Frightening Joke: Above the Mist

Actually, the voice on the radio hasn't changed at all.

What has truly changed is everyone's ears.

In Ye City, almost everyone heard this voice; it resounded directly by each person's ear.

For ordinary people, upon first hearing this voice, the vast majority would think they were just daydreaming and would doubt the authenticity of the sound.

But some people would definitely not doubt it...

Among them was Bai Yanliang, who had just returned from the inner world of the Dark Abyss.

His heart nearly skipped a beat upon hearing this voice because... this voice was actually... his brother!

Although cold to the point of being almost inhuman, the voice was indeed Bai Yanren's! He couldn't be mistaken...

Plus, Zhou Tian mentioned earlier that his brother had already come out of the narrow space world and had taken the life of the red spider lily.

So then...

Was this rain caused by his brother?

What did those words mean...

Escape the Blood Rain.

This way of speaking was somewhat like the blood letter escape route given by Fog Gathering.

Brother, could it really be that you are...

At this moment, Bai Yanliang's phone suddenly rang.

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The pedestrians on the street were startled by the sudden thunder.

Then came the eerie men's voice at their ears.

Indeed, not many people took that man's words seriously; the majority thought they were just tired and starting to hallucinate.

But as if to confirm the man's words, the thunder quickly urged torrential rain to pour down, and the ground soon splashed up a layer of misty white.

"What kind of ghost weather is this, it just rains without warning."

The rain pooled into rivers, and logically, the drainage system in Ye City is very complete, and there hasn't been flooding for many years. Yet, this time, for some reason, shortly after the rain started, both the roadway and sidewalks accumulated a lot of water, visibly forming small rivers.

The cars on the road were stuck in a deadlock, honking their horns, and although the traffic police promptly arrived at the scene, they still couldn't sort out this headache-inducing situation.

Pedestrians fared no better, as the torrential rain and thunder were accompanied by a strong wind.

The bean-sized raindrops, intensified by the winds blowing through gaps between high-rise buildings, hit people painfully, preventing them from opening their eyes too wide.

In fact, even if they opened their eyes completely, they could hardly discern directions anyway.

This torrential storm came too suddenly, and the dense curtain of rain turned the already chaotic city into a maze, rendering anyone outside almost immobile.

"What is the Meteorological Department doing? Didn't they say it would be clear today?"

"Who knows... If they had forecasted even a cloudy day yesterday, I would have brought an umbrella..."

"It's weird, when it thundered just now, I glanced at the sky; although it was dark and gloomy, there wasn't any rain cloud that would justify this level of downpour..."

The pedestrians sheltering from the rain under the eaves discussed in confusion when suddenly, a red lightning bolt as thick as a bowl's mouth flashed by, followed by a deafening crash that made the glass on the neighboring high-rise tremble violently.

"Wow, that was some thunder!"

"Did you see that? The red lightning!"

At the same time, others who wanted to speak suddenly froze.

They rubbed their eyes frantically and finally, confirming they weren't seeing things, showed shocked expressions, "This rain... why does it seem... red?"

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Endless red raindrops poured densely from the sky; this moment, the sky seemed like a giant with its abdomen split open, a gaping wound continuously bleeding.

The eerie scene made the previously considered "hallucination" of the man's voice in their ears re-emerge in their minds.

"Escape... the Blood Rain."

The wind turned colder than before.

In the air, there was not only a moist smell but also a faint and elusive... scent of blood.

Moreover, this smell of blood was continually intensifying.

Streets, ground, treetops, streetlights, buildings... Everything touched by the rain seemed to have lost its color and became... somewhat faded?

This was really hard to describe, just like having two oranges in front of you, both appearing the same at first glance, yet you could tell at a glance which one was "fresher."

"Did you all... just hear a voice by your ear?"

Someone suddenly asked.

"You heard it too?"

Everyone sheltering under the roof turned pale.

If only one person heard it, it could be explained away as auditory hallucination, but now, everyone heard it.

And at this moment, within everyone's field of vision, was all blood-colored rain.

Was it necessary for them to report now when everything within sight was blood rain.

Even the sky, semmingly having turned blood red at some unknown time, left each face devoid of previous annoyance or depression, replaced by horror, unease, and rapidly spreading... fear.

"No... it will be fine, I've even seen news before where fish and shrimp fell during the rain, it's very... normal."

Someone attempted to use science to explain the phenomenon but the explanation seemed pale, as after all... in addition to the Blood Rain, the voice of the man that everyone heard was also at the peak of eeriness.

He urged us to escape the Blood Rain.

Escape?

How to escape?

Does it mean not getting hit by the rain?

But, how is that possible, this rain was enormous, even trying to avoid it would still inevitably get splashed a bit.

Only those who stayed indoors from the beginning might completely avoid the rain.

"Could it be that the sky is red, so the rainwater is being reflected red?"

Someone suddenly said.

Upon these words, someone immediately stretched out a hand from the eave and collected a bit of rainwater back.

Clearly, he feared the Blood-colored Rain might be unusual and dared not scoop too much.

Everyone around peeked curiously at the water in his palm.

In his palm, the rainwater was indeed a bloody red!

Just then, amid the pattering rain, came a sudden scream.

That scream was shrill and desperate, sending shivers down everyone's spines, and they turned their heads toward the depth of the rain curtain.

Under the curtain of red rain, a human silhouette stood still.

However, under the purging of the Blood Rain, that human silhouette shockingly began to "melt" like a snowman!

From the head, they watched as that "person" gradually "collapsed."

From the moment it screamed to its complete disappearance in the rain took less than thirty seconds...

Panic, fear, even uncontrollable despair surged from within.

"Ah!!!"

A scream erupted from those around sheltering from the rain.

They looked at the person, only to find he was staring at the sidewalk by his feet, trembling all over.

Because they stood under the eave which was slightly elevated, the sidewalk's surface had turned into a small stream, they were temporarily fine.

But looking down, they all felt a chill.

Eyeballs, fingers, various organs...

Piecemeal body parts floated in the bloody water.

"What... what on earth... is going on here?"