Chapter 6: How is this the same?
Listening to Hongmen’s words, Qin Liu’s expression didn’t change much.
Although her memories of deep sleep were fragmented, she could still vaguely understand what had happened to her body.
“What is it?” Hongmen’s tone carried a hint of mockery, “Do you want to live with that man?”
“Humans and ghosts walk different paths; this is impossible.”
Qin Liu’s gaze became increasingly cold, and her strange demeanor immediately caused Hongmen to restrain herself.
Even so, Hongmen didn’t stop her annoying mouth.
“Well… your exquisite little face can’t hide your thoughts.”
However, she was much more timid when saying this.
So Qin Liu didn’t bother to argue with her anymore and quietly closed the coffin.
“I need to go out.”
After speaking, regardless of what Hongmen thought, Qin Liu turned and left the place.
The girl in the darkness once again transformed into a blood-stained red gate.
“Although her personality has changed quite a lot, her tendency to say one thing and mean another hasn’t changed at all.”
Qin Liu passed through the endless darkness, and when light reappeared before her, she knew she had returned to the human world.
This was still Provincial Highway 845, and it was very quiet by the roadside. Before Qin Liu was a small car with no license plate.
A young girl was staring intently at her phone screen, as if praying for something.
And behind her, three rotten ghosts were also looking at her phone.
They were even amused by the comments, and their faces, where flesh and bone were almost separated, revealed very ferocious smiles.
They were laughing happily and didn’t even notice Qin Liu’s arrival.
“I told you I’m really a girl! I’m not a steel plate!”
Bai Anting no longer cared about ghosts or gods.
“Listen carefully!”
The girl patted the car angrily.
“This is the sound of a steel plate!”
Then she patted her chest.
“This is me! How is this different?! Ptooey! How is this the same!”
“Listen carefully again!”
“Pa pa pa pa…”
“Bang bang bang bang…”
“They’re completely different, okay?!”
As Bai Anting was defending herself, a comment appeared on the screen.
“Indeed, the streamer’s voice is even clearer than that of a steel plate.”
This made Bai Anting completely break down, and the three ghosts behind her were also laughing uncontrollably.
“Sigh… you silly netizens have made me break down,” Bai Anting calmed herself down, her eyes carrying a hint of melancholy and helplessness. “I vaguely remember that when I debuted, I was labeled as a ‘little sister’ type. Don’t you think I sound like Kirino Kōsaka from that anime?”
At this moment, a comment floated across the livestream.
“Kirino Kōsaka (x), Steel Plate Kirino (√).”
“Which bastard said Steel Plate Kirino!! I (beautiful Chinese language)!!”
The streamer’s breakdown filled the livestream room and the area outside the room with joy.
Especially the three fierce ghosts behind her, who were laughing so hard they could barely hold themselves up.
Qin Liu couldn’t help but twitch the corner of her mouth at this harmonious scene.
She lit her lantern and walked forward.
Hearing these footsteps and the suffocating oppressive feeling, the three fierce ghosts behind Bai Anting were so scared their hair stood on end.
They looked back, and the moment they saw Qin Liu, the entire ghost was scared into “The Scream.”
They had been laughing their heads off moments before, and now they were almost dead from laughter.
These three ghosts almost tumbled and crawled, jumping into the river as if they had seen a ghost.
The viewers in the livestream room vanished in an instant.
“My mom told me to take the meat out of the fridge to thaw, goodbye goodbye.”
“It’s raining outside, I need to collect the clothes, streamer, wish you good luck.”
“It’s my 7-year-old sister’s birthday, and my girlfriend asked for help buying condoms. I’m busy explaining to the cashier at the supermarket now. Streamer, we’ll meet again if fate allows.”
“……?”
Bai Anting, who had wanted to explain, was stunned when she saw that everyone had left her livestream room.
She turned around and saw a red shadow holding a lantern, slowly standing behind her.
“Bai Anting, what are you doing here?”
“You… are you… Qin Liu?”
Having not seen Qin Liu for a considerable time, Bai Anting almost didn’t recognize her at first.
