Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 41: Something Happens

Chapter 41: Chapter 41: Something Happens

This case itself isn’t complicated, but the social impact it caused is significant.

However, although the cause and effect are clear, there are still doubts remaining.

Why did Hao Bowen, a fifteen-year-old child, suddenly have such astonishing strength?

Why did Li Degang know he was going to be killed? He even knew the time, place, and method precisely.

Moreover, knowing he would be attacked, why didn’t he run away? What was he afraid of?

Bai Yanliang returned to Rong Garden, packing his things while thinking.

"Hey, are you leaving already? Are you going undercover again?"

Yang Yiyi stood nearby with a conflicted expression looking at him.

Bai Yanliang looked up at her and smiled: "Yes, when Uncle Yang returns, tell him for me and thank him for all his care. I’m leaving now."

"You call and say it yourself, I’m not saying it for you."

Bai Yanliang paused, honestly not knowing how to face that middle-aged detective. After all, he still carried the identity of a juvenile delinquent.

According to his original plan, if he found a stable job during these days, he would say his goodbyes.

But... unexpectedly, Yanren left him a deposit of three hundred thousand, which is enough for a single guy like him to live in Ye City for a long time.

Bai Yanliang lifted his luggage and got up to say goodbye to Yang Yiyi:

"Goodbye."

Watching him leave with his luggage, Yang Yiyi suddenly had a premonition, a feeling that she might never see this person again.

"Hey! I will become a police officer!"

Yang Yiyi shouted at Bai Yanliang’s departing figure.

Bai Yanliang hesitated slightly, turned back to the awkward high school girl, and suddenly smiled: "Alright, maybe when you become a police officer, you’ll come to arrest me."

With that, Bai Yanliang waved his hand and entered the elevator.

"I told you not to casually smile at girls..." Yang Yiyi muttered softly, watching the slowly closing elevator.

...

After leaving Rong Garden, Bai Yanliang casually found a hotel to stay temporarily.

Another reason he didn’t want to stay longer at Yang Wanlong’s home was because Yang Yiyi’s father, that detective, kept observing him.

He opened the door, glanced around, set his luggage down, leaned on the bed, and took out his phone.

From the last conversation record, Bai Yanliang saw the name Feng Xiuxue.

In fact, Bai Yanliang found her sudden invitation very strange. As a new member of Fog Gathering, he was sure he had no interactions with Feng Xiuxue, much less in real life. One bore the label of a juvenile offender facing murder allegations, spending an extended youth in a mental hospital, while the other was an active star in various major media, with fans all over the country, even including young girls like Yang Yiyi who were infatuated with her.

What is her purpose in inviting him?

Bai Yanliang pondered this question more than once.

Thinking it over, the only connection between them might be matters related to Fog Gathering, perhaps... she wanted to personally inquire about the last mission?

Gradually, Bai Yanliang felt a wave of fatigue. He had been on the move all day and slowly closed his eyes.

He never expected that Feng Xiuxue’s reason for seeking him had nothing to do with Fog Gathering, and the intersection between the two of them was, in some aspects, unprecedentedly deep...

...

Ye City Police Station, Jiangbei Branch.

Officer Wang looked with a grim expression at the corpse before him.

Hao Bowen was dead.

Dead in the detention center.

Yet everything in front of them was so bizarre that it made all the officers who saw the body feel chills down their spines.

"What... what is going on?"

"Check! Check the surveillance!" Captain Wang roared angrily, and everyone immediately sprang into action.

This was simply too bizarre!

Hao Bowen’s facial skin and muscles had been ripped off, a piece of muscle connected to tendons dangled from his chin, his entire face had been peeled away, leaving it bloody and terrifying.

His wrists dripped with blood, foam bubbled from his mouth, and besides the skin being torn from his face, his tongue was cut out, and the arteries and veins on his wrists were completely severed, with blood flowing everywhere.

The officers who first saw this scene were nearly scared out of their wits, and soon after their calls, everyone rushed over, including Officer Wang.

What on earth was going on?

This is in the police station’s detention center!

Who would be so audacious to commit murder in the detention center?

However, after checking the surveillance, everyone’s expressions turned even worse, along with an unspeakable fear.

Several officers couldn’t take it and ran out, covering their mouths.

Because the footage shown on the surveillance was simply too gruesome!

Officer Wang’s hand was clenched tightly on the table, veins bulging out, eyes fixed on the surveillance footage. In the footage, Hao Bowen sat cross-legged in the corner of the detention center with his head bowed, the area was so dark that it wasn’t very clear.

Suddenly, Hao Bowen started moving, he extended both hands and began to claw at his wrists, his fingernails sharp and easily pierced the skin on his wrists, then picked at the veins inside, and without any sign of pain, he began to frantically tear until he ripped his veins, causing blood to gush out and puddle rapidly on the floor.

His actions didn’t stop, his hands moved up, he grabbed his scalp, pierced through the skin on his face, and frantically tore downwards along with the flesh, his face quickly becoming a bloody mess.

Finally... he bit down and spat out half of his tongue onto the floor.

The body, gradually losing breath, trembled slightly in the pool of blood, and from beginning to end, no one entered the detention center, and Hao Bowen didn’t make a single sound amid his self-mutilating actions.

The silent footage looped, displaying Hao Bowen’s process of self-inflicted death.

The police station was silent, occasionally interrupted by the sound of dry retching or gulping.

Officer Wang’s pupils contracted wildly, this veteran officer’s emotions were anything but stable.

"Investigate..."

Officer Wang spoke, only to find his voice dry and hoarse, sounding like a strange stranger.

"Captain... Captain Wang... how to investigate?"

Officer Wang turned, seeing the officers behind him saying nothing but showing visible fear on their faces.

This matter was so strange, so eerie.

How could a human do this to themselves?

Hao Bowen seemed like... he was possessed by a monster.

"Everyone..." Officer Wang suddenly felt a wave of helplessness, even he was at a loss. How to investigate, where to start? Hao Bowen’s death process was captured clearly by the camera beside the detention center, but... can this news be released to the public?

"Try to investigate, see who he contacted, if there were any strange remarks, at least... we need to find the reason for his bizarre suicide."

"Yes... Captain Wang."