nucmednet Chapter 556 (2 chapters combined) [Domain - Double Gate] Source of the Curse
Chapter 556 (2 chapters combined) [Domain - Double Gate] Source of the Curse
Huang Yue is dead.
Upon seeing this news on a small road outside the villa area, Liu Zi's mind went blank.
He wasn't unaware that someone would die, after all, this was a high-level domain, but everything happened too suddenly!
"Hey buddy, is it just the two of you?"
The security guard, whom he had previously tried to get information out of, was sitting outside the gate eating a boxed lunch. When he saw Liu Zi and Bai Shaohua, he asked a question hesitantly.
"Um... how are your other friends?"
Why ask this?
Liu Zi glanced at him: "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing, it's just that one of you went out earlier and acted...strangely."
The gatekeeper coughed lightly and said, "He looked like he'd taken the wrong medicine, covered in sweat, and rushed out."
"About how long ago?"
"About half an hour."
Liu Zi and Bai Shaohua exchanged a glance, said nothing, and walked out of the villa area.
Not long after, a pair of paper figures of a golden boy and a jade girl emerged from the shadows.
It was Chen Ji and Fei'er. Contrary to their previous predictions, they changed their identities on the spot.
To avoid scaring others, the two of them had to sneak out.
Liu Zi told them the information he had learned from the gatekeeper, and then sighed.
No one expected Huang Yue to die so suddenly.
After all, this is only the second stage of the curse, and it hasn't reached the point where it's completely unsolvable yet.
"Let's go examine his body."
Chen Ji said softly, his voice becoming hoarse due to the paper figure transformation.
The group fell silent and walked toward the funeral home, the atmosphere becoming somber.
This is different from the first door. Those who entered the domain through the first door all died shortly after entering, and their names were not even known.
However, Huang Yue had stayed with them through the inn and made it all the way to the second door, so they were already familiar with each other.
Chen Ji lowered his paper head, feeling a heavy weight in his heart.
Being able to save each other's lives in a short time, like those times in rooms 309 and 303, means we're already quite familiar with each other, right?
Ironically, until Huang Yue died, all they knew was that he had been to Daping City, used to travel frequently for business, and was a veteran entrant to the domain.
If Huang Yue survives, they might still keep in touch in real life and learn more about each other...
But there's no way to change it now.
Chen remained silent. From Jiagu River to Daping City, he had gradually come to understand the cruelty of the advanced domain.
Bai Shaohua, who was also in the tenth domain, showed no change in expression, only a barely perceptible indifference, or rather numbness, flashed in his eyes.
But in any case, now is not the time to be overwhelmed by emotions.
Chen Ji shook his head. They didn't have time to grieve for Huang Yue; they had to focus on solving the problem.
Because another person in the same group, Feng Yao, is still alive.
It's past midnight now, and tomorrow is the prophesied day of her death. We must find a way out as soon as possible!
The biggest problem now is that Huang Yue's death is too mysterious.
Ren Yu did not lie in the text message; they had indeed found a way to break the red bowl curse, as shown in the video playing on the computer in the study.
But right after the video finished playing, the group suddenly realized that Huang Yue, who had been standing behind them, had disappeared without a trace.
Learning from the experiences of Wu Hui and Du Xu's group, they immediately suspected that Huang Yue had been pulled into another time and space.
However, the corpses outside the funeral home and the doorman's words proved that Huang Yue had quietly escaped from the room while watching the video.
He is still in reality.
"The back window of the villa was open."
Fei'er recalled, "Just like Feng Yao, he probably encountered something we couldn't see, which is why he escaped from there."
What will it be?
Video recording?
But the video recording is fine... It was just a simple video call between the ghost wife and the blind man.
Not only were there no problems, but the information was also extremely rich, and it even provided them with crucial clues.
First of all, the video clearly shows that the blind man was the one who provided the couple with the method to make a wish.
It was not Zhou Liang, as they had previously guessed.
Chen Ji was right; the blind man was indeed a fortune teller, but his life took a dramatic turn last year, transforming him from an ordinary fortune teller into a master who was said to be able to predict the future.
Afterwards, the wife ghost suffered a severe mental breakdown due to encountering a ghost, and then heard about the blind man's deeds.
She spent a lot of money to seek help from a blind man and obtained the first method of making a wish, which was paper dolls. Later, perhaps out of fear, she tried to use twins to fulfill her wish.
fail.
