Chapter 5 Asking Ghosts
“It’s not locked.”
Liu Haoyu gently pushed the door open and glanced inside from the door crack.
Fortunately, there was nothing in the room.
No pale hand suddenly reached out to grab him, and no other venomous and hateful eyes were staring at him from behind the door crack.
Nothing happened. In the quiet room, there were only a few empty clotheslines.
The night breeze blew open the broken curtains, and the bright moonlight shone through the window into the room, illuminating the dimly lit room.
But after the wind stopped, the room plunged back into darkness.
Quiet.
Deathly quiet.
At this moment, Liu Haoyu finally realized that the room door had been closed at some unknown time.
Silently, without giving him a chance to react.
The door closed, the wind stopped, and this room was terrifyingly dim.
Liu Haoyu turned on his flashlight and took out a candle from his pocket.
This candle was also his lighting method by the bedside last night.
Even without being lit, this kind of candle would burn by itself.
The premise was that it encountered something bad.
“Hoo~”
The night wind blew again, blowing open the curtains and letting the moonlight shine into the room again.
However, unlike before, a bright red wedding dress suddenly appeared on the clothesline that should have been empty.
Its sleeves and skirt were fully spread out, as if a person was hanging on the rope alive.
A chilling aura came from Liu Haoyu’s feet, and the aura of death slowly climbed up his spine.
At the same time, the wick of the candle in Liu Haoyu’s hand trembled, and a trace of light slowly rose.
The flickering and dim flame illuminated Liu Haoyu’s face.
This meant that something bad had entered the room.
But even so, Liu Haoyu still chose to walk towards the red wedding dress.
With heavy steps, the man finally arrived in front of the wedding dress.
The cold night wind was still blowing, causing the wedding dress hanging on the rope to sway back and forth.
The dusty room, the dilapidated walls, the almost falling windows…
All these things were completely out of place with the red wedding dress that Li Haoyu saw before his eyes.
The strong sense of incongruity brought about an even stronger sense of unease and fear.
Even Liu Haoyu, who had a strong heart, felt his heart in his throat seeing this scene.
Looking at the beautiful wedding dress before him, after hesitating for a moment, he slowly reached out his hand.
Then he took hold of the soft wedding dress and took a bold sniff.
It wasn’t the smell of a rotten corpse, nor the smell of fishy blood.
Instead, like the red embroidered shoes, it had a faint fragrance.
Although it wasn’t particularly refreshing, it was definitely not unpleasant.
“The scent… is not bad.”
For Liu Haoyu, who was used to seeing ghosts and monsters, this scent was truly unexpected.
It’s just… who can tell me.
Why did the candle in my hand go out?
Liu Haoyu looked at the extinguished candle in his hand blankly, a little at a loss.
Did the fierce ghost just run away like this?
Just now, Liu Haoyu only felt the gaze on him tighten, and then it instantly disappeared without a trace.
It was as if it had seen something perverse.
But his actions just now couldn’t be considered perverse, right?
He just smelled the clothes.
“Forget it.”
The human heart is hard to fathom, let alone the thoughts of ghosts?
Liu Haoyu didn’t intend to bother with so many things. He took the wedding dress hanging on the clothesline, folded it neatly, and placed it on the ground.
Using this as a medium, he inserted four candles into the four walls in the east, west, north, and south.
The candlelight then ignited, and Liu Haoyu returned to the center of the room and inserted the last two candles directly in front of the red wedding dress.
The reason for doing this was very simple. Humans and ghosts walk different paths. It is very difficult for humans to see ghosts, and it even goes against the will of heaven.
But through this method, communication and interaction with ghosts can be achieved.
In short, “asking ghosts.”
Liu Haoyu placed a small dish in the center of the two candles and bit his index finger, dripping a few drops of blood into the center of the dish.
As the blood fell, Liu Haoyu kept reciting his name in his heart, which was to consolidate his consciousness and prevent his soul from being directly taken away by the ghost during communication.
As Liu Haoyu recited his name, the four candles in the east, west, north, and south were extinguished.
Then strange things began to happen, as if something was being dragged, and the sound of “swish… swish…” echoed throughout the room.
It stopped and started, with a sense of rhythm, and it made people hold their breath.
Immediately after, the window made a “creaking” sound like it was being scratched by fingernails.
Even more terrifyingly, something outside the door was banging frantically, its force so great that the already dilapidated door became even more unstable.
Many things wanted to come in…
But these were not the targets Liu Haoyu wanted.
“Liu Haoyu… Liu Haoyu…”
To find the fierce ghost in this haunted house, Liu Haoyu could only repeat his name over and over again, firmly holding onto his original intention and not being taken away by the ghosts.
Finally, the door of the room was knocked open, and the window was completely shattered. Every sound was like a death countdown, constantly approaching Liu Haoyu’s position.
And the voice that should have been recited in his heart inexplicably began to echo in his ears.
“Liu Haoyu… Liu Haoyu…”
They lingered all around, their greedy gazes fixed on the man’s back, waiting for him to lose his resolve, and then rush forward and devour him.
But even with all his efforts, Liu Haoyu couldn’t find the fierce ghost in this haunted house.
His consciousness was also gradually becoming unable to hold on.
Finally, the two candles in front of the wedding dress were extinguished.
At this moment, all the noisy sounds around them disappeared, like music that stopped abruptly, disappearing so suddenly and so discordantly, a void and silent terror arose.
After calming down, the sound of swallowing could be heard from above Liu Haoyu’s head.
There was something above his head!
That thing was approaching!
A fear beyond death surged into Liu Haoyu’s heart.
This time, he could only open his eyes and shout.
“Loitering ghosts, disperse!”
When he stood up, all the unknowns and all the fear disappeared with it.
At this moment, Liu Haoyu was sweating profusely and panting heavily.
To “ask ghosts,” he had attracted all the wandering ghosts within a radius of several kilometers.
But he couldn’t attract the fierce ghosts in this haunted house.
And this situation meant one thing.
The fierce ghost in this haunted house was far more powerful than he had imagined.
