Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

Chapter 597 [Domain - Second Gate] Deep into the Underworld

The red light illuminated the center of the crossroads, staining the pale paper horses and sedan chairs with a layer of blood.

It's like a scene from a horror movie...

Even while hiding inside the sedan chair, Wu Hui couldn't ignore the red light piercing through the paper walls, and a sense of unease instinctively rose in her heart.

The metal pen tip gently pricked her.

Forcing herself to remain calm, Wu Hui silently reached for the sedan curtain, following the pen she had written earlier, before withdrawing her hand a few seconds later.

No one noticed that a card slid out of the sedan chair through the gap...

My gaze shifted to the two silent figures inside the sedan chair.

Wu Hui swallowed silently, relieved that Feng Yao couldn't see anything right now.

Since leaving the group of ghosts, the two expressionless ghosts have been leaning forward, their heads craning, and their faces, which are covered by cloth, are only a few centimeters away from Feng Yao's!

The sedan chair did not stop.

Because the paper horse is still moving forward.

An unsettling rustling sound came from the intersection where they had just arrived.

Outside the sedan chair, Chen Ji quickly calmed down and used his peripheral vision to observe the situation on the side as much as possible.

[Substitute Death Method] Just as he expected, the paper sedan chair drifted past the lamppost and floated in front of Liu Zi, who picked it up.

But Liu Zi only paused briefly before putting the substitute death method into his pocket. He then immediately moved closer to Bai Shaohua, and the two of them pressed themselves together and squatted down at the same time.

What is this doing?

Before Chen Ji could react, he saw Liu Zi stretch out his arm and scatter the ashes from the red bowl around him.

This process was clearly very painful for Liu Zi; his arms were stiff and unnatural, as if he were fighting against his instincts.

As the paper horse gradually moved out of the traffic light area, Chen Ji's field of vision continued to shrink.

The last thing he saw was several dark figures reflected on the ground, constantly approaching.

The group of ghosts that had stopped gradually approached Liu Zi and his companion.

Chen Ji and his three companions, however, were unable to resist continuing forward.

"They scattered ashes around themselves..."

Looking away, Chen Ji immediately pieced together everything he had just seen.

Even though their meeting was brief, he could tell that Liu Zi and Bai Shaohua seemed to have foreseen everything that had just happened.

Their method of coping was to scatter paper ash.

"...It's very similar to sprinkling lime powder outside the tent to repel insects when camping in the wild..."

After a moment's thought, Chen Ji understood Liu Zi and Bai Shaohua's line of thinking.

This is a "ghost summoning ritual"!

What is attracting ghosts?

What could possibly have such a powerful allure for a ghost, like a curse?

Paper ash!

And human flesh and blood.

In the original curse of the Red Bowl group, once the ashes are consumed, the demon will begin to eat people.

So the reason Liu Zi did this was to make the paper ash a barrier, just like the nut in Plants vs. Zombies. After eating the paper ash, the ghost would not be able to harm him and Bai Shaohua.

In other words, it's a disguised way of delaying the process.

“But this curse cannot be lifted so easily.” Chen Ji knew this.

Based on the previous situation, the red light should indicate that the ghost starts attacking, and the red light should indicate that the ghost retreats.

So the problem is either that the red light lasts too long or that there isn’t enough ashes. In any case, it’s impossible for Liu Zi and his companion to last for an hour.

So we still need to find a way to solve the root cause.

That is, to find Xu Sandao and obtain the cinnabar chopsticks, which is the missing part of the red bowl that everyone had previously deduced.

But the surrounding buildings were unfamiliar, and he didn't know exactly where in Daping City they corresponded to, or how far they were from Xu Sandao and his companion...

Just as Chen Ji was pondering, he suddenly felt the reins under his hand move slightly.

Immediately afterwards, his whole body swayed uncontrollably, and the paper horse suddenly changed direction, turning into a side alley!

Chen Ji's vision suddenly blurred.

Then, he suddenly realized that they were not in the alley, but in an empty square.

Like the roads before, this place also gives people a desolate feeling, as if everything is covered with a layer of frost.

“Central Square…” Chen Ji immediately memorized the location.

He realized that in the underworld, in the city of Taiping, space was chaotic.

A few minutes later, the paper horse, carrying the paper sedan chair, turned toward the exit of the square.

The scene changed once again.

Next location, and then another...

Chen calmly noted down every entrance and exit.

Until the fourth turn.

Familiar buildings suddenly came into Chen Ji's view; this was the street near the funeral home!

But the moment he entered the street, an unprecedented sense of drifting suddenly swept over Chen Ji's entire body. He felt like a feather, unable to control himself as he drifted northward.

Something was calling to him... and Phil.

There was no panic; the feeling had always been there, but it had suddenly amplified dozens of times, making it impossible to ignore.

This only proves that we've reached our destination on this journey between the living and the dead.

However, not long after, the thing that truly worried Chen Ji happened.

The funeral supply store was less than 100 meters away, yet the paper horse showed no sign of slowing down!

It's obvious it doesn't intend to stay here.

"As paper figures, shouldn't Fei'er and I join Xu Sandao and Du Tingfeng in the mourning ceremony?"

A terrifying thought flashed through Chen Ji's mind.

As previously estimated, they would definitely meet with Xu and Du first, since the other party was the center of the mourning ceremony.

But the fact that paper horses are no longer found in funeral supply stores likely indicates...

The white light shone through the glass of the funeral home, allowing Chen Ji to see clearly that there was no one inside.

Only two black and white portraits were placed on the front desk.

The image above clearly showed the faces of Du Tingfeng and Xu Sandao, their eyes closed and their faces deathly pale, as if they were photographs of corpses!

"Oh no, the mourning has already begun!"

Chen Ji suddenly realized this, and just as they passed the funeral home, a mournful cry rang out in everyone's ears without warning.

At first it was just a soft sob.

But as the paper horse continued forward, the crying grew louder and more sorrowful, making one's blood vessels feel as if they were about to freeze.

Until the next turn.

No one felt the familiar sense of disorientation. This turn did not lead to another space, but was simply a change in orientation.

They turned north.

The paper horse stopped at the very moment it entered the street.

In the sedan chair.

Wu Hui and Feng Yao were both startled, and the sedan chair they were in also stopped at the same time, about to fall to the ground.

But just then, the sedan chair was suddenly caught steadily by several hands.

"Someone has picked up the sedan chair!"

Wu Hui felt a chill run down her spine. How could there possibly be anyone here? It could only be ghosts carrying a sedan chair!

She didn't know what was happening outside, but the deafening wailing all around her sent chills down her spine, making her feel an even stronger sense of crisis than before.

Outside the sedan chair...

They're all ghosts!

But just then, the familiar itch in my palm returned, and I wrote at lightning speed.

【quick】

[Alighting from the sedan chair]