Chapter 21 Cold Snort
Liu Haoyu placed the burned-out Qin Liu on his thigh.
What should I say…
Although he didn’t know what happened to this girl.
But one thing was certain, Qin Liu was chased by her embroidered shoes all the way.
Liu Haoyu analyzed the reason carefully. It was very likely that Qin Liu heard footsteps, turned around, and saw no one, and was scared out of her wits.
Well… if this little ghost had lowered her head, she wouldn’t have been scared into a pale gray.
But another problem arises, wasn’t she sleeping? How did she get here?
Or is she still dreaming?
Liu Haoyu was completely bewildered.
The paper figures that were wandering nearby had all disappeared.
They were probably scared away by Qin Liu?
However, this was also a great opportunity to escape from here. Liu Haoyu carried Qin Liu on his back and walked towards the exit mentioned in the Black Book.
Compared to Liu Haoyu, Qin Liu was indeed very small, only needing one hand to hold the little ghost’s little perky butt.
Liu Haoyu’s other hand was holding Qin Liu’s embroidered shoes.
These shoes couldn’t speak. If they could speak, they could ask Qin Liu what happened to her.
“Although all the paper figures have run away, that ghost-faced old man should still be lurking in this tomb. Don’t linger here too long. I already know the location of that dry well. Follow my instructions… turn right at five meters ahead, take a detour, don’t take the shortcut, there might be something over there.”
You’re right, but this is the Black Book… forgot the rest.
“Why don’t you consider having a wicked navigation voice?”
“Scram!”
In response to Liu Haoyu’s suggestion, the Black Book drew a middle finger on the wall.
Fortunately, with the Black Book’s guidance and no pursuit from paper figures, Liu Haoyu finally escaped from the second exit outside the tomb.
The outside was covered by a hazy white mist, but Liu Haoyu couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
At least the environment here was not as oppressive as inside the tomb.
“Continue along this road for fifty meters, then turn right and you will see that dry well.”
“Okay.”
Not long after, Liu Haoyu finally saw the dry well.
Carrying Qin Liu on his back, he leaped into the well.
When he landed, the white mist outside disappeared completely, and he could see the moon overhead from the bottom of the well.
It seemed they had escaped the underworld and returned to the real world.
Fortunately, Qin Liu was light enough, otherwise Liu Haoyu wouldn’t have known how to climb out from the bottom of the well.
After seeing the daylight again, Liu Haoyu stretched lazily. He didn’t know where Deng Xiaolin had been sent by the black coffin.
“By the way, where was Deng Xiaolin sent?”
Liu Haoyu subconsciously asked the Black Book, but for some reason, the Black Book did not give him any answer.
“Black Book?”
No matter how Liu Haoyu called out, the book didn’t react.
This situation made Liu Haoyu a little strange. He took out the Black Book and looked at the silent book, scratching his head.
However, since the Black Book had said before that Deng Xiaolin was fine, he didn’t need to worry too much.
Let’s go to bed early, it will be dawn if we don’t sleep.
Liu Haoyu carried the unconscious Qin Liu back to the bedroom.
Exhausted from the whole night, Liu Haoyu placed Qin Liu on the bed, gently hugged her, and soon fell into a deep sleep.
After he fell asleep, countless gazes seemed to appear in the room.
Then, one by one, pale hands stretched out from under the bed and gradually reached towards Liu Haoyu.
However, just as they were about to touch Liu Haoyu, Qin Liu opened her eyes.
Her hollow, lifeless eyes even caused the temperature in the room to drop by more than ten degrees.
The candles placed on the four walls to detect ghosts bloomed with ethereal blue flames and instantly turned into dust.
The lantern placed by the bedside also lit up.
The emerald green ghost fire was cold, strange, and silent…
In less than a second, all the emerging hands went limp and fell, stretching into long strips. Without even a scream, they were sucked into the lantern.
If you look closely, you will find that these elongated figures bear some resemblance to the paper figures they encountered before.
The room became exceptionally dark. This darkness was grim and heavy, and even the dimly lit morning sun outside could not penetrate it.
An invisible pressure formed in the room, and the gazes that were originally fixed on the room also developed a sense of terror.
It wanted to withdraw its gaze, but with a scream, a pair of bursting eyeballs were also sucked into the lantern.
“Hmph…”
In the deep darkness, Qin Liu, with empty eyes, let out a disdainful cold snort.
She pried open Liu Haoyu’s arm around her, straddled him, and her hollow gaze fixed on the familiar man, pondering for a long time.
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“Oh my god…”
When Liu Haoyu woke up, for some reason, his thigh hurt terribly.
It felt as if someone had been pressing on his thigh for a very, very long time.
It felt like squatting in the toilet for too long, it was both numb and painful, and it was difficult to even get up, let alone stand up.
“What’s going on…”
He rubbed his numb thigh, and a very strange dream faintly remained in his mind.
In the dream, Qin Liu, with empty eyes, straddled him, tore off her white stockings, and slowly sat down.
Then he just rode a horse all day. This must have been a dream, right?
The man calmed himself down before he could barely support his body.
He needed to take a shower. His body smelled of sweat, possibly because he slept without showering last night.
After Liu Haoyu left, Qin Liu also opened her eyes.
But unlike Liu Haoyu, the girl clamped her legs together, her eyes filled with panic, and her face was flushed red.
She swore that she had never seen any “Bodhisattva sitting on a lotus” manuals, nor did she know what “riding a horse” meant.
On the other side, Liu Haoyu washed up and prepared to go downstairs to check the basement. According to the Black Book, Deng Xiaolin should be sleeping in the basement now, being looked after by the Red Gate. He didn’t know how she was doing.
However, as soon as he opened the bedroom door, he found that for some reason, the Black Book was lying quietly outside the door.
Picking up the Black Book, Liu Haoyu couldn’t help but say.
“Why are you here? Are you okay?”
The Black Book remained silent for a few seconds and then suddenly trembled.
Tendrils of viscous blood began to overflow from the pages.
This blood flowed to the ground and re-gathered in front of Liu Haoyu.
Whether it was complaining or expressing dissatisfaction, the Black Book slowly wrote the following line.
“Your wife threw me out.”
“?”
“Then when you were sleeping, a chemistry teacher was in the room explaining pH to you, understand?”
“??????”
