Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 130: In the Mirror

Chapter 130: Chapter 130: In the Mirror

Third floor.

After the nurse who looked like a fierce ghost left, Bai Yanliang immediately climbed out of the hospital bed.

Clock and mirror.

These two common objects couldn’t be found anywhere in this hospital.

However... the transparent glass inset in the window could faintly reflect human shapes.

Bai Yanliang faced the window glass, and his reflection instantly appeared inside.

It was an ordinary-looking young man, and as Bai Yanliang gazed at him, he felt a sense of familiarity.

Bai Yanliang repeatedly pondered a question: why did his appearance look completely different in the eyes of Su Jieyi and others compared to the doctors and nurses?

Could it be because... they were not from this world?

However, before Bai Yanliang could trace the source of that familiarity, the young man in the glass grinned eerily.

A pale, twisted arm suddenly reached out from the glass and dragged him inside.

...

When Bai Yanliang came to his senses, the outside was dark.

He looked around and found himself still in the ward.

Before him was the window that had extended the ghost hand and pulled him into the glass.

Yet this time, no image was reflected on the obscure glass.

This place... is the world inside the glass.

Where’s the ghost?

At this moment, Bai Yanliang remained highly vigilant.

He left the room, proceeding cautiously.

This space... looks exactly the same as before, but in reality, it is completely opposite!

This is the Mirror World!

As Bai Yanliang reached the stairwell, he suddenly noticed someone lying on the ground.

Du Shangjing!

He quickly approached to check and felt for breath; still alive.

So, Bai Yanliang helped Du Shangjing up, calling out, "Mr. Du? Mr. Du?"

Du Shangjing slowly opened his eyes, looking at Bai Yanliang with residual fear in his eyes, and asked in surprise, "Mr. Bai? This... where are we?"

"I think... we should be inside the glass."

"Glass..."

Du Shangjing repeated Bai Yanliang’s words, and suddenly, as if something dawned on him, he grabbed Bai Yanliang’s arm and exclaimed, "There’s a ghost on the third floor! A barefoot ghost that killed all the doctors and nurses, and everything we saw was just illusions!"

But Bai Yanliang shook his head and said, "Mr. Du, the barefoot ghost you saw was also fake, there’s been only one ghost from start to finish, the ghost in the mirror. It can create illusions in any room with glass, simply to drag us into the Mirror World and then kill us."

Bai Yanliang’s idea greatly differed from Du Shangjing, but out of trust in Bai Yanliang’s reasoning, Du Shangjing instinctively asked:

"Then... where’s the way out?"

"I don’t know." Bai Yanliang decisively shook his head.

He truly didn’t know, smashing all the glass? Making the ghost have no place to hide?

This is definitely not a good idea.

Unless you crush the glass to the point it cannot reflect a figure, merely breaking it would still allow it to function.

Just then, a surprised voice sounded at the stairway between the first and second floors:

"Mr. Du! Bai Yanliang!"

Du Shangjing and Bai Yanliang both turned around to see two unexpected people standing there alive!

Su Jiexian, Zhong Yi!

Ghost!

The thought instantly popped into Du Shangjing’s head, but as he was about to flee, Bai Yanliang grabbed him.

"How are you here?" Bai Yanliang asked.

Su Jiexian and Zhong Yi quickly approached them, looking strangely at Du Shangjing.

This Mr. Du seemed unwilling to look at them, and Su Jiexian said, "We’ve been here all along! There’s a ghost constantly chasing us, and we’ve been hiding from it for a long time..."

"Shh!"

Just then, Zhong Yi suddenly raised his hand, stopping the conversation.

"Listen..."

"Rustle—"

The eerie footsteps faintly echoed from the open space outside the building.

It sounded as if it couldn’t lift its feet, trudging through sand and dirt, making a coarse noise.

"It’s that one!" Su Jiexian exclaimed with wide eyes, whispering in fear.

"It’s not coming over, seems like... it went to the back operating room."

Zhong Yi let out a sigh of relief, as the footsteps grew fainter until... they disappeared completely.

Thank God.

Yet at this moment, a hallway door on the second floor suddenly opened surreptitiously, and a man shouted excitedly, "I finally found you!"

Darn it!

Zhong Yi, terrified, scrambled over to cover the man’s mouth.

It’s Qin Chuan!

Who knows why Qin Chuan hid in a room on the second floor!

But... his sudden outburst, though it was just a single sentence, though it lasted but a moment, yet...

Sure enough!

The previously receding footsteps grew louder once more!

It changed direction and was approaching!

"Are you brainless!"

Zhong Yi, eyes bloodshot, wanted nothing more than to choke Qin Chuan.

"I..." Qin Chuan seemed entirely unaware of what he had done.

But his temper was terrible, he saw Zhong Yi as nothing but a useless waste who only spread negativity, and such rubbish dared to curse him?

Qin Chuan immediately prepared to teach him a lesson first.

But... just then.

Three more doors opened.

Su Jieyi, Xu Zhifei, and... Du Shangjing!

The scene turned incredibly silent, leaving only the footsteps outside steadily drawing nearer.

Bai Yanliang, Du Shangjing, Su Jieyi, Su Jiexian, Zhong Yi, Xu Zhifei, Qin Chuan, Du Shangjing... eight people stared at each other.

Especially... Du Shangjing with Du Shangjing.

Even Bai Yanliang knitted his brows at the bizarre scene before him.

Two... Du Shangjing?

"He’s the ghost!"

"He’s the ghost!"

The two Du Shangjing pointed at each other simultaneously, saying.

Their movements were almost identical, but at this moment, Bai Yanliang’s pupils suddenly shrank.

He understood!

"None of you are ghosts, stop arguing, that ghost has found us, let’s hide on the third floor!"

Between the third and second floor, there’s a very thick iron door; Bai Yanliang didn’t know if that iron door could block the ghost.

But... Judging from the outside footsteps, if this Mirror World’s ghost was omnipotent, it would’ve instantly teleported in front of everyone by now.

Since it hadn’t done so, it proved it couldn’t.

Maybe... that iron door might indeed be useful?

Bai Yanliang’s words stunned everyone, especially the two Du Shangjing.

But Bai Yanliang made sense, that terrifying sound of footsteps already reached the first floor; if they kept dawdling on the second floor, everyone would die!

Move!

Gently tiptoeing, the eight people went up to the third floor, and they all tacitly let the two Du Shangjing lead the way.

Bai Yanliang stayed behind and locked the massive iron door between the third and second floors.

No retreat now.

All they could do was pray, regardless of any deity, to protect them and keep that fierce ghost from coming up.

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