Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

Chapter 550 [Domain - Second Gate] Ren Yu's Text Message

“Don’t go into the innermost room,” he told himself. “You’ll see it, and it will see you.”

"Who is it?" Ren Yu's voice changed again.

He did not answer himself.

The silk figure seemed to be listening to something. Suddenly, Ren Yu stiffened and took a few steps back.

A few seconds later, a wisp of black smoke suddenly rose from the corner of a small shard of mirror next to where he had been standing.

And from within the smoke, half of a wrinkled face quickly emerged.

A dark eyeball, squeezed into a wrinkled eyelid, slowly turned.

That eyeball is filled with endless malice.

It gives people a creepy feeling; it's shaped like a human eye, but something just doesn't feel right, like a product of some primate's failed evolution.

Ren Yu remained silent; from this angle, his reflection in the mirror couldn't see him.

His body temperature was very low, like a corpse that had just come out of a cold storage, showing no signs of life.

Ren Yu and the silk figure on his shoulder waited quietly until the mirror returned to normal.

"Who is that?"

Ren Yu repeated the question from before.

Then he replied, "Zhou Liang's wish."

As he spoke, he took a step forward with his left foot, then his right, and walked stiffly forward, turning left and entering a room that resembled a study.

There are five photos hanging here.

A bald man, a man with a buzz cut, and a middle-aged man wearing sunglasses.

Ren Yu's eyes slowly slid across their sockets, his gaze lingering for a few seconds on the photo of the man with a fake smile, before a mocking smirk appeared on his lips.

Li Changming.

Then comes the last photo.

A woman with delicate features and large eyes.

He raised his hand, felt around behind the picture frame for a while, and pulled out a piece of paper.

......

The sun had already set.

Chen Ji and Fei'er have returned to the funeral home; they must prepare in advance for the evening's transition.

All of their strange items were stored with Rokuji.

No more letters came back from Du Tingfeng. The two of them only had one sheet of paper money, so they had to use it sparingly.

Now everyone has lost all trust in Ren Yu, especially after Chen Ji suggested that he might have had close contact with the 3014 puppet ghost in the hotel and brought the source of the curse there into the second door.

“It’s even possible that he was manipulated from the very beginning.”

Huang Yue said.

Looking back now, there are many doubts, the most important being that the process of Ren Yu's escape is unclear.

It was only later, because of the Ghostly Constellation Mark, that everyone lowered their guard, but now...

Ren Yu seems to have lost interest in acting.

Chen Ji frowned. They were currently missing clues about Li Changming's side, and the key question was why Li Changming wanted to kill the twins.

Let's work backwards.

If twins are cursed, someone must have made a wish.

According to Ma Zhao's reaction, the people who made the wish were Zhang Wei and his wife, but judging from the current situation, the objects of their wish were the red bowl and the incense burner.

Huang Yue's gaze swept over Chen Ji and Fei'er, and he couldn't help but seem thoughtful.

Twins, a boy and a girl. A perfect pair, both being male and female, naturally corresponding to the ghost couples.

"Is it possible that the ghost couple did initially want to make a wish on the paper figure?"

Huang Yue speculated, "But at the same time, they don't want to die."

"So, perhaps they found someone to die in their place? That is, twins of the opposite sex?"

Chen Ji was slightly taken aback. This guess was quite possible, although the probability of it being a fluke was relatively high.

But it does explain what happened afterward.

Leaving aside the motives and focusing solely on the outcome, the fact that the twins were hanged rather than cursed to death might have prevented their wish from being fulfilled.

So the couple of ghosts found other items to make their wishes.

“Then Li Changming must have maliciously interrupted the attempt at creating the ghost couple for some reason,” Chen Ji continued.

It is called malicious because this method does no good to anyone, and it is not for saving the child, but simply to break the curse.

This may be related to the curse on Li Changming.

Who downloaded it?

Thinking back to that resignation letter, Chen Ji seemed to be deep in thought; Li Changming seemed to know far too much.

Despite not having any clues from Ren Yu, they managed to piece together the most likely background story through a combination of guesswork and deduction.

In short, regarding the ghosts of the husband and wife and the ghost of mourning, except for the wife ghost whose identity remains shrouded in mystery, most of the clues have been clarified...

However, they still didn't feel that the mission was making any progress.

It seems we can only follow the script step by step, continue our wishes, and bear the curse.

But they still had no clue where the door was.

Chen Ji thought for a moment and concluded, "We're still missing the wife ghost and the blind man's side, which we haven't figured out yet."

Mostly blind people.

The ghost had a very strong presence inside the first door, but it seemed to disappear inside the second door.

Huang Yue sighed. Everyone had already deduced that he and Feng Yao were the counterparts to the blind man...

and then?

It didn't help at all.

As the only curse whose origin is unknown, they are more passive than any other group.

The only advantage is the big yellow dog, although it only has a warning function.

Huang Yue looked at the big yellow dog, which was lying beside him, panting heavily.

He looked past the big yellow dog and at Liu Zi and Bai Shaohua, who were sitting alone in the corner.

Huang Yue's lips twitched slightly. To be honest, he was a little afraid of these two people.

They both looked pale and sickly because they hadn't eaten in a long time... At dinner, when everyone was gathered, Liu Zi and Bai Shaohua did try to eat a little something.

But soon, he vomited it all up.

Moreover, what came out was not food, but a pile of wet, almost melted paper ash!

"No matter what you eat, it will all be replaced with paper ash...."

A complex look appeared in Huang Yue's eyes.

If this continues, they will starve to death.

But what really made Huang Yue uncomfortable was that Liu Zi and Bai Shaohua deliberately chose to stay away from the crowd.

They didn't say much.

But everyone present knew that the curse of the red bowl would bring endless hunger. At first, it would be eating paper ash, but if the paper ash was gone... then it would be human flesh.

But at this moment.

Suddenly, Liu Zi's phone beeped twice.

The sender was Ren Yu!

It was a photograph. The photograph showed the face of a woman who was very beautiful, with a shrewd look in her large eyes.

In the background of the photo, there is a place that looks like a kitchen, with broken bowls scattered all over the floor.

But what surprised everyone even more was the text message Ren Yu sent:

[Come to this address.]

[It's that couple's house; the way to break the curse is inside.]