Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 372: Seize

Chapter 372: Chapter 372: Seize

Jiangbei Branch.

"Captain Yang, you finally returned! Things have blown up!"

Tang Guo rushed forward and anxiously said.

"Have you found Teacher Bai?"

This sudden question from Tang Guo made Yang Wanlong snap back to his senses.

"I didn’t go looking for Bai Yanliang."

As soon as he spoke, he realized his voice was unexpectedly hoarse.

"Huh?" Tang Guo was left stunned.

Yang Wanlong lowered his head and walked past her.

At this time, Lin Wan hurriedly came over, "Captain Yang, there’s a letter for you."

"For me?" Yang Wanlong took the letter. It wasn’t signed, just had his name, Yang Wanlong, written on the envelope.

In this era, the only thing done through letters would be anonymous reporting. However... the handwriting on those three characters seemed familiar to Yang Wanlong.

Although it was definitely not the right time to deal with a report letter now, Yang Wanlong’s professional ethics still compelled him to open the envelope.

However, upon seeing the words inside, Yang Wanlong’s expression immediately changed.

"You, come with me!"

Yang Wanlong casually pointed at a few people, including Tang Guo and Lin Wan.

"Bring your guns, load them fully with bullets!"

Though unsure what was happening, those called upon quickly responded to Yang Wanlong.

Then, led by Yang Wanlong, the group headed straight to the forensic office!

"Don’t move!"

Yang Wanlong kicked open the door to the forensic office.

The few forensic doctors inside looked at Yang Wanlong in bewilderment, unsure of what was causing this hot-headed captain to act so frantically.

"Captain Yang, what’s wrong?"

Yang Wanlong quickly scanned the office, his face turning grim, "Where is Gao Fei?"

"Gao Fei? Didn’t he take a leave yesterday?" answered an elderly forensic doctor nearly fifty years old.

"Come with me!"

Yang Wanlong quickly turned around, gave a shout, and ran out.

He couldn’t afford not to be urgent.

Ever since seeing his own name on the envelope, he was struck by a sense of familiarity and upon opening the letter, Yang Wanlong immediately realized where that sense came from.

This was Bai Yanren’s handwriting!

And the words Bai Yanren left weren’t many, just four:

Internal ghost, Gao Fei.

Yang Wanlong trusted Bai Yanren implicitly. Having faced life and death together in the past, he absolutely believed in Bai Yanren’s judgment.

So, even if the person Bai Yanren suspected was Gao Fei, someone Yang Wanlong had never doubted, he still chose to believe it.

Gao Fei... Gao Fei!

Yang Wanlong’s expression twisted, Why would you do this!

In Yang Wanlong’s heart, Gao Fei was a rare and excellent police officer; he greatly admired Gao Fei.

Yet, this very admiration at this moment was more hurtful than a sharp blade.

When Yang Wanlong’s group drove up to Gao Fei’s residence at last, that old house was already empty...

"Captain, we’re..."

Tang Guo didn’t dare to speak loudly. Yang Wanlong’s current aura was oppressively low and terrifying.

Yang Wanlong did not respond. He silently picked up a photo from Gao Fei’s room.

It was taken when Gao Fei had just joined the Jiangbei Branch.

The young man flashed a victory sign and smiled sweeter than anyone else.

A small sentence was written below the photo: In life, one must at least make two reckless attempts; once for love, and once for a dream!

Yang Wanlong slowly tightened his grip on the photo. Is this your dream?

"Gao Fei!"

The photo was suddenly crumpled, squeezed into a ball in Yang Wanlong’s palm.

"Captain! There seems to be something on the back of the photo!"

Tang Guo exclaimed in surprise.

Upon hearing this, Yang Wanlong carefully unfolded the photo, laid it on the table, and flipped it over.

"East Suburb Water Factory."

Yang Wanlong’s eyes suddenly lit up, "Let’s go, to the East Suburb!"

"Wait!" Lin Wan stepped forward, carefully looking at the words left on the back of the photo, and frowned, "Could it be a trap?"

"Officer Lin," Yang Wanlong looked at Lin Wan, "I know them better than you. Gao Fei can still be saved. If we’re any later, it will truly be over."

Facing Yang Wanlong’s earnest gaze, Lin Wan finally chose to step aside.

"Everyone get ready!"

"Only nine people are needed here, the rest return to the station immediately!"

"Yes!"

...

At the bridgehead.

To Wu Kuifeng, the woman calling herself the red spider lily and Liang Yan merely stood silently for a second or two.

Then... Liang Yan collapsed backward.

Simultaneously, his young face swiftly became marked with decaying flesh, and Liang Yan struggled desperately, continually scratching his face with his fingernails.

"Itchy... so itchy... ah!!!"

Strips of rot were clawed off his face with his own hands.

In no time, Liang Yan turned into a man covered in blood.

"I’ll take this then." The red spider lily opened her eyes, twisted her waist as she approached Liang Yan, and took a... blood-red key from his hand.

"You have grown foolish, Prison Master." The red spider lily looked down on Liang Yan with a mocking tone, "If you still had your decisiveness from ten years ago, how could you not see the path I left?"

"You’ve gone soft; you know the path of escape is with them. But ten years ago, you killed them once, and now... you couldn’t bring yourself to kill them again, right?"

Liang Yan didn’t speak, nor could he speak; he was suffering a terrifying backlash from fierce ghosts and was about to lose his life.

He could hear the red spider lily’s voice, she was right.

He had already killed them once ten years ago...

There was a saying among the Eight Prisons.

The mind reader butcher Liang Buyan, without any weaknesses, slaughtered all in the Netherworld Slaughter Prison with his own hands.

Only he knows... on that last mission, he didn’t kill anyone.

Liang Yan will forever remember that day, always remembering the way everyone faced death calmly.

"You’re smarter than us, Liang Buyan."

"Stay alive, save the world, kid!"

"Don’t look at me like that, if not for the terminal illness, there’s no way I’d give the Prison Master key to you!"

"Brother Liang, goodbye..."

Memories gradually surged from the depths of his mind, blurring Liang Yan’s vision.

There was blood and tears.

"I’m sorry... I didn’t wait for that day..."

"Bai Yanren delayed it for ten years with his life, but I... couldn’t guard the key..."

"I’m sorry..."

The flesh all over Liang Yan quickly dried up, while his face was long destroyed by himself.

Wu Kuifeng blankly watched everything before him, his tall body trembled uncontrollably...

"I’ll kill you, you witch!"

"What?" The red spider lily raised her gun, tilting her head with a gesture as if she couldn’t hear clearly.

"Bang——"

A gunshot rang out.

The bullet flew across, hitting Wu Kuifeng’s brow, and exited through the back of his head, taking with it a huge clump of cloudy brains.

Wu Kuifeng’s eyes widened with anger, but his pupils quickly dimmed as he fell beside Liang Yan.

"Tsk, so dirty." The red spider lily glanced at them disdainfully, the blood from their two bodies already stained the ground red.

She took out her phone and pressed a button.

"Recovery complete, boss."

"Alright, I’m coming back now."

The red spider lily hung up the phone, whistling as she casually opened the car door.

But at this moment, her car window slowly rolled down on its own!

A long-haired man in a black trench coat revealed a pair of eyes, half placid, half insane.

She stiffened and looked at him in disbelief:

"Bai Yanren..."