Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 228: Drawing a Face

Chapter 228: Chapter 228: Drawing a Face

"Don’t touch me!"

Lu Guo slapped away Jiang Li’s hand, an overwhelming chill enveloping his body.

Who... is this?

Why did Jiang Li’s face suddenly change into his?

Who the hell is this damned man!

Lu Guo clutched his head, his headache splitting.

This face gave him a familiar feeling, yet he eerily couldn’t remember who this person was.

"Lu Guo..."

Jiang Li called out softly, also frightened by Lu Guo’s strange behavior.

Why did he look at her once and then become so scared?

Could it be... is there something odd about my face?

Jiang Li reached up and touched her own face but didn’t feel anything unusual.

Lu Guo took quite a while to finally make up his mind.

He suddenly looked up at Jiang Li.

A neutral face appeared before him.

Lu Guo finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Normal... Jiang Li’s face turned back...

But thinking of that face, full of familiarity yet strange, Lu Guo felt like a startled bird.

"Let’s go back..."

Lu Guo murmured, he no longer wanted to stay outside the village.

"What did you say?" Jiang Li didn’t hear clearly what Lu Guo suddenly said.

"I said let’s go back!" Lu Guo’s mood suddenly turned a bit irritated; this damned task wasn’t like what he expected at all.

Logically, the mission was supposed to officially start at dawn today, with the execution site inside the village, and there shouldn’t have been any supernatural phenomena outside the village.

But he was wrong.

The abnormality of this village wasn’t due to Fog Gathering, but it was inherently eerie!

He should have realized this earlier...

Also, Bai Yanliang and the others should have known long ago, given that supernatural occurrences happened even before they reached the village.

The drifting corpses of the five of them in the river were the best evidence.

Foolishly, he still held onto the idea that since the mission hadn’t started yet, outside the village would be safe.

"Stop wandering around outside the village, we need to go back... go back and find them."

Lu Guo’s attitude was firm; he was already feeling uneasy.

Strange things were happening right next to him, this place was no longer safe...

Jiang Li said nothing, in fact, she had no idea what was wrong with Lu Guo, suddenly yelling and losing control of his emotions.

From what she knew of Lu Guo, he wasn’t that kind of person.

However, if Lu Guo insisted on entering the village now, she couldn’t refuse either, because compared to seeing ghosts in the village, she was more afraid of being alone.

...

In the room.

The atmosphere became very eerie after Xu Zhifei mentioned her body was decaying.

Yu Wenxuan moved a little distance away, not saying anything, but his attitude was clear.

Bai Yanliang also remained silent, deep in thought.

Xu Zhifei’s mutation began after she saw her own face on those funeral clothes.

Afterwards, her body became invisible and started to decay.

This led Bai Yanliang to a rather ominous speculation.

That perhaps the moment she saw her face on those funeral clothes, she was already cursed?

The curse’s effect was to make her completely disappear, to die.

If that were the case... then the problem should lie with the funeral clothes hanging by the door.

At this moment, a sound suddenly came from the courtyard outside the door.

Yu Wenxuan and Bai Yanliang immediately tensed up, moving close to the window, ready to escape through it at any moment.

And then... in the courtyard outside the door, the scattered footsteps became closer and closer, sounding like... more than one person.

Yu Wenxuan pressed his body against the door, peeking through a gap outside.

Seeing who it was, he relaxed a little and said, "It’s Lu Guo and Jiang Li."

The door opened.

Covered with a cloak, an elder appeared outside the door.

"Go in."

Her aged voice carried a tone of undeniable authority.

Lu Guo and Jiang Li glanced at Bai Yanliang and Yu Wenxuan inside, quickly thanked them, and slipped into the room.

The door was then closed again.

Step by step... the footsteps grew ever distant.

The strange elder walked away again.

"Why did you come? Weren’t you supposed to stay outside the village until dawn before coming in?"

Yu Wenxuan glanced at the two, not really focusing much on them.

Lu Guo’s expression wasn’t right; he seemed pursued by something, hastily saying:

"Something’s wrong! There’s something wrong with this village!"

"That’s something anyone would know. Can you tell us something we don’t know?" Yu Wenxuan sat down on the bed board, crossing his legs, and asked.

Lu Guo ignored his attitude, swallowed hard, and said, "Earlier, as Jiang Li and I were circling the village, I inadvertently looked inside and saw... a person, a man!"

"Oh? Do you know him?"

Yu Wenxuan asked with interest.

"I... don’t!" Lu Guo’s expression was peculiar, "I can’t explain it, I clearly have never seen that face before, but there’s an inexplicable familiarity about it."

"When I saw that person, I instinctively turned my head. By the time I reacted, he was gone, and then I heard Jiang Li calling me. I looked up..." As he spoke, Lu Guo glanced at Jiang Li, "At that moment, Jiang Li’s face was his, that stranger..."

Jiang Li’s eyes widened. On the way back, Lu Guo had been silent, never mentioning these things, and she had no idea that so many bizarre occurrences had happened in such a short time.

After listening to Lu Guo’s account, she finally understood why Lu Guo looked at her like he had seen a ghost.

Her face had turned into the face of a completely unknown person...

Thinking about it in detail, Jiang Li also got goosebumps.

Face, again the face.

After hearing Lu Guo’s words, Bai Yanliang had a question arise in his mind.

He suddenly looked up, stared at Lu Guo, and asked, "Think carefully, are you sure it was a stranger, yet you have a strange sense of familiarity?"

Lu Guo nodded affirmatively.

Seeing this, Bai Yanliang took out a notebook and quickly began to write and draw on it.

The others focused their eyes on him, wanting to see what he had thought of.

Just then, Jiang Li wrinkled her nose and asked, "There’s a faint smell, did you guys smell it?"

Bai Yanliang’s pen paused. He noticed Xu Zhifei’s hand was trembling fiercely.

"Look here, is it like this?"

Bai Yanliang interrupted Jiang Li’s curiosity, holding up the sketch towards Lu Guo.

Lu Guo looked at the notebook in Bai Yanliang’s hand, and upon seeing the figure Bai Yanliang had drawn, he almost screamed in surprise, had Yu Wenxuan not stopped him.

"Although it doesn’t look exactly like it, that’s exactly the feeling! How did you do it?"

Lu Guo stared in disbelief at Bai Yanliang, wondering how he could have drawn this strange person based solely on his description.

Although this person didn’t look like the one he had seen, the feeling he had was exactly the same.

Strangely familiar, yet unknown...

Bai Yanliang put down the notebook and said, "It feels familiar, yet you don’t know where you’ve seen it. It’s actually quite simple because this person is a sketch I based on your likeness."

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