Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 239: Back in the Day

Chapter 239: Chapter 239: Back in the Day

Jiang Li listened quietly, Yu Wenxuan made no effort to hide his utilization of her.

He even... seemed somewhat complacent.

"Why did you come to save me? Aren’t you afraid of the terrifying abilities of the ghost in the ancestral hall?"

Jiang Li looked at Yu Wenxuan intently, not missing any of his expressions.

Yu Wenxuan raised an eyebrow, looked at Jiang Li, and said, "Ghosts? They are not ghosts."

This finally caused Jiang Li, who was somewhat downcast, to show an expression of disbelief.

"Not ghosts?"

Jiang Li had just spoken these words when suddenly... the door was pushed open.

The sound of rain poured into the room, and both Jiang Li and Yu Wenxuan’s expressions changed. Yu Wenxuan’s steps slowly retreated, ready to find a place to escape.

At the doorway, the figure in the rain stood straight, looking... somewhat frail.

The two of them stared at him, the more they looked, the more familiar he seemed.

Soon, this figure walked into the room and closed the door.

"Whew... where is Lu Guo?"

Bai Yanliang casually asked while patting the rain off his body.

Jiang Li looked at him with delight, "Mr. Bai!"

Then she thought of Lu Guo and her emotions sank again.

"Lu Guo... something happened."

In fact, when Bai Yanliang saw Jiang Li’s expression, he knew Lu Guo was in trouble.

Jiang Li quickly told him what had just happened; everything sounded so incredible.

"I see..."

Bai Yanliang’s mind flashed with Lu Guo’s appearance.

In fact, from the beginning of this mission, he felt something was off with Lu Guo.

Compared to before, this time he seemed more irritable, angry, eccentric, and reckless. This was not the general impression Lu Guo left with everyone.

Originally, Bai Yanliang didn’t think much of it, because everyone has secrets. Maybe such changes were due to Lu Guo’s secrets, but now it seems... Lu Guo might be taking his secrets to Hell.

"By the way, what were you chatting about just now, looking so happy."

Bai Yanliang also sat down, as he too needed to recover his energy.

Chatting happily?

Jiang Li glanced at Yu Wenxuan. She didn’t feel she was chatting very happily with him just now...

But Bai Yanliang’s mention of it reminded Jiang Li of Yu Wenxuan’s words earlier.

"You said they are not ghosts?"

"Of course." Yu Wenxuan affirmed.

It was also the first time Bai Yanliang heard such a statement. Based on his understanding of Yu Wenxuan, this man must have discovered some crucial clue to speak so confidently.

In fact, Bai Yanliang quite admired Yu Wenxuan. Perhaps most people in Fog Gathering couldn’t accept some of Yu Wenxuan’s actions, but Bai Yanliang didn’t mind.

For example, in a past mission in the old world, the act of killing thirteen people in the Liu Family Mansion was something that most people, educated in modern civilization, saw as the act of a madman or murderer.

Most people, even if they stayed in Fog Gathering for a long time, would find it difficult to harm their own kind. After all, their time in the real world was much longer than their time in Fog Gathering, and certain deeply ingrained concepts couldn’t be overturned quickly.

Therefore, Yu Wenxuan became an unmistakable outlier.

He didn’t seem to mind it himself, though he would act against the "NPCs" in missions, he had never harmed his companions. Everyone saw this, so even someone like Li Mu, whose real-world profession was a police officer, tolerated him for the time being.

Perhaps Bai Yanliang was the only one inclined towards Yu Wenxuan’s approach.

However... in order to make himself appear normal, every move he made, every subtle expression, the way he dealt with people and things, imitated another person—Bai Yanren.

The true him, on the surface, resembled Xu Zhifei, but in some ways, he was more similar to Yu Wenxuan as a kindred spirit.

They knew right from wrong, but the boundaries of good and evil within them were very blurry...

"Look."

Yu Wenxuan casually tossed out a yellowing booklet, with four small red characters on it.

Work Notes.

This booklet looked quite aged, Bai Yanliang picked up his phone, turned on the flashlight, and opened the booklet.

Jiang Li also leaned over, and they both quickly read through this not particularly long booklet.

Yet the records were very strange.

According to the booklet’s records, something major happened in Zhongyuan Village twelve years ago.

All villagers suddenly suffered from excruciating stomach pain, unable to straighten their backs, and didn’t recover after many days.

The village chief had no choice but to send a slightly less affected person to the county town to find a doctor.

The roads were not that good back then, and it took a whole day and night for the round trip.

By the time the doctor arrived, the plague had already broken out.

Large numbers of villagers were rotting all over, with flies and insects buzzing around.

They acted like madmen, biting the livestock in the village.

Pigs, dogs, chickens, ducks... all the livestock were bitten to death and then swallowed whole.

The doctor was terrified and was about to leave immediately, but something unexpected happened.

All the severly rotted villagers suddenly died collectively, strewn across the village.

Only a very few people survived.

And those who survived were without exception, all elders over fifty years old.

Their mental states seemed relatively normal, and the extent of their physical decay was not as severe.

The doctor quickly prescribed them some anti-inflammatory medications and then left in a hurry, reporting to the police afterwards.

Later... the mysteriously dead bodies were all incinerated on the spot, and the ashes were scattered into the Yudai River that passed by the village.

Since then, the young and strong of Zhongyuan Village have all perished, and the village has become a forbidden zone to outsiders, leaving only a group of elders quietly waiting for death...

After reading, Jiang Li’s heart felt a bit heavy.

"Li Changshan..."

Bai Yanliang suddenly murmured the name.

Jiang Li looked at him in surprise, "Isn’t this the person who was sent to the county town for help back then? Does he have a problem?"

Yu Wenxuan put away the yellowing booklet and said, "Do you remember the old man who guided us?"

The old man who guided them...

Of course Jiang Li hadn’t forgotten him so quickly. She remembered... that old man asked everyone to call him Old Li back then.

Old Li... Old Li... Li Changshan?!

Was he that Li Changshan from back then?

Jiang Li shivered, could it be... was Li Changshan, who led them, really a ghost?

"Where did you find this?"

Bai Yanliang suddenly looked at Yu Wenxuan, gesturing at the booklet in Yu Wenxuan’s hand.

"In that uninhabited old house." Yu Wenxuan glanced at Jiang Li and smiled, "I was just trying to play a little joke on Miss Jiang at the time, but unexpectedly found this in the house."

Jiang Li ignored him. If what was recorded in this booklet about the events back then was true, then Yu Wenxuan’s claim that these villagers are not ghosts is indeed valid.

They are still humans.

However... they are people who have fallen ill.

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