Frightening Joke: Above the Mist-Chapter 329: Reality

The rain slowly stopped.

The sky was gradually clearing up.

The villa in front of them was disappearing at a terrifying speed...

At the same time, the wounds on Song Que and Bai Yanliang were also vanishing.

"We are returning to the real world."

Song Que’s voice carried a hint of melancholy.

He had always thought he wouldn’t mourn for anyone, not even himself.

But Qi Nian, this girl whom he always thought a bit foolish, unsettled his heart.

From her first mission in Fog Gathering, she was saving people.

Until now, during her last mission, even when she was about to become a ghost, she was still saving people...

Bai Yanliang lifted his head, staring blankly at the villa swiftly disappearing before his eyes.

Suddenly, his body became stiff.

Just now!

Something lightly brushed against his lips!

"It was a finger..."

Qi Nian’s voice, filled with a girl’s playfulness and shyness, whispered into Bai Yanliang’s ear.

"Qi Nian!"

Bai Yanliang’s accelerating heartbeat was hard to restrain as he looked at every corner of the villa.

However, the next moment... the villa before his eyes completely vanished...

Bai Yanliang’s arm, Song Que’s palm, all their wounds healed, even the dirt on their bodies disappeared without a trace.

Time shifted from the past back to reality.

The three stood by a roadside, not far behind them was their car, safely parked.

The villa... had completely disappeared.

Along with it, a girl vanished too.

...

Qingyi Street.

Gao Fei opened the gate to his courtyard, glanced around, and picked up his phone.

"He... came back."

"What’s wrong, feeling guilty?"

The voice on the other end of the phone carried a teasing tone.

"Of course not." Though knowing the person couldn’t see, Gao Fei still instinctively shook his head, "I know I’m doing the right thing."

"That’s it." The man’s voice turned serious, "Even if criticized by everyone, never doubt our path, what we do... is immensely noble."

"..."

Gao Fei hung up the phone, gazing blankly at the locust tree in the corner of the courtyard.

Noble, huh...

...

Du Shangjing died.

Returning to reality, Bai Yanliang and the others immediately learned this news.

Though anticipated, when the news of his death truly arrived, it still left people sighing.

The remaining seven sat in a cafe, speaking of an unknowable future.

"You spent a whole day and night on this mission. During this day, I tried to trace your whereabouts, but both you and your car vanished into thin air on that road," Gu Pingsheng said.

Compared to the past, he spoke a bit more, perhaps because fewer people pushed his sense of urgency stronger.

"Do you know what’s going on?"

Gu Pingsheng and the others looked at Bai Yanliang and his group, eager to hear their perspective.

Song Que said, "Fog Gathering was affected; the mission start time was wrong. Luckily, we went a day early; otherwise, we’d have ended up like Du Shangjing."

"Starting with the Hidden Task, the execution time of missions became real-time, it’s a kind of beguilement. When we reach the mission location, we’re still sent back to the past world, but the process is simpler and more hidden," Song Que shared his thoughts, "Fog Gathering’s power began to weaken from that point."

"Gate." Yu Wenxuan suddenly said a word.

"You mean... that huge gate appearing in Fog Gathering’s void?"

"Fog Gathering’s ’power’ weakened more precisely after that gate appeared," Yu Wenxuan stroked his chin, "However, there’s something I’ve always been puzzled by."

Having said that, he looked at Bai Yanliang, "Let’s be blunt, Bai Yanliang, what exactly is special about you?"

With those words, everyone’s eyes focused on the absent-minded Bai Yanliang.

From the beginning of the gathering until now, he hadn’t said a word, quietly watching the view outside after ordering a glass of white water, lost in thought.

"Ever since you entered Fog Gathering, you’ve been involved in every mission. Because of you, Fog Gathering even changed the rules and canceled the resentful’s ’rewards’, turning everyone into a resentful," Yu Wenxuan stared at him, "You once told me about a dream, but about you, I know nothing."

Facing everyone’s gaze, Bai Yanliang remained unresponsive.

Not until Song Que waved a hand in front of him did he snap back to reality.

"Is it my turn?" he looked at everyone, speaking up.

He hadn’t been listening to what the others were saying.

Yu Wenxuan instead smiled, "Good, I hope you can tell something that interests me."

Bai Yanliang nodded, seemingly unaware of the threat in Yu Wenxuan’s words.

He held onto his cup, veins bulging on the back of his hand, speaking softly, "I want to make all the ghosts disappear."

With those words, among the six watching him, two people’s gazes immediately changed slightly.

Instead, Yu Wenxuan’s interest was genuinely piqued by his claim, "Oh? How do you plan to do that?"

Bai Yanliang didn’t speak but extended two fingers.

He leaned against his seat, his gaze sweeping over each of them.

"Two things. First, there’s an organization named Dark Abyss watching us from the shadows. I’ve currently found two of their bases, Xiaqiao Street and Ghost Head Mountain. Shangyuan Village, Zhongyuan Village, and Lower Yuan Village are traps they set up. I want to fight back."

"Second, the previous mission was influenced by some force, causing errors in Fog Gathering’s task information. What about this time?"

As his words fell, Feng Xiuxue and the others’ expressions changed.

Indeed, the task named "Witness", might it have already begun?

"Let’s go quickly!" Feng Xiuxue glanced at them.

The executors of the Witness task were Feng Xiuxue, Yu Wenxuan, Yu Sheng, Gu Pingsheng, and Bai Yanliang.

Apart from feeling that Yu Sheng wasn’t quite useful, the other three were relatively reliable, though to some extent, one must still be cautious of Yu Wenxuan.

"No need." Bai Yanliang stopped her, "Even if the date was moved up, the time won’t be. As long as we get to Qingyi Street before midnight, there’ll be no trouble."

"What I mainly want to talk about is still the first matter." Bai Yanliang’s gaze swept over everyone, "Within Fog Gathering, there’s Dark Abyss’s eyes."

With those words, Bai Yanliang’s gaze immediately fell on everyone’s face.

As he expected, except for Xu Zhifei, everyone first looked at Yu Sheng.

Yu Sheng became a bit flustered, waving her hands, "I... really don’t know..."

"Your brother?" Feng Xiuxue asked.

Yu Sheng shook her head blankly, "I... really can’t remember having a brother."

"Who from your family is there now?" Bai Yanliang had been to Yu Sheng and Ren Wudao’s place, knowing that the siblings weren’t living with other relatives.

Hearing Bai Yanliang’s question, Yu Sheng shook her head, "Just... me alone."

Suddenly, as if she remembered something, she spoke, "Oh right, there’s also A You!"

"Who is A You?" Bai Yanliang inquired.

Yu Sheng lowered her head, avoiding Bai Yanliang’s gaze, her voice slightly aggrieved, "A You, he says he’s the butler."

Butler...

Bai Yanliang took a sip of water from his cup.

Evidently, that A You was Ren Wudao.

It’s time to meet him.

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