Chapter Fifteen Chicken belly 4K (2/95)
“Kaka kaka…”
The bathroom door was still moving, as if someone inside was constantly twisting the door handle.
The sound of constant twisting echoed in the room.
Liu Haoyu gently covered Qin Liu’s ears to prevent the sound from waking her up.
At the same time, he stared intently in the direction of the bathroom.
The sound of twisting the door handle grew louder, but the bathroom door still hadn’t opened.
The reason was simple, Liu Haoyu had pasted a few talismans on it.
However, the effectiveness of these talismans was limited. If the fierce ghost inside was strong enough, there was a high chance it could break through.
After a while, the sound of twisting the door handle stopped.
It seemed that the thing inside the bathroom knew that it couldn’t open the door.
The bedroom became quiet again, and no one knew what terrifying existence was hidden in the dark bathroom.
But this quiet only lasted for less than a minute before more strange sounds came from the bathroom.
The sounds were very rapid and continuous.
It was as if a large rooster was pecking frantically at the bathroom door, trying to get into the bedroom.
The pecking force was so strong that it even made the talismans on the bathroom door shake.
Liu Haoyu took a deep breath and prepared to get out of bed to deal with this annoying thing.
“Mmm…”
Just as he took a step back and was about to leave, Qin Liu crossed the midline between the two beds and snuggled into Liu Haoyu’s arms.
Perhaps it was because she felt warm, or perhaps she was disturbed by the sound, but there was no doubt that she was now pressed against Liu Haoyu.
The sweet scent unique to a young girl made Liu Haoyu’s consciousness a little chaotic.
Qin Liu’s delicate white stockings also touched his thigh.
The cool touch, even through a layer of cloth, could be felt clearly.
Seeing this, Liu Haoyu felt his throat go dry.
He considered himself neither a gentleman nor a beast.
But the scene before him was too impactful for a young man full of vigor.
Liu Haoyu couldn’t help but arch his body and give up the idea of leaving the bed.
Catching ghosts?
Was catching ghosts as important as Qin Liu’s white stockings?
He could catch ghosts later, but opportunities to touch Qin Liu’s white stockings were rare.
Liu Haoyu placed his hand on Qin Liu’s calf, and the sleeping girl let out a soft moan and snuggled even closer.
Her small head rested on Liu Haoyu’s arm. Since Qin Liu was a ghost, there was no sense of weight, even when resting her head.
Soon, Qin Liu’s breathing became very calm, and she seemed to be sleeping soundly, with a slight smile at the corner of her mouth. It was unclear what sweet dream she was having.
“Kentucky… Hehe…”
Well, it seemed she was dreaming of food.
Liu Haoyu suddenly felt that Qin Liu was really easy to please.
At least he didn’t have to guess her thoughts.
The pecking sound from the bathroom continued, but after a while, the lantern on the bedside suddenly lit up.
The dim firelight illuminated the room, and the pecking sound from the bathroom disappeared.
Liu Haoyu found it a bit strange.
He had heard from the Black Book that the legends of the Guide were mainly around Jiangliu City, so ghosts there were very afraid of Qin Liu.
However, outside of Jiangliu City, the legends of the Guide were not well-known, and similarly, the ghosts here were not very afraid of Qin Liu.
But after the lantern lit up, the pecking sound from the bathroom stopped.
Could it be… the Guide?
Or did the other party simply leave?
Liu Haoyu didn’t know, but it was good that the annoying pecking sound was gone now, and he could finally sleep.
He closed his eyes, and the girl’s dream-like murmurs of “fries, burgers, fried chicken” gradually faded away.
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Time passed to the next day. The morning sun could not penetrate the thick curtains.
After sleeping for nearly eight hours, Qin Liu finally woke up.
She rubbed her eyes and wiped away the drool from her mouth before realizing that she had crossed the midline and fallen asleep on Liu Haoyu’s bed…
Wait a minute? She had fallen asleep on Liu Haoyu’s bed?!
Qin Liu, still a little groggy, woke up instantly. When she sat up in bed, she saw Liu Haoyu sitting on a stool by the bedside, casually crossing his legs and reading the Black Book.
“You’re awake?”
