Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

Chapter 212 [Domain·Tuotuo Mountain] Xiao Fei's Story

The three quickly left the house and indeed saw several sets of footprints on the ground, but they were very shallow and almost completely covered by snow.

Only one path, crooked and twisted, left a deep mark on the ground.

Xu Sandao, with Si Yan in his arms, walked straight past the footprints.

Chen Ji glanced at the footprint several times, and asked hesitantly, "Could this be... a clue left by Lao Yang?"

Xu Sandao's expression was somewhat strange: "You're overthinking it."

"I guess Lao Yang probably struggled, but Xiao Fei forcibly took him away, which is why his steps were so disordered."

Chen Ji said, "That makes sense."

The further you go into the mine, the darker the road becomes, with only a few dim streetlights around.

Chen Ji was caught off guard and suddenly fell onto the road, startling Si Yan!

There was a wooden stake on the ground that tripped Chen Ji.

"How are you? Are you alright?"

Four-Eyes quickly helped Chen Ji up, only to see that the other man was holding his head with one hand, his face somewhat angry.

Be careful, and remember to watch where you're going.

Xu Sandao, who was behind him, asked with concern, "Did you hurt your head?"

Chen Ji didn't speak, but responded after a while.

"I twisted my neck."

Sure enough, his head was tilted slightly, as if he had a stiff neck.

Xu Sandao sighed sympathetically, took out a flashlight from his pocket, and suddenly his vision was as bright as day.

Chen Ji: "You took a flashlight?"

Xu San said, "Hmm."

Chen Ji said in a gloomy tone, "Why didn't you use it just now?"

"I forgot." Xu Sandao's voice was full of self-reproach: "Old Yang was taken away by a ghost, and I was too anxious."

"Tsk, if you had remembered earlier, you wouldn't have fallen like this."

Chen Ji stopped speaking.

Four-Eyes glanced cautiously at the two of them, sensing an unusually tense atmosphere.

The three remained silent as they entered the mine using the light of their flashlights, heading towards the tunnel where the roof had collapsed earlier.

"Look, there are footprints!"

Reaching a puddle, Four-Eyes pointed excitedly to the road ahead, where a messy, wet trail of footprints led straight to the end of the alley!

That is, the location of Xiaofei's body.

"They really are heading this way..." Four-Eyes murmured, "Why did Xiao Fei bring Lao Yang here?"

Xu Sandao seemed to be deep in thought and did not answer.

"Stop dawdling and hurry up."

Chen Ji's tone held a hint of anxiety: "Don't wait until we arrive, it will be too late..."

.....

Deep inside the mine tunnel.

Old Yang wiped his sweat, feeling utterly exhausted, as did Chen Ji beside him.

The two men, each holding a shovel and a pickaxe, had already cleared most of the road that had been piled with rubble.

"The heartless mine manager finally left, and now we're stuck doing backbreaking labor for ghosts..."

Old Yang silently grumbled to himself.

They slowly moved towards the area of ​​Dutou Tuanzi Mian, passing by a helmet broken in two and stained with blood, which was the one Chen Ji had used before.

Xiao Fei disappeared.

"Where is he?" Old Yang looked around. It was pitch black. Luckily, he had picked up a lantern on the way here, so he could see something.

"It will probably only appear after we've collected all the scrap."

Chen Ji said, "Xiao Fei probably couldn't handle the scrap material himself, which is why he asked for our help."

He secretly felt that it was related to the Helmet Ghost.

"One more thing."

Chen Ji said, shoveling one shovelful after another until he reached the last pile of stones, and ahead was the buried Dutou Tuanzi Mian.

"After we finish collecting the waste, don't waste a single word on him."

"Who are you talking nonsense to?"

A sinister voice rang out beside Chen Ji, startling him so much that his heart almost stopped beating!

Xiao Fei, whether he had been hiding nearby or not, suddenly appeared without a sound!

"what?"

Chen Ji pretended to be stupid.

