Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 295 Overlapping

Chapter 295: Chapter 295 Overlapping

"Miss Yu, where is Mr. Ren?" Du Shangjing couldn’t help but ask.

The deadline was almost up, but Ren Wudao had yet to appear.

"Mr. Ren? Who is that?"

Yu Sheng looked at Du Shangjing in surprise, puzzled.

Everyone’s gaze immediately focused on Yu Sheng, leaving her a bit flustered: "Wh-what’s wrong?"

"Yu Sheng, do you remember the last task?"

Bai Yanliang fixed his eyes on her and suddenly asked.

Yu Sheng appeared somewhat nervous, seemingly unaccustomed to being the center of attention.

"Um... you were asked to play hide and seek in a building."

Yu Sheng quietly uttered this sentence, realizing that their expressions turned even stranger.

"Did I... remember wrong?"

She had lost a fragment of her memory.

They exchanged glances, all confirming this fact.

Determining whether Yu Sheng was lying was not a difficult task for those present; her demeanor, body language, and subtle expressions all conveyed she was indeed telling the truth.

So... Ren Wudao aroused suspicion.

Bai Yanliang suddenly recalled a bewildering remark Ren Wudao made to him that day: "Yu Sheng is about to die."

Looking back now, Ren Wudao’s expression at the time was peculiar. Faced with Yu Sheng’s potential death, he showed no regret or anger, but rather an almost inexplicable confusion.

What was he confused about?

It seemed he had other choices.

Perhaps he was simply uncertain about whether to believe.

The silence among them left Yu Sheng feeling a growing oppression in her heart; she truly didn’t know what was happening.

But when Du Shangjing mentioned that name, a sharp pain suddenly gripped her heart, causing discomfort...

"Bai Yanliang, Ren Wudao... who are they?" Yu Sheng didn’t realize her voice was trembling.

Who is Ren Wudao?

This question, which shouldn’t even be a question, was not meant to have an answer.

"Someone who loves you very much."

But that cannot be your reason to harm others... Ren Wudao.

Bai Yanliang kept his thoughts hidden. Just as Yu Sheng was about to press further, Fog Gathering finally changed.

Names as red as blood began to appear one by one.

"Qi Nian, Xu Zhifei, Song Que, Du Shangjing, Bai Yanliang."

Bai Yanliang’s name appearing was no longer a surprise to anyone.

Every time he was there, every time because of him, Fog Gathering even broke the rules set by the resentful.

However, what no one expected was that a second line of blood-colored names appeared in the void!

"Feng Xiuxue, Yu Wenxuan, Gu Pingsheng, Yu Sheng, Bai Yanliang."

Two tasks!

The last person was still Bai Yanliang!

Everyone’s gaze was immediately fixed on him, the situation could only be described as abnormality.

The remaining eight people quickly split into two groups, leaving Bai Yanliang awkwardly standing in the middle.

At that moment, other blood-colored text appeared beneath the names of Song Que’s group of five.

"Wrap up."

"May 5, 2019, head to Sanbai Town for a week-long film shoot."

Two lines of text outlining the time, location, and requirements, but where was the decryption?

Before Song Que’s group could react, another set of text quietly emerged for the other team.

"Witness."

"May 13, 2019, midnight, go to Qingyi Street to witness a murder, find the true culprit before dawn."

The blood letters emitted a faint, bloody stench that crept into everyone’s nostrils, stimulating their nerves.

Fog Gathering fell silent for a long time.

This time, it released two tasks simultaneously, which didn’t need to be completed at the same time, but... one person had to consecutively perform two tasks.

Despite their own predicaments, everyone couldn’t help but cast a slightly sympathetic glance at Bai Yanliang.

He truly was... terribly unfortunate.

After attending the week-long film shoot in Sanbai Town on May 5, right after that on May 13, Bai Yanliang would have no time to rest before witnessing a murder scene.

However, while they felt some sympathy for Bai Yanliang, this sentiment only lasted for a short while. More pressing was their concern about their own tasks.

After all, this time... there was no decryption at all.

"Fog Gathering is becoming more baffling... this time, it utterly lacks decryption." Du Shangjing’s lips were death-pale, his wound hurt unbearably, prompting him to take another painkiller.

"Today is May 4, tomorrow we must rush to Sanbai Town for some movie shoot." Song Que glanced at Bai Yanliang and the others, "Where is Sanbai Town?"

"It’s in Ye City, Sanbai Town is an ancient town near Ye City," Yu Sheng softly said.

"But... what on earth does this task mean? Both tasks are very strange..." Qi Nian frowned, utterly perplexed. "We need to participate in a movie shoot—why would they want us to film? The director doesn’t even know us, does Fog Gathering plan to forcibly alter their perception?"

"And as for your task, the mention of witnessing a murder is also quite intriguing. The wording suggests being able to see the entire murder process, but then identifying the culprit should be obvious, right? Why is there a need to find the true culprit before dawn?"

Qi Nian voiced what puzzled everyone.

The notion of being involved in a movie shoot was quite odd, and witnessing a murder was equally puzzling. What would actually happen would only become clear in due time.

Bai Yanliang silently pondered the densely packed blood letters in the void, finding his name in both tasks.

This did not instill fear in Bai Yanliang. What he contemplated was... why was he always involved?

He once thought all his anomalies originated from that silver-white key. Now that he understood the key’s function and had handed it over to Xun Weimo, why was he still affected?

The answer was clear: the abnormality lay within himself.

Fog Gathering had always targeted him.

Was it because... of his identity?

Bai Yanliang wasn’t sure. When using the Blood-red Key, the visions he saw were limited. He only saw Bai Yanren using a Blood-red Key, and then a bizarre baby emerged in his shadow, which quickly grew up...

Another scene depicted Bai Yanren looking worrily at him in his childhood, lying on the bed like a corpse, and then... Bai Yanren pulled out three keys, bringing him "back to life."

Could there be some misunderstanding here?

After calming down and contemplating, Bai Yanliang now connected these thoughts with Fog Gathering’s consistent ’special attention’ towards him.

Bai Yanliang could confirm he must not be a normal human being...

And the location for the second task stirred something in Bai Yanliang’s heart.

Qingyi Street...

That’s where Gao Fei’s home is.

As the blood letters gradually dissipated and a repulsive force suddenly emerged, Song Que quickly said, "Gather immediately after returning to reality, we’re heading out right now."

Du Shangjing, pale-faced, said, "I’m in Ping City, I’ll hurry over..."

"Okay."

With a ripple in space, the nine figures quickly vanished from Fog Gathering.

Silence, eeriness, mist swirling around.

At this moment, in the empty Fog Gathering, two blood-red light points suspended in the sky suddenly flickered.

Two massive and terrifying eyelids covered those two blood-red light points.

They turned out to be... a pair of pupils.

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