that I explained the situation to her, right?"

Fei'er nodded: "That's true."

After saying that, she followed Huici and began to put her hands together in silent mourning.

Liu Zi, standing to the side, glanced at Hui Ci, then at Fei Er, who seemed completely oblivious to anything amiss, and looked utterly speechless.

He had just thought that this little bald monk was too saintly, taking an NPC he had only met once, or even one who was already dead, so seriously.

Now it seems that he was clearly trying to give himself a better chance of survival than others when he was trying to escape!

but.....

Liu Zi followed behind the two and silently bowed.

"If she really became a vengeful ghost, she wouldn't be able to communicate with you anymore."

Chen Ji held a small booklet in his hand, looked at the three people surrounding Ah Xiang's body, and rubbed his forehead.

"I've made a discovery."

He gathered the remaining people together and pointed to the small book in front of him:

"I found this on the bookshelf."

This is a poorly made book; it's very thin, the pages are yellowed, and the edges are curled.

It is clearly not a formally published book.

The book cover features a promotional photo for a horror movie. The ghost in the photo is poorly made up; it's just an actor with a white face painted on and some red paint applied to represent blood.

The scarlet title above, designed in the shape of fangs, conveys a very deliberate and contrived sense of horror.

A ghost story every day

"Is this one of those cheap books sold at street stalls? What's wrong with it?"

Li Bo tightened his windbreaker and asked with some doubt, "This kind of book was very common in the 90s."

Chen Ji opened the book, revealing the first story inside.

"You'll know just by looking at it."

Wedding dress

"Preface"

"A red wedding dress, a ghost groom;"

"Yanyan loves shoes that don't fit, so she has to break her bones and scrape her skin to squeeze them on."

"There was a short-lived man next door who married his daughter to raise money..."

"A heartless wolf and a cold-blooded dog, what kind of parents are these?"

"text"

Dear readers, the story I'm going to tell you today takes place in Dapu, Xianggang, in the early years of the Republic of China.

There was a girl whose life was full of misery. She had an older brother and a younger brother, and her father and mother didn't care for her. She was just like a rotten cabbage in the field.

This girl was just eighteen years old and was incredibly beautiful.

Unfortunately, her family was too poor. Her father was a gambling addict, her mother was lazy and gluttonous, and her two brothers were troublemakers.

On this day, someone came to her door and said that if her father didn't pay back the money, he would make sure her brothers each lost a leg and would be crippled for the rest of their lives!

So the girl began weaving fishing nets and washing clothes day and night to supplement her father's gambling debts with her meager income.

The result is obvious—

More loss than gain is better.

So, these heartless parents, in order to get more money, actually came up with an idea—

This girl must be arranged into a ghost marriage!

The person who was paired with him was the eldest son of the neighbor who had just died.

It is said that the girl was unwilling, so her parents broke her bones and forced her into her wedding dress, leaving her with only half a foot!

It's said that the female ghost in wedding attire harbors the most resentment, and sure enough, this girl transformed into a vengeful ghost dressed in red...

She killed her parents and brothers, but that wasn't enough. From then on, she lingered on the land of Dapu for a long time.

If one night you see a woman in a wedding dress by your bedside, be careful...

Because she will let you, and also experience, how she was vividly—

She was stuffed into that red wedding dress and hanged herself!

[The End of the First Day's Ghost Stories]

Ah Xiang's village house was completely silent.

Snapped!

Li Bo's face was pale, and "A Ghost Story Every Day" quietly slipped from his hands.

This is just a clichéd little story, not even scary at all.

It wouldn't scare the visitors who had actually seen ghosts.

But what truly sent chills down everyone's spines and sent shivers down their spines...

Why do the last three paragraphs of this story look so similar...?

Ah Xiang, what happened before she died?