Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

Chapter 386 [Domain·Drowning] Zhu Guang's Ghostly Call

"Is he dying?"

After a moment's thought, Chen Ji immediately asked, "Is his skin gradually turning white, and is he constantly vomiting water?"

“Yes!” Zhu Guang nodded, looking at him with some surprise: “How did you know?”

Chen Ji did not answer, but exchanged a glance with Tong Zi, both of them frowning slightly.

Hong Tian is gradually being replaced.

In other words, his body began to become submerged.

It's very similar to their experience last night, but...

“We experienced something similar last night. The two floating corpses that Hongtian saw, the ones that correspond to us, have come to our door,” the boy explained simply.

"Their method of making those who enter the realm die in place of others is to turn them into drowned ghosts, and the person who dies in place of others will disappear."

"It's a pity, but Ah Gou didn't make it."

The boy spoke calmly, staring at Zhong Ge's face, "Perhaps his strange objects have no effect on this change."

Upon hearing this, Zhong Ge's expression changed slightly. He pushed aside Tong Zi and Chen Ji and looked into the house.

But all that came into view was Teacher Zhan packing up her books and preparing to leave, and three makeshift beds on the floor. The one on the far right still had water stains on it.

“When we woke up, he was gone,” Chen Ji added. “Teacher Zhan also no longer remembers Agou, so we concluded that he must be dead.”

"Pig head."

Tongzi wasn't too concerned about what was going on with Zhong Ge, and asked, "How is Hong Tian doing now?"

"He was lying in bed in great pain, constantly yelling that he was going to die."

"He's still awake?" Chen Ji was taken aback.

That's not right. When they were killed by the drowned ghosts, it was all in a dream.

“Yes,” Zhu Guang said. “He said he didn’t sleep all night and felt very uncomfortable. When it was dawn, he suddenly vomited a large mouthful of river water.”

He thought for a moment before hesitantly saying, "Actually, I felt something was different about Hong Tian yesterday afternoon."

"But he didn't show any unusual behavior at the time."

“His symptoms should have started yesterday after he encountered the ghost,” Chen Ji said thoughtfully. “His skin turned pale in the afternoon, he started feeling unwell at night, mostly feeling like he couldn’t breathe, and he only started vomiting water early this morning… Is the progress that slow?”

But the question now is, why did Hong Tian and A Gou experience similar things, but their deaths were different?

At this moment, Hong Tian was as if he had been given a slow-acting poison. He wouldn't die in a short time, but the countdown to death had already begun. It was just unknown how long he could hold on.

Ah Gou died soon after being taken away by the ghost.

The boy reminded him, "Don't forget, Hong Tian didn't see the drowned ghost that corresponds to him in the first place."

In terms of time, Hong Tian was the first to die in someone else's place, but his progress was slower.

"Oh, right, you pighead," the boy brought up another matter: "The person who took our red schoolbag yesterday was a ghost."

"Her name was Huang Ying. She committed suicide by drowning herself two years ago."

He counted on his fingers: "We each have to face three ghosts now. One is the drowned ghost corresponding to ourselves, one is Huang Ying, and the other is Zhang Wenxuan."

Zhu Guang opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but after glancing at Chen Ji, he closed it again.

"what happened?"

Chen Ji noticed his unusual behavior.

"After we got back to the dorm yesterday... we ran into the two ghosts you mentioned."

Zhu Guang paused for two seconds before recounting his experience from the previous night, saying only that the boiler in the toilet had broken down, causing hot water to leak all over the floor, and that Zhang Wenxuan appeared in the toilet using water as a medium and nearly killed him.

"That ghost kept muttering 'one for one,' wanting me to be his scapegoat."

At this point, he pulled down his collar, lowered his hood, and pointed to his head.

His head was reduced to a chubby ear on the left side, and a dark hole on the other side.

This is undoubtedly a side effect of the strange creature.

"So this strange object can only be used twice at most?" Chen Ji didn't ask any further questions. When Zhu Guang was recounting his experience, he deliberately avoided mentioning the abilities of his strange object.

"After I escaped, I heard other students say that he was washing his face next to the boiler when it collapsed. He saw a figure walk in out of the corner of his eye, and that's when the boiler broke down."

Zhu Guang's throat moved slightly: "He said...it seemed to be a girl, not tall, very thin."

"The footsteps sounded strange, like splashing water with a plastic board."

"Clap!"

"Clap!"

His imitation was so lifelike, it was exactly like the sound Huang Ying's crystal sandals made when stepping on water!

"We believe that Huang Ying sabotaged the boiler to create conditions for Zhang Wenxuan to come to the school," Zhu Guang concluded.

Zhang Wenxuan seems to be able to appear in the water, but he can't get too far away from the water.

"I understand." The boy nodded. "How's Li Yinghe doing?"

As he spoke, he and Zhu Guang walked away into the distance, seemingly to have a private conversation.

Chen Ji glanced at the two of them, then turned and went back into the house.

As they approached the loess slope, the boy stopped, his expression finally turning serious: "You used a ghost call so early in the morning..."

"no way."

Zhu Guang sounded agitated: "I was in the toilet at the time, and in that situation, I only had time to use it."

"Li Yinghe should be fine. I saw her when I came out."

"Which ghost made the call?" the boy asked again.

"I am not sure."

Zhu Guang shook his head, took a deep breath, and said, "I only heard the sound of water rippling on the other end of the phone; the ghost didn't say a word from beginning to end."

“But…” He thought for a moment before saying, “I heard the middle school ghost who came to find me mutter ‘Zhang Wenxuan’ while answering the phone.”

The boy frowned.

He was well aware of the purpose of the ghost call.

【The Ghostly Object - Ghostly Call】 is a B-grade ghostly object, and it plays the most important role in the multi-ghost realm.

It can impersonate other ghosts in the realm to make phone calls and control the ghost the user is facing at that time.

After the ghost call ends, the user will also receive a call, allowing them to eavesdrop on the ghost disguised as the spirit and hear the surrounding sounds at that moment.

The side effects are:

You heard it, and it heard you too.

[I'll charge you an ear as a communication fee.]

Once both ears are harvested by the ghostly call, this eerie object will no longer be usable.

To be precise, this strange object can only be used once at most, because if it is used a second time, the user will become completely deaf, which is undoubtedly fatal in the environment of the domain.

At the same time, the imposter ghost can easily determine the user's location when the second phone call comes in.

However, Zhu Guang deliberately answered the phone in a quiet place, and as he expected, the ghost he was impersonating did not come to find him.

"What I don't understand is why Zhang Wenxuan had to pronounce his own name."

Zhu Guang pondered, "I have a slight suspicion that he might actually be calling out to the ghost on the other side?"

"Could it be that the ghost on the other side is Zhang Wenxuan? And the middle school student ghost that's been chasing us from the beginning isn't him?"

The boy pointed out, "That's very unlikely."

"If he wasn't Zhang Wenxuan, why would he take his schoolbag?"