I have a ghost diary

Chapter 352 Cries for Help

"Captain Chu, do you want to join our special forces and lead them in their raid on El Paso?" Bruce asked enthusiastically.

Chu Jiang thought for a moment and said, "Forget it, let's go in separately. That way, the probability of us all being wiped out at the same time will be smaller."

Of course, while he says this, he actually doesn't trust BRPD members, nor does he trust Jade from the Church of the Divine Word.

Bruce was somewhat disappointed, but he did not insist. He showed Chu Jiang the list of special forces members to avoid the situation where their own people wouldn't recognize each other once inside.

He also delivered a simultaneous interpretation headset to Chu Jiang, as well as other remote communication equipment.

"That's settled then, I'll head over to El Paso now." Chu Jiang put on his headphones and stood up.

Bruce was somewhat surprised. "So fast? Then we'll also arrange for the special forces members to assemble at the same time. I estimate that we'll officially enter El Paso a little later than you."

Chu Jiang nodded, and then Bruce saw the other party transform into a black-gold beam of light, shatter the window, and shoot towards El Paso!

This surprised him for a moment. "Using a ghost realm to travel? How extravagant..."

Keep in mind that the straight-line distance from Austin to El Paso is nearly a thousand kilometers.

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In less than five minutes, Chu Jiang arrived at the outskirts of El Paso. Although he had only recently mastered the Black Sun, he was quite adept at using its power.

Chu Jiang landed near the state park to the north and cautiously made his way towards the city center...

Around El Paso, there is an invisible dividing line, and after crossing this line, Chu Jiang felt a moment of disorientation.

A ghost realm? No, it doesn't seem like it.

Chu Jiang tried to take a step back, but found that he couldn't move back; it was as if he was standing still.

He then tried to contact Bruce using headphones, and so far he has been able to make contact normally.

So Chu Jiang continued onward. He didn't see anyone for the first half hour, but before entering the city, he came across a gas station and went into the shop inside to buy an ice cream.

The staff here seemed normal, and I even thought Chu Jiang was a tourist from abroad, so they were quite enthusiastic.

Chu Jiang secretly observed them and even shook hands with one of the employees, but he didn't notice anything unusual.

But Chu Jiang always felt that something was off. It wasn't the mental state of these people, but the whole city gave him a sense of disharmony, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what was wrong.

After much deliberation, Chu Jiang officially entered the city. Once there, the remote communication function of the headset started producing static; although the translation function was still working, it was no longer able to contact the outside world.

So Chu Jiang left the city again. This time he was able to make contact again, but it was meaningless. The truth would never be found on the outskirts.

Chu Jiang didn't act rashly. He waited where he was, letting the BRPD's special forces enter El Paso from another direction first, to see if the two sides could communicate with each other after entering the city.

Bruce immediately carried out the order. In fact, during the time Chu Jiang was walking, most of the people who were supposed to arrive had already reached the outskirts of the city.

Shortly afterward, the special forces entered from the south of El Paso and also reached the edge of the city.

Chu Jiang contacted the captain on the other side, a man named Anderson, but the other side did not notice anything unusual.

Finally, both sides entered the city at the same time, and the good news is that they could still contact each other.

Then Anderson, in a deep voice, said, "How about we keep the call going? Everyone join this channel, so that if something happens to one side, the other side can be notified."

After hearing the translated content, Chu Jiang naturally agreed.

The other team members remained silent, including Jie De. The atmosphere was quite serious; everyone knew they were here to fight to the death.

Once inside the city, everything still seems "normal." The population density is relatively low compared to other parts of China, but people are still running their shops and working, and you can occasionally see homeless people on the streets.

Chu Jiang strolled around casually, bought a few pairs of jeans, a wide-brimmed straw hat with a distinctive style from a neighboring country, and even ate a taco at a street food stall.

On the other side, the special forces were not as relaxed as Chu Jiang's side. They went directly to the local BRPD branch that had lost contact, but they couldn't find anyone there, as if they had disappeared into thin air.

When asked, the surrounding residents knew nothing about it.

Chu Jiang had just finished eating and wiped his mouth when he suddenly heard a faint voice, "Help me~"

It sounded like a little girl's cry for help, and it wasn't the English "Help me," but a language he could directly understand. More importantly, Chu Jiang couldn't find the source of the sound.

"Wait, did you hear a sound?" Jade's voice came through the earpiece.

Others responded, confirming that they had heard the little girl's cries for help.

“Be careful,” Anderson instinctively felt something was wrong. “The residents of this city don’t seem to hear this sound, and I can’t find the source of the sound. It seems to be ringing directly in my head.”

Chu Jiang looked at the fat owner of the shop, who was indeed frying corn pancakes and seemed completely unaware of the noise.

So Chu Jiang paid and walked out of the shop, asking, "Where are you? How can I save you?"

Upon hearing Chu Jiang's voice, everyone else in the channel fell silent.

