Chapter 35 Parasitic Fetus (4k)
Seeing the swollen infant, Liu Haoyu’s skin crawled all over.
He didn’t bother with anything else and, at his fastest speed, stripped off his clothes and threw them and the swollen infant onto the ground.
“Wah!!”
After being thrown by Liu Haoyu, the black infant instantly let out a desolate and sharp cry.
Just hearing this voice sent shivers down one’s spine, making the whole body tremble uncontrollably.
Liu Haoyu was still relatively calm as he stared at the infant on the ground.
Perhaps sensing Liu Haoyu’s gaze, the infant’s deformed and ugly facial features twisted into the same eerie smile as the fierce ghosts he had seen before.
It stretched out two distorted hands, as if yearning for an embrace.
However, all it received was a fire axe glinting with a cold light.
“Pa!”
The axe blade split the infant’s head in two.
It died, but the eerie smile on its face became fixed.
It stared straight at Liu Haoyu.
“Divine Fire Talisman.”
Flames set the corpse on the ground ablaze.
Amidst the continuous sizzling sound of oil popping, the infant’s cries could faintly be heard.
Liu Haoyu, still shaken, looked at the ashes left on the ground and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
“Hoo…”
As a ghost exorcist, Liu Haoyu naturally knew that what had been on his back was not a ghost infant.
It was a product similar to a ghost infant, called a parasitic fetus.
Like a ghost infant, both were infants.
But unlike a ghost infant, a parasitic fetus was created by a ghost exorcist.
However, like Substitute Death Summoning, this kind of sorcery, which violated human ethics and morals, had been completely banned long ago.
From this, it seemed that something had indeed left the coffin and, without his knowledge, placed a parasitic fetus on his back.
Liu Haoyu felt a bit fortunate at this moment, fortunate that he was at the boundary of life and death, able to see these supernatural existences with his own eyes.
If it were any other ghost exorcist, by the time they discovered they had a parasitic fetus, they would have been close to death.
And if this was something placed by someone, it meant that the fierce ghosts he had seen just now might not have been fierce ghosts.
Liu Haoyu left the house and looked around it.
As expected, large amounts of paper scraps were scattered on the ground. In the messy paper scraps, Liu Haoyu could still see several paper figures’ heads.
These paper figures looked extremely realistic at first glance, but upon closer inspection, their crudeness could be discovered.
It was this almost-but-not-quite appearance that would inevitably evoke the uncanny valley effect in people’s hearts.
Liu Haoyu took out another Divine Fire Talisman and burned all the paper figures on the ground.
The thing inside the coffin was gone.
It was obvious that the person had obtained enough souls and was able to return to the human world from the underworld.
Moreover, the other party was also a ghost exorcist, and their strength was likely superior to his.
Coupled with the fact that the enemy was in the dark and he was in the light, Liu Haoyu knew he had to leave this place as soon as possible.
He had considered asking Qin Liu for help, but he was also unsure if he could restrain Qin Liu if they met with their enemy, considering their animosity.
The most important point was that Liu Haoyu felt he wasn’t so incompetent that he needed to call Qin Liu for everything.
What was the difference between that and living off someone?
He only ate ice cream, not off others.
Thinking of this, Liu Haoyu tightened his grip on the fire axe.
The fire axe was truly a good thing.
It could be used to fight ghosts when dipped in talismanic water, and it could also be used to hurt people without it.
At the very least, it was intimidating enough to hold.
He figured that was why the person hiding in the dark dared not reveal himself to confront Liu Haoyu head-on.
In the silent village, the cold night wind continued to whistle.
The wind blew the leaves in the forest, and Liu Haoyu, with his bare chest, couldn’t help but shiver.
The temperature on the mountain was naturally lower than at the foot of the mountain, and combined with the chilling environment, ordinary people might fall seriously ill if they stayed for too long.
Liu Haoyu, using the light of his flashlight, began to search for the trace of the person hidden in the darkness.
But during the search, Liu Haoyu smelled that pungent stench again.
And this smell was much stronger than the smell in the basement.
This caused Liu Haoyu’s heart to sink slightly.
The appearance of this smell meant that the guy had not left the village yet, and was hiding somewhere, still thinking about him.
Had it really come back to life?
Liu Haoyu questioned himself.
Let alone humans, even animals have the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.
Although Liu Haoyu was in the open, the fire axe and the lightning-attracting talismans in his pocket ensured that he was not someone to be trifled with.
If it still had any reason, it should have chosen to go down the mountain and find other prey.
Instead of persistently clinging to him.
However, precisely because this smell was so foul, it was good news for Liu Haoyu.
This meant that he could follow this foul smell to track the guy’s whereabouts.
Even with moonlight and a flashlight, Liu Haoyu could only see about ten meters ahead.
Beyond that, he could only vaguely see the grass in the distance and the dark woods.
If that person had truly resurrected, he should have a physical form as well.
The village was not large, and there were not many places to hide.
Where had it gone…
“Woof woof woof!!”
At this moment, from the dense bushes, dog barks suddenly came.
In such a desolate place, why would there be the sound of a dog?
Liu Haoyu was a little confused. What was even more strange was that the smell of decay and the direction of the sound were almost identical.
