Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 188 Rest

Chapter 188: Chapter 188 Rest

How far can you escape in five seconds?

Moreover, just climbing up here has already consumed a lot of energy for Bai Yanliang and Qi Nian.

Now panting heavily, how could they possibly hide this from the ghost’s ears?

Although they’ve escaped the risk of falling, Bai Yanliang and Qi Nian still haven’t escaped the ghost’s pursuit!

Luckily... they’ve returned to the building!

Plus, this is the fourth floor, and there’s a slide that goes all the way down to the second floor!

Bai Yanliang quickly shut the window and almost dragged Qi Nian out of the restroom.

Qi Nian’s strength was completely depleted. She was just holding her breath to keep going, and once she let it out, her body immediately went limp.

"Listen to me, five seconds is all it takes, hold your breath!"

Bai Yanliang spoke quickly, while pulling Qi Nian they raced towards the slide!

"Thud—"

The sound of rushing into the slide echoed throughout the fourth floor.

At the same time, the sound of a window shattering rang out!

A terrifying ghostly figure, like a giant spider, clung to the wall and raced towards the slide, then leaped down!

The next moment, the fierce ghost’s rotting and hideous figure appeared at the slide’s entrance on the second floor.

However, upon leaving the slide, the fierce ghost suddenly stared intensely at what was beneath its feet!

It did not find Bai Yanliang and Qi Nian’s figures; instead, what slid from the fourth floor to the second was...

Just a rag doll!

It had been tricked.

...

In the restroom.

Bai Yanliang and Qi Nian leaned silently against the wall by the window, quietly catching their breath.

There was a flash of disbelief in Qi Nian’s eyes.

She had watched every move Bai Yanliang made just now.

Rushing towards the slide, grabbing the doll, throwing it in with force, and then hiding with her behind the wall next to the slide!

From that position, as long as the fierce ghost stretched its head slightly, it would discover both her and Bai Yanliang!

But what left Qi Nian astounded was that the ghost really didn’t suspect anything, and directly rushed into the slide, sliding down to the second floor!

Seeing Qi Nian’s lingering fear, Bai Yanliang rarely offered a low comforting word: "Don’t worry, it wouldn’t have thought that after escaping by the window, we would be right back here."

Qi Nian nodded, not revealing the real reason for her surprise.

In the restroom, only the faint sound of breathing could be heard as the two listened quietly to the movements outside, waiting for their strength to recover.

Although Bai Yanliang’s fingers were bloody and looked scary, there was no damage to the bones or muscles, so it wasn’t much of an issue.

On the other hand, Qi Nian was in a worse state than Bai Yanliang.

Because her right arm... was dislocated.

And it was dislocated from being forcibly pulled by Bai Yanliang’s weight.

Earlier, at a life-and-death moment, the adrenaline rush had dulled Qi Nian’s pain, but as soon as they stopped, fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, and her lips turned pale.

Bai Yanliang finally noticed Qi Nian’s abnormality. He gently held her arm, pressing lightly to understand what happened.

"Bear with it."

Bai Yanliang said, looking into her eyes.

Qi Nian gritted her teeth and nodded.

Bai Yanliang took a deep breath, gripping her right wrist with one hand and supporting her elbow with the other hand, slowly bending the elbow to ninety degrees, relaxing Qi Nian’s muscles, doing a sustained traction, and gently abducting her arm while gradually externally rotating her upper arm.

When it seemed about right, Bai Yanliang turned her wrist against his chest to begin internal rotation.

An intense pain instinctively made Qi Nian’s left hand grab Bai Yanliang’s arm to try to stop his further motion.

At this moment, Bai Yanliang twisted her forearm inward, and with a "crack" sound!

The repositioning was successful.

Qi Nian instinctively clenched her teeth, yet to her surprise, the pain drastically reduced just as the sound happened!

Qi Nian moved her right arm, stunned as she looked at Bai Yanliang’s figure, wondering how he could know so many strange things.

At this point, Bai Yanliang had already released her wrist and slipped to the restroom door, peeking outside.

The fourth floor had no sight of the fierce ghost anymore.

Bai Yanliang also breathed a slight sigh of relief.

He couldn’t be sure what actions the fierce ghost would take after realizing it was fooled.

Most importantly, whether it would return to the fourth floor to check.

But even if it did come, the restroom was relatively the safest place.

Feeling her strength returning, Qi Nian quietly moved over and whispered, "What now?"

Bai Yanliang looked at the dim surroundings and whispered, "Confirm its position, and then... head to the first-floor entrance."

Though the building wasn’t entirely pitch-black, areas slightly further away were very blurry.

Clearly, the night was very deep.

"The entrance?"

Could it be that Bai Yanliang wanted to hide there?

Qi Nian didn’t think the entrance to the first floor was a good place.

In the first round of the game, she had hidden there.

And this was already the second round... In Fog Gathering, safety and danger could often switch at any time.

Now, Qi Nian definitely didn’t want to go there again.

"My phone is hidden at the entrance." Bai Yanliang briefly explained the reason for going towards the entrance.

Upon hearing this, Qi Nian’s eyes immediately brightened!

What a good idea!

They could know what happened when the countdown of the blood letter reached "ghost" without taking too much risk.

However, just as Qi Nian was about to agree to accompany Bai Yanliang to the first floor, he suddenly retreated back, leaning again against the wall by the window.

"Forget it, let’s go after this round is over."

He turned his head and glanced at the moon on the rooftop of the opposite building, suddenly saying, "Half an hour until the second round ends, right."

Qi Nian took out her phone and checked the time, it was indeed 1:30 AM!

"Your phone isn’t..." Qi Nian looked at Bai Yanliang in confusion. She hadn’t seen him wearing a watch, and there were no other timers here. How did he know the time?

Bai Yanliang seemed to know Qi Nian’s confusion. He turned his head, looked at her, and smiled, "It’s easy for a person whose heartbeat changes very little to calculate time."

Qi Nian was taken aback. She suddenly felt that although Bai Yanliang was smiling, there seemed to be some inexplicable sadness in his tone...

He really was a strange person.

Qi Nian recalled carefully, realizing that even when hanging outside the building in a life-or-death moment, he was calm when telling her to let go of his hand.

Was he... not afraid?

Bai Yanliang closed his eyes, recalling the incident that just occurred.

The key that always hung from his collar was gone.

The key was related to Fog Gathering, and so was the fierce ghost.

A very simple substitution, Bai Yanliang just wanted to test at that critical life-and-death moment; if he surpassed Fog Gathering, would there still be some mysterious connection between the key and the fierce ghost?

Now, facts had confirmed, there was indeed a connection.

Not only existed, but the attraction was exceptionally strong—so strong that the fierce ghost temporarily gave up killing him, who was just inches away, and crawled down to pick up the key instead.

Now... Bai Yanliang had one more compelling reason to completely solve this fierce ghost.

He had to take back Yanren’s key.

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