Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

Chapter 224 [Domain·Tuotuo Mountain] Helmet Ghost Dies, Gathering Scrap Materials

Not long after...

Chen Ji had already seen the long, dusty line of people.

And among them, the most conspicuous yellow safety helmet.

A strange feeling suddenly flashed through his mind, as if something was not right.

This wasn't a sixth sense, nor was it an intuition like a death warning...

Instead, it was a sense of conflict that didn't match my memories.

Chen Ji frowned and silently moved toward the crowd, who were only a few steps away from the well entrance.

The helmeted ghost still stood at the very front of the line with the child.

Chen Ji whispered in Lao Sun's ear, "When that person turns around, pull Si Yan and the others over, and I'll go hug Da Qiang."

This is because Daqiang is closest to the helmeted ghost, making him more dangerous.

Old Sun nodded, his hands trembling, but his eyes were fixed on his son.

Chen Ji took the little monkey out again.

After running errands several times, the little monkey's expression gradually became ferocious, and that long-absent look of resentment resurfaced on its face.

Chen Ji flicked his finger, tossing a small metal bead to the little monkey.

The monkey doll gave him a cold look.

The metal bead remained on the ground, unpicked up.

He turned the scarf over, revealing several gold beads embedded in it; the material was clearly different from the one Chen Ji had given him.

"..."

Chen Ji changed the subject.

A few seconds later, the little monkey looked at Xiao Yu, who was trembling all over in the crowd, and slowly darted away.

"call....."

Chen Ji felt a sense of relief.

He calmed down, and his body began to tense up.

soon.....

Less than ten seconds later, a strange noise was heard, and the switch on the cage, which had been rising halfway up, was suddenly pressed to stop it.

However, what happened next was completely different from what Chen Ji had expected!

Chen Ji's heart skipped a beat.

Apart from Xiaoyu and a few others, no one else reacted at all!

Most importantly, even the helmeted ghost seemed completely unconcerned and walked straight ahead!

The bespectacled man beside him was just a few steps away from falling into the well.

Gritting his teeth, Chen Ji could only give Old Sun a wink before rushing forward!

If the death warning doesn't appear, it means there's no fatal crisis within ten seconds, so why not take a gamble!

In the blink of an eye, Chen Ji darted to the front of the group, grabbed Da Qiang, and was about to turn and leave!

wow-

A gust of wind blew.

Chen Ji suddenly felt a gentle pat on his shoulder.

From the rear.

And the helmeted ghost... the yellow hard hat was still in front of him.

and many more......

Chen Ji suddenly realized that something was wrong.

crunch--

The dry sound of joints turning rang out, and the "helmeted ghost" in front of Chen Ji turned around like a puppet on strings.

Chen Ji recognized his face.

His eyes were vacant, his face numb... He was a miner from the neighboring cave dwelling.

The helmet, without a single trace of blood, was blown to the ground by the wind.

pat.

at the same time.....

Pat-tap-tap—

The same sound came from the cage inside the well.

Chen Ji's brain suddenly exploded!

He suddenly remembered... Helmet Ghost's helmet had long been taken away by Liu Yunfeng and thrown into the cage!

Chen Ji even touched it himself!

And now, there are no cracks or bloodstains on this helmet!

This is not the same roof.

Every time the Helmet Ghost appeared, it was wearing this helmet, just like the clattering of mule hooves before, leaving a very strong psychological suggestion for Chen Ji.

Planting a seed of suggestion...this may be the fundamental reason why it was able to invade Chen Jimeng.

Its ability was so strange that Chen Ji overlooked the anomaly.

Helmet Ghost actually picked up another safety helmet and put it on another miner's head to impersonate him.

And it... has always been hidden among the crowd.

At that moment, Chen Ji's body was twisted backward by a tremendous force.

His eyes suddenly widened.

The person in front of me...

He seemed to have caught a glimpse of it before; it had been covering its face with its collar.

It wasn't until they were at such close range that Chen Ji noticed a dent in the top of the man's head!

The left eye socket was dark, and the eyeball was no longer inside.

Strands of hair were stuck together by a mixture of red and white fluff... that was blood and brain matter.

