Chapter 29 Red Gate, please perform better!
Upon seeing the bloodstains on his face, Liu Haoyu’s body instantly became stiff.
The aura emanating from this blood was almost identical to the aura emanating from the tombstone he had seen earlier!
A cold and inauspicious feeling gripped Liu Haoyu’s heart tightly.
He could sense a gaze falling upon him, as if mocking him silently.
Liu Haoyu was all too familiar with this feeling…
The Red Gate!
Liu Haoyu quickly looked behind him.
At this moment, he discovered that the path he had come from had already disappeared.
The surroundings were pitch black, and even the air began to become turbid and stuffy.
It was like being locked in a room that had been sealed for a long time.
“Hehehe…”
The strange and eerie laughter of a young girl appeared beside Liu Haoyu.
As this sound rang out, Liu Haoyu’s body couldn’t stop trembling.
It was a bone-chilling fear.
Liu Haoyu wanted to turn around, to find the source of this sound.
But he was unable to break free, unable to escape, his entire body felt frozen.
Liu Haoyu finally realized whether he had found his own tombstone…
Or if he had entered the Red Gate?
At this moment, the surrounding darkness began to rapidly recede.
Liu Haoyu finally saw clearly where he was.
It wasn’t the mountain road of Panwang Mountain, but… a basement.
Could this be the missing basement of the haunted house?
Cold sweat continuously beaded on Liu Haoyu’s forehead.
He tried to speak, but he couldn’t even call out “Qin Liu, save me.”
The moment he entered this basement, he had completely lost control of his body.
He could also see that in this dusty basement, of unknown age, a black coffin was quietly placed.
The coffin was not very large, and if Liu Haoyu were to lie in it, it would feel very cramped.
Moreover, Liu Haoyu felt as if he had seen this black coffin somewhere before.
Where could it be…
Liu Haoyu tried to think, but an unspeakable pain quickly spread throughout his body, as if countless needles were piercing him.
Because he couldn’t move, his body could only tremble and convulse.
Soon, his consciousness began to gradually blur.
His limbs became increasingly cold.
The aura of death began to spread from his limbs to his entire body.
Gradually, Liu Haoyu could feel that the stinging pain all over his body was no longer felt.
Even though his eyes were not closed, his vision had completely blurred, turning into darkness.
His body began to feel heavy, and his brain became incredibly drowsy.
If he could, he really wanted to just fall into a deep sleep…
Sleep… sleep…
In his dazed state, he seemed to hear something.
“Creak~”
Was that… the sound of the coffin lid being opened?
Was the coffin in the basement opened?
The moment this sound occurred, all fear and all pain instantly disappeared.
Liu Haoyu regained control of his body.
He knelt on the ground, and the air instantly filled his lungs, causing him to cough continuously.
At this moment, Liu Haoyu found that the world in front of him began to collapse, and space became distorted.
And in front of him, the coffin lid that had been closed was now, for some reason, opened.
Liu Haoyu struggled to support himself, then staggered towards the black coffin.
He wanted to see what was inside this coffin.
With every step Liu Haoyu took, the surrounding space began to become more and more fragmented.
By the time he stood in front of the black coffin, the entire world consisted only of him and the black coffin, not yet succumbed to the darkness.
But clearly, this wouldn’t last long.
Liu Haoyu came to the front of the black coffin, and through the opened gap, he looked inside.
When he saw the scene inside the coffin, he was completely stunned.
Inside the coffin lay a maiden, quietly.
The maiden was wearing a bright red wedding dress, her hands placed on her chest, lying quietly in the coffin.
It was as if she were asleep.
And this maiden was Qin Liu!
Seeing Qin Liu in her Sleeping Beauty state, Liu Haoyu remained silent for a long time.
The surrounding space continued to collapse, and at the last moment, he extended his sinful hand.
He slowly lifted Qin Liu’s skirt…
—
“Damn it! Didn’t see anything!”
The rising sun shone on the man lying in the coffin.
“The dying man sat up in bed, and chatted and laughed for another day.”
Liu Haoyu clutched his aching head.
And tried to recall what had just happened.
