Notes on Ghost Stories

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Notes on Ghost Stories

  • Urban/Romance Sci‑Fi/Horror
  • Words: 828412
  • Completed
  • Chapters: 475

About This Novel

Having grown up listening to my grandmother’s ghost stories, I never imagined that one day I would find myself in the middle of a ghost story—and as the main character. It all began with that war in 1979…

Table of Contents

Chapters: 475
  1. Chapter 1: Stories Told by Grandma (1)
  2. Chapter 2: Grandma’s Stories (2)
  3. Chapter 3: My Story
  4. Chapter 4: The Road Home
  5. Chapter 5: Watch Your Back
  6. Chapter 6: The Ant Army
  7. Chapter 7: The Strange Snake
  8. Chapter 8: The Melee
  9. Chapter 9: The Unexpected Turn
  10. Chapter 10: The Black Shadow
  11. Chapter 11: A Fierce Battle
  12. Chapter 12: Escaping the Jungle
  13. Chapter 13: The Buddha’s Palm
  14. Chapter 14: The Black Shadow
  15. Chapter 15: Working Together
  16. Chapter 16: A Surprise Victory
  17. Chapter 17: Bourgeois Stinking Ideas
  18. Chapter 18: The Story of the Rich Young Master and the Young Lady
  19. Chapter 19: The Super Bomb
  20. Chapter 20: Mercenaries
  21. Chapter 21: Wenyu’s Story (1)
  22. Chapter 22: Wen Yu’s Story (2)
  23. Chapter 23: The Ghostly Affair
  24. Chapter 24: A Rational Explanation
  25. Chapter 25: Ghost Stories in the Dead of Night
  26. Chapter 26: A Matter of Faith
  27. Chapter 27: Rural Scenery
  28. Chapter 28: A Century of Change
  29. Chapter 29: Digging a Pit
  30. Chapter 30: Hands Up
  31. Chapter 31: Creepy When You Think About It
  32. Chapter 32: Why Are You Pouncing on Me?
  33. Chapter 33: In the Darkness
  34. Chapter 34: Where Is Peter?
  35. Chapter 35: Encountering Rice at Wen Village
  36. Chapter 36: Martial Arts Masters
  37. Chapter 37: Tomb Raider
  38. Chapter 38: The Road to the End
  39. Chapter 39: Reconstructing the Scene
  40. Chapter 40: The Last Supper
  41. Chapter 41: Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
  42. Chapter 42: The Monkey Steals Milk
  43. Chapter 43: Smear It All Over His Face
  44. Chapter 44: You Must Not Leave
  45. Chapter 45: The Eternal Lamp
  46. Chapter 46: The Stone Gate Mechanism
  47. Chapter 47: The Burial Chamber
  48. Chapter 48: A Thousand Years Ago
  49. Chapter 49: The General’s Wine
  50. Chapter 50: The Ancient Bronze Sword
  51. Chapter 51: The Alien Spear
  52. Chapter 52: The Third Eye
  53. Chapter 53: Adapting to the Terrain to Lure the Enemy In
  54. Chapter 54: Wen Yu’s Plan
  55. Chapter 55: Fighting to the Death
  56. Chapter 56: A Fierce Battle in a Small Room
  57. Chapter 57: An Old Ox’s Panting
  58. Chapter 58: The Ghost’s Game of Tag
  59. Chapter 59: A Burden of a Thousand Pounds
  60. Chapter 60: The Ancient Eastern Tomb
  61. Chapter 61: The Boy and the Girl
  62. Chapter 62: Unlucky Peter
  63. Chapter 63: The Haunted Wall
  64. Chapter 64: The Maternal Complex
  65. Chapter 65: Possession
  66. Chapter 66: The Afterlife
  67. Chapter 67: The Moment of Awakening
  68. Chapter 68: A Thousand-Year Wait
  69. Chapter 69: As Close as Neighbors
  70. Chapter 70: A Ghostly Encounter in the Countryside
