I have a ghost diary

This part can no longer be called a sewer; it's more like an underground server room with a futuristic, high-tech style.

Standing at the entrance, Chu Jiang and his team saw a messy, densely packed array of incoming cables; rows of rectangular server racks; flashing red and green electronic indicator lights; and the noise of server fans running at high speed.

At first glance, Chu Jiang and his group did not see the figure of the false god.

However, Chu Jiang did not rush to formally enter the server room. He did not even dare to use Ghost Domain or Extrasensory Perception to investigate inside.

Chu Jiang summoned the nun from his watch and shared his vision with her, letting the ghost go in and take a look.

The nun naturally obeyed. The relationship between the two was now very similar to that between a real ghost and its servant.

As the nun floated into the server room, Chu Jiang whispered again into the air, "Little sister, are you still there?"

A few seconds later, Chu Jiang heard a response, the voice growing weaker and weaker: "Yes, I'm here."

Jiede was startled. She had been standing two or three steps behind Chu Jiang, but she immediately came up and tugged at Chu Jiang's sleeve. "I heard her again."

Jade lowered her voice very low, but Chu Jiang had no time to respond to her at that moment.

Chu Jiang simply looked in a certain direction of the server room. The sound he had just heard was an overlapping sound, as if... he had received the sound simultaneously through his mind and ears.

What's even stranger is that what his ears hear is broken English, but what his mind receives is his mother tongue.

With a solemn expression, Chu Jiang immediately instructed the nun to float towards the direction from which the sound came.

Not long after, Chu Jiang's eyes "saw" a strange figure that exuded terror and despair.

The figure was very tall, at least three meters high, and it wore a tattered black cloak. Beneath the cloak was a chaotic, humanoid mass of darkness.

Within this darkness, numerous blue binary codes composed of 0s and 1s flashed by incessantly; but what was most terrifying was its chest and abdomen, where a lifeless, pale human face with its eyes tightly closed lay.

It was the face of a young girl, who looked no more than seven or eight years old; her brows were furrowed, her face was contorted in pain, and her lips were so pale they were almost bloodless.

The moment Chu Jiang saw the ghost, his body stiffened slightly, a long-lost sensation—an instinctive reaction to extreme danger.

The demons within him were also restless. Not only the Blood Hand Ghost and the Dark Left Hand, but even the Black Sun seemed to be stirring, as if it had sensed some kind of power that could threaten it.

But what surprised Chu Jiang the most was not how terrifying the false god was, but that its appearance had changed.

Previously, at the Texas branch, Chu Jiang had seen a sketch of the False God's appearance.

First of all, the false god in the sketch has absolutely no blue data flow inside its body; it is just a chaotic darkness, making people feel as if they are staring directly at a black hole.

Secondly, and most importantly, the face on the false god's chest, which was clearly the face of an adult male, has now been replaced by a little girl?

Without a doubt, this girl is very likely the one who has been communicating with and helping Chu Jiang and his group all along.

But Chu Jiang couldn't understand what kind of being she was. Was she a consciousness spontaneously born from a false god? Or was she just a pitiful person devoured by a monster, without even realizing it...?

Chapter 363 The Messager of the Note

Seeing that Chu Jiang was stunned and didn't move, Jie De thought he hadn't heard her, so this time she tugged at his arm instead.

Unexpectedly, Chu Jiang covered her mouth with his hand and whispered to her, "Leave first if you don't want to die."

Jade shook her head repeatedly, indicating that she would not leave, so Chu Jiang told her to retreat to the back and not to interfere with his actions.

Jade wisely withdrew, and then Chu Jiang turned his attention back to the false god.

At this moment, the false god also "saw" the nun, but it ignored her and continued with its work.

The towering false god stood before a circular electronic control panel. Its hands were not operating a keyboard, buttons, or knobs, but were instead inserted directly into two circular black holes.

It appears to be exchanging a large amount of data with the core server; the blue data stream within it is both inputting into the server and flowing into its body.

To be precise, the false god didn't even glance at the nun, and seemed unconcerned about the arrival of the two strange humans at the entrance of the server room.

"Have you found God?" This time, it was the little girl who took the initiative to ask.

Moreover, Chu Jiang could see that it was indeed the face on the chest and abdomen of the false god speaking, which looked both eerie and strange.

"Not yet, but I found you by chance." Chu Jiang said this after considering it.

The little girl was pleasantly surprised, and even her weak voice rose a beat, "No wonder I felt your voice was so close to me. Can you save me? I feel like I'm about to die."

Chu Jiang didn't give an answer first, but only asked, "Can't you open your eyes?"

"Yeah, I could open my eyes at first, but then I felt so tired all over, and gradually I couldn't open them anymore..."

“Okay,” Chu Jiang continued in a reassuring tone, “Do you remember how long ago it was when your parents drove you to this city?”

"I forgot, I forgot. It feels like it was just a few days ago, but sometimes it feels like it's been so long." The girl's tone revealed confusion.

"When you first came here, the people in this city were normal. But later everyone started acting strangely, like standing still, grinning like an idiot, or refusing to eat or drink."

"Ah."

Upon hearing this, Chu Jiang was able to deduce one thing: the little girl was an outsider, and her consciousness was not born from the body of the false god.

Because the real problems in El Paso only started to spread in the last few days. Before that, the little girl was obviously still free.

Of course, it's also possible that the newly born consciousness of the false god fabricated a false memory for itself.

But Chu Jiang felt that the probability was very low, because based on the two conscious ghosts he had encountered, neither their ghost diaries nor their ramblings showed such human-like behavior as the little girl.

“You’ve helped me a lot along the way, so of course I’ll try to save you, but it might not be successful because… you’re with God.”

"I see you inside God's body. Were you eaten by it?"

Upon hearing Chu Jiang's words, the little girl's tightly closed eyelashes trembled! Her face contorted in pain.

At the same time, the false god, whose face was devoid of features, raised its head to look in the direction of the nun, and then looked up at the doorway.

Chu Jiang floated in silently, and incidentally, he had the nun re-enter the dial. In the ensuing battle, the nun's role would be very limited.

At the same moment he locked eyes with the false god, Chu Jiang completed his current maximum transformation into a zombie, leaving only his head as a human form, while the rest of his body was a bluish-black zombie, giving people a direct sense of death and oppression.

At the same time, a black solar flame wheel appeared around Chu Jiang. It could be said that at this moment, he had pushed himself to his limit! This was all to prevent a disastrous outcome upon their first meeting.

However, the false god doesn't seem to have any plans to fight Chu Jiang for the time being, and it's unknown what the other party's killing patterns are.

Suddenly, a large amount of data flowed out from the "mouth" of the false god.

These data streams form a blue dialog box in front of it, and then a large number of language codes appear in the dialog box.

The cursor jumped around continuously and finally selected the simplified Chinese character encoding in UTF-8 format.

After the encoding was selected, the data stream changed from a string of gibberish into two complete text segments, which were then displayed in the dialog box.

Do not open this diary.

Unless you're mentally prepared to die suddenly.

Chu Jiang's pupils contracted! When he first obtained the Ghost Diary, there were two slips of paper pasted on the cover, and this was the content of the second slip.

Moreover, Chu Jiang remembered that the handwriting on the note was crooked and messy, as if it had been written by the writer in a state of extreme agitation and pain, giving people a strong sense of discomfort.

Later, Sister Bei from the Holy Word Church confirmed that the ramblings had left hints in the diary.

At that time, Chu Jiang wondered if both notes were left by the delirium, or if one was left by a ghost.

In hindsight, the latter guess was correct.

But Chu Jiang never expected that the delicate and gentle handwriting was left by a delirious dream, while the distorted and violent handwriting was left by a false god.

Because Chu Jiang subconsciously believed that the essence of delirium should be even more insane.

Furthermore, Bei explicitly stated that the ramblings were meant to "dissuade," but the content of the first note was clearly a temptation:

If you received a diary that could predict the future

How would you use it?

Looking back now, it just goes to show that the old saying still holds true: "The more beautiful a woman is, the more likely she is to deceive people."

Or rather, the more evil a ghost is, the more it will disguise its true intentions, deliberately appearing harmless, or even "gentle and kind."

On the surface, it was meant to entice Chu Jiang to open his diary, but its real purpose was to make him wary.

False gods are much more straightforward, openly warning you not to open the door.

It's estimated that both ghosts want to get their hands on this diary. If someone opens it, takes it away, or seals a ghost inside, it will make the diary more powerful, which would be detrimental to their acquisition of it.

Of course, Chu Jiang still flipped through it. Back then, he was a stubborn high school student. No matter if it was a direct warning or a subtle dissuasion, he would flip through it without hesitation.

After showing this text to Chu Jiang, the false god spat something out of his mouth again, but this time it wasn't a data stream, but a slightly yellowed piece of paper.

The paper was completely blank, as if it had been preserved for many years.

This made Chu Jiang frown slightly. What was this person trying to do? Was it trying to tempt him or provoke him? Was it clearly a case of "come and take it yourself if you dare"?

Just then, the little girl's situation changed again, and she opened her eyes with great difficulty.

She gasped for breath and said painfully, "I... I remember now, God pulled a dead body out of his chest and threw it away, then stuffed me into His body... Am I already dead?"

Hearing the weak and confused voice, Chu Jiang took a deep breath. "You're not dead yet. I'll save you."

The next instant, the false god ruthlessly stretched out a hand and stabbed into the chest. Its hand pierced the little girl's face and almost violently grabbed her skull, forcibly dragging this young human out of its body.

Blood gushed from the girl's face immediately. She was too weak to even scream; she could only manage labored gasps from her throat...

Chu Jiang clenched his fists, his face darkened, and a black ghost domain instantly covered the area.

Chu Jiang teleported to the front of the false god, his clenched right fist burning with black flames, and punched the ghost in the face!

This punch was imbued with the power to interfere with reality; it could be said to be a combined attack from Chu Jiang and the Black Sun ghost. Most of the ghosts Chu Jiang had encountered so far would have difficulty withstanding this punch and would be rendered powerless to resist.

At the same moment, Chu Jiang grabbed the false god's wrist with his other hand, trying to stop it from killing the little girl completely.

To his surprise, the false god simply tossed the little girl away like trash.

As for Chu Jiang's punch, it missed because countless blue data streams transformed into tiny electronic locks/chains, binding Chu Jiang's fist tightly.

Just as his fingers were about to touch the false god, the fierce attack was stopped halfway and came to an abrupt halt.

Chu Jiang suddenly exerted his strength and shattered the chains, but he did not continue his attack. Instead, he retreated and transferred the little girl who had been thrown out into his arms.

This seemed to make the false god, who had a sunken black hole in his chest, feel "very interesting".

The dialog box reappeared, but this time the text on it had changed:

[Analysis of this objective reveals a logical flaw; the diary entry is now the second priority objective. The value of recycled materials has been increased, and they are temporarily listed as the first priority objective.]

The core system requests a search for this target. The divine authority is requested to absorb it, analyze its thoughts, acquire its knowledge, and retrieve its memories.