“Uh…” Qin Liu gave an embarrassed glance at her position: “Sorry, I pushed you out of bed.”
“It’s fine. I didn’t sleep at all last night anyway.”
With the situation last night, who could sleep?
Liu Haoyu tossed and turned, unable to sleep.
To avoid any unnecessary awkwardness if they were to be close when waking up, Liu Haoyu had sat on the stool early to pass the time by reading the Black Book.
“Oh? Why don’t you sleep a bit longer?”
Qin Liu felt a little guilty about taking up his bed.
Although she had dreamt that Liu Haoyu had been touching her legs all night, that was just a dream. In reality… this man should still be quite proper!
“No need.”
Liu Haoyu closed the book and walked towards the bathroom.
He hadn’t forgotten the rapid pecking sound from last night and intended to investigate now.
“I’m going to the restroom.”
“Okay… Be careful, there might be a ghost inside.”
The little girl’s words from last night still had an impact on Qin Liu, and she was a little worried.
But Liu Haoyu just waved his hand at her with his back turned, signaling that everything was fine.
Under Qin Liu’s gaze, Liu Haoyu pushed open the bathroom door.
He cautiously peeked inside the bathroom.
Then he discovered a faint smell of blood emanating from inside.
This smell of blood was not human blood, but rather… chicken blood.
When Liu Haoyu turned on the bathroom light, he finally found the source of the smell.
On the bathroom floor, there was a dead rooster that had been plucked and had been dead for a long time.
The rooster’s neck was cut open, looking like it could break at any moment, and its crop and gizzard were bulging, as if it had eaten a lot of things.
Behind it, there was a long trail of blood, as if something had dragged it there…
However, there were also traces of chicken claws on the ground, as if it had struggled to crawl over.
Liu Haoyu turned to look at the bathroom door.
It was no exaggeration to say that the door from Liu Haoyu’s calf downwards was covered in peck marks, so dense that it would trigger misophonia.
Liu Haoyu could not imagine how much frenzy it would take to create such terrifying marks.
After calming himself down, Liu Haoyu walked up to the rooster.
“The pecking sound last night… was it this thing?”
But the question was, besides the pecking sound, what about the sound of the door handle twisting?
There was only this dead rooster in the bathroom, and no other presence.
The fire candle in Liu Haoyu’s hand had not lit up, which also proved that it was very safe here.
But in the next second, the fire candle in Liu Haoyu’s hand lit up.
However, this was not because a fierce ghost had arrived.
It was Qin Liu who had walked into the bathroom.
She felt a little flustered staying alone in the bedroom for too long, so she decided to enter the bathroom to see what Liu Haoyu was doing.
Then she saw the dead rooster on the ground.
The rooster’s eyes, wide open in death, and its bulging belly startled Qin Liu.
“Where did this rooster come from?”
“I don’t know. Maybe something brought it here.”
Liu Haoyu put on plastic gloves, his skillful movements resembling those of a murderer handling a corpse.
He squeezed the rooster’s crop and then frowned.
The feel of it did not feel like feed… it was soft and more like some kind of meat.
Immediately after, he took out the fire axe and placed it on the rooster’s crop. With a gentle slice,
The rooster’s crop burst open like a bitten beef ball, spewing out a pile of indeterminate liquid, stinking and extremely disgusting.
As Liu Haoyu had predicted, the rooster’s belly and crop were filled with meat.
And judging by the reddish color… it was human flesh.
The human flesh was very finely minced, making it impossible to identify whose flesh it was.
So, Liu Haoyu took out his mobile phone and took a deep breath.
“Hello, 110? I need to report a crime…”
When facing difficulties, call the police. Experts have their specialties. When it comes to finding people, the police are definitely faster than him, a ghost exorcist.
Soon, the piercing sound of police sirens could be heard from outside the house, followed by a jumble of footsteps and urgent knocking.
Liu Haoyu stood up from the sofa and opened the door.
Several police officers were standing outside.
“Hello, is this Mr. Liu Haoyu? We are police officers from the XinJian Road Police Station in Gui Ping District. This is my badge number. Where is the body?”
Liu Haoyu glanced at the other person’s identification, confirmed it was legitimate, and said.
