Chapter 28 – Maid’s Corpse
Looking at the missing corpse and the mess of human parts scattered all over the ground.
Gu Qianyang and the Nekomata fell silent in unison.
The atmosphere in the storage room was extremely oppressive.
If an ordinary person were in this place, they might go mad on the spot.
But even so, Gu Qianyang and the Nekomata didn’t feel much better.
There was no wind, yet the candlelight in Gu Qianyang’s hand flickered and danced gently.
Their shadows were twisted and cast on the wall. Due to the unstable light, the shadows were sometimes elongated and sometimes curled up, as if… there were indeed two people moving on the wall.
“Drip…”
“Drip…”
A strange dripping sound suddenly echoed in the room, as if some liquid was dripping from the ceiling.
When the Nekomata looked up, a drop of liquid landed on her face.
She reached out to wipe it, only to discover that the liquid that had fallen… was sticky and foul-smelling blood.
Seeing the blood-red pool in her hand, the Nekomata immediately realized a possibility.
“Someone is above!”
“Zhenlei Talisman!”
Gu Qianyang also acted decisively, throwing the talisman paper onto the ceiling.
The exploding lightning illuminated the entire room, but after the flashes of light, both of them discovered that there was no one on the ceiling.
Only the wall above was continuously bleeding, dripping down little by little.
“There’s nothing.”
The Nekomata frowned at this moment.
If there were someone above, she might not have been so scared, but the problem was that there was nothing there.
This meant that the danger was still hidden in the darkness.
“I think I need to leave this place.”
Gu Qianyang naturally agreed with the Nekomata’s words.
However, as the two walked towards the doorway, the candlelight in Gu Qianyang’s hand suddenly extinguished.
Then it reignited without warning, but the flame had already changed from a pale blue to a more eerie cyan.
Seeing this flame, their pupils contracted, and they quickly looked towards the iron door of the storage room.
They saw that the iron door was rapidly turning blood-red. Pairs of extremely pale hands were constantly reaching out from the doorway, wildly flailing, trying to grab something.
As the door crack widened, the Nekomata, with her night vision, could even see faces behind the door, faces with strange smiles.
Among them was even Gu Mingyuan’s face!
They were extremely exaggerated and enlarged, like bulging balloons, trying to squeeze into the storage room.
Facing this deformed and terrifying monster, the Nekomata’s face turned pale with fear. She quickly said to Gu Qianyang.
“Quick, do something!”
But the moment she turned her head, she discovered.
The person standing beside her all along was not Gu Qianyang, but the maid’s corpse, which was dismembered beyond recognition.
At this moment, the corpse was slowly turning its head. Its eye sockets, devoid of eyes and flowing with blood, stared intently at the Nekomata, and then let out a hoarse and terrifying eerie laugh.
“Hahaha…”
“Hahahaha…”
Even though the Nekomata instinctively counterattacked, tearing the corpse in front of her into pieces, she could not stop the sharp laughter that was like mental pollution.
Amidst the continuous laughter, the Nekomata felt her brain expanding… expanding…
The tearing pain was so severe that the Nekomata couldn’t even scream; she could only fall to the ground, twitching uncontrollably.
The enlarged human heads outside the door finally squeezed into the room. They wore strange smiles and slowly approached the Nekomata, as if welcoming her to join their ranks.
“Zhenlei Wave!”
At this moment, a bolt of lightning instantly tore through the darkness, and Gu Qianyang’s withered hand pulled the Nekomata up.
It was only then that the Nekomata realized that she was still in the storage room.
The iron door, which had been dyed blood-red, was now normal, with only a slight crack.
However, through this open door crack, the Nekomata clearly saw a face.
This was the face of the maid who had died at the hands of Gu Mingyuan earlier.
“Don’t you remember!? Don’t look at her!”
Gu Qianyang quickly reminded her, and the Nekomata immediately closed her eyes, trying to use her senses to locate the monster’s movements.
However, when they both closed their eyes, they couldn’t sense anything.
All that remained in their ears was silence, an extremely eerie silence…
After waiting for a long time without any attack from the other party, Gu Qianyang slowly opened his left eye.
The maid hiding behind the door crack had long since disappeared.
A cold, chilling wind blew in from the door crack, hitting both of them.
The Nekomata also opened her eyes. She wiped the sweat from her forehead. Having escaped from the Ghost Gate Pass, she was still shaken.
“She ran away?”
Gu Qianyang didn’t speak.
He closed his eyes again, cautiously walked to the iron door, and kicked it open forcefully. After confirming that no one was outside, he replied to the Nekomata.
“She must have hidden…”
For Gu Qianyang, this was not good news.
Because he knew very well that a viper lurking in the dark was far more terrifying than a beast in plain sight.
No one wants to die in their sleep for no reason, and Gu Qianyang was no exception.
“Nekomata, go gather people. No matter the cost, find this corpse.”
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Meanwhile, in Qin Liu’s room.
The little girl looked at the corpse on the ground with a very nervous expression.
No one would think it’s comfortable to stay in a room with a bloody corpse, would they?
Her whole body was tense, her gaze fixed on the corpse on the ground, not daring to move.
At the same time, she didn’t forget to say to Liu Haoyu.
“What do we do with this thing?”
“I’d like to throw him out, but… I can’t explain it.”
Liu Haoyu spread his hands. After all, the corpse on the ground was not something Qin Liu could move.
Moving it rashly would only arouse Gu Qianyang’s suspicion.
But leaving it here like this was too eerie.
Especially seeing the eyes, cut in half, still staring at something, Qin Liu’s heart rate even slowed down a few beats.
“Why is it so lively outside?”
Liu Haoyu leaned by the window, looking at the crowd outside holding torches and searching for something.
“I don’t know what these people are looking for.”
Although he didn’t know, Liu Haoyu didn’t intend to find out. He closed the window and said to Qin Liu, who was sitting on the bed.
“Aren’t you going to sleep yet?”
Qin Liu gave Liu Haoyu a sideways glance.
“Do you think I can sleep in this situation?”
Seeing this, Liu Haoyu naturally understood that the little girl was a bit scared. Knowing this, he walked to Qin Liu’s side and gently held her hand.
The latter shivered unconsciously when she felt her hand being held, but she didn’t resist. She simply covered half of her face with the blanket, seeming a little embarrassed.
“Sleep,” Liu Haoyu gently stroked Qin Liu’s head. “I’m right here, not going anywhere.”
