Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 219: The Future

Chapter 219: Chapter 219: The Future

Lying on the bed, Bai Yanliang never closed his eyes.

The little black cat curled up by the pillow, seemingly watching him, also not sleeping.

Actually, the sudden decision to leave was not because he was angry.

Instead, it was because... Yang Wanlong’s secret was detected by Bai Yanliang.

There is no such thing as love without reason, nor is there hatred without reason.

But in Yang Wanlong, there has always been something that puzzled Bai Yanliang immensely.

That is... Yang Wanlong’s trust in him.

According to Yang Wanlong, it was because he had witnessed a terrifying scene as a child that looked like a fierce ghost taking possession, which made him believe Bai Yanliang was not the real culprit who killed Bai Yanren. But is this really the truth as he said?

This doubt remained in Bai Yanliang’s heart.

Even if Yang Wanlong did not lie about this, it should not have been the source of his trust in Bai Yanliang.

To Bai Yanliang, Yang Wanlong’s kindness towards him seemed more like a form of compensation, a form of guilt...

He is actually a very irritable person, but every time he faces Bai Yanliang, he can quickly collect his emotions.

If they didn’t look completely different, Bai Yanliang would even suspect that he was his long-lost father.

This confusion has always existed, something that cannot be explained by merely calling him a "good person."

Until... the occurrence of this incident.

The Puppet was obviously targeting both himself and Yang Wanlong.

If... it were only aimed at him, Bai Yanliang could perhaps understand.

After all, he has always carried a key left by Bai Yanren, and some people in the shadows want to take that key from him, which he learned from various channels long ago.

Even Feng Xiuxue and Xun Weimo also want his key.

It’s just that these two people’s methods are gentler.

By means of framing, the Puppet could easily make Bai Yanliang lose the trust and protection of the police.

That is understandable.

But a false bomb, hidden in the third middle school.

And a real bomb, tied to Yang Zhirong’s body, cannot be explained.

Yang Zhirong and Yang Yiyi are Yang Wanlong’s relatives. The Puppet’s purpose is obvious; he wants Yang Wanlong to taste the feeling of losing family.

Why does he want to do this? Does he know Yang Wanlong?

This special method of revenge is as if Yang Wanlong had once killed the Puppet’s relatives.

Various irrational elements are linked together with Bai Yanliang’s conjecture.

He came to an unusually shocking conclusion.

Yang Wanlong, Puppet, Bai Yanren, were all members of the same "Fog Gathering" ten years ago.

It might even be that their relationship back then was quite good.

Of course, it may not just be the three of them; that organization named Dark Abyss has always been committing various crimes; this is not simply venting perverse emotions or satisfying personal pleasure; they have a purpose.

Through terrifying and bizarre crimes, they can gain something.

Regarding this point, Bai Yanliang also has some speculations.

Whether Xun Weimo or Xu Zhifei, both have shown extraordinarily rapid aging conditions. The root cause of this condition is because they utilized some power of the key.

In Bai Yanliang’s speculation, a key should possess two abilities.

One ability is like that of Xun Weimo and Xu Zhifei, which after usage results in rapid aging, requiring consumption of "ghosts" to recover, and this power seems different for each key.

And the other is the one used by the person Bai Yanliang and Feng Xiuxue encountered back then, whom Feng Xiuxue called the desperado. That power can open a world, construct a world, can take the other’s life, but the cost of failure... is a terrifying death.

Bai Yanliang remembered that when that person died, his mouth was filled with long hair, being continuously pulled out from his belly. It looked... very much like being backfired upon by the ghost in the key "world."

What the people of Dark Abyss utilized should be the first kind of ability, which after use greatly depletes one’s lifespan, and without consuming "ghosts" to replenish, they would soon die of old age.

However... "ghosts" are not so easy to obtain, yet they could still use the first ability of the key without any scruples.

Therefore, Bai Yanliang speculated that those people should have mastered some kind of method to "create" ghosts.

Although it sounds unbelievable, considering the abnormal cases and twisted shadows that have occurred over these days, this is the most reasonable conjecture.

They treat "ghosts" as consumables, so they need to continually create death, create "ghosts," to support their use of the key’s first kind of power.

But... why do they specifically need the key left by Yanren?

Could it be that Yanren’s key’s first kind of ability is astonishing?

It’s very possible.

But unfortunately, Bai Yanliang does not know how to use the power of the key, and he has already promised Xun Weimo that the key is now Xun Weimo’s.

Bai Yanliang’s biggest confusion is still about their purpose of collecting keys.

Having multiple keys seems to lead to some incredible event.

Specifically what it is, this cannot be deduced for now.

In short, the decision Bai Yanliang has made now is to hide in the dark, and then... find a way to get a key that belongs to him.

The best way is undoubtedly to become the only one who survives when Fog Gathering ends.

The scene Xu Zhifei dreamt of was precisely this; if nothing unexpected happens, Bai Yanliang will indeed become the only one to survive.

And everyone else, has to die.

Have to... die?

Figures flashed through Bai Yanliang’s mind.

Li Mu, Yu Sheng, Song Que, Du Shangjing, Feng Xiuxue, Li Yuejun, Gu Pingsheng, Qi Nian, Jiang Li, Yu Wenxuan...

Some are life-and-death friends, some are just acquaintances.

If the future develops as Xu Zhifei’s dream, none of these people will survive.

But... from the situation already in hand, among these people, at least two have not experienced the end of "Fog Gathering" for the first time.

The first is Feng Xiuxue; she very frankly told Bai Yanliang that she was the winner of the last round of the game.

This is a very interesting statement; it seems that during her previous experience, that group of people treated all these as a game, and they were players, only the cost of losing the game... was life.

And the other is Xu Zhifei.

Initially, Bai Yanliang thought her precognitive dreams were truly innate talents.

But now it seems that should be the... first ability of the key she had.

In other words, it is not her first time entering "Fog Gathering."

Or there is another possibility.

Like Bai Yanliang, she had obtained a key somewhere, only... she also obtained a method of using the key.

Which answer it eventually is, only time will tell.

Bai Yanliang withdrew his thoughts, suddenly feeling the little black cat’s tail gently brushing against him.

He gently patted its head, saying, "I’m fine."

Yes... it’s fine.

Before tomorrow comes, no one knows what the future holds.

All Bai Yanliang has, all he can do, is to maintain enough composure and live in this cruel and terrifying world.

Until the day when everything becomes clear.

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