Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

Chapter 505 [Domain - First Gate] 309 (4)

It's not a ghost; it makes no sound when it moves.

Rather, it never moved at all, from beginning to end!

The ghost was under the bed the whole time, but Faye couldn't see it.

Huang Yue once said that the paper figure's path was very strange; after lingering by the bed for a while, it didn't check anything but went straight to the dressing room...

In other words, it wasn't Phil who made them stop.

It's another ghost.

A ghost that cannot be seen, even Phil didn't notice it.

That's the middle-aged man with the hoarse voice!

This coincides with Huang Yue's previous speculation.

After confirming it, he thought for a moment and whispered, "The reason the ghost hasn't made a move is because we're too far away from it?"

Huang Yue believes that the ghost may be trapped under the bed, and Fei'er is the unlucky one who just happened to be hiding there.

“The probability is very low,” Chen Ji said. “This constraint is too strict. If it is true, we can solve the problem simply by avoiding the area under the bed.”

"The most crucial thing now is that the door has disappeared, and we are trapped in 309, so there are two possibilities."

Chen Ji shared his preliminary guess:

"First, the ghost is indeed confined under the bed, but perhaps the opportunity to escape also lies there. So we may have to crawl back under the bed later."

"It's even possible that over time, the ghost will emerge from under the bed and begin hunting."

After a pause, Chen Ji continued, "After all, I saw it with my own eyes, a middle-aged man sitting in the reception room."

"So, secondly, the ghost might not have been trapped under the bed at all. It can move freely, it's just that we haven't violated its taboo... a taboo that we don't know about, but that Phil accidentally triggered."

In any case, only in this way can balance be achieved.

Chen Ji believed that this ghost would not do anything meaningless, and that darkness must be advantageous to it, or rather, it was a condition that allowed it to appear.

The problem is that there is currently no light source.

He had already tried everything—his cell phone, his portable flashlight…everything that could emit light—had stopped working.

Everyone's eyes seemed to be immersed in ink, with only bottomless blackness in sight.

Just like the "don't look" zone of the Three Wise Monkeys.

“That makes sense, but you’ve overlooked one point,” Feng Yao said bluntly. “All the problems you’ve raised are based on the scenario where the door disappears and we can’t get out.”

Is it possible that ghosts don't want us to see something?

"You mean the door?"

“Yes,” Feng Yao said. “This might be taking advantage of our habitual thinking. After all, we’ve already checked it before, so who would want to check it again in the dark?”

Huang Yue felt that this was too simplistic a way to make a living and did not agree with it.

"I'm going to take a look," Feng Yao said. "It won't cause any trouble."

After saying that, she walked forward in the dark.

The layout of the guest room appeared in her mind and gradually became more detailed. Even the luxury suite here was only a little over 100 square meters, and the door was located in the middle of the reception room.

She has excellent physical coordination and is good at handling machinery, which gives her a natural and more acute understanding of the structure and spatial relationships of objects than the average person.

Feng Yao herself is aware of this, and that is her advantage.

Guided by the layout in her mind, she slowly made her way to the center of the reception room without bumping into anything.

Turn around.

That's the direction the door faces. But after the door disappeared, all that remained was a bare white wall.

Soon, Feng Yao touched the cold wall.

She wasn't quite sure of the door's exact location, and her hand groped the wall quite a bit. A few seconds later, her heart suddenly skipped a beat!

My fingertip touched something raised.

Wood.

Door frame!

She was right after all; this ghost bet they wouldn't go to check a second time, and the door had actually appeared!

Feng Yao's breathing gradually quickened, but her hand movements slowed down as she cautiously confirmed the situation.

"It's the same door."

She forgot whether there was a peephole on the door; it probably wasn't, otherwise the light from the hallway would have already spilled in...

A flurry of thoughts flashed through Feng Yao's mind as she touched a raised area—the right side of the door frame.

Slowly move your hand down.

The door handle is right next to the right side of the door frame.

Just then, her hand suddenly stopped; someone was behind her!

Before she could react, a hand grabbed her shoulder and pulled Feng Yao back sharply.

"Do not move."

Chen Ji whispered behind her, enunciating each word clearly: "Stay away from the door."

In the darkness, no one could see that his face was covered in sweat.

He followed Feng Yao out and heard her mutter something, "We found the door."

Is this too easy?

Chen Ji was somewhat suspicious, but just as he was about to reach out to explore, a familiar red light flashed across his pupils.

【die】

A death warning has been issued.

But he didn't do anything at all. The only thing he would do in the next ten seconds was touch the door!

The red text has now disappeared, which indirectly confirms his guess.

"What?" Feng Yao was taken aback, but she did not doubt Chen Ji's words; he must have discovered something.

How long were you touching the door just now?

Chen Ji asked.

"How would I know?" Feng Yao was somewhat speechless: "Twenty seconds?"

Twenty seconds... Chen Ji thought for a moment and asked, "What did you touch just now?"

"I was checking if it was the same door, so I wasn't moving quickly," Feng Yao said. "I was about to touch the handle when you pulled me away."

The problem lies with the handle.

Feng Yao is about to touch the handle, causing the door to malfunction?

Mutation...

Chen Ji frowned, a sense of déjà vu washing over him.

very familiar.

There's only one ghost left now. Fei'er almost died under the bed, but the door in the distance is also a dead end.

Door, bed... doesn't this look just like the landlord in the story of the blind men and the elephant?

No, the landlord can only be incorporated into the furniture, but the door is not furniture.

Does the taboo mean you can't touch anything?

Chen Ji felt he was getting close to the truth: he and Feng Yao hadn't bumped into anything during their escape, so they were still alive.

If that's really the case....

That explains why ghosts would block light sources.

Because in such a dark environment, the chances of them not touching anything are almost zero.

The only way is to stand still and do nothing.

But even with this, we still can't get out!

Chen Ji felt like all paths were blocked. The door was indeed there, but touching it would lead to death.

The ghost is hiding in the darkness.

It has a body, a man with a cane, but it seems to be able to become invisible, or rather, to teleport to any object—

and many more.

crutch?

A sudden thought flashed through Chen Ji's mind. He gestured for Feng Yao not to move, then slowly approached the window sill he remembered, pressing his hands tightly against his sides.

They only need to use their feet to reach it.

Soon, his foot kicked a stick, which rolled on the ground with a dull thud.

Chen Ji picked it up and touched it.

He confirmed his idea.

This is a white cane.