Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 237: Ancestral Hall

Chapter 237: Chapter 237: Ancestral Hall

Will Lu Guo’s head... come in?

But... even if Lu Guo turned into a ghost, shouldn’t it be in this state?

Previously, his entire body was covered with human faces, looking extremely terrifying, but his head was fine...

Could it be... this head was turned into by another ghost?

What exactly is going on here...

What has happened to this village?

How many ghosts are there...

In such a situation, even the most optimistic person would inevitably feel a sense of despair, let alone Jiang Li, who was not an optimistic person.

Although she knew that Li Mu and the others had mentioned multiple times that the unsolvable fierce ghost in the Fog Gathering mission only seemed unsolvable, it actually concealed a way to survive, maybe even to directly eliminate the fierce ghost.

But this time, what is the way to survive...?

Mountain Moon Hiding, Coffin Fishing from Water...

The first part has already been verified as true.

There is indeed a big problem with the moonlight, Lu Guo only had his toes exposed but underwent extremely scary changes.

Not only that, both Miss Xu and Lu Guo saw a face that looked extremely similar to their own.

Then Miss Xu lost her form and became invisible...

What on earth is going on here...

Jiang Li held her head, trying hard to think about the clues.

Why did Miss Xu lose her form after seeing that face, but Lu Guo did not?

Why did everyone look at the funeral clothes, but only Miss Xu was cursed?

Only Miss Xu...

Jiang Li suddenly widened her eyes in horror, it’s that!

The position! The position where the eyes were looking is different!

Though everyone had looked at the funeral clothes, the focus of their gaze was different. Miss Xu had mentioned... she was looking at the neckline of the funeral clothes!

That funeral clothes...

We must look at that funeral clothes again!

There must be something at its neckline that everyone has missed...

However, as soon as Jiang Li thought of this critical clue, goosebumps suddenly appeared on her skin.

A strong sense of unease surged from all around, as if... something in the dark was watching her...

This premonition made Jiang Li shiver all over; she turned her head fearfully and carefully examined the shrine.

Come to think of it, because she was flustered just before, she hadn’t looked at this shrine carefully...

Now, upon looking, Jiang Li immediately regretted her reckless decision.

Hanging on the wall of the shrine are portraits with faces as pale as death!

A strong sense of abnormality invaded, and Jiang Li felt as though the air around her was about to solidify.

No... that’s not right!

Why can I see the paintings?

At this moment...

Jiang Li sharply turned her head, it’s the window!

Moonlight streamed silently through the wooden window into the shrine.

Jiang Li’s breath caught; she felt it... something outside was watching her.

Outside the house, an eerie figure stood in the dark, holding Jiang Li’s phone in its hand.

...

We must come up with a way.

Bai Yanliang adjusted his position to ensure that neither he nor Xu Zhifei would be exposed to the moonlight.

Actually, the moonlight isn’t always present; the moon and clouds are slowly moving. Just now, there were several times the moon went into the clouds, briefly blocking the moonlight.

But because he couldn’t directly observe the sky, Bai Yanliang couldn’t be sure of the moon and clouds’ positions.

Therefore, he couldn’t estimate when the next brief moonlight blockage would occur.

If it gets blocked for ten seconds, he and Xu Zhifei could run at least seventy to eighty meters, quickly returning to the housing area.

But if it only gets blocked for five seconds, they would be exposed again to the moonlight through the clouds while moving.

Even though Bai Yanliang did not know the consequence of being exposed to the moonlight, he wasn’t interested in finding out and had no thought of trying it out.

Is there a way to determine the next time the moon would be obscured without directly observing the sky?

Bai Yanliang quietly pondered.

What he didn’t know was that Xu Zhifei, nestled in his arms at that moment, was holding a dark key...

...

Discovering that the shrine had windows, and finding that moonlight came in through one without obstruction, Jiang Li panicked.

Lu Guo’s head... should it have left by now?

There hasn’t been any sound for such a long time, it should have left...

Jiang Li slowly released her hand from the main door, not wanting to exit through the front.

Hopefully... this shrine has a side or back door...

Jiang Li cautiously groped her way through the shrine, trying to avoid looking at the portraits of human faces hanging at the center.

Because these portraits were so eerie that no matter which angle she looked at them from, they all seemed to be staring at her.

Side door... back door...

These two words kept swirling in Jiang Li’s mind, which she did intentionally.

Although it would slow down her thinking a bit, it helped divert her attention; at this moment, she’d rather have a slower reaction than let fear fill her heart.

After about a minute of searching on the left side of the shrine, Jiang Li unexpectedly found another window!

It seemed the shrine’s windows were symmetrically opposite; the right window allowed the moonlight in, but the left window was pitch-dark, hard to find without close inspection.

Jiang Li carefully looked out through the wooden window and saw... a door!

Side door!

There really was a side door!

The discovery that the left window faced directly towards the side door out of the shrine filled Jiang Li with delight.

She quickly and cautiously pushed open the wooden window, just about to climb out...

Suddenly, she felt as though there was something on top of her head.

It tickled...

At that moment, Jiang Li was unaware that a tall woman was standing behind her, with long hair draping over her head...

The tickling she felt was actually caused by the eerie woman’s long hair brushing against her own.

Jiang Li didn’t turn around; she hadn’t even noticed anything strange.

She casually reached up to scratch.

Her arm brushed against the eerie woman’s hair as it passed.

Jiang Li first paused, and then instantly her whole body stiffened.

She felt it...

Just now... she touched something like hair...

That couldn’t possibly be her own hair on top of her head...

Jiang Li felt her scalp tingle, her hackles rising, and almost instinctively, she looked up, meeting the eyes of the terrifying giant woman.

A fierce fear surged from every corner of her body, rapidly engulfing her.

Jiang Li stood with her mouth open, her body paralyzed with no ability to move.

But just then, a hand suddenly stretched in from the window she had just opened!

This hand grabbed her collar roughly and pulled her out fiercely!

The enormous force created a whistling wind, and Jiang Li’s body was immediately half dragged out, with only her feet still hanging on the windowsill.

At the same time, the tall woman behind her, its head full of dense hair, suddenly began to grow madly!

And it directly wrapped around Jiang Li’s ankles!

"Zing——"

A sharp dagger flashed a cold gleam, swiftly cutting off the hair.

Then, the figure dragged Jiang Li, like a dead dog, swiftly out through the shrine’s side door.

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