I have a ghost diary

In short, it is now daytime outside, and more than ten hours have passed since Chu Jiang disappeared.

Of course, things were calm in Luohe City, and the news of Chu Jiang's disappearance did not spread.

Chu Jiang briefly described his situation, but did not hang up the phone; he simply put his phone into his inner pocket.

"Are you done talking?" the bald man said impatiently to Chu Jiang. "Come in when you're done. I don't want to die here with you guys today."

If Chu Jiang wasn't mistaken, this person should be an ordinary person. But given his arrogant tone and the bulge in his lower back, suggesting he might be carrying a gun, he's probably used to being arrogant in the real world.

Chu Jiang ignored the bald man, pushed open the door and entered, asking, "Can someone explain to me what's going on?"

The extremely thin man stared at Chu Jiang's face for a long while before finally saying, "Excuse me, are you Captain Chu Jiang, codenamed 'Bloody Hand'?"

Chu Jiang nodded slightly.

Upon hearing the pronunciation of the name "Chu Jiang," the petite Japanese policewoman looked towards Chu Jiang with some surprise.

"Great! It really is you! Looks like we're saved today." A sliver of color finally returned to the man's extremely ugly face, making him look like he wasn't acting.

"Here's what happened..." the thin man began to recount what had happened to his group.

If I had to sum it up in one sentence, it would be that six unlucky guys were inexplicably sent to this godforsaken place while taking some kind of transportation.

Take the skinny man as an example. Tonight, he took the bus to go home, but there was no one on the bus.

When he realized something was wrong and tried to get out of the car, the door wouldn't open and the glass couldn't be broken. In the end, he could only passively be brought to the castle by the car.

Something was clearly wrong here. The skinny man initially tried to escape along the road, but he noticed a tattered wooden sign hanging on the iron gate of the fence. It had a line of bloody writing on it, seemingly penned by a human, which read:

It's more dangerous outside than inside.

The thin man hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not dare to run away. He simply stood outside the iron gate and tried to call for help.

The only good news is that the telephone in front of this castle actually works; I wonder if it's used for people to give their last words...

In short, the skinny man contacted the head of the research institute in his city. However, the other party was helpless because they had no idea where the skinny man was; they could only report the situation to their superiors.

Just then, the second person arrived, the male student with glasses.

He was a student at a university in China and had to go back to his hometown for some urgent business. His hometown was quite remote, and the last leg of his journey home involved taking a boat across a stretch of water; otherwise, he would have to take a longer route and enter the mountains from another direction.

The student naturally wouldn't take a detour; he took the boat as usual, but for some reason, the boatman had changed. When he asked questions, the boatman didn't answer, only nodding or shaking his head.

Then the boat sailed on and on, eventually bringing the students to this godforsaken place.

Chu Jiang was also a little surprised to hear this, "There are waterways around here?"

Upon hearing this, the student smiled bitterly and said, "No, I just saw that little wrecked boat coming along the road. It moved like it was moving on water. I was terrified and didn't dare to jump off the boat. That's how I was brought here."

The thin man nodded and continued to explain that after they met, they asked each other about their experiences.

Just as we figured out what was going on, this bald guy, wearing a parachute, landed over here from the sky.

According to the bald man, the helicopter he was on crashed, and he jumped out with a parachute just before it crashed. He never expected to land in this godforsaken place.

The fourth person to arrive was the "counter lady," a saleswoman who sold high-end cosmetics at a brand counter in a large shopping mall.

Her visit was also due to an accident. The mall was holding an event, and since it was a Halloween event not long ago, there were still a lot of props left over, so she brought them over to use as well.

At the urging of her colleagues, the saleswoman boarded a pumpkin carriage and planned to tour the mall.

But strangely, as the saleswoman sat there, she noticed something was wrong. The sounds outside gradually disappeared, and the carriage was moving faster and faster.

She tried to open the door but couldn't. Pulling back the curtains of the glass window, she looked outside and found herself on a dark, silent highway...

The fifth to arrive was the foreign firefighter, who didn't understand Chinese and kept babbling incoherently.

Fortunately, the saleswoman in the mall had some English skills for her job, so she managed to communicate with the other party.

The firefighter's experience was also bizarre. He received a fire alarm during his shift, so he immediately put on his work clothes, grabbed his tools, and became the first to get into one of the fire trucks at the fire station.

But before his colleagues could even get in the truck, it started moving on its own. So, the man named Paul kept yelling at the driver to stop.

It was no use. The "driver" wouldn't stop, and Paul, who was sitting in the back of the fire truck, couldn't open the door. In the end, he was brought here.

Finally, there was the policewoman from the island nation. She didn't understand Chinese, but she could barely speak a little English.

Basically, during her normal work hours, she took a subway in the Kanto Ward, and the number of passengers on her train kept decreasing, while the surrounding environment became increasingly strange.

When the policewoman realized something was wrong, the subway train emerged from underground and sped along the highway, eventually bringing her here.

It's worth noting that everyone boarded the transportation at different times. Although they all "got on" on the same day, some people took the transportation during the day, such as the students; while others, like Chu Jiang, boarded at 12:30 a.m.

Moreover, everyone else arrived around the same time and quickly gathered together. Only Chu Jiang, because he forcibly got off the bus halfway, caused quite a bit of trouble and finally arrived at the castle gate about half an hour late.

Finally, the flow of time here is different from that outside. For example, Chu Jiang felt that no more than three hours had passed since he entered, but it was already the next day outside...

