Chapter 26 Soul Departure
“Is it not good to leave like this?”
After Liu Haoyu left the room, Qin Liu couldn’t help but speak.
“Won’t these police officers trouble you?”
“If they were normal police officers, it might be a bit troublesome, but they are all ghost exorcists like me, so it’ll be easy.”
At this time, Liu Haoyu had already put on a gas mask and was holding a blood-stained fire axe, looking exactly like a midnight murderer.
“In our line of work, there’s an unwritten rule,”
“Don’t ask too many questions. The more you know, the faster you die.”
“And their strength is far inferior to mine, but their identity as police officers requires them to be on the front lines,”
“So, if I told them, wouldn’t it be equivalent to harming them?”
Liu Haoyu’s words left Qin Liu speechless.
She wasn’t a ghost exorcist, so she didn’t have a clear understanding of Liu Haoyu’s strength.
Now, looking at it this way, perhaps… he was really strong.
Maybe an outstanding ghost exorcist.
Even someone like him had no confidence in facing the Red Gate.
“The Red Gate’s ability is very strong. Once you see its existence, you will definitely encounter misfortune, no matter who it is. Even I only have less than a 50% chance of winning against it.”
“Then you were in danger seeing the Red Gate so many times??”
Qin Liu seemed to be worried about Liu Haoyu’s safety, but the man just lit a cigarette and said.
“With you here, I won’t die, and I can’t die.”
Liu Haoyu’s brief words made Qin Liu pause.
To be honest, Qin Liu couldn’t help but feel a little moved at this moment.
Did he mean that he wouldn’t die easily before helping her see her sister?
“Because I still want to see white stockings a few more times.”
“…”
Qin Liu’s moved feelings vanished instantly.
She even wanted to scold Liu Haoyu.
“You’ve been ruined by white stockings your whole life. JPG”
After suppressing her inner curses, Qin Liu followed him again.
In fact, Liu Haoyu was not lying.
He wouldn’t die because of Qin Liu’s presence and his own strong strength.
He couldn’t die also because he had to maintain the incense of the haunted house and confirm that Qin Liu would be safe.
Once Qin Liu lost her mind, she wouldn’t even need to do anything. Just manifesting herself could cause a group of people to die directly.
This kind of terrifying power was comparable to a human nuclear bomb.
So Liu Haoyu naturally couldn’t die.
After passing through this mountain village, the grim and cold aura in the mountains became more apparent.
Faint white mist also began to drift around, as if entering the underworld, making one shiver.
After climbing to the highest peak of Panwang Mountain, Liu Haoyu began to descend.
Panwang Mountain, although called a mountain, was actually a continuous range of hills and ridges.
So people often got lost in the mountains and could never be found again.
Liu Haoyu took out a red jade.
This red jade contained a fierce ghost from Longshan Vocational High School.
According to the Black Book, it could be used to find the ownerless grave.
But no matter how Liu Haoyu tried, whether using the Black Book or the soul-seeking spell, the fierce ghost in the red jade couldn’t provide guidance.
This made Liu Haoyu begin to doubt the truthfulness of the Black Book’s words.
The Black Book was not a god, and its judgments could also be wrong, just as it couldn’t understand the extent of Qin Liu’s danger.
It always felt that the silent Qin Liu was a terrifying existence, but he had been with Qin Liu for so long, and had even seen the silent Qin Liu so many times.
Wasn’t everything fine?
Therefore, to understand the principle behind this, Liu Haoyu placed the red jade on a blank page of the Black Book and wrote a line of blood on it.
“Didn’t you say you could find the ownerless grave through it?”
After a moment of silence, the Black Book began to display a line of blood.
“Here, the separation between the human world and the underworld is no longer distinct,”
“And are you currently in the underworld? Or the human world?”
“How can an ownerless grave where ghosts are buried be in the human world?”
Now, Liu Haoyu finally understood why the Black Book said this trip would be extremely perilous.
Damn it, wasn’t this equivalent to going directly to hell?
So, how could it not be dangerous?
