Frightening Joke: Above the Mist-Chapter 353: Behind

Yu Sheng listened to the conversation among the group, trying to deduce from the limited information available, as she had never encountered the ghost directly.

For now, it seems there are two ghosts.

One should not be looked at, as seeing it immediately allows it to sense your hiding spot and then lay a curse.

And the power of the curse is... flesh falling off.

The other is the one shown in the case, the murderer who chopped off the victims’ limbs and heads.

It’s currently hiding in the dark, still undiscovered.

After Yu Wenxuan finished speaking, he looked at Bai Yanliang.

This guy, did he guess this possibility the moment he heard the footsteps of the ghost?

So, he didn’t deliberately hide, just controlled his gaze to avoid "seeing" the ghost.

"You said you found a way to survive, meaning you found where the hidden ghost is?" Yu Wenxuan looked at Bai Yanliang.

"Yes." Bai Yanliang nodded.

His unabashed demeanor made Yu Wenxuan feel a bit odd.

This Bai Yanliang... is very strange.

"I asked you all to come here because of this matter."

Bai Yanliang hid behind a tree, without looking at the street, "Its movements are very strange, not deliberately heading for a specific street or person, but walking in a certain order, street by street."

"As if it must walk through all five streets."

Bai Yanliang leaned against the tree trunk, "Because of the task description, we thought we had to witness the crime scene, so each person took a street, dispersed to find it, worried about missing the witnessing moment."

"But similarly, it is also looking for us," he looked at Yu Wenxuan, Gu Pingsheng, and Feng Xiuxue, "Every time it finds someone, it marks them."

"The flesh curse." Gu Pingsheng added.

"That’s right." Bai Yanliang said calmly, "Once all five people are marked, that’s when it moves."

"Now, only Yu Sheng and I haven’t been discovered by it, but your locations are known to it like the back of its hand."

Bai Yanliang’s statement was eerie, but what he said next was even stranger.

"Of course, this is just my guess, there’s no evidence, believe it or not, it’s up to you."

"Oh right," Bai Yanliang turned to the other four, "There was one thing I got wrong earlier, there aren’t two ghosts this time, from the beginning to the end, there’s only one ghost, but it has two different forms."

Yu Wenxuan felt a strange discomfort reaching its peak, constantly feeling that the Bai Yanliang before him was bizarre to the extreme.

"After saying so much, where is the ghost hiding?"

Yu Wenxuan barely got the question out.

Suddenly, a sound of footsteps was heard.

"Tap—"

"Tap—"

Hearing the footsteps, everyone instinctively wanted to turn their heads towards the sound.

But before they could do that, they immediately remembered the previous deduction.

If they saw it... it would be able to sense them.

But Bai Yanliang’s inference was even more stunning, according to him, Yu Wenxuan and the other two were already under the curse, able to be sensed by it.

But... why does that ghost need to mark five people before it can kill?

Why can it sense those who are cursed?

Does Bai Yanliang have evidence?

"Yu Sheng, don’t look at it..."

Bai Yanliang suddenly reminded Yu Sheng.

Yu Sheng shivered inside, nodding, she almost instinctively turned her head a moment ago.

Yu Wenxuan looked at Yu Sheng, hiding next to Bai Yanliang, whispering, "Why? Why can it only kill after the curse?"

Bai Yanliang glanced at him, then gestured to his fingers with his chin.

"Look at where each of you three is cursed, and relate it to all the victims’ cases."

With a word to awaken one from a dream!

Feng Xiuxue felt a chill running through her.

She, Gu Pingsheng, and Yu Wenxuan: their face, knee, and little finger’s flesh began to fall off.

Thinking bigger, isn’t this exactly the limbs and head?

All the victims lost their limbs and head, which can also be understood that the fierce ghost didn’t cut them after killing, but because they lost their limbs and head, they died.

Just the order is different, the answer immediately becomes different!

The ghost from the beginning was never one that mutilates the body; once it sequentially plants the curse of limbs and head, anyone would immediately die, with limbs and the head disappearing strangely.

And extending this to the mission of Fog Gathering, the curse a person bears was evenly divided into five parts.

Left hand, right hand, left leg, right leg, head.

Now the right leg, left hand, and head are cursed.

If so... then only Bai Yanliang and Yu Sheng remain.

Thinking of this, Yu Wenxuan and the other two’s eyes quietly fell on Bai Yanliang and Yu Sheng.

"You let all of us come, both to guide the ghost and to prevent Yu Sheng from falling for its trick, adding one more to the cursed. But I still don’t understand, where is it?"

Yu Wenxuan was rarely so earnest; if given a little more time, he believed he could also see where the survival path lay.

But after being cursed himself, his mood was understandably affected. freeweɓnovel~cѳm

The question he raised was not just what he wanted to know; the others were curious, too.

Regarding where the ghost is hiding, no clues have been revealed so far, and everyone is clueless. What exactly did Bai Yanliang discover?

Bai Yanliang suddenly chuckled, "As I said, it’s not two ghosts, from start to finish, it’s one ghost."

"If it is a ghost? We’ve found it, so why hasn’t the task ended, why hasn’t it disappeared?" Yu Wenxuan lowered his voice, "Is it because the ’witnessing the crime’ hasn’t happened yet? But if we are victims, then with it planting the curse, that moment should count as witnessing; does discovering not count as ’finding’?"

Faced with this series of questions, Bai Yanliang did not directly respond, but looked at Feng Xiuxue and asked, "Describe it."

Feng Xiuxue didn’t expect Bai Yanliang to suddenly ask her, but she didn’t refuse, as she had already "witnessed" the fierce ghost, so she was very clear about the image of the ghost.

"You suspect something on it is its true form?" Yu Wenxuan asked.

"Yes." Bai Yanliang gave a definite answer.

But Feng Xiuxue was watching the ghost slowly walking down the street and said, "No skin on its body, very long hair, female physical characteristics, walks on tiptoe, normal physique."

As Feng Xiuxue finished speaking, Bai Yanliang, Yu Wenxuan, and Gu Pingsheng all turned their heads back to glance at each other.

"Behind it."

The three of them spoke in unison.

Even ghosts, these incomprehensible beings, have their patterns and rules.

Its appearance, posture, and terrifying exterior all have reasons for their formation.

So then... why is it walking on tiptoe?

Confirming their thought process, the three immediately figured this out.

Because, behind it is a transparent ghost, holding its body, supporting its feet...

It’s right behind it.

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