Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 276 Corridor

Chapter 276: Chapter 276 Corridor

The abnormal situation before them made Xu Zhifei’s heart grow cold.

Bai Yanliang... could he have turned into a ghost?

It wasn’t that she didn’t want to leave, but she couldn’t. After touching Bai Yanliang’s head, she lost control of her body and could only stand stiffly, waiting for Bai Yanliang’s transformation.

Though, Xu Zhifei didn’t want Bai Yanliang to die.

But she’s far from being at the point of dying with him. To her, Bai Yanliang was just someone special, nothing more.

However, in her world, Bai Yanliang was the only special person.

Xu Zhifei’s gaze fell onto Bai Yanliang’s right hand. The blood flowing from it was something Xu Zhifei was very familiar with, and her pupils contracted slightly.

At this moment, Xu Zhifei finally understood what Bai Yanliang did before his death.

He used palm blood to stain the key and, before dying, activated the key’s ability!

But... what ability does his key possess?

A faint unease lingered around, and just at that moment...

Xu Zhifei suddenly looked at Bai Yanliang’s eyes, and from the corner of her eye, she seemed to see Bai Yanliang’s eyelids twitch slightly...

...

Meanwhile, Ou Zheng, Yang Xiaocan, and Ruan Jie were walking through a wooden corridor.

It no longer seemed like they were inside the gallery; this was more like an ancient mansion, overwhelmingly deep and suffocating.

"Don’t you guys feel... a bit cold?"

Ou Zheng widened his eyes, walking forward cautiously.

The darkness loomed overhead, even with the phone’s light, the darkness still loomed, swallowing the light entirely.

As Ou Zheng spoke, he felt the chill deepening.

He wasn’t wearing much, his hand was severed, and he lost a lot of blood, inevitably making him feel colder by the moment.

"Hiss..."

Ou Zheng let out a barely audible breath, gripping his severed wrist, his eyelids growing heavier, and his steps beginning to falter.

Yang Xiaocan followed behind Ou Zheng, her complexion constantly changing. Unlike Ou Zheng, she didn’t feel cold; instead, she sensed a stench, the kind of smell that lingers after something rots.

In fact, the chill and stench were both real, as Ruan Jie felt them both.

However, the lighting in this old mansion was too dim, and combined with the flashlight of the phone being too prominent, the three barely dared to shine into the darkness, fearing that a mysterious presence hidden in the corners might be revealed.

So they had no idea what surrounded the corridor.

"Wait."

At that moment, Yang Xiaocan suddenly called for everyone to stop.

"What is it?" Ou Zheng turned back to look at her.

Yang Xiaocan’s breathing quickened. She turned off her phone and pointed forward with her hand.

Ou Zheng and Ruan Jie followed the direction of Yang Xiaocan’s hand and looked ahead, seeing... at the end of the shadowy corridor, a large courtyard.

And in that courtyard loomed five vague, shadowy figures...

Ou Zheng gritted his teeth and was about to lift his phone to shine it towards them, but was immediately stopped by Yang Xiaocan.

"Do you want to die? What if those five shadows are ghosts?" Yang Xiaocan’s voice trembled, now utterly terrified.

Ou Zheng brushed off Yang Xiaocan’s hand: "If they’re ghosts, they’ve already seen us coming with the flashlight on our phones! We’re as good as dead anyway, I’m already crippled!"

With that, Ou Zheng immediately pointed his phone towards the courtyard ahead.

The light illuminated the scene in the courtyard, and the three were suddenly covered in goosebumps.

It was coffins, five coffins!

Five pitch-black coffins lay at the end of the corridor in the courtyard, the atmosphere exceptionally terrifying.

Just then, Ou Zheng suddenly saw a figure flash by in the courtyard!

He immediately turned his direction, aiming his phone towards the silhouette!

But just at that moment, the phone’s light dimmed out, it was out of power!

Not only his, but both Yang Xiaocan’s and Ruan Jie’s phones ran out of power simultaneously!

The surroundings instantly plunged into darkness, and now they could only see the blurry outline of the coffins, everything else was completely obscured.

Thump thump—

Thump thump—

The eerie, terrifying atmosphere sped up all three of their heartbeats, and their breathing grew more frantic.

Before entering this ghost house, none of the three believed in ghosts, but the events inside this so-called ghost house left them no choice but to believe.

Especially... Ou Zheng’s shattered hand.

The bloody scene unfolded right before their eyes.

And now... all three of their phones died simultaneously, could this be possible?

Absolutely not!

How could there be such a coincidence?

Yang Xiaocan trembled, stepping back, then immediately turned and fled.

The five coffins ahead were too eerie. Yang Xiaocan suddenly thought, along with the dead Bai Yanliang, that made exactly five, and those five coffins were clearly prepared for them!

The more she thought about it, the more terrified she became.

Fear seized her body, and Yang Xiaocan took off running!

She had to get out of here! Compared to the doorway where Bai Yanliang died, this was clearly more terrifying!

As Yang Xiaocan ran, Ruan Jie and Ou Zheng immediately turned and followed her.

There was no other choice; everyone was in such a high state of tension that the slightest disturbance would bring out a cold sweat, let alone the kind of disturbance caused by running.

Ruan Jie and Ou Zheng first assumed that Yang Xiaocan had discovered something, and secondly, it was entirely an instinctive reaction.

The three were panting, fleeing desperately.

Fortunately, they remembered the way back, and although they lost the flashlight, the dim light still allowed them to see the silhouette of the corridor, preventing them from getting lost.

Yang Xiaocan was the first to run and also the fastest. She reflexively glanced back, seeing only darkness, no longer the courtyard.

Not to mention those five terrifying coffins.

However, as she ran, Yang Xiaocan gradually felt her body growing cold, an ominous sense of danger creeping up.

Were ghosts coming?

She reflexively looked around. Her eyes had adjusted to the darkness and were now able to see more clearly.

But... she saw nothing that scared her.

Nothing was wrong, so why this feeling...

Just then... Yang Xiaocan felt a shiver down her spine and stopped abruptly.

She saw a scene that made her hair stand on end!

Seeing Yang Xiaocan stop ahead, Ruan Jie and Ou Zheng hurriedly halted as well.

What did she see?

The two looked ahead and were immediately too shocked to make a sound.

The courtyard at the end of the corridor had appeared in front of them, and those five blurry coffins still lay in the courtyard without a single change or shift in position.

The intense fear left the three gasping for breath, unable to believe their eyes. Clearly, they had been running backwards, how had they returned to the corridor’s end?

Could it be... the ghost wall phenomenon?!

The abnormality engulfed the three like a tide, making the unbelievable scene chilling to the bone.

At this point, Ruan Jie suddenly gritted her teeth: "We can’t escape it. Let’s just go over there."

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