“Just a little bit more…”
Although he had escaped death, Liu Haoyu still slapped his thigh with regret.
Can’t this Red Gate perform a little better!
Would it kill them to hold the space for a few more seconds?
Full of unwillingness, Liu Haoyu patted the dust off himself and stood up from the coffin.
He looked at the white bones at his feet and silently clasped his hands together.
Then he left the coffin, re-covered the desolate grave, and before leaving, Liu Haoyu also cleared all the grass several meters high on the tomb mound.
After he finished these tasks, the girl’s voice appeared beside him.
“Are you alright?”
While Liu Haoyu was lost in his ordeal, Qin Liu had been obediently crouching inside the Hong Yu.
However, after staying up all night and being highly stressed, she couldn’t help but lose focus a few times and doze off.
But she could guarantee with her chest that she absolutely did not sleep!
Seeing Liu Haoyu leave the coffin, Qin Liu knew that Liu Haoyu had woken up.
So she quickly came out of the Hong Yu to ask about his condition.
At this moment, Liu Haoyu could clearly see Qin Liu wearing a JK sailor uniform, not the bright red wedding dress.
But when he saw the slightly panicked expression on Qin Liu’s face, Liu Haoyu couldn’t help but make a joke.
With a gloomy face, the man let out an eerie laugh.
“Who are you? Why are you stepping on my grave?”
Hearing Liu Haoyu’s not-quite-human voice, Qin Liu was so scared that she immediately moved three meters back.
Her slightly worried small face turned incredibly pale.
Could it be possession?
Is this not Liu Haoyu in front of her?
Then wouldn’t Liu Haoyu’s soul be…
Qin Liu was extremely terrified, but Liu Haoyu, who had escaped death, felt as if he had seen his family when he saw Qin Liu. He couldn’t help but laugh, and comforted her.
“Okay, okay, I’m not joking anymore, and I’m not scaring you. Speaking of which, Qin Liu, you’re a ghost, how can you be so timid?”
However, even with Liu Haoyu saying this, Qin Liu still looked at him with disbelief and asked.
“Are you… really Liu Haoyu? You don’t seem like it?”
In Qin Liu’s impression, Liu Haoyu would never make such a joke.
Facing Qin Liu’s skeptical attitude, Liu Haoyu knew that she still didn’t believe him. There was nothing he could do.
He could only cough a couple of times, then said seriously.
“Let me touch your white stockings.”
“…”
That’s the spirit.
It seems to be Liu Haoyu indeed.
Qin Liu’s speechless gaze was like a death stare, making Liu Haoyu’s face a little embarrassed.
He could only awkwardly smile and say.
“I just crawled out of the Ghost Gate Pass, and seeing you felt as warm as seeing my wife, so I couldn’t help but make a little joke.”
“The ghost is your wife!”
Qin Liu was heartbroken, her small face was as red as a ripe apple, it was unclear whether it was from anger or shame.
But what was certain was that even when she was angry, she was still very beautiful.
“Let’s go, let’s go home.”
Liu Haoyu took the lead without saying anything more, making Qin Liu, who was still fuming, quickly say.
“Wait for me!”
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When Liu Haoyu returned to the parking spot, he discovered that Deng Shuyuan’s car was gone.
Did Deng Shuyuan drive it away?
Or was it towed by the traffic police?
Either way, he could only take another small path down the mountain to find a taxi by the roadside.
Moreover, he was indeed exhausted and just wanted to go home and sleep well.
If he used the car, he would have to take a much longer route.
But Liu Haoyu had visited Panwang Mountain before, and the tour guide had led them along a small path that quickly led to a provincial road.
There should be taxis or ride-sharing services there.
Following the small path, Liu Haoyu walked for about ten minutes.
The path was steep, and the road was slippery, but Liu Haoyu, with no harm done, reached the side of the provincial road.
Perhaps heaven was looking out for him, as he quickly hailed a taxi there.
When the taxi stopped, Liu Haoyu didn’t say anything else and got into the back seat before the driver could react.
“Driver, take me to Butou Reservoir.”
