Frightening Joke: Above the Mist-Chapter 21 Saving People

"Tick-tock—Tick-tock—"

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Bai Yanliang suddenly raised his head and listened carefully while leading Jiang Li down the stairs.

Seeing him suddenly stop, Jiang Li halted as well and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

Bai Yanliang frowned slightly, gazing towards the upper floors. Although he couldn't see anything, he had a faint feeling that something was happening up there...

"Miss Jiang, did you hear... the sound of dripping water?"

Bai Yanliang's words startled Jiang Li. She then also listened closely. After Bai Yanliang's mention, she seemed to hear a faint ticking sound too, but... it was very subtle. If not for the quietness of this hotel, it would have been almost impossible to hear.

"Something's not right..."

Bai Yanliang murmured softly and then looked at Jiang Li, saying, "You should go first, Miss Jiang. I need to check the sixth floor."

Jiang Li's face changed. She hadn't expected Bai Yanliang to take such action, but... she really didn't dare to go down the dark stairs to the first floor alone!

Besides... although unspoken, Bai Yanliang indeed exuded a sense of safety.

This man seemed unafraid of anything?

Thus, Jiang Li made a quick decision without much thought, "I'll go with you!"

Bai Yanliang saw this and didn't persuade her otherwise, just nodded slightly.

"Then let's go."

The two turned and headed back to the sixth floor.

...

Despair filled every corner of Xu Zhi'an's body.

Under his watch, that bloodied "man" slowly turned his head.

Meanwhile, the water in his sink had long overflowed...

The overflowing water crept towards Xu Zhi'an, making him retreat further, backing into the corridor.

Xu Zhi'an's eyes were wide open, and he vaguely saw a silhouette of a woman in the water...

Who is... that?

"Who... who are you?" Though nearly in a mental collapse, Xu Zhi'an instinctively asked this question.

As expected, neither "he" nor "she" responded.

Then, to Xu Zhi'an's horror, the human figure in the water emerged!

First, a pale arm extended, followed by a long-haired head. Her body contorted severely, lying on the floor limply as if boneless.

Xu Zhi'an wanted to get up and run away.

But it was too late...

The disfigured "man" had somehow already blocked his retreat.

And before him lay this "woman" in the water.

Desperation!

"It's over... I'm dead this time..."

Xu Zhi'an trembled all over, his mind in chaos.

Though his eyes were wide open, he couldn't clearly see the woman's face before him.

He only felt, in a daze, the twisted woman stretching out her hand and clutching Xu Zhi'an's neck...

A strong sense of suffocation struck, and Xu Zhi'an frantically kicked his legs, pulling at "her" fingers.

But it was all in vain. Xu Zhi'an could only feel the cold...

How cold her hands were...

And wet, as if soaked in water...

"Damn... damn it..." Xu Zhi'an's face turned from red to white, now showing blue.

The veins on his neck protruded, tears and saliva uncontrollably flowing out.

Xu Zhi'an could clearly feel his life slipping away rapidly...

...

The dripping sound grew clearer.

Bai Yanliang quickened his pace. In fact, reaching the sixth floor from the fourth wasn't far, so it didn't take long.

Jiang Li closely followed him, already mentally prepared.

...Prepared for a ghostly encounter.

Bai Yanliang must have discovered something, which prompted his hasty return to the sixth floor.

Soon, they were back on the sixth floor.

However... the scene before them left Jiang Li, who had prepared herself mentally, utterly shocked.

She imagined many scenarios but hadn't expected this?

Xu Zhi'an, the thirty-something office worker, was desperately choking himself at the bathroom entrance!

His eyes were rolled back, yet he continued to exert force!

His hands were veined, and he was determined to choke himself to death!

"Help quickly!"

Bai Yanliang's shout snapped Jiang Li out of her scattered thoughts and growing fear. She instinctively followed Bai Yanliang's command.

Bai Yanliang vigorously pried Xu Zhi'an's fingers while shouting at him.

"Mr. Xu? What's wrong, Mr. Xu?"

Under Bai Yanliang's call, Jiang Li hurried over too. The two of them, from either side, tried hard to pry Xu Zhi'an's fingers apart, but to no avail!

God knows why Xu Zhi'an possessed such strength! Bai Yanliang was sure his strength wasn't weak. During his time at Ye City Mental Hospital, he had never ceased training his body. While not matching long-time athletes, Bai Yanliang's strength and speed far exceeded an average person's.

Yet... even with such strength, Xu Zhi'an's fingers wouldn't budge!

Bai Yanliang stared intently at him. Xu Zhi'an seemed trapped in a nightmare, unaffected by any amount of calling, and his face turned ashen, nearing a self-strangling death.

The bizarre scene felt oddly familiar to Bai Yanliang, yet he couldn't recall why.

It's quite unusual, as Bai Yanliang rarely forgets things, but he couldn't remember from where this inexplicable familiarity arose.

"No... it's not working!" Jiang Li's breathless shout echoed, "We can't move his hands at all!"

Jiang Li tried her utmost, but the scene filled her with fear and despair. Xu Zhi'an's body seemed taken over by someone else, using far greater strength than usual, trying to kill himself!

"Step aside!"

Bai Yanliang suddenly said.

Jiang Li quickly rose without much thought. Just as she stood, a black shadow swooped past, landing a solid hit on Xu Zhi'an's arm joint!

"Crack—"

Jiang Li widened her eyes in disbelief as the gentlemanly Bai Yanliang unexpectedly kicked Xu Zhi'an's joint with a breaking sound!

Xu Zhi'an's right elbow joint completely reversed, causing excruciating pain just by looking.

As Jiang Li stood stunned, Bai Yanliang delivered another kick!

"Crack—"

Xu Zhi'an's left arm broke in response!

Though it looked tragic, Xu Zhi'an's life was saved!

Both arms twisted at an abnormal angle, forcibly broken by Bai Yanliang. Finally, Xu Zhi'an's fingers lost power and limply released.

Only then did Jiang Li understand what Bai Yanliang had done.

She looked at Bai Yanliang, who still maintained a calm demeanor, patting Xu Zhi'an's face, trying to awaken him.

Unknowingly, Jiang Li harbored an emotion akin to seeing a ghost in her eyes—fear.