  71. Chapter 71: The Exorcism Ritual
  72. Chapter 72: The Exorcist
  73. Chapter 73: Staring Down a Ghost
  74. Chapter 74: Birth Chart
  75. Chapter 75: Peril in the Dead of Night
  76. Chapter 76: The Plan
  77. Chapter 77: Miss Wen
  78. Chapter 78: The Scheme
  79. Chapter 79: Teasing the Bridge Ghost in the Dead of Night
  80. Chapter 80: The Ruins of the Zhu Family
  81. Chapter 81: Blind Date
  82. Chapter 82: What Goes Around Comes Around
  83. Chapter 83: Wen Yu’s Trouble
  84. Chapter 84: No
  85. Chapter 85: Captain America
  86. Chapter 86: Ancient Legends and Modern Records
  87. Chapter 87: Tales of the Supernatural
  88. Chapter 88: Stirring Up Trouble
  89. Chapter 89: Psychological Warfare
  90. Chapter 90: Night Raid
  91. Chapter 91: Destination
  92. Chapter 92: The Giant Rock
  93. Chapter 93: Crossing the River
  94. Chapter 94: Underwater
  95. Chapter 95: Midnight Singing
  96. Chapter 96: The Ghost Ship
  97. Chapter 97: Aquaculture Expert
  98. Chapter 98: Fires in the Distance
  99. Chapter 99: What Lies Beneath the Yellow Mud
  100. Chapter 100: The Big Fish
  101. Chapter 101: Barbecue
  102. Chapter 102: A Hair’s Breadth from Disaster
  103. Chapter 103: Surviving the Ordeal
  104. Chapter 104: The Land and the People Mourn Together
  105. Chapter 105: The Wooden Boat
  106. Chapter 106: The Ancient Corpse Buried in the Earth
  107. Chapter 107: The Human Skin Map
  108. Chapter 108: Bells and Drums
  109. Chapter 109: A Conversation on the Cliff’s Edge
  110. Chapter 110: The Glow
  111. Chapter 111: Huh!
  112. Chapter 112: Out-of-Body Experience
  113. Chapter 113: Sixth Sense
  114. Chapter 114: A Dream We set down our bags and leaned against the mountain wall to rest
  115. Chapter 115: The Bronze Chains
  116. Chapter 116: Better to Lose Your Life Than Your Wealth
  117. Chapter 117: The Red Jade Coffin
  118. Chapter 118: Why Is the Coffin So Red?
  119. Chapter 119: Reaching the Summit
  120. Chapter 120: Shattering the Drum
  121. Chapter 121: Distant Voices
  122. Chapter 122: Autumn Lake Under the Moonlight
  123. Chapter 123: Blur and Clarity
  124. Chapter 124: Underwater
  125. Chapter 125: In the Mountains
  126. Chapter 126: Blinded by Lust
  127. Chapter 127: The Thing in the Water
  128. Chapter 128: The Basin
  129. Chapter 129: Possession
  130. Chapter 130: The Sacred Tree of Fusang
  131. Chapter 131: The Entrance
  132. Chapter 132: Beyond the Stone Gate
  133. Chapter 133: The Main Hall
  134. Chapter 134: Xenon Searchlight
  135. Chapter 135: Are Ghosts Scaring People, or Are People Scaring Each Other?
  136. Chapter 136: The Lure
  137. Chapter 137: The Ancient Kitchen
  138. Chapter 138: The Earth Telescope
  139. Chapter 139: Prehistoric Civilization
  140. Chapter 140: The Upside-Down Cauldron
  141. Chapter 141: Three Coffins
  142. Chapter 142: The Stone Coffin
  143. Chapter 143: The Giant Hand Listening to the tremendous noise coming from inside the coffin, my heart was pounding, and I instinctively gripped the gun in my hand
  144. Chapter 144: The Man in White
  145. Chapter 145: Strategic Retreat
