Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 268: Darkness

Chapter 268: Chapter 268: Darkness

Even though Xu Zhifei was mentally prepared, his heart still raced when he saw that terrifying white shadow.

Yang Xiaocan and Ruan Jie were even more terrified, already embracing each other and screaming.

Unlike them, Bai Yanliang and Xu Zhifei knew that the thing crawling on the ceiling... was a real ghost.

Ou Zheng was so scared his eyes were wide open, Bai Yanliang had already untied him, but he still didn’t recover for a long time.

"What just happened?"

Bai Yanliang looked down at Ou Zheng and asked.

Ou Zheng licked his dry lips, his voice trembling slightly.

"I... I originally wanted to rush through in one go, but as soon as I turned the corner, I ran into something... it was her, the woman in the white dress!" Ou Zheng’s pupils were shaking, clearly he had been quite frightened just now.

"I don’t know what kind of mechanism it was, its mouth suddenly split into several parts, then spat out threads, like... like a spider." The more Ou Zheng spoke, the more he felt something was wrong, and his expression started to change.

At this moment, Ruan Jie suddenly interjected:

"That thing... could it really be a ghost?"

"Impossible!"

Ou Zheng immediately interrupted Ruan Jie, shaking his head as he spoke: "How could it be... if you haven’t done anything wrong, you won’t fear ghosts knocking on your door, even if it is a ghost, with no grievances or grudges, it shouldn’t harm us..."

His voice lacked conviction, more like self-consolation than refuting Ruan Jie.

And... when Ou Zheng mentioned not having done anything wrong, Bai Yanliang keenly noticed that the three of them suddenly avoided eye contact.

From childhood to adulthood, everyone inevitably encounters situations where they are forced or insincere.

This is understandable.

But just now... Ruan Jie, Yang Xiaocan, even Ou Zheng who was speaking, all had shifty eyes.

This made Bai Yanliang take note, maybe... the hidden stories of these three would be the clue.

Just then, there was a "click" sound, and all the lights in the corridor suddenly went out!

"Ah!!!"

The two girls began to scream again.

"Damn, why did the power go out? What’s that owner doing!" Ou Zheng’s anger was unusually intense, like he was using it to cover up his fear.

And with Bai Yanliang, a cold hand suddenly slipped into his palm.

In the darkness, Bai Yanliang’s first reaction was that Xu Zhifei was scared.

Xu Zhifei always seemed to be afraid of the dark.

But just as the cold hand slipped into his palm for less than a second, Bai Yanliang felt goosebumps rise all over his body.

The abnormal touch came from his palm...

It was... nails!

Xu Zhifei didn’t leave nails, this wasn’t Xu Zhifei!

After reaching this conclusion in his mind, Bai Yanliang immediately turned and threw a punch behind him!

"Whoosh—"

The punch created a slight whistling, but clearly, Bai Yanliang punched into emptiness.

And the weird hand in his palm disappeared into thin air.

However... it seemed that Bai Yanliang wasn’t the only one experiencing an abnormality.

Yang Xiaocan suddenly shivered and spoke: "Ruanruan... how come, you seem taller..."

But Ruan Jie, whom she called out to, spoke from another direction in the dark.

Her voice carried confusion mixed with fear: "Xiaocan... I’m not holding you?"

A sudden silence fell upon the darkness.

At this moment, even someone with the slowest reaction would realize something was wrong.

And the party involved, Yang Xiaocan, was almost fainting from fear.

"Ahhh!!!!"

She screamed while kicking and flailing.

"Ouch... ouch! Stop hitting, it’s me! It’s me!"

Ou Zheng’s wails echoed continuously in the darkness, and at this moment, Bai Yanliang suddenly turned on his phone, directing the flashlight at him.

Yang Xiaocan was pale with fright, her strikes were heavy and relentless, so Ou Zheng was beaten severely, even receiving a kick to a sensitive male area, his face was both pale and bruised, in great distress.

"Alright, stop."

Bai Yanliang halted Yang Xiaocan.

After Bai Yanliang grabbed her wrist, Yang Xiaocan calmed down slightly, and seeing under the light, she realized she had been holding onto Ou Zheng earlier, her breathing became even more rapid.

"You disgusting pervert! Die, don’t come near me!" Yang Xiaocan screamed.

Ou Zheng held his groin, huddled against the wall, previously beaten by Yang Xiaocan black and blue, combined with his guilty conscience, he looked extremely miserable.

"Xiao... Xiaocan, maybe... he didn’t mean to." Ruan Jie said, her voice trembling.

Yang Xiaocan was still furious, even her fear had lessened a bit, glaring at Ou Zheng angrily: "How could it not be intentional? He was standing over there, how could he suddenly end up next to me? If he didn’t feel his way here, could he have teleported?"

Ruan Jie swallowed, her eyelashes trembling: "It... it might have been a teleportation indeed."

As soon as she said this, everyone’s eyes focused on Ruan Jie.

This tall girl said with fear: "Just now... I was standing still, and now I’m standing where Ou Zheng was..."

Yang Xiaocan was stunned by her words.

She examined Ruan Jie’s expression carefully, seeming to want to see if she was joking.

However... she failed.

Ruan Jie’s expression was more serious than ever before, and also... filled with fear.

Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from Ruan Jie directly to the hearts of everyone.

"This... so to speak..." Yang Xiaocan shivered, suddenly finding it hard to speak.

"It’s... probably a mechanism, right?" Yang Xiaocan stepped on the floor, "The ghost house owner’s mechanism, he probably turned off the lights too, haha... it’s really interesting..."

Her laughter lacked any trace of mirth, instead filled with dense fear and unease.

Everyone turned on their phone’s flashlight, making the dark corridor quite bright.

At least the surroundings were now clearly visible.

Bai Yanliang had remained silent since the beginning, quietly listening, whether it was Yang Xiaocan or Ou Zheng, Bai Yanliang thought they might have made a mistake.

Before he directed the light over them, were they really holding each other?

Bai Yanliang knew clearly... the cold hand he felt in his palm earlier... had sharp nails...

"Look over here!"

Just at this moment, Ou Zheng, previously cowering after being beaten by Yang Xiaocan, suddenly pointed towards the way they came, his face full of terror.

"This... is a mechanism too, right?"

He murmured, as if asking a question, but more like self-consolation.

Following his finger, at the corner where the passage was, it had disappeared!

Now, it was a wall.

The meaning was clear, you already... have no way out.

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