Chapter Twenty-Five: She’s Not Human
On the other side, Liu Haoyu returned to the pharmacy in the mansion.
Just standing at the doorway, he could smell the extremely bloody and rotten stench, which was even more intense and the atmosphere more eerie than the last time he was here.
Liu Haoyu passed through the wall into the pharmacy. The strong smell of blood mixed with rotten stench hit him, making his stomach churn.
What exactly did Gu Mingyuan do here?
Without exaggeration, the smell felt like an invisible big hand gripping Liu Haoyu’s throat. Even with his gas mask on, he could feel the stench constantly seeping in.
He had no choice but to hold his breath and scan the entire pharmacy.
For some reason, the scene inside the pharmacy at this moment was even more terrifying than the smell.
The corpse that had been lying on the hospital bed in the center of the room was nowhere to be found.
Dark red bloody handprints trailed long marks on the white walls, as if someone had crawled along the wall while struggling.
At this moment, a bad premonition welled up in Liu Haoyu’s heart, even a sense of inexplicable fear.
Where had the corpse from the hospital bed gone?
He tried to find clues, but the place was a mess, and there wasn’t even a footprint on the ground.
And in a deeper part, something seemed to be…breathing.
Was it Gu Mingyuan?
Or… that corpse?
Looking into the darkness without any light, Liu Haoyu took a deep breath.
The glass of his gas mask fogged up with a thin layer of mist.
Although he was a spiritual body and didn’t need to fear ghosts and monsters, humans found it difficult to overcome their fear of the dark.
If it were someone else, they might have been scared away and left immediately upon seeing this situation.
However, Liu Haoyu was no ordinary person.
He held his breath and slowly moved forward.
In the blurry darkness, he vaguely saw a book.
This notebook should be the one Gu Mingyuan had been holding earlier.
At this moment, the notebook was quietly soaking in viscous blood.
Why was it here?
Liu Haoyu looked around. After confirming no one was there, he picked up the notebook without regard for the disgusting viscous blood on it.
Opening it, the yellowed pages were filled with neat handwriting.
“No… no, no! The host’s physical and spiritual strength are too low, it’s impossible to last until the formation activates.”
“From the blood samples extracted from Qin Liu, it can be learned that this little fellow’s physical and spiritual strength are not ordinary.”
However, from this point on, the handwriting changed from neat to scrawled, and the content became crazy and strange.
“That’s not right… this level of spiritual strength is definitely not that of an ordinary person. I need more experimental data…”
“Living sacrifice? What living sacrifice?”
“Is a living sacrifice more important than eternal life?”
“She is irreplaceable, she is the only one.”
The notebook ended abruptly here. There was another page that seemed to have been torn off.
But it was precisely seeing this that a strange feeling spread into Liu Haoyu’s heart.
Was Gu Mingyuan talking to himself, or was he talking to something?
“Thump!”
At this moment, a dull thud of something falling to the ground came from inside the pharmacy.
Liu Haoyu’s breathing suddenly stopped.
This was definitely not a sound that wind or rats could make.
Instinctively, he gripped the fire axe in his hand, ready for anything.
Although he was in a spiritual body state and most likely wouldn’t be harmed, it was better to be safe than sorry.
Liu Haoyu cautiously walked towards the interior of the pharmacy.
A steel door appeared before him, similar to a storage room door.
And that strong smell of blood was coming from behind this steel door.
The closer he got, the stronger the smell, comparable to a slaughterhouse. When Liu Haoyu passed through the steel door, a wave of rotten air hit him, and even through the gas mask, the stench could not be blocked.
Having familiarized himself with the darkness, Liu Haoyu could barely see what the situation was inside.
The metal cabinets that originally held the medicines were overturned, and dozens of glass jars rolled onto the ground, all shattered.
The ground covered in glass shards was littered with various human organs.
Hearts, eyeballs, even completely peeled human skin… these things were scattered everywhere.
But what was more chilling was the corner of the wall.
The missing corpse from before was inexplicably at this place, currently kneeling on the ground at an extremely strange angle.
Its rotten head was twisted nearly 180 degrees, its eye sockets empty, with only vacant holes staring fixedly in the direction of the doorway.
At this angle, Liu Haoyu even had the illusion that the corpse was looking at him.
He took a step to the side.
Good…
The illusion disappeared.
It seemed that this corpse was not looking at him?
Then what was it looking at?
Liu Haoyu subconsciously glanced at the doorway, but there was nothing there.
However, with his peripheral vision, he saw that the strange corpse seemed to be holding a piece of paper in its hand.
Although the paper was stained with blood, its texture and color strongly suggested it was torn from that notebook.
Liu Haoyu cautiously walked over and took the paper from its hand.
The writing on it was so illegible that it was completely unrecognizable, and between the lines, only a broken and frantic state was conveyed.
After reading carefully, Liu Haoyu’s pupils constricted sharply.
Although the handwriting was twisted and illegible, he could still make out some terrifying words written there.
“She is not human,”
“She is definitely not human,”
“But it doesn’t matter…”
“Soon, I will become her…”
The last stroke of the handwriting trailed off, as if the writer had been suddenly choked by something.
A bone-chilling coldness instantly spread from his limbs to his entire body. Liu Haoyu immediately stood up and rushed to Qin Liu’s bedroom without delay.
This doctor named Gu Mingyuan might have gone to Qin Liu’s room!
The distance between the pharmacy and Qin Liu’s bedroom was not far, and since Liu Haoyu could pass through walls, he arrived at Qin Liu’s bedroom without taking too much time.
However, upon arriving, he found that the bedroom door was already open, and the ground was covered with the same viscous and sickening bloodstains.
Liu Haoyu dared not neglect. He immediately rushed into the bedroom.
Then, he clearly saw Gu Mingyuan, covered in blood, standing in front of Qin Liu. His eyes were vacant, his limbs were unnaturally twisted, but his face wore a greedy smile.
He walked towards Qin Liu step by step.
The Black Book and the Night Walker had no physical form and could not stop his advance.
At this moment, Liu Haoyu immediately drew his fire axe and charged forward.
Seeing the murderous Liu Haoyu, the Black Book quickly said,
“Wait!!”
But it was too late. The fire axe in Liu Haoyu’s hand instantly split Gu Mingyuan’s head in half.
