Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 124 Thinking

Chapter 124: Chapter 124 Thinking

"Where am I? What is this place?"

A line of messy writing was scribbled on the back of the surgical record sheet.

Strangely, this time the writing didn’t convey fear and despair; instead, it was filled with intense confusion and madness.

On March 4, 2013, the person who left the writing discovered something that shattered their worldview.

Bai Yanliang closed his eyes and quickly strung clues together in his mind.

Xu Zhifei did not disturb him; she was quietly thinking as well.

Although this place of dismembered limbs and blood was not quite suitable, neither of them cared about such things.

Bai Yanliang quickly connected the dots of each bizarre event, faintly sensing that he was close to finding it.

Finding that... the monster that killed everyone in the asylum again and again during the seven-day loop.

...

Du Shangjing was still alive.

This was something even he didn’t expect.

The moment the compass stopped spinning and the door was opened, Du Shangjing’s pupils suddenly contracted.

He’s doomed.

This was Du Shangjing’s only thought.

However, those blood-stained bare feet stopped at the doorway and didn’t come inside!

The figure stood at the door for a moment, then... left.

Du Shangjing was somewhat bewildered.

It let me go?

Du Shangjing felt no joy at his survival; instead, his mind became even more chaotic.

Before entering Fog Gathering, Du Shangjing was an outstanding individual.

Graduating from a prestigious university, with parents who were both highly educated, he had a rich family background and lived a life of ease.

But Du Shangjing was not happy, and this became more pronounced after his father’s death when his mother demanded that he be better than others in everything.

Sports, arts, academics, even appearance, height, and manners... he was forced to meet specific standards.

Du Shangjing felt that on the day his father died, his mother also died; what stood before him was just a life form with his mother’s shell.

She was mentally disturbed, sometimes hysterical, sometimes laughing madly, and sometimes holding her head and crying.

Du Shangjing tried to console and comfort her, but all he got was his mother’s maddened beatings.

Du Shangjing endured this for a long, long time, and if not for the compass left by his father, he might have long lost his way.

So, upon first opening the door and entering Fog Gathering, Du Shangjing’s reaction wasn’t fear but... relief.

After experiencing the first task, Du Shangjing’s worldview was greatly shaken.

He initially thought Fog Gathering was just a subspace in the cracks of the real world, but... when the fierce ghost devoured the senior who had taken care of him, Du Shangjing dismissed that idea.

He finally understood that compared to subspace, Fog Gathering was more like a bridge between the material and ideal worlds.

It connected two entirely different worlds.

The laws of the two worlds were entirely different, yet they merged under the influence of Fog Gathering.

Du Shangjing thought, perhaps in the future, the other world connected by Fog Gathering might collide and merge with the real world.

And the evidence was.

The first task he experienced was on October 24, 1998.

And next, it was 1999, 2005, 2009... until the last time, 2012.

The time of each task gradually approached the real time.

Although he hadn’t found any evidence, Du Shangjing was almost certain that this task’s time happened in 2013 or after 2013.

This was the evidence Du Shangjing discovered.

The eerie footsteps were gradually approaching reality from the past!

So... will it be 2014, 2015, 2016... until 2019 next?

On the day when the eerie world of Fog Gathering truly approaches the real world, what will this world become?

Du Shangjing couldn’t imagine.

Maybe... he wouldn’t live to see that day.

So Du Shangjing had already prepared himself, noting down his discoveries and thoughts on his computer, sealed in a document.

This document needed him to check it once a week; if he failed to do so for a week, it would automatically send itself to the discussion group of Fog Gathering.

By then, even if he was dead, he would have... made a contribution, right?

Du Shangjing gave a bitter smile.

He withdrew his chaotic thoughts.

This time, the task was so bizarre that he couldn’t grasp any clues.

The bloody barefoot that appeared earlier still left him with lingering fears.

And turning eerily around the corner, from the first floor to the second, immediately entering this terrifying space, made his scalp tingle even more.

This task lacked logic, it seemed anytime, anywhere, a fierce ghost could suddenly appear. Maybe it didn’t even need to appear at all, just like when on the first floor, it could kill invisibly, and by the time you sensed something, it might be too late to save it.

Will that barefooted thing come again?

What about Qin Chuan, Su Jieyi, and Xu Zhifei, where did they go, are they... still alive?

Du Shangjing didn’t know.

He knew nothing.

But since discovering the right direction, knowing the sun rose from the west here, Du Shangjing had a firm belief.

This world is definitely not the real world.

It is reversed, chaotic, without logic, a dream is the only explanation.

Du Shangjing found no other clues, but he understood that in this world, there is one person who is the true core.

It is he who constructed everything, and only by finding him and killing him! Can this illogical and bizarre space be broken.

All of this... is likely his dream.

Finding the person dreaming, there might be... a chance of survival.

By now, the widely accepted notion in Fog Gathering that there’s no truly unbeatable fierce ghost has also been acknowledged by Du Shangjing.

He carefully recalled all his experiences, and although each task seemed extremely terrifying, upon reflection, there seemed to indeed be a path... or even several paths that were suspected to be escapes!

Sometimes, the escape was as simple as everyone shifting their mindset slightly.

Like Yu Wenxuan, although his approach was too extreme, it did break the game.

"Unburned where dead lay, guest came from what route."

Solely based on this line of decryption, Yu Wenxuan killed all thirteen members of the Liu Family and burned the entire courtyard to the ground.

Indeed, without a place for the guest to return to, they naturally couldn’t arrive.

Yu Wenxuan fundamentally erased the path of the fierce ghost’s arrival, so the task naturally completed.

Du Shangjing didn’t agree with his method, but... it wasn’t a line of thinking excluded.

So... what is this time’s path to survival?

Actually, when encountering terror and paranormal phenomena, all eerie occurrences are some form of hint. This is something Du Shangjing discovered long ago.

But the more he thought about these eerie things, the more Du Shangjing was convinced of his idea.

This is likely indeed a dream.

The dream of a madman in a psychiatric hospital.

Even the dreams of normal people lack logic, let alone a madman?

Peculiar and bizarre are the colors dreams ought to have.

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