Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

Chapter 562 [Domain - Second Gate] Underworld

The street where the funeral supplies store is located.

Two paper figures, a man and a woman, floated forward.

After sending the text message, Chen Ji put down his phone, his thoughts racing.

In the newly created group chat without Ren Yu, he had already learned about what had happened from Luo Weicheng.

Feng Yao really should go back to Jinxiu Garden.

It wasn't just to avoid the Ghost Mother, but also because none of them anticipated that as the fog in the domain was gradually lifted, certain locations would change!

Simply put, new clues will only be unlocked after you know more about the background.

For example, families with twins (male and female).

When I first visited the twins' home, the father was not present in any of the photos.

But this time... it happened.

It was the bald, mourning ghost from 2014, namely Ma Zhao.

Just like completing a cloze test, they deduced the correct answer before the article became complete.

The album contains all the photos of the twins from birth to death.

From the time the two children were born until they were 3 or 4 years old, Ma Zhao smiled happily in the background, looking at the children with a gentle gaze.

But then, after a certain point in time...

The number of photos then plummeted.

One of them left a deep impression on Chen Ji.

Although it was a group photo of four people, the mother of the twins looked pale and sickly, while Ma Zhao, despite smiling, revealed deep fatigue and sorrow in her eyes.

This undoubtedly corresponds to what the twins said on the paper car earlier: their father is very busy earning money to treat his mother's illness.

But this is not the point.

The real clue was that they found a cell phone there.

It doesn't belong to Ma Zhao, nor to the twins, but to the twins' deceased mother, yet it contains important clues!

[SMS 1]

(Sender: Ma Zhao)

"Honey, are you feeling better today?"

You don't need to worry about things at home; the children are very well-behaved.

Sigh, sometimes I feel really sorry for them... Yesterday it rained heavily, and I went up the mountain to deliver goods, so I didn't have time to pick them up.

When I got home, they were already asleep.

Looking at their faces, I felt a mix of emotions.

You're in the ICU right now. I know you can't see my messages, but don't worry, you'll be alright.

Don't worry, I'll save up the money soon. After your surgery and when you're moved to a regular ward, I'll bring them to see you..."

They were always making a fuss at first, wanting to see you, but now they're silent. I always thought they were too young to understand anything, but actually they understand everything.

"My child and I are waiting at home for you to be discharged from the hospital."

[SMS 2]

(Sender: Ma Zhao)

(Sent at: early morning of the day after the first text message)

"Honey, how are you feeling?"

I don't know why, but I've been feeling uneasy and suspicious, afraid that something might happen to you.

...Perhaps it's because of what the two children just told me.

They said someone kept knocking on our door last night. They called out to me, but I ignored them, and they were very scared.

I was home the whole time and didn't hear the knocking at all. I knew immediately that they were having a nightmare.

I asked them what they were afraid of.

My sister said, "Paper doll."

I asked, "Did you open the door?"

My brother said no.

Then he added:

But as they were sleeping, they heard the window being opened.

Squeak—squeak, and when they opened their eyes again, they saw the paper figure standing beside their bed.

Not only that, but a paper horse and a paper sedan chair also appeared in the house!

In their dream, they rode on paper horses and paper sedan chairs.

To be honest, I was also a little horrified when I heard it. I asked them why they were getting into the sedan chair.

They said...

Because the paper figures told them they would be taken to find their mother.

I didn't ask how the nightmare unfolded afterward; for some reason, I felt very panicked...

In short, I gave them both a good scolding, and they absolutely cannot come to my shop again.

It's probably because they see those paper things every day that they dream about them.

......

.....

Honey, if you wake up, please reply to my message, okay?

I am anxious."

Pulling himself back to reality, Chen Ji's brain raced.

At first glance, the text message simply stated that after the twins were taken away by paper horses and sedan chairs, Ma Zhao mistakenly concluded that it was all just a nightmare the children had.

But it's actually far more complicated than that!

As early as when Du Xu mentioned the paper horse and paper sedan chair, Chen Ji had been pondering where the paper horse and paper sedan chair were going to take him and Fei'er.

Is it that place that has always lingered in their bodies, that they can't help but want to drift away to?

But that's until he saw that sentence.

[Because the paper figure told them it would take them to find their mother.]

This seems to be just an excuse for ghosts to lure children.

But in the text message, Ma Zhao said at the very beginning that he was very uneasy.

At this time, Ma Zhao was unaware that what the twins had experienced was real; as a funeral shop owner, he would not be so afraid of paper figures.

So he probably thought the dream was "bad luck".

But what's even stranger is...

After those two text messages, Ma Zhao's wife never received any more messages on her phone.

This means one thing:

She is dead.

And it is very likely that he died on the very night Ma Zhao sent his second text message.

Based on this idea, they later found new clues in the cabinet that confirmed their guess.

Knowing this fact, the paper doll's words, "I'll take you to find your mother," seemed especially eerie...

My mother is dead.

How can I find my mother?

Why would a paper figure tell such a lie?

Or perhaps... it wasn't lying after all?

The clues in Chen Ji's mind gradually came together. The reason Ma Zhao went mad afterward, blaming himself for not selling the paper horse and paper sedan chair, was very likely because he felt that these two things had killed the child.

But it was later confirmed that Li Changming was the one who killed him.

Extending further.

The twins didn't die that day, but they must have passed by the "crossroads" in the Red Bowl Curse after being taken away by the paper horse, and drew that picture.

At this moment, Chen Ji suddenly felt a jolt in his heart, remembering what Liu Zi had mentioned about the garbage collector's actions during the first Red Bowl Curse.

He pointed to the sky, then to the ground, and finally crossed them.

Bai Shaohua believes that it is implying to them that the crossroads is a passage connecting reality and ghosts.

It is also the meeting point of the living world and the dead world.

And then there's the matter of going to find my mother... my mother who's already dead.

The answer is obvious.

The paper horse and paper sedan chair brought the twins to a world where only ghosts existed!

Commonly known as: the underworld.

"Therefore, paper horses and paper sedan chairs will take us to the underworld."

Chen Ji murmured, even though he had figured it out, he still felt something was wrong.

It's not his fault.

But...

Why would customers at funeral supply stores buy paper horses and paper sedan chairs?

Just then, Fei'er suddenly looked at him and said hesitantly:

"Huang Yue".

"what?"

Chen Ji was taken aback.

Fei'er said, "They saw Huang Yue in the funeral home."

"Is the underworld you mentioned the world where Xu Sandao and Du Tingfeng live?"