"It seems that the ghost has disappeared."
When Ethan carefully retraced his steps, he did not see the ghost that was chasing him.
This might be what people mean when they say that if you don't die in a great catastrophe, you'll surely have good fortune afterward.
He opened the door, walked in, and Ethan abruptly froze.
A familiar hallway.
Looking back, it turned out to be the classroom from which he had previously escaped.
He had ended up back at the door of the classroom on the fifth floor.
"What's going on, that door was supposed to lead to the restroom," Ethan felt increasingly baffled.
"Cough, cough~!"
Suddenly, a weak and painful cough sounded.
"It's you, how did you get out of the classroom?"
A man wearing a trench coat, with a pale face and a thin figure, was sitting on the corridor. His eyes, full of bloodshot streaks, were watching Ethan with some caution.
"Zhou?" Ethan hesitated.
"I don't know what's happening either. I was dragged into the restroom by a ghost when I was leaving with them. After I finally found a way out and opened the door, I found myself back here."
"Really? This is due to the Ghost Realm. It seems that thing doesn't want you to leave."
Zhou's gaze flickered, "But there can only be one malicious ghost in a Ghost Realm. The malicious ghost is that old man dressed in black, but he has already left. What you encountered should be a ghost servant."
"What is a ghost servant?" Ethan walked over and asked.
Zhou explained, "It is what is formed after someone killed by a malicious ghost in the Ghost Realm dies. They are subjected to the ghost master, unconditionally following the commands of the malicious ghost, just like the servants of landlords in ancient times. Hence, they are named ghost servants. They aren't as terrifying as malicious ghosts, but they are still a big threat to normal people like you.
"Cough, cough, the Ghost Realm has only existed for a short time, and even ghost servants have appeared. You really have good luck to have made it out alive."
"But now is not the time to discuss this, it's good that you showed up here."
He pulled out something similar to a walkie-talkie from his chest.
"This is the standard issue satellite positioning phone for the International XG JG. Take it and go quickly. If you can get out of this ghost place, someone will contact you afterward. Just tell the person who meets you the truth about what happened here," Zhou said, his face showing a painful expression.
"Zhou, what about you?" Ethan asked.
Zhou said, "I have reached my limit. I used too much of the malicious ghost's power to stall that old man just now. That thing is about to revive. People who can control the power of malicious ghosts are called 'Ghost Whispers', but at the same time, ghosts will gradually control people. For someone like me, who's neither human nor ghost, just living is a form of torture!"
Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly let out a painful scream and fell to the ground, writhing.
During his struggle, his large trench coat opened up.
Ethan was startled. Under that trench coat was a protruding belly, bigger than a pregnant woman's. His belly appeared somewhat transparent, and inside it was a baby-sized figure about the size of a four or five-year-old child.
The baby was blackish-green all over, its palms had sharp nails, and its eyes were pitch black, without pupils. It wriggled and tore inside the belly, as if it wanted to tear open the belly and come out.
"What, what is this?"
"A ghost, a ghost baby, that's what it's named in the files."
Zhou endured the pain and said, "When it first started growing in my stomach, it was only the size of a thumb. Each time I use the power of a malicious ghost, it grows a bit. Even if I don't use the power, it still grows. The intestines and organs in my stomach have all been eaten by it, and every day I have to endure the pain of it gnawing at my organs, and I can't sleep at night because of the pain.
"But even now, when all my internal organs have been eaten clean by this ghost baby, leaving only an empty stomach, an ordinary person would have been dead long ago. But I can't die, for me, living is a kind of pain and torture, and death is a kind of relief."
"Go, take this phone and go."
He threw the phone out with his hand and shouted, "If you don't leave now, this ghost baby will break free. Then there will be two malicious ghosts here, and it will be even harder for you to get out."
Ethan picked up the phone, looking at Zhou's painful state, and unconsciously touched the back of his hand. He had also experienced this kind of pain before.
Ghost Whisper?
Had he also become like Zhou?
"Sorry to disappoint you, that old man was too powerful, and I wasn't able to stall him. You students will have to fend for yourselves now."
Seeing Ethan pick up the phone, a bitter smile appeared on the corner of Zhou's mouth.
Ethan said, "Since you know so much, why did you stay in the first place? If you had left before, you could have safely left. There was no need to stay and die with us."
"Because I am an XG JG, and a Ghost Whisper. The only ones who can deal with ghosts are people like us. If we are afraid of death, then the world is doomed. I didn't take on this job just for the country, for the people, but also for my family, for myself."
The corner of Zhou's mouth twitched, his pain becoming more intense. He felt he couldn't hold on much longer and suddenly yelled, "What are you still standing here for? Go, get out of here quickly!"
