Chapter 40 Who Called the Police
In academia, there is an effect called the uncanny valley.
When an object resembles a human but has subtle differences, humans feel immense fear towards it.
It is said that this is an instinct from primitive times, where animals sought advantage and avoided harm. Objects that resemble their own kind but are not alive have only one form.
That is a corpse.
Of course, none of this has much to do with what the man was experiencing at the moment.
Because the face in front of him, made up to look like a dead person… didn’t look like a person at all!
Although it didn’t look like a person, the man still recognized the other party at a glance.
It was the tenant who had borrowed a place to stay for a night in the apartment…
Or rather… the masked murderer who had been in Fugui Apartment before!
The man looked at Liu Haoyu in front of him with terrified eyes, his wrist held firmly by the other party, making it almost impossible to move.
Look at this sturdy physique, look at these powerful muscles, it’s no exaggeration to say.
This masked murderer lifted him like he was a chick.
Why would this tall and strong guy be wearing women’s clothes and hiding under the covers?
And how did he know his whereabouts?!
In the pitch-black room, Liu Haoyu, with his death makeup, shoved the wig he was wearing into the man’s mouth.
Then, with a fierce punch, he sent the man flying on the spot.
The man struggled to get up from the ground; after just one punch, he was already dizzy.
The force was so great that the man felt like his face had deformed.
He touched his broken nose bridge, blood already covering his face.
However, this was just the beginning.
Without his butcher knife, he was like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered when facing the fire axe in Liu Haoyu’s hand.
Seeing Liu Haoyu approaching with a grin, the man retreated desperately, his eyes full of terror.
“No… don’t! This… this is a misunderstanding!”
“Misunderstanding?” Liu Haoyu gave a very strange smile, shouldered the fire axe, and said with a laugh, “What misunderstanding are you talking to a murderer about?”
The man’s mouth widened, he pulled the wig out of his mouth, his face full of shock.
He thought he was already a murderer, but he never expected to meet a more professional colleague!
The man kept retreating. Facing the increasingly aggressive Liu Haoyu, he saw the open door and scrambled out desperately.
As a result, when he reached the entrance and tried to open the main door, he despaired to find…
The door was locked from the inside!
And from behind him, came heavy footsteps.
The blood-stained fire axe appeared around the corner, its sharp blade chilling anyone who saw it.
The man hurriedly looked around, but couldn’t find any place to hide.
“Miyuki… Miyuki save me!”
He was a ghost exorcist, he could still summon fierce ghosts to protect himself.
No matter how strong the murderer was, facing a fierce ghost, he probably wouldn’t be able to escape unharmed, right?
In the man’s heart, a glimmer of hope seemed to appear.
However, no matter how he called, no matter how he summoned.
That Miyuki’s departed soul didn’t respond at all…
As if encountering a more terrifying existence?!
“Tap…”
“Tap…”
The heavy footsteps were slowly approaching. By the time the man saw Liu Haoyu, he finally realized…
Behind this masked murderer, there was a red shadow.
Just looking at this red shadow, he felt his heart stop beating.
A fear that pierced his soul instantly crawled from his limbs to his heart.
Liu Haoyu, carrying the fire axe, walked up to him. At this moment, the man knelt down with a thud.
He said in a trembling tone.
“Don’t kill me… don’t kill me…”
Liu Haoyu, who had already put on his mask, replied with a cold smile.
“Whether to kill you or not, it’s not something I can decide.”
Then he took out the chain from his pocket, forcefully pried open the man’s mouth, and stuffed it in.
“Ugh… ugh…”
Due to the strong smell of corpse, the man, shouting, kept retching, trying to spit out the chain.
But the chain seemed to have disappeared; no matter how much filth he vomited, he couldn’t spit out the chain.
And at this moment, he finally realized what he had just eaten.
Liu Haoyu looked at his terrified expression, and for some reason, he felt a sense of relief.
Bai Anting also appeared around the corner, holding her mobile phone, hesitantly asking.
“Um, Mr. Murderer? Do you want to call the police?”
“Call them.”
Liu Haoyu smiled and stood up, clenching his fists.
“Wait, what are you going to do?”
