Chapter 111 Manifestation
And these shoes looked as if they had returned from hell, exuding a chilling killing intent.
However, the spiritual energy on them seemed to have weakened considerably, as if they had been in a fierce struggle with the red door?
Liu Haoyu came to the shrine and clasped his hands together, praying sincerely to the red embroidered shoes.
This scene completely confused Qin Liu.
“Why are you worshipping my shoes?”
As expected, the label of “perverted foot fetishist” for this man would never be removed from Qin Liu’s mind.
But Liu Haoyu had to explain (quibble).
“If it weren’t for these shoes, I wouldn’t be back now, of course I have to worship them.”
His tone was very sincere, and his attitude was very genuine.
Like a devout believer.
Provided he wasn’t worshipping shoes.
“I don’t believe you.”
Qin Liu could no longer stand it. She took the embroidered shoes from the shrine.
Although the shrine didn’t make her feel very comfortable, Liu Haoyu’s eyes, full of longing, frightened her even more.
“Tsk… what a shame.”
Liu Haoyu muttered regretfully.
Qin Liu, blushing, did not hear this.
After Qin Liu took back the embroidered shoes, they disappeared into the air, and Liu Haoyu could no longer see them.
But perhaps because they had been on the shrine for a long time, Liu Haoyu’s prayers could still earn Qin Liu merit.
Listening to the never-ending “Merit +1” echoing in her mind, Qin Liu could no longer hold back.
“If you want to burn incense and worship Buddha, find a real god to worship. I’m not a god.”
“As long as you wear white stockings, you are a god.”
“Get lost!”
Liu Haoyu’s wishful thinking was plastered all over Qin Liu’s face.
This little ghost had been worried that something had happened to Liu Haoyu. Now, it was all for nothing.
This man’s vitality was comparable to a cockroach. A mere fierce ghost was nothing to him; he could destroy it with a flick of his wrist.
She just needed to shout “666” from behind him.
After a while of bickering between the man and the ghost, Liu Haoyu wanted to find Qin Liu’s location.
But without getting close to death, he couldn’t see Qin Liu. So after searching for a while, Liu Haoyu could only roughly determine Qin Liu’s direction, but not her exact location.
“Speaking of which, Qin Liu, can you manifest?”
“No,” Qin Liu said, sitting on the bed and shaking her head. “At most, I can create some illusions to scare people, or enter someone’s dream to cause trouble. As for manifesting… I can’t. Even if I try my best, I can only create a blurred red shadow at best.”
When the first buyer of this house moved in, Qin Liu was quite happy, as she could finally have someone to talk to.
She tried to manifest and communicate with the other party. As soon as she appeared, the other party was almost scared into insanity.
So Qin Liu later suspected if she was so ugly that she drove people insane.
She later realized that no matter how hard she tried, in the eyes of others, she was just a strange and ethereal red shadow.
Imagine, in this dilapidated and grim place late at night, a floating red shadow appears…
It is indeed quite scary, isn’t it?
But by rights, it shouldn’t have scared someone into insanity.
In Qin Liu’s opinion, her later frightening methods were truly terrifying. Only when she met Liu Haoyu, who was not afraid of death, could she be considered to have no rivals and could scare anyone she wanted.
“Try it? Let me see.”
Liu Haoyu recalled that he had never really seen the appearance of the red shadow.
As soon as he said this, his backpack vibrated violently, and a certain black book was making strong protests.
Liu Haoyu was not afraid of death, but it was!
But because Qin Liu was present, it dared not write, so it could only use this method to try to make Liu Haoyu retract his words.
But unfortunately, Liu Haoyu had made up his mind.
“Come on.”
“Uh… don’t get scared and faint.”
Qin Liu did not forget the reaction of the buyer the first time she tried to manifest.
If Liu Haoyu had the same reaction, Qin Liu would really suspect if she was truly beyond ugly.
“Of course not, feel free to try.”
Liu Haoyu was mentally prepared.
Seeing Liu Haoyu gazing intently in her direction, Qin Liu took a deep breath and held her breath.
She didn’t actually know the specific steps for manifesting, but by intuition, she could probably complete it.
It was like a person picking up an apple with their hand; such things didn’t need to be taught.
At this moment, the room became extremely quiet.
The air stopped flowing.
