Chapter 77 Killing Ghosts! (4200 words)
Hearing Wang Wenqi’s question, Xiong Ying flipped through the documents and said.
“It’s a man named Liu Haoyu, and he seems to have some connection with Old Deng.”
“A connection with Old Deng… could he be a ghost exorcist?”
Wang Wenqi knew that besides the Special Task Force, there were quite a few self-proclaimed ghost exorcists among the people.
However, these people were not very strong overall, and most of them could only handle minor haunting incidents.
For difficult supernatural events, one could only rely on people like Old Deng or turn to the Special Task Force.
But the Special Task Force also had limited resources, so some things had to be abandoned when necessary.
Just like that haunted house in the suburbs, since he couldn’t handle it, he could only report it to the higher-ups.
But before that…
Wang Wenqi reached out his hand and said.
“Let me see what kind of person this Liu Haoyu is.”
After receiving the documents, Wang Wenqi saw the person in the photo.
At this moment, he was stunned.
This person was the same man he had encountered at the noodle shop before, and his behavior was very strange!
How could he be the last buyer of this house?
Combined with his relationship with Old Deng…
He might really be a ghost exorcist, and what he was talking to earlier should be related to Hong Yu.
That thing could seal fierce ghosts, and it was a very powerful skill, but it was difficult for ordinary people to use it.
“Where is he now?”
“I don’t know, it hasn’t been investigated clearly yet.”
Xiong Ying shook his head. Time was limited, and he couldn’t investigate things thoroughly.
It was already very impressive that he could find so much information in such a short time.
Wang Wenqi didn’t make things difficult for him and just urged.
“Figure out his whereabouts. Our Special Task Force in Jiangliu City hasn’t had a new recruit in three years. It’s best to find a way to bring him in.”
“Yes!”
Xiong Ying was about to leave, but Wang Wenqi called him back.
“Wait.”
“What is it, team leader?”
Wang Wenqi had now figured it out and felt that Xiong Ying’s words had some merit.
Since he couldn’t handle this matter, he could only put it aside for now.
However, to prevent any suicidal individuals from entering the haunted house and causing trouble, Wang Wenqi decided to do something.
“Xiong Ying, send someone to put up a warning sign at the entrance to the haunted house.”
“Warning sign?”
Xiong Ying was a bit confused. Shouldn’t they put up a seal in this situation?
Wang Wenqi naturally saw through his thoughts and explained.
“What seal? Are you stupid? What if this Liu Haoyu is a ghost exorcist, and we offend him?”
“That makes sense. What should the warning sign say?”
After all, it is the 21st century, an era of science, so they couldn’t write “Beware of ghosts ahead, no entry” on the sign, right?
Who would believe that?
Wang Wenqi had clearly considered this, so he said.
“Just write ‘Beware of bears, no entry.’ Anyway, it’s a dead end, and no one usually walks there.”
“Understood.”
Xiong Ying nodded, but in just a moment, he couldn’t help but voice his doubts.
“Speaking of which, team leader, is it really okay to just bring in this person named Liu Haoyu? What about the review… tests and the like…”
“Xiong Ying…” Wang Wenqi sighed with a look of earnest advice. “You said that there are only the four of us in the Special Task Force of Jiangliu City, right?”
“Yes.”
“Rules are rigid, but people are flexible. I know you have many concerns, Xiong Ying, but the problem is with all these messy things happening recently. If we don’t find a way to recruit more people, the four of us will be exhausted on duty, understand?”
Wang Wenqi’s words left Xiong Ying speechless.
Indeed, there were very few people in the ghost exorcist profession, and even fewer who could do special task force work.
Ghost exorcism depends on talent; it’s not like an ordinary person can do it with just a peach wood sword.
“The ghost exorcist profession is almost extinct in modern times. Now that we’ve found one, and he’s a ghost exorcist with a connection to Old Deng, if we don’t act now, are we going to wait for other jurisdictions to snatch him first?
Besides, think about it, since this man bought that haunted house, he must have gone in, right? But I just met him not long ago, which means he could escape from that haunted house unscathed, right? His strength must be greater than ours, so why wouