I have a ghost diary

Chu Jiang was unaware of the backstabbing and infighting among these female classmates; however, he didn't want to wrongly accuse anyone, so he specifically asked Chen Jie about it.

However, Chen Jie only stammered and avoided the question, which indirectly confirmed the authenticity of the report.

Since then, the two have barely spoken to each other, and this remains true to this day.

At this moment, unexpectedly hearing Chen Jie's apology in such a desperate situation, Chu Jiang couldn't help but smile, "Why didn't you say that earlier?"

"Okay, don't overthink it. I'll try my best to get you out of here."

As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Jiang's face turned deathly pale for some reason.

Chu Jiang suddenly stopped, and Chen Jie bumped into his shoulder again.

This time, however, Chen Jie didn't ask why. She carefully raised her phone and then saw... a ghostly figure.

A tall, thin figure, over three meters tall, with a hunched back and a face consisting of only three deep black holes.

As the thin, ghostly figure appeared, the lights on everyone's phones began to flicker and make a buzzing sound, as if they were being disturbed by something.

At the same time, they heard various eerie sounds such as wails, cries for help, and chewing sounds; they smelled various nauseating odors such as blood, the stench of corpses, and decay.

Their bodies were cold, stiff, and numb, and a foul, dark aura assaulted them. Even their consciousness trembled, as if they were facing the most terrifying being in the world.

The bluestone pavement on the ground underwent a strange change simultaneously. It aged rapidly, as if in an instant, it had experienced the relentless ravages of hundreds of years, with the stone slabs cracking, fading, and becoming mottled.

The stone slabs that had borne the weight of the group were completely reduced to dust.

At this moment, Chu Jiang felt only despair.

The worst happened: they were found by Slender Man!

This is a real ghost, and also the most terrifying ghost in the school, the source of everything.

Putting everything else aside, Chu Jiang was absolutely certain that the Slender Man was far superior to the Ghost Tree, whether in terms of imposing presence, influence, or the sense of oppression it brought.

The most terrifying thing is that this ghost in front of you seems to be able to manipulate time, making it stand still or flow backward.

Previously, at Luoxi No. 7 Middle School, everyone was frozen in place. That was the first time they had ever seen a thin, ghostly figure, one that seemed to transcend distance.

The ghostly figure seemed to be searching for something. If it weren't for the ringing of a bell that drew their attention, everyone would probably have been wiped out by then.

If he had encountered other ghosts in the school at this moment, Chu Jiang wouldn't have been so desperate; at least he still had the Black Diary.

But what he encountered was the Slender Ghost. Even if Chu Jiang had nine diaries, one for each of them, and rushed up to gang up on the opponent, he would not have the slightest chance of winning. The gap between the two sides was simply immeasurable.

"Run, don't look back." Chu Jiang managed to utter these words with great difficulty. He felt as if his body was no longer his own in front of this ghost, even though the other party was just standing there motionless.

Li Yan, Chen Jie, and others suppressed their tears, turned around, and ran away slowly. Some even fell to the ground, still digging their fingers into the mud as they crawled forward.

At their snail's pace of escape, everyone would die.

Suddenly, the thin, ghostly figure moved. With its movement, the oppressive feeling on their bodies lessened. The eight people, except for Chu Jiang, fled even more desperately, with only Chu Jiang rushing out to the side.

He knew very well that he was most likely going to die here today.

He was unwilling to accept it, extremely unwilling, his fingers gripping the diary so tightly that his nails twisted.

Chu Jiang decided that even if he died, he would take a bite out of the other party!

"Pfft~!"

The thought had barely crossed Chu Jiang's mind when he heard the sound of a sharp object piercing through flesh.

He was very familiar with this sound; he had heard it when Teacher Yu was pierced by the ghost tree.

Chapter Eleven: The Death of Chu Jiang

The pain, fear, palpitations, and other reactions were delayed, allowing Chu Jiang to experience them firsthand.

When he realized what was happening, he was already impaled on the hands of the Gauntlet and held high above his head.

The tip of the Ghost Hand, like a sharp cone, pierced Chu Jiang's chest with a smoothness like a hot knife cutting through butter, without any resistance.

As Chu Jiang lay dying, his pupils dilated and blood trickled from the corner of his mouth. He raised his right hand unwillingly, intending to slap the cover of the diary onto the ghostly figure's hand.

But with a flick of his wrist, the lanky ghost sent Chu Jiang flying more than ten meters away, leaving a long trail on the ground.

Chu Jiang vomited blood profusely, his consciousness rapidly blurred, and everything before his eyes became indistinct.

The slender, ghostly figure flashed to Chu Jiang's front with unimaginable speed. The black holes in its eyes held no emotion, only deathly stillness and indifference.

The sharp point at the end of the arm quickly transformed into a palm, and the ghostly figure seemed to want to scoop up Chu Jiang and throw him into its mouth.

But at that moment, a miracle that only existed in Chu Jiang's imagination happened!

The black diary, which had already flown out of Chu Jiang's hand when he was thrown out, actually flew back on its own.

The bloody handprints on the cover were increasingly glaring, with blood dripping continuously, as if something was trying to crawl out of the diary.

As the ghostly hand descended, the black diary, which was suspended in mid-air, blocked the ghostly hand.

For some unknown reason, the thin, ghostly figure's hand, just before touching the diary, eerily stopped.

The two sides then seemed to reach a stalemate.

However, Chu Jiang was almost at his limit. If he hadn't vaguely seen the Black Diary unleash its power, which gave him a sudden burst of energy, like he had taken a stimulant, he would have lost consciousness by now.

After a standoff of about two or three seconds, the Slender Ghost seemed to give up. It turned around and disappeared after taking a few steps.

"Great! Great!" The dying Chu Jiang felt genuinely joyful.

Wait, no, seeing the black diary fall in front of him, Chu Jiang struggled to turn over on the ground.

He has suffered a fatal wound; if the bleeding doesn't stop soon, he will die. Can this diary help him heal?

Just as he was thinking this, Chu Jiang was horrified to discover that a large amount of blood flowing from his body was continuously pouring into the black diary.

This situation was as if... as if the diary was devouring his life force, and it was doing so greedily, as if it wanted to eat him up completely.

At the same time, the diary cover opened by itself, and the first page was blank.

But soon, Chu Jiang's warm blood wrote two lines of text on it, the handwriting messy:

[November 17, Cloudy]

The school was haunted today; everyone died, including me.

"Heh, cough cough..." Chu Jiang laughed and coughed at the same time. Is this the truth behind the so-called "predicting the future"?

Looking at the black diary that had finished writing and closed on its own, Chu Jiang finally understood why the diary had saved him.

This isn't about saving lives; it's the Black Diary, which won't allow Slender Man to steal its prey.

Now that Chu Jiang has opened the diary, he is cursed; his fate is predetermined by the diary.

Slender Man and the Black Diary were locked in a standoff for a moment, but Slender Man ultimately gave up. This suggests that the Black Diary might be an even more terrifying ghost than Slender Man himself.

Chu Jiang's decision was wrong from the start; he unleashed a nightmare upon himself...

With his consciousness shattered, Chu Jiang felt incredibly sleepy, so very sleepy. He longed to take a nap...

Looking at the diary that was now doubled in front of him, Chu Jiang wore an ugly smile. His right hand rested limply on the diary, on the bloody handprint that was constantly gushing blood.

On his deathbed, he had only one wish: to bury the diary that had brought him so much misfortune.

Unfortunately, Chu Jiang had no strength left. He had just placed his hand on it when he died.

However, at this moment, whether by coincidence or not, something very interesting happened.

On the cover of the Black Diary, there really is something trying to break free, struggling frantically as if trying to escape some kind of restraint.

Unfortunately, Chu Jiang was being devoured by the black diary. As he died completely, the rate of this devouring increased tenfold, as if it wanted to swallow the entire corpse into the diary.

One came up with an idea, the other was swallowed up, and the two just happened to collide.

After an unknown amount of time, Chu Jiang, whose entire upper body had been swallowed into the diary, was somehow spat out again.

Another strange thing is that the bloody handprint on the cover of the Black Diary is gone.

It vanished completely, and the entire diary cover was spotless, without a single drop of blood, as if it were simply a plain diary with a solid-color cover.

......

A little earlier, Li Yan and his group fled the cobblestone road in a very disheveled state.

Perhaps because they didn't follow the road, they didn't encounter any ghost walls this time, and everyone escaped.

Of course, it was mainly Chu Jiang who delayed the Slender Man's progress; otherwise, none of them would have survived.

However, there was some bad news: the remaining eight people were scattered again, splitting into two groups.

Li Yan, Chen Jie, Gao Yifei, and Liu Mingming ran out, while the other four disappeared.

But now was clearly not the time to think about that. Li Yan and the other three fled frantically, without any destination in sight.

Li Yan's face was deathly pale, his body trembling, and he kept muttering Chu Jiang's name. He only saw Chu Jiang flee in the opposite direction from them, but in that situation, Chu Jiang was probably already...

Overwhelmed by fear, Chen Jie bit his lip until it bled, and tears and blood streamed down his face.

The remaining two weren't much better off.

With a "bang," Chen Jie kicked something and fell to the ground.

The other three hesitated for a moment, then stopped, turned around, and helped her up.

Chen Jie's hands and feet were scraped and blistered, but she didn't complain of pain; her body was just trembling uncontrollably.

"Where should we go?" Liu Mingming looked at the other three with some despair.

Gao Yifei was covered in cold sweat. "Go, go find the other team."

"But Chu Jiang is dead!" Li Yan gripped Gao Yifei's clothes tightly, his expression ferocious. "Who will lead us to find him? And is the other team really still alive?"

"Tell me, can Zhang Haoran survive in front of this vengeful ghost?"

Only those who have truly faced it know just how terrifying Slender Man is. Even if they survive this time, the ghost will remain a lifelong nightmare for all of them.

Gao Yifei was speechless, while Chen Jie choked up and said, "Don't fight amongst yourselves."

Li Yan gasped for breath, as if only in this way could he slightly soothe the unease in his heart.

After a long while, he lowered his head and put his hand down, saying, "I'm sorry."

Gao Yifei shook his head and said nothing. Everyone's spirits were on the verge of collapse. One familiar classmate after another died in front of them. No one could calm down.