Frightening Joke: Above the Mist-Chapter 390 Submerged

Song Que was crushed by the shrinking ceiling, and the pain sapped all his strength. He couldn’t escape the compartment below the deck by his own power.

In a daze, he saw Yu Sheng’s cold gaze.

However, in the next moment, his still-intact left hand was grabbed and forcefully pulled out of the compartment.

It was Yu Sheng!

She didn’t just stand by. Her expression showed no abnormality, making the pained Song Que wonder if he had seen it wrong.

But there was no time to think more, as the ship’s shrinking continued. Yu Sheng grabbed his wrist and pulled him straight toward the deck to escape.

Song Que let her pull him, unable to see the complex expression on Yu Sheng’s face.

For "Yu Sheng," she was not the owner of this body. She was merely borrowing Yu Sheng’s body to search for the Prison Master’s Key in this piece of Wuji fragment.

But Song Que’s actions caused a slight tremor in her mind, which had been persistently rational.

She wanted to figure out Song Que’s motives. Maybe Song Que had a secret fondness for this woman "Yu Sheng"?

She didn’t know, but she was curious about the answer.

As they ran, Song Que was panting heavily. Yu Sheng pulled him onto the deck. Before the two could rest for a moment, what they saw left them stunned on the spot.

The giant ship had already shrunk to only about a dozen meters in length!

Soon, the sound of hurried footsteps approached, and Song Que and Yu Sheng turned to see Bai Yanliang and Xu Zhifei escaping from the ever-narrowing corridor.

Xu Zhifei, like Song Que, was injured, with blood flowing down his shoulder and covering both arms.

Having escaped the corridor, Bai Yanliang and Xu Zhifei paused upon seeing Song Que and Yu Sheng, quickly trying to judge whether the other was human or ghost.

Upon seeing Song Que’s arm, Bai Yanliang felt a tension in his heart.

At this moment...

"Look, it’s Gu Pingsheng."

A male voice called out from the front of the deck, and it was Yu Wenxuan’s voice.

Bai Yanliang’s eyebrows twitched as he looked toward Yu Wenxuan’s direction. Yu Wenxuan was standing at the ship’s bow with the gothic skirt woman, looking at the sea below.

On the surface, Yu Wenxuan seemed unharmed, yet Bai Yanliang felt something odd... The strange feeling came from Yu Wenxuan’s tone of voice, which appeared to have changed a bit...

But more bizarre than that was the content of what Yu Wenxuan said.

Gu Pingsheng?

Could he be in the sea?

The four of them walked to the bow of the ship, gazing at the pale ocean under the moonlight.

"How is this possible..."

Song Que was so shocked that he momentarily forgot the pain in his arm.

Because at this moment, under the pale moonlight, a large, round moon was reflected on the dark ocean, and at the center of that moon’s reflection floated a "person" on their back.

The person had their eyes closed, their expression could not be seen, nor their life or death determined, but it was indeed... Gu Pingsheng.

What on earth is going on?

How did Gu Pingsheng end up in the sea?

Just then, the gothic skirt woman Lin Xiaohui suddenly said, "It has begun..."

"What has begun?"

Yu Wenxuan looked at her.

He was already certain that the person he had met in his childhood was this Lin Xiaohui by his side.

"I told you..." Lin Xiaohui also looked at Yu Wenxuan, "I’ve repeated this thirty times, and although each process is different, the final outcome is the same."

She pointed to the terrifying, deep ocean: "This ship will shrink until it completely disappears, the people on board falling into the sea and perishing within the moon’s reflection on the ocean..."

"However, there is also life there..."

There was some uncertainty in Lin Xiaohui’s tone as well.

"Are you suggesting there is something in the water?" Bai Yanliang asked.

Lin Xiaohui nodded: "In the past thirty times, I have met my end at various locations on the ship and also reached the phase where the ship shrinks. This time... the ship is shrinking faster than I expected, possibly due to your presence."

Her gaze swept over everyone: "Originally, all the living on this ship were meant to rot under the moonlight, initiating a pursuit against all living things, the ship itself becoming a creature, and only then would it begin to shrink, continuing on until it heads towards moonlight and completely disappears..."

"But now," she looked at the sea where Gu Pingsheng floated, "someone broke the sequence, plunging directly into the ocean."

"Do you... know something?" Lin Xiaohui’s final gaze fell on Yu Wenxuan.

Without knowing why, she directly told herself that the man beside her was the most trustworthy at the moment.

"He knows something," Yu Wenxuan looked at Gu Pingsheng in the water, "He seemed quite certain that there was something he needed in the water."

"And what we need is a way out."

As soon as he finished speaking, suddenly his foot felt wet.

Looking down, everyone’s expressions changed.

At some point, water had already risen onto the deck!

The eeriest part was, it was clear to everyone that the ship was not "sinking" but "disappearing"!

This implies that...

Everyone will inevitably end up in the water.

The ship sails under the moon, and people perish in the water...

If they could manage to stay out of the water, could they break out of this predicament?

But with the whole ship disappearing, how could they avoid falling into the sea?

The situation was extremely bizarre.

Bai Yanliang quickly scanned around. Even though the moon’s light was getting brighter, there was nothing around that seemed like land, just ocean everywhere.

In other words, everyone was bound to end up in the water.

Bai Yanliang keenly sensed a strange atmosphere between Yu Wenxuan and the gothic skirt woman, but the exact reason was not yet clear. However... it seemed related to the crystal pendants they each held.

Odder still was Gu Pingsheng, who had already leaped into the sea, now floating on the "moon."

He clearly knew something and had accelerated the ship’s process, entering the phase where the ship disappears, and everyone falls into the water.

"Key..."

Suddenly, Xu Zhifei’s voice sounded beside Bai Yanliang.

Turning slightly, Bai Yanliang heard Xu Zhifei say in a low voice, "There is a key in the sea."

Bai Yanliang nodded without asking, "How do you know?" It seemed... Gu Pingsheng was after this key.

"Is the abnormality in this Wuji fragment caused by that key?"

Bai Yanliang asked.

Xu Zhifei slightly shook his head: "I don’t know if it’s the Prison Master’s Key or a follow-up key. If it’s the Prison Master’s Key, its power will cause unimaginable changes."

Bai Yanliang suddenly thought of Eighteenth Middle School, where he had once visited in spirit, seeing his brother Bai Yanren at that time.

Thinking of this, Bai Yanliang suddenly realized something, and he looked once more at Yu Wenxuan and the gothic skirt woman, as well as the pendants they held, and asked:

"Miss, this isn’t your first time meeting Yu Wenxuan, is it?"