Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 235 Moonlight

Chapter 235: Chapter 235 Moonlight

The three of them, including Yu Wenxuan, held their breath, nervously listening to the sounds outside the alley.

Yu Wenxuan quietly grasped a dagger in his hand, leaning against the wall.

This time... Bai Yanliang guessed correctly.

However, even though he didn’t guess the ghost’s intentions right, Yu Wenxuan didn’t regret his decision at all.

If time could go back, and he had to choose again, he would still choose the path on the left.

If he chose the right path... then he wouldn’t be Yu Wenxuan.

Outside the alley.

In the dark dirt road, an eerie figure crawled on the ground, approaching steadily.

A twisted shadow was cast on the wall; the three of them could clearly see that the thing on the ground seemed to be lifting its head, looking at the old house.

Wait... a shadow?!

Yu Wenxuan’s face changed, he gripped the dagger tightly and looked down immediately.

A pale moonlight had already shone over, fortunately, they were hiding behind the old house, the moon was currently at the side of the house, unable to reach...

Damn it!

Yu Wenxuan’s expression turned unusually grim.

The light had already reached, it touched the tip of Lu Guo’s toe, who was hiding at the edge!

Seeing the shadow on the wall, Jiang Li realized immediately that this was big trouble.

Most of the surrounding darkness was driven away; the cold light shining towards the valley was clearly the moon!

The decryption clearly said... Mountain Moon Hiding... absolutely, do not let the moonlight touch you...

Jiang Li suppressed her fear, adjusting her body, trying her best to stay in the dark, away from the moonlight.

However, when she looked down, she immediately noticed Lu Guo’s situation.

He was already under the moonlight!

However, Lu Guo seemed unaware as he scratched his neck, which had been itching for a while now.

Jiang Li, watching from behind, clearly saw a vague human face starting to grow where he was scratching!

Terrified, Jiang Li covered her mouth instantly, turning to Yu Wenxuan for help.

Just in time to see Yu Wenxuan quietly climbing over the wall.

Once Jiang Li noticed him, Yu Wenxuan immediately gestured for silence and then extended his hand to her.

Thankfully, the wall they were leaning against was shorter than the old house, otherwise, they would have been exposed to moonlight while climbing.

Yu Wenxuan made no noise climbing over, but when Jiang Li climbed with his help, the sound of her feet hitting the wall was heard.

One was Lu Guo, and the other... was that ghostly thing crawling on the ground.

It noticeably glanced in that direction, and then... began to move.

Lu Guo turned around, seeing Jiang Li and Yu Wenxuan already on the wall, immediately became anxious, feeling a twinge of resentment.

Why didn’t they tell me about climbing the wall to escape?

Yet, the itching on his body and face suddenly intensified.

His hands kept scratching his arms, neck, and face...

"Hey... give me a hand!"

Lu Guo spoke in a low tone.

Yet, as he reached out to Yu Wenxuan and Jiang Li, he froze in place.

As he lifted his loose sleeve, it slipped.

Revealing a dense array of human faces on his arm!

Lu Guo’s pupils shrank, hurriedly pulling up his clothes and looking down.

His stomach, arms, legs, neck... his entire body was covered with an ominous mass of human faces!

Lu Guo’s face went deathly pale, desperately looking up at Jiang Li and Yu Wenxuan, having no idea what had happened to him.

Jiang Li’s eyes flickered with fear and unwillingness, but this time she took no action, simply followed Yu Wenxuan over the wall into the courtyard of the old house.

The disappearance of their silhouettes plunged Lu Guo into utter despair.

He couldn’t stop scratching, yet the itching would not cease.

Why... why is this happening?

Why me?

WHY!!!

Lu Guo’s anger, resentment, and despair gnawed relentlessly at his heart.

Unnoticed, the more negative emotions he harbored, the darker the hook jade in his pocket became...

By now, that eerie figure resembling Mrs. Wu had its footsteps approaching.

Lu Guo turned his head, and saw an old, grotesque head, wearing an eerie smile, emerging from the corner of the wall...

...

"Don’t look up, don’t look at the moon, head to that tree!"

As soon as the moonlight trickled out, Bai Yanliang pulled Xu Zhifei forward.

In the middle of this vast dam, there was a relatively large Yellow Juglans tree.

Though it couldn’t block the ghost’s view, it could shield them from the moonlight.

Bai Yanliang and Xu Zhifei had just hidden under the tree when the moon broke completely from the clouds.

Pale cold moonlight suddenly spilled from the sky, enveloping the entire Zhongyuan Village.

Bai Yanliang watched the surroundings, avoiding exposure to the moonlight.

However, there were gaps between the Yellow Juglans tree leaves; the only complete shield from the moonlight was the tree trunk.

But this tree trunk clearly couldn’t hide two people.

In a pinch, Bai Yanliang paid no mind to gender differences.

He pulled Xu Zhifei into his arms, hiding together behind the trunk.

On one side was the cold yet terrifying moonlight, on the other, the two held each other in the shadow of the tree trunk.

Though it seemed somewhat romantic, Xu Zhifei’s increasingly intense stench of death was no joke.

"Why didn’t you wear perfume?"

In such a situation, Bai Yanliang had the presence of mind to ask this question.

But, admittedly, the question effectively eased Xu Zhifei’s tension.

At least her grip on her waist wasn’t as forceful.

Now, Bai Yanliang and Xu Zhifei could barely move; they could only wait for the moon to be obscured by clouds again.

Under the moonlight’s glow, Bai Yanliang subtly adjusted their position, gradually sensing something unusual.

Even though he couldn’t see her, Bai Yanliang could feel Xu Zhifei’s cold body warming up.

Was she running a fever?

Bai Yanliang pondered it but couldn’t figure it out.

Though it didn’t seem important, his gaze traversed the rooftops made distinct by the moonlight, looking in another direction.

He wondered how the other three were doing now.

...

The situation for Yu Wenxuan and Jiang Li was quite bizarre.

Before climbing the wall into the courtyard, Jiang Li unintentionally made a noise that attracted the ghost.

And Lu Guo, who had been exposed to moonlight, had already begun his transformation.

Logically, by now Lu Guo should have encountered the ghost.

Yet strangely enough, the two of them, huddling in the old house’s courtyard, listening intently to the other side of the wall, heard nothing.

No footsteps, no screams, no cries of despair, nor the wails of a fierce ghost.

As if... the ghost and Lu Guo just faced off and then walked their separate ways.

Jiang Li’s forehead was drenched with sweat, the burden of abandoning a comrade weighed heavily on her conscience.

She knew well enough that Lu Guo, exposed to the moonlight, was beyond help, his body undergoing significant, frightening changes.

He... likely had already become a ghost.

Meanwhile, Yu Wenxuan’s gaze was locked onto the crack in the courtyard’s gate.

There seemed to be something lurking at the entrance of this seemingly deserted old house courtyard.