I have a ghost diary

After all, he's not usually interested in these things and wouldn't deliberately search for them; he doesn't come into contact with them in his daily life either, and even if he sees a few scattered reports, he'll just laugh it off.

Moreover, this is not only the case in China. Chu Jiang checked and found that globally, there is a conscious effort to suppress the spread of paranormal information.

The reason is simple: human fear can sometimes be more terrifying than ghosts. If the existence of ghosts were known globally, even extreme situations like the collapse of social order could occur.

After all, by then, no one in humanity will feel safe anymore, and no one will know when they will die at the hands of a demon.

"Has it started at least half a year ago?" Chu Jiang muttered to himself.

Forget it, even if the sky falls, someone will hold it up. I should just go to sleep first and talk about everything after I wake up.

PS: I've already posted a test update, so here's one more chapter.

Chapter Twenty: Changes in Diary Content

Before going to sleep, Chu Jiang took out the black diary and looked at it.

The content on the first page remained unchanged, leaving Chu Jiang unsure whether the changes would occur after midnight or if danger would strike in the next few hours.

It's impossible for Slender Man to suddenly appear at his house with the school, right?

Chu Jiang had intended to stay awake until midnight, but once he got into bed, he quickly fell asleep without realizing it.

Chu Jiang had been sleeping soundly for the past few hours.

But after midnight, he would sometimes frown and sometimes show a pained expression in his sleep.

Chu Jiang's forehead gradually beaded with cold sweat. He seemed to be trapped in a deep, bottomless nightmare, from which he could not escape no matter how hard he struggled.

Chu Jiang's chest heaved, his hands gripping the sheets tightly involuntarily, but he couldn't open his eyes no matter what he did.

In fact, Chu Jiang was conscious at this time; he seemed to have experienced the legendary "sleep paralysis."

In scientific terms, this is called "sleep paralysis," and it is said to be caused by high levels of stress in life.

But at this moment, Chu Jiang felt as if something was really pressing down on him.

This feeling is extremely uncomfortable; my body is completely cold, as if I'm turning into a corpse.

His heartbeat began to slow, his blood flow slowed, and his right palm even began to bleed uncontrollably, quickly staining a large area of ​​the bed red.

Fortunately, no one was in Chu Jiang's room at that time, otherwise his family would probably have been frightened.

Chu Jiang tried desperately to wake up, but the sleep paralysis became more and more severe. He could even sense that the blood-handed ghost he had seen in his dream was gradually reviving inside him.

Once the Blood Hand Demon fully awakens, whether Chu Jiang will still be conscious, and whether he can still be considered a "person," is unknown.

It was only at this moment that Chu Jiang realized that the supernatural power he had obtained was not without a price; it concealed a huge hidden danger...

Under the influence of the Blood Hand Demon, Chu Jiang's mental perception was also greatly enhanced inexplicably. Even in his pain, he could clearly hear all the sounds in the entire house.

This includes the sound of cockroaches crawling in the kitchen, the purring of my sister's pet cat, and the hushed conversation between my parents in their bedroom.

Although it was late at night, it seemed that his parents were still awake.

The father's voice rang out first, "Xiuxian, this child has grown up. We just celebrated his eighteenth birthday not long ago. Don't you think we should tell him about the adoption?"

Then came the mother's voice, "Why tell him? Will it affect his studies? He's still a senior in high school, he's still just a child."

"Besides, there's really no need to say this. So many years have passed, and his biological parents have never come looking for him. They may have long forgotten about their son."

"If that's the case, why should we make Chu Jiang unhappy?"

The father seemed to hesitate for a moment, then said, "You're right. Never mind, I won't mention it again."

"Chu Jianjun, I'm warning you, you can't be biased. Chu Jiang and Chu Le are both my precious children."

The father chuckled softly, "What are you thinking? I'm still looking forward to when this brat will get married and give me a grandson. Enough talk, go to sleep."

After listening to his parents' conversation before going to bed, Chu Jiang was momentarily stunned.

What does that mean? Are you adopted? Not your parents' biological son?

At this moment, given Chu Jiang's personality, he would be greatly shocked, and might even feel very sad.

But for some reason, in this special state, his rational thinking prevailed.

Chu Jiang thought to himself: No wonder, I always felt that my dad doted on my younger sister. I used to think it was just a normal mentality of spoiling his daughter, but I never expected there was a deeper reason behind it.

Even after learning the real reason, Chu Jiang had no complaints, because he also loved his younger sister.

Not to mention, Dad has always been good to him since he was little, though sometimes he unconsciously treats his younger sister a little better. Whenever this happens, Mom will treat him extra well, afraid that he might feel wronged.

Chu Jiang used to think his mother was making a fuss, but now he understands that she had good intentions.

Around 3 a.m., Chu Jiang finally broke free from sleep paralysis.

He rolled over and sat up in bed, panting heavily, his clothes soaked through.