  146. Chapter 146: The Two of Us
  147. Chapter 147: At a Loss
  148. Chapter 148: The Mural
  149. Chapter 149: 9:00 PM, the Bells Ring
  150. Chapter 150: A Prophecy Fulfilled I didn’t have time to look back; I could only push hard against the lower edge of the bronze coffin and scramble upward as fast a
  151. Chapter 151: Provocation
  152. Chapter 152: One Thing Overcomes Another
  153. Chapter 153: Melee
  154. Chapter 154: Causing Trouble
  155. Chapter 155: The Passage
  156. Chapter 156: The Third Dimension
  157. Chapter 157: The Bronze Mirror
  158. Chapter 158: The Headless Ancient Corpse
  159. Chapter 159: A Terrifying Encounter
  160. Chapter 160: In the Name of God
  161. Chapter 161: The Secret in the Mirror
  162. Chapter 162: The Missing Captain America
  163. Chapter 163: Unconventional Methods
  164. Chapter 164: The Relic
  165. Chapter 165: What’s Inside the Box
  166. Chapter 166: Haunted by a Vengeful Spirit
  167. Chapter 167: The Peeping Tom
  168. Chapter 168: Three Coffins
  169. Chapter 169: The Jade Box
  170. Chapter 170: The Trap
  171. Chapter 171: Ghosts Chasing Ghosts
  172. Chapter 172: Killing Two Birds with One Stone
  173. Chapter 173: Mutual Generation and Restriction
  174. Chapter 174: The Search
  175. Chapter 175: The Bamboo Scrolls
  176. Chapter 176: The Deep Blue Ghost Flame
  177. Chapter 177: Blazing Flames
  178. Chapter 178: Ashes
  179. Chapter 179: Ghost Soldiers
  180. Chapter 180: Return
  181. Chapter 181: The Nemesis
  182. Chapter 182: The Book of Heaven
  183. Chapter 183: The Theory of the Divine
  184. Chapter 184: Eternal Life
  185. Chapter 185: The Silk Map
  186. Chapter 186: Feeling Around in the Dark
  187. Chapter 187: Crossing the Bridge
  188. Chapter 188: Seeing Enemies Everywhere
  189. Chapter 189: The Statue
  190. Chapter 190: The Sacred Tree
  191. Chapter 191: The Valkyrie
  192. Chapter 192: Another Bridge
  193. Chapter 193: The Rope
  194. Chapter 194: A Fight to the Death
  195. Chapter 195: A Desperate Measure
  196. Chapter 196: The Bridge
  197. Chapter 197: Rage
  198. Chapter 198: Retrieving the Explosives
  199. Chapter 199: A Grueling Battle
  200. Chapter 200: Wolf’s Fang
  201. Chapter 201: The Crux
  202. Chapter 202: A Fierce Battle
  203. Chapter 203: Surrender
  204. Chapter 204: The Coffin
  205. Chapter 205: Burning the Coffins
  206. Chapter 206: Out-of-Body Experience
  207. Chapter 207: The Ways of Gods and Ghosts
  208. Chapter 208: Torrential Floods
  209. Chapter 209: The Last Little Ghost
  210. Chapter 210: Breaking Free
  211. Chapter 211: The Journey Home
  212. Chapter 212: Standoff
  213. Chapter 213: Tomb Raiders
  214. Chapter 214: A Set-Up
  215. Chapter 215: The Old Farmer’s Treasure
  216. Chapter 216: The Mystery of the Small Ladle
  217. Chapter 217: The Light in the Hallway
  218. Chapter 218: The Staircase Leading Down
  219. Chapter 219: In the Darkness
  220. Chapter 220: What Should Not Exist
  221. Chapter 221: The Haunted Building
  222. Chapter 222: The Yellow River The plane soon vanished behind the high-rises, and the rumbling faded away only after quite some time
