Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

Chapter 419 [Domain·Drowning] The True Story (1)

It was the height of summer, and dawn broke early; the school was eerily quiet.

Many puddles remain on the loess slope, but the large-scale floodwaters have receded.

A corner downstairs in the teaching building.

The boy squatted on the ground, fiddling with a clump of soaked paper.

There were obvious traces of writing on it, but they had long since blurred into black smudges, making it impossible to read anything.

"This place is very close to where Zhu Guang jumped out of the window."

Wan Xiaoshuang said, "Zhu Guang is completely deaf. Assuming he has been here before, did someone write on paper and communicate with him?"

This person must know Zhu Guang.

"Teacher Zhan?"

Chen Ji seemed to be deep in thought. They hadn't seen Teacher Zhan in the teaching building last night, so the only possibility was that he was also outdoors.

The three of them were about to go to the teachers' dormitory, but before that, they had to take Hong Tian away first.

Upon returning to the teaching building, the ghost that had been confined to the toilet by the boy was nowhere to be found.

Not only it, but even the members of the remaining two tour groups, and the middle school ghost, are nowhere to be found...

Upon entering the classroom on the second floor, where Chen Ji had hidden Hong Tian, ​​one could see traces of someone being dragged on the floor.

Hong Tian was nowhere to be seen in the classroom.

"Hongtian was taken away by a ghost?"

Tong Zi's heart sank slightly. He took a few steps forward and suddenly saw a note placed where Hong Tian had been standing.

The handwriting on the note was familiar.

I took Hong Tian with me.

[Regardless of who sees this note]

Come find me in Professor Zhan's dorm!

It's Zhu Guang!

It was indeed Teacher Zhan who saved him.

After the floodwaters receded, Zhu Guang must have returned to the teaching building, but he only found Hong Tian. So he took Hong Tian away and left a note behind.

The group rushed to the teachers' dormitory, but it was quiet all around, as if no one was there.

But as the three approached, a bloated figure suddenly appeared beside the window.

It was obvious that Zhu Guang had already noticed their arrival, but because he was unsure whether it was a ghost in disguise, he hid behind the window to peek.

However, he was too fat and was easily spotted by Chen Ji and the other two.

The boy gave a muffled laugh, which quickly turned bitter as he saw Zhu Guang peeking around, as if searching for another figure.

Not long after, Zhu Guang's shoulders slumped, as if he had understood everything.

Pushing open the door, Zhu Guang looked at the boy, and the two gazed at each other in silence.

After a moment, he handed each of them a notebook, indicating that they should communicate in it.

"You're really tough."

The boy glanced at the empty space on either side of Zhu Guang's head and wrote down the words stroke by stroke.

None of them mentioned Li Yinghe.

Write down everything that happened before to Zhu Guang. Now the way out is clear. The domain has reached its final stage. Wan Chengzhong and Li Bi are both dead.

After he finished speaking, the group was about to go inside when Zhu Guang stopped them.

"Before you come in, I have something to tell you."

Zhu Guang opened his mouth, as if he didn't know how to speak, and after a few seconds he looked at Chen Ji:

"Do you remember the story of Huang Ying that Teacher Zhan told yesterday at noon?"

"That story is fake."

Chen Ji's pupils contracted slightly. Before he could ask a question, he heard Zhu Guang say:

"To be precise, part of it is fake."

"That is, the part that Teacher Zhan talked about after he finished telling the story."

In a daze, Chen Ji remembered that Huang Ying's story ended abruptly. Under questioning, Teacher Zhan revealed that Huang Ying had stayed at home afterward, refused to see anyone during home visits, and eventually committed suicide in the river.

"Before Huang Ying died, Teacher Zhan had never met her or visited her home."

Zhu Guang pursed his lips before saying, "Because he was already dead then."

"how is this possible?"

The boy's face changed instantly. Was Teacher Zhan a ghost? But his behavior and how others treated him proved that Teacher Zhan was still alive!

Huang Ying passed away a year ago.

Huang Ying's grandparents mentioned that after her death, Teacher Zhan came to see them; and during that year, apart from Zhang Wenxuan and the junior high school student who died because of the substitution method, the school was very peaceful.

Teacher Zhan also paid for the search for Zhang Wenxuan's body.

His actions were entirely consistent with his identity as a teacher, and the timeline was complete.

But that's the most jarring part.

A ghost...

Is it possible to teach at a school without any malicious intent?

Chen Ji couldn't connect the teacher who bought roast chicken for them and even shared the chicken legs with the students with a ghost.

Ghosts are beings that humans cannot understand.

They have feelings, and they don't. For example, Liu Yunfeng's obsession in Tuotuo Mountain is to find his younger brother; but when his lover violates a taboo, Liu Yunfeng kills her without hesitation.

Even though Huang Ying did spare her life, she still killed her grandparents; Zhang Wenxuan also dismembered Agou.

"and many more."

Wan Xiaoshuang interrupted Chen Ji's thoughts, noticing Zhu Guang's choice of words: "Died?"

"Death is death. Could it be that Teacher Zhan has come back to life?"

This is almost a fantasy. Even if Chen Ji possesses the pen and can change fate, he still cannot truly bring people back to life.

Of all the known strange objects, the one that can "revive" is Chen Yuetan's watch inside Wusu's body. It can reverse 7 seconds of time to save Chen Ji, whose throat has been slit, but that is only on the condition that Chen Ji is not completely dead.

Only things of a higher dimension, such as the Domain River itself, can do this.

After writing down his questions and reading them, a complex look appeared in Zhu Guang's eyes.

"He did not come back to life, but... he did not die completely either."

"It all started with Huang Ying's experience that night."

Even before hearing Teacher Zhan's story, Chen Ji had a vague doubt: Teacher Zhan's retelling was so detailed, as if he had experienced it himself.

But he didn't expect...

He guessed correctly.

Teacher Zhan has indeed experienced all of this.

The night Huang Ying encountered the ghost, he saw her sobbing as she walked into the woods through the dormitory window.

It was getting dark, and it was so dark in the woods that he couldn't see anything. Worried that something might have happened to Huang Ying, he instinctively went out and followed her.

By the river, Teacher Zhan found Huang Ying and learned that her parents were preventing her from continuing her schooling.

High school is not part of compulsory education. It's not that Huang Ying's family can't afford to go to school. Her parents simply think that it's useless for girls to go to school. They think it's better for girls to start working early so they can earn money for the family a few years earlier.

In the end, Teacher Zhan reassured Huang Ying that he would sponsor her studies and that she should continue her education no matter what.

It was already late at night, so Teacher Zhan decided to take Huang Ying home first...

But they got lost in the woods.