usatvline Chapter 531 [Domain - Second Gate] Continuing the Wish
Chapter 531 [Domain - Second Gate] Continuing the Wish
It was exactly 3:00 AM.
The garbage collector who had eaten Bai Shaohua's flesh shuddered violently, as if a power outage had suddenly restarted.
He seemed unaware of how he ended up there, and looked up in confusion. In the reflection of the glass door, he saw a large, overturned truck behind him...
The ground was covered with crushed flesh and blood.
The screams of extreme terror echoed throughout the entire street.
The news also reached the ears of the people hiding in the dark alley.
"Just as I suspected... it's a curse."
It's a curse that targets only him and Bai Shaohua.
In the silence, Liu Zi sighed with complicated emotions and looked at the map. It had returned to normal and was no longer an endless crossroads.
But this did nothing to make him feel any better.
The ash on their mouths appeared silently, as if they, like the garbage collectors and drunkards, had just eaten ash from red bowls.
This is undoubtedly proof of contamination.
Only now did he finally understand why the garbage collectors had stopped attacking... It was obvious that he and Bai Shaohua had also become part of the curse.
In other words, they are now the same kind of people.
The only good news is that at least they didn't suddenly realize they were holding a red bowl in their hands.
On the other side, Bai Shaohua wiped his mouth and looked at the two paper figures standing opposite him.
The two paper figures, a man and a woman, were expressionless, their faces deathly pale, and they looked extremely eerie.
He already knew what had happened between Chen Ji and Fei'er.
The paper figure swapped bodies with the two of them and tried to lure Liu Zi and his companion to the reading park, but they were unexpectedly stopped by the red bowl.
The paper figures of the "golden boy and jade girl" that they encountered before stumbling upon the red bowl were actually Chen Ji and Fei'er, who rushed over from the twins' house after noticing something amiss.
"Is it impossible for you two to switch back?"
Bai Shaohua asked.
"Not necessarily." Chen Ji shook his head lightly: "It's unlikely they'll simply refuse to let us switch back."
"It's still in the early stages. If I'm not mistaken, the danger of our encounters with ghosts should gradually increase."
This is what he was thinking: of the six teams, three are known to have encountered the ghost:
Feng Yao & Huang Yue: Their deaths are prophesied, and they see their own deaths; a ghost tries to crawl out of the DVD.
Ghosts have no physical form.
No connection has been found with the hotel so far.
Liu Zi & Bai Shaohua: Trapped at the crossroads, every passerby is a vessel for the ghost, and the core source of the curse is the "red bowl".
The person holding the red bowl seems to be unable to control their hunger and will eat the ashes of paper. Once the ashes in the bowl are gone, they will eat people like a hungry beast.
Similarly, ghosts have no physical form.
Then Chen Ji and Fei'er swapped bodies with the paper doll. There was no major danger for the time being, the only risk being that they might not be able to switch back.
After sorting things out, Chen Ji seemed to be deep in thought.
“Our three teams’ ghost encounters actually have one thing in common,” he said slowly. “They all happened in stages. The ghosts didn’t kill us right away; rather, it was as if they were informing us that they had appeared.”
"In other words, assuming this is an arc that goes straight up, we are now at the very bottom... but there's a problem here."
Chen Ji paused for a moment before pointing to Liu Zi and Bai Shaohua.
"Of our three teams, you all exhibit the most pronounced 'curse' characteristics. The question is, how did you all become tainted by this curse?"
“…text message.” Bai Shaohua thought for a moment before saying, “It all started with that text message.”
“No, that’s not what I meant.” Chen Ji shook his head.
"I mean, why are these ghosts targeting us?"
This question surprised everyone present.
"Does it matter?" Bai Shaohua twitched the corner of his mouth and said softly, "Isn't this just like doing missions separately? You split into teams, and each person deals with their own ghost. Which ghost you face is purely a matter of luck."
"On the surface, that's true," Chen Ji said. "But that's not our mission."
He floated to Liu Zi's side and looked at the card in the other's hand.
The hint for the second door is simple: [Make a wish, your wish will be fulfilled, and you will give thanks.]
"If, as we previously suspected, the object of the wish is a ghost, then that would be very strange."
Chen Ji said softly, "No matter what, the beginning was definitely about making a wish, but these ghost encounters had nothing to do with making a wish."
"I'm wondering if we skipped the wishing stage from the beginning, or if someone had already made a wish by the time we arrived?"
Normally, ghosts don't do good deeds for no reason; everything they do is done with malice behind it.
Therefore, once the wish is fulfilled, the ghost will inevitably come to collect the price, which is the stage they are currently experiencing.
"Wait... I'm a little confused." A hint of confusion flashed in Liu Zi's eyes.
"So you mean that before we even entered this door, someone had already made a wish to these ghosts, but we're the ones who have to pay the price?"
"Correct."
"Of course, that's possible. That's the mechanism of this mission..." Chen Ji paused for a moment, "But six teams, corresponding to six different ghosts, plus we were assigned to different locations from the start..."
"So I can only speculate that, like with the first door, we've been assigned roles again."
“Back then, we were interns, and we played the role of the people who made the wishes… So it wasn’t that ghosts came to find us, but rather that as soon as we walked in, we automatically became the people they were looking for.”
As for who made the wish...
The exact same answer came to everyone's mind:
Six special guests at the hotel!
The ghosts of the couple, the ghost in mourning clothes, Zhou Liang, the blind man, and the ghost with its arms raised.
They must have made wishes on something more terrifying, like a meme or a curse, such as paper figures or red bowls, before they died.
It's quite obvious... that Liu Zi and Bai Shaohua are now inheriting the "wish" of the woman in the Ghost Couple story.
For those who enter the realm, they are not making wishes, but continuing their wishes!
"So it was someone else's doing, and we're taking over." After roughly figuring out the situation, Bai Shaohua was speechless.
This means they need to do two things at the same time.
First, it's about survival. A ghost can't just appear once, and the ghost inside this door has no physical form, which means it's more hidden and more dangerous, and could potentially harm someone unexpectedly.
Second, we need to find out the relationships behind the key guests in the hotel and what wishes they made at the time.
That's when.
Liu Zi's phone suddenly rang.
It was a text message from Du Tingfeng. He had created a new group chat, but Chen Ji and Fei'er were not in it.
It was a photograph of an account book, filled with densely packed entries, names, phone numbers, and the like.
Several circles were drawn in red pen.
The name in the circle is familiar:
[Zhou Liang].
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I have the flu and my head is so dizzy, so I'll just post one chapter today.