Chapter 44 Altar
Led by Liu Jianjun, Liu Haoyu and Qin Liu also arrived at the outermost part of the Night God Palace.
Looking at the magnificent building underground, Liu Jianjun couldn’t help but sigh.
“This thing, it’s the sweat and blood of those dozens of miners, built up bit by bit, day and night.”
Liu Haoyu nodded in agreement.
“Even capitalists would shed tears seeing this.”
After walking a little further, Liu Haoyu suddenly found that the air had become viscous, and an indescribable sense of suffocation washed over him.
In the next second, he found himself and Liu Jianjun and others being teleported back to their original positions.
Seeing this, Liu Jianjun said.
“This palace seems to have something protecting it. Once someone gets close, they will be sent back here… What is the principle behind this?”
Having been here for so long in the past decade, Liu Jianjun had not figured out what was going on.
But Qin Liu’s expression was a bit different.
She lowered her head and looked at her embroidered shoes.
As her memory gradually returned, she also understood that these shoes had a similar ability.
And this ability… was created by Gu Qianyang.
The method to break it was actually very simple.
“You two.”
Qin Liu lifted the lantern in her hand and said.
“Blindfold yourselves and keep walking forward.”
Hearing this, Liu Jianjun looked at the ethereal girl with a somewhat surprised expression.
“Why is that?”
“Just blindfold yourselves.”
Supernatural events don’t have that many “whys.” These techniques are things that cannot be explained by common sense.
Not getting the answer he wanted, Liu Jianjun was not discouraged and readily blindfolded himself.
However, Liu Haoyu stood still, his face showing deep thought.
Seeing this, Qin Liu said puzzledly.
“What are you standing here thinking about?”
“I need something to blindfold myself with.”
Liu Haoyu said seriously, which made Qin Liu realize.
Just as she was about to look for something to blindfold herself with, Liu Haoyu reached out and grabbed her shoulder.
“Give me your stockings.”
“……?”
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After a while, the emotionless girl who was questioning her life walked in front of the two.
Her left over-the-knee sock had disappeared, leaving only the right one.
As for where it went…
Qin Liu’s gaze fell on Liu Haoyu’s face, and at that moment, a million alpacas galloped through her mind.
As expected, shrimp heads might drown, but their essence will never change.
Qin Liu’s vacant eyes now revealed a fishy aura.
How did she end up with such a weirdo?
“From now on, no matter what happens, don’t stop. Just keep walking forward.”
After confirming that both of them had blindfolded their eyes, Qin Liu began to walk forward, holding the lantern and looking at the darkness ahead.
After taking a deep breath, she opened a completely different perspective from before.
Qin Liu already had night vision, but when this night vision was activated, the entire world would turn into a eerie black and white. Qin Liu was very timid and usually didn’t dare to use this ability randomly.
But then was then, and now is now.
The current Qin Liu wouldn’t know what fear was.
The ones who should truly be feared were the others.
The girl walked forward step by step with light footsteps.
In the black and white world, countless vengeful ghosts hung silently on both sides of the rock wall.
They had long since lost their minds and reached out to try and stop the group.
Most of these fierce ghosts were the wives of the miners who had ascended the mountain; they were already dead.
Their incessantly bleeding faces with white eyes were almost touching the group.
They had even reached out their hands, trying to grab Liu Haoyu’s neck and pull him back to his original position.
But the lantern in Qin Liu’s hand emitted a faint blue light, shining directly on these vengeful ghosts.
“Ahhhhhhh!!!”
The two blindfolded people could clearly hear waves of mournful screams in their ears.
The piercing sound was bone-chilling, and it made Liu Jianjun grip his peachwood sword tighter.
“Don’t stop.”
Seeing this, Qin Liu continued.
“Keep going, keep going forward.”
The faint blue light of the lantern was like a deadly poison to these fierce ghosts. The moment they touched it, these blood-covered fierce ghosts were sucked into the lantern.
At the same time, a large number of blood vine gu crawled out of the darkness.
They tried to obstruct the group, but when they entered the area illuminated by the faint blue light, they thrashed about like fish out of water, until they turned into pale ashes.
After an unknown amount of time, Qin Liu led the two to the entrance of the Night God Palace.
“You can open your eyes now.”
Qin Liu said calmly.
“Give me my stockings back.”
“If you want them, you have to come and get them yourself. You know the rules… Bang!”
Liu Haoyu didn’t finish speaking before Qin Liu kicked him to the ground with a shoe.
Even though she was usually emotionless, her entire face was red at this moment.
After putting on her over-the-knee sock again, Liu Jianjun looked at Liu Haoyu lying on the ground, completely bewildered, and said.
“Kid, no sleeping here.”
“This girl…” Liu Haoyu pulled his face out of the ground, shook off the dirt, and couldn’t help but mutter: “…She really hit hard.”
Although Qin Liu didn’t explain, the two experienced ghost hunters probably guessed the principle.
Although it was troublesome to explain, it was probably that by blindfolding themselves, they would not be affected by the ghosts.
“This is the closest I’ve ever been to this place,” Liu Jianjun sighed. “More than ten years…”
Even he had to admit that without Qin Liu’s help, he might not have been able to do anything before the other party’s plan succeeded.
“Old man, don’t be so emotional. Let’s quickly find the altar in this palace.”
The resentment emanating from the Night God Palace was extremely strong, this feeling was not much different from when Liu Haoyu first entered Qin Liu’s dilapidated haunted house.
So, for safety’s sake, they had to act quickly.
The group pushed open the door and entered the palace.
It was called the Night God Palace, but it was actually just a large mansion. The decoration inside was very luxurious, yet it was so desolate, as if no one had ever lived there.
“The direction of the altar is this way.”
Following Liu Jianjun’s direction, the group quickly found the altar Liu Jianjun mentioned.
However, when they arrived, they found that the altar had already begun to slowly operate.
Liu Haoyu looked at the formations on the altar and had a strange sense of déjà vu.
These formations… were very similar to the altar of Qin Liu’s black coffin!
Realizing this, he immediately shifted his gaze to Qin Liu. However, he found that Qin Liu’s figure was gradually becoming blurry until she finally disappeared.
“What’s going on?!”
