I have a ghost diary

When they had walked about halfway, nothing had happened to them.

This made some people relax a bit. One of the saleswomen wiped the slight sweat from her forehead and even subconsciously fanned herself with a card.

Unexpectedly, at that moment, a soft "plop" sound rang out, and a line of blood appeared on the saleswoman's neck. Then her head rolled to the ground, spinning several times.

"Ah!!" The college student screamed. The saleswoman was walking in front of him, and he watched as she was decapitated. Blood was gushing out of her neck like a small fountain.

Behind him was the island nation's policewoman, who volunteered to be the last one to cover the rear.

The policewoman also witnessed the saleswoman's death, but she had a strong mental fortitude. Although it was extremely unbelievable, she immediately stepped forward and covered the student's mouth.

Almost the instant the students screamed, everyone felt a blur before their eyes, and then they found themselves in a desolate urban ruin.

Chu Jiang turned around, his face extremely grim. Something had happened after all. And it was a fatal blow right from the start, taking down one person without giving him any chance to react.

When Chu Jiang encountered an emergency and activated the Ghost Domain, he could only gather the headless corpse of the saleswoman who had fallen down, as well as the head that had rolled to the side.

Before the people in front could react, they heard the student scream and thought something had happened to the student. They turned around in a panic, only to find that the saleswoman was dead.

The headless corpse on the ground was still bleeding, and her hand was still tightly gripping the red card.

"Is this...the Ghost Realm?" The thin man was the first to react to the change in his surroundings.

Chu Jiang nodded slightly. Several seconds had passed since he activated his Ghost Domain, but he had not been attacked.

This at least proves that deploying the ghost realm did not trigger the killing pattern.

Of course, this is also likely related to the fact that Chu Jiang did not extend the ghost domain to cover the entire room. He only brought the person inside and then kept the ghost domain within a very small area.

"Dead, dead, just like that..." the bald man muttered in disbelief. He had seen dead people before, but what he found hard to accept was that someone had died so inexplicably and silently.

The bald man clenched his fist. Would he be next?

The firefighter was so frightened that his face turned pale. He mumbled something incoherently and kept making the sign of the cross on his chest, as if he were praying to God.

Chu Jiang looked at the student, who was still panting heavily despite the policewoman's attempts to comfort him, and asked, "What did you just see? How did Miss Li die?"

In fact, Chu Jiang saw the saleswoman's death through his extrasensory perception, but she died too quickly for him to intervene.

Asking the students at this point is also to verify what I have "seen" and see if there are any similarities or differences.

"She, she..." Before the student could finish speaking, a scream suddenly rang out again: "Ahhh!!"

Everyone was startled and retreated. The scream came from the headless corpse of the saleswoman. "I'm dead! Am I dead?!"

The sound carried a mixture of crying and fear, and the bleeding female corpse actually stood up straight from the ground.

Seeing the headless female corpse flailing her arms wildly, Chu Jiang calmly shouted, "You're not dead yet, at least not for now. Think about it, where can a dead person stand up and talk?"

"Also, did the cards in your hand help you? Did you borrow their power?"

Infected by Chu Jiang's calm tone, the saleswoman's panicked emotions eased somewhat.

But she still stammered and spoke incoherently, "I, I died, I was thinking... watching my head roll off my body, and I could still think for a moment."

"I... I remembered the scene depicted on the card: a headless monk with my dead head perched on his neck, and then... and then I came back to life..."

Chapter 241 The Murder Pattern in Room 1

Chu Jiang nodded slightly after listening. It was indeed related to cards. If used properly, these things could really save lives.

However, given the current situation of the sales assistant...

Unless the saleswoman can bring the headless monk card back to the real world, even if she manages to leave the castle "alive," she will immediately become dead once the card is taken back.

In reality, the saleswoman was already dead; it was the supernatural power on the card that was maintaining her consciousness.

The resurrection of the saleswoman was both incredibly terrifying and made everyone realize the power of the card in their hands—could it really bring someone back to life after death?

"Do the cards we have also have a similar effect?" the bald man asked, voicing the doubts of the others.

Chu Jiang shook his head. "The supernatural powers that each person can utilize are different. If you carefully sense them, you can roughly determine what abilities you possess."

Taking advantage of the temporary safety, everyone closed their eyes and sensed the surroundings again.

However, most people looked rather disappointed, especially the bald man. He was certain he would die if his head was chopped off, because the power this card granted him had nothing to do with resurrection.

"Let's get back to the main topic. Miss Li, how exactly did you die, and what did you do?"

The saleswoman carefully went over to the headless female corpse, retrieved her head, and tried to put it back on, but she couldn't manage it, which brought her to the brink of despair.

"What should I do? What am I going to do? Everyone will treat me like a monster. Will I get arrested?"

Seeing that the saleswoman didn't answer Chu Jiang's question at all, the skinny man also spoke up: "Don't panic. At worst, you can become a Ghost Master in the future, just like us. As long as you don't die, you still have a future."

"As for your head, as long as you can escape this hellish place alive, you can go to the hospital for a stitch-up surgery, then wear sunglasses when you go out, and you'll still look like a living person."

"It's not impossible that joining Research Institute No. 21 could completely turn you back into a normal person."

"After all, you have to understand that when it comes to ghosts, there's absolutely no logic to it; anything is possible. It's just a simple connection; compared to resurrection, isn't that child's play?"

It must be said that the skinny man's "comfort" gradually calmed the saleswoman down. She didn't know what that research institute was, but it sounded like a scientific research organization.

The saleswoman took a deep breath and then began to answer the team leader's questions.

It's worth mentioning that, from the saleswoman's perspective, she does have a head. However, this head is rather ethereal, like a ghost.

The sound she made also came from the ghost's head.