Under immense force, Chen Ji was unable to move, only able to watch as the figure before him scrutinized him from head to toe, seemingly confirming something...

Confirmation completed.

A red light suddenly flashed in Chen Ji's eyes:

【die! 】

He was horrified to see the ghost slowly pull down its collar... revealing a face bruised and swollen, a crooked nose covered in bruises.

This is Old Sun's face before he died.

Chen Ji suddenly lost sight in his left eye.

At the same time, a sharp pain shot through the back of his head, as if all the harm that the ghost had suffered had been transferred onto him!

Chen Ji instantly recalled the miner ghosts with their sunken skulls, and in that instant, he suddenly shouted:

"Sun Datao—come here!"

The helmeted ghost was taken aback.

Taking advantage of this opening, Chen Ji's body suddenly rammed into the helmeted ghost, as if he had hit a metal plate, and everything went black before his eyes!

The word "death" has been used four times.

This is the final taboo that the Helmet Ghost hides... Anyone who sees his face is doomed.

The reason they weren't used before might have been to spare their lives and allow them to develop into mindless zombies like Lili... But now that Chen Ji has three pieces of trash in his hands, death is inevitable.

His whole body felt like it had been brutally beaten, and he was in excruciating pain, but he had already achieved his goal.

Old Sun's voice slowly rang out.

He stood there, stunned, staring in disbelief at the helmeted ghost's body that had been knocked aside.

And that face that clearly didn't belong to a living person.

Why do you... look just like me?

【die】

Five seconds left to die.

Just then, Chen Ji suddenly felt a lightness in his body, and all the pain in his body and the indentation at the back of his head instantly disappeared!

The death warning suddenly disappeared.

At the same moment, he heard footsteps coming from not far away; someone was running urgently towards him!

It's Xu Sandao!

Chen Ji was stunned.

how come?

He has already violated a taboo that guarantees death, so how did Xu Sandao—

The next second, Chen Ji's gaze suddenly sharpened. He no longer saw any glowing object in Xu Sandao's hand.

Instead, it was a piece of black cloth.

It sways in the wind in my hand.

Is this... a strange object?

Before Chen Ji could react, he heard Old Sun ask another question:

"I... am dead?"

The helmeted ghost remained silent, then abruptly pulled up his collar to cover his face.

After a moment, he stiffly shook his head.

Old Sun's eyes became extremely unfocused.

His mind seemed completely muddled. He touched his face, took a few more steps forward, and approached the helmeted ghost.

Chen Ji's breath hitched for a moment, and Xu Sandao, who was not far away, also stopped in his tracks.

In the utter silence...

Snap, snap.

A small figure suddenly emerged from behind the helmeted ghost, staggering out.

Without hesitation, he walked towards Old Sun.

It was his son, Sun Daqiang... He reached out his hand to Old Sun, as if to give him a hug.

Old Sun's body jolted violently.

His eyes briefly regained their focus, and his hands trembled as he pulled his son into his arms...holding him very, very tightly.

A few seconds later, Daqiang suddenly touched Lao Sun's face.

"Dad... two."

what?

Chen Ji was taken aback.

Daqiang repeated it again. He was only two years old and didn't know many words, so he spoke with great difficulty.

"Dad... is cold."

The short finger poked Old Sun's skin.

My father's body is cold.

Chen Ji suddenly realized what he was talking about.

The moment he heard it clearly, Old Sun's eyes widened suddenly, and his skin visibly turned pale—

It was like a corpse that had been dead for many days.

At the same time, a strong stench of corpses silently drifted into Chen Ji's nose.

"Old Sun... has finally confirmed that he is dead."

Chen looked at all of this with a very complicated expression.

The helmeted ghost stood frozen in place, its body gradually disintegrating...

This was something Chen Ji hadn't expected; he had thought that the helmet ghost would only disappear if it took the scrap material with it.

He couldn't help but think to himself, Old Sun and the Helmet Ghost seemed to have a symbiotic relationship.

As Old Sun's eyes gradually dimmed, he returned to the state he had at the time of his death...

A glowing object slowly emerged from his chest.

The last piece of scrap material appeared.