The man’s eyes became even more terrified when he saw Liu Haoyu drop the fire axe.
“Although whether to kill you or not is not something I can decide, but whether to hit you… heh heh~”
Liu Haoyu raised his fist.
“I told you to do the ghost marriage!”
“I told you to kill people!”
“I told you to make ghost servants!”
“I told you to make me wear women’s clothes!”
“…”
The man felt wronged. He admitted to the first few accusations, but the last one really wasn’t his fault!
When the police arrived at Bai Anting’s house, they saw a man who was already bruised and swollen, like a pig’s head.
And… beside him, wiping his fists with tissues, was a large man in women’s clothes wearing a gas mask.
To be honest, when the police saw this scene, they subconsciously thought that the man wearing the gas mask was the murderer the informant mentioned.
But thinking of a certain urban legend, none of the police officers present said a word.
Finally, one of the policemen stepped forward.
This person was Ma Jianhua, the same policeman who had interrogated Liu Haoyu before.
He looked around the scene and finally focused his gaze on the person behind the “masked murderer.”
“Little brother, did you call the police?”
“Huh?” Bai Anting’s first reaction was that the police were talking to Liu Haoyu, then she quickly realized and said, “I’m a woman.”
“Oh, this…” Ma Jianhua instinctively said, “Sorry, I didn’t know you were transgender.”
“I…”
At this moment, Bai Anting really wanted to point at the police uncle, but being just an ordinary citizen, she could only blush and say word by word.
“I am a woman!”
To avoid continuing the awkward topic, Bai Anting decisively raised her hand and said.
“It was indeed me who called the police.”
“Oh…” The police looked at the man on the ground with sudden realization: “So this is the home-invading murderer you mentioned?”
Liu Haoyu also nodded and said.
“Yes, you can arrest him directly for investigation. He is the landlord of Fugui Apartment. About half a year ago, he killed his niece and buried her in cement. He also brutally murdered his wife, but he didn’t confess where the body was.”
Ma Jianhua looked at the scene, a bit troubled. Finally, he looked at Liu Haoyu and said.
“Kid, stop wearing that gas mask. Do you think we don’t recognize you at the police station? And you’re still wearing women’s clothes…”
Liu Haoyu looked down at his clothes, his face darkened further.
“I am not Liu Haoyu.”
“Alright, alright, who doesn’t know your name as the perverted masked murderer at the police station? Stop it, bring your little brother next to you, and come to the police station to make a statement first.”
At one o’clock in the morning, Liu Haoyu, dressed in women’s clothes, sat in the interrogation room, facing Ma Jianhua, who was wearing sunglasses.
“So, that person was the murderer from Fugui Apartment, and you were a vigilant good citizen?”
“To catch this murderer, you dressed in women’s clothes to lure him to your friend’s house?”
“And then when you saw him carrying a butcher knife, you pulled out a fire axe?”
“Finally, the injuries on his face were from him falling when you chased him?”
Facing Ma Jianhua’s long string of questions, Liu Haoyu answered succinctly with one word.
“Yes!”
Then Ma Jianhua looked at the interrogation record in his hand and couldn’t help but put on a mask of pain.
If this interrogation record were released, who would believe it?
If Ma Jianhua were in their shoes, he wouldn’t believe it either!
“I told you before, good citizens shouldn’t carry fire axes out?”
“But you, not only did you not forget to bring a fire axe this time, but you also wore a full set of women’s clothes.”
Ma Jianhua said earnestly.
“Now it’s bad, if I show this interrogation record to my superiors, they’ll think I arrested the wrong person.”
“Cough cough…”
Liu Haoyu thought of Wang Wenqi. That guy’s position was quite high, likely considered a superior at the police station.
“It’s okay, the leaders upstairs are very forgiving.”
“Besides, it’s reasonable for a weak woman… man like me to carry a fire axe for self-defense, right?”
Ma Jianhua glanced at Liu Haoyu, then adjusted his sunglasses.
Why wear sunglasses?
Because he was going blind.
“Kid, don’t disgust me, okay? Wearing women’s clothes is one thing, but also doing death makeup. When you took off your gas mask just now… I almost threw my eyeballs out.”
