Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

Chapter 398 [Domain·Drowning] Money Divination

The afternoon classes flew by.

Teacher Zhan led everyone in reviewing the poem "Hearing the Wind Through the Bamboo Window, Sending Wishes to the Seedlings at Dawn" from the previous lesson, but no one listened at all.

Chen Ji had already asked Teacher Zhan at noon, and sure enough, tonight, just like last night, the three of them chose to sleep on the floor in Teacher Zhan's room.

The people this time are:

Wan Xiaoshuang. Hong Tian. Li Bi.

At Chen Ji's insistence, he was also added to the group.

Soon, dusk fell, and the four were led back to Mr. Zhan's dormitory.

The group ate in silence, while the loudspeaker on the other side crackled intermittently broadcasting radio programs.

"...Tomorrow, the entire county will be mostly cloudy, with a high of 34 degrees Celsius and a low of 30 degrees Celsius..."

"The weather will take a sharp turn for the worse the day after tomorrow, with the first heavy rain of early summer expected. This rain will be quite intense and will be accompanied by short-term severe convective weather. Since this is the busy farming season, please bring in your wheat in time to prevent it from getting wet..."

the day after tomorrow.

Hearing the weather forecast, Chen Ji's heart sank. He looked at Wan Xiaoshuang and saw that she was frowning slightly and looking at the sky outside.

After the meal, he and Wan Xiaoshuang walked towards the loess slope.

The setting sun turned the entire sky red, Chen Ji said:

"The ghost of the tour group should appear the day after tomorrow."

"The day after tomorrow?" Wan Xiaoshuang shook her head.

"Weather forecasts aren't always accurate. I feel it will rain by tomorrow at the latest. Look at the sky."

Chen Ji followed her gaze to the sky, and his eyes suddenly froze.

Against the dark blue sky, thick, milky-white clouds, like drops of milk about to fall from the heavens, were faintly visible.

Very unusual.

"This is called a mammatus cloud."

Wan Xiaoshuang explained, "It usually occurs before or after strong convection."

The unusual weather made Chen Ji feel even more depressed.

He had a vague feeling that something big was about to happen...

It's unknown what kind of changes will occur after the tour group appears.

After a brief discussion, the two immediately headed to the student dormitory to inform others about the matter.

From afar, they could see several people gathered around a tree outside the dormitory. Chen Ji squinted and took a closer look, and found that it was actually the Children's Squad!

The boy squatted in the center with his eyes closed, waving his arms, while Li Yinghe, standing to the side, was pale.

"what happened?"

Chen Ji walked over and saw the boy examining something. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was three copper coins.

All three are reversed and have no words on them.

Zhu Guang froze for two seconds before trembling and drawing a strange shape on the ground with a twig.

None of them paid any attention to Chen Ji.

The boy scooped the money back, twirled it in his hand, and then threw it on the ground.

This time, there are three frontal views.

"Tsk."

The boy stared at the copper coin, remaining silent for a long time, his brows furrowed tightly.

It was obvious from the expressions of these people that something was wrong with Li Yinghe. Could it be that she had encountered a ghost?

But what are these three copper coins for?

"Is this a ghost?"

Chen Ji asked.

“No,” the boy said, then looked at Li Yinghe, his tone grave: “It’s still the same divination.”

"You can tell fortunes?" Wan Xiaoshuang's eyes flickered slightly. No wonder the boy found those witnesses so quickly this morning; his target was very accurate.

"Hmm." The boy nodded. After considering for a moment, he explained to Chen Ji and the other person:

"This is called the Money Divination."

“I have tossed the coins three times in a row, a total of eighteen times, and I have gotten the same result each time.”

"Kan Gua".

Zhu Guang used a twig to write and draw on the ground, which was a simple way of recording the hexagrams.

Is there any explanation for this?

Chen Ji was a little confused, but judging from the boy's expression, the divination must be very ominous.

"The Kan trigram consists of two trigrams, with both the upper and lower trigrams being Kan, which represents water."

The boy explained simply: "When two obstacles come together, it's like a person drowning, trapped inside and out, unable to move at the bottom of the river."

"That's the obvious interpretation."

Drowning...

Another drowning incident.

Chen Ji's expression changed slightly. Putting aside everything else, just considering the surface meaning, it seemed particularly ominous in the context of this domain.

“These three divinations were all for her, and all three were death divinations, very dangerous, with an extremely small chance of survival.” The boy raised his chin at Li Yinghe: “But I’m not quite sure what they correspond to yet.”

"There are two possibilities now."

The boy said, "First, it's very simple: she's about to be haunted by a water ghost, but we don't know which one it is."

"Secondly, someone is setting her up."

The boy pointed to the marks drawn on the tree branch: "There are overlapping ridges, and a series of traps are waiting for her."

“Li Bi has encountered a ghost,” Wan Xiaoshuang suddenly said. “She might want Li Yinghe to be her scapegoat.”

"what?"

The boy was taken aback: "When did this happen?"

"Before class this afternoon," Wan Xiaoshuang said calmly, "she can't hide anything, I could tell."

She has always had a strong ability to observe.

It wasn't just Li Bi and Wan Chengzhong spying on her... Wan Xiaoshuang was also secretly observing their every move.

That's why she didn't go to find Teacher Zhan with Chen Ji.

Wan Xiaoshuang didn't go into details, only saying that she noticed Li Bi's complexion was very bad at noon, so she hurriedly went to find Wan Chengzhong, and then threw out a bottle of water that she had only taken a sip of.

"And another thing," Wan Xiaoshuang added, "I noticed that Li Bi asked a few questions about Hong Tian's condition."

“This is completely different from her previous attitude towards Hong Tian. She didn’t care at all at first.”

This is very likely because Li Bi was also haunted by a ghost and wanted to use Hong Tian's changes as a reference.

The boy thought for a moment, then picked up the copper coin and threw it on the ground six times.

His brows furrowed and then relaxed.

“Li Bi’s divination also indicates great misfortune,” the boy murmured.

This indirectly confirms Wan Xiaoshuang's guess.

The two then informed the children's group about the change in weather, and seeing that the three of them seemed to have something to say, they left first.

"What do you think?"

As it grew dark, Wan Xiaoshuang asked.

"Something's not right," Chen Ji said directly.

If Li Bi had truly chosen Li Yinghe as her substitute, that would be somewhat illogical.

Logically speaking, if Li Bi were to make a move, she should have chosen herself.

why?

This is very unusual; the fact that they didn't take action against him suggests an even bigger conspiracy.

"Our problem now is that we don't know if the card Wan Chengzhong has is actually useful."

Chen Ji analyzed, "Huang Ying eventually died, and that card was taken from a ghost. If it were really useful, why would the ghost have died in life?"

"Ah."

Wan Xiaoshuang nodded: "Moreover, I've been thinking about something."

"Don't you feel..." Her eyes narrowed slightly, "that this domain has been forcing us to kill each other?"

Is this reasonable?

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I got up in the middle of the night to write a chapter

It's so strange, ever since I started writing this domain, I've been having nightmares every day, what's going on? (Alert)