Frightening Joke: Above the Mist-Chapter 344: The Old and Young

"Back to the bathroom!"

The instant Bai Yanliang saw the elder’s silhouette in the corridor, he felt a shocking malice!

Zhang Yun’s legs went weak, instinctively following Bai Yanliang’s command, she quickly slipped back into the bathroom.

"Who is he? Do you recognize that silhouette?"

Bai Yanliang asked.

Zhang Yun’s face turned as pale as gold paper, her eyes were vacant, and it took a long moment before she came around, trembling all over.

"He is the school’s gatekeeper... Uncle... Uncle Huang..."

A person turned into a ghost?

Bai Yanliang shuddered inside, immediately thinking of Qi Nian.

As time passed, more and more secrets of Fog Gathering were exposed.

Initially, Bai Yanliang explored the secrets of ghosts, asking what exactly is a "ghost"?

Feng Xiuxue once said that ghosts are the corruption of human nature.

That was a very vague concept.

But it was enough to indicate that after death, people do not become ghosts; rather, their evil nature transforms into ghosts.

It’s a straightforward idea that almost every mission in Fog Gathering is linked to a previous extremely vile case.

Those cases, because they were mixed with supernatural events, were entirely erased from existence by some enormous force.

But think carefully, the origins of the ghosts appearing in those events are all very obscure.

The fierce ghost from the Jade Ruyi in Ruyi Hotel, the ancient blood ritual in Sacrificial Blood Village, the ghost reflection present since the construction of Ink City Mental Hospital, the ghost playing hide and seek in the New Moon Department Store, and the one in the antique excavated by the tomb thief Zhan Yunhong... etc., etc.

The majority of fierce ghosts appearing in Fog Gathering have exceedingly ancient origins, which are impossible to trace.

They either possessed a human being or directly hunted humans themselves.

And those humans affected by them often had their negative emotions amplified to terrifying levels, doing things even more horrifying than ghosts is not surprising.

"Guardian... Guardian spirit, what should I do..."

Bai Yanliang had become Zhang Yun’s last straw to cling to for survival.

This girl had no clue why simply taking leave during class to go to the bathroom suddenly turned the entire school into a gloomy, terrifying place resembling a ghost domain.

In the bathroom, she heard hair-raising screams and wails coming from the whole teaching building.

The surrounding environment was also decaying and transforming, filled with rot and stench.

This sudden turn of events nearly had her at the point of collapse...

Fortunately, a voice appeared in her mind at that moment.

Having experienced one paranormal event, Zhang Yun had no doubt about Bai Yanliang’s claim of being a guardian spirit.

"Wait, listen."

Bai Yanliang instructed.

Zhang Yun held back her fear, straining her ears to listen.

So quiet...

The previous screams, wails, and howls... all had vanished without a trace.

The Eighteenth Middle School suddenly fell eerily silent like a graveyard...

In this silence, with her concentration, Zhang Yun finally heard the sound Bai Yanliang referred to.

"Sigh..."

"Ah..."

"Ouch..."

What was that? An elder’s sigh?

No... was it moaning?

An elderly person’s moaning?

"Ouch..."

"Ouch..."

Once the thought of it being "an elderly person’s moaning" entered her mind, that faint sound became increasingly clear.

Zhang Yun inexplicably got goosebumps, covering her ears, not wanting to hear the eerie old person’s moan anymore.

But the bizarre moan of the elderly only grew louder!

It seemed like it sighed beside her, more like it was moaning inside her head!

The more Zhang Yun was repulsed and terrified, the more she didn’t want to hear it, yet the louder the moan became instead.

Zhang Yun trembled with fear, her eyes nearly wide open in horror.

A chilling dread quietly spread within her heart.

Bai Yanliang understood their current situation better than she did.

The environment of the bathroom was mutating, the door handle was decaying, arms were growing out of the ceiling. This place was absolutely not a place to stay long.

However, outside, in the corridor, an old man was wandering—it wasn’t supposed to exist.

A few steps taken into the corridor and it appeared immediately.

Now... it was letting out a hair-raising moan. If Zhang Yun didn’t leave quickly, she would surely be doomed.

"Leave here," Bai Yanliang said calmly, "Open the door, observe carefully, and seize the moment it’s back is towards you, rush to the stairs on the other side."

Zhang Yun was now fully obedient to this guardian spirit’s words.

She wanted to live, and in her view, following Bai Yanliang’s instructions was the way to survive.

Blind trust is a foolish and tragic thing, yet for one in deep despair, it becomes a kind of salvation.

She meticulously executed Bai Yanliang’s requests.

Gently she opened the bathroom door, cautiously peeking out into the corridor.

To the left... there was a staircase, a hunched silhouette walking toward the stairway.

Its moan became even more pronounced at that moment.

Zhang Yun glanced to the right corridor; there was another set of stairs...

Now is the opportunity!

With a steely resolve, she bit her lip and dashed out!

Yet, the moment she stepped into the corridor, Zhang Yun immediately stopped, freezing in fear!

Something appeared...

What was that?

What did she see?!

Lying at the mouth of the right stairway was clearly a baby!

That baby’s body was covered in bloody grime, leaving only the head exposed, seemingly normal from a distance, like a newborn, with closed eyes, wrinkled skin, and features that hadn’t fully formed.

Yet, in this circumstance and place, the presence of a baby was already extremely abnormal!

Zhang Yun nearly faltered again.

But at that moment, Bai Yanliang abruptly commanded, "It’s fake, rush past it!"

Zhang Yun’s saving grace was her readiness to follow instructions even in her complete lack of resolutions.

Despite her legs being weak with fear, when hearing Bai Yanliang’s command, she instinctively took a step forward.

But at the instant she started to move, the baby at the stairway suddenly wailed loudly!

The "Wah wah" cry was sharp beyond measure!

Like fingernails scraping across glass, making one’s skin crawl.

The very moment this baby started crying, the elder at the other end of the corridor also turned its head!

At its turning moment, this wrinkled baby shockingly opened its eyes!

Under Zhang Yun’s horrified gaze, the eyes, which should have been pure, looked like pools of blood!

Their not yet formed features contorted into a hideous grin!

"Run!"

Bai Yanliang’s voice exploded in her mind, Zhang Yun shuddered intensely, then burst out, clenching her eyes as she rushed directly toward the baby!

And then... with one step, crossed over it, rushing down the stairs!

At the precise moment Zhang Yun stepped over it, the baby’s head abruptly inflated!

The previously wrinkled infant face aged dramatically.

It was Uncle Huang!

On the other side, that aged body was slowly moving toward the one lying on the ground, the body so extremely young...

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