"The team leader was walking very slowly before, and I was under a lot of tension, so I broke out in a cold sweat."

"Seeing that nothing was wrong halfway there, I relaxed a bit, wiped my sweat, fanned myself, and then I died..."

"Oh right, I used this thing to fan myself. It was a completely subconscious act; I forgot I was scared. I just had this flat thing in my hand, so I did it on a whim." The saleswoman held up the card that was stuck to her hand and wouldn't come off.

Chu Jiang then looked at the student and the policewoman, who also gave their own descriptions from their respective perspectives, which were similar to the saleswoman's account.

"Relax, wipe your sweat, fan yourself with a card—has anyone here done anything like this before?"

The students and firefighters raised their hands, indicating that they had moments of lapse in concentration, but they did not wipe their sweat or fan themselves.

Chu Jiang thought for a moment, "Then, on the rest of the journey, no one should do the last two things, no matter how hot it is."

Everyone nodded vigorously.

Just then, the policewoman offered her own theory. Luckily, the saleswoman wasn't completely dead, otherwise they would really only be able to gesticulate now.

She said it might not be related to wiping sweat, but perhaps to the wind. Or even not the wind, to be precise, it should be airflow? In short, something like airflow.

Listening to the saleswoman's translation, Chu Jiang thought for a moment, "It's possible that the movement of air creates wind. The reason we didn't trigger this killing pattern before is because we were moving little by little, without creating a large airflow."

"But if we walk quickly, or run, or scatter and flee, we will create wind, which will attract a deadly attack."

After speaking, Chu Jiang looked at everyone, especially the students, and said, "If anything happens later, don't run away, understand?"

The student nodded repeatedly. He had already violated the prohibition Chu Jiang had previously mentioned by shouting out loud.

The skinny man was also a ghost master. After listening to the policewoman and Chu Jiang's deductions, he had a question: "When we were in room 0, the room in front, we saw another bald guy run out of room 1."

"He rushed in so fast, he must have created some airflow, right? Why wasn't he beheaded? Instead, he escaped to Room 0 and was then grabbed and dragged back by a terrifying hand."

Chu Jiang shook his head. "First of all, that thing could very well be an illusion. There's no point in analyzing an illusion."

"Secondly, even if it was a living creature, it didn't necessarily come out of room number 1. We only saw it run out of darkness, didn't we?"

The skinny man nodded, then asked about something else, "Could you please trouble Captain Chu to keep using the Ghost Domain to guide us forward? That way, as long as the ghosts outside can't get in, we'll be safe."

The four ordinary people didn't quite understand what the Ghost Realm meant, but they roughly understood that it was the ruins of the city they were currently in.

That's like being in a completely different world from the outside, right? It should be much safer.

Therefore, upon hearing the thin man's words, they also looked at Chu Jiang with hopeful eyes.

Chu Jiang simply replied, "In this room, I will use the Ghost Domain to guide you forward until we reach the door ahead. However, I will not use the Ghost Domain to take you into room number 2."

"Because I don't know what the killing pattern is in the next room. If it's a case where using supernatural powers will inevitably lead to death, then I'm basically asking for it."

"If it is confirmed that the murder pattern in Room 2 is unrelated to the Ghost Domain, I will continue to bring you in as I am now, and keep leading you to the next door."

Although Chu Jiang possesses the Ghost Diary, its first negative effect is that he cannot enter a near-death state; otherwise, the Ghost Diary will devour him without anyone else having to do anything.

Although, in the face of death, the devouring of the Ghost Diary was, in effect, protecting Chu Jiang.

But what if Chu Jiang dies instantly, without going through the near-death experience?

That would mean the Ghost Diary would directly devour his corpse, and very quickly, not slowly. It would be like killing him to silence him and leaving no trace...

Chapter 242 Entering Room 2

Chu Jiang's reasoning was irrefutable, so the others didn't insist on it anymore, since they were still counting on Chu Jiang's protection.

Just before they were about to start over, the student came to Chu Jiang's side and secretly told him about the supernatural power he could borrow from the cards.

"I can make the sound disappear within a certain range, achieving a state of complete silence, that should be correct."

After listening, Chu Jiang suddenly understood. So that's how it is. The human skull on the card, with a piece of hardwood in its mouth, should mean "a person holding a gag in their mouth, a horse with a rein in its mouth".

This refers to the ancient practice of soldiers biting a stick in their mouths and using it to gag their horses when launching a night raid, in order to prevent any movement from the soldiers and horses that would reveal their location.

In this way, Chu Jiang could even guess the ghost's killing pattern: it must not make any noise, or it would kill anyone who made a sound.

After realizing what was happening, Chu Jiang looked at the college student and asked, "Why are you telling me this?"

The student's face was somewhat somber. He forced a smile and said, "I'm afraid I'll die too suddenly, without even having the chance to use this power."

"If you need anything, Captain, just let me know."

The student's name is Anan. He originally went back to his hometown to take his mother to a big hospital in the provincial capital for treatment, but unexpectedly, he ended up in this godforsaken place.

If he hadn't told his family his account number and payment password when he had a signal outside, he would have been even more desperate this time.

It's worth mentioning that cell phone communication was cut off after entering the castle, making it seem as if the only reason people could make calls outside this godforsaken place was to leave their last words.

Of course, Chu Jiang didn't think so; he felt it might be some kind of supernatural transmission method...

Seeing the student proactively reveal his abilities to Chu Jiang, the others had their own thoughts.

At first, the two foreigners didn't understand what was going on. After the saleswoman explained, the policewoman also came forward and told Chu Jiang about her abilities, including her original abilities as a ghost master.

She didn't speak, but used her abilities within a very small scope, so that Chu Jiang could understand what was going on at a glance.