In fact, Liu Haoyu wanted to be taken directly to the haunted house, but thinking that the driver would be scared if he said the destination, he chose this place.
Even so, the driver was stunned when he heard where Liu Haoyu wanted to go.
If he remembered correctly, he clearly remembered that a terrifying dismemberment case had occurred there?
Why would this man want to go to such a place so early in the morning?
Driven by curiosity, his gaze fell on the rearview mirror.
Through the rearview mirror, he saw the man in the back seat.
It was a man with a pale face, haggard appearance, and carrying a large backpack.
Combined with his athletic build, this made the driver think of the terrifying legends circulating among drivers.
In the early morning or at night, a haggard but sturdy man would flag down a car, and he would usually be going to remote, deserted, eerie, and terrifying places.
What’s worse is that it is said that his backpack is full of murder weapons that have seen blood…
He would unhesitatingly force you to take the darkest and most sinister path, and if you refused, he would take out a blood-stained fire axe from his backpack to threaten you.
What’s even more terrifying is that when he gets in the car, even though there is only one person in the back seat, you can feel two cold gazes falling on you.
It’s as if another person has gotten into the back seat…
Thinking of this, the driver couldn’t help but swallow hard.
Could he be so unlucky as to meet the actual person?
The driver looked back into the rearview mirror uncertainly, and then he noticed that the man in the back seat was covered in dust.
Beneath his not-so-large jacket, he could vaguely see a white… burial suit.
A burial suit?!
Realizing this, the driver’s hands gripping the steering wheel began to tremble uncontrollably.
This must be the real deal!
The driver swallowed hard in terror, and at this moment, he felt like directly swerving the steering wheel and scrambling away from this place.
But without a car, in this wilderness, how far could he run?
“Driver? Aren’t we going yet?”
Hearing Liu Haoyu’s urging, the driver, who was still contemplating how to escape, said in a panic.
“Sorry! I’m writing a will to my wife… Oh no, sending a text message.”
He stomped on the accelerator, and the yellow taxi shot out.
This almost embedded Liu Haoyu’s body into the plush leather seat.
Liu Haoyu, who was already not feeling well, couldn’t help but complain.
“Driver, no one is chasing you, so there’s no need to rush, right?”
There was indeed no one chasing behind, but it wasn’t necessarily the case inside the car!
The driver felt like crying without tears.
All the way, he had been plotting how to escape this place.
But in this wilderness, there was no way to escape!
At this moment, the driver felt a sense of despair.
A man wearing a burial suit, covered in dust, walked in the car…
If he could return alive, he must exorcise the car!
All the way, the taxi drove exceptionally smoothly, as if afraid of startling the man in the back seat.
What’s worse, the driver finally felt a strange gaze falling upon him.
Cold, terrifying, chilling… but the man behind him had been closing his eyes all along!
He hadn’t looked at him at all, so who was looking at him?
The driver was covered in sweat, and even the palms of his hands gripping the steering wheel were wet with cold sweat.
He drove forward slowly, his body tense.
The taxi drove at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour for over an hour, and he finally arrived near Butou Reservoir.
When the car stopped, the driver said to the man in the back seat.
“Handsome? Handsome? We’ve arrived.”
Liu Haoyu woke up, rubbed his eyes, and said, “Driver, your driving skills are excellent, you drove so steadily.”
“No, no!” The driver repeatedly shook his head and said, “My driving skills are very poor.”
“There’s no need to be modest about this.”
To be able to sleep so soundly in the car, if he wasn’t an old driver, then who else could he be?
Liu Haoyu naturally wouldn’t be stingy with his praise. He took out a hundred-dollar bill from his pocket.
After reconfirming that it was not ghost money, he handed it to the driver.
Seeing the hundred-dollar bill, the driver was extremely terrified.
He hadn’t forgotten about another driver who received ghost money instead of real money, so he quickly waved his hands.
“No, no, fifty is fine!”
“Driver, you’re so conscientious?”
Liu Haoyu hadn’t expected someone to be so honest, so he found a fifty-dollar bill and gave it to him, saying with a smile.
“I’ll ride with you again next time, okay?”
