usatvline Chapter 568 (2 chapters combined) [Domain·Double Gate] Nested Structure
Chapter 568 (2 chapters combined) [Domain·Double Gate] Nested Structure
It really is Zhou Liang!
The last sentence on the phone directly confirmed Feng Yao's suspicions.
But before she could think about it, everything went black.
Time seemed to flow again.
The eerie ghost was still pressed against Zhou Liang's face, whispering in his ear, as if the scene of him speaking to Feng Yao earlier had been forcibly spliced together.
Consciousness rapidly faded...
The last scene that remained in Feng Yao's memory was seeing Zhou Liang slowly raise his hand and numbly point to his eyes, as if confirming something with the ghost.
......
......
"call!"
Feng Yao suddenly opened her eyes!
Her consciousness suddenly cleared, much clearer than when she was in Zhou Liang's body, and her whole body felt lighter.
Sunlight pierced her eyes, something wet brushed against her face, and then Feng Yao heard Bai Shaohua's familiar voice:
"Ok?"
"Feng Yao is awake!"
The big yellow dog poked Feng Yao's face with its muzzle, reminding her that she was now safe.
She's in the Splendid Garden...?
It was already light outside.
Feng Yao turned her head in confusion and saw a pair of paper figures floating over. They were Chen Ji and Fei'er.
I'm awake... So I was just dreaming?
No, that's not right. It all felt too real, like she had experienced it herself. She could clearly recall every detail.
“How did I get here?” she asked immediately.
The events that had just transmigrated her made it difficult for her to let her guard down. The first thing she did was check her body to make sure she hadn't transmigrated into Zhou Liang's body again.
"We brought you here."
Phil said, "I can't stay at the funeral supply store anymore."
"Huh?" Feng Yao was taken aback. What about those two people in the mourning clothes group?
A moment later, she sat up, still processing the information she had received.
Although only a few hours had passed since Feng Yao fell into a coma, too much had already happened.
After being cursed, she was chosen by the lurking demon mother to become the mother, and was then ambushed and lost consciousness.
Then Luo Weicheng rescued her, but Wu Hui was still being parasitized by the two ghosts... In order to prevent the ghost mother from coming again, everyone moved to Jinxiu Garden before the Bashe became ineffective.
Luo Weicheng seems to have found a way now, and went to the beauty salon alone, but has not yet sent a message.
"I thought you weren't going to wake up."
Bai Shaohua's voice sounded weak and listless, like a deflated balloon.
But Feng Yao glanced at him and sensed something else in his sarcastic remark.
"why?"
After a few seconds of silence, Chen Ji said, "Before we left the funeral home, we received a letter from the mourning group."
"The ghost in Zhou Liang's house called them... tricking them into 'warning' you that you will die tonight."
It was the middle of the night, and no one could be sure what time tonight actually referred to.
The ghost in Zhou Liang's house!
The ghost's eerie image immediately flashed through Feng Yao's mind.
She recalled once again the terrifying malice that rushed straight at her, and goosebumps immediately rose on her arms.
"What's wrong?" Phil keenly sensed that something was amiss.
“I…” Feng Yao struggled to find the words, her mind a jumbled mess: “I just saw it—Zhou Liang, and Zhou Liang, I saw both of them!”
"Saw it?"
Chen Ji was taken aback: "You mean when you were unconscious?"
"Correct."
Feng Yao briefly gathered her thoughts.
After blindfolding herself, she told everyone what had happened.
Before this, Zhou Liang's background was shrouded in mystery, yet it was intricately connected to all the curses.
Feng Yao's recent experience has dispelled the deepest fog.
The core of the entire second door is Zhou Liang; he is the most crucial link among everyone!
"So, the very beginning was many years ago when Zhou Liang was driven to suicide by gambling debts."
Chen Ji thoughtfully concluded, "When he committed suicide, he encountered the ghost you mentioned."
That's how everything that followed began.
Feng Yao's experience this time provides an important clue as to how the entire curse works.
Chen Ji took out a pen, drew a circle on the paper, and sorted out his thoughts.
“It’s actually a nested structure,” he said. “Like the Ghost Mother and Wu Hui, it’s layered inside another.”
The outermost circle represents the great demon's wish.
The specific content of the wish is unknown, but in order to achieve its goal, the ghost contacted Zhou Liang, who was dying in despair, and manipulated him in the name of "I can fulfill your wish".
Then comes the middle layer, Zhou Liang's wish.
