Chapter 14 Pinned Beds
Facing the little girl’s question, Qin Liu didn’t think much about it and explained.
“I want to see if there’s anything to drink.”
“The boiled water is over there.”
The girl pointed to the kettle on the stove with her finger. She looked very harmless, even a little cute.
“Okay, thank you.”
Qin Liu took a few steps forward and then asked the girl.
“You… why can you see me?”
“Huh?” The girl tilted her head, seeming not to understand Qin Liu’s meaning. “Why can’t I see you, sister?”
“…” Qin Liu looked at her, then shook her head and said, “It’s nothing, I was just curious and asked.”
Qin Liu walked towards the stove, but she wasn’t really going to drink water; she wanted to get away from the girl behind her.
She was too strange.
But when Qin Liu arrived in the kitchen, the girl was still following behind her.
“You and the big brother outside live on the third floor, right?”
The girl still had that cute and lively smile.
“Yes.”
Looking at that smile, Qin Liu silently took a step back.
That smile didn’t bring any warmth; it only made people feel a bit cold.
It was as if she could only make that one expression.
“So, it’s best to take my advice. Someone died in your room, so you’d better not stay here.”
“Someone died…”
Qin Liu wanted to ask more, but the girl interrupted her.
“Sister, don’t ask so many questions. As a beautiful girl like you, when you go back to sleep, be sure to lock the bathroom door, don’t turn on the lights, and leave here quickly tomorrow.”
After speaking, the girl skipped away from the kitchen, leaving Qin Liu stunned for a moment.
For some reason, the girl didn’t seem to consider herself a ghost but a person staying here?
As Qin Liu was thinking, the old woman’s scolding voice was heard again from outside, sounding very angry.
Taking this opportunity, Qin Liu decisively returned to the living room.
Liu Haoyu was still sitting on the sofa, holding the black book in his hand, seemingly passing the time.
Would a normal person use something like this to pass the time in this haunted house?
Seeing this, Qin Liu stepped forward, picked up the black book, and said to Liu Haoyu.
“Something’s wrong with this house, very wrong…”
“What did you find?”
“Let’s talk outside.”
Qin Liu pointed to the small room from which the scolding voice kept coming.
Liu Haoyu understood, and the man and the ghost left the old woman’s house.
After going out, Qin Liu’s hanging heart slowly settled down.
“I just glanced at the refrigerator. The upper layer had a large piece of pork, and the lower layer was all chicken, duck, and fish packed in black plastic bags… I didn’t find any human meat.”
After hearing Qin Liu’s words, Liu Haoyu closed the black book.
“Black plastic bags?”
“Yes, many, many.”
“Qin Liu, do you think normal chicken, duck, and fish would be packed in black plastic bags?”
“…”
Qin Liu was silent for a long time, then shook her head.
In the vegetable market, plastic bags are usually red. Even for convenience, it’s unlikely that the entire lower layer would be filled with black plastic bags.
Even more inconceivable was that Qin Liu clearly saw rolls of transparent cling film in the refrigerator on the upper layer.
Even if they were truly packing chicken, duck, and fish, they would use this kind of cling film.
The more she thought about it, the more the chilling feeling intensified.
Qin Liu shivered inexplicably. Looking at the somewhat grim corridor, she felt as if someone was watching her from behind those doors.
“Let’s go back.”
Liu Haoyu walked ahead, and Qin Liu followed closely behind.
The man and the ghost returned to the third floor. It was already 2 AM. Liu Haoyu poured himself a glass of water to calm his nerves.
Then, his gaze began to scan the situation in the room again.
He had learned something from the earth-bound spirit in the master bedroom.
But this earth-bound spirit’s soul was very incomplete. All Liu Haoyu learned was that she was killed in the bathroom.
And now, Qin Liu had also learned from the little granddaughter to lock the bathroom door.
However… wouldn’t a normal bathroom be locked from the inside?
How could the door be closed from the outside?
After re-examining the situation in the room, Liu Haoyu found some other things that were not right.
The windows in the room, both in the living room and the bedrooms, were hung with very thick, opaque curtains.
Liu Haoyu walked to the large window in the living room and gently lifted a corner of the curtain.
Guiping District was not a prosperous place, so at this time of night, the outside was a dark city, with only scattered streetlights flashing an eerie light.
“Let’s sleep.”
Liu Haoyu said to Qin Liu.
“For now, tonight should be safe.”
“Oh, this…”
Qin Liu wanted to say more, but trusting Liu Haoyu, she chose to hold back.
Since Liu Haoyu said tonight would be safe, she would trust him for once.
The man and the ghost returned to the master bedroom.
However, when Qin Liu entered the master bedroom, she found that the cold, terrifying feeling was gone.
The portrait on the wall also seemed to have returned to normal.