As a ghost exorcist, Liu Haoyu naturally knew the dangers of the underworld.
That place was not meant for people to go.
For ordinary people to enter the underworld, they had to undergo soul departure, which was a state of simulated death.
And with the slightest carelessness, they could be permanently trapped in the underworld and never return to the real world.
And now the Black Book actually said he was going to the underworld.
What was the difference between this and directly entering the Red Gate?
Liu Haoyu’s heart only wanted to say “Wo ri ni xianren” to the Black Book.
But thinking that the Black Book might not have ancestors, Liu Haoyu quietly closed his mouth and wrote on the book.
“Is this method of yours really reliable?”
“You know, soul departure itself is extremely dangerous, and you’re asking me to soul depart to find that ownerless grave…”
If he hadn’t come this far and brought the Black Book, Liu Haoyu would suspect that this book was plotting to find Deng Xiaolin to sign a contract of sorcery after his death, and then become a demon-hunting girl.
“That’s why I repeatedly emphasized that this trip is extremely perilous, and only a guide can save your life.”
“Now the choice is before you. Do you choose to enter the underworld to find the ownerless grave with your name engraved on the tombstone, thereby escaping the Red Gate’s lock,”
“Or do you turn back now and quietly wait for the Red Gate to find you again,”
“I think you know what to choose…”
The Black Book’s words made Liu Haoyu fall into deep thought.
He really had no choice.
Although the Red Gate feared Qin Liu, it could directly attack him through consciousness.
In his dreams, it was getting closer and closer to him, and once it dragged him into the Red Gate, the consequences would be unimaginable.
And now, even though the path ahead was dangerous, it could directly get rid of the Red Gate and even eliminate it once and for all.
The possibility of facing the Red Gate directly was imminent, and Liu Haoyu naturally understood that this might be his only chance in this life.
So after making his decision, Liu Haoyu nodded and wrote.
“Okay, I’ll trust you this time.”
“A wise decision…”
The blood that the Black Book left behind slowly flowed down, looking extremely creepy and terrifying.
“It’s already midnight. Now, pack your things. In a grave to your left, there’s a coffin.”
“Lie down in the coffin that the dead have lain in, close your eyes, and clear your mind…”
“The aura of the dead will shroud you, and then the gate of the underworld will open.”
“During this time, as long as you find the tomb with your name on it, return to your main body as soon as possible.”
“Attention! No matter the result, you must wake up before dawn!”
Liu Haoyu looked at the three lines of text left on the Black Book and slowly lit a cigarette.
He knew that these were the steps for soul departure, and it was an extremely dangerous and terrifying matter.
Even he was not confident that he could return alive from the underworld.
“Hoo…”
After finishing the cigarette, Liu Haoyu stood up from the ground. He said to Qin Liu beside him.
“Help me cover the coffin lid later.”
“Ah… ah?”
Qin Liu hadn’t seen Liu Haoyu’s conversation with the Black Book, so her expression was completely bewildered.
But she didn’t have time to think further before seeing Liu Haoyu walk to a grave.
However, perhaps because no one had paid respects or weeded for so many years, if you didn’t look closely, most people would think this was just a small mound.
“Is this… really a grave?” Even Qin Liu asked doubtfully. “Why does it look completely abandoned?”
“If there were descendants, they would definitely come to pay respects to their ancestors, but looking at these weeds, I guess… this family must have died out.”
Liu Haoyu said words that made Qin Liu tremble a little.
As this was a highly immoral and offensive act, Liu Haoyu took out a large pile of ghost money and incense, which was almost all the inventory in his backpack.
After lighting the ghost money and incense, the man clasped his hands together at his chest and bowed his head in prayer.
“I apologize for any offense.”
With that, he took out a shovel and dug up the grave little by little.
Soon, a coffin was exposed to the air.
Because it was buried deep in the ground and the wood was not very good, the coffin was already rotten and the lid was about to break.
Liu Haoyu fanned away the dust in front of him.
Fortunately, he had replaced the filter of his gas mask when he went out this time, otherwise, the smell of decay would have been suffocating.