Zhou Liang most likely made more than one wish to this ghost.
The demon helped him change his fate and make his wishes come true, but he also had to "fulfill his vow".
The ghost once said, "There are six things that you (Zhou Liang) can help me find..."
This is the price Zhou Liang has to pay.
Thus, one enters the innermost circle, which is the background story of the one who continues their wish within the realm.
Chen Ji named it: [Six Wishes]:
【paper man】
The person making the wish: The ghost of the wife; Wish: To exorcise the ghost.
[Red Bowl]
The person making the wish: The ghost of the wife; Wish: To exorcise the ghost.
【incense burner】
Wisher: Zhang Wei; Wish: To resolve medical malpractice cases.
【Ghost Eye】
The source of this curse is different from others; all that is known now is that the blind man and the ghost wife were both afflicted by this curse.
A blind person's wish is most likely to be to become famous or to make money.
[Mourning Attire]
Wisher: Ma Zhao, Wish: To resurrect the child.
Ren Yu's Theater Curse
Wisher: Zhang Wei; Wish: To silence Li Changming.
"That's about it."
After Chen Ji systematically organized everything, he connected the innermost circle with the outermost one:
"Whether it's the six sources of the curse or these six people, everything they've done is for the service of Zhou Liang's ghost."
The only question is what the ghost's specific purpose was.
But in any case, one thing Feng Yao is certain of.
“That ghost… let’s call it the Big Ghost.” Feng Yao casually picked out a name, her brows furrowed. “The reason it lured Du Tingfeng and Xu Sandao was because of me.”
"It's trying to prevent me from reliving Zhou Liang's experience."
It's not hard to guess, after all, the ghost seemed to have been possessed, suddenly saw Feng Yao, and emitted extremely terrifying malice towards her.
But the most terrifying thing is that it knows Feng Yao, which means that it discovered Feng Yao from the present moment, across time and space!
"If you see it, does that mean it sees you...?"
After listening to Feng Yao's words, Chen Ji muttered to himself.
This ability only appears in a few vengeful spirits, and almost all of them are related to the source corpse, such as the monk ghost in Black Mountain or the mountaineering team in the Ghost Infant Tomb.
Of course, this isn't absolute. For example, the ghosts in the Three Monkey Domain also gave Chen Ji a similar feeling.
The pen tip tapped lightly on the table as Chen Ji stared at the structural diagram, his gaze fixed on the [Ghost Eye].
This curse is different from the others.
But before discussing the Ghost Eye, Chen Ji finally found an answer to a question that had been bothering him for a long time.
"Zhou Liang went to the funeral home because of the paper figures."
Chen Ji said, "He may have created this curse."
"make?"
Feng Yao was taken aback.
“Yes.” Chen Ji nodded.
On the surface, the paper figures were made by a funeral home, but here's the problem:
How did an ordinary paper figure become a curse? There must be the involvement of a powerful ghost and Zhou Liang in this.
It's probably mainly due to the power of the Great Demon.
"Then there's the Demon Eye."
Looking at Feng Yao's eyes covered by a cloth, Chen Ji slowly said, "The reason you were able to transmigrate to Zhou Liang is very likely because Ghost Eye saw Ghost Eye itself."
"The Ghost Eye can turn what it sees into reality, which is why you saw that giant eye in the unfinished building..."
Chen Ji's tone was somewhat subtle: "Just like you said, you exploited a bug."
But why does this bug allow Feng Yao to enter Zhou Liang's memories?
"I think it's possible that those two ghost eyes are actually... transformed from Zhou Liang's own eyes."
There are two main reasons for reaching this conclusion:
First, it was Feng Yao's last impression before she woke up.
After hearing "help me find six things," Zhou Liang's first action was to point to his own eyeballs.
Secondly, Chen Ji recalled a very serious conflict they had at the hotel!
The reason everyone was able to leave room 309 was because Zhou Liang lent out "his eyeballs".
But when he was trapped in the elevator, Chen Ji saw Zhou Liang's appearance with his own eyes.
No eyes!
There was only a mouth on her face; the rest of her face was blank.
Since it wasn't on his face, but could move, Chen Ji had to connect his eyes with the Ghost Eyes.
"It's a pity we didn't check it carefully at the time..."
Chen Ji murmured, "If we look closely, we might find that those two eyes don't even have pupils."
After listening to Chen Ji's analysis, Liu Zi and Bai Shaohua's expressions changed immediately.
