Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 179 Escape for Life

Chapter 179: Chapter 179 Escape for Life

After separating from Song Que, Bai Yanliang went to a very dangerous place—the total control room.

As soon as he pushed the door open, he noticed the difference between this room and the one before.

All the screens had turned to static, with no images.

But this didn’t matter to Bai Yanliang, because this room was safe for a considerable period of time.

Although Bai Yanliang was just using human psychology to guess the ghost, from previous tasks, in some ways, the ghost’s "thoughts" were actually quite similar to those of humans.

It wouldn’t come back to a place it just visited in a short period.

Bai Yanliang sat in the chair, although he didn’t know if the ghost had sat in this chair before, he didn’t mind.

This was a temporarily safe and quiet environment, allowing Bai Yanliang to calm down and seriously start considering strategies for surviving this mission.

Firstly, the biggest question was Zhou Li.

Where did Zhou Li go?

If the first person to become a "ghost" was certainly replaced by the ghost and then died, it didn’t quite fit the style of Fog Gathering; Fog Gathering never set up a situation with no chance of survival.

But now, that’s exactly what happened. Zhou Li was missing, and the one searching for everyone in the building was that entirely decomposed fierce ghost.

Bai Yanliang saw clearly that the ghost looked exactly like Yuan Jie described before.

Did Zhou Li really die?

It’s impossible to determine.

Secondly, concerning the rules, the six of them drew lots to determine the order of who would be the "ghost" before going in, and surprisingly, Zhou Li actually became the "ghost" first after entering the building. Was it that the fierce ghost acknowledged their game rules, or... was it purely a coincidence?

If it was the former, Bai Yanliang could instantly find several ways to survive, but if it was the latter... the difficulty this time might be more terrifying than imagined.

Bai Yanliang recalled the specifics of this mission.

This was the first time that Fog Gathering’s blood letter provided detailed requirements for a task.

"April 3, 2019, midnight, zero o’clock, go to the West Suburb of Ye City, New Moon Department Store, and play a game of hide-and-seek. Each person plays the ghost once, continuing until six o’clock in the morning."

Bai Yanliang didn’t overlook a single word, but reading it this time, he discovered a tiny doubt.

"Each person plays the ghost once..."

What if one person played the ghost twice?

Although he was curious, Bai Yanliang himself was not very eager to try this idea.

But another of his speculations would be proven in half an hour.

Half an hour had passed since the game started, and according to the agreement, in another half an hour, it would be time to change who plays the ghost.

And next, the one chosen to be the ghost was Yang Mowan.

What he needed to do now was, in half an hour, confirm whether the one who became the "ghost" was indeed Yang Mowan.

...

"Mmm-mmm!"

Yang Mowan’s eyes were filled with terror, desperately struggling, but a pair of cold hands clasped her mouth tightly.

A feeling of despair surged, but suddenly, the owner of those hands spoke a familiar voice.

"Don’t make a noise."

It’s Qi Nian!

This was Qi Nian’s voice!

Yang Mowan immediately stopped struggling and looked back at the person under the counter.

"Qi Nian! It really is you!"

At this moment, Yang Mowan, whose taut nerves suddenly relaxed, collapsed into Qi Nian’s arms.

Qi Nian frowned but did not push her away.

Several months had passed.

Compared to when she first entered Wuji, she had changed a lot.

Thinking of the time when she first entered Wuji, shouting and crying, she often felt as if it were a lifetime ago.

Yang Mowan adjusted for a while before embarrassedly rising from Qi Nian’s arms.

She rarely showed this kind of impolite appearance in front of other people, luckily the other party was also a woman.

Yang Mowan looked at Qi Nian curiously and asked, "Why are you here?"

Qi Nian glanced at her: "You’re here too, aren’t you?"

Yang Mowan suddenly realized.

She wasn’t the only smart one; Qi Nian also thought of the high safety of the entrance location.

But there was another reason why Qi Nian was here.

She was confirming an idea, that since this was the starting point of the game, there was a high probability that the exchange of who plays the "ghost" would also occur here, and by staying hidden here, she could observe some unknown changes.

Although it was risky, was there an absolutely safe place in Wuji?

Qi Nian never thought so.

The once easily alarmed, loud Qi Nian was now accustomed to silence, used to thinking alone.

But there was one thing she could never get used to.

That was abandoning her companions.

She was still the same girl who risked her life to save Lu Guo, despite understanding that in this task, none of her companions could be trusted, and everyone’s positions could turn against each other at any time, she still chose to hold onto Yang Mowan and cover her mouth, not letting her see... a terrifying ghost figure following her came down from the escalator and had already gone to the basement level one.

We can’t stay here.

Although Qi Nian didn’t know what that ghost was doing on the first basement floor, she knew that the ghost had started a second round of searching, and this time, it wouldn’t spare any corner on the first floor.

Thinking of this, Qi Nian got out from under the counter, gave Yang Mowan a look, "Leave here as soon as possible."

After saying this, she turned and swiftly walked towards the escalator on the left. The fierce ghost just went down the basement level one from the left-side escalator, and it was very unlikely to return via the same path, but rather come back up from the escalator on the right after a round of searching.

Choosing the left escalator at this point was better to avoid running directly into the ghost coming up the stairs.

At this moment, Yang Mowan was stunned. She had planned to stay here until the hour ended, but seeing Qi Nian leave, she chose to trust her.

"Wait for me!"

Yang Mowan softly called out, quickly following, wanting to leave with Yang Mowan.

However, maybe because she had squatted for too long, or because she had previously exhausted too much physical strength.

As soon as she took two steps, her leg suddenly weakened, and with a "thud," she fell to the ground.

And most critically, her cell phone in her pocket, due to this sudden fall, dropped to the ground, and somehow, an application on her phone was activated.

It was—a flashlight.

Immediately! A strong beam of light shone from somewhere beside Yang Mowan towards the right escalator.

Qi Nian, standing by the left escalator, had her pupils contract tightly, and Yang Mowan was so scared her scalp tingled.

Because... on the right escalator, under the flashlight’s beam from the phone, a pair of rotten feet were revealed!

It’s the ghost!

It had come up from the basement level one!

Yang Mowan suddenly felt all the blood in her body freeze; she dared not pick up the phone, scrambling up to stagger clumsily toward the left escalator!

As for Qi Nian, the moment she saw those feet, she turned around and ran up to the second floor.

The nervous and terrified Yang Mowan suddenly heard a hair-raising sound in her ears.

"Ding-ling——"