Frightening Joke: Above the Mist -
Chapter 233: Split Up
Chapter 233: Chapter 233: Split Up
Now, Yu Wenxuan could confirm whose tibia Mrs. Wu was gnawing on.
Although the body had been chewed beyond recognition, the remaining facial fragments still allowed everyone to see that this person was Lu Guo.
Lu Guo was completely terrified, incredulously pinching his own arm, trying to see if he was dreaming at this moment.
At this moment, something even more horrifying happened.
The roof tiles were being pried open continuously, and that "Mrs. Wu" was about to crawl in!
The smell from its body was nauseating, like rotting meat mixed with blood.
"Run!"
Bai Yanliang immediately made a decision.
"But didn’t you say before that we must listen to her and not leave the room at night, and not wander around?" Lu Guo, despite his ugly expression, still voiced his doubt.
However, Bai Yanliang didn’t pay attention to him at all. Both Bai Yanliang and Jiang Li, along with Yu Wenxuan, had already opened the door and were escaping.
Watching the fleeing figures, Lu Guo suddenly realized... he had become an outlier.
His "body" suddenly appeared in front of everyone, so... what was his current state?
Could it be... am I already dead?
Am I a ghost now?
Even Lu Guo himself couldn’t figure out his current situation.
The sight of his own "body" was turning his brain into a mess, but the instinct to survive still drove him to run out with everyone.
Just as he stepped out the door, Mrs. Wu crawled in through the roof.
It adeptly jumped down, crouched on the ground, and quickly darted forward...
...
Bai Yanliang and the others should be thankful that it seemed it would rain heavily tonight.
The sky was low and heavy, a thick layer of clouds completely covering the stars and moon.
"Where... do we go next?"
Jiang Li panted and asked.
She was, of course, asking Bai Yanliang, and she was running by his side too.
It wasn’t because she particularly liked Bai Yanliang, but because she was exceedingly frightened of Yu Wenxuan.
In the dead of night, being chased by a terrifying entity in the village would leave anyone at a loss.
Luckily, Bai Yanliang’s greatest strength and weakness was his calm demeanor. He spoke while running.
"Don’t panic, whether Mrs. Wu is a ghost or not, it won’t be incredibly strong, and it cannot sense our location. As long as we stay alert and aren’t noticed by other entities in this village, we should be able to find a safe place to hide."
Maybe because of Bai Yanliang’s steady tone, his words were always easy to believe.
"Mr. Yu, what time is it now?" Bai Yanliang asked.
Yu Wenxuan took out his phone and quickly glanced at it, "It’s not yet eleven."
"We’d better find the next hiding spot before midnight." Bai Yanliang didn’t explain the reason.
At this point, Yu Wenxuan added, "Regardless of what we encounter afterwards, don’t look at it, it can sense our gaze."
This was something Yu Wenxuan figured out later.
Other speculations might align with Bai Yanliang’s, but on this point, he seemed to be correct.
When "Mrs. Wu" was crouched on the ground, gnawing Ly Guo’s "body", it didn’t realize that there were still people in the house.
But once he saw it, it immediately turned its head and detected their position.
This ability isn’t unusual for a ghost. Some people with sharp senses can feel it when being watched.
Yu Wenxuan’s additions were remembered by everyone, a very important clue.
If they reached a point of no return and hid somewhere.
They might end up observing "its" position.
And once they saw it, their location would be exposed.
However, although they temporarily knew a capability of this ghost, nobody relaxed because of it.
On the contrary, the few of them felt even more burdened.
Even Bai Yanliang felt a subtle oppression.
It wasn’t midnight yet, meaning the official countdown of the task hadn’t started.
But now, Xu Zhifei was invisible, starting to decay.
Lu Guo was cursed, and inexplicably, another "body" of him appeared.
And they all, at this moment, were being chased by a ghostly thing of unknown existence.
This small town was extremely dark, only the faintest of dim glows allowed them to vaguely see the road, but now two paths lay before them.
Facing this situation, no one had confidence in their hearts, uncertain how to make a choice?
Which is the correct path?
Too difficult... No one knows what eerie things will happen next.
No one knows what lies at the end of each path.
This task... is truly too difficult.
"Why don’t... we turn on a phone flashlight?"
Lu Guo suggested.
Though he knew this suggestion sounded silly, escaping in the dim night was extremely dangerous.
Yu Wenxuan thought about it, and surprisingly found the suggestion somewhat acceptable.
So he reached out to Jiang Li, asking, "Give me the phone."
Jiang Li immediately took out her phone and threw it to him.
Yu Wenxuan didn’t mind Jiang Li’s terrified attitude, he quickly turned on her phone, and before activating the flashlight, covered the LED light, then slowly gathered strength and threw it forcefully upwards.
The phone spun away, casting intermittent light, allowing Bai Yanliang to quickly memorize the terrain and their intended direction.
Yu Wenxuan seemed to be doing the same thing.
"Left."
"Right."
The two who remembered the surrounding terrain spoke simultaneously, but a division appeared this time.
"The left side is densely packed with houses, many alleys, convenient for hiding." Yu Wenxuan looked at Bai Yanliang, unusually explaining.
"Right is open, not convenient for hiding." Bai Yanliang also looked at Yu Wenxuan, "A dead end is the way to life."
Yu Wenxuan understood his meaning. Bai Yanliang was gambling, betting on its psychology, betting that it wouldn’t think this group would be stupid enough to run towards a dead-end without a place to hide.
"Split up."
"Okay."
Yu Wenxuan didn’t insist on persuading Bai Yanliang, likewise, Bai Yanliang didn’t think he could persuade Yu Wenxuan, and they immediately ran left and right.
Watching Bai Yanliang head to the right fork with the invisible Xu Zhifei, while Yu Wenxuan ran into the left fork.
Jiang Li and Lu Guo were troubled.
They didn’t have the ability to memorize the terrain in the light cast by the spinning phone, they could only follow the two who did.
To be honest, Jiang Li preferred to walk with Bai Yanliang, but she also truly felt that Bai Yanliang’s path to the right was a total dead-end.
If the ghost went to the right, there was nowhere to hide in that direction, and they would be caught immediately.
Lu Guo thought the same way.
So, after hesitating for two or three seconds, they still ran into the left fork with Yu Wenxuan.
Not long after the group’s figures disappeared, an eerie old man crawling on the ground also arrived at the crossroads.
It glanced left and right, then crawled into one of the directions.
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