Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 111: Cause of Death

Chapter 111: Chapter 111: Cause of Death

After discovering this semicircular surveillance camera, gradually, more and more cameras were found.

One, two, three, four... On the first floor alone, there are nine cameras in total.

They weren’t hidden particularly well; it was just preconceived notions that prevented everyone from realizing these things were actually cameras.

But... it’s different now.

Zhong Yi shivered and said tremblingly, "Hey... have you noticed, these cameras seem to be all pointed at us..."

Zhong Yi was right; this was the most spine-chilling part.

These cameras were slowly changing direction with their movement, they... were monitoring.

A creepy feeling rose from the depths of their hearts.

What kind of place is this asylum anyway?

Why monitor everyone like this?

"Let’s get outside!" Qin Chuan said with a grim expression.

Then he took the lead to leave, running outside to the open space.

Soon, everyone hurried out as well.

Su Jieyi lowered her head and glanced at her sister, Su Jiexian, whose eyes were still wide open, her face full of fear, and she bent down to grab her hand, struggling to drag Su Jiexian’s body.

At this moment, another pair of hands reached over from the side.

They were very pale, unnaturally so.

"Miss Xu?"

Su Jieyi opened her mouth, only to find that her voice was almost gone.

Xu Zhifei didn’t speak, just silently dragged Su Jiexian’s body.

The three men who had already run outside saw this and turned back to lend a hand.

Being dragged after death was too pathetic.

At least, let Su Jiexian have some dignity, to ease their minds.

However, as soon as Zhong Yi put his hand on Su Jiexian’s ankle, he suddenly recoiled as if electrocuted, immediately letting go of Su Jiexian’s foot.

"It... it moved! Her foot just moved!" Zhong Yi screamed, scared out of his wits, stuttering.

"What?!"

Whether true or not, Qin Chuan and Du Shangjing immediately let go of Su Jiexian, turned around, and ran away.

Su Jiexian’s body was once again dropped on the ground, her torn jaw trembling continuously, her head tilted, turning around, a pair of terrified eyes just happening to look outside the building, looking at... Qin Chuan, Du Shangjing, Zhong Yi.

Her chin, slightly shaking due to the impact, seemed as if she were still alive and moving.

The bizarre gaze from Su Jiexian made the three’s scalps tingle, and although they stood in the early morning spring sunlight, they felt a chill all over.

At this moment, someone came.

Hearing footsteps, Xu Zhifei immediately let go of Su Jiexian too, grabbing Su Jieyi and running!

Su Jieyi was a bit disoriented, snapping back to reality as Xu Zhifei dragged her to the outside of the first floor.

Now, Su Jiexian’s gaze could see five people.

The owner of the footsteps soon appeared.

Two orderlies in gray uniforms, carrying a stretcher, wearing masks, seemingly male.

They ignored the five people standing outside, heading directly toward Su Jiexian.

Then, they lifted her body from the ground and placed it on the stretcher.

Su Jieyi desperately wanted to rush over but was firmly held back by everyone.

The scene before them was just too bizarre; why were the hospital staff completely indifferent to Su Jiexian’s death?

Moreover, their behavior made it seem like they’d been through this many times, handling it with practiced ease.

Unbelievable, too strange...

Although those two orderlies didn’t utter a word from start to finish, an inexplicable chill arose in everyone’s hearts.

Su Jiexian died inexplicably, and this hospital was even more inexplicable!

It was filled with eeriness, not like a real world.

Soon, those two carried Su Jiexian’s body to the second floor and disappeared from sight.

"Phew..."

Qin Chuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Su Jieyi’s struggle also finally stopped.

Not because she came to terms, but because she suddenly realized that she no longer had such a strong obsession with living...

"Hey!"

At this moment, a man’s voice sounded above them.

"Mr. Bai?!" Du Shangjing looked with some surprise at the man in the third-floor window.

"How did you end up there?"

Du Shangjing’s question was everyone’s question.

However, Bai Yanliang himself didn’t know why he was different from everyone else.

He shook his head and said, "I don’t know; I woke up on the third floor."

"Miss Su Jiexian?" Bai Yanliang asked, glancing around and failing to find Su Jiexian’s shadow.

But as soon as he asked, he knew the answer.

Su Jieyi kept her head down, and the atmosphere among the five was very off, clearly indicating that something had happened to Su Jiexian.

A life taken so quickly.

"We have no idea what happened... Su Jiexian mysteriously died in front of us, her mouth opening wider and wider, as if an invisible hand was prying it open," Qin Chuan briefly explained the earlier situation.

Bai Yanliang lowered his head in thought.

Without witnessing it firsthand, he couldn’t be sure of what exactly happened.

"I wonder if it could be the food?" Du Shangjing frowned, "That nurse who gave us breakfast specifically reminded us not to waste it, but Su Jiexian spat the food out."

"Impossible!" Su Jieyi suddenly raised her head, "I spat it out too, why am I alright... why just Jiexian..."

Though Su Jieyi’s Emotion was a bit agitated, what she said made sense.

If it was the food, she should have been killed by the ghost too.

"No." Xu Zhifei suddenly turned to look at Su Jieyi, "Maybe you’re next."

Su Jieyi shivered, saying no more.

Xu Zhifei wasn’t trying to scare Su Jieyi on purpose; after all, it was indeed a possibility.

"In any case, for now, it seems that the fierce ghost has the means to kill invisibly; even if we gather together, it can attack us silently," Du Shangjing concluded.

"There’s another possibility," Bai Yanliang added from the window on the third floor, "It might not be a fierce ghost; it could be a phenomenon similar to a curse."

"Since it can kill Miss Su Jiexian invisibly, it can naturally kill us easily too, but so far only Miss Su Jiexian has died, so... I’m more inclined to believe that Miss Su Jiexian triggered some kind of curse."

Bai Yanliang’s words left everyone stunned.

A curse?

But the ghosts appearing in Wuji so far are, physically speaking, actual ghosts.

No... perhaps it’s better to say, while the fierce ghost is an idealistic existence, it possesses most of the characteristics of material things.

Do such invisible, intangible, indescribable, curse-like fierce ghosts really exist?

If someone else had suggested this, perhaps everyone would dismiss it.

But now, it was Bai Yanliang putting forth this idea; even Bai Yanliang himself didn’t know he had gained quite a bit of influence within Wuji.

And this... all stemmed from his almost standout performance in the previous two instances.

"Anyway, please save me first..."

However, just as they pondered over Bai Yanliang’s words, his sudden plea for help startled them.

"I’m trapped behind an iron door on the third floor and can’t get out."