Chapter Twenty-One
Liu Haoyu stared at Gu Wanxue’s eerie face, not daring to approach rashly. Instead, he pulled out his fire axe and watched her warily.
He had a premonition that the Gu Wanxue before him wasn’t the real person.
Could she have been possessed?
Or perhaps… this was just an illusion?
After a brief standoff, mist began to rise in Shigu Town.
The mist spread incredibly fast. Sunlight had been visible earlier, but in just half aminute, the entire world was enveloped in white mist.
Gu Wanxue’s figure disappeared completely into the fog.
Looking at his surroundings, Liu Haoyu’s feeling of unreality intensified.
He walked forward slowly, trying to close the distance between himself and Gu Wanxue.
At the same time, behind his back, he clutched three Zhenlei Talismans.
If anything felt wrong, he would unleash these talismans directly.
However, after walking ten meters forward, he discovered the area ahead was empty.
Where Gu Wanxue had been standing, there were only a set of scattered footprints.
These footprints varied in size, not appearing to be from a single person. They seemed to lead deeper into Shigu Town, and no one knew where she was going.
Liu Haoyu was no exception. He took out a Soul Chasing Talisman and lit it.
The talisman then transformed into a wispy, blue ghost fire that floated forward.
With the ghost fire leading the way, it would reduce the possibility of getting lost in the fog.
The mist in Shigu Town grew thicker, and the sunlight weakened at a visible rate.
The houses not far away had completely turned into tall shadows, resembling monsters.
“It’s getting foggy.”
If Liu Haoyu wasn’t mistaken, this was likely the dense fog Wang Wenqi had mentioned earlier.
He had to admit, it was indeed frighteningly dense.
Just standing there, Liu Haoyu felt as if he were in a large Korean-style bathhouse, with every breath filled with moisture, his clothes soaked through.
This inexplicable fog was clearly a supernatural event.
Liu Haoyu took out his mobile phone and checked it.
All the signal bars had disappeared, meaning his connection to the outside world was completely severed.
But fortunately, his connection to Hong Yu and Qin Liu was still intact, though he didn’t understand why she wasn’t reacting at all.
This little ghost was sleeping very soundly.
Liu Haoyu clicked his tongue inwardly.
He currently had no solution for Qin Liu’s lifespan issue.
Therefore, he needed to prevent her from causing any further trouble.
As long as she was alive, everything could still be recovered.
More importantly, the Black Book was also considering ways for Qin Liu to continue existing in the human world.
What a good book…
Liu Haoyu sighed and then followed the ghost fire.
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Meanwhile, Qin Liu slowly woke up from her dream.
She dazedly opened her eyes.
“Huh?”
This little ghost was confused about her situation.
Looking at the white mist, she felt a sense of bewilderment she couldn’t explain.
She had been sleeping soundly at home, hadn’t she?
How did she suddenly end up here?
So, where was this place?
Where did Liu Haoyu go?
The young girl was baffled, but when she saw the lantern in her hand, she understood something.
She had unconsciously entered the guide state again?
Since her memory had returned, Qin Liu’s bewildered expression slowly turned serious after she realized what was happening.
She knew very well that her increasingly weak body was the reason she occasionally entered this guide state.
Furthermore, the probability of entering the guide state doubled when she detected ghosts or when she was asleep.
“Hoo…”
She took a deep breath, having a general idea of what was happening.
Perhaps when she was asleep, Liu Haoyu, with Hong Yu, had come to this foggy place, and because she was asleep, she had become a guide.
At the same time, she could clearly feel that this place… had a very strong dense of grievances.
It seemed someone had died here.
So where was Liu Haoyu?
Qin Liu tried to sense Hong Yu’s location, but it seemed to be cut off by the thick white fog. Qin Liu could only vaguely sense that Liu Haoyu was somewhere in front of her.
However, she could only sense his location and couldn’t return directly. So Qin Liu followed the direction of Hong Yu.
The thick white mist could obscure the light of flashlights, but it seemed to be afraid of the lantern Qin Liu held.
The orange-yellow flame of the lantern illuminated the surroundings.
With the help of the lantern, Qin Liu soon entered the town. Looking at the old and dilapidated blue brick houses, she seemed to recall past memories.
This was… Shigu Town?
Looking at the steamed bun stall not far away, Qin Liu couldn’t help but feel a sense of emotion.
In the blink of an eye, forty years had passed, and this place had become like this.
She wondered how those people she had met were doing now…
As Qin Liu was reminiscing, the wick of the lantern suddenly bloomed with a blue flame.
The appearance of this color meant…
Something malevolent had appeared?
Qin Liu scanned her surroundings. In the hazy mist, she thought she saw a figure.
Judging by its build, this person walking towards her should be a male.
Who was it?
Qin Liu squinted her eyes, but at that moment, a hoarse, aged voice came from one of the houses not far away.
The voice made Qin Liu instinctively turn her head to look.
Not far from her, an old woman wearing a blue headscarf was waving at her from inside a house.
“Girl, come in quickly,”
“There’s something evil outside!”
Hearing the other person’s words, Qin Liu was surprised that the old woman could see her, and at the same time, she was checking the old woman’s condition.
She had a vital force… was she actually alive?
“Girl, why are you still standing there? Hurry up and come in.”
Seeing Qin Liu standing there in a daze, the old woman’s expression became anxious.
“I’m not lying to you! Believe me, that silhouette outside is unclean!”
Given the old woman’s words, Qin Liu pondered for a moment and then walked towards the old house.
As soon as she entered, the old woman slammed the door shut and secured it tightly with a wooden plank.
After finishing everything, the old woman nervously peeked through the door crack to confirm that the silhouette wasn’t approaching them before she breathed a sigh of relief.
Then she turned around to face Qin Liu behind her.
“You little girl, are you trying to die?”
“That thing doesn’t look alive no matter how you look at it,”
“And you still dare to stand outside in this situation…”
The old woman paused mid-sentence.
She scanned the young girl holding the lantern before her. A inexplicable familiarity made her completely bewildered.