In the middle of the corridor at Tian Teng Hospital, the female corpse prop had its legs torn off. Her body looked as though something was dragging it, and the rope around her neck had cut through the skin, revealing the cheap stuffing inside.
"What the hell is it trying to do?"
Ever since he'd approached the female corpse, the ghost on the tape had gone silent. The more
*Snap!*
While he was lost in thought, the rope around the female corpse model's neck could no longer withstand the pulling force and snapped in half.
The corpse hanging in the corridor crashed to the floor. The mannequin head rolled several meters before finally stopping in the corner of the wall, a pair of eyes staring at its own body.
That roughly crafted face slowly began to change — from hideous terror, to gradually calm, and finally back to normal. The cracked lips opened and closed as if trying to say something.
After only a few seconds, screams rang out through the corridor once more. The difference this time was that a woman's voice had joined in.
"It hurts! It hurts so much!"
A man and a woman circled around Chen Ge, their heart-wrenching shrieks driving him nearly mad.
"Why has Xu Zhenzhen started screaming along with the tape ghost? Does the tape ghost have some special ability to assimilate other spirits?"
Chen Ge had no idea what the tape ghost had done to Xu Zhenzhen. This was probably the tape ghost's greatest secret.
The screams of a man and a woman alternated in his ears, making Chen Ge's eyelids twitch. He tried once more to turn off the recorder, but it still didn't work.
Sensing the ghost's voice drawing closer and closer, Chen Ge raised the recorder high above his head, ready at any moment to smash it to pieces and destroy the tape the ghost inhabited.
"It hurts, it really hurts…" The voice pressed right against Chen Ge's face, then slowly faded. A crisp click came from the recorder as the button popped up on its own and the red indicator light went out.
The oppressive feeling in the corridor vanished. Breathing became easy again, and even the head lying on the ground didn't look quite so terrifying.
Chen Ge opened the recorder, and as he pulled out the tape, the black phone vibrated gently.
"Why am I getting a message now?"
Standing beside the female corpse model, Chen Ge took out the black phone and tapped the screen.
"Lucky bearer of the ghost's favor — congratulations on triggering the
"Mission Location: Fanghua Garden Residential Complex."
"Mission Objective: You have only one night to find Xu Yin's lover!"
"Mission Hint: Darling, white, black, and red — which color do you really like?"
The message on the phone screen was only a few short lines. Chen Ge read it two or three times over. "Fanghua Garden? Isn't that the neighborhood Wang Xin lives in? I've been there once before, when I helped the Pen Spirit fulfill its wish."
The missions issued by the black phone were always accompanied by a certain degree of danger. Judging from the tape ghost's behavior, it must have suffered an enormous trauma in life — which was why its resentment was so overwhelming after death.