Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 109 Ghost Trace

Chapter 109: Chapter 109 Ghost Trace

However, the development of things was exactly as Bai Yanliang had guessed.

At this moment on the first floor, Zhong Yi, Su Jieyi, Su Jiexian, Qin Chuan, Xu Zhifei, and Du Shangjing had already gathered.

Originally, Bai Yanliang thought that, like him, they all wore faces that did not belong to them, playing other roles in this world.

But... although Bai Yanliang did not see it, at this moment on the first floor, all six people had their original appearances, with their original names.

"Where is Bai Yanliang?" Du Shangjing looked around. Including himself, there were only six people here.

"I don’t know. As soon as the day broke, I opened my door and then met everyone else," Zhong Yi said.

"Us too." Su Jieyi and Su Jiexian, the two sisters, said.

"Could something have happened to him?" Qin Chuan furrowed his brows and looked at everyone: "There are a total of eleven rooms on the first floor, and apart from our wards, there are five other rooms. Could Bai Yanliang be in one of them?"

"It doesn’t matter." Xu Zhifei’s cold voice sounded: "We don’t need to bother with him."

Everyone’s eyes fell on her. Although there was nothing to criticize her for, her indifferent attitude left an unsettling feeling.

"Alright, let’s discuss this." Du Shangjing suggested.

It was already daylight, and unlike Bai Yanliang, the actions of Du Shangjing and the other six were not restricted in any way. Although hospital staff occasionally passed by, none of them paid any attention to the six, as if... they did not exist.

"Do you have any thoughts on the decryption?" Du Shangjing asked. His mood was somewhat heavy. He held high hopes for Bai Yanliang, who had shown remarkable performance in the previous two instances, but... this time, from the beginning, he had disappeared. Du Shangjing could only hope he was okay.

"I thought a lot last night. This time, the decryption consists of just one word: who. I think there should be two explanations," Qin Chuan said with a serious expression and straight posture, exhibiting more of a leaderly aura compared to Du Shangjing.

"First, there’s an unknown presence hidden in this hospital that no one has seen. Second, there’s someone in this hospital who is not who they claim to be."

Qin Chuan’s words were somewhat convoluted, but everyone understood his meaning.

"But... how would the fierce ghost make a move against us? And where is the path to survival..." Zhong Yi’s spirits were low, and this was already his state after forcibly lifting his spirits.

Many in Fog Gathering could not bear the pressure of fierce ghosts and death, choosing to end their own lives. Actually... Zhong Yi had seriously considered the option of suicide.

But... he was too timid, so much so that he didn’t dare to direct a blade at his own wrist.

"It’s useless... There’s no way to defend against ghosts, no matter how you try. We don’t even know what it is, only that we passively wait for it to emerge from some corner and kill us." Zhong Yi’s negativity caused the expressions of the two sisters, Su Jieyi and Su Jiexian, to change as well.

"Hey, you all saw her too, right... the nurse with just a mouth on her face. She asked my name, and I replied to her. I’m sure I’m going to die... She definitely has her eyes on me..." Zhong Yi said, lost and forlorn.

"Enough!" Qin Chuan stepped forward, grabbed Zhong Yi by the collar, and yelled: "Stop rambling, if you want to die, then just leave here and let Fog Gathering deem you passive, instead of spreading your pessimistic mood to us!"

"Alright... alright..." Du Shangjing stepped forward to separate the two, advising them, "We’ve gotten through so many times before, this will be the same. Zhong Yi, don’t overthink it. I also, like you, answered her with my name. I think... everyone is the same, right?"

As he spoke, Du Shangjing looked at everyone.

"Mm."

"Mm..."

"Me too."

"..."

Except for Xu Zhifei, who remained silent, everyone admitted to having given the plump nurse their names.

As for Xu Zhifei, that’s just her personality, Du Shangjing was well aware of it, taking her silence as implicit agreement.

"You see, right? In that situation, we had no choice but to give her our names. After she knew our names, she simply left and didn’t harm us." Du Shangjing consoled Zhong Yi.

"At the moment, we know nothing. We can only search for clues. Only by finding the taboo can we hope to survive until the moment of departure..."

As he spoke, Du Shangjing also sighed and said, "Zhong Yi, nobody wants to die, and you’re the same, right..."

Everyone fell silent.

The ghosts in Fog Gathering couldn’t be countered by materialist or even idealist means.

Du Shangjing had even encountered fierce ghosts that seemed not to be the souls of deceased humans. They only had the purest malice, their existence was abnormal, obscure, hard to believe, yet objectively present.

Recently, people had discovered they were not truly without solution, as a kind of unseen rule superseded them.

As long as one could find that hidden rule within the terror and eeriness, perhaps they could... survive.

That rule was the ghost’s limitation and the path to life.

Decryption was the best method for finding the rule.

It was also the only help Fog Gathering provided them.

Yet... whether or not they could detect it was up to the individual.

In this silence, suddenly some commotion came from a short distance away.

Everyone looked up, only to see a tall, thin nurse pushing a food cart towards them.

However... her entire face had just one organ: a mouth.

"Time to eat."

Her lips parted, and her voice was somewhat sharp.

The six of them forced themselves to endure their fear, trying not to look at her face.

Then... one by one, they took a breakfast from her hand.

Nobody dared to make the slightest sound until she had served everyone.

"Finish it, no waste allowed." Her sharp voice rang out again.

Du Shangjing was the first to obey her instructions, grabbing a steamed bun to stuff into his mouth. Seeing him, the others quickly followed his lead to tackle the nurse’s breakfast.

She slowly turned her head, seemingly checking everyone one by one, then nodded and left with the cart.

"Puh puh..."

As soon as she left, the Su sisters simultaneously spat out the food from their mouths.

"That was terrifying, is she... a ghost?"

Su Jieyi asked, trembling.

Although the tall, thin nurse’s behavior was like that of an ordinary person, but... her face had only one organ!

Du Shangjing shook his head grimly: "I don’t know. I’m wondering if everyone in this hospital... might just have a mouth on a blank face."

"The plump nurse, and then there was her just now, all with such terrifying looks, what on earth is going on..."

"Sister, I want to go to the bath..."

At this moment, Su Jiexian spoke up.

But just as she said half of her sentence, she suddenly opened her mouth.

Everyone stared at her in surprise; it seemed this girl did need to go to the bathroom.

Yet now, Su Jiexian’s expression was unnervingly terrified!

Her eyes widened as her mouth stretched wider and wider, tears dropping down furiously.

Her fear and panic instantly spread to everyone.

"Hey! What’s happening?"

"Su Jiexian! Quickly! Close her mouth!"

While Qin Chuan spoke, he had already rushed forward, and Du Shangjing also hurried to help. The two men pressed on her head and jaw, trying to close Su Jiexian’s increasingly open mouth.

"Gah... gah..."

A meaningless sound came from Su Jiexian’s throat. She stared intently at the ceiling, her limbs struggling hard.

"Sister! Sister... what’s wrong?" Su Jieyi was already scared out of her wits. Crying, she held Su Jiexian’s hand, oblivious to the blood drawn by her sibling’s grip.

At this moment, a loud "crack—"

A very sharp cracking sound of bone breaking rang out.

Then, Su Jiexian stopped struggling, her jaw and upper palate completely torn apart, only blood threads and a few strands of muscle still connecting them, her entire face covered by a crimson mask of blood.

Su Jiexian was dead.

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