Now that the door has reached its later stages, regarding the various sources of the curses, everyone agrees that mourning clothes and ghost eyes are the two most bizarre.
One directly caused Huang Yue's death, and the other forced Du Tingfeng and Xu Sandao into the underworld, from which they have not been able to escape to this day.
In the hotel, the two eyeballs they had put in their pockets turned out to be ghost eyes.
Chen Ji even pressed his eyeballs against his eyelids...
"...I feel like even though we know the backstory now, we still don't have a good feeling about it," Liu Zi murmured.
He was referring to the incident where Zhou Liang demanded the documents.
In an instant, many terrifying speculations flashed through everyone's minds. In fact, even Chen Ji had wondered if he had been unintentionally cursed by Zhou Liang with the Ghost Eye.
However, he quickly calmed down, after all, if he was really affected, there was no reason why the pen wouldn't notice.
"There's another contradiction."
Fei'er turned around lightly and pointed to her blood-red lips: "Isn't Zhou Liang mute?"
"But why can he still talk?"
"To be precise, it was [he claimed to be mute]."
Chen Ji patiently corrected him.
They didn't actually have any concrete evidence to prove that Zhou Liang was mute, since it would be too easy to fake that he couldn't speak.
"Oh."
Phil didn't understand: "Then what good will doing this do for him?"
This straightforward question left Chen Ji speechless for a moment.
He doesn't know either.
But this is indeed a very important question because it directly relates to one point:
Was Zhou Liang truly unable to speak, or did he choose to remain silent?
The former is a rigid restriction, like that of a little monkey.
The latter requires further investigation, perhaps because it brings him some kind of benefit.
Considering that Zhou Liang's entire facial features had disappeared, leaving only his mouth, Chen Ji couldn't help but elevate the importance of this issue to another level.
The sheer volume of information analyzed had caused Chen Ji's head to swell.
"call."
He couldn't help but rub his temples, but all he heard was a rustling sound as his fingertips touched a thin piece of paper.
"...You've forgotten that I'm still a paper doll."
Under Fei'er's direct gaze, Chen Ji awkwardly lowered his hand.
My actions just now were like a robot drinking water—unnecessary and a bit silly.
After thinking for a moment, he looked at Liu Zi:
"what time is it now?"
The other person weakly raised their hand, glanced at their watch, and said, "Nine o'clock."
nine in the morning.
There are still three hours before Chen Ji and Fei'er return to human form.
There are still fifteen hours until Liu Zi and Bai Shaohua resolve the red bowl issue.
This also means that they had to endure such a long period of extreme hunger...
Chen Ji's heart sank slightly.
At the same time, he thought of something else.
Bai Shaohua, the solution of the Six Sons Group was at midnight, which means it was already the third day.
The last sentence in Du Tingfeng's message was:
See you every day?
See you tomorrow?"】
This was the last sentence in the phone call from the big ghost.
Chen Ji believes it means "See you tomorrow".
He had a premonition long ago that both Feng Yao's death omen and the paper doll's last chance to retain its human form would happen tomorrow.
Are they going to see the Great Demon tomorrow?
but.....
According to Feng Yao, the giant ghost appeared in the mirror from beginning to end.
She had never seen or felt this ghost in reality.
Moreover, Du Tingfeng also said that Da Gui's call was not a "real call," but rather like a telepathic transmission, as the phone line was not even plugged in at the time.
In any case, we'll only know tomorrow.
Shaking his head slightly, Chen Ji realized that he had become very proficient in controlling the cardboard head. He would no longer be able to rotate 180 degrees with the slightest movement, as he had done at the beginning.
Bringing my thoughts back, I realized they don't have much free time left.
"Any news about Luo Weicheng?"
Chen Ji asked again.
still none.
Several hours have passed since Luo Weicheng entered the beauty salon, and he has not replied to any messages.
I can't get through on the phone either...
Everyone fell silent. This most likely meant one thing: Luo Weicheng had already fallen under the curse of the incense burner.
And Wu Hui, whose fate remains unknown to this day.
Just then, Chen Ji suddenly coughed lightly, as if he had thought of something.
He fumbled around on the table for a moment, then pulled out a crumpled piece of paper and handed it to Feng Yao:
"Is this your painting?"
"It fell out of your pocket when Liu Zi carried you here earlier."
His gaze lingered on the little black-haired figure in the painting for a few seconds, then paused and suddenly asked:
What is it holding in its hand?
"screwdriver?"