Chapter 1 The Skin

The room fell silent. After a few seconds, a man with a croaking voice from the black-faced man's group said in shock, "What did you say?"

"Don't look so surprised." The girl, who hadn't spoken much before, said, "We have a way to contact the people who went missing. You heard right."

"Contact..." Huai Yi couldn't help but ask, "How?"

In everyone's subconscious, people who disappeared in supernatural events were definitely dead, and had died in another world that couldn't be understood with common sense.

Like this...they could still be contacted?

Taking a step back, even if they could be contacted, could they tell if the person on the other end was a person or a ghost?

The man with light blue eyes took out a mobile phone and placed it on the table. "Everyone should know about the Graystone Town May Platform incident. The first group of people disappeared after entering the tunnel, and the people who stayed outside to respond disappeared one after another in the following nights."

"Before they disappeared, they all said they saw the platform, and that strange train."

"This phone was left by the people who were responsible for responding."

"So what?" The black-faced man's thick eyebrows were squeezed together. "You don't mean to say that we can use this phone to contact the missing people, do you?"

Since they dared to take this job, the black-faced man and his two companions were not ordinary people. Their understanding of supernatural events was much deeper than that of ordinary people.

Although they said that, everyone's attention was focused on the mobile phone, as if in the next second, the phone would suddenly ring, and then bring them surprise, or shock.

The phone was an old flip phone that had been淘汰(taotai)ed years ago, and the shell was covered with scratches.

The man picked up the phone, opened the flip, and fiddled with it a few times. A call interface appeared on the screen, with several missed calls, noted as Na Ruhu.

"Na Ruhu was the captain of the last team. He was one of those who disappeared in the tunnel." The man said calmly, "Pay attention to the time the calls were made."

"Last night?!" Someone exclaimed.

According to the intelligence, Na Ruhu and the others had been missing for at least three days, but just last night, someone actually used Na Ruhu's phone to call this phone.

Seemingly knowing what everyone wanted to ask, the man said, "We investigated. Na Ruhu's phone disappeared and was taken into the tunnel by him."

"Wait!" Huai Yi suddenly said, looking at the man with a surprised expression, pointing at the phone: "This...this means someone answered the phone?"

Among a row of missed calls displayed in red, there was actually one in black, which meant that one call... got through.

"I answered it." The man said directly.

Jiang Cheng was silent for a moment, then leaned forward slightly, looking straight at the man: "Stop stalling, what was the content of the call?"

The man gestured to the girl standing beside him. The girl took out a voice recorder from her pocket and turned it on. Inside was a rustling sound of electricity.

"Tzz..."

"Tzz..."

At the same time as hearing the sound, Jiang Cheng's face changed. This feeling was too familiar. He was dragged into the nightmare by such a strange recording, struggling to survive until now.

Hu Yan's recording...

It was the same strange feeling, the same sound of electricity. The other end of the phone was definitely not a person, but a ghost!

This was a ghost call!

"Tzz..."

Everyone's tense nerves trembled at the same time. A strange sound came from the recording, like...singing.

The singing was intermittent, but it could be faintly heard that it was very old, definitely not a product of this era, at least a century old.

What was even stranger was that they could hear the singing, but they couldn't hear the lyrics clearly. They could only vaguely perceive the melody.

"Pi...pi..." A weak man's voice was hidden in the singing. If you didn't listen carefully, you couldn't even hear it.

"He...what is he saying?" The fatty swallowed and looked very nervous. After all, he had encountered a radio station that specialized in studying how to see ghosts.

"Pi, what is he trying to split?" Someone speculated in a low voice, "Or was he injured by something splitting him?"

Just from the sound, you could tell that the man was seriously injured, like he was making the call on the verge of death.

"Tzz..."

Then there was another meaningless burst of static, driving everyone crazy. Just when everyone thought it was over...

Suddenly!

"Pi...pi...give me back my skin!!"

"Ah...ah!!"

A heart-wrenching scream echoed in the room, and the man's voice suddenly rose several degrees.

This time everyone finally heard clearly, it wasn't split (劈, pī), it was skin (皮, pí)!

The man's skin had been剥(bō)ed away by something. As he was dying, the man wanted his skin back.

The recording ended, and the black-faced man's forehead was covered in cold sweat. After thinking it over and over, he decided to give up this operation.

The reward was good, but you had to have a life to spend it.

In this line of work, there was never a shortage of arrogant fools who liked to show off. Only those who could take it and let it go lived long.

"Sorry, you two, I have something to do, I won't wade into this water." The black-faced man cupped his fists at the man and Jiang Cheng, and turned to leave.

The man who summoned Jiang Cheng and the black-faced man looked at Jiang Cheng indifferently, "Little brother, aren't you afraid?"

Jiang Cheng stared at the man's宝蓝(bǎolán) eyes, and after a long while, he said, "I also want to ask you, you're scheming against us like this, aren't you afraid that we'll join forces and kill you first?"

Hearing this, the black-faced man stopped. He heard something strange from the conversation between the two. "What do you mean?"

"It means that no one can leave this room today. If you want to live, you can only join forces to solve this supernatural event." Chen Qiang glared at the man with a resentful face. This man had painstakingly set them up.

After a moment, the black-faced man's eyes moved, and he immediately reacted. "There's something wrong with the recording?" His voice rose. "Anyone who hears the recording will die!"

Jiang Cheng took the phone on the table and scrolled down. He quickly found another answered call, three days ago, with a call time of 19 seconds.

"The owner of this phone disappeared after answering the call from Na Ruhu." Jiang Cheng said confidently.

"That's right." The girl interjected, "Now we're all in the same boat. If we don't solve this matter, we're all going to die."

The girl's tone not only lacked the apology that she should have after tricking them, but also had a provocative meaning.

"No wonder you're so anxious to solve this matter. It turns out that you're being targeted by a ghost!" After thinking clearly, the fatty couldn't help but angrily said.

"After the matter is resolved, I want your reward, I'll take two-thirds." Jiang Cheng said, "You guys caused the trouble, we're here to save your lives!"

"If you don't agree, we'll join forces and kill you two first, and then discuss how to solve this matter." Jiang Cheng first looked at the man, and then at the girl.

The man nodded, "Deal."