Chapter 235

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Chapter 235: The Participants

Of course, Chen Keai couldn’t find Chu Jiang at the company, and she started to panic. With her excellent imagination, she immediately realized that something had happened to Chu Jiang.

As for what happened, there are many possibilities, like getting into a car accident, being abducted by aliens, or burning out the emotions… and so on.

Of course, Chen Keai also realized that it might be a ghost encounter, since her boss had told her about it.

So Chen Keai contacted secretary Li Xiaolang, who then informed headquarters, and everyone started investigating…

Anyway, it is now daytime outside, and it has been more than ten hours since Chu Jiang disappeared.

Of course, in the calm city of Luohe, the news of Chu Jiang’s disappearance didn’t spread.

Chu Jiang briefly described his situation on the phone, but didn’t hang up, just put the phone in his pocket.

"Are you done talking?" the bald guy impatiently looked at Chu Jiang, "Finish up and come in. I don’t want to die here with you guys today."

If Chu Jiang wasn’t mistaken, this person should be an ordinary person. But his tone was so arrogant, and judging by his bulging waist, possibly carrying a gun, he was probably used to being arrogant in the real world too.

Chu Jiang ignored the bald man and pushed the door open, asking, "Can someone explain to me what’s going on right now?"

The very thin man stared at Chu Jiang’s face for a while before asking, "Excuse me, are you Chu Jiang Captain Chu, also known as Bloodhand?"

Chu Jiang nodded slightly.

When the petite island policewoman heard the pronunciation of the name "Chu Jiang," she glanced over at him with a hint of surprise.

"That’s great, it really is you. It seems we’re saved today." The man’s face, which was previously very ugly, finally had a hint of color, making him look less like he was acting.

"Here’s what happened…" the thin man began to explain about the things that had happened to their group.

If we were to summarize it in one sentence, it would be that six unlucky individuals mysteriously ended up in this haunted place while taking some kind of transportation.

Take the thin man as an example. Tonight, he planned to take the bus home, but when he boarded, there was no one else on the bus.

By the time he realized something was wrong and wanted to get off, the doors and windows couldn’t be opened or broken. In the end, he could only passively be transported to this castle.

There was a problem as soon as he arrived here. The thin man initially wanted to escape along the road, but he discovered a broken wooden sign hanging on the iron gate of the fence. It seemed to be written by a human, and it said:

The outside is more dangerous than the inside.

So the skinny man hesitated for a moment, but ultimately didn’t dare to escape. He just stood outside the iron gate and tried to seek help from the outside world.

The only good news is that the phone in front of this castle can actually make calls. I don’t know if it’s used for people to leave their last words…

In short, the skinny man contacted the leader of the research institute in his city. But the other party couldn’t do anything because they had no idea where the skinny man was. They could only report the situation for him.

Just then, the second person arrived, the bespectacled male student.

He was a student at a university in China and had to go back to his hometown temporarily for something. His hometown was quite remote, and the last stretch of his journey before reaching home required him to take a boat across a waterway. Otherwise, he would have to take a detour from another direction, which would be a longer route through the mountains.

Obviously, this student didn’t want to take the detour. He took the boat as usual, but the person rowing the boat had changed, and the person wouldn’t answer his questions. Instead, they only nodded or shook their head.

And then, as the boat was sailing, it brought the student to this spooky place.

Chu Jiang was a bit surprised when he heard this, "There’s still a waterway around here?"

The student heard this and smiled sadly, "No, I just saw that old little boat driving on the road. It moved like water! I was so scared, I couldn’t get off the boat. That’s how I ended up here."

The skinny boy nodded and continued to explain. After they met, they asked each other about their experiences.

Just as they were figuring things out, this bald guy appeared with a parachute on his back, falling from the sky to this side.

According to the bald guy, the helicopter he was on had an accident. He managed to jump out with a parachute before the helicopter crashed. He didn’t expect to end up in this spooky place.

The fourth one to arrive was the "counter girl." She worked as a salesgirl in a big department store’s branded cosmetics counter.

She ended up here because of an accident too. The department store was having an event, and there were leftover props from the recent Halloween celebration, so she brought them along.

Encouraged by her colleagues, the counter girl hopped onto a pumpkin carriage and planned to take a ride around the department store.

However, something eerie happened. As the counter girl sat in the carriage, she realized that things were not right. The sounds outside gradually disappeared, and the carriage started speeding up.

She tried to open the door but it wouldn’t budge. She pulled back the curtain of the window and looked outside, only to see that she had entered a dark and silent road…

The fifth person to arrive was a foreign firefighter who couldn’t speak Chinese and was speaking nonstop.

Fortunately, the shop assistant in the mall had learned a little English for work, so she managed to communicate with him.

The firefighter had a strange experience. While at work, he received a call for a fire emergency. He quickly put on his uniform, grabbed his tools, and was the first to get into a fire truck from the fire department.

But before his colleagues could get on the truck, it started moving on its own. So this man named Paul kept shouting at the driver to stop.

However, it was futile. The "driver" didn’t stop, and Paul, sitting in the back of the fire truck, couldn’t open the door. In the end, he was brought here.

The last person to arrive was a policewoman from an island country. She also didn’t understand Chinese but knew a little English.

Basically, while she was working, she took a subway in the Guandong District. As the train she was on became less crowded, the surroundings started becoming more mysterious.

When the policewoman realized something was wrong, the subway ascended from underground and actually started driving on the road, eventually bringing her here.

It’s worth mentioning that everyone boarded their transportation at different times. Although they all got "on board" on the same day, some people took transportation during the day, like students, while others, like Chu Jiang, did so at 12:30 a.m.

And other people arrived around the same time, quickly gathering together. Only Chu Jiang got off the bus midway and had a bit of a struggle, finally arriving at the castle gate about half an hour late.

Finally, the flow of time in this place and the outside world was different. For example, Chu Jiang felt like he had been inside for no more than three hours, but it was already the next day outside…