Then the blind man granted her a second wish: a red bowl, and provided a solution to this wish.
Moreover, this video finally confirmed everyone's previous guesses:
The couple of ghosts asked the blind man for four different ways to make a wish.
These are a paper figure, a red bowl, an incense burner that Zhang Wei demanded, and another curse that he ultimately placed on Li Changming!
From the paper figure, Zhang Wei realized that making a wish is not just about making a wish; it can also become a simple curse, a tool for harming others...
Li Changming, however, knew too much and wanted too much.
This video finally connects the basic timeline completely:
The ghost couple is the origin of the whole incident. Radiating from them, Li Changming, after being cursed, retaliated by killing the twins, which directly prompted Ma Zhao to make a wish.
However, Ma Zhao did not succeed—at least not completely.
The twins did not come back to life, but retained some of their lingering attachments from their previous lives, and later killed the blind man who had provided the method to fulfill their wishes...
Then the gravedigger died.
The cemetery was transformed into a hotel, becoming the world through the first door.
"Although we don't know what Ren Yu's purpose is, he has indeed helped us a lot."
Liu Zi said with a complicated expression, "If Ren Yu hadn't provided this address, they would have had almost no chance of finding the couple's ghost home."
The most crucial thing is finding a solution to the Red Bowl Curse!
At midnight, find a suitable crossroads and perform the ghost-summoning ritual.
The time limit is one hour.
If they survive, they will fulfill their vow and the source of the curse will disappear.
However, this suitable intersection...
Chen Ji thought of the painting in the twins' room.
It seems quite strange now that I think about it.
The twins are cursed by the paper dolls, so how could they know about what happened on the other side of the red bowl?
Could it be that not only are the guests connected, but these curses are also connected on some level in the end?
Thinking back to when he and Fei'er were rescued by Du Tingfeng and Xu Sandao from the mourning line when they boarded the paper cart, Chen Ji couldn't help but ponder.
He needs to go back to the twins' home again.
A moment later, the group found Feng Yao.
She had taken Huang Yue's body back to the funeral supplies store, where it was now placed under a white cloth.
In a corner of the funeral supplies store, Wu Hui stood pale-faced.
Her abdominal pain had barely subsided, and before she could even figure out the source, she suddenly learned of Huang Yue's death.
Luo Weicheng placed one hand on her shoulder, his brows furrowed.
"His body was strange."
Feng Yao murmured, lifting the white cloth to reveal Huang Yue's face.
The moment Chen Ji saw that face, he was stunned for a second. It wasn't just strange, it was terrifying!
Crimson blood gushed from his eye sockets, nostrils, and slightly open mouth, now half-dried, smearing his face and sending chills down one's spine.
Everyone fell silent, unable to imagine the torment Huang Yue had endured when he died.
But what truly sends chills down your spine is Huang Yue's body language...
He gripped his left eye socket with one hand, forcing his eyelid open so that his left eye was almost bursting open.
But its other eye was looking sideways in a certain direction.
It was as if there were two ghosts in front of him, one directly in front of him, which he couldn't see clearly, and the other standing to his side.
“I’ve been thinking about why he died there.”
Feng Yao's voice was low: "It's not a funeral home, but a small road nearby."
“I checked, the route from the villa you went to to the store doesn’t go through that road at all... unless he goes there on his own initiative.”
This is indeed very suspicious. First of all, Daping City is so big, Huang Yue wouldn't wander around aimlessly. He must have deliberately wanted to return to the funeral home.
However, based on their previous speculation, Huang Yue's reason for leaving alone was clearly because he had encountered a ghost.
This is contradictory: Why did Huang Yue not seek help from Chen Ji and the others who were nearby, but instead went all the way back to the shop to find Feng Yao?
“He was coerced,” Feng Yao said in a muffled voice.
"Before Da Huang realized Huang Yue was dead, he had already shown some unease. I suspect that the ghost was near the shop at that moment."
She speculated that the ghost wasn't particularly close at the time, so Da Huang only sensed it but couldn't confirm it.
The reason is obvious: Feng Yao is the other person in this group of curses.
Then everything can be explained:
The ghost coerced or bewitched Huang Yue to come to the vicinity of the shop, most likely to kill Feng Yao, but Huang Yue may have realized this and forcibly escaped when he was almost there.
However, he did not succeed and was ultimately killed by the ghost.
"But isn't there a strange creature in Huangyue?"
"Is he still carrying that strange object? What is its purpose?" Phil asked.