“Officer Zhao, please come in. I rented this house last night, and this morning I found a corpse in the master bedroom’s bathroom…”
As he led the police officers into the house, Liu Haoyu explained what had happened last night.
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Of course, he had to add some details and couldn’t directly say it was haunted.
Zhao Long listened carefully to Liu Haoyu’s account. As the police officers entered the house, they began to search. Zhao Long followed Liu Haoyu into the bathroom.
When the two of them entered, a smell of chicken filth assailed them. Zhao Long was first stunned when he saw the plucked rooster on the ground, and then couldn’t help but laugh.
“The corpse you’re talking about isn’t this big rooster, is it?”
“Of course not, Officer Zhao, take a closer look…”
Liu Haoyu squatted down and pointed to the rooster’s crop and stomach.
“Look at what?”
Zhao Long also squatted down.
“The meat inside this chicken’s belly, I suspect it’s human flesh…”
Liu Haoyu said something terrifying in a very calm voice.
This terrified Zhao Long.
Would a normal person know what human flesh looks like?!
He had initially considered drawing his weapon, but seeing Liu Haoyu so calm and non-threatening, he could only suppress the shuddering and unease in his mind.
“Mr. Liu, how did you figure that out?”
“Experience,” Liu Haoyu said calmly. “Although the meat inside the chicken’s belly has rotted, the taste of human flesh is very different from that of livestock. You can tell by smelling it a lot.”
Zhao Long listened to Liu Haoyu’s serious analysis with a stiff expression.
Zhao Long felt that there was something wrong with the man in front of him, but he couldn’t pinpoint what it was.
Furthermore, only he himself had entered the bathroom. This…
Wasn’t it a bit dangerous?
“Please forgive my presumption, Mr. Liu, but where did your experience come from?”
“Well…” Liu Haoyu rummaged through his backpack and took out a document, explaining, “I work at a funeral home, so I often deal with the dead. It’s normal for me to recognize the smell of human flesh.”
“…”
Zhao Long nodded, half-believing. He wiped the sweat from his forehead.
He had to admit that he was really nervous just now, fearing that the man in front of him might be a murderer or something.
Especially since he had recently heard about a masked murderer in the neighboring Jiangliu City.
It was said that he had been caught, but his legend was still circulating among the drivers in Jiangliu City.
“Mr. Liu, we will investigate this thoroughly, but we may need you to come to the station with me first.”
“Alright.”
In the remaining time, the police officers thoroughly searched the room but found no other bodies. Finally, they had to take Liu Haoyu back to the Gui Ping District police station.
In the police station’s interrogation room, Liu Haoyu sat opposite Zhao Long.
This very kind police officer held a stack of documents and asked Liu Haoyu,
“You came from Jiangliu City and rented that house without much money to stay, and then you found that dead rooster?”
“Yes.”
Liu Haoyu nodded.
At this time, Zhao Long kept comparing Liu Haoyu with the information in his hands, repeatedly confirming it.
When the body of the rooster was handed over to the forensic doctor, the doctor’s expression was initially a bit surprised. After Zhao Ming pointed to the minced meat that had burst out of the crop, the forensic doctor’s face immediately showed shock.
From the doctor, Zhao Long also learned one thing.
This meat was indeed human flesh.
However, its identity still needed to be confirmed through DNA identification.
The top priority now was to find out what happened last night from this man’s mouth.
“You visited your neighbors last night, right? Wait a moment, let me find the photo…”
Zhao Long rummaged through his documents, found a photo, and pushed it in front of Liu Haoyu.
“This is the old person found based on your detailed description. Is it roughly this person?”
Liu Haoyu looked at the photo pushed towards him and nodded after careful verification.
“Yes, it is indeed this old woman.”
Facing Liu Haoyu’s firm tone, Zhao Long couldn’t help but sigh.
Another police officer in the interrogation room looked at Liu Haoyu, thought for a moment, then leaned towards Zhao Long’s ear and whispered.
“I think he’s telling the truth and not lying to you.”
“But this is too strange…”
Zhao Long covered his forehead, feeling like his head was about to explode.
“You tell me, how could a person who has been dead for half a month invite him to eat dumplings?”
