Chapter 56 The Weapons of the Past
Qin Liu’s fingers trembled slightly, the blood-red text on the page too glaring for her.
She slammed the book shut, her chest heaving.
Without a doubt, the message was filled with concern for her.
But the problem was… who needed such unnecessary concern!
“What a joke…” Qin Liu gritted her teeth, her voice trembling, “Who wants to listen to you.”
Clutching the Black Book, she turned and rushed back into the warehouse.
From her luggage, she pulled out some talismans.
These talismans were all things she had drawn herself during this time.
She had originally wanted to show Liu Haoyu her progress, but she didn’t expect to use them at a time like this.
She held the talismans in her hand, her gaze gradually becoming firm.
“…Do you really think I’ll wait for you to come back?”
After taking the talismans, she prepared to chase after him.
But just then, a pale hand reached out from the Black Book and grasped her tightly.
“Don’t go.”
This pale hand was bone-chillingly cold and incredibly strong.
Qin Liu yanked her hand away violently, but she couldn’t break free.
The pages of the Black Book continued to flip, making rustling sounds, and then an extremely hoarse voice, indistinguishable as male or female, came from deep within the pages.
“You’ll only be a burden to him,”
“Staying here is the wisest choice,”
“Gu Qianyang won’t kill you, but that ghoul might not be so lenient.”
However, facing the Black Book’s dissuasion, the anxious Qin Liu gritted her teeth, and with her other hand, she quickly pulled out a talisman and slapped it hard onto the ghost’s hand.
“Boom!”
The talisman instantly ignited with a faint blue flame, spreading to the entire Black Book.
Yet, even with fire engulfing it, the Black Book seemed completely unharmed, even remarking with a touch of emotion.
“Your talent… is truly frighteningly strong.”
“But listen to my advice, this little bit of strength is far from enough to meddle in battles at Liu Haoyu’s level.”
“Instead of spouting sarcastic remarks at me here, why don’t you just go with him?”
Qin Liu sneered at the Black Book.
“Since you’re so strong, what’s stopping you from helping Liu Haoyu?”
Faced with Qin Liu’s questioning, the Black Book fell silent.
After a long while, it pulled out a faded yellow paper from its pages.
“Because I need to ensure your safety, and… if something unexpected happens, I can bring the method to activate the Black Coffin back to the future,”
“Perhaps you think this is selfish, but if it comes down to sacrificing one to save the other, I will choose Qin Liu, which is you in the future,”
“Only you can deal with Gu Qianyang.”
The Black Book’s words made Qin Liu fall into deep thought.
Seeing that Qin Liu remained silent, the Black Book assumed she was about to give up.
However, at that moment, Qin Liu spoke.
“I’m going.”
Her gaze allowed no room for the Black Book’s objection, her eyes becoming extremely cold. She then drew a dagger from her waist and pressed it against the arm that was being held.
“Let go of my hand.”
Meanwhile, on the other side.
Liu Haoyu’s figure shuttled rapidly through the dense forest, the wind whistling past his ears, the dead leaves underfoot being crushed.
Behind him, the shouts of the military police gradually faded, but Liu Haoyu knew… the real prey had yet to appear, and he had to wait a little longer.
“Is this all you’ve got?”
He deliberately slowed his pace, waiting for the main target to appear.
Not long after, he heard the roars of ghouls.
These monsters… had arrived.
A black shadow lunged out from between the trees, its claws ripping through the air, aiming straight for Liu Haoyu’s throat.
But Liu Haoyu reacted quickly. He dodged to the side and flicked out three talismans with his backhand.
These talismans, like sharp blades, whistling as they flew, pierced the black shadow’s body.
However, the black shadow merely stumbled; the damage was insignificant to it.
Instead, it became extremely agitated due to the pain.
“Roar!”
The ghoul let out a furious roar, its pale eyes fixed on Liu Haoyu.
Seeing this, Liu Haoyu sped up again. The military police had long been left far behind by Liu Haoyu, but the ghoul’s speed was not much inferior to Liu Haoyu’s.
However, Liu Haoyu accelerated once more. His speed was so great that even the flesh puppets controlled by the ghoul couldn’t keep up with them.
Soon, only Gu Mingyuan was left behind Liu Haoyu.
Liu Haoyu glanced back at him.
Gu Mingyuan’s eyes were pale but carried a trace of intelligence, meaning he seemed to have broken free from Gu Qianyang’s control and become a ghoul with self-awareness.
No wonder he had taken an interest in Qin Liu…
So, he wanted to possess Qin Liu’s body?
Liu Haoyu squinted, forming a hand seal with his fingertips and stomping his foot.
“Bind!”
As Liu Haoyu made the seal, a blood-colored formation suddenly appeared on the ground, and the ghoul’s legs were bound by an invisible force, causing it to topple forward.
Seeing the ghoul lose its balance, Liu Haoyu naturally wouldn’t miss the opportunity to strike a fallen foe.
Three Zhenlei Talismans flew out. The talismans, like flying knives, cut across the ghoul’s pale purple face, leaving a bloody gash.
But it wasn’t over yet. Even if the ghoul dodged, the Zhenlei Talismans could still detonate!
“Boom!”
The ghoul took the impact of the three Zhenlei Talismans head-on. It was also blasted away by the powerful shockwave.
However, the ghoul was covered by a pale green barrier… so the explosion’s damage was very limited.
To inflict fatal damage, it would require physical means to slash through this barrier.
Liu Haoyu instinctively reached behind him, but then he remembered that his fire axe had been thrown back by Qin Liu long ago and was likely still in the mansion, unretrieved.
However, as a ghost exorcist, Liu Haoyu had other things in his backpack even without the fire axe.
And under the ghoul’s gaze, the man wearing a gas mask and a black trench coat slowly pulled out a… skullcrusher from his backpack.
Although the man wore a gas mask, the ghoul, which had regained most of its consciousness, could vaguely sense the man’s brutal and merciless smile, like a bloodthirsty thug.
“It’s been a while since I used this thing,”
The man leisurely wiped the dark red bloodstains from the hammerhead.
The man’s eyes, looking through the lenses, were not filled with fear but with an almost insane excitement.
“I remember the last time I used it was in Beiming City…”
Listening to the man’s mumbled words, the ghoul’s entire body tensed.
It had now regained partial consciousness, and its instincts were screaming a frantic warning.
Even… it felt a trace of fear at this moment.
They say that fear stems from the unknown, but what else besides the unknown causes it?
It’s the kind of fearless madman standing before you!
