Chapter 45: What happened to cherishing your life?
On the other side, Liu Haoyu had also arrived near the air-raid shelter.
He held a soul-searching spell in his hand and looked up at the air-raid shelter.
Qin Liu stood steadily beside him, her eyes inexplicably revealing a trace of worry.
Even though she knew her sister was a ghost hunter, due to her brother’s identity, it was absolutely impossible for Qin Liu to say she wasn’t worried.
Not to mention that Liu Zining had come to such a grim and terrifying place.
“It seems it’s here.”
Liu Haoyu extinguished the soul-searching spell in his hand and said to Qin Liu.
“Liu Zining should be inside now.”
“This place looks a bit eerie, why did she come here?”
“Where else would a ghost hunter go if not to eerie places?”
After answering Qin Liu’s question, Liu Haoyu opened the black book, which was filled with lines of blood-red text.
These words were the answers Liu Haoyu had received from the black book not long ago.
“A pitch-dark cave, a young girl drawn into it,”
“Within it lies a terror beyond your imagination,”
“A place meant to protect life has become a hell of death,”
“This place welcomes the deceased; once the living step in…”
“Ten deaths, no life.”
The black book resumed its mysterious demeanor, but unfortunately, Liu Haoyu, who had long seen through its true nature, only found it to be pretending to be mysterious.
However, the warnings revealed by the black book were indeed true.
Liu Haoyu could feel the strangeness of this place himself upon arriving.
“Hello comrade, 74394598%.”
As Liu Haoyu was contemplating how to climb up from this place, a police officer walked over.
He showed his identification card, which displayed his police number and name… Yan Wenyi.
After saluting Liu Haoyu, he said.
“Hello sir, it’s sparsely populated around here and quite dangerous, please leave as soon as possible.”
Liu Haoyu merely shook his head and said.
“I’m sorry, I just heard there was an air-raid shelter here, so I came to take a look out of curiosity. I’ll be leaving soon.”
“Is that so?” Yan Wenyi eyed Liu Haoyu intently, “If you want to visit an air-raid shelter, there’s another one in Jiangquan City. This air-raid shelter above has had deaths, and it’s already sealed, so please do not linger here.”
After speaking, the police officer walked towards a nearby village, seemingly intending to conduct house-to-house checks.
Liu Haoyu watched him leave and pondered for a long time.
Qin Liu couldn’t help but ask at this moment.
“By the way, do police officers go out on duty alone?”
“Obviously not.”
When he met the other party, Liu Haoyu felt that the person was very off.
He had seen many police ID cards and knew what they generally looked like.
However, the police officer’s ID card just now was very strange.
It looked very crude, as if it were a replica.
But the other party didn’t seem highly suspicious, so Liu Haoyu didn’t intend to pry into his background for the time being.
Even if the other party was disguised as a police officer, it was still a matter for the police to handle.
As a ghost hunter, he shouldn’t be meddling in other people’s business.
“Let’s go up.”
Liu Haoyu was not familiar with the area, so he had no idea that he could go up from the mountain.
But fortunately, his equipment was complete. He took out a grappling hook from his backpack and swung it gently, hooking it onto the side.
After tugging it a few times and confirming it was secure, Liu Haoyu quickly climbed to the entrance of the cave.
As a ghost, Qin Liu floated up with ease.
It was already deep into the night. The inside of the air-raid shelter emanated a cool, earthy smell. Due to the extreme depth of the entrance, it was pitch black inside, and nothing could be seen clearly.
Following behind Liu Haoyu, Qin Liu entered the air-raid shelter.
Even a powerful flashlight couldn’t illuminate very far.
And since Qin Liu was following behind Liu Haoyu, it was quite dark without any light.
She quickly moved closer, their distance almost touching.
Qin Liu dared not take out the lantern, fearing that the strange and distant whispering voice would reappear in her mind.
Now, she could only stay close to Liu Haoyu, constantly observing the surroundings. Due to excessive nervousness, her breathing was even a little uneven.
Liu Haoyu, walking ahead, also felt Qin Liu’s unease, so he took out the red jade and asked.
“Do you want to go inside? You probably won’t be so scared then.”
Seeing the red jade in Liu Haoyu’s hand, Qin Liu repeatedly shook her head.
Unlike her sister, she was indeed not very brave.
When they were young, Liu Zining even dared to watch horror movies alone in her room, while she had confidently said she would accompany her.
As a result, it was Liu Zining who accompanied her to the bathroom in the end…
How embarrassing.
Although she was a little scared at the moment, she couldn’t back down.
Her sister was in the air-raid shelter, her life or death unknown. No matter how scared she was, she couldn’t hide.
That would be too disgraceful.
At this moment, Liu Haoyu continued to speak.
“It seems you’ve grown quite a bit… But I still have to mention, the other party is a ghost hunter.”
After hearing Liu Haoyu’s words, Qin Liu paused blankly for a moment, then seemed to understand his meaning.
Yes, Liu Zining didn’t know her now. She only knew that she was a fierce ghost that looked very dangerous.
In such a grim and strange place, if they met…
She would probably slap a talisman directly on her face.
“Then… okay.”
“Leave the ghost catching and rescuing to me.”
Qin Liu returned into the red jade, and Liu Haoyu’s expression became increasingly solemn.
Before him stood a door covered in blood. The rusted lock that had hung on the door had been pried open and was now hanging crookedly.
This meant that Liu Zining had already entered the air-raid shelter.
But based on Liu Haoyu’s observation… this air-raid shelter was not right.
The resentment emanating from within was enough to suffocate someone.
An ordinary person entering there, even for half a day, would be driven mad by the tension and fear caused by the resentment, even without encountering any ghosts.
Even a typical ghost hunter, upon seeing such a perilous and terrifying place, should know when to retreat and choose to leave.
Instead of actively entering the air-raid shelter like Liu Zining.
Even if they were going to save someone, it was likely to become like the Calabash Brothers saving their grandpa, one by one.
“Buzzzzz…”
At this moment, the black book suddenly vibrated violently.
Liu Haoyu glanced into the air-raid shelter. Out of caution, he chose to remain where he was, first seeing what the black book wanted to tell him.
“This place is wrong!”
The first thing he saw were five bright red, terrifying characters.
Judging by the handwriting, it was not difficult to determine how terrified the black book was at the moment.
“I can no longer feel the aura of any living person inside the air-raid shelter.”
“The situation here is much worse than I imagined.”
“Don’t continue forward, that girl is probably gone.”
“If you continue forward, you’ll only be sending yourself to your death.”
Facing the black book’s dissuasion, Liu Haoyu frowned and then asked.
“Did you see Liu Zining’s corpse?”
“…No.”
The strong and strange malevolent energy inside the air-raid shelter did indeed have a significant impact on the black book’s observations.
But it could clearly feel that the inside of the air-raid shelter was extremely dangerous.
This place might lead to the underworld.
Even Liu Haoyu would find it difficult to come out alive if he went in.
But the man merely waved his hand.
“That settles it. If they’re alive, we find them. If they’re dead, we find the body.”
“This place is dangerous, very dangerous. Are you anxious to go down and join Qin Liu?”
The black book stopped writing and spoke directly to Liu Haoyu.
“If you die, the chain reaction it causes is not something an ordinary person can bear.”
Liu Haoyu smiled at this.
“Isn’t Qin Liu still with me?”
“So even if I die, wouldn’t it be better for me to become a ghost and accompany her?”
The black book was silent for a long time. Staring at Liu Haoyu’s retreating back, its voice, which could not distinguish between male or female, uttered this sentence.
“What happened to cherishing your life?”
However, Liu Haoyu had already walked far away and did not answer.