In that case, there shouldn’t be anything to be afraid of, right?
Qin Liu kept reassuring herself, then lay down on the bed, closed her eyes, and prepared to sleep.
But as beautiful as her thoughts were, the reality was that Qin Liu lay on the bed, unable to sleep no matter how she tried.
The eerie voices in her mind, coupled with that girl, made her unable to fall asleep for a long time.
Especially the girl’s last words, like a terrible curse, kept echoing in Qin Liu’s ears.
“Someone died on the third floor… lock the bathroom door…”
“Someone died on the third floor… lock the bathroom door…”
“…”
The girl’s voice made Qin Liu increasingly uneasy.
She opened her eyes and looked around the room.
It was quiet and chilly. There was also a bathroom in the master bedroom, but Liu Haoyu had already pasted a talisman on it.
And the man was lying on the bed, his back to her, and she didn’t know if he was asleep.
“Liu Haoyu?”
“What’s wrong?”
It was rare for Liu Haoyu to hear Qin Liu address him by name. Usually, she would speak directly without a title, so it was a bit unusual.
“I… can I move the bed over?”
Qin Liu’s intention was simple: she wanted to push the two beds together.
This way, she would feel more at ease.
To this, Liu Haoyu said.
“Do I look like someone who would refuse?”
“No.”
With permission, Qin Liu moved the bed over. After the two beds were pushed together, they became very large. Not to exaggerate, one could even have a wrestling match on it without falling off.
“Thank you.”
Qin Liu lay back on the bed. Her body rested against the center line, and she finally felt at ease.
Liu Haoyu glanced at the girl out of the corner of his eye, mainly at her white-stockinged feet.
These “ice creams” were so beautiful that one couldn’t help but want to reach out and touch them.
Qin Liu usually didn’t take off her clothes when sleeping because she didn’t have a sense of collision with objects.
So even if she slept with her clothes on, her clothes wouldn’t be messy when she woke up.
“Hoo…”
As Liu Haoyu watched her, he realized that Qin Liu had already fallen asleep.
“So soon?”
Liu Haoyu was a little surprised.
But it made sense. It had been a day of running around and being scared.
This little ghost was probably exhausted, and being in this haunted house, she couldn’t sleep soundly even if she wanted to.
“She’s really timid… no wonder she wants the two beds pushed together.”
Liu Haoyu muttered, and at this time, a line of text appeared on the black book in his hand.
“A cute beautiful girl is right in front of you, don’t you want to do something to her?”
To this, Liu Haoyu replied.
“I would have done it long ago if I wanted to.”
“Huh?”
Seeing the black book’s confused look, Liu Haoyu couldn’t be bothered to explain.
Don’t forget, Qin Liu’s white stockings in the black coffin were all manipulated by him.
So, in the current situation…
Heh~
Liu Haoyu sneered like a gentleman and then tried hard to suppress his AK-47.
“Tsk… this gun is really hard to suppress.”
“You died again, you’re so bad at this.”
The black book couldn’t help complaining as it looked at the FPS game on Liu Haoyu’s phone.
“Can your mind really be on the game?”
Liu Haoyu didn’t want to bother with the bloody text on the black book. Instead, he turned off his phone screen and closed his eyes.
He was also a little tired.
Most importantly, seeing Qin Liu sleeping so soundly, his own drowsiness surfaced.
He turned on his side and lay facing Qin Liu.
But just as Liu Haoyu lay down, a strange sound entered his ears without any warning.
The sound was not loud, but it was so distinct in the quiet room.
Liu Haoyu narrowed his eyes.
The previous weak fierce ghost was now quiet, and Qin Liu was still asleep.
This meant that there was something else in the room…
Liu Haoyu cast his gaze around the room and, taking the opportunity, moved closer to Qin Liu.
At such a close distance, Liu Haoyu could clearly feel the faint fragrance emanating from Qin Liu.
The scent from Qin Liu was refreshing and indeed very pleasant.
But that wasn’t the main point.
Liu Haoyu knew very well that the bedroom window and the room were locked, so the room had a very oppressive atmosphere.
Now, when this sound occurred, this oppressive atmosphere made Liu Haoyu increasingly uncomfortable.
“Creak creak…”
The strange sound occurred again.
He swept his gaze around the room.
It finally landed on the bathroom door.
Liu Haoyu’s pupils contracted. Having become accustomed to the dark room, he clearly saw the doorknob of the bathroom door turn…
This type of doorknob was connected internally and externally; when turned from the inside, it would also turn from the outside.
But Liu Haoyu clearly remembered that he had checked the bathroom before going to sleep.
There was no one inside.
If Liu Haoyu had any lingering sleepiness before, it had now completely disappeared.
The air seemed to solidify. Liu Haoyu stared fixedly at the bathroom, not daring to blink.
