Epilogue ⑥
Qin Liu’s fingertips had just touched the door handle when she suddenly stopped.
The sound of heavy rain outside continued, and the knocking on the door also persisted.
At this moment, Qin Liu keenly detected something discordant.
After all, she had never told Liu Haoyu that she had returned home.
Furthermore, the originally planned schedule was for her to be discharged from the hospital tomorrow.
So what was outside now…
Qin Liu did not open the door and withdrew her hand.
She was no longer the naive newcomer who would tremble in fear of ghosts.
“Wait for me to change clothes, I’m changing.”
Qin Liu deliberately raised her voice and quietly approached the peephole to look outside.
At the same time, a lantern appeared in her hand.
Through the peephole, she clearly saw Liu Haoyu standing at the doorway, completely drenched by the rain, with water dripping continuously from his clothes.
“Are you not ready yet?”
Liu Haoyu continued to urge, his body looking shaky, as if he would collapse at any moment.
But Qin Liu did not open the door, because she knew one thing very clearly.
If the other party were truly Liu Haoyu, he would have used his own key to open the door long ago, instead of calling her from outside.
“Okay, I’ll open the door right away.”
Thus, Qin Liu took a deep breath, grabbed the embroidered shoe next to her, and then, as she violently opened the door, she swung the sole of the shoe directly at the other party’s face.
“Slap!”
The embroidered shoe landed squarely on “Liu Haoyu’s” face, turning his head into a clump of white foam.
However, his entire body remained standing, and he kept saying.
“Qin Liu, what are you doing?”
Looking at the headless Liu Haoyu, Qin Liu felt no pity, only a surge of inexplicable anger.
“Bold demon, I saw at a glance that you are not human!”
Before her words could even finish, a lantern appeared in her hand, and a powerful suction directly pulled the monster in front of her into it.
However, after Qin Liu absorbed the Liu Haoyu made of foam, she suddenly discovered a problem.
The lantern gave her important information.
This thing… had no soul.
(5) Qin Liu’s ability to distinguish the souls of the living and the dead was the purest of inanimate objects.
It was not a ghost, nor a monster.
So what was this thing?
The heavy rain was still falling, and Qin Liu glanced at the corridor outside.
It was pitch black and filled with a chilling aura, as if it were connected to another world.
But Qin Liu glanced at her phone, and the signal was perfectly fine.
Did this mean that all of this was just her illusion?
Or was it… she had encountered some unidentified monster?
Thinking of this, Qin Liu closed the door and returned to the room.
When she was in the hospital, she heard Liu Haoyu talking about some things related to his work.
Among them, something called “Phantom” might be related to what she had just encountered.
Thus, Qin Liu entered the bedroom and turned on Liu Haoyu’s computer. although the computer had a password, Qin Liu knew that the password was Liu Haoyu’s birthday.
After turning on the computer, she soon found a file named “SP-871 Phantom”.
After roughly reading the contents of the file, Qin Liu’s gaze fell on the game helmet she had brought back. Could everything that had just happened be the work of this brain-computer interface?
“It should be this…”
Qin Liu cautiously approached the box for the brain-computer interface.
“Hoo…”
After taking a deep breath, the young girl slowly opened the box, and a brand new a brain-computer interface lay quietly inside.
She checked the internal condition and whether there were any grudges, but it seemed like an ordinary brain-computer interface, nothing more.
“Click…”
At that moment, Qin Liu suddenly heard the sound of the room door being opened.
And it seemed like something had entered the room.
The young girl dared not neglect, and immediately hid under the sofa, staring intently at the door.
On the other side, Liu Haoyu, who had just returned home, suddenly felt something unusual.
Although it was very subtle, someone had clearly entered the house.
Who had been in his house?
A thief? Or…
Liu Haoyu frowned, gripped the fire axe, and tried to move as quietly as possible, carefully sensing the other party’s aura.
Judging from the footprints on the ground, the person should have just entered and probably hadn’t left yet.
Where could it be hiding?
Looking at the empty room, Liu Haoyu took out his phone and brought up the surveillance footage of the house.
Then, his eyes widened.
He clearly saw Qin Liu entering the house on the surveillance footage.
But the problem was… wasn’t Qin Liu still in the hospital?
More importantly, the other party had brought a brain-computer interface into the house.
This meant that the “Qin Liu” in the house was most likely transformed by “Phantom”.
Liu Haoyu’s expression darkened. From the surveillance footage, he already knew that the other party was hiding under the sofa.
Therefore, Liu Haoyu pretended not to know anything and walked into the room.
Although he appeared to be going to the refrigerator, he was actually getting closer and closer to the sofa.
Until he was close enough, he suddenly attacked, kicking over the entire sofa and holding the fire axe to the girl’s head.
“Wait! Wait! Wait!”
As Liu Haoyu approached, Qin Liu had already noticed that this was indeed the real person.
She had wanted to come out from under the sofa, but she didn’t expect Liu Haoyu to act so quickly.
Upon seeing the Soul Guiding Lantern in Qin Liu’s hand, Liu Haoyu also realized that this must be the real Qin Liu.
“Why did you come back?”
“I… I wanted to give you a surprise?”
After recovering, Qin Liu pointed to the shopping bag on the table, which contained a new cosplay outfit.
Her face was slightly flushed.
“How about… trying it on?”
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Meanwhile, after dropping Liu Haoyu home, Raven arrived at the Special Task Force branch.
He looked at the brain-computer interface in his hand, feeling increasingly uneasy.
“Let Night Owl study it.”
Raven entered the research facility, and then a woman in a white lab coat walked over.
This person was Raven’s direct superior—Night Owl.
“What is this?”
“A suspicious item brought from the incident site for you to examine.”
“Oh?”
Night Owl took the brain-computer interface, examined it carefully, and then said.
“This is just an ordinary brain-computer interface.”
“If it were truly ordinary, it shouldn’t have appeared in a place like that.”
Seeing Raven’s expression, Night Owl began to examine it further.
“Did you see ‘Phantom’?”
“No.”
“I see…” Night Owl looked at the intricate internal structure of the brain-computer interface, and then proposed a bold hypothesis: “Raven, do you think ‘Phantom’, whom we have been looking for for so long, might be inside the virtual world constructed by this brain-computer interface?”
Hearing Night Owl’s words, Raven was stunned. He clearly had not considered this possibility.
And Night Owl continued to speak.
“Raven, why don’t you go into this game and investigate?”
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Regarding the epilogue, there should be a few more chapters. The focus will be on sweet moments and daily life, and the main storyline will not deviate too far.