Ethan was startled, he didn't dare to linger, he tightly held the phone in his hand and ran.
"By the way, be careful with the student named Jing in your class. I met him before, and he is very strange, not quite human. But I'm not sure, it's better for you to keep your distance from him. I've reported things related to him, and there will be people investigating later. Don't believe whatever he says about the future. It's impossible for anyone to travel from the future back to the present. The institute has conducted such experiments before."
Zhou struggled painfully and called out again.
"What?"
Ethan looked back in surprise.
"Ah~!"
As soon as he turned his head, he heard a scream. He saw Zhou's belly being torn open, a greenish-black baby arm extended out. Then, the tear got bigger, and the head of the ghost baby inside looked out curiously like a newborn child.
Only that the eerie and evil nature was revealed in those pitch-black eyes.
Go!
Ethan was shocked and hurriedly turned and ran.
"Wa Ga Ga"
Just as he went down the stairs, a chilling cry echoed in the corridor behind him, as if announcing its arrival and appearance in this world.
The ghost baby slowly crawled out of Zhou's body, and his swollen belly quickly deflated like a deflated balloon.
There was no blood flow, and even the internal organs were invisible, only some blackened flesh.
Just as he said before, his internal organs had already been eaten by this ghost baby.
"Dad, Mom, I'm... I'm sorry"
Zhou's eyes gradually lost their shine and became dim. His head tilted, his vitality vanished, but his eyes were still looking at the ghost baby slowly crawling in the direction Ethan had left.
The fourth floor, the third floor.
"Great, I didn't get lost."
Ethan quickly walked down the stairs at this moment, and he felt a bit of joy in his heart.
Because he found that there was no more darkness enveloping the staircase, although it was dim, everything was clearly visible, and there was no more wall-blocking ghost situation.
No darkness, no getting lost. If everything goes as usual, it would only take a few minutes to leave the school.
When he came to the second floor, he saw Sam and a few other classmates moving around in horror in the corridor. They were holding their phones, the lights turned on, walking from one end of the corridor to the other, then walking around and back.
They had been going back and forth many times.
It was as if they were trapped in some illusion, and they could never get out.
"No, it's not that the ghost realm has disappeared, nor has the darkness retreated, but I can see through all of this." Ethan's face changed slightly, and he looked at the red eye on the back of his hand.
Could this be the ability of a ghost whisper?
So this eye is also a ghost.
He remembered what Zhou had said before, the ghost baby in his stomach was only the size of a fingernail cap at first, and then it grew so big.
If that's the case, what will this ghost eye become in the end?
Will it also become a fierce ghost and swallow him?
Thinking of Zhou's situation earlier, a chill ran down Ethan's spine, and he was somewhat shuddering. When he looked at the eye on the back of his hand, he was only horrified.
The joy of seeing through the ghost realm disappeared in an instant.
"Even if I'm going to be killed by this eye, that's a problem for later. The urgent task is to leave here."
Ethan clenched his teeth to stop himself from thinking nonsense, then strode towards Sam and the others.
But in Sam and their eyes, everything around them was only darkness.
The light on the phone could only illuminate a one-meter range, and they could not see clearly further away.
"Sam, we've been walking for half an hour and we can't get out. Are we going to be trapped here forever?" A nervous classmate, Miao Xiaoshan, said.
"Do you know what a ghost realm is that Zhou mentioned? Are there really ghosts? Was what happened in the classroom before a paranormal event? If there are really ghosts, we might not be able to get out." Another student cautiously said.
Sam said seriously: "Don't worry, how could we be trapped here forever? That's absolutely impossible. Trust me, in a few days, we will starve to death here, it won't take a lifetime at all."
""
You are still making such a cool joke at this time.
Suddenly.
"Tap tap, tap tap~!" A series of footsteps came from the darkness.
"Who, who's in front?"
Sam became tense in an instant, and the others were also on pins and needles, trembling with fear.
"Don't panic, it's me, Ethan."
Ethan's voice came from the darkness.
"Stop, don't, don't come over, you say you're Ethan, can you prove it? What if you're a ghost?" Sam said.
Ethan said, "Sam, can't you stop nagging at a time like this? It's very dangerous here, and I can lead you out. If you follow me, you won't get lost."
He came here specifically to save Sam and the others. If he doesn't save them, these people are sure to die here. Although he has a grudge with Jing, he doesn't have one with them.
Also, two fierce ghosts have appeared in the ghost realm, and the degree of terror is unimaginable.
"Wait, if you're really Ethan, then I'll ask you, what's my English name? You can only answer once. If you answer incorrectly, you're not a human." Sam said.
"Walter Gill · Ying Bong Bong," Ethan said.
Sam immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that it's really you, not a ghost, it scared me. Luckily, I learned to set up a password."