Feng Yao shook her head.
"It was a harmonica meant for self-defense, capable of controlling ghosts, but it wasn't on him; the ghost took it."
When the two of them were in the Brocade Garden before, Huang Yue had told her about the function of this strange object.
"...What would a ghost do with this?" Bai Shaohua frowned, thinking that this thing was useless to a ghost no matter how he looked at it.
Moreover, what's even stranger is that Huang Yue possessed a life-saving artifact, yet it still couldn't save his own life.
Either the ghost appears repeatedly, even following you like a shadow, or the ghostly object has lost its effectiveness.
Could it be a combination of both?
As Chen Ji pondered, a thought suddenly struck him.
He realized something: the ghost had clearly arrived outside the shop, but hadn't killed Feng Yao, which couldn't possibly be because Feng Yao was lucky.
Does the ghost need Huang Yue himself to come to the store in order to kill Feng Yao?
It's like an infectious disease.
Working backwards, if none of this had happened, Feng Yao would still die tomorrow. But she would only die tomorrow.
Why does it have to bring forward the final curse today?
What happened that makes it highly likely that Feng Yao will survive?
Chen Ji's mind raced, and he thought of Huang Yue, who had only encountered a ghost twice, yet his experience was far more severe than theirs.
His gaze slowly turned to Huang Yue's unseeing face.
Blood was flowing from all seven orifices...
The hand was tucked under his eyelids; this wasn't a ghost's method of killing, because none of the other facial features had been touched. Therefore, Huang Yue had done it himself.
He gently reached out and touched Huang Yue's protruding eyeballs. His fingertips felt sticky as he touched the bone of Huang Yue's nose and slid it to his right eye. A gurgling sound came from the eyeball.
suddenly.
Chen Ji felt a chill run down his spine as he realized that Huang Yue's right pupil had disappeared!
All that remained was white.
His first thought was that Huang Yue had turned into a ghost, but the next second he realized that the other party was not moving at all.
and many more.
Huang Yue didn't become a ghost; he's still dead. So the problem isn't with Huang Yue, but with Chen Ji's own actions just now.
An incredible guess suddenly popped into Chen Ji's mind. He tried to reach out and press his right eye, which had been slanted before, and rolled it up and down, and found that the eyeball was as smooth as a glass ball.
A gentle tap.
The right eye was then gouged out without any sticking.
"A ghost gouged out his eyes?" Feng Yao was taken aback, but immediately realized something was wrong:
"No, if it was made by a ghost, why would it put it back?"
Looking at the face bleeding from all seven orifices, and Huang Yue's hand clenching his eyelids... everyone instantly realized one thing.
It was made by Huang Yue himself.
He removed his right eye, but the ghost put it back on. It's even possible that, to cover it up, the ghost made Huang Yue bleed from his other facial features as well.
In this way, it would be difficult for others to notice anything unusual.
Huang Yue's hand, which was placed on his left eye, was precisely the one that was about to gouge out his other eye.
But why would Huang Yue do this? Could gouging out his eyes save his life?
Thinking back to my earlier question, why was the ghost in such a hurry to kill Feng Yao, it was as if it knew she might find a solution—
Chen Ji's heart suddenly skipped a beat.
video.
He remembered something obvious, but that they had overlooked.
It is obvious that the blind man made a wish.
But how come the blind man didn't die after making his wish? In fact, he lived a better life and even made so much money?
unless......
He fulfilled his vow.
In other words, his curse is gone. It's as if he was never affected at all.
If the source of the blind man's curse is related to his vision, then it has almost no effect on him...
The source of the curse is the eyes.
"Feng Yao, tell me all about your ghost encounters again!" Chen Ji said urgently.
He quickly became completely certain of his idea.
There's a prerequisite for Feng Yao's group to encounter ghosts: they have to see them.
She first saw the contents of the fortune-telling log.
Then, she saw the same notification appear on her phone.
Finally, she saw her own death on the wall of her bedroom.
Outside the brocade garden, she first saw herself being hit by a car before she felt the pain of death.
Huang Yue was the same; he first saw the fat master on the DVD, and then the ghost happened to appear on the videotape.
I saw it...
Will it really come true?
Chen Ji slowly approached Feng Yao, his face almost touching hers, staring intently into her eyes.
At such close range, he turned on his flashlight and shone it into the other person's eyes, when he suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.
Feng Yao's pupils are very dark.
too dark.
It has no pupils.