Chapter 40 The Underground Wine Cellar
After watching the two people leave, Liu Haoyu silently turned back into the house.
At this moment, the panicked girl in red appeared behind him.
However, Liu Haoyu could not see Qin Liu at all, only hear her words.
“I found a basement… Huh? Did those two just leave?”
Liu Haoyu withdrew his gaze and said, “They can’t leave.”
“Ah?”
Before Qin Liu could ask for clarification, Liu Haoyu returned to the kitchen.
Qin Liu was already a little timid, and after encountering such a situation just now, she was even more scared and quickly followed.
“What do you mean? Are they going to be caught by ghosts?”
“Yes,” Liu Haoyu nodded, and then continued, “By the way, looking at your panicked appearance, what happened?”
“I encountered a ghost!”
“…”
Liu Haoyu leaned back.
This young man had already imagined such a scene.
The ghost that bumped into Qin Liu would definitely scream louder than Qin Liu.
“Hey! What kind of reaction is that!? I really encountered a ghost!”
Qin Liu argued.
After all, she was just a weak lonely ghost, she could only use a few small tricks, and she didn’t have Liu Haoyu’s strong power, so it was normal to be scared, right?
However, Liu Haoyu’s gaze was now focused on the iron pot that had been split open.
“Wait for me.”
After putting on his gloves, he searched the ground and quickly found half a head.
After shaking off the red and white unknown sticky liquid, Liu Haoyu and Qin Liu finally got a clear look at the head.
This was the head of the college student Sima Cai.
The bloated half-head, at this moment, seemed to have come alive, looking at the two with resentful eyes.
“…Uwah! Didn’t those two leave? How… Did they die earlier?”
Qin Liu shivered. Already flustered, she now trembled and hid behind Liu Haoyu, not daring to make eye contact with this half-head.
Originally, Qin Liu thought that Liu Haoyu had only encountered two suicidal college students, but it turned out… he had encountered two dead people.
And Liu Haoyu seemed to have discovered it a long time ago?
Thinking of this, Qin Liu couldn’t help but ask.
“I say, aren’t you ghost exorcists fearless of death? This kind of place looks very dangerous…”
“When I entered this line of work, I should have already put life and death aside. The more you fear death, the faster you will die.”
After speaking, Liu Haoyu stood up.
Finding Sima Cai’s head here meant that the bodies of those two people were also nearby.
Looking around, Liu Haoyu picked up the fire axe.
When he was observing the things in the pot just now, he felt something watching him from the dark.
Following this feeling, Liu Haoyu saw a small black shadow crouching at the window.
This black shadow stared at Liu Haoyu quietly.
Liu Haoyu’s gaze was fixed on the black shadow at the window.
But the black shadow just lay on the window motionlessly.
The moonlight shone into the room through the window, and the black shadow was stretched long, making it look more like a ghostly shadow.
If we only looked at its appearance, this black shadow was very short and thin. If it were a person, it would probably be a child who would fall over with just one push.
But the sudden and strange appearance of this black shadow, any normal person would not mistake this black shadow for a human.
The candle in Liu Haoyu’s hand was still burning, and at the same time, he started walking forward with the axe.
The black shadow’s body trembled.
Perhaps it was because it saw Liu Haoyu’s murderous look.
Perhaps it saw Qin Liu again. It let out a scream and then, like a startled bird, fled.
Its speed was so fast that the black shadow looked even more like it had seen a ghost.
“Why are you running so fast?”
Liu Haoyu broke through the window, chased outside, and said with the axe in his hand.
“Little friend, don’t be afraid, uncle has candy here.”
Seeing the two behind it, the black shadow shivered even more, wishing it could run with all its might.
Unfortunately, its short legs could not outrun Liu Haoyu.
The cries of “Don’t run,” “Good boy, be obedient,” and “Uncle is a good person” from behind were like a death curse from the underworld.
Even Qin Liu couldn’t help but complain.
“You look more like a ghost than a ghost.”
While complaining, Liu Haoyu circled the house and found that the black shadow had used a trick and ran into the house from the main entrance.
Liu Haoyu didn’t say anything and followed the black shadow back into the house.
Following the traces left by the other party, Liu Haoyu saw that the black shadow had fled into the basement.
However, this was not the blood-red iron door he was looking for.
It was just an ordinary wooden door to the basement.
Liu Haoyu pushed the door open and went down the stairs.
The basement stairs were quite damp, and the shoes made a “dada dada” sound when stepping on them.
Moreover, the air in the basement was more polluted.
The smell of rust, decay, alcohol, and… blood.
The light from the flashlight was becoming weaker and weaker, barely illuminating one or two meters, while the rest of the area was hidden in unknown darkness.
“The smell of blood is too fresh, as if someone just died.”
“Look, this is called professionalism.”
Qin Liu, who was beside Liu Haoyu, was full of confidence and even had the leisure to make some witty remarks.
Liu Haoyu ignored Qin Liu’s teasing and tightened his gas mask.
“The smell of corpse decay is also very strong.”
When Liu Haoyu reached the end of the stairs, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
Why… is the resentment in this basement so similar to the resentment in the haunted house?
Liu Haoyu almost thought he was back in the haunted house, but looking at the environment of the basement, he quickly dismissed the idea.
This was just an ordinary underground wine cellar, and the resentment was not as strong as in the haunted house.
Upon reaching the deepest part, Liu Haoyu lit two candles.
The candle flames were very weak and could go out at any moment.
Liu Haoyu was also finding it difficult to breathe at this time. The weak light meant that the oxygen content in the underground wine cellar was very low.
He had to act quickly.
Liu Haoyu turned on his flashlight, and then he saw three dilapidated coffins placed at the very end of the wine cellar.
Two of the coffins were overflowing with blood. To find out what was contained inside, Liu Haoyu lifted one of them.
When the coffin board was opened, a rotten and disgusting smell wafted out. Even Liu Haoyu, who had been through many battles, almost fainted from the stench.
But in order to catch the ghost, Liu Haoyu still opened the coffin.
Then he saw that inside these two coffins lay the bodies of those two college students.
Their chests were cut open, their internal organs were all gone, and both of their heads had been chopped off and were nowhere to be found.
“How cruel,” Qin Liu said in awe.
From the residual resentment on the bodies, it was clear that this was the work of a fierce ghost.
Two of the coffins had been opened, so Liu Haoyu turned his attention to the last coffin.
He tried to push the coffin board open in the same way, but it seemed as if something inside was resisting, not giving Liu Haoyu any chance.
Just as Liu Haoyu was about to struggle with it, the coffin board suddenly opened a gap, and a skinny, emaciated, and very slender hand reached out from the gap and tightly grasped Liu Haoyu’s wrist.
