Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

Chapter 528 [Domain - Second Gate] Empty Room

"Are these two children the two paper figures from cell 309?"

"Correct."

Chen Ji nodded and put the photo down: "You can't see it; only ghosts can see it."

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but think of Wei Gu. If that person were also in this domain, it probably wouldn't be so difficult for them to prove their identities.

However, this photo does prove that his previous guess was correct.

There is a connection between the first door and the second door.

The connection might not lie with the ghost, but with something "outside"!

Zhou Liang once said that the two paper figures were not guests of the hotel.

Later, the gravedigger's log proved that the paper figure was already a ghost as soon as it appeared, and it even killed an outsider (a blind man) and dragged him into the cemetery.

Did the blind man turn these two children into paper figures? Chen Ji felt something was wrong.

The main problem now is that there can obviously be more than one paper figure.

This doesn't seem like a ghost, it seems more like a curse...

Once targeted, one will eventually die and be completely transformed into a new paper doll.

While pondering, he glanced at the layout and realized that this was indeed the home of the two children.

Three bedrooms, two children's rooms, one for a boy and one for a girl.

Fei'er went to search her daughter's room, while Chen Ji first went to check out the master bedroom.

He wanted to know if the twins' parents were still alive.

There was a thin layer of dust on the floor of the master bedroom, indicating that no one had been here for some time. As soon as Chen Ji entered the room, he saw a photo hanging above the bed.

It was a woman holding two small babies.

Like the previous kindergarten group photo, this one also has a pale, white glow.

Chen Ji immediately sensed that something was wrong.

This photo... looks like it's been edited.

First of all, there are only three people in this photo. The child is still on the woman's lap, but the woman's gaze is lingering on the upper left.

Her hand was also on her shoulder.

It felt like there was an unseen person standing next to her, with their arm around her shoulder.

It's obvious he should be the child's father, but why is his presence erased from the photo?

He looked around and found a photo album, but what was even stranger was that there wasn't a single photo of their father in this album that recorded the children's growth!

But in every photo, whether it's the child's actions or the woman's expression, it's clear that the father was present!

Who could be the father?

It must be related to ghosts...

Chen Ji couldn't help but think of blind people, but he immediately dismissed the idea because this place didn't look like a house a blind person would live in; there were quite a few odds and ends scattered around.

After taking the photo album and confirming that there were no identification documents in the master bedroom, he turned and went to the boy's room.

The place is decorated very warmly, and you can tell that the children's parents love them very much.

The walls were covered with crayon drawings by children, and everything was arranged neatly...

It could even be said to be a bit too neat.

There was absolutely no trace of life there.

It's like when a child leaves home for college, their parents tidy up their room, and then never go back in.

"In other words, assuming the parents in this family really died, they died after the child's accident."

The funeral must have been completed before anything else happened, which left the house empty.

Chen Ji seemed to be deep in thought. He quickly searched the place but found nothing unusual; it was all children's stuff.

But just as he was about to leave the house, a strange feeling suddenly flashed through his mind, as if he had seen something very common, but different from reality.

He turned his head and took another careful look.

When his gaze swept across the wall for the second time, Chen Ji finally realized that something was wrong.

It's a child's drawing.

I drew a bunch of things: the sun, grass, houses...

But the colors in these paintings are wrong.

Chen Ji slowly approached the crayon drawing of the house. It was a distant view and the drawing was very simple.

A house, a tree, a road—it's that simple.

But why is this house white?

It wasn't that the child didn't color it; rather, he specifically used a white crayon to color it over.

The chosen colors are very cool, and the house's shape is also strange. It's not a typical residential building in Daping City, but a two-story European-style villa that looks crooked, as if it had been blown askew by the wind...

There are no windows.

A strange suspicion began to form in his mind, but he couldn't be sure, so he looked ahead.

I saw a child's drawing of a horse-drawn carriage.

It's already strange enough that a child would draw an ancient carriage like this, but what's even more eerie is that the carriage and horses he drew are all white!

The form is extremely stiff; even in a painting, it appears flimsy and unnatural.

Upon seeing this, Chen Ji's heart stirred. He was now certain that the boy had drawn paper carriages and paper houses, offerings to be burned during ancestral rites!

That is, the items in funeral supply stores.

Why did he draw these? Was it related to the funeral home where Xu and Du worked, or was it related to being replaced with paper figures?

Finally, his gaze fell upon the last crayon drawing.

This painting is the only one where the colors are completely flawless.

The structure is a bit strange.

At first glance, it appears to be a black background with the word "非" (fei) written on it.

Only upon closer inspection can one discover that it is a road in the dark.

A road made up of many intersections.

Right in the middle of this road is a short, squat traffic light standing on the ground...

No matter how Chen Ji looked at it, this painting seemed very familiar.

"Fei'er," he called out, and after a while, Fei'er floated over.

Have we been here before?

Fei'er glanced at it and nodded.

"It looks like the place where Liu Zi and Bai Shaohua got off the bus."

"Any questions?"

"..."

Chen Ji's heart sank suddenly.

"of course."

"Where were there so many intersections when the hearse left from there?"