Chapter 35: Full Moon Night
“I haven’t finished speaking yet!”
“I don’t care, you loli-con!”
Black Book released its hand covering Qin Liu, and the latter was finally able to open her eyes.
Then she saw a scene of the two of them wrestling, comparable to a philosophical encounter.
“Ah! Stand still!”
“Fuck!”
Looking at this scene, the little question marks in her heart multiplied.
After hesitating for a while, she very consciously covered her eyes, this scene was truly not something a child should see.
Fortunately, after all the commotion, Chang Wenxu and Liu Haoyu returned to their usual demeanor.
The latter patted the dust off his body and asked Black Book.
“Can this curse transfer be eliminated?”
“Of course it can,” Black Book said in a very neutral voice, “You just need to kill the caster.”
“Then that’s like saying nothing at all, isn’t it?”
Liu Haoyu was a bit speechless. He held the Soul Extinguishing Nail in his hand.
This thing was disposable. After being used on the Night Walker, it was now corroded as if by strong acid, its surface pitted and rough. The original dark sheen had now become dull and lifeless.
With a forceful twist, the Soul Extinguishing Nail was easily bent like a piece of dough.
The chilling feeling Liu Haoyu had before was gone, which meant the Soul Extinguishing Nail had lost its effect.
“This nail is useless now.”
Liu Haoyu sighed, then asked Black Book.
“So my dear good brother, can you give me some more Soul Extinguishing Nails? I don’t ask for much, just a few hundred.”
“You must be dreaming.”
“Then, my brother, how about a photo of me in white stockings?”
“Get lost!”
Black Book contemptuously gave Liu Haoyu the middle finger and explained very seriously.
“Soul Extinguishing Nails are already disposable magical artifacts, and their craftsmanship is extremely difficult to produce, so this thing is very precious, and I can’t get my hands on it.”
“Can this Soul Extinguishing Nail be repaired? It looks like it might still be usable if fixed.”
“It can definitely be repaired, give it to me.”
“Okay.”
After handing the Soul Extinguishing Nail to Black Book, Liu Haoyu was empty-handed, with nothing left.
But he still didn’t plan to give up.
After all, Black Book was the renowned King of Rebirth, so it should have some good stuff, right?
Looking at Liu Haoyu’s expression, which resembled a fly rubbing its hands together, Black Book remained silent for a long time.
However, this time, it didn’t speak, but instead wrote on the blank pages of the book.
“The grim Ye Shangfeng, another non-existent world,”
“The moment you returned from there, you were destined to never escape it again,”
“If the vengeful spirits on the mountain are not dealt with, they will eventually descend the mountain to find you,”
“Now, all you can do is take the initiative,”
“The full moon night has arrived, and within these fifteen days, go and hunt those departed souls who have fallen into darkness…”
Looking at this pile of cryptic words, Liu Haoyu’s expression completely turned into that of an old man on the subway looking at his phone.
“No, buddy, I’m asking about weapons, I want weapons!”
” *Ding dong! Your requested system reward has arrived: a consecrated Type 91 handgun.*”
“Go ahead, this thing has been consecrated, it can’t kill people, only ghosts,”
“Try it on your forehead if you don’t believe me.”
Liu Haoyu looked at the handgun in his hand and fell into complete silence.
After three seconds of silence, he gave Black Book the middle finger.
“Damn it!”
“Are you going to say it’s not a weapon or not?”
————⑵|Neighbor. 〲Section Five Cold Nine Three VI Nine Spirits』〣/Fierce—
Liu Haoyu and Qin Liu returned to the antique shop.
He suddenly felt very tired, as if ten thousand Qin Lius were crawling on him.
He originally thought there were ghosts in the hospital, only to find out his good friend had an affair with a female ghost.
He originally thought his desperate one-for-one strategy could kill the Night Walker and he could survive, only to find out the Night Walker’s life was tougher than a cockroach.
He originally thought he could trick some peerless divine weapons from his good friend Black Book, only to find that this Black Book, which advocated “May you die before me, but I will live,” gave him a handgun.
Looking at the real thing in his hand, Liu Haoyu felt his entire face turning black.
He felt like he was surrounded by enemies, in a state of constant vigilance, as if a police officer might pop out from anywhere and shoot him on the spot!
Perhaps he would even make the front page the next day… No way!
“This is definitely revenge!”
“And why didn’t you give me bullets? What am I supposed to do with this gun without bullets? How!”
In response to Liu Haoyu’s questioning, Black Book’s answer was… no answer.
It simply lay flat, as if dead, refusing to speak.
“This book has gone bad, it’s unusable.”
Liu Haoyu sighed, then rested his head on Qin Liu’s lap.
The young girl was startled for a moment, then gently stroked Liu Haoyu’s hair, a smile on her face.
“If you’re tired, then take a rest.”
“My body isn’t really tired, I’ve slept for two days. It’s my heart that’s tired.”