  223. Chapter 223: Beyond Reason
  224. Chapter 224: A Change in the Sky
  225. Chapter 225: Torrential Rain
  226. Chapter 226: The Battle Between the Turtle and the Snake
  227. Chapter 227: The River
  228. Chapter 228: Don’t Mess with the Water
  229. Chapter 229: Releasing the Turtles
  230. Chapter 230: Shuangfeng Town
  231. Chapter 231: Little Li and the Fat Man
  232. Chapter 232: Rumors
  233. Chapter 233: The Ghost Tomb
  234. Chapter 234: The Vanished Civilization
  235. Chapter 235: The Craftsman
  236. Chapter 236: An Eye for Quality
  237. Chapter 237: A Puzzle I Can’t Solve
  238. Chapter 238: The Travel Plans
  239. Chapter 239: Though a Thousand Stand Against Me, I Shall Go
  240. Chapter 240: The Mysterious Buyer
  241. Chapter 241: The Art of Slaying Dragons
  242. Chapter 242: The Senior Tomb Raider
  243. Chapter 243: Passing on the Tradition
  244. Chapter 244: Four Big Partners
  245. Chapter 245: The Island and the Pirates
  246. Chapter 246: Something from the Depths
  247. Chapter 247: Backed into a Corner
  248. Chapter 248: Burning Sea Water
  249. Chapter 249: A Request
  250. Chapter 250: The Decision
  251. Chapter 251: The Southern and Northern Factions
  252. Chapter 252: Setting Sail
  253. Chapter 253: Not a Day for Breaking Ground
  254. Chapter 254: 240 Degrees
  255. Chapter 255: Giant Waves
  256. Chapter 256: The Giant Wave
  257. Chapter 257: The Black Ship
  258. Chapter 258: After the Storm
  259. Chapter 259: The Ghost Ship
  260. Chapter 260: Boarding the Ship
  261. Chapter 261: After Opening the Door
  262. Chapter 262: New Discovery
  263. Chapter 263: The Ancient Code
  264. Chapter 264: The Barrel
  265. Chapter 265: Finally Found You
  266. Chapter 266: A Face-to-Face Standoff
  267. Chapter 267: Two Shots Fired, Parents Raised in Vain
  268. Chapter 268: The Sea Monkey
  269. Chapter 269: Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?
  270. Chapter 270: The Art of Drawing Information
  271. Chapter 271: Atlantis
  272. Chapter 272: Meteor Shower
  273. Chapter 273: A Guest Star Passes By
  274. Chapter 274: Midnight, Songs on the Sea
  275. Chapter 275: Magnetic Fields
  276. Chapter 276: The Collision
  277. Chapter 277: Preparing for Battle
  278. Chapter 278: Engaging the Enemy
  279. Chapter 279: Sea Ghosts
  280. Chapter 280: The Situation
  281. Chapter 281: Exploiting the Gap
  282. Chapter 282: Skeleton Pirates
  283. Chapter 283: Cannon Fire
  284. Chapter 284: Wait for Death or Charge Out
  285. Chapter 285: Melee Combat
  286. Chapter 286: Firearms
  287. Chapter 287: Consumed by Flames
  288. Chapter 288: Fire at Sea
  289. Chapter 289: Boiling a Live Fish
  290. Chapter 290: The Eye of Heaven
  291. Chapter 291: The Whirlpool
  292. Chapter 292: Cleaning Up the Mess
  293. Chapter 293: Outside the Window
  294. Chapter 294: The Vast Sea and Sky
  295. Chapter 295: The Spacecraft We fell silent for a moment, all staring out the window; no one spoke
  296. Chapter 296: Take a Chance—Turn a Bicycle into a Motorcycle
  297. Chapter 297: The Mountain-Shattering Crossbow
  298. Chapter 298: The Arrow of Heaven and Earth
  299. Chapter 299: Last Words
  300. Chapter 300: Before Death
  301. Chapter 301: Paradise
  302. Chapter 302: A Place We Don’t Know
  303. Chapter 303: The Small Village at the Foot of the Mountain
  304. Chapter 304: Starting a Fire
  305. Chapter 305: The Sound from the Well
  306. Chapter 306: Hungry
