Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 161 Breaking the Situation

Chapter 161: Chapter 161 Breaking the Situation

How to break the impasse?

Bai Yanliang pondered this question.

The upside-down walking fierce ghost had already left, leaving him alone in the entire room.

Logically, this should be a good thing, but Bai Yanliang didn’t know when the ghost would return. Clinging to the wall and hiding under the ceiling had worked, but eventually, his energy would run out, or an accident might happen. What he really needed to find now was a way to break through this puzzle.

Does the upside-down walking fierce ghost have any weaknesses or rules it must follow?

No way, no traces to follow.

Now, Bai Yanliang finally understood the importance of the decryption Fog Gathering provided. Although inappropriate, Bai Yanliang suddenly felt that Fog Gathering might not want them all to die; quite the opposite, it wanted as many people as possible to survive. But maybe... it also had to follow some rules and could only guide everyone towards survival through hints.

Maybe the relationship between Fog Gathering and the fierce ghost wasn’t what everyone naturally assumed; perhaps they were even opposites.

Recent events further provided more evidence for Bai Yanliang’s bizarre assumption.

Firstly... the key.

Everyone who survives a "Fog Gathering" eventually consolidates a key.

Speaking of keys, one cannot help but think of their counterpart—the lock.

And a lock, by definition, is a mechanism used for imprisoning, sealing, controlling, and protecting.

Bai Yanliang had a wild thought that Fog Gathering might be an extraordinary space used to seal wicked and bizarre things, and what it wanted to protect should be the real world.

But Bai Yanliang never mentioned this thought to anyone since it was too bizarre, and everyone chosen by Fog Gathering was filled with hatred towards it—how could they possibly consider the rationality of Bai Yanliang’s idea?

But now wasn’t the time for such thoughts. Bai Yanliang stood on the second floor, touching and pressing everywhere, hoping to find some mechanism.

Unfortunately, this seemed to be an ordinary, large house, with no mechanisms.

As for the first floor... it was too dangerous.

When the ghost left, the door locked automatically again. If it returned and he was on the first floor, it would be nearly impossible to avoid its gaze.

After all, apart from a wardrobe, there was nothing on the first floor.

However, speaking of which, the only entrance and exit from this secret room was this door that opened and closed automatically with the fierce ghost’s entry and exit.

Wait a moment...

A dangerous thought popped into Bai Yanliang’s mind. The wardrobe...

The only furniture or, rather, prop in the house!

Moreover, the door only briefly opens when the fierce ghost comes and goes...

That’s it!

Initially, he thought there was some connection between the wardrobe and the fierce ghost, but upon recent observation, he realized there was no unusual interaction between them.

In that case... the existence of this wardrobe was quite mysterious.

But now, he understood.

This was a balance!

Although the rules and structure of this world were controlled by the mysterious person holding the key, he wasn’t omnipotent. He too had to follow some rules, leaving the only path to survival.

And this wardrobe... was the key!

Though the mysterious person made this wardrobe exude an unsettling abnormality, it was merely a clumsy disguise that only confirmed Bai Yanliang’s speculation.

What Bai Yanliang needed to do next was only one thing—continue exploiting the blind spots in the fierce ghost’s vision to repeatedly observe and record the time intervals at which it left and entered the room.

This was a meticulous task; a slight mistake, and his life would be gone.

But Bai Yanliang seemed very confident, having already found the path to survival. Next... it depends on Feng Xiuxue.

...

If Bai Yanliang could see Feng Xiuxue, he would surely know his worries were unnecessary, even though he wasn’t particularly worried anyway.

At this moment, Feng Xiuxue was holding a phone, using the front camera to film the shadow behind her.

When that twisted abnormality appeared in the phone’s view, Feng Xiuxue not only didn’t fear but instead breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally found it, it turned out this ghost... was hiding in her shadow.

In fact, while photographing the entire room earlier, she occasionally caught her shadow but failed to discover the fierce ghost. Feng Xiuxue soon understood why.

Most highly concealed fierce ghosts possess a very special ability—when unseen, they become terrifyingly exaggerated, like in horror movies, where the scariest scenes always occur behind the protagonist, known to the audience but not the protagonist.

This fierce ghost had a similar ability, but the condition wasn’t invisibility—it was "direct sight".

When Feng Xiuxue turned to look directly at her shadow, it seemed ordinary, but when she chose to use the front camera to capture the scene behind, it finally revealed its true form.

"It’s quite frustrating, isn’t it, almost fully forming to kill me." Feng Xiuxue spoke softly, watching the twisted shadow with multiple arms growing from the phone screen.

"To deal with shadows, I have two methods..." Feng Xiuxue suddenly turned off the phone screen and shrank into a dark corner that lightning couldn’t reach.

This was her method—to unravel darkness with even deeper darkness...

As Feng Xiuxue walked into the corner, her shadow instantly vanished, like stepping into the night where the shadow was devoured by darkness.

"Creak..."

The door opened.

Feng Xiuxue stepped out gracefully.

...

Ten minutes.

Bai Yanliang took some time to finally confirm the intervals at which the upside-down walking fierce ghost entered.

Every time it left, it would return ten minutes later.

Each time it returned to patrol the room, the duration varied—sometimes it was longer, sometimes shorter.

But Bai Yanliang didn’t need to know the duration; he only needed to know it would enter after the next ten minutes.

Bai Yanliang acted swiftly; he set an alarm on his phone to go off in ten minutes, then placed it inside the wardrobe.

As for himself, he hid by the door.

Time ticked forward, and soon... the next ten minutes arrived.

"Click—"

Dazzling lightning illuminated Bai Yanliang’s calm face, turning it snow-white.

"Creak—"

The door opened.

The electrical light reflected on the ghost’s face, making this terrifying abnormal existence even more frightful.

Its hand reached inside the house, seeming to sense something, and its upside-down head was about to turn to the left, where Bai Yanliang was hiding by the left door!

But just then, a piercing alarm sounded from the wardrobe!

"Ringggg——"

Bai Yanliang’s pupils contracted as he saw the twisted hand at the door suddenly soar forward!

It merely took an instant to lunge towards the wardrobe!

Now!

Without delay, Bai Yanliang sidestepped out of the door from the left!

"Bang!"

The door shut once more.

"Roar!"

A malicious and furious voice echoed from inside the room, accompanied by the sound of the wardrobe being knocked over.

Suddenly, the daylight brightened, a familiar woman appeared in front of Bai Yanliang.

Seeing Feng Xiuxue’s faint smile, Bai Yanliang courteously returned a smile.

The two of them had successfully broken the impasse.

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