“If your heart is tired… would you like to relax a bit?”
Qin Liu tilted her head.
She wasn’t hungry now, so… was it time for some intimacy?
“It’s nice to rest like this.”
However, Liu Haoyu clearly had no intention of intimacy.
And even if they were to get intimate, he would have to throw Black Book out first.
This book must not be kept.
“Is that so…”
Qin Liu was a little disappointed, but since Liu Haoyu had not fully recovered, she could understand.
“Oh, right, I met my father.”
Liu Haoyu remembered the white shadow he saw when he returned from Ye Shangfeng.
However, since he saw a white shadow, it meant… Liu Jianjun was already dead.
Thinking of this, Liu Haoyu sighed.
Even though he hadn’t expected his father to survive from the beginning, the negative emotions were indeed difficult to suppress after truly learning of the bad news.
“But I only saw his soul. On our way back from Ye Shangfeng, he, with his sword, helped us block countless fierce ghosts. Otherwise… I might have really perished there.”
Qin Liu listened with a thoughtful expression, she could also feel Liu Haoyu’s sadness and grief.
But as a guide, someone who could communicate with souls, she had another thought in her mind.
“Then… shouldn’t we go and meet the parents too?”
Qin Liu was curious about what kind of person Liu Jianjun, Liu Haoyu’s father, was.
And to say she wasn’t nervous at all would be a lie.
As for Liu Haoyu, he was slightly stunned when he heard Qin Liu’s words.
Then he realized.
Indeed, he seemed to have almost forgotten to tell his father this good news.
“Your dad probably… won’t object, right?”
Although Qin Liu always considered herself human, others did not see it that way.
She was a ghost, a ghost that only the dead and those on the verge of death could see.
The path of humans and ghosts is different, Qin Liu had also heard from Wu Yixuan.
Among the older generation of ghost exorcists, human-ghost relationships were a forbidden taboo.
What if Liu Jianjun objected… what would happen?
Regarding Qin Liu’s worries, Liu Haoyu just shook his head and said.
“From what I know of him, he might complain a bit, but he probably won’t object.”
“But you were only six years old then, how much could you understand?”
“Does watching him collect his ‘adult films’ count?” Liu Haoyu said with a straight face, “There’s a type of human-ghost relationship in them.”
“…”
Qin Liu’s mouth twitched.
This was truly a good son.
“So you don’t need to worry about these things, and… remember, you are alive, not a fierce ghost,”
“I won’t let you die.”
Liu Haoyu’s sincere words brought a trace of warmth to Qin Liu’s gradually chilling heart.
The two looked at each other fondly for a long time, then Liu Haoyu sat up, and the young girl left a trace of red on his face.
“It’s a deal.”
Just then, Liu Haoyu’s phone vibrated.
It was a message from Wu Yixuan, the mountain guardian.
“Something’s wrong on the mountain, are you feeling better? I need your help.”
The short message made Liu Haoyu frown slightly.
He knew that with Wu Yixuan’s personality, he wouldn’t easily ask for help.
Since he had sent a message now, there were two possibilities.
One was that the situation was beyond his control, so he needed his help.
The other was that he had already died, and the person texting now… was a ghost.
But no matter which it was, he had to go up the mountain to check the situation now.
Ye Shangfeng on the full moon night was exceptionally grim.
According to the locals, once the full moon night arrived, no matter what happened, one must not go up the mountain.
As long as the time exceeded nine o’clock in the evening, one had to turn off the lights and sleep.
It was as if there was a terrifying monster on the mountain.
And the reality was as they expected.
When Liu Haoyu arrived at the foot of the mountain, Wu Yixuan was already waiting there.
Seeing the old man, Liu Haoyu’s hanging heart eased a little.
Wu Yixuan was wearing a light yellow Taoist robe, holding the bloodstained peachwood sword in his hand, and looking solemnly in the direction of Ye Shangfeng.
“You’re here.”
Wu Yixuan’s voice was low and hoarse, with a hint of unspeakable fatigue.
“What happened on the mountain while I was in a coma for a few days?”
Facing Liu Haoyu’s direct question, Wu Yixuan remained silent for a moment before slowly saying.
“During the two days you were in a coma, the activity on the mountain became increasingly strange. Even before, I had never felt such dense vengeful energy,”
“I also heard some strange sounds, like someone crying, like beasts roaring,”
“The animals in the mountains became unusually agitated and restless, and some even disappeared inexplicably,”
“You should understand what this means.”
After listening, Liu Haoyu frowned slightly.
“Did those fierce ghosts from ‘The Hidden World’ come out?”
“Currently, that seems to be the only possibility,” Wu Yixuan sighed. “The barrier set up by Old Deng has been protecting this place for so long, and it’s finally unable to hold on anymore… We have to go up. If we don’t stop it, the people down the mountain might be affected too.”
