Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 277 Coffin

Chapter 277: Chapter 277 Coffin

No one expected that it would be Ruan Jie who made a decision at a time like this.

And, she was right.

If they turned back and ran, they would most likely see the same scene on the other end.

The only thing they could do was move forward.

However, moving forward meant passing through the yard, walking past the coffins.

And those five coffins... looked extraordinarily eerie.

There were no other choices...

Ou Zheng and Yang Xiaocan closely followed Ruan Jie’s footsteps, stepping cautiously into the yard.

His heart kept praying: It wasn’t me who disturbed your underworld... please don’t come for me, don’t come for me...

Three meters...

Two meters...

One meter...

Although trying to control themselves not to look askance, and avoid glancing at those five eerie coffins.

The more they tried not to think about it, the more they cared about it in their hearts.

Their hearts pounded violently, nerves stretched to the tightest.

Here it is!

The coffins were right next to them...

Intense fear made their brains dizzy, the horrible aura emanating from these coffins made them shiver!

"No... no, I can’t go through..."

Yang Xiaocan was the first to back out, she was too scared, she always felt that there was a pair of terrifying eyes watching her.

Ruan Jie was also very scared, but she felt this was indeed the only path, with no other way to pass through here.

She had just turned her head, preparing to persuade Yang Xiaocan when suddenly, something unexpected happened!

"Click—"

A faint noise was exceptionally piercing in the dim yard.

Their hair stood on end immediately.

Followed closely by another sound...

"Click!"

It was the coffin!

Ruan Jie was instantly scared pale, her legs weak, as she saw the lids of the five coffins quietly open a crack!

A chill swept over them, Ou Zheng and Yang Xiaocan also shivered uncontrollably with fear.

"Close it!" Ou Zheng suddenly shouted like a madman, "Can’t let what’s inside the coffin come out... absolutely can’t!"

"I... I can feel it... it’s terrifying, extremely terrifying... must not let it out..."

Ou Zheng’s emotions began to spiral out of control again, speaking incoherently, his legs shaking incessantly.

Yet he made an unusually bold move, using his one good hand to push the coffin lid with force, determined to close this coffin!

Although Ou Zheng wasn’t much favored by Yang Xiaocan and the others, they shared the same dreadful feeling he described.

That boundless fear, suffocating despair... seemed nestled in these five coffins.

Absolutely... must not let it out!

The two women forced down their fear and pushed fiercely against the half-open coffin.

Close it...

It must be closed!

They prayed desperately while exerting all their strength.

Perhaps their will to survive moved the heavens, or perhaps it was just luck.

The cracks in the lids of these two coffins were actually slowly closed by them.

The two breathed a simultaneous sigh of relief and looked at each other.

However... as they exchanged glances, they suddenly discovered an additional face beside them!

A ghastly pale, twisted woman’s face!

"Ahhhhh!!!!"

A piercing scream shattered the darkness, as Ruan Jie and Yang Xiaocan scrambled and rolled away, turning and running!

They dashed into the corridor again, stumbling forward to escape.

No one dared to look back, for just the thought of that ghastly, twisted woman’s face sent chills down their spines!

And at this time... the only one who had not yet escaped was Ou Zheng.

He finally realized what that fleeting figure he saw was...

Was it this...

Ou Zheng despairingly looked at this terrifying female ghost.

Its mouth had opened to an absurd degree, and then it lunged at his head... biting down.

...

The light here seemed a bit brighter.

Panting heavily, Yang Xiaocan and Ruan Jie leaned against the wooden rail of the corridor, recovering their strength.

They were just ordinary college girls, their stamina already exhausted from such a long escape.

If not for the will to survive sustaining them, they would have given up long ago.

Moreover... just a glance at that ghost made them tremble, their limbs weak...

"...Where is that person?" Ruan Jie asked softly.

"I don’t know..." Yang Xiaocan shook her head slightly, "He might have run straight ahead."

Ruan Jie was silent.

Both she and Yang Xiaocan knew that Ou Zheng most likely had fallen victim to the ghost.

The ghost hadn’t chased after them for so long, surely delayed by him.

But they had no means of doing anything, in the face of such a fearsome, unbelievable presence, humans seemed so insignificantly small.

"...What... what should we do now? I don’t want to go into the yard again." Ruan Jie curled up beside the railing, despair written on her face, "No matter which way we run, we end up in the yard, next to those five coffins... let’s just stay in the corridor and not move..."

Though a plan steeped in despair, at this moment it wasn’t an unreasonable choice.

At least... for now, the corridor seemed safe.

Yang Xiaocan just thought so when suddenly the atmosphere around them began to feel strange again...

When she looked at what should have been the turn of the corridor ahead, her pupils shook violently!

"Ruan... Sister Ruan..." Yang Xiaocan’s face was bloodlessly pale, trembling as she pointed ahead, "We... didn’t move, right?"

Ruan Jie also felt this terrifying atmosphere and when she turned her head to look where Yang Xiaocan was pointing, her heart almost stopped beating...

The yard, coffins...

As usual.

Even though they should have been in the center of the corridor, at this moment, they hadn’t moved, but this bizarre corridor seemed to have moved on its own...

The two desperate women were too exhausted to struggle, but resigning themselves to death like this seemed too unwilling.

Ruan Jie reached out and pulled Yang Xiaocan up.

No matter what, they needed to try. What if... what if they managed to rush through?

Yang Xiaocan understood what she meant.

It wasn’t a good plan, but right now, there was simply no other choice.

If they couldn’t get through this yard, they’d remain trapped between the corridor and yard forever... eventually getting killed by that terrifying female ghost.

"I’ll count to three, and we’ll run together," Ruan Jie said in a low voice, looking at Yang Xiaocan.

Yang Xiaocan nodded, her back completely soaked with sweat.

Ruan Jie took a deep breath, staring at the yard with the five coffins before her. Just behind those five coffins, there was a moon gate. If they could just rush through the moon gate, they could leave this yard.

"One... two... three!"

As soon as Ruan Jie finished her count, she charged forward.

However, in that exact moment, out of the corner of her eye... she saw Yang Xiaocan deliberately paused...

Despair, resentment, the feeling of betrayal welled up again, and before Ruan Jie, on the ground ahead, appeared a ghastly pale head... it was Ou Zheng’s.

...

At the entrance.

The blood light on Bai Yanliang’s right palm quietly vanished as if it had never appeared.

Xu Zhifei’s heartbeat gradually accelerated.

What had she seen?

A resurrection?!

A faint scarlet glow appeared in Bai Yanliang’s eyes, his eyelashes twitched slightly, and his bizarrely twisted neck snapped back into place.

Under Xu Zhifei’s gaze, a strange gleam appeared in Bai Yanliang’s eyes.

"Who are you?"

Bai Yanliang sat up straight oddly, staring at Xu Zhifei, the blood light in his pupil flickering for an instant.