Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 77 In Front of the Tomb

Chapter 77: Chapter 77 In Front of the Tomb

Lin Yan followed the largest group of people, but as they walked, she suddenly noticed that these villagers were slowing down.

Until they completely stopped moving.

"You...why aren’t you walking anymore?"

Lin Yan’s question received no answer; instead, a series of scrutinizing gazes scanned her.

The instincts of a woman instantly alerted her to the villagers’ ill intentions, and she immediately turned and ran.

However...she was already surrounded from behind.

"What do you want!"

Lin Yan’s eyes widened, glaring angrily at these strangely-featured villagers.

Still, no one answered.

Instead, her vision went black as someone struck the back of her head, causing her to faint.

A moment later, someone who shouldn’t be here appeared—Lu Bingyan.

"Hand her over to me."

Lu Bingyan said expressionlessly.

Two villagers immediately stepped forward, lifted the unconscious Lin Yan from the ground, and walked towards Lu Bingyan.

However, Lu Bingyan raised her hand to stop them.

"Leave her to me, and you continue to look for the village chief." Lu Bingyan’s expression and tone were both icy.

The surrounding villagers exchanged glances.

Seeing this, Lu Bingyan instead smiled: "Fine, I won’t be involved in this; find someone else to preside over the ritual yourselves."

"No... Yanzi, don’t be angry. You know, only you and Sun Wenbin in the village can handle this now. That little bastard still bears a grudge against us and surely won’t agree."

"Yes, yes... The ritual can’t be delayed, it’ll be a disaster if it’s past noon..."

As she listened to these people yammering, a trace of disgust flashed across Lu Bingyan’s face.

"Alright, give her to me. I’ll go to the back mountain for the ritual, and don’t follow me."

"But..."

Lu Bingyan raised an eyebrow: "You don’t trust me?"

"No... no..."

Lu Bingyan’s eyes swept over these people, her dissatisfaction not concealed in the slightest. She knew that today she was unrestrained; the Old Village Chief had disappeared, and Sun Wenbin held a grudge against them. There was only she, a normal person, who could conduct the ritual.

She said nothing more, letting the two villagers place Lin Yan on her back, and looked back: "Don’t follow, or if I find out you’ve come after me, then we’ll all perish together."

The villagers waved their hands repeatedly to indicate they wouldn’t.

Lu Bingyan glanced at them once more and turned to head toward the back mountain.

She didn’t see how disturbingly malicious the gaze in the villagers’ eyes was as she turned away.

But even if Lu Bingyan knew, she wouldn’t care because... today she’s going to leave this cursed place and find her mother.

The mountain women’s strength was absolutely no joke, and carrying someone like Lin Yan was no problem for Lu Bingyan at all.

She walked with agile steps, eyes unblinking, into the woods at the village’s end. Just past this forest lay the ritual grounds.

The ground beneath her feet was already decaying.

Mutations were already happening, but Lu Bingyan turned a blind eye to it all. The maze-like forest, daunting to outsiders, was a breeze for her as she easily found the correct path, soon to leave the woods.

However, at this moment, Lu Bingyan heard a sound.

The sound of digging soil...

Was it Sun Wenbin?

Lu Bingyan stopped her steps, listening closely to find where the digging sound came from.

Upon listening carefully, she found the sound was not in the woods but outside it.

Could it be... Sun Wenbin killed someone again and is burying them?

Lu Bingyan frowned, treading stealthily toward the outside of the forest.

She had once caught Sun Wenbin burying bones in the woods, their white skeletons with the flesh completely gone.

But she was not afraid, knowing who Sun Wenbin’s target of revenge was. Even though in her perspective, what Sun Wenbin did was useless, her mother hadn’t died at all.

Yet, at the moment of stepping out of the woods.

The person she saw made Lu Bingyan, after initial surprise and doubt, somewhat fearful.

In front of her mother’s grave stood a quiet man.

Seemingly hearing the commotion, he turned his head to look over.

Without showing surprise when seeing Lu Bingyan, his gaze merely lingered for a moment on Lin Yan, who was on Lu Bingyan’s back.

Putting down the dirt-covered hoe, he smiled, "Hello, Miss Lu."

"You... you are... Bai Yanliang?" Lu Bingyan stared at the face that was not very familiar and asked, "What are you doing here? How did you get here?"

"Just like you, by taking the right path." Bai Yanliang looked at her, asking, "Anything else?"

Digging someone’s mother’s grave while asking if there’s anything else, this was perhaps something only Bai Yanliang could pull off.

Lu Bingyan finally returned to her senses. Although reluctant to admit it, she was indeed frightened by Bai Yanliang’s grotesque behavior just a moment ago.

"What are you doing? Why are you digging my mother’s grave!"

Lu Bingyan shouted in anger, actually just making a show of attitude.

"Is that so? Are you sure this is your mother’s grave, Miss Lu?" Bai Yanliang looked at her, retorting.

"If...if not, then what?" Unsure why, although Bai Yanliang was smiling, the feeling he gave Lu Bingyan was somewhat terrifying, because...she found she couldn’t see a hint of a smile in Bai Yanliang’s eyes.

This man was like a lifelike doll, harmless while placed there, but always invoking a strange fear.

And after hearing Lu Bingyan’s words, Bai Yanliang said nothing more, merely raised the hoe, scaring Lu Bingyan into retreating several steps.

The hoe didn’t fall on her, but on the last layer of soil.

A coffin emerged.

"Hey! What are you doing!" Lu Bingyan’s pupils contracted, too busy to care about any strangeness of Bai Yanliang, she hurried upfront to stop him.

However, Bai Yanliang’s actions were faster than hers.

"Crack—"

A strike of the hoe smashed into the coffin, breaking the wood.

Bai Yanliang squatted down, starting to exert force.

The coffin lid was lifted by him.

Lu Bingyan halted, standing nearby with an ugly expression.

Bai Yanliang looked at her, asking, "Is this your mother, Miss Lu?"

Looking at the empty coffin, Lu Bingyan was at a loss for words.

"You!" Lu Bingyan gritted her teeth, staring at him, asking, "Who are you, really?"

"Bai Yanliang."

Bai Yanliang noticed that the people he encountered often liked to ask his name over and over.

He always reiterated tirelessly.

"Bai Yanliang, it’s best not to interfere with my affairs; it absolutely does you no good."

Lu Bingyan took a deep breath. Although her mother’s not-dead secret was discovered by this man, there was nothing he could do about it now.

Bai Yanliang nodded cooperatively upon hearing this, but his finger pointed at Lin Yan on Lu Bingyan’s back.

"Of course, as long as...you hand her over to me."

"No way!"

Lu Bingyan’s expression changed suddenly, glaring viciously at Bai Yanliang, showing no willingness for negotiation.

Seeing her demeanor, Bai Yanliang had further confirmed his thoughts.

"You’re a woman too. Haven’t enough women suffered here already?"

Bai Yanliang looked at her, speaking with calm eyes.

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