Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 133: It’s Him

Chapter 133: Chapter 133: It’s Him

As Du Shangjing pondered, he subconsciously stared at Zhao Lanshan’s corpse, and suddenly, cold sweat broke out all over his body.

He had discovered something amiss!

"Look at his eyes!"

Du Shangjing’s voice was urgent and filled with fear. The others, hearing this, turned to look and were instantly covered in goosebumps.

Zhao Lanshan’s eyeballs were still moving!

How could a dead man move his eyes?!

"To hell with this, I can’t take it anymore!"

With a roar, Qin Chuan turned back into the ward, grabbing the ballpoint pen from the nightstand.

He then rushed back with a fierce look, thrusting the pen violently into Zhao Lanshan’s eyeball!

"Qin Chuan, what are you doing! Are you crazy?"

Zhong Yi screamed, trying to stop him, but in the next moment, Zhong Yi’s shout abruptly stopped.

Qin Chuan pulled the pen out, with an eyeball hanging on it like a rotten grape.

However... the blood-covered eyeball was crawling with things!

Not dust, not sand, but those countless small black dots were... insects!

Tiny, densely packed, black insects!

They crawled rapidly up the pen, scaring Qin Chuan into dropping it with a scream.

They glanced at Zhao Lanshan’s bloody eye socket, and not just the eyeball...

Hair-raising tiny insects continued to crawl from Zhao Lanshan’s hollow eye sockets, like a tide, impossible to count!

The group retreated several steps in fright, the scene before them was simply incredible!

Insects?

How could there be so many insects inside a human body?

Du Shangjing was utterly creeped out. If this world was truly a reflection of the real world, a mirror world...

Does it mean... Zhao Lanshan wasn’t insane, but rather long dead?

These horrifying tiny insects occupied his torso, limbs, eyeballs, brain, occupying every organ in his body.

They existed on Zhao Lanshan’s body in a parasitic manner, making him... appear alive.

Du Shangjing shivered; the more he thought, the more he felt he might have hit upon the truth.

But at that moment, two women suddenly screamed loudly, filled with shock and fear.

Du Shangjing immediately realized why they were so panicky.

Because...those countless insects were frantically crawling out of Zhao Lanshan’s body like a tide!

Zhao Lanshan’s body rapidly decayed, shriveled, emitting a foul stench.

This was not an illusion, nor a dream, but truly happening before everyone’s eyes!

And the main reason for their screams was that these horrifying little insects were quickly gathering together, crawling quickly toward them...

The host’s nutrients had been consumed, and they were searching for the next target...

"Run!"

Zhong Yi’s shout seemed to flip a switch, making everyone instantly flee for their lives.

In the face of life and death, chaos reigned.

The eight people desperately rushed down the staircase, avoiding spots with insects.

However, Zhong Yi, whether from losing his footing or being tripped up, suddenly twisted his ankle with a crack while descending, immediately falling on the steps.

"Ah! Help me! Help me!" Zhong Yi tried to get up, but his ankle, twisted in the other direction, couldn’t support him standing.

"Close the door!"

Su Jieyi screamed, pushing away Du Shangjing’s hand from the door, trying to slam shut the iron door.

"What are you doing! Wait for Zhong Yi!" Du Shangjing looked incredulously at the twisted face of Su Jieyi.

The insects, now amassed into a dark swarm, were crawling down the stairs toward Zhong Yi, almost upon him.

Zhong Yi was terrified, tears and snot streaming; he couldn’t even utter words of plea, knowing full well that having fallen there, with the insects’ speed, even if someone came to save him, both would only end up dead.

Despair quickly enveloped Zhong Yi.

However... at that moment, someone completely unexpected dashed into the iron door, charging up the stairs.

His eyes were blood-red, muttering some curses under his breath. In Zhong Yi’s disbelief, he firmly grabbed Zhong Yi’s leg and flung him out the door with a forceful haul!

Then shouted, "Close the door!"

Su Jieyi eagerly slammed the iron door shut with a "bang."

Behind the iron door, Qin Chuan pulled out a cigarette and lighter, lit it, leaned against the wall, and shouted:

"Little Zhong! Bai Yanliang said I cost you a life in the real world, now I’m giving it back to you!"

Then Qin Chuan tore open the cigarette pack, lit it, and tossed it toward the insects.

As the burning paper fell to the ground, the gathering insects immediately retreated like a tide, but.. the cigarette pack was about to burn out, and those insects were crawling over the wall, ready to burrow into his body.

Qin Chuan looked at the insects and chuckled softly, "Heh... you bastards, think so beautifully."

He lit a flame, setting his clothing ablaze.

The flames quickly spread over his body, reflecting his flushed face in the firelight:

"Anyway, I’m already dead, dying again... what does it matter?"

...

"Qin Chuan!!!"

Zhong Yi pounded frantically on the iron door, only now realizing what had just happened.

Why... would he be the one to save me?

Behind the iron door, the crackling of flames merged with a growing charred stench.

But the time for them to mourn was brief because... all the doors on the second floor swung open.

Many emotionless people walked out of the rooms, moving silently and slowly toward them.

Tang Xiao Wen, Zhao Meili, He Zhendao, Yi Dongsheng...

All the medical staff appeared, wearing masks, with dull expressions, looking as if controlled by some unseen force, all maintaining silence.

Their movements and expressions were identical, even their expressions were identical.

They blocked the stairs down to the first floor, trapping Bai Yanliang and the others.

Their eyes were the same as Zhao Lanshan’s, dead, lifeless, crawling with countless black dots.

No escape...

This thought arose in everyone’s mind.

However, at this very moment, Zhong Yi suddenly looked at Bai Yanliang and asked, "Mr. Bai, tell me... am I really dead?"

Bai Yanliang looked at him; unlike before, there was no fear on Zhong Yi’s face now, only pure confusion.

Bai Yanliang silently nodded.

Zhong Yi seemed to finally let go of something, exhaling a heavy breath, saying, "I’ll distract them, create an opening, you guys take the chance to escape..."

Bai Yanliang seemed surprised by his words; just as he was prepared to persuade, a sharp pain suddenly radiated from his waist.

Bai Yanliang turned his head in disbelief, only to see... a sharp dagger embedded in his waist, and the one who released the dagger... was Du Shangjing.

"Ah!!!"

Su Jieyi jumped in fright, yanking Su Jiexian over, using him as a shield.

And now, Du Shangjing, with a complex expression, looked at Bai Yanliang and said, "It’s you... the one who just realized they were a ghost, Mr. Hu Chen."

As Du Shangjing finished speaking, the entire world suddenly came to a halt, colors rapidly faded...

In the mirror world, Su Jieyi, Su Jiexian, Zhong Yi, Xu Zhifei, another Du Shangjing, and... Bai Yanliang.

Except for Du Shangjing, everyone’s bodies rapidly disintegrated, turning into wisps of mist drifting toward an unknown distance...

In the corridor.

The terrifying fierce ghost beneath Bai Yanliang’s feet, its hand extended, suddenly froze in mid-air.

Mission... accomplished.