Frightening Joke: Above the Mist-Chapter 391: Revised - Entrustment

"I saw her when I was a child," Yu Wenxuan said concisely.

Such a coincidence?

Everyone present had this thought at the same time.

"Miss, do you remember him?"

Bai Yanliang asked Lin Xiaohui.

Lin Xiaohui slowly shook her head, looking at Yu Wenxuan in disbelief. After confirming that the pendant on Yu Wenxuan was identical to her own, she already felt very eerie. Now, hearing Bai Yanliang’s question, she felt even more unsettled.

What on earth happened? Why can’t I remember anything?

By this time, the seawater had already reached everyone’s ankles, and the ship seemed about to vanish completely.

Bai Yanliang had no time to delay and immediately spoke his conjecture.

"This is just my guess. If there’s a door that’s been opened within this Wuji fragment, then the time and space here must be distorted. I’ve experienced something similar," Bai Yanliang confessed without reservation.

Xu Zhifei also understood Bai Yanliang’s idea. He meant to say... Indeed, there’s a key beneath this deep sea, but that key may have already opened a certain door.

All of the anomalies here are caused by that door somewhere on the seabed.

Bai Yanliang glanced at Gu Pingsheng, who was still reflected in the sea beneath the position of the full moon, then turned back to the group and said, "I’ll go down and find it."

His voice was not loud, and it was unremarkable amid the occasional salty sea breeze, but the determination in his tone was unmistakable to everyone.

Bai Yanliang didn’t quite know what to do now, but he knew what mustn’t happen, like...letting another image branded in his heart leave.

Song Que was already wounded like that, and Yu Wenxuan’s state was not right either. He didn’t want Qi Nian’s case to repeat again.

Without further ado, Bai Yanliang looked towards Gu Pingsheng’s position. At the very least, Gu Pingsheng guided him in the right direction.

The door or rather the location of the key should be right under the reflection of this full moon on the sea surface.

"Together."

Xu Zhifei spoke coldly.

Bai Yanliang turned to look at her; her delicate but pale face was particularly unsettling under the moonlight. Her long hair danced in the sea breeze, and the chilling aura emanating from her made everyone present slightly uncomfortable.

Being closest to her, Bai Yanliang felt it even more keenly.

He knew there was something abnormal about Xu Zhifei, but he never expected her anomaly to be to such an extent!

The biting cold aura penetrated Bai Yanliang’s skin; it wasn’t a physical coldness but the same sinister chill as that of a fierce ghost.

Without the emotion of fear, Bai Yanliang’s body instinctively rejected Xu Zhifei; his body...didn’t want her close.

However, what’s even stranger was that the wound on Xu Zhifei’s shoulder had already healed completely.

For a moment, Bai Yanliang found himself unable to say any words of refusal.

"Alright."

Bai Yanliang nodded in agreement.

Then, he looked back at Yu Wenxuan and said, "Look after Song Que."

Yu Wenxuan, who seemed a bit absent-minded, glanced at Song Que almost imperceptibly, without saying a word.

But Song Que instantly widened his eyes and said, "I’m not so far gone that I need taking care of by him!"

At this, Yu Wenxuan smiled and said, "I haven’t agreed yet."

Ignoring these two, Bai Yanliang’s instructions served two purposes: to remind Yu Wenxuan that now is not the time to be distracted, and to keep an eye on...Yu Sheng.

The one who truly needed looking after was not Song Que, but Yu Sheng beside him.

This Yu Sheng was very peculiar.

In the past, as long as Yu Sheng appeared in the same space as him, Bai Yanliang always felt Yu Sheng’s gaze upon him.

He tried to understand the meaning of that gaze, but eventually gave up.

This time, Yu Sheng’s gaze never once turned to him; instead, he kept looking at the sea surface where...Gu Pingsheng was reflected.

He hoped there would be no internal accidents, but he had to plunge into the sea to find the key and the door. For now, he could only entrust the matters on the sea surface to Yu Wenxuan.

"Hoo..."

With a gentle exhale, Xu Zhifei suddenly grabbed his hand.

"Don’t let go."

Xu Zhifei’s voice was as cold as a block of ice.

The chilled aura like a cold current penetrated Bai Yanliang’s body through their clasped hands.

In an instant, Bai Yanliang seemed to hear numerous fierce ghosts wailing beside his ears, the non-human aura climbing to his pounding heart, slowing his heartbeat...

Xu Zhifei’s secret was more astounding than he anticipated.

"Alright."

Bai Yanliang nodded.

The two stood at the edge of the disappearing ship and leapt into the air.

"Splash——"

Under the pale moonlight, two figures plunged into the dark and deep sea, instantly shattering the moon’s reflection on the sea surface.

The icy seawater immediately wrapped around Bai Yanliang’s entire body.

But colder than the seawater was Xu Zhifei’s hand.

She held Bai Yanliang’s hand and suddenly dove deeper.

Bai Yanliang was pulled straight into the sea by her.

As the figures of the two disappeared from the sea, the expressions of the four people standing on the ship varied.

Yu Wenxuan glanced down at the pendant in his hand, then placed it back in his arms.

Bai Yanliang’s meaning was clear to him.

The appearance of this crystal pendant had only two possibilities.

One, his memory had been altered, and the pendant was a fabricated power of a ghost.

But what would be the purpose of altering his memory? There wouldn’t be much meaning in doing this to just one person.

The second possibility...is that this event truly happened.

That is to say, this Miss Lin Xiaohui did indeed meet him when he was a child, but she doesn’t remember it, and at this moment, the crystal pendant is still with Lin Xiaohui.

The event of Lin Xiaohui meeting the young Yu Wenxuan had not yet occurred.

The effect has appeared, yet the cause has not generated.

But this chaotic logic revealed a clear answer to Bai Yanliang—that this sea area, or rather, this Fog Gathering event, will bring about actions that can truly traverse time and space.

Which means the present can affect the past, and the span of this effect is at least ten years...

And ten years ago, it was the case involving Bai Yanren, and also the time when Bai Yanliang was captured and committed to a mental institution.

The reason Bai Yanliang was so urgent and reckless in diving into the sea was not merely because of some "extra" emotion in his heart.

Perhaps...he wasn’t even aware, he was desperately wanting to see the "truth" of those years.

Yu Wenxuan quietly stood in place.

He suddenly looked at Lin Xiaohui and asked, "Remember this, soon all of us might fall into the sea."

Lin Xiaohui looked at Yu Wenxuan in confusion, "What?"

Yu Wenxuan approached Lin Xiaohui’s ear and told her, "You’ll see a little boy being bullied, he fights back, but the teacher stops him; he’s perplexed and confused."

"When you see him, remember to tell him..."

Yu Wenxuan lowered his eyes:

"Fight back, you did nothing wrong, you only made one mistake..."

"Next time you act, don’t let anyone discover it."