Chapter 219 Future
Chapter 219 The Future

Lying on the bed, Bai Yanliang never closed his eyes.

The little black cat curled up beside the pillow, seemingly looking at him, and was not asleep either.

In fact, the sudden decision to leave was not because he was angry.

But it was because... Yang Wanlong's secret was discovered by Bai Yanliang.

There is no love or hate in the world without reason.

But there was one thing about Yang Wanlong that made Bai Yanliang extremely confused.

That is... Yang Wanlong's trust in him.

According to Yang Wanlong, he believed that Bai Yanliang was not the real murderer of Bai Yanren because he had witnessed a horrific scene as if he was possessed by a ghost when he was young. But is the truth really as he said?

This question has always remained in Bai Yanliang's heart.

Even if Yang Wanlong did not lie about this matter, this should not be the source of his trust in Bai Yanliang.

In Bai Yanliang's opinion, Yang Wanlong's kindness to him was more like a kind of compensation, a kind of apology...

He is actually a person with a very bad temper, but every time he faces Bai Yanliang, he can always control his emotions quickly.

If the two men didn't look alike at all, Bai Yanliang would even suspect that he was his father whom he had never met.

This kind of doubt has always existed and cannot be explained by the word "good person" at all.

Until... this incident occurred.

The puppet was obviously targeting himself and Yang Wanlong.

If... it was only directed at himself, Bai Yanliang could still understand it.

After all, he had always had a key left by Yanren on him, and he had already known from various channels that there were some people in the dark who wanted to seize his key.

Even Feng Xiuxue and Xun Weimo were people who wanted to get his key.

It's just that these two people's methods are more gentle.

By means of framing others, the puppet can easily make Bai Yanliang lose the trust and protection of the police.

This is understandable.

But it was a fake bomb hidden in the training hospital.

And a real bomb tied to Yang Zhirong, but it cannot be explained.

Yang Zhirong and Yang Yiyi are both relatives of Yang Wanlong. The puppet's purpose is very clear. He wants to let Yang Wanlong taste the feeling of losing his loved ones.

Why would he do this? Does he know Yang Wanlong?
This special method of revenge is just like when Yang Wanlong once killed the puppet's relatives.

All kinds of unreasonable things are connected to each other, coupled with Bai Yanliang's speculation.

He came to an extremely surprising conclusion.

Yang Wanlong, puppet, Bai Yanren, were members of the same "Mist Group" ten years ago.

It's even possible that the three of them once had a very good relationship.

Of course, maybe it's not just the three of them. The organization called Abyss has been committing various crimes. This is not simply to vent abnormal emotions and satisfy self-pleasure. They have a purpose.

What can they gain through committing horrific and bizarre crimes?

Bai Yanliang also had some guesses about this.

Both Xun Weimo and Xu Zhifei experienced abnormally rapid aging. The fundamental reason for this was that they had used some power of the key.

In Bai Yanliang's speculation, a key should have two abilities.

A kind of ability, like that of Xun Weimo and Xu Zhifei, which will cause rapid aging after use, and must be replenished by eroding ghosts to recover. Each key to this power seems to be different.

The other kind was the power used by the person whom Bai Yanliang and Feng Xiuxue met at that time, the person whom Feng Xiuxue called a desperado. That kind of power could open a world, build a world, and take the life of the other party, but the price of failure... was an extremely terrible death. Bai Yanliang remembered that when that person died, his mouth was filled with dense long hair, which was pulled out of his stomach continuously. It looked like... he was killed by the backlash of the ghost in the key "world".

The ability used by the people of the abyss should be the first one. After using it, it will greatly consume his own lifespan. If he does not replenish it with eroding ghosts, he will soon die of old age.

But… “Ghosts” are not so easy to obtain, but they can still use the first ability of the key without any worries.

Therefore, Bai Yanliang guessed that group of people should have mastered some method of "creating" ghosts.

Although it sounds incredible, considering the strange cases and twisted shadows that have happened these days, this is the most reasonable speculation.

They regard "ghosts" as consumables, so they need to constantly create deaths and "ghosts" to support their first power of using the key.

But...why do they have to study the keys left behind by others?
Could it be that the first ability of the Research Key is amazing?
That's very likely.

But unfortunately, Bai Yanliang didn't know how to use the power of the key, and he had already promised Xun Weimo that the key now belonged to Xun Weimo.

Bai Yanliang’s biggest doubt is the purpose of their collecting keys.

Holding multiple keys seems to be like something terrible is going to happen.

What exactly it is cannot be speculated at this moment.

In short, Bai Yanliang’s decision now is to hide in the dark and then... find a way to get a key of his own.

The best way is undoubtedly to be the only one alive when the fog ends.

This was exactly the scenario Xu Zhifei had dreamed of. If nothing unexpected had happened, Bai Yanliang would really be the only one to survive.

And everyone else will die.

Are they all going to... die?
Figures flashed through Bai Yanliang's mind.

Li Mu, Yu Sheng, Song Que, Du Shangjing, Feng Xiuxue, Li Yuejun, Gu Pingsheng, Qi Nian, Jiang Li, Yu Wenxuan...

Some are friends for life, while others are just acquaintances.

If the future develops as Xu Zhifei dreamed, none of these people will survive.

But... from the information we have obtained so far, among these people, at least two of them are not experiencing the end of "Fog Collection" for the first time.

The first one was Feng Xiuxue, who told Bai Yanliang very frankly that she was the winner of the last round of the game.

This is a very interesting statement. It seems that in her last experience, that group of people treated all of this as a game, and they were the players. The only difference is that the price of failure in the game is... life.

The other one is Xu Zhifei.

Originally, Bai Yanliang thought that her ability to predict dreams was really an innate talent.

But now it seems that should be the first ability of the key she possesses.

In other words, this was not her first time entering the "Fog Collection".

Or there is another possibility.

Like Bai Yanliang, she got a key from somewhere, but... she also got the method to use the key.

Which one is the answer, we will know only in the future.

Bai Yanliang withdrew his thoughts and suddenly felt the little black cat's tail gently brushing against him.

He gently touched its head and said, "I'm fine."

Yes...it's okay.

Until tomorrow comes, no one knows what the future will be like.

All Bai Yanliang has and can do is to stay calm enough to survive in this cruel and terrifying world.

Until the day when everything becomes clear.

　New volume tomorrow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)