Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 126: Hard to Distinguish

Chapter 126: Chapter 126: Hard to Distinguish

Who... am I?

Bai Yanliang clutched his head, stumbling out of the corridor.

One bizarre image after another flashed incessantly in his mind, and he had no way of knowing what these images meant. They seemed like a strange dream.

Perhaps they meant nothing at all, but the overwhelmingly oppressive atmosphere strongly affected Bai Yanliang.

Bai Yanliang distinctly felt the existence of pain, a kind of pain different from the soul-burning sensation of when Fog Gathering was summoned, and unlike any physical pain. It was more like... another soul awakening, wanting to tear Bai Yanliang into two people.

This was simply a nightmare...

An unintentional thought slipped by Bai Yanliang, yet suddenly a light flickered in his mind.

A dream?!

A book he had once read in the mental hospital, titled "Dream Analysis," appeared in Bai Yanliang’s mind.

Simply put, dreams are a physiological reaction, an alternative realm corresponding to the "real world."

They are often projected with all sorts of wonderful imaginations by people, but there are also viewpoints that suggest dreams are the result of the brain’s functions and unrestrained information and its carriers, following the rest of the "I" in the brain.

This process can be influenced by external stimuli and undergo changes.

Bai Yanliang endured the strange flickering images in his mind and returned to the second floor where Nurse Tang was still resting, and Doctor Zhao continued looking out the window.

Everything seemed unchanged.

But Bai Yanliang did not think so. The reason he fled from Su Jieyi earlier was that he inexplicably had a terrifying thought: to... kill her, kill Su Jieyi.

Chop off her limbs, smash her face, gouge open her stomach...

This horrific and frightening thought inexplicably emerged from Bai Yanliang’s head, clashing madly with his original thoughts, creating great conflict.

Gradually... Bai Yanliang found himself unable to suppress this murderous impulse, even sensing that if he wanted, he could completely tear Su Jieyi apart alive.

A huge and bizarre force flowed within him.

Unprecedented oppressive emotions enveloped Bai Yanliang.

Could all this... be a dream?

Yet... strangely, upon returning to the second floor, his condition immediately improved considerably, that intense malice to kill quickly receded, as if... it had never appeared at all.

From a young age, Bai Yanliang had never dreamed, neither sweet dreams nor nightmares.

He knew that ordinary people would have dream experiences, but he indeed had never had one.

However, he knew what dreaming was about.

If everything before him was a dream, then it must be a nightmare.

Nightmares are nightmares precisely because the dreamer is afraid or unwilling to face something.

Therefore, most people still retain the same emotions and thoughts after waking from a nightmare.

After struggling out of a nightmare, the fear in the heart not only does not dissipate but instead becomes more apparent.

Humans may deceive themselves, but they cannot deceive the dream.

Dreams, although seemingly bizarre and absurd, are precisely the deepest and most truthful emotions in the human heart.

Those desires and demands unseen during the day will be exaggeratedly released in this space.

Brain replacement...

Bai Yanliang recalled the information on the surgery record sheet once again.

For some reason, he suddenly felt a faint pain in the back of his head.

Is it psychological?

"Don’t touch your head!"

Nurse Tang’s voice suddenly rose.

Bai Yanliang turned his head, finding himself facing a startled-looking Tang Xiao Wen.

Bai Yanliang’s pupils contracted.

Because... Tang Xiao Wen’s appearance... returned to normal.

Her pupils were clear and bright, her arched eyebrows, and long eyelashes fluttered slightly, and her petite nose seemed to imbue her entire face with soul.

A very young and cute image of a little nurse.

But Bai Yanliang’s focus was not on Tang Xiao Wen’s appearance. He quickly shifted his gaze, looking at the madman Doctor Zhao by the window.

Coincidentally, Doctor Zhao also turned his head, looking at Bai Yanliang.

Bai Yanliang’s heart tightened, a wave of intense dizziness swept over him.

His vision went black, and the pain in the back of his head grew increasingly severe until he completely lost consciousness.

In the last moment before fainting, Bai Yanliang only felt that the gaze from that madman Doctor Zhao was uncannily familiar...

...

At the same time, in the corridor.

Bai Yanliang brought Xu Zhifei and Su Jieyi, continuing to walk deeper into the hallway.

From Su Jieyi’s mouth, he learned about another "self’s" found clues and heard "his" analysis.

Bai Yanliang had to admit that his thoughts were almost entirely consistent with the other’s. Now, even he doubted.

Was Bai Yanliang next to Su Jieyi really a ghost?

Everyone knew that the fierce ghosts in Fog Gathering would certainly not show mercy. If the Bai Yanliang next to Su Jieyi was a ghost, why didn’t he act?

Could it be... that he couldn’t kill a defenseless woman like Su Jieyi?

This fundamentally did not make sense.

Yet Bai Yanliang could confirm that he indeed was not a fierce ghost. How could there be two of him?

What was that Bai Yanliang’s identity...

"Wh... where are we going?"

At this moment, Su Jieyi’s timid voice sounded beside Bai Yanliang.

After what happened earlier, the woman seemed to become unusually sensitive.

Even though she knew that the Bai Yanliang before her was unlikely to be a ghost, she maintained a distance.

Su Jieyi always felt that Bai Yanliang and Xu Zhifei beside her might suddenly change their faces and kill her with a grin.

Once such a thought arose, it became hard to suppress, and Su Jieyi knew her thinking was irrational, yet she couldn’t control herself.

Hearing Su Jieyi’s voice, Bai Yanliang calmly uttered two words: "The end."

The end?

This building, which didn’t seem that big from the outside, turned out to be unexpectedly long after entering. Moreover, its angle slanted downwards, the end...

They had been walking for several minutes, yet there was no sign of the so-called end.

Could the end of this corridor be Hell?

Su Jieyi felt a chill creeping over her.

However, at this time, Bai Yanliang was thinking about the words he heard from that man’s mouth when he first woke up.

"For some reason, I couldn’t stop, nor could I turn around and go back.

The corridor behind me was pitch black, but I seemed to hear... a breathing sound behind me.

I desperately moved forward until... the narrowing corridor pressed me to the ground, and there was no path ahead.

I... finally reached the end of the corridor.

There was a door, a small wooden door, very old, its edges not fitting tightly, allowing a glimpse into the darkness within.

I kept staring at the wooden door, and then... the dream ended..."

If... what he said was true, there should be a wooden door at the end of this corridor.

Perhaps, just opening that wooden door would wake the dream up.

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