Chapter 236 The Game Begins

The research institute captain, a student, a saleswoman, a man suspected of being involved in organized crime, a folk sorcerer, a foreign firefighter, and a foreign policewoman.

Taxi, boat, pumpkin carriage, parachute, bus, fire truck, subway.

Everyone has a different identity; there are men and women, ordinary people and ghost masters. Even the means of transportation they use are completely different.

The most outrageous thing is that bald guy who can jump here with a parachute. Is a parachute a means of transportation? Okay, I guess so, it allows people to get from the sky to the ground.

In short, the seven people who arrived at the castle, including Chu Jiang, didn't have much in common; they seemed to have been randomly selected.

This made Chu Jiang feel even more "unlucky." On this day, out of so many people around the world using transportation, he was randomly selected as one of the seven.

Of course, it seems that more domestic people were chosen, and only two foreigners were included among the seven people.

While Chu Jiang was pondering, the thin man continued, "After arriving and learning about each other's experiences, we started discussing how to escape this hellish place."

"First of all, although we can communicate with the outside world from here, it's completely useless because nobody knows where we are, not even ourselves."

"This shouldn't be a ghost realm; it's more like a secluded, supernatural space. To be precise, it's no longer in reality."

"Then there is a special rule at work here. We don't know if it is a person manipulating it, a ghost manipulating it, or if there is only one rule running."

"In short, that mysterious force must have chosen this place to let us into the castle."

"So we have two options now: enter the castle or force our way out."

"Before Captain Chu arrived, we had already discussed it once, and in the end we still preferred to enter the castle."

"There are two specific reasons. First, forcibly leaving here would be a violation of the rules that brought us in, and we have no idea what punishment we will face."

“On the other hand, this sign.” The thin man picked up the wooden sign with blood-written words from the ground behind him.

"I suspect this is the last clue left to us by the people who escaped from here in the last round."

Even if it isn't, it could be a hint that the castle is giving to those who enter.

"Of course, it's also possible that the sign is a trap, and that the inside of the castle is actually more dangerous than escaping to the outside of the highway."

"So in the end we had an unfair, but useful, vote."

"Although the final result was three to three, because both the policewoman and I felt we had to go in, the three people who wanted to run away couldn't run away and had to go in with us."

The thin man pointed to the students, the saleswoman, and the firefighter.

"Then why don't you go in?" Chu Jiang asked.

The thin man pointed somewhat helplessly to the entrance of the gloomy castle, "There are seven signs there, sealing the door shut."

"It seems that everyone has to pick up a card before the portal will open."

"But here's the problem: we only have six people, and we tried to take down every single card, but we couldn't get one down."

"So we guessed that there was one last participant who hadn't arrived yet."

"We waited for a while, and finally you arrived."

After finishing speaking, the skinny man looked at the others and said, "I must introduce this person to you. This Captain Chu Jiang is one of the top ghost masters in our country. He has solved S-level paranormal cases before."

"You don't need to know what a Ghost Master is or what an S-rank incident is. You only need to understand one thing: among us, who is most likely to lead you to safety? It's him!"

Upon hearing this, everyone else looked at Chu Jiang with slight surprise. Even the two foreigners, who couldn't understand Chinese, could clearly tell that the thin man was praising Chu Jiang's existence.

Not to mention, as a ghost story expert, the policewoman knew about Chu Jiang, a figure who had recently risen to fame in the global paranormal community...

Faced with such praise, Chu Jiang simply put his hands in his pockets and said expressionlessly, "I don't have that much ability."

"Let me put it this way, in the upcoming operation, if you are willing to follow my orders, then I can do my best to help you out."

"But if anyone acts on their own and disobeys orders, then I'm sorry, I won't even look at them even if they die."

After saying that, Chu Jiang looked at the saleswoman and said, "Translate for the foreigners."

The saleswoman nodded nervously, managing to convey Chu Jiang's words to the two foreign friends in broken English.

The skinny man nodded repeatedly, "As expected, Captain Chu, you also think we should enter the castle, right?"

"Why do you think I was late? I forced my way off the bus halfway through the journey, and ended up in a very dangerous situation. It took me a lot of effort to get back on the bus and get here."

Chu Jiang's answer surprised everyone. Especially the thin man, who had tried to force his way off the bus, but despite his best efforts, he was still trapped inside.

As a result, the thin man's wariness of Chu Jiang increased even further.

After confirming that no one else objected to what the skinny man had said, Chu Jiang reached out and gently pushed open the iron gate in front of him, officially stepping into the enclosure.

During this process, Chu Jiang was prepared that all the people in front of him were ghosts.

However, whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, these people did not attack him in the end.

Chu Jiang walked straight to the saleswoman, who backed away fearfully. "What...what do you want to do?"

So Chu Jiang walked over to the students, and before they could run away, he grabbed one of them by the shoulder. "Very good, alive."

"The same goes for everyone else. If you want me to be your captain, come forward and let me check if you are alive."

Upon hearing this, the thin man stepped forward, and Chu Jiang, as usual, merely nudged him.

Then came the policewoman, the saleswoman, the firefighter, and the bald man.

"Let's go, let's see how many people can survive today..." Chu Jiang muttered to himself as he walked towards the castle gate.

This was the first time he had encountered such a peculiar paranormal event. If this was a "game," then who was behind it all? And what was their purpose...?

The castle’s black gate is very tall and heavy, and its surface is covered with aristocratic coats of arms such as swords, shields, lions, and eagles.

Most notably, seven rectangular cards, resembling tarot cards, were placed between the top and bottom of the seams of the two metal doors.