Chapter 16 Gu Mingyuan
“What’s wrong?”
Gu Qianyang sounded a bit confused.
The Nekomata continued to explain.
“Don’t you think she’s too calm for a child her age?”
“It feels like I’m facing a mature and steady adult, not a child.”
“So, to avoid any complications… why don’t you just turn her into a human segment?”
“…”
Gu Qianyang, on the other side of the mirror, fell silent.
The Nekomata was a yokai, and yokai did not possess human mercy or sympathy. For them, everything was prioritized for the self.
“At least it’s a live sacrifice, as long as the sacrifice is alive, isn’t it enough?”
Facing such a heartless guy, Liu Haoyu’s expression became rather grim.
He held a Zhenlei Talisman in his hand, and killing intent began to surge within him.
“No need,” Gu Qianyang finally replied from the mirror. “Compared to that, we need to find a way to capture the Night Walker as soon as possible.”
“Now that she has discovered our plan, she is trying to kill the sacrifice to stop us.”
“If that little one is without limbs and encounters an attack from the Night Walker, we’ll have to trouble ourselves with taking care of her.”
Hearing Gu Qianyang’s words, the Nekomata opened its mouth, attempting to say something, but couldn’t.
“Fine, I really don’t understand your pathetic human mercy…”
“You protect Qin Liu there, and I’ll be back in a couple of days.”
“Oh? Didn’t you say you wouldn’t be back for a week?”
“Plans change. Wait for me there.”
“Okay…”
Liu Haoyu, hiding in the dark, listened to their conversation and couldn’t help but take a deep breath to calm his anger.
“Calm down.”
The Black Book’s voice sounded in Liu Haoyu’s ear.
“You are in a spiritual body state right now. Although theoretically they can’t find you, if you were to kill someone, the consequences would be completely different.”
“After killing someone, your anchor point in this time would be completely fixed, and you would be discovered by the other party.”
“In your current state, you have no chance of winning against their combined attack.”
“And if you die here, you’ll be dead for good.”
“Don’t forget, Da Qin Liu is waiting for you over there.”
The Black Book’s words made Liu Haoyu restrain his urge to stick talismans on the Nekomata’s head as much as possible.
Indeed, considering the past time here, according to the normal course of history, nothing would happen to Xiao Qin Liu.
“Instead of that, why don’t you find some medicine to treat Qin Liu’s wounds first?”
“Okay.”
Liu Haoyu silently passed through the corridor.
As the Black Book had said, in his current spiritual body state, he would not be discovered by anyone.
Even when he passed directly through patrolling servants, they showed no reaction.
“Where is the infirmary with the medicine?”
“Keep going forward.”
Guided by the Black Book, Liu Haoyu soon arrived at the doorway of a room on the second floor.
“The medicine is in this room.”
The Black Book’s voice sounded in his ear. Liu Haoyu nodded.
However, as he got closer, he smelled a strong scent of blood seeping through the door crack.
The Black Book also sensed something.
“Something’s wrong…”
Following its low murmur, Liu Haoyu cautiously passed through the door and entered the pharmacy.
Upon entering, the scene before him instantly tensed his nerves.
He saw a young female servant lying on her back, her eyes wide like light bulbs, and her vacant pupils filled with endless fear.
Her limbs were bound tightly with chains, and her body was covered in hideous and terrifying wounds.
“This person…”
Seeing this corpse, Liu Haoyu recalled something.
“She seems to be the vengeful spirit that appeared in Xiao Qin Liu’s room earlier.”
“It seems so,” the Black Book nodded. “Judging by the wounds on her body, it’s definitely not suicide, but someone is conducting human experiments on her.”
Liu Haoyu agreed with the Black Book’s explanation.
He walked over and leaned in to observe the corpse lying on the bed.
At this moment, Liu Haoyu noticed that the patterns of her wounds seemed to form a curse, and this curse pattern was surprisingly similar to the pattern of the Black Coffin!
However, judging from the servant’s burst wounds, this formation seemed to have failed.
The Black Coffin was not yet completed, so they were using these people for simulation experiments?
Liu Haoyu’s gaze swept across the room.
Finally, in a corner, he saw the familiar Black Coffin.
Liu Haoyu had not seen this coffin when he went to the basement earlier, but unexpectedly, this coffin appeared in this place.
Liu Haoyu walked over and inspected the Black Coffin.
Compared to the Black Coffin he would see in the future, this Black Coffin was clearly not yet completed.
“Liu Haoyu, look at this.”
The Black Book’s voice sounded in the man’s ear.
He turned his head and saw that the Black Book was holding an experimental record.
It read:
“To seal a live sacrifice with the Black Coffin, one must first preserve the life of the live sacrifice. This means that in addition to the sealing formation, the coffin also needs a formation to maintain vital signs… that old guy Gu Qianyang just likes to create difficulties…”
“A servant who wasn’t careful and entered a room, and it happened that they were short of a handy test subject to try out the optimal solution for the spell…”
“Alright, it seems the solution for this type of spell has failed. Is it really possible to seal a person in a coffin forever in hibernation without eating or drinking?”
This experimental record contained a lot of information, which made Liu Haoyu realize something.
If he wanted to restore Da Qin Liu to normal, it wasn’t about finding out how to activate the Black Coffin, but rather finding the method to activate this life-sustaining curse!
“Quickly check if there are any other notes here!”
Liu Haoyu’s voice was filled with excitement.
However, to the regret of Liu Haoyu and the Black Book, they searched all the shelves in the room but couldn’t find any more useful information.
Fortunately, Liu Haoyu learned the name of the researcher conducting the human experiments – Gu Mingyuan.
Wasn’t this the person who took out the book of seals from the basement?
Just as Liu Haoyu was thinking, the Black Book suddenly vibrated.
“Be careful, someone is coming.”
Hearing this, Liu Haoyu instinctively hid in the shadows, his gaze fixed on the doorway of the room.
As the door handle turned slightly, a doctor in a white coat walked in, humming a tune.
Facing the bloody corpse on the bed, he not only showed no surprise but said happily.
“It seems this data is correct! The next spell node for the Coffin of Sealing can continue to be drawn.”
