Chapter 7 Mental Breakdown
“Ouch!”
Liu Haoyu did not expect that the hanged woman would give him a kick.
He also did not expect that the first harm he received after coming to this house was a physical attack.
What was even more critical was that the kick was delivered without any restraint, directly knocking him to the ground.
By the time Liu Haoyu got up, the woman who had been hanging in front of him had vanished without a trace.
He rubbed his slightly sore nose and said.
“Tsk, it’s just an illusion. If you don’t want to be seen, you don’t have to be, but you had to lay hands on me.”
The hanged woman was naturally not the main body of the fierce ghost. This was just something created by the other party, similar to an illusion.
The women Liu Haoyu encountered on his first night in the room were also illusions created by this fierce ghost.
But even though those things were illusions, if the other party wanted to kill someone, they could be terrifying existences that could directly kill people.
However, the ghost had now retracted its illusions, and his clothes were still hanging intact in this place.
This matter should be considered over.
Liu Haoyu pulled open the curtains, looked at the rising sun outside, and decided not to collect his clothes, letting them hang there.
It was unlikely that many people would believe it if he said a ghost helped him dry his clothes.
He hoped it would help him dry his quilt next time.
It was a pity, though, that he hadn’t figured out the secret hidden in the house all night.
Now it was daytime, and it was difficult to investigate anything during the day, so Liu Haoyu could only give up for now.
As for the basement he couldn’t find all night, he might as well ask Old Wang, who should have the structural plan of this house.
Liu Haoyu returned to his room, brought his work tools, and then walked out of the haunted house.
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Liu Haoyu arrived at the sales office but couldn’t find Old Wang. He then asked a young saleswoman.
“Hello, is Manager Wang not here?”
Upon hearing Liu Haoyu’s question, the saleswoman’s expression changed. Even with her professionalism, she seemed startled and took a step back.
But even so, she still managed a strained smile and said.
“Manager Wang was in a car accident when he returned last night. He is currently at the Third People’s Hospital.”
Upon hearing this news, Liu Haoyu’s face turned serious, and he asked.
“Which ward? I’ll go visit him.”
“Ward XXX.”
After getting the saleswoman’s answer, Liu Haoyu rushed to the Third People’s Hospital.
After asking a few doctors, Liu Haoyu finally found Old Wang’s ward.
A nurse was standing at the door, chatting with a doctor.
Seeing this, Liu Haoyu stepped forward and asked them.
“Excuse me, is this Wang Faqiang’s ward?”
“Yes.”
“I am his friend and his client. Can I go in and see him?”
“Sure,” the doctor nodded and then added, “but the patient’s condition is a bit strange, so please don’t agitate him.”
“Understood.”
After receiving permission, Liu Haoyu pushed the door open and entered the ward.
As soon as he entered, a sharp, strong smell of disinfectant hit him.
There was only one bed in the room, and Old Wang was lying on it.
Liu Haoyu walked to the bedside and looked at the elderly man in his seventies.
Now bandaged all over, he wasn’t sleeping but was staring wide-eyed at the ceiling. Even when he saw Liu Haoyu arrive, he didn’t say a word.
His appearance was extremely strange and creepy.
“Old Wang, are you asleep?”
“Ghost… ghost…”
In response to Liu Haoyu’s question, Old Wang continued to stare with his bell-like eyes, mumbling a single word incessantly.
Ghost.
Looking at his darkened forehead, Liu Haoyu felt a wave of helplessness.
Old Wang had run away too quickly at that time; he hadn’t even finished the latter half of what he had to say.
Now, it seemed that he had definitely been possessed.
He had suffered a severe mental blow, to the point of being on the verge of collapse.
“Knock, knock, knock.”
Just as Liu Haoyu was about to check on Old Wang’s condition, there was a knock on the door.
When the door opened, two police officers walked in. They looked at Old Wang, then at Liu Haoyu, then took out their notebooks and pens and said.
“May I ask if you are Mr. Liu Haoyu?”
“Yes.”
“Last night, did this person named Wang Faqiang take you and a batch of furniture to the outskirts?”
“Yes.”
After asking a few simple questions, the police officers put down their notebooks and pens and said.
“My name is Li Rongjun, police number XXXXXX. It’s like this, last night, Mr. Wang Faqiang had a car accident at 7 p.m. on the XX country road returning to the city. The car directly fell off a cliff.
Fortunately, villagers below the cliff discovered him in time and called the police, so he was rescued. But for some reason, after he woke up, he became like this.
Mr. Liu Haoyu, do you have any clues?”
Listening to Li Rongjun’s questions, Liu Haoyu naturally answered truthfully about his whereabouts at the time.
However, since only Old Wang and he were present at the time, Liu Haoyu knew that it was not wrong for the police to suspect him in this situation.
“I commissioned Old Wang to transport a batch of furniture for me. There should be transaction records between us at the sales office.”
“Okay, I understand.”
Li Rongjun nodded.
According to the scene, the car was empty at the time, with no furniture. Moreover, the accident site was fifteen kilometers away from the house where Liu Haoyu was. There were very few cars on that road at night, so based on this simple judgment, it should be a car accident.
But the problem was that Wang Faqiang’s mental state was too eerie.
And according to the doctor’s examination, his head had not been impacted. So what could have caused him to become like this?
It was precisely because he couldn’t figure it out that Li Rongjun sought out Liu Haoyu.
But as of now, they were temporarily classifying this as an accidental car crash.
“Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Liu. If you have any subsequent findings, please contact us immediately.”
The two police officers left, and Liu Haoyu turned his gaze back to Wang Faqiang.
If he wanted to get the structural plan of the haunted house, he could only find out from him.
Others, including the people at the sales office, had no idea what the house actually looked like.
As Liu Haoyu was thinking, Old Wang’s hand shot out from under the quilt and grabbed Liu Haoyu’s wrist tightly like a clamp.
The force was so strong that Liu Haoyu’s wrist hurt.
His eyeballs, bulging as if they were about to pop out, stared directly at Liu Haoyu.
After staring for a full three seconds, he finally spoke.
“Ghost… there’s a ghost in my car…”
