Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 315 Identity

Chapter 315: Chapter 315 Identity

Kitchen.

Talking about washing dishes, Song Que merely tossed the bowl aside casually and looked at Qi Nian.

"So, did you find out anything?"

Qi Nian shook her head, then nodded, "Liu Ruonan... seems to be an orphan, and Wang Rui... she’s too introverted, she didn’t say anything."

Song Que waved it off, "Wang Rui isn’t important. The more information on Liu Ruonan, the better. What do you know?"

Qi Nian glanced at everyone, noticing all eyes on her, she started to speak, "Miss Liu... is very likely like us, someone from the real world, here to carry out some task..."

"Why?" Song Que looked at Qi Nian, "Why do you think that?"

Qi Nian frowned, looking at the ceiling, "I can’t really say... in any case, the feeling she gives me is the same as the feeling you all give me, but the remaining four give me a completely different vibe, just like... those people I met in the past world."

Feeling?

Song Que’s brows were furrowed tightly, completely dismissing these baseless ideas, yet at times he had to admit, women’s intuition could be quite accurate.

"Bai Yanliang, what do you think?"

Bai Yanliang shook his head, "Impossible."

Qi Nian was taken aback, bewildered, "Why?"

"Reason," his gaze swept over the three of them, "Do you remember the reason she let us into the villa?"

Qi Nian tilted her head, thinking, "Players? Right! She asked if we were players too!"

"Yes, she was the first to enter, and at the very beginning, Lin Dayou asked Liu Ruonan if she was a player, showing they hadn’t disclosed their identities to each other. We four don’t have any information about the three hundred million game and faked player identities to enter the villa, but Liu Ruonan, the first to enter, was clearly aware of all this information, something someone from the ’outside world’ couldn’t know," Bai Yanliang glanced at Qi Nian, "She is a character that exists within the script."

"However... her identity is quite special," Bai Yanliang added, "Have you noticed anything in common between Act One and Act Two of the script?"

"Name!"

"Name."

"She’s in both!"

Qi Nian, Xu Zhifei, and Song Que almost said simultaneously.

Bai Yanliang nodded, "That’s right, she’s in both. We four aren’t originally part of the script, it should be a script added last minute, but in Act One, there’s Liu Ruonan’s name."

"If the four of us didn’t come, then now’s Act Two should be the first act of the original script, which also has Liu Ruonan, why?" Bai Yanliang’s final question caused everyone to furrow their brows.

Yes, why?

If Act One was a script prepared for task executors on short notice, the presence of Liu Ruonan could indicate she is also here to execute some task, a person from the real world.

However... in Act Two of the script, Bai Yanliang and the other four are instantly removed, yet Liu Ruonan is still added, and this is very abnormal.

What exactly is her identity?

Could it really be, as Xu Zhifei said, that she is the writer behind all these horrific phenomena? The person who penned the script?

Currently, this possibility seems quite high.

But both Song Que and Bai Yanliang felt this might be... too simple.

So simple that... Liu Ruonan could just be a decoy.

"She’s the one who wrote the script! If we control her, we can make her change the script to let us out, and then we’ll have completed this task," Qi Nian looked at Bai Yanliang and Song Que in confusion.

Bai Yanliang scratched his head, unable to refute Qi Nian because, for now, it indeed seemed likely, but perhaps due to his overly cautious nature, thinking through many possibilities made such a straightforward answer hard for him to trust.

Song Que had a similar expression, looking at Qi Nian as if wanting to counter her argument but not knowing where to start.

"Wha... what’s wrong with you?" Qi Nian looked at the two men, puzzled by their conflicted expressions.

"They admire you," Xu Zhifei said softly, "Believing in one’s own thoughts isn’t something everyone can do."

Qi Nian smiled shyly, "Hehe, I just don’t think much..."

Xu Zhifei looked at her, "But what you think is right."

"Hopefully," Bai Yanliang also set aside the issue temporarily; more than Liu Ruonan’s real identity, he was curious about why the script appeared so eerily on the wooden table in the hall and... those unknown secret relationships among several people.

...

The four left the kitchen, and when they returned to the dining room, Zhan Yunhong was leaning against the window smoking.

Hearing movements, he looked back at them.

"Where is Lin Dayou?" Song Que looked down at Ouyang Kang.

Playing a rich, spoiled second-generation is an extremely easy task for him; he just had to act as himself from before.

Ouyang Kang clearly didn’t want to engage with Song Que, but also didn’t want to offend him, so he turned aside, seemingly casually, "Still asleep, hasn’t come down."

"Any noise from above?" Bai Yanliang moved to the window and asked Zhan Yunhong.

"No," Zhan Yunhong exhaled smoke towards the window, "No sounds at all."

"I...should we go up and...check on him..." Wang Rui suggested cautiously, "That paper... what was written... so scary... in case..."

"Xiao Rui’s right!" Ouyang Kang stood up straight, "Better safe than sorry, a game is just a game, but someone dying would be terrible, let’s go check now!"

"Who’s coming with me?" Ouyang Kang asked everyone.

Zhan Yunhong dropped his cigarette butt, stomped it out, and stared upstairs, "I’m going."

"I’ll go too." Liu Ruonan raised her hand.

Bai Yanliang glanced thoughtfully at Zhan Yunhong, smiling, "Let’s go together. We four will go too."

So, everyone decided to head up to the second floor to check on Lin Dayou, and it was now 1:05 PM.

In the original script, they were supposed to go up at two.

Would the plot change?

Bai Yanliang didn’t know.

But a branching path... had formed.

The group of eight headed towards the second floor.

Ouyang Kang led the way, and upon reaching the second floor, he looked left and right, "This is mouse, this is chicken, this is dragon... Horse, horse... Found it!"

Ouyang Kang ran towards the room at the end, maybe thinking about the contents written on the paper, even someone as seemingly reckless as Ouyang Kang slowed his steps, unintentionally growing tense.

"Knock, knock, knock—"

"Knock, knock, knock—"

"Brother Lin! Have you rested enough? Let’s keep looking for the three million!"

"Brother Lin?"

"If you don’t open up, I’ll break the door in?"

"I’m breaking it!"

The more Ouyang Kang shouted, the grimmer his face became.

Because he knew... something might have happened to Lin Dayou.

With everyone behind him, Ouyang Kang gathered more courage, rolled up his sleeves, and slammed sideways into the door.

The door opened.

"Lin..."

Ouyang Kang’s face lit up because when the door opened, Lin Dayou was standing right in front of him, as if about to open the door proactively.

But just as he spoke "Lin", Lin Dayou fell forward towards him.

Ouyang Kang instinctively tried to catch him, but to his horror... Lin Dayou’s head separated from his neck and rolled into Ouyang Kang’s arms...