Liu Haoyu jumped into the pit and then, under Qin Liu’s incredulous gaze, slowly opened the coffin lid.
Inside the coffin lay the skeletal remains of a woman.
Liu Haoyu bowed slightly and then said.
Then he lay down.
Lying in a coffin was not a new experience for Liu Haoyu.
So his mindset was relatively calm.
Even feeling a bewildered gaze from the side, he said calmly.
“Sorry, excuse me for using your spot.”
Qin Liu didn’t know what Liu Haoyu was trying to do, but she still closed the coffin lid for him.
When Liu Haoyu closed his eyes, he felt his consciousness sinking, as if he were falling from a tall building.
He could hear mournful and eerie voices constantly.
It was as if someone outside was beating gongs, or as if a large group of people were walking past him.
When these illusions disappeared, Liu Haoyu opened his eyes again.
At this time, he found that the skeleton beside him was already gone, and the entire world had become extremely quiet.
More importantly, he tried to touch the coffin lid, and found that his hand passed right through it.
Turning back, he saw that in the coffin lay a man.
This man… was Liu Haoyu.
“It seems to have succeeded.”
Liu Haoyu breathed a sigh of relief, and returned to the ground from the coffin.
At this moment, he saw a woman in a white burial shroud at the grave mound, trembling as she counted stacks of ghost money.
She seemed to sense Liu Haoyu’s gaze, and slowly turned her head, revealing her pale and bloodless face.
Seeing that it was Liu Haoyu, she, in her dazed state, managed to force out an ugly smile.
As if thanking Liu Haoyu for the offerings.
“Are you alright?”
Behind Liu Haoyu, the familiar girlish voice came.
Turning around, he saw Qin Liu, holding a lantern, staring at him and asking.
“What are you doing? Why did you lie down inside and then come out?”
Qin Liu didn’t notice that Liu Haoyu was in a spiritual state, so she approached instinctively as usual.
At this moment, the two were very close, so close that Liu Haoyu could pinch Qin Liu’s face with a single reach.
And in fact, he did just that.
“I am like you now, I am a ghost.”
“Ah?!”
These words stunned Qin Liu.
She took several steps back, her small face showing a hint of fear.
“Did you suffocate in there?”
“No, this is called soul departure.”
Liu Haoyu couldn’t help but feel a little embarrassed, but he had to admit that Qin Liu looked really cute like this.
It made him want to touch her little head.
Pinch her little cheeks,
And lick her white stockings…
“What are you looking at?”
Qin Liu retracted her small legs. She was wearing white stockings today.
In fact, she could only wear white when going out.
The red wedding dress was too troublesome to wear and not as convenient as a JK sailor uniform.
But the JK sailor uniform’s skirt was ridiculously short, so she could only wear white stockings to feel somewhat at ease, without worrying about accidental exposure.
So… Liu Haoyu was definitely looking at her legs!
“Your feet.”
Liu Haoyu admitted generously and confidently.
“This is called appreciating an art piece, understand?”
“Aren’t art pieces meant to be collected? What kind of art piece are white stockings? Would anyone collect these things…”
As soon as Qin Liu finished speaking, she suddenly realized something, and the surprised look on her face was quite amusing.
“Oh, no… you must have a collection of these things.”
“How could that be!”
Liu Haoyu immediately responded seriously.
“What would I collect these for?”
Although he couldn’t deny that he had bought a lot of white stockings, and had also given some to Deng Xiaolin.
But white stockings that haven’t been worn by beautiful girls have no collection value at all.
White stockings that haven’t been worn by beautiful girls are just socks, completely lacking the beauty and desire.
And coincidentally, Liu Haoyu had rarely seen girls who could pull off white stockings. Qin Liu was one of them, and Deng Xiaolin was half of it…
Bai Anting sat at a table with men.
“Really?”
“I swear, it’s more real than pearls.”
Liu Haoyu’s confident appearance gradually dispelled Qin Liu’s suspicious look, and she then asked again.
“However, I read in some supernatural novels that soul departure is very dangerous, isn’t it?”
