Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

Chapter 448 [The Train] The Gravedigger

Pushing open the door, Han Bing looked up and gazed at the crescent moon in the night sky.

The moonlight reflected in his eyes. After a long while, Han Bing lowered his eyes and took out a crumpled cigarette case from his pocket.

There were footsteps behind me.

"Borrow a fire."

Han Bing didn't even turn her head, throwing the lighter behind her, where Chen Yuetan caught it.

"Where's your nephew?" Han Bing took a drag of her cigarette and looked around. "He should be leaving soon. Hasn't he finished dealing with things on his end?"

"Wait another five minutes."

Chen Yuetan said, "He and Xiao Du went out."

Han Bing hummed in agreement.

Neither of them spoke again. The quiet of the countryside at night always reminded Han Bing of his childhood days in his hometown.

Unlike Zhangzhai, his hometown was very lively, with a large population in the village.

Back then, every night he would sleep on the terrace, enjoying the night breeze and listening to the birdsong and insect chirps...

Thinking of this, Han Bing's hand suddenly trembled.

A piece of cigarette ash fell to the ground.

She involuntarily held her breath, and after a moment, Han Bing suddenly asked hesitantly:

"Don't you feel... it's too quiet?"

"It's May now, how could we not hear a single insect chirping?"

As soon as Han Bing finished speaking, Chen Yuetan realized something was wrong. This was no longer ordinary tranquility; it was more like being in a vacuum.

The air was heavy and stagnant, as if frozen.

The two exchanged a glance, and their expressions completely changed.

“The village is definitely not like this during the day.” Chen Yuetan’s tone was very certain: “No, I could even hear birds chirping in the trees the last time I came out.”

He came out to check about an hour ago, and everything seemed normal then.

In other words, something must have happened quietly within that hour.

The railway tracks have appeared?

After stubbed out his cigarette, Chen Yuetan immediately turned on his phone and called Chen Ji.

"Dudu..."

Half a minute later, the call was connected.

"Gululu..."

"Hey?"

Chen Ji's voice was very low, and he was slightly out of breath, as if he had just run 800 meters.

Chen Yuetan's heart sank. Just as he was about to ask a question, he heard Chen Ji say urgently:

"We hadn't been out long when we ran into a crazy female ghost, and we just escaped."

This was too much information for Chen Yuetan to handle; he was taken aback for a moment: "You mean that widow?"

"Correct."

Chen Ji's tone was helpless: "But now there are two problems."

"First, you can only enter Zhangzhai, you can't leave."

"Second, the madwoman ghost always carries a coffin containing her husband's corpse, who has also become a ghost. So now we have to deal with two ghosts, and both of them are extremely malicious."

"Also, the railway tracks have appeared, but we can't get across... After we escaped, I saw the female ghost heading towards the fields. I suspect she was going to rebury her husband's coffin in the grave."

Han Bing's face immediately turned ugly. The railway was right in the fields, but there was something sinister about it!

Like navigating a minefield, no one knows where the widow's husband's grave is, and you might accidentally stumble upon two vengeful ghosts.

"What should I do?"

Han Bing frowned. There was no way out using conventional methods; the only way was to go forward along the railway.

On the other end of the phone, Chen Ji remained silent, seemingly deep in thought.

After a few seconds, he said hurriedly, "Listen to me."

"The house we're staying in is the village chief's house."

“Go and check now, there might be records of village graves in his house.”

Chen Yuetan nodded solemnly, said a few more words, and then hung up the phone.

The situation was more dire than they had anticipated.

Chen Ji's situation can't be delayed any longer; he needs to meet up with Wan Xiaoshuang and borrow her A-level magic.

Meanwhile, they need to quickly locate the ghost grave, then avoid it and look for the railway from another direction.

Chen Ji told them that he had a very ominous feeling in his heart.

The ghosts won't stop their pursuit for no reason, unless it's to wipe them all out.

He suspected that once his ghost husband was buried again, the situation would be a thousand times worse than it is now.

Putting his phone back in his pocket, Chen Yuetan turned and went into the house, where he saw Han Bing standing in front of the cabinet, flipping through a yellowed booklet.

"You found it so quickly?" Chen Yuetan was somewhat surprised.

"No, your nephew's thinking is correct, but he forgot that the house has been abandoned for a long time, and the official documents will definitely be taken away."

Han Bing shook his head. The people in their team had already looked through it, and there were no files at all.

but.......

His tone was somewhat subtle: "His private diary, however, has been preserved."

"This is Zhang Tiegen's house. Do you know why he had a falling out with the Zhang brothers back then?"

"Land occupation," Chen Yuetan said briefly, as mentioned in the report.

“Yes, but it’s for occupying cemetery plots,” Han Bing said. “Zhang Zhu does funerals, or more accurately, he digs up graves.”

"That's why his family lives on the edge of the village; other people probably think his family is unlucky."

"But that's not the point. The point is that when he buried his mother, he felt the location was not good, so he secretly switched the location of the cemetery with that of Zhang Tiegen's family ancestral grave."

"Is there still this?"

Chen Yuetan was stunned; this was utterly despicable.

But he quickly gleaned a piece of information: "Zhang Zhu is the gravedigger?"

"Correct."

Han Bing smiled slightly: "Now I just hope he still remembers where he buried the madwoman's husband back then."

No one expected that Chen Ji's suggestion would actually lead them to a way out by sheer chance.

Without further hesitation, everyone set off immediately. The air around them grew increasingly oppressive, making it hard to breathe.

The village was completely silent.

Only a few deliberately soft footsteps echoed on the dirt roads of the village.

Chen Yuetan was at the very back of the group, constantly thinking about Chen Ji, his brow furrowed the whole time.

Chen Ji was one of his only two remaining relatives in the world.

Now, however, he is cursed.

This isn't a domain, it's reality... there's no such thing as healing injuries.

Even if the curse is severed using the A-level technique, can Chen Ji's injuries really be healed?

A rare hint of regret flickered in his heart. To be honest, if he had known from the beginning that the Ghost Railway incident would be so dangerous, he would never have let Chen Ji come.

It was still too hasty.

The reason why the Ghost Infant Tomb was able to come out alive last time was ultimately because Wang Chao and others had gone in first and eliminated some of the evil spirits.

Then there's Wusu, who's quite a big deal in the Ghost Infant Tomb.

But when facing the Creator Demon, they had very few clues and very little ability.

The gaze shifted to Wusu. Ever since the investigation of the ghost railway began, Wusu had been sullen, simply tugging at Chen Yuetan's sleeve and silently following him without uttering a sound.

Still feeling nauseous?

Chen Yuetan picked him up.

Usu shook his head.

After a while, he said in a low voice, "I couldn't help at all."

"Who said that?"

Chen Yuetan chuckled. Although Wu Su did not understand the Creator Ghost, in terms of combat power, no one here could compare to him.

The scene of Wusu swallowing the ghost doll in the Ghost Baby Tomb still sends chills down my spine.

However, the cost is too high, so it can only be used as a last resort and cannot be used easily.