Chapter 52
Seeing the flesh puppets surrounding her, Shen Qiumeng’s heart sank.
Because she had forgotten Liu Haoyu’s warning, she had created this situation…
No, perhaps it was because she had been too relaxed from the beginning and didn’t take it seriously?
Shen Qiumeng didn’t know, but in the current situation, it was too late to regret anything.
She could only continue to escape.
This place was definitely not Shigu Town, and these flesh puppets were definitely coming for her.
What were they after?
Were they trying to find out Liu Haoyu’s whereabouts through her?
Or did they have other plans?
“What do you want?”
Shen Qiumeng stared at the flesh puppets with a solemn gaze and retreated step by step.
However, these monsters couldn’t understand what she was saying, they only roared and rushed towards her.
Seeing the flesh puppets surrounding her tightly, Shen Qiumeng felt a bit of despair.
The encirclement of these monsters was getting smaller and smaller, and Shen Qiumeng could even smell the fishy stench of rotten flesh mixed with rust from them.
Just as she was about to give up and await death, a dazzling golden light burst from her wrist.
“What is this?”
The dazzling light blinded Shen Qiumeng.
But even so, in the blur, she still saw what was emitting the golden light.
A talisman…
Who had put it on her wrist?
Wait a moment?
Shen Qiumeng suddenly recalled something.
When Liu Haoyu was reading her palm, she had felt a touch similar to paper on her wrist.
After he finished reading her palm, she had paid attention to her wrist but found nothing.
Looking back, this was Liu Haoyu’s contingency plan for her.
Under the illumination of the golden light, these flesh puppets were instantly forced back.
But they were not dead, they just let out hair-raising roars and retreated from the range of the golden light.
Seeing a large opening in the encirclement, Shen Qiumeng took the opportunity to escape.
However, even after escaping the encirclement, the strange phenomena around her had not disappeared.
Her father and the residents of Shigu Town, where had they gone?
Or perhaps, perhaps she didn’t know where she had gone.
Although the scene in front of her was no different from Shigu Town, the eerie atmosphere made Shen Qiumeng feel that this was not Shigu Town at all.
She ran forward, and suddenly not far ahead of her, there were festive lanterns hung everywhere.
Such a joyous scene appearing here was indeed unexpected for her.
But upon closer inspection, she felt an indescribable strangeness about this place.
Shen Qiumeng stopped and glanced at the place where the wedding banquet was being held.
The red lanterns swayed slightly in the windless air.
The candlelight inserted around emitted a faint blue radiance.
The dishes on the banquet table were brightly colored, but upon closer inspection, the eyes of the fish were moving.
Even the skin of the steamed buns in the steamer was slightly undulating, as if something was wriggling inside.
What was even more horrifying was that at such a grand banquet, not a single person was present, yet in front of every chair, there was a pair of chopsticks and a pair of bowls, and the chopsticks were inserted directly into the rice.
Seeing this scene, Shen Qiumeng immediately understood something.
These were “to tou fan” (food left for the dead) meant for the dead.
This meant that she had arrived at a feast for spirits…
She subconsciously took a step back, but stepped on something.
Looking down, she found that it was a torn red betrothal letter.
The birth dates of two people were faintly visible on it.
One of them was Liu Haoyu’s birth date… and…
Who is Qin Liu?
She only knew that there was a little girl named Liu Qin around Liu Haoyu, and she had no idea who Qin Liu was.
But for some reason, looking at this name, Shen Qiumeng felt a chill in her heart.
And on this paper, she also saw many invited guests.
Among them were: Wang Faqiang, Li Suqin, Li Rongjun, Liu Jianjun, and so on.
But the problem was that she had lived in Shigu Town for so long, she had never heard of these names!
Who were these people, and what was this wedding all about?
The increasing fear made her body tremble uncontrollably, and she slowly retreated.
But before she could retreat a few steps, she suddenly bumped into something.
This thing had a soft texture, as if she had bumped into a person.
But… would a person have such an ice-cold body temperature?
She stiffly turned her head and then saw that she had bumped into a blurred red figure.
The figure’s body gradually became clearer from being completely indistinguishable.
Until finally, a young girl with vacant eyes, dressed in a red wedding dress, appeared before her.
Her expression was extremely cold, and her face seemed devoid of any life, like a fierce ghost from hell coming to claim her life.
“In your hand… is Liu Haoyu’s talisman.”
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“Old man,” in the town mayor’s office, the Nekomata squatted on the desk and said, “Looking at your expression, it seems you didn’t catch that kid Shen Qiumeng.”
“It’s fine,” Gu Qianyang said with no joy or sorrow, “I didn’t expect to.”
“That kid has quite good potential, aren’t you really going to try and win her over?”
“Old Shen and I were acquainted, how can I harm her daughter?”
“Heh heh.”
The Nekomata let out a mocking laugh at Gu Qianyang’s shameless words.
“I think you want to catch her and then frame that guy for this, don’t you?”
The guy she was referring to was naturally Liu Haoyu.
However, neither of them knew who had taken Qin Liu at the moment.
This point made Gu Qianyang quite puzzled.
Clearly, many people in town had seen that guy, but no matter who it was, they couldn’t remember what that guy looked like.
If it weren’t for the ghoul being able to track the scent on him, it would be quite difficult to catch him.
“How can you slander an innocent person out of thin air?”
Gu Qianyang said with a fake smile.
“Instead of this, it would be better to quickly go and chase back Qin Liu.”
“That’s true.”
The Nekomata nodded and said.
“I don’t know who forced the Night Walker out of the borderland of life and death, this is a great opportunity.”
While the Nekomata was speaking, the town mayor entered the office.
He seemed unable to see the Nekomata on the desk, and just rushed to Gu Qianyang and said.
“County Mayor Gu, the Public Security Special Commissioner and the militia have found the whereabouts of those two, and now support from Jiangliu City is on its way!”
“Where did they go?”
“Those two kept running towards the reservoir, and they probably haven’t gone far.”
Upon hearing this news, Gu Qianyang’s face showed no significant change. He seemed to have known all of this already. He just stood up and said in a very calm voice.
“It’s time to end this farce.”
