Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 254 Portrait

Chapter 254: Chapter 254 Portrait

Xu Zhifei is an ominous person.

Unlike the vast majority of people in the world, she knew from a young age that ghosts exist.

Bai Yanliang initially thought that precognitive dreams were her natural ability, but later discovered that it was the ability of Xu Zhifei’s key.

But Xu Zhifei... is indeed different.

Her eyes are similar to Song Que’s, yet completely different.

She was born able to see some eerie existences.

So... she really is an anomaly.

...

"Miss Xu?"

Although he was questioning, there wasn’t much surprise in Bai Yanliang’s voice.

However... based on Bai Yanliang’s understanding of Xu Zhifei, she absolutely wouldn’t proactively hold his hand.

Sure enough, after holding it for a moment, that hand quickly let go.

Was she expressing that she’s beside me in this way?

Bai Yanliang turned his head to glance at the air and said:

"If you are currently unable to speak, touch my hand."

Soon, Bai Yanliang’s hand was touched by a cold hand, but it was just a brief touch.

The rotten smell on her disappeared, but she couldn’t speak, what was going on?

Bai Yanliang was a bit puzzled.

But he didn’t dwell on it for long and instead thought of a good idea, a way to get answers without entering the shrine.

Xu Zhifei happened to be invisible, wouldn’t it be convenient and quick for her to go inside the shrine and take a look?

But... he didn’t know if ghosts could see Xu Zhifei’s presence, if they could see the invisible Xu Zhifei, then she would be in danger.

Thus, Bai Yanliang explained his thoughts to Xu Zhifei.

The response was a gentle touch on the back of his hand.

She agreed.

Although she didn’t speak, Bai Yanliang inexplicably understood her meaning.

After thinking it over, Bai Yanliang reaffirmed that considering the current situation, having Xu Zhifei enter the shrine to confirm the information was the safest option.

He also didn’t have any thoughts of being more considerate just because Xu Zhifei was a woman, if he were the one invisible now, he would also have taken the initiative to enter the shrine.

This had nothing to do with gender, it was simply the optimal choice.

Then, under Bai Yanliang’s watch, the shrine’s door was pushed open into a narrow gap, and Xu Zhifei went in.

Waiting is a very boring thing, especially when you have to constantly worry about her during the wait.

Two minutes passed, and Xu Zhifei hadn’t come out yet, but another person did appear.

Yu Wenxuan.

He braved the heavy rain to rush to the shrine entrance, patted the water droplets off himself, and greeted Bai Yanliang.

"You’re not a ghost, are you, Mr. Bai?"

Still in the mood for joking, it seemed his psychological state was quite decent.

But... where was Jiang Li?

Bai Yanliang glanced into the depths of the heavy rain, "Did you see any other traces on the way here?"

Yu Wenxuan shook his head: "The rain is too heavy, all traces were completely washed away, but... on the way here, there was a very strange house; it looked uninhabited, but there were signs that the front door had been opened."

"Jiang Li might be hiding in there."

"I hope so..." Bai Yanliang didn’t say much more, but looked at Yu Wenxuan, "What are you doing here?"

Yu Wenxuan glanced at Bai Yanliang, "Of course, I’m here to find clues. In novels, they say that where Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures are, poisonous creatures and wild beasts inevitably are as guardians. Thinking from another perspective, where there is a fierce ghost, key clues must be hidden, right?"

"You read novels?"

"I do, of course I do. Want me to recommend one or two books to you?"

"Forget it..."

Bai Yanliang stopped the topic in time.

Although Yu Wenxuan’s approach to going to the shrine was a bit unusual, he was, no doubt, correct.

The key clues were indeed hidden inside the shrine.

Suddenly, Bai Yanliang felt a cool touch on the back of his hand.

Xu Zhifei had returned.

"Did you see it? The portrait on the wall." Bai Yanliang promptly asked, "If it looks like Village Chief Kang, touch my left hand, if it looks like... Kangkang, touch my right hand."

Yu Wenxuan looked on with surprise and doubt at the bizarre scene before him, only reacting after two seconds that Xu Zhifei had returned.

And at that moment, Bai Yanliang felt his right hand... being lightly touched.

His right hand... so it was indeed Kangkang.

And... you really have been following us all along... Xu Zhifei.

"Mr. Yu, would you hit the elder?"

Bai Yanliang suddenly looked at Yu Wenxuan and asked a very strange question.

Yu Wenxuan showed a conflicted expression for the first time, "Depends on the situation..."

"And... a child?"

"Yes."

This time Yu Wenxuan answered without hesitation.

"Good then..." Bai Yanliang smiled, "Let’s go."

...

From the first meeting, Village Chief Kang and Kangkang gave Bai Yanliang a very strange feeling.

After the incident at the well, he was even more certain of their abnormality.

The relationship between the two was definitely not father-son or grandparent-grandchild like.

Especially Kangkang’s identity, he was very likely... the child who fell into the well in the scene of death.

On the way, Bai Yanliang explained his suspicions in detail.

"The problem lies with them, but ’it’ is probably very weak now, unable to use abnormal powers, which means, we can freely bully the elders and the children."

"Weak? How did you come to this conclusion?" Yu Wenxuan asked.

"If it’s not weak, could we have left so smoothly the first time we went to see Village Chief Kang?" Bai Yanliang glanced ahead, the village chief’s house was already in sight.

"I don’t think the ghost would spare us; it didn’t want to kill us on the spot, but couldn’t do so. I suppose... it hasn’t been long enough since it emerged from the well."

Yu Wenxuan nodded, the reasoning was indeed logical.

Bai Yanliang hadn’t told them everything, particularly regarding the key.

He had a personal motive.

This task was the doing of Dark Abyss, not a Fog Gathering mission, which meant that the person used the ability of their own key to create a nightmare world combined with a real-world eerie village. Now that the nightmare has been dispelled, the village remains, but... what that person didn’t know was that the village’s abnormality all originated from a key.

A key... fastened to a baby’s wrist.

Since it wasn’t confirmed as a Fog Gathering mission, that meant the key was not left behind by Wei Xiu and his group, thus... the key’s appearance was very suspicious.

This was the first key Bai Yanliang had seen that wasn’t condensed in Fog Gathering, he wanted to obtain it and study it carefully, to see what was similar and different between it and the keys in Fog Gathering?

After all, its design and aura resembled the keys in Fog Gathering closely.

Thinking this over, the two of them and an invisible person arrived at the front door of the village chief’s house.

Bai Yanliang and Yu Wenxuan exchanged a glance, just about to enter.

Just then, a faint sound of a baby’s cry abruptly rang, reaching the ears of all three.

Looking in the direction of the sound, the cry was actually coming from the old residence of the village chief right in front of them...

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