Was this a trap?
Liu Haoyu didn’t know, but he still chose to proactively approach the sound.
“Woof woof woof… whine…”
The dog’s barking suddenly became sharp and angry, then abruptly stopped, as if it had been attacked by some monster.
Liu Haoyu cautiously walked to the bush.
And gently pushed aside the dense branches with his fire axe.
The corpse of a wild dog lay quietly on the ground.
However, strictly speaking, it could no longer be called a corpse, but rather a pile of shredded meat.
The wild dog’s abdomen had been roughly torn open, its internal organs were scattered haphazardly, and its flesh and blood had been gnawed almost clean.
Only a bloody dog fur and a few bones remained.
Looking at the scene, this wild dog seemed to have tried to struggle, but within half a minute, it had become like this.
Liu Haoyu held his breath.
He could now confirm one thing.
Perhaps the thing that came out of the redwood coffin had not resurrected as a human, and might not even have much reason left.
This guy was still a ghost, and a maddened fierce ghost at that.
Liu Haoyu did not examine the corpse in front of him carefully but covered the bush again.
The stench was still there, but it was much fainter than before.
It seemed to be heading down the mountain?
Liu Haoyu did not expect a fierce ghost with no reason left to actively abandon him, a living person.
It couldn’t be that a dog had satisfied it, right?
Seeing this, Liu Haoyu did not dare to delay and followed the scent, chasing after it.
However, even though Liu Haoyu tried his best to keep up, he still couldn’t match the other party’s speed.
This guy was running so fast!
Looking in the direction it had left, Liu Haoyu couldn’t help but become a little anxious.
Because the direction it was heading was Jiangquan City.
Once this thing mixed into the crowd, it would not be so easy to find it.
Liu Haoyu sped up, but even so, he didn’t even catch a glimpse of the thing by the time he reached the road.
Looking at the 514 bus driving into the distance, Liu Haoyu knew that he was a step too late.
He had no choice but to take out his phone and call Wang Wenqi.
“Hello, Officer Wang? How is the matter on your end being handled?”
The Special Task Force was extremely busy, and they were overwhelmed with large and small supernatural events, which was why they couldn’t accompany Liu Haoyu.
However, when the call was connected, an extremely eerie silence fell on the other end.
“Hello?”
Liu Haoyu’s heart suddenly felt a sense of foreboding.
Soon, Wang Wenqi on the other end asked with a very puzzled tone.
“Hello, who are you, and what do you need?”
“…”
Liu Haoyu was speechless by this short reply.
However, he was a person with a relatively stable emotional state. It only took him a few seconds to calmly say.
“Officer Wang Wenqi, I am a ghost exorcist. I just encountered a fierce ghost resurrected by the Substitute Death Summoning Talisman. It is now taking the 514 bus that sank years ago and is heading to Jiangquan City. For safety reasons, please send people to intercept this bus as soon as possible.”
After briefly explaining the situation, Wang Wenqi on the other end immediately became serious.
He confirmed again.
“Are you sure it’s a ghost resurrected by the Substitute Death Summoning Talisman?”
“Yes, there were similar incidents in the 1950s. You can find them if you check.”
Wang Wenqi quickly did a quick search and, upon seeing the serial disappearances from the 1950s, gasped in shock.
“Hiss… I understand, we’ll act immediately.”
The call was hung up.
After receiving support from the Special Task Force, Liu Haoyu did not dare to slack off.
He took out the black book and asked it.
“Where has that thing gone now?”
“It’s still a bit far from Jiangquan City.”
The black book gradually displayed a line of blood-red text.
“But I can give you good news.”
“Because of your interference, the ritual of the Substitute Death Summoning Talisman has been disrupted, which has caused the partially revived caster to be prematurely pulled into the human world.”
“Its soul is incomplete and it cannot absorb those missing victims.”
“Those victims are safe for now.”
“For now…”
Liu Haoyu twitched his mouth at these two words.
“Can’t you be more certain?”
“Insufficient elements, unable to observe,” the black book helplessly wrote in blood-red characters, “But it is certain that the longer it is delayed, the more dangerous it will be for everyone, including you. The safest choice for you is to eliminate it before it fully revives.”
“…I understand.”
Liu Haoyu took a deep breath.
So, this was a supernatural event that required a swift resolution.
When was his sense of presence stripped away?
Liu Haoyu thought of the parasitic fetus that had been on his back.
No… that’s not right.
If it was indeed here, after he killed the parasitic fetus, his eaten sense of presence should have returned.
When was he tricked by the other party?
“Are you alright?”
When Liu Haoyu was making the phone call just now, Qin Liu had naturally heard his conversation with Wang Wenqi.
The stripping of one’s sense of presence was simply too difficult to guard against.
Initially, they both thought it was the bus that caused the stripping of his presence, but now it seemed to be far more complicated than they had imagined.
“I’m fine.”
Liu Haoyu checked his body and wiped it with talismanic water.
The talismanic water did not react in any way.
This meant that although his sense of presence had been stripped, he was not controlled by the other party to commit suicide like others.
Moreover, the other party did not have that ability.
And the only reason for doing so.
Was simply to disgust him and slow down his pace.
Tsk… Didn’t you say you were crazy?