Time seemed to slow down, with each second passing very slowly.
The candle flames that were originally burning in the room dimmed at this moment.
Immediately, an ice-cold sensation gradually spread from Liu Haoyu’s limbs to his entire body, and even the blood flowing through his heart felt ice-cold.
The black book in his backpack trembled even more violently. It wanted to run, but it couldn’t escape.
And Liu Haoyu’s body began to stiffen, as if he were frozen.
His thoughts began to numb.
His spirit began to dissipate.
He felt his body sinking into the mire of the abyss, as if countless hands from all directions were tearing at his body and squeezing his internal organs.
At this moment, Liu Haoyu felt as if he were constantly falling in the darkness… falling…
Until all the candles in the room were extinguished, and a terrifying red shadow appeared before him.
“Did you see me?”
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“Are you okay?! Don’t die!”
In a daze, Liu Haoyu felt as if something was constantly pushing his body, trying to shake him awake.
An ice-cold and soft little hand… was constantly slapping him?
Wasn’t this truly an opportunity for revenge?
But it was this hand that instantly pulled Liu Haoyu back from the ice-cold, dead abyss.
He felt as if he was resting his head on something soft, and there was a very smooth sensation on his neck?
Were these stockings?
Whose stockings were these?
Liu Haoyu suddenly opened his eyes and saw the girl’s delicate and cute little face above him.
The girl was so anxious that her eyes were teary, like an ant on a hot pan. Her little hand was still patting Liu Haoyu’s face.
“I’ll show you stockings! White ones! Don’t die!”
Hearing “white stockings,” Liu Haoyu finally came back to his senses.
He was… resting his head on Qin Liu’s lap.
When his peripheral vision swept to the side, as expected, he saw the thin red wedding dress.
Through the wedding dress, one could vaguely see Qin Liu’s mermaid line.
A red wedding dress with white stockings, hss… it had its own unique charm.
“Hey, hey? You’re awake!”
Qin Liu also saw that she was relieved.
Liu Haoyu’s gaze was focused on Qin Liu’s small face.
Very beautiful.
Such beauty was a fatal poison to any man, even Liu Haoyu. To say he felt nothing would be a lie.
But the red shadow just now… was definitely not the terrifying aura that Qin Liu could emit.
It could be said that Liu Haoyu truly felt that he was about to die at that moment.
If Qin Liu hadn’t noticed and stopped in time, something might have really happened.
The person who was scared into insanity by Qin Liu back then had clearly had their soul scared away.
Their subsequent recovery was because their scared soul found its body again.
But his current situation was truly infinitely close to death.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to see Qin Liu so clearly now.
Liu Haoyu sat up. Although Qin Liu’s thigh was soft and comfortable to lie on,
if he didn’t get up, the little ghost’s face would truly be red enough to boil eggs.
After leaving the girl’s embrace, Liu Haoyu sat on a chair and collected himself.
But speaking of which, if he wanted to see Qin Liu in the future, could he use this method?
However, before his thoughts could start to be implemented, his backpack on the chair back opened a gap, and a pale, terrifying hand extended from the gap and wrote on Liu Haoyu’s back.
“Damn it! You really are a master of courting death! I told you not to court death! You really are courting death! If I hadn’t pulled you back and the guide didn’t have killing intent towards you, your soul would have been saved. Your soul almost flew away just now, do you know?!”
In response to this warning, Liu Haoyu turned around and took out the black book from his backpack.
Seeing Liu Haoyu turn around, the black book quickly withdrew its pale hand, fearing that Qin Liu would discover it.
“Why did you faint even when you saw me?”
Qin Liu sat opposite Liu Haoyu. Wearing a red wedding dress, she placed her small hands on her thighs, but her legs were slightly apart, making her posture very casual.
And because Liu Haoyu was sitting opposite her, although her flawless legs and butt were wrapped in white stockings, the mysterious “W” at the end could be vaguely seen.
Hss… she wasn’t wearing anything?
But under the cover of the stockings, it was almost the same as wearing them, right?
As Liu Haoyu pondered, Qin Liu spoke again.
“Didn’t you say it was fine?”
“It’s not your fault, it’s just that I stayed up too late last night and had low blood sugar.”
“Really?”
“Really.”
Liu Haoyu did not expose the truth of the matter.
