Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 95 Nightmare

Chapter 95: Chapter 95 Nightmare

Yu Sheng arrived at the restaurant only to find out that Bai Yanliang’s invitation for dinner really was just dinner...

He didn’t say a word, just ate quietly, as if the wound on his arm didn’t bother him at all.

Yu Sheng wanted to speak several times, but couldn’t find a topic to talk about.

Come to think of it, the only connection between the two was Fog Gathering.

But discussing that place would completely ruin the atmosphere.

The meal passed by in Yu Sheng’s anxious emotion.

"Thanks for the meal, I’m done eating."

Bai Yanliang looked at Yu Sheng and said seriously.

"Why aren’t you eating?" He only just noticed that Yu Sheng barely touched her food.

"Ah? I... I’m not hungry yet." Yu Sheng said in a low voice.

She didn’t eat much to begin with, let alone now when she had no appetite.

"Then, let me take you home." Bai Yanliang stood up and said.

"No need, I can do it." Ren Wudao’s voice sounded behind Bai Yanliang.

"Brother, why are you here..." Yu Sheng seemed a bit flustered.

"If I didn’t come, you’d be tricked away by someone." Ren Wudao said, staring openly at Bai Yanliang.

Yu Sheng’s face immediately turned red.

"Mr. Bai, we’ll be leaving now. I’ve already settled the bill, feel free to stay." Ren Wudao said as he pushed Yu Sheng’s wheelchair away slowly.

"Bai Yanliang!" Yu Sheng turned her head to look at him and said seriously:

"Thank you."

Bai Yanliang waved his hand: "Goodbye."

...

Li Mu had finished work.

Lately, he had been very busy, as that damn criminal committed yet another shocking crime.

In the middle of the night, he skinned a woman and hung her, bloodied, on a traffic light.

Passing drivers were scared half to death and couldn’t even speak clearly when calling the police.

When the police arrived at the scene and took her down from the traffic light, they were horrified to find... she was still alive.

This woman, with all her skin peeled off, was still alive...

"Whew..."

Even Li Mu, who had seen real fierce ghosts, felt a chill when facing these vicious criminals.

Today, he’d worked overtime again; having just finished work, Li Mu left the police station alone, realizing he’d forgotten his phone in his office and had no choice but to go back for it.

Lately, he’d been terribly tired; Li Mu usually wasn’t a forgetful person, but ever since coming out alive from Fog Gathering, his memory was getting worse, often forgetting what he just asked his colleagues.

After going back to get his phone and delaying a bit, it was already ten o’clock at night when he got home.

Li Mu lived on the seventeenth floor, waiting for the elevator, he quietly watched as the numbers gradually decreased, suddenly feeling something peculiar.

How come... it seemed to skip the thirteenth floor entirely?

Li Mu rubbed his eyes, just now... did the elevator really jump from fourteen to twelve, was it malfunctioning? Or... was he just too tired?

Regardless, the elevator had already arrived.

"Ding..."

The elevator door opened before Li Mu, empty inside.

Seeing the barren elevator, Li Mu suddenly felt a chill run through his body.

An unsettling feeling quietly crept in, his heart seemed to resist entering the elevator.

But this was reality, not Fog Gathering, Li Mu shook his head, brushing off the oddity as a product of overexhaustion lately.

Entering the elevator, he pressed the button for the seventeenth floor, watching the doors close silently.

For some reason, as he watched the elevator doors gradually close, Li Mu’s breathing became heavier, and his heartbeat began to quicken.

Strange... too strange...

Li Mu touched his forehead, could he have a cold?

The elevator began ascending.

Leaning against one side of the elevator, Li Mu’s discomfort grew.

Just then, the elevator suddenly... stopped.

"Ding..."

Li Mu raised his head to look at the digital display, which showed the number... thirteen.

The door opened.

The light from inside the elevator spilled out, illuminating the dark expanse of the thirteenth floor.

A cold breeze blew through, causing Li Mu to shiver.

Where was everyone?

Despite the elevator doors being open for quite a while, no one came in.

Come to think of it... it was ten o’clock at night, why would someone on the thirteenth floor call the elevator going up?

Maybe the thirteenth floor was a friend’s place, he went to visit a friend?

Li Mu found an explanation, but seeing no one come, he pressed the close button.

And yet, just as the door was about to close, suddenly... a voice said, "Wait for me."

Li Mu quickly pressed the open button again, and the elevator door opened once more.

"Hello?"

Li Mu called out, but the person who asked him to wait hadn’t appeared.

A prank?

Li Mu thought to himself.

Pulling a prank in the dead of night, truly quite childish.

Li Mu again pressed the close button.

However... that voice reappeared.

"Wait for me."

This time, Li Mu was genuinely startled.

Because... the voice didn’t come from elsewhere, but from... behind him!

Summoning his courage, Li Mu turned abruptly, but all he saw was the inside wall of the elevator.

Right, he was standing against the wall, how could anyone be behind him?

But... that voice just now...

Li Mu felt a biting cold rising, as the elevator’s light flickered abruptly.

His breathing grew heavier, his mouth dry, and his heart raced even faster.

Could it be... a ghost?

Just then, there was a sudden "ding" from the elevator.

It turned out... the seventeenth floor had arrived.

Li Mu stuck tightly to the elevator wall, extremely tense.

Intense unease spread through every corner of his body; it was the first time... he’d encountered something so bizarre in reality!

Li Mu knew that strange things existed in the real world too, but... seeing and experiencing firsthand were completely different.

"Whoosh..."

The elevator door opened.

Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief, quickly stepping out of the elevator.

However, just as he stepped out of the elevator, a hand suddenly tapped his shoulder.

That elder’s voice echoed again: "Wait for me."

Li Mu turned back only to see... an elder’s head floating inside the elevator, staring at him with eerie eyes.

Below that head were two arms, one of which was patting his shoulder...

Overwhelmed by darkness, Li Mu’s vision went black, and consciousness abruptly vanished.

"Ah!"

Li Mu awoke abruptly, sitting up from his bed, bewilderedly staring at the ceiling, cold sweat mixing with shallow breaths echoing in the air.

A dream?

Another dream?

He touched his forehead, drenched with sweat, his body shivering uncontrollably.

Two days in a row.

Ever since leaving Fog Gathering, he’d been having the exact same dream for two consecutive days.

That elevator, that old man, even the part at the police station getting his phone, it was the same every time!

Li Mu turned on the bedside lamp and glanced at the time.

Two in the morning.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead, staring blankly out the window.

What on earth... was going on...

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