Seeing this, Liu Haoyu quickly said.
“Officer Ma, calm down, calm down! Police officers are not allowed to swear!”
“Damn!”
Ma Jianhua couldn’t hold back in the end.
However, fortunately, for some unknown reason, the captured man confessed his crimes almost truthfully.
Although the man looked a bit strange, with a vacant gaze and a dazed expression, as if he were being controlled by something.
But no matter what, he did commit the murders.
And at this point, Liu Haoyu asked with some curiosity.
“Speaking of which, even though he killed people, Xu Hongfu seems to have some mental issues…”
Xu Hongfu, the man who killed Xu Wanrong, Liu Haoyu also learned his name when he was making the statement.
“You don’t need to worry about that,” Ma Jianhua adjusted the interrogation record in his hand and said, “Xu Hongfu has two lives on his hands, one is his wife’s, and the other is his niece’s. In this situation, he should be executed. If you ask me, it’s fortunate that modern society values humanitarianism; if this were ancient times, he would definitely be torn apart by chariots.”
“Also, there’s nothing for you to do here anymore. I have a set of clothes here, borrow it to wear for now… hurry up and change out of those women’s clothes! Damn it!”
Ma Jianhua covered his sunglasses, his expression looking extremely pained.
Every time he saw Liu Haoyu’s face, he felt like he was suffocating.
“Thank you, Officer Ma!”
Seeing that he could have men’s clothes to wear, Liu Haoyu was so moved that he prostrated himself in gratitude.
“Change here, don’t go out and poison the eyes of other police officers.”
After Ma Jianhua said this, he left the interrogation room.
While Liu Haoyu was changing, Qin Liu also poked her head out of Hong Yu and said.
“Amazing, these police officers don’t think you’re a murderer?”
Wearing a gas mask, women’s clothes, holding a fire axe…
Well, if you said this and people didn’t believe you were a murderer, who would believe it?
Liu Haoyu said while changing clothes.
“I’m a five-star good citizen, I abide by all laws and regulations in my actions and conduct, with a clear conscience, understand?”
After Liu Haoyu put on his clothes again, Qin Liu continued to ask.
“Speaking of which, when you were violently slapping that man’s face, I saw a dark shadow outside the window, but when I looked, the shadow ran away.”
“That should be his ghost servant.”
Although Xu Hongfu was crazy, he was indeed a ghost exorcist.
And some ghost exorcists who have gone mad and become evil will keep ghost servants.
The method of creating ghost servants is extremely cruel.
And to prevent the victim’s cries from attracting attention, before making them into ghost servants, boiling hot water needs to be poured into the victim’s mouth to completely silence them.
Then, the living person’s limbs need to be cut off, and during this process, the victim’s consciousness must be maintained, and they must not be allowed to faint from pain.
After completing these steps, they are placed in a jar, urn, or vat with a soul-sealing talisman attached.
Then, salt water is poured in to drown them alive, and then they are buried in the ground.
The cruelty of the method is enraging.
“However…” Liu Haoyu recalled what Ma Jianhua had told him: “Xu Hongfu didn’t seem to confess the location of his wife’s body, which shouldn’t be the case?”
After stuffing the chain with Xu Wanrong’s resentment into his belly, the fierce ghost should have controlled him and confessed everything it knew.
And he didn’t confess the location of his wife’s body…
There could only be two possibilities: either he had gone completely insane and completely forgot the location of his wife’s body.
Or, someone else had turned his wife into a ghost servant, so he didn’t know the location of the body.
Either way, this matter was troublesome.
Unclaimed ghost servants are even more dangerous to humans than fierce ghosts.
Although their strength is not as great as fierce ghosts, their freedom is far greater than that of bound fierce ghosts.
Catching these ghost servants is not an easy task…
Liu Haoyu sighed.
“It never ends.”
Just as he was walking out of the police station, his backpack began to vibrate violently.
“The black book is looking for you.”
Qin Liu’s voice sounded behind Liu Haoyu.
The man took out the black book from his backpack.
As soon as he held it in his hand, the black book automatically turned to a blank page.
Soon, extremely dazzling characters appeared on it.
“The red gate has appeared!”