As the black book said, Qin Liu maintaining this posture was the best.
The red shadow just now was truly terrifying.
And the red shadows that others saw seemed to be completely different from the red shadows that Qin Liu directly manifested.
At least when Deng Xiaolin saw the red shadow, she didn’t feel like she had walked through the Ghost Gate.
“You don’t know, I only slept for an hour from last night until now, so I just fell asleep.”
Saying that, Liu Haoyu pointed to his dark circles.
But Liu Haoyu didn’t sleep for just an hour; he was pulled into an illusion by the red door for an hour. Therefore, in reality, Liu Haoyu had not rested at all since last night.
Qin Liu leaned closer to look. She also noticed that Liu Haoyu looked very haggard. Although he was very fit, his mental state was such that a gust of wind could blow him over.
“Ah… your dark circles are indeed very serious… you should go to sleep quickly, don’t die suddenly.”
“Yawn~ Indeed, then I’ll go to sleep first.”
“Okay.”
Qin Liu nodded her head.
“By the way, I have to go to Panwang Mountain tonight. Qin Liu, you should come with me.”
“Hey, hey, hey!?”
Ignoring Qin Liu’s wails and protests, Liu Haoyu put down the black book in his hand and then lay down on the bed.
Perhaps it was because the girl had sat on the bed, but Liu Haoyu felt that the bed was emitting a lightly fragrant and sweet scent.
This sweet scent was somewhat intoxicating, and it made the already very tired Liu Haoyu fall asleep directly.
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In his dream, Liu Haoyu opened his eyes again.
The surroundings were still vast white mist, and this white mist was even denser, so dense that he couldn’t see his hand in front of his face.
But even with such a dense mist, Liu Haoyu still saw the blood-stained, rusted iron door not far away.
However, compared to the previous dream, this red door was clearly further away from Liu Haoyu.
And upon closer inspection, there were even a few small shoeprints on the red door.
“Heh heh…”
Seeing the red door looking somewhat disheveled, Liu Haoyu couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Because he had wanted to taste Qin Liu’s saliva last time, Liu Haoyu was slapped in the face by the red embroidered shoes. Back then, he realized that these red embroidered shoes were no ordinary shoes.
Like the black book, they were sentient items.
And they were stronger than the black book, which was why Liu Haoyu brought these embroidered shoes.
He had tasted the feeling of the sole of the shoe smearing his face, so he definitely had to let the red door taste it too.
“Come here?”
Liu Haoyu extended his hand, attempting to provoke the blood-stained, rusted iron door.
But the red door remained unmoved, standing quietly in place.
This was the most restful sleep Liu Haoyu had ever had.
When he woke up, it was already 7 PM.
Liu Haoyu stretched with a refreshed spirit and looked around.
Although he could hear Qin Liu’s gentle breathing, he looked around the room but couldn’t see Qin Liu.
This meant that his sleep had been safe.
Liu Haoyu followed the sound, found Qin Liu’s approximate location, and then said,
“Get up.”
Upon hearing Liu Haoyu’s voice, Qin Liu slowly opened her eyes and softly hummed.
“What time is it…”
“It’s 7 PM. Panwang Mountain is far from here, so let’s get ready to go out.”
“Oh…”
Qin Liu groggily got up and staggered into the red jade.
Liu Haoyu carried the red jade with him, washed up briefly, put on his backpack, packed the necessary items for eating, and then went out.
Gently twisting the throttle, with the roar of the engine, Liu Haoyu’s motorcycle left the haunted house.
As the road to Panwang Mountain was not easy to travel and was full of potholes, riding a motorcycle on such a road would be very dangerous.
So Liu Haoyu first drove his motorcycle to the city, parked it, and prepared to hail a Didi. But for some reason, after waiting for more than ten minutes, no one was willing to accept the order.
In desperation, Liu Haoyu prepared to try and hail a taxi.
However, when he stated his destination, the driver immediately stepped on the accelerator and sped away without a word.
Leaving Liu Haoyu standing there, dumbfounded.
This was not the first or second time. By the third time, Liu Haoyu had learned his lesson.
He didn’t rush to state his destination but got into the car directly.
Seeing Liu Haoyu get in, the driver started the vehicle.
As the scenery outside the window receded, the driver asked,
“Young man, where are you going?”