But even after recognizing her, cold sweat couldn’t stop breaking out on her forehead.
No, if it’s Qin Liu… where is Liu Haoyu?
Don’t these two usually appear as a pair?
Why is it only Qin Liu now?
Bai Anting thought of the fierce ghosts that disguised themselves as others and couldn’t help but hold her breath secretly.
It should be the real Qin Liu, right?
But since the other party had already come to her, Bai Anting had no other choice but to ask with a very forced smile.
“Um, where is Liu Haoyu?”
Hearing this, Qin Liu instinctively looked around, and she found that Liu Haoyu was indeed not nearby.
She should have been sleeping inside the bus, so how did she suddenly appear in this place?
Even stranger was that the lantern in her hand was flashing with a faint light.
This light was pointing at Bai Anting; what was going on?
The lantern’s light only locked onto the dead or those about to die.
But Bai Anting looked perfectly fine.
Why would this lantern point at her?
Qin Liu suddenly thought of a terrifying possibility, and she couldn’t help but ask.
“Bai Anting, are… are you dead?”
“No, no, no! I’m not dead! Not dead!”
Bai Anting seemed to be stimulated and frantically explained everything that had happened to her, including encountering the police, but the police couldn’t see her and couldn’t touch her.
This flustered girl explained everything that had happened in detail, down to every minute and second.
After listening, the latter fell into thought.
Qin Liu, after all, had been a ghost for so long, so she understood that Bai Anting’s current situation was similar to becoming a ghost.
She said she wasn’t dead, and Qin Liu looked around. There were no traces of blood nearby, not even a corpse. What was going on?
Although Qin Liu was a ghost, she was only half-hearted and didn’t have a clear understanding of such supernatural events. She would have to wait for Liu Haoyu to come to know what had happened here.
“For safety’s sake, I’ll wait here with you for Liu Haoyu to come.”
From Bai Anting’s perspective, the red shadow in front of her sat in the car after speaking.
The two didn’t say much after that, but even with a ghost accompanying her, Bai Anting’s originally uneasy heart had calmed down considerably.
Especially after Qin Liu extinguished the lantern, she felt even more at ease.
After waiting for about ten minutes, Bai Anting, sitting in the copilot’s seat, noticed the lights of flashlights appearing in the distance.
These were police officers looking for someone, and Liu Haoyu was among them.
The man’s face was grim; he seemed to have seen something.
This group of people arrived in front of the unlicensed car.
As Bai Anting had said, these police officers couldn’t see her.
Among them, the leader, Zhao Long, after searching the car, said to Liu Haoyu.
“There’s no one in the car.”
Liu Haoyu looked at the garbled phone number on his mobile phone and Bai Anting, who was sitting in the car waving at him. He then said.
“Officer Zhao, they probably haven’t gone far. Let’s split up and search.”
“…Alright.”
Zhao Long had brought a team to find the missing Bai Anting.
They shouldn’t have gone too far on foot.
“I’ll go contact others for help. You don’t need to worry about finding her, Brother Liu. You should go back first and come to the Public Security Bureau tomorrow to make a statement.”
“Okay, thank you, officers.”
Liu Haoyu nodded.
After the police dispersed, his gaze fell on Qin Liu inside the car and Bai Anting beside her.
“What happened here? Why has Bai Anting become a spiritual body?”
Bai Anting, seeing that Liu Haoyu had been ignoring her, was already filled with despair. However, upon hearing this, she was overjoyed and almost jumped up.
Seeing her excitedly babbling, Qin Liu could only help her explain.
“Actually, it’s like this…”
“After getting out of the car, she became like this?”
Liu Haoyu’s eyes were grim. He opened the suitcase in the trunk.
It was indeed empty, but Liu Haoyu knew that the current situation was not that simple.
He took out a talisman from his pocket.
As the talisman burned, a spectral blue flame illuminated his somber face.
In the suitcase, a girl’s body gradually appeared.
And this… was Bai Anting!
She had never left the suitcase from the beginning, but no one, including herself, knew about it.
