Chapter 41: A Night of Murder in the Storm
“Help… help me…”
She kept crying for help.
But in this wilderness, how could anyone save her?
After running for an unknown amount of time, her speed became slower and slower, and she could no longer run.
However, the pursuer behind her, who had not yet revealed themselves, also seemed to have slowed down, as if playing with their prey like a hunter.
This cat-and-mouse game lasted for an unknown amount of time until Gu Yunyun looked back and, in a moment of carelessness, stumbled on a small stone.
Already exhausted and swaying, she completely lost her footing and fell directly to the ground.
Because it had just rained, she fell into the mud and water, splattering mud all over herself, but even so, she couldn’t get up.
And the hunter relentlessly pursuing her seemed to have had enough of playing.
Accompanied by the “slap, slap” sound of boots stepping on the muddy ground, two men slowly walked over.
“Running? Why aren’t you running anymore?”
One of the men took off the hood of his raincoat, and Gu Mingyuan appeared before Gu Yunyun.
Gu Yunyun, lying in the cold mud and water, was already ashen-faced.
Looking at the man walking towards her with a cleaver, she sobbed and begged.
“Don’t kill me… don’t kill me…”
However, the prey’s pleas might only excite the hunter more.
Gu Mingyuan pushed up his glasses and walked step by step towards Gu Yunyun.
Seeing the man approaching, the latter slowly moved backward, shaking her head desperately, her tears of despair mingling with the mud on her face.
“Why were you trying to escape?”
“Wasn’t it good to stay in the mansion?”
“But it’s okay… I happen to have a small thing that needs your help.”
Gu Mingyuan walked step by step, and as he brushed past Liu Haoyu, he clearly saw that the man’s face was filled with maniacal laughter.
The laughter grew more and more unrestrained until it turned into hysterical screams.
He pounced on the girl, but there was no trace of sexual desire in his eyes. He simply raised the cleaver in his hand and hacked down fiercely.
Blood splattered, and Gu Mingyuan’s expression became even more twisted and insane.
He dodged the vital points with every stroke, and after one or two such blows, he had chopped the girl an unknown number of times.
The girl’s screams, which were initially sharp, gradually became hoarse, until finally, she could no longer even let out a whimper.
She fell into the cold mud and water, convulsing from excessive blood loss, her scarlet blood continuously flowing from her wounds.
But even so, the butcher’s knife in the man’s hand did not stop, and he struck the girl’s body with all his might, one blow after another.
The other person wearing a raincoat watched this bloody and brutal scene, shook his head, and said.
“Don’t forget to clean up the scene.”
This person wore a hood and, although his face couldn’t be seen clearly, his hoarse and weathered voice felt somewhat familiar to Liu Haoyu.
This atrocity lasted for an unknown period before a torrential downpour began again.
The rain washed away the still-warm blood, and the girl lying in it had long since become an ice-cold corpse.
At this moment, she was lying on her side, silently gazing at Liu Haoyu.
“Hello? Hello!”
“Can you hear me?”
“Wake up! Liu Haoyu, wake up!”
A call that was all too familiar to Liu Haoyu sounded.
The voice was initially distant but quickly grew closer and louder.
Until it completely pulled Liu Haoyu’s consciousness back from that stormy night.
He suddenly opened his eyes and frantically looked around.
But he only then realized that he was still in the pharmacy.
Only Xiao Qinliu was left beside him.
Upon seeing Xiao Qinliu, Liu Haoyu quickly asked.
“Where did that female ghost go?”
“I don’t know. She just touched your arm and then disappeared.”
Xiao Qinliu finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Liu Haoyu come back to his senses.
Was he truly not afraid of zoning out in such a grim and terrifying place?
“Touched me?”
Liu Haoyu subconsciously looked at himself, only to find a black imprint on his arm.
Upon seeing this mark, Liu Haoyu immediately understood what the other party’s obsession was.
Seeing Liu Haoyu staring at his arm, Xiao Qinliu asked in confusion.
“Is there something wrong with this mark?”
“It’s not really a problem,”
Liu Haoyu shook his head and said.
“She just wants me to help her with something.”
“Help with something…” Xiao Qinliu pondered for a moment. “Could it be that she wants you to take down Gu Mingyuan? But the problem is, isn’t he already dead?”
Before Liu Haoyu could reply, the female ghost’s voice echoed from the darkness again.
“He’s not dead… he’s not dead…”
The voice gradually faded until it disappeared.
As she left, Liu Haoyu sighed.
Having witnessed Gu Yunyun’s tragic death, he felt obligated to help if he could.
However, more importantly than this, he needed to figure out the formation on the black coffin first.
“Let’s go take a look at the black coffin first.”
“Okay.”
Xiao Qinliu followed Liu Haoyu with her notebook.
After this experience, her trust in the man in front of her had increased significantly.
Led by Liu Haoyu, they quickly reached the depths of the pharmacy.
And in a corner, a black coffin was quietly placed.
Upon seeing the coffin, Liu Haoyu said to Xiao Qinliu.
“You check first to see if there are any problems with the formations in the first and second sections.”
“Okay.”
Xiao Qinliu, holding her notebook, walked to the side of the black coffin.
However, in the next second, she suddenly stopped.
“What’s wrong?”
Liu Haoyu saw Xiao Qinliu’s expression stiffen and thought it was a mismatch in the formation, so he continued to ask.
“Is there a problem?”
But at this moment, extremely heavy footsteps suddenly came from outside the pharmacy.
The sound grew closer and closer to the pharmacy, and Xiao Qinliu immediately said to Liu Haoyu.
“Something outside is about to come in!”
Hearing Qinliu’s words, Liu Haoyu understood that the “thing” the little fellow was referring to was not human.
But something else.
And even more critically, Liu Haoyu could feel its aura.
Very strong…
This terrifying presence penetrated through the door crack. Seeing this, Liu Haoyu didn’t say a word, opened the black coffin, hugged Xiao Qinliu, and crawled directly into the coffin.
Along with that, he tightly closed the lid of the coffin.
“Ouch!”
Inside the black coffin, Xiao Qinliu’s muffled voice could be heard.
“Your axe handle is poking me…”
“Ah, sorry.”
Because the coffin was very small, Liu Haoyu adjusted his position as much as possible.
After all, the thing poking Xiao Qinliu was not an axe handle.
