eurekapd Chapter 393 [Domain·Drowning] Hongtian's Dream
Chapter 393 [Domain·Drowning] Hongtian's Dream
“This is the worst-case scenario I’ve envisioned. Of course, he might also come to you, but I noticed that he kept talking to Li Bi afterwards.”
Wan Xiaoshuang rested her chin on her hand, lost in thought: "If he wanted to do something to you, he could have done it himself... Go find Li Bi, is it because we live in the same dormitory?"
Chen looked at her with great surprise.
Wan Xiaoshuang's words were so meticulous that they analyzed almost every possible situation she might face.
Assuming everything really develops this way, it will be difficult for Chen Ji to keep an eye on her, since the two are not in the same dormitory.
But there was another possibility that Wan Xiaoshuang hadn't considered.
That is: Will Coach Zhan choose players again tonight?
There are now eight survivors. Chen Ji and Tong Zi were on duty last night, leaving six people. There is a certain probability that Wan Xiaoshuang will be selected tonight, possibly even with Wan Chengzhong and Li Bi!
He told Wan Xiaoshuang about this, and then said:
"I'll ask Teacher Zhan who slept on the floor in his room tonight, and see if I can persuade him to let me go too."
He happened to have something to ask Teacher Zhan anyway.
Wan Xiaoshuang nodded slightly.
The two didn't say much, exchanged some information, and then Chen Ji got up and went to the men's dormitory.
He glanced at Wan Chengzhong's bed but didn't see him.
Zhu Guang and the boy were whispering on the bed. When they saw Chen Ji come in, they nodded to him.
Chen Ji smiled, turned around and looked at Hong Tian lying in the corner, his brows furrowing.
She stopped vomiting water, but her whole body looked pale and swollen, her eyes were tightly closed, and her body looked like a corpse...
like a statue.
Chen Ji's heart tightened, and he quickly walked to Hong Tian's side, only to see that the other man's chest was no longer rising and falling!
He probed with his finger and could barely feel Hong Tian's breath.
Before he could think, in the blink of an eye, Chen Ji had already pried open his mouth with both hands. Sure enough, there was a long clump of seaweed inside, almost blocking his entire throat!
No one expected that Hong Tian would almost choke to death on the seaweed before he had even fully transformed into his floating corpse form!
"what happened?"
The two boys on the other side also noticed the abnormality.
He's drowning!
Chen Ji had already turned Hong Tian over, pressing his back tightly with both hands until Hong Tian suddenly spat out a large handful of river water mixed with mud and sand.
Zhu Guang walked over quickly and began performing CPR on Hong Tian.
He appears to have received professional training.
Suddenly, Hong Tian's chest jolted, and his eyes snapped open, his pupils filled with endless despair and terror!
He did wake up, but he was breathing heavily and his body was convulsing violently, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying!
"no no!"
"Hong Tian!" the boy hissed, "You're still alive, calm down!"
“Ah Gou… Ah Gou is dead!” Hong Tian murmured in fear, “I saw him, in the water!”
Is Ah Gou dead?
Zhu Guang was taken aback. Wasn't this something that happened last night? It seemed like no one had told Hong Tian yet...
"You wait first."
On the other side, Chen Ji's expression shifted slightly, and he pressed on, "You said you saw it? You saw his body?"
“Yes…” Hong Tian’s breathing gradually calmed down, and he mumbled indistinctly as if he had a mouthful of water in his mouth:
"I was lying in bed, unable to breathe, and I couldn't call for help..."
"When I opened my eyes again, I found myself sitting at the bottom of the river, but I couldn't move my body at all."
"Then, something hit my body. When I looked closely, I realized it was Ah Gou's head, and the skin was all rotten from being soaked!"
头？
Chen Ji was taken aback, only to hear Hong Tian continue:
"That face was exactly the same as the ghost I saw when I first entered the domain, but its death was extremely cruel. The entire body was dismembered. First, a head floated over, and after a while, its arm floated over... Something broke off all four of its limbs."
"I gotta Feeling."
Hong Tian murmured, "Will I... die like this too?"
No one answered him.
Zhu Guang's fat face trembled slightly. He shook his head and said nothing.
The boy then said, "He was dragged away by a drowning ghost in his dream, but you weren't."
Hong Tian gave a bitter laugh.
He felt that this was even worse than Ah Gou... He felt like he was walking in the dark on a cliff, not knowing which step, or perhaps the next second, would cause him to fall off the cliff.
"Can you still stand up?"
Chen Ji thought for a moment and said, "If possible, don't stay alone. It's best to act with everyone."
Otherwise, no one would know when Hong Tian would suffocate again.
They then told him about what happened to Huang Ying's grandparents that morning. The ghost had chosen Li Yinghe and Chen Ji because of their age, but it was Zheng Meng who died.
Hong Tian responded listlessly.
He struggled to his feet, his eyes devoid of light, staring silently at his swollen fingers.
Chen Ji sat beside him, his brows furrowed tightly.
He didn't think it was just a dream, because Hong Tian hadn't participated in the discussion that morning, and he didn't know that Ah Gou was dead, yet he dreamed of Ah Gou's corpse.
Why was Ah Gou dismembered?
Was he dismembered by that drowned ghost that looked exactly like him?
But that doesn't make sense. First of all, Ah Gou died close to morning. Even if he was taken to the bottom of the river then, it's impossible for his skin to be "soaked and rotten" as Hong Tian described. It would take at least a few days to reach that state.
Moreover, Hong Tian said it was exactly the same ghost he saw when he first entered the domain.
That proves that the drowned ghost's method of killing people is to replace them with its appearance. But since the person is already dead, why bother to dismember them?
However, at that moment, a hand touched him.
It is Zhu Guang.
He gestured for Chen Ji to go out with him.
"what happened?"
After the two went outside, Chen asked.
“I have a suspicion,” Zhu Guang said after a moment’s hesitation, “but you can’t ask any more questions.”
Chen Ji nodded.
"Ah Gou wasn't killed by a drowning ghost!"
Zhu Guang stared at him and said seriously, "Zhang Wenxuan is not that middle school student ghost who came to find me last night!"
"What?" Chen Ji didn't react for a moment and instinctively wanted to ask.
"I can't say much, I only know two clues."
Zhu Guang said:
"First, the middle school student ghost called out this name to another ghost."
"Second, the other ghost, which is Zhang Wenxuan whom I suspect, is in the water, at the bottom of a very deep body of water."
"And don't you find it strange..." Zhu Guang said slowly, "Teacher Zhan has never mentioned Zhang Wenxuan's 'deskmate' even once."
He thought that was the real middle school student ghost.
Chen Ji thought for a moment, then without further hesitation, he realized the question was easy to answer. The two of them immediately stood up and went to ask Teacher Zhan.
And in the dormitory....
Hong Tian lay motionless on the bed.
The familiar feeling of drowning returned.
He suddenly tilted his head, spat out a mouthful of water, and the pillow slipped to the ground.
But he was no longer in the mood to care, and simply lay listlessly on the flatbed...
chapped.
He paused for a moment, feeling a rough texture rubbing against his neck.
It's a piece of paper.
A small piece of paper that had been torn apart.
It was originally under his pillow!
He reached in, opened the paper, and saw that the handwriting was beautiful. It read:
They say there's a shady way to save your life.
[When you are alone, and no one else is around, cut off a lock of hair from the person you have chosen and throw it into the Jagu River. That person will then die in your place.]
The younger the selected candidate, the higher the success rate.