Chapter 37: Nekomata
On the other side, Liu Haoyu ran towards Liu Zining’s residence.
On the way, he saw a group of police officers blocking the number 514 bus.
Leading them was Wang Wenqi, the leader of the Special Task Force.
This police officer was recording the situation of the bus in front of him.
However, judging from his furrowed brows, the situation seemed a bit complicated.
“Are there no ghosts inside the car?”
“Not even a ghostly shadow can be seen, this is an empty car.”
“How did an empty car drive itself?”
Wang Wenqi painfully covered his forehead.
The situation with the 514 bus was simply too complex.
The Special Task Force had divided into three teams, and each team had stopped a bus.
But no matter which one it was, the car was empty.
How many of these buses were there?
If there were many, it would be a very troublesome matter for solving the case.
“Brother Wang, Brother Wang, Team Two has found something.”
“What?”
Wang Wenqi was greatly surprised, and immediately took out his walkie-talkie to call Team Two.
“Calling Team Two, Team Two, please respond.”
“Team Two responding,” a voice from Team Two’s officer came from the walkie-talkie: “Officer Wang, we found a large patch of bloodstains on the tires of this car.”
“Is it human blood?”
“No, it’s not. There’s a large patch of black fur stuck to the tires. Judging from this fur, it should be cat’s blood, but…”
The voice at the other end of the walkie-talkie hesitated.
“But we searched along the bloodstains all the way forward, and we couldn’t find the cat’s body. Moreover, we found bloody cat footprints, and we still haven’t found its body.”
After Team Two finished explaining the situation, Wang Wenqi thoughtfully pondered.
As a member of the Special Task Force, he had also witnessed all sorts of bizarre incidents, so even though this situation sounded very strange and could not be explained by common sense.
He still guessed one possibility.
“That cat might have been possessed by a ghost. You continue searching, and Team Three will come to support you later.”
“Understood.”
The conversation ended.
Liu Haoyu hid in the dark and heard the conversation between Wang Wenqi and Team Two.
He stroked his chin and analyzed the current situation by combining the existing information.
According to the Black Book, after the Substitute Death Summoning ritual was interfered with, that guy was resurrected ahead of time. Although he had a physical body and obtained a little life span from other victims, this life span was not much. Coupled with not being fully formed, he had to find any living thing he could possess to maintain his life in the human world.
Once his life span was exhausted, the Underworld Envoys would discover that he had escaped from the Underworld and would come to find him.
It was easy to enter the human world from the Underworld, but to return to the human world from the Underworld, because it violated the laws of heaven, the Underworld Envoys would never stand by and do nothing.
However, all this was on the premise that his life span was exhausted, otherwise, the Underworld Envoys would not know that someone had escaped from the Underworld.
Team Two’s location was not far from here.
Liu Haoyu hid in the darkness and sneaked to where Team Two was.
Since everyone was looking for the black cat’s body, there weren’t many police officers left guarding the bus.
Liu Haoyu climbed under the bus from their blind spot and scraped off a few black hairs from the tires.
Then he returned the same way and went back to his hiding place.
None of this was discovered by anyone, so much so that the Black Book couldn’t help but complain after reading it.
“The way you look now is like a prisoner trying to break out of jail.”
“Can’t I be a hero walking in the darkness?”
Liu Haoyu glanced at the Black Book, but the latter didn’t buy it and retorted unceremoniously.
“What kind of hero gets turned on by white stockings?”
“I think white stockings are the world…”
“Stop, stop, stop!”
The Black Book quickly stopped Liu Haoyu and continued.
“People used to say that those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes, but I think this saying needs to be changed now, because the barefoot might be afraid of those who can speak.”
“…Damn,” Liu Haoyu was speechless, so he could only change the subject and say, “Alright, alright, quickly help me find out where that guy ran off to.”
As he spoke, Liu Haoyu placed the cat hair next to the Black Book.
The residual blood was also imprinted on the blank page.
Soon, the Black Book responded.
The blood gathered into an arrow, like a compass, pointing to the unknown distance.
Although the Black Book did not give any hints, this arrow was enough for Liu Haoyu.
The man followed the direction of the arrow and walked forward.
However, the increasingly familiar scenery made him feel a little uneasy.
The direction this arrow was pointing was exactly the same as the direction to Liu Zining’s house.
Liu Haoyu quickened his pace.
But soon, he suddenly stopped.
On one hand, he had arrived at Liu Zining’s house.
On the other hand, he saw Bai Anting standing at the doorway.
Why did this guy come out in the middle of the night?
Upon seeing Liu Haoyu, Bai Anting’s face froze for a moment, and then she said.
“Hao-ge, why are you only returning now? I was just about to go look for you.”
Liu Haoyu didn’t speak. He looked at the arrow on the Black Book.
He didn’t know if the arrow was pointing to the house or to Bai Anting herself.
But his intuition subtly sensed that Bai Anting was emitting a faint deathly aura.
Liu Haoyu took a deep breath.
“Did you die?”
“Die…?”
Bai Anting was stunned, only giving such a reaction.
“What die?”
The arrow on the Black Book instantly pointed to the girl in front of him, and Liu Haoyu unceremoniously took out a fire axe and chopped at Bai Anting.
Seeing this, Bai Anting quickly dodged to the side.
“I really didn’t expect you to react so quickly.”
“Heh…” Liu Haoyu sneered, “I know that steel plate’s personality very well.”
“But do you think you can beat me?”
Two cat tails burning with eerie green flames appeared behind Bai Anting, and she herself exuded an extremely dangerous evil aura.
Nekomata?!
“Your existence has been erased, no one will know of your existence. With the gap in our strength, junior… you cannot possibly win against me.”
Feeling the strange aura emanating from the other party, Liu Haoyu roughly compared the gap between himself and the other party and understood that it was indeed impossible to defeat the monster in front of him.
But who said he didn’t have support?
Liu Haoyu suddenly smiled.
In Liu Haoyu’s perspective, a rusty iron door stained with blood slowly appeared behind the Nekomata.
The door slowly opened, and countless pale hands stretched out from within.
Feeling the threat from behind, she quickly jumped to the side.
“Gate of the Yellow Springs? Weren’t you with the Guide? Why are you here?”
“The Guide?” The Red Gate’s mocking voice sounded, “Isn’t the Guide always in the hands of the man behind you?”
As soon as these words were spoken, the Nekomata’s fur stood on end, and she was so scared that she almost flew up.