Xiao Fei stared at him for a while, then suddenly grinned, revealing his gleaming white teeth.

"Hurry up. They're here."

After saying this, its figure retreated step by step, and in an instant, it melted into the coal wall.

Old Yang stood to the side, his face ashen. In that brief minute, he kept thinking back to whether he had said anything that violated any taboos!

Chen Ji shook his head at him and quickened his movements.

What did Xiaofei mean by that?

"Are they... my wives?"

Old Yang suddenly asked, his expression somewhat hesitant.

“No,” Chen Ji said. “If Helmet Ghost and the others could come, Xiao Fei wouldn’t have said ‘they were gone during the day.’”

"...It should be the two of them, the four-eyed ones?" Chen Ji's heart stirred slightly.

Xu Sandao probably saw the mark he left.

To prevent the ghost from noticing, Chen Ji deliberately stepped on the marks in a messy manner, but he believed that Xu Sandao could still see them.

Soon, the road was cleared, and the two men immediately took their lanterns and walked towards the lone ...

My breathing stopped for a second.

"......"

Chen Ji and Lao Yang looked at each other, and for some reason, he was not surprised by the result.

"Liu Yunfeng still didn't let him go."

Old Yang smiled wryly.

On the rough ground, the headless corpse that had been pieced together from their bodies... was now complete.

Pan Yin's head was pieced together onto Xu Sandao's torso.

His expression was one of extreme fear.

“No wonder Liu Yunfeng came so soon after I called him.” Chen Ji said thoughtfully, “He probably knew the location of Liu Er’s body, which was near the abandoned mine.”

No longer paying attention to that, both of them turned their gazes to Xiaofei's corpse at the same time.

Chen Ji was suddenly taken aback.

This time, after careful observation, he discovered that Xiao Fei's scrap was not as shiny as Liu Yunfeng's.

Together with Lao Yang, they first pried and then dug, and after a lot of effort, they finally got the waste out, leaving only a large bloody hole in the corpse's neck.

"Walk."

Chen Ji held the scrap material, his mind racing. He had to figure out a way to take this scrap material with him!

But Xiao Fei's figure reappeared.

He waved to Chen Ji and the other person.

Helpless, Chen Ji could only reluctantly walk out.

Xiao Fei's gaze at the scrap material was complicated.

After a long while, it finally grabbed the scrap material and stuffed it into the gap in its neck...

The third piece of scrap material suddenly shone brightly, becoming exactly the same as Liu Yunfeng's piece!

"Liu Yunfeng did something similar before! Is it activation?" Chen Ji's heart stirred. Perhaps, Xiao Fei would take the initiative to give him this piece of waste material!

Xiao Fei didn't.

Xiao Fei was quiet.

After a while, Xiao Fei suddenly said, "My hometown is in the north of the mountain."

Chen Ji and Xu Sandao were both stunned.

Xiao Fei's voice carried a hint of melancholy: "The village at the bottom of Datougou in the north of the mountain... Do you know Datougou? There's a green river, and my middle school is right next to it."

“I remember that this was the time I looked forward to the most all year, because my dad was supposed to come back.”

"Your dad also works away from home?"

Old Yang couldn't help but ask.

Xiao Fei nodded expressionlessly: "Working in a black coal mine."

He continued, "Then...then he disappeared. He never came back. My mother cried every day, and everyone in the village said that my father had died out there."

“I don’t believe it. My family has no money, my mother is sick, so I have no choice but to come out and work in the coal mine.”

"It was around September, I think? School had just started then, but I couldn't afford the tuition."

Xiao Fei said sadly, his head down.

Chen Ji fell silent. From the very beginning, he had realized that Xiao Fei still wanted to go back to school.

"Later I found out that my father was indeed dead." Xiao Fei smiled bitterly. "Let's not talk about this anymore."

"Actually, I have very good grades."

“I always get first place in the Chinese exam. My dad says I’ll definitely be the first college student in the village.”

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