  307. Chapter 307: The Moonlit Beauty’s Glance and Smile
  308. Chapter 308: Breaking Out
  309. Chapter 309: Astrological Signs
  310. Chapter 310: Adrift
  311. Chapter 311: Reality?
  312. Chapter 312: The True Reality
  313. Chapter 313: Life
  314. Chapter 314: Dusk
  315. Chapter 315: The Law of Conservation of Mass
  316. Chapter 316: The Ghost Army Passes
  317. Chapter 317: The Shadow of Death
  318. Chapter 318: The Siege
  319. Chapter 319: Midnight Sun
  320. Chapter 320: A Dilemma
  321. Chapter 321: Parallel Worlds
  322. Chapter 322: Meeting an Acquaintance in a Strange Land
  323. Chapter 323: Don’t Come
  324. Chapter 324: The Theory of Spacetime Relativity
  325. Chapter 325: Witchcraft
  326. Chapter 326: Miao Gu Sorcery
  327. Chapter 327: Divine Power
  328. Chapter 328: Back to the Past
  329. Chapter 329: Wen Yu Is Not Wen Yu, and I Am Not Me
  330. Chapter 330: The Butterfly Effect
  331. Chapter 331: Civilization
  332. Chapter 332: The Great Cataclysm
  333. Chapter 333: Crop Circles
  334. Chapter 334: A Prayer
  335. Chapter 335: The Hammock
  336. Chapter 336: The Lingering Scent of a Ghost Town
  337. Chapter 337: Sixth Sense
  338. Chapter 338: Eye Contact
  339. Chapter 339: A Surprise
  340. Chapter 340: Splitting into Two Groups
  341. Chapter 341: Necessity and Chance
  342. Chapter 342: The Jade Gate
  343. Chapter 343: Burning the Lute and Boiling the Crane
  344. Chapter 344: Capital Punishment
  345. Chapter 345: That’s Not How You Drill a Hole
  346. Chapter 346: A Sound from the Depths of Darkness
  347. Chapter 347: Close Your Eyes When It Gets Dark
  348. Chapter 348: A Way Out
  349. Chapter 349: The Dark Night
  350. Chapter 350: The Black Monster
  351. Chapter 351: Night Raid
  352. Chapter 352: Prayer
  353. Chapter 353: Transformation
  354. Chapter 354: Fragments of Time and Space
  355. Chapter 355: A Complete Rejection
  356. Chapter 356: The Dark Space
  357. Chapter 357: Legend
  358. Chapter 358: The Mists of History
  359. Chapter 359: The Black Gate
  360. Chapter 360: The Bronze Age
  361. Chapter 361: Blood Sacrifice
  362. Chapter 362: The Search
  363. Chapter 363: A Moment of Leisure Amidst the Chaos
  364. Chapter 364: Robinson Crusoe
  365. Chapter 365: Time Flows Like This
  366. Chapter 366: The Sword of the King
  367. Chapter 367: The Parchment Scroll
  368. Chapter 368: Why Didn’t the King Ascend to Heaven?
  369. Chapter 369: The Prophet and the Fortune Teller
  370. Chapter 370: The Prophecy Comes True
  371. Chapter 371: After the Black Gate
  372. Chapter 372: An Inescapable Duty
  373. Chapter 373: A Farewell Between Life and Death
  374. Chapter 374: The Mysterious Woman
  375. Chapter 375: You Are Me, I Am You
  376. Chapter 376: Another Dilemma
  377. Chapter 377: Temporary Command
  378. Chapter 378: In the Darkness
  379. Chapter 379: The Insect Jade
  380. Chapter 380: Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
  381. Chapter 381: A Desperate Struggle
  382. Chapter 382: Fighting While Retreating
  383. Chapter 383: The White Sheep
  384. Chapter 384: Timeline
  385. Chapter 385: The Whole Story
  386. Chapter 386: Cutting Flesh to Cure the Poison
  387. Chapter 387: What Is Destiny?
  388. Chapter 388: A Fortress Is Easier to Break From Within
  389. Chapter 389: Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way
  390. Chapter 390: The Emotion of Tears
