Chapter 266 Gallery
Chapter 266 Gallery

"What to eat?"

Bai Yanliang put aside his thoughts and asked casually.

Xu Zhifei didn't answer for a long time. When Bai Yanliang looked at her, he found that she was staring at the river without blinking, a little absent-minded.

Xu Zhifei doesn't like water.

Even the shallowest water could make her feel suffocated.

In fact, she was not very afraid of water, but during a mission once, Xu Zhifei almost drowned in the water. Since then, she particularly disliked water.

Although Bai Yanliang didn't know that Xu Zhifei didn't like water, he could sense the weirdness of the atmosphere.

Xu Zhifei had been staring at the river for quite some time without moving his eyelids. Even if he was distracted, there should be a limit.

Could it be... Jiang?

Bai Yanliang followed Xu Zhifei's gaze and looked towards the river.

Apart from the river water rippling in the breeze, Bai Yanliang did not notice anything unusual.

But at this moment.

An unusually cold breeze from the river blew over, giving Bai Yanliang goose bumps.

The surroundings suddenly became very quiet, unusually quiet.

The wind stopped, the clouds stopped, and the silence was so unsettling.

This is... the world in the key!
Someone launched an attack!
Bai Yanliang immediately remembered the encounter between him and Feng Xiuxue in front of the coffee shop.

The atmosphere now is exactly the same as that time!
Could it be that... Bai Yanliang gently touched Xu Zhifei, and suddenly, the world in front of his eyes spun and the scene changed drastically.

The sounds of cars, honking horns, and pedestrians walking hurriedly.

Bai Yanliang suddenly appeared in a strange city, a strange place.

Fortunately, there was a familiar person in front of him.

Xu Zhifei was standing there, looking up at something.

Bai Yanliang looked in the direction she was looking at, and saw that the building in front of him was actually a gallery...

"Rouge Gallery."

Bai Yanliang whispered its name.

Xu Zhifei turned around and looked at him, "He came for me."

Bai Yanliang raised his eyebrows, "What do you mean?"

Xu Zhifei glanced around: "The key is about to decay. This is the last struggle of a dying man."

Bai Yanliang actually saw a hint of apology in Xu Zhifei's cold eyes: "He sensed my key. He had to do this to survive."

From Xu Zhifei's statement, Bai Yanliang unexpectedly got a piece of information, that is... she seemed... not to sense that he already had a key on him.

Is this what’s special about that blood-red key?

Or maybe Xu Zhifei had already sensed it but just didn't say anything.

Bai Yanliang did not dwell on this issue too much. Judging from the current situation, this seemed to be another guy who was holding a key and was about to die. He made a desperate attempt before dying. He sensed Xu Zhifei's key, so he took the initiative and dragged her into the key world.

Bai Yanliang was not unfamiliar with this kind of thing. He and Feng Xiuxue encountered the same thing last time.

However, Feng Xiuxue did not say why that person died.

And this time, Xu Zhifei mentioned a piece of information - the key is about to decay.

Are keys perishable?
The decay of a key seems to take the life of the key holder with it. What has happened to cause the key to begin to decay?

Bai Yanliang doesn't know.

He also ignored Xu Zhifei's unreasonable apology.

He didn't think that the other party was targeting her. Was it possible that this guy was from the Abyss?

Bai Yanliang is now very clear that the people in the Abyss not only know him, but also his brother Bai Yanren.

The guy's remark "You're smarter than your brother" already made that clear.

While thinking, Bai Yanliang tried to walk behind him, trying to see if he could go somewhere else, but he failed.

Although it is called the world in the key, the actual range of activities is only the gallery in front of you.

The bustling crowd behind him seemed to be in another world. It seemed close at hand, but in fact it was out of reach. Bai Yanliang had not taken two steps before he hit the "air wall". It was obvious that unless he solved the mystery of the gallery, he would not be able to leave this hellhole.

And if either he or Xu Zhifei succeeds, it means that the desperado who set up this trap is close to death, and his evil spirit will kill him personally as the price for fooling "it".

With this thought in mind, Bai Yanliang took two steps forward and stood beside Xu Zhifei.

"If we solve it quickly, we'll still have time to eat."

Seeing that Bai Yanliang didn't seem to care about being "implicated" by him, Xu Zhifei turned his head and stopped talking.

The two men stepped forward and entered the gallery.

A young man in a sports shirt was standing at the door. When he saw Bai Yanliang and Xu Zhifei coming over, he behaved a little strangely.

"You are... a couple?"

They both shook their heads.

The young man breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes brightened. He walked over and said with a smile, "Can you take me with you? I don't dare to walk through this haunted house alone."

"Haunted house?"

Bai Yanliang looked at him with curiosity. "Doesn't it say outside that this is a gallery?"

"Hi..." The young man waved his hand and looked at Bai Yanliang with a smile, "You are from outside the city, right? This Rouge Gallery is the most popular haunted house in Ancheng recently. It's very scary!"

is that so……

Bai Yanliang and Xu Zhifei exchanged glances.

Bai Yanliang glanced at the young man thoughtfully. He knew that this was a very scary haunted house, but he dared to come here alone. It seemed that he was quite brave...

But then again, is there really someone in this world who would go to a haunted house?
Bai Yanliang looked at him curiously: "Can you tell me what day it is today?"

The young man looked at him in confusion and said, "May 20th, what's wrong?"

Then he muttered to himself: Could it be that he is not from another place, but an alien?

As he said that, he secretly glanced at Bai Yanliang and Xu Zhifei again. They came to the haunted house together on a day like this, but they were not a couple. Could they be a cheating couple?
After hearing his words, Bai Yanliang had other ideas.

On May 20th, he came to visit the haunted house alone... and judging from the current situation, he was definitely going to run into a ghost. Although he knew that the other party was just a fragment of something that had happened in the past world, or a projection, Bai Yanliang still couldn't help but think in his heart: This person is so pitiful...

"Then... can you introduce this place to us?" Based on the principle of not wasting time, Bai Yanliang asked with a smile: "She and I are tourists from out of town. Before we came in, we thought this was a gallery, but we didn't expect it to be a haunted house."

“Tsk… it’s not wrong to call it a gallery.” The young man said anxiously, “In fact, until the end of last month, this was indeed a gallery. But at the beginning of this month, the owner suddenly transformed it into a haunted house. Unexpectedly, it became extremely popular. Now it’s a hot topic in the whole city.”

The young man's eyes were shining with excitement: "Actually, I don't know the details. This is my first time here. I hope it can scare me enough!"

Bai Yanliang raised his head and glanced into the depths of the gallery. A cold and eerie aura had condensed into something substantial.

It seems... this young man will not be disappointed.

(End of this chapter)