Worst of all, the blood gushing from his right hand spread across the floor, some of it even seeping out of the room through the cracks in the door.

This caused Chu Jiang to scramble out of bed in a panic. He pressed his hands to the ground and sucked all the blood back into his body.

Logically, this is unlikely to be Chu Jiang's blood, otherwise he would have died long ago with such a large amount of bleeding.

But regardless of whether it was true or not, this blood was extremely dangerous, and Chu Jiang had not forgotten how Liu Shenglong died.

Only after sucking up all the blood from the bed and the floor could he have time to think about what had happened before.

After being brought back to life at school during the day, Chu Jiang felt as if he had lost something.

Now he understands what it is: it's emotion...

Looking back now, Chu Jiang finds it terrifying. During the time he was experiencing sleep paralysis, his rational thinking completely suppressed his emotional thinking.

Even after learning that he was adopted, he wasn't sad at all; he just carefully analyzed what had happened in the past.

While this may seem useful in a crisis at first glance, if a person loses their emotions, are they still human? They can only be called a cold machine.

He held his head in his hands and sat silently by the bed for a long time.

Chu Jiang took a deep breath. The situation shouldn't be that bad yet. Only when he was severely influenced by the ghost would his rationality completely overwhelm his emotions.

At least at this moment, he is still a living, breathing human being.

Chu Jiang casually picked up the black diary that was on the bedside table, opened it, and took a look.

It's past midnight now, and the content on the first page has indeed changed:

[November 17, Cloudy]

The school was haunted today; many, many people died. Only four of us survived: me, Chen Jie, Gao Yifei, and Liu Mingming.

I was unexpectedly possessed by a blood-handed ghost. Although I gained supernatural powers, I also stepped into the abyss of death. It will continue to erode my body until I die...

"Damn it." Chu Jiang couldn't help but swear. This damn diary was cursing him all the time, wasn't it?

I wish he were dead. Even if the content changes, it will still end with his death.

Chapter Twenty-One: The Cost of Using a Diary

Of course, these few words also reveal some important information:

1. The diary did not include Zhang Haoran on the list of survivors, as if this person did not exist in the world.

2. The Blood Hand Ghost's name seems to be "Blood Hand Ghost".

3. Chu Jiang's guess was correct. If things continued like this, he would die, just like someone with a terminal illness who didn't even know when death would come.

With a gloomy expression, Chu Jiang wanted to turn to the next page of the diary to see what was recorded on September 18th.

Just like before, since he was already cursed, he didn't care about a page or two.

But to Chu Jiang's surprise, the diary couldn't be opened?

What the heck is this? Before, I couldn't open it because the diary's contents hadn't changed, and I died on September 17th, so there was no future.

But Chu Jiang is clearly alive until September 18th, so it's impossible that he has no future, right?

Or perhaps... the conditions for reading the diary aren't as simple as Chu Jiang imagined. Is it that each page requires a price to be paid?

So, when Chu Jiang opened the cover, what price did he pay?

Chu Jiang thought for a moment and was almost immediately certain of the answer: his life.

To be precise, once the cover was opened, Chu Jiang's life was pledged to the Black Diary.

One life was exchanged for the knowledge of what would happen that day, but only in a brief sentence or two.

It has to be said that this is, most of the time, an extremely unprofitable deal.

Fortunately, the diary must have been subject to some kind of rule; it could not directly kill its owner and had to be done by someone else.

Otherwise, the diary would have swallowed Chu Jiang long ago; why would it have been so polite to him, only taking action when he was on the verge of death?

It was precisely because Chu Jiang's life was pledged to the diary that the diary took the initiative to intervene when the Slender Man was about to devour Chu Jiang; it would not allow any ghost or monster to snatch food from its mouth.

After realizing this, Chu Jiang frowned. He only had one life, and it was currently mortgaged but not yet returned. Did that mean he would never be able to see the second page?

This is so useless, isn't it?

That first note, it sounded so nice, asking you how to use it, but was it even useful?

Hmm... no, there should be other ways to keep people using the diary, assuming neither note is lying.

Chu Jiang pondered for a moment, then quickly came up with an answer: pay with other people's lives...

Then he shook his head; he wouldn't do that.

If Chu Jiang really did it, then he would be just like those people in those stories who were tempted by the devil, becoming a killing tool in the devil's hands.

Don't say you only kill bad people. At first, you only kill the most wicked and heinous people; but gradually, you will settle for second best and include ordinary criminals on the list as well.

Later on, if an ordinary person makes a small mistake, you can't help but grab them and feed them to your diary, all in order to predict the future.

This is a slow process of succumbing; if one's will is not strong enough, it is easy to fall into depravity and corruption.

Moreover, Chu Jiang never believed that he was qualified to judge everyone in the world; he was not Light Yagami (from Death Note).

Thinking about this, Chu Jiang realized that this was the true meaning of the question on the first note.