"Help me, help me..."

After repeating the same monotonous voice several times, the little girl seemed to finally react, and she said with difficulty, "Run! The nuns are looking for you."

nun?

Chu Jiang used his extrasensory perception to search the surrounding area for all people dressed in nun's robes, but he couldn't find them at all.

Meanwhile, Anderson and his team, who had become vigilant, also failed to find the nun or any lurking danger.

"Jed, is she talking about you?"

Jade was speechless. "How could it be me? Besides, I'm not a nun." Clearly, she was still trying to maintain her persona within the astrological association.

"What do nuns look like?" Chu Jiang was clearly asking the little girl.

This time, the other party answered quickly, "The nun is white, like a ghost."

"There are also angels, but angels generally do not leave the fortress where God resides."

"Run! Run! Otherwise you'll die here like everyone else..." The little girl's voice grew weaker and weaker, and she was panting.

"How do we escape?" A male member of the special forces couldn't help but ask, "We found ourselves trapped here after we came in."

Chapter 353 Another World

The little girl took a while to answer: "I don't know. My mom and dad drove me in, but then some people went crazy, some people died, I got hurt, and I escaped into the sewer..."

"Where are you? I'm coming to save you." Chu Jiang's voice remained calm, as if he had no intention of running away at all.

"The sewers... I don't know where I am. It's so dark, so gloomy, so cold..."

"Okay, hang in there. I'll go into the city's sewers to search now."

Chu Jiang knew, of course, that there was likely something wrong with the little girl; but he wasn't afraid of any accidents, he was afraid of not being able to find any clues at all.

"Ah, wait, the nuns have found you. There's one, two, three..."

Before the little girl could finish speaking, several short struggle sounds came from the channel, followed by Anderson's roar, the sound of gunfire, and a terrifying whistling sound!

Chu Jiang even heard Jade praying softly, but he couldn't understand a single word she was saying.

A few seconds later, everything calmed down, with only the heavy breathing of the special forces members, who seemed to be gripped by some kind of fear.

Chu Jiang was not attacked. He quickly scanned his surroundings and asked, "What happened?"

“Three team members have disappeared.” Anderson answered, and Chu Jiang could imagine the grim look on his face just from his tone.

"It was so sudden. They suddenly covered their necks, and I saw them quickly use their demonic abilities, but they disappeared the next second."

"And now?" Chu Jiang continued to ask.

This time it was Jade who responded, her voice trembling slightly, "It's very quiet around now, and the pedestrians on the street have been scared away by our indiscriminate shooting."

Chu Jiang frowned. These were all carefully selected experts by BRPD. Even if they weren't all at the level of a research institute captain, they shouldn't be too far off, right?

He just struggled for a moment and then he was gone? If it were my turn, would he disappear on the spot too?

"Child, are you still there? Is the nun still with us?" This was Anderson's question.

The little girl's voice rang out after a while, "The nuns are leaving; they're taking the body back." There was a hint of pain in her voice.

"Why did they die so quickly? What were the nuns' attack methods?" Chu Jiang asked.

"They didn't resist; the nun had them by the neck..."

There was no resistance? Why?

“They resisted,” Anderson said quickly. “I saw their resistance with my own eyes, but it didn’t work.”

"No...they're not moving, their eyes are closed..."

The little girl's words baffled everyone. Could she be a remnant of the Crimson Rose Cult, deliberately trying to deceive them and lure them to their deaths?

But that shouldn't be the case. The little girl could have simply kept quiet and warned them, which made them wary.

Although I was on guard, it seemed to have done nothing...

"Captain." A female voice rang out from the team. Chu Jiang didn't understand her intention because she only called out the word "captain" and seemed to convey the rest of the message through hand gestures.

After a while, Anderson slowly said, "No rush. Just because they have their eyes closed, does that mean we should close our eyes too?"

"Yes, everyone's eyes are closed, I can't understand what you're doing," the little girl said, her voice filled with confusion.

Chu Jiang, on his side, thought of a possibility... Could it be that everyone was dreaming?

To be precise, upon entering this city, everyone is forced into a dream and forced to treat the dream as the real world. This perfectly explains why Chu Jiang felt that everything was wrong.

Thinking of this, Chu Jiang immediately tried to "wake up".

He closed his eyes and summoned all the power of the ghosts within him, but no matter how he tried, he felt that he was awake and had no sense of being in a dream at all.

On the special operations side, some people obviously thought of this as well, but similarly, even if they injured their own bodies, they could not wake up from the "dream".

How do you wake someone who is already awake?

"Did we just close our eyes? Did we walk around?" Chu Jiang asked again.

"No, you're standing on the edge of the city."

“Some people came in recently, and they just stood there and didn’t move. Then the nuns killed them one by one, and their bodies were dragged back to the fortress.”

The little girl's words grew slower and slower, "You should leave now, don't save me, I'm probably going to die soon..."