  391. Chapter 391: The Second Time’s Not So Good
  392. Chapter 392: Besieged on Three Sides
  393. Chapter 393: War Machines
  394. Chapter 394: The Turning Point
  395. Chapter 395: Miss Wen, the Sharpshooter
  396. Chapter 396: The Ruby Crown
  397. Chapter 397: A Grand Gift
  398. Chapter 398: The Savior
  399. Chapter 399: The Sacred Ritual
  400. Chapter 400: Crimson Night
  401. Chapter 401: The Oracle
  402. Chapter 402: Mirror Image
  403. Chapter 403: Obsession
  404. Chapter 404: Farewell
  405. Chapter 405: Back to Reality
  406. Chapter 406: The Strange Funeral Procession
  407. Chapter 407: The Wedding Night
  408. Chapter 408: Possessed
  409. Chapter 409: Another Version of the Story
  410. Chapter 410: Huang Sangling
  411. Chapter 411: The Hole
  412. Chapter 412: A Distant Relative
  413. Chapter 413: The Yellow Weasel
  414. Chapter 414: The Fox Immortal
  415. Chapter 415: Feng Shui and Dragon Veins
  416. Chapter 416: The Compass
  417. Chapter 417: Earth Qi
  418. Chapter 418: The Charging Water Buffalo
  419. Chapter 419: A Chance Encounter
  420. Chapter 420: Drawing Talismans
  421. Chapter 421: The Unexpected
  422. Chapter 422: Ghost Hunting
  423. Chapter 423: Fox Charm
  424. Chapter 424: The Fox Spirit
  425. Chapter 425: Revenge
  426. Chapter 426: Human Tofu Puffs
  427. Chapter 427: The Strange Corpse Thief
  428. Chapter 428: Digging a Hole
  429. Chapter 429: Beneath the Red Soil
  430. Chapter 430: Uncle A-Tu
  431. Chapter 431: The Holy Child
  432. Chapter 432: The Return of the Dead
  433. Chapter 433: Masters Among the People
  434. Chapter 434: Granny’s Pond
  435. Chapter 435: The Family Genealogy
  436. Chapter 436: The Scheme
  437. Chapter 437: Ambush
  438. Chapter 438: The Fox In the dim moonlight, many things were indistinct, including this little creature that had appeared in the glow
  439. Chapter 439: Footprints Behind
  440. Chapter 440: Night Thoughts
  441. Chapter 441: 63 Meters Deep
  442. Chapter 442: The Thing in the Water
  443. Chapter 443: A Flash of Inspiration
  444. Chapter 444: Underwater Filming
  445. Chapter 445: A Solution
  446. Chapter 446: The Inspection
  447. Chapter 447: Was That a Toad?
  448. Chapter 448: If the Enemy Doesn’t Move, We Will
  449. Chapter 449: The Battle Between Man and Beast
  450. Chapter 450: The Brave Battle Against the Toad
  451. Chapter 451: Waiting for the Rabbit
  452. Chapter 452: The Trap
  453. Chapter 453: Baiting the Trap or Luring the Tiger Away
  454. Chapter 454: A Chance Encounter
  455. Chapter 455: Left with No Choice
  456. Chapter 456: A Matter of Life and Death
  457. Chapter 457: Rescuing a Beauty in the Line of Fire
  458. Chapter 458: Mutual Destruction
  459. Chapter 459: Breaking News
  460. Chapter 460: The Inspection Team Arrives
  461. Chapter 461: The Deep Pit
  462. Chapter 462: The Twisting, Writhing Creature
  463. Chapter 463: Gunshots in the Dead of Night
  464. Chapter 464: A Ruyi Plan
  465. Chapter 465: Under the Thumb Before Marriage
  466. Chapter 466: The Legend of the Dragon
  467. Chapter 467: Exploration
  468. Chapter 468: The Eerie Red Glow
  469. Chapter 469: Approaching!
  470. Chapter 470: The Black Beetles
  471. Chapter 471: The Whole Story
  472. Chapter 472: The Crux of the Matter
  473. Chapter 473: The Secret of the Coffin
  474. Chapter 474: The Yang Extreme Spring (Grand Finale, Part 1)
  475. Chapter 475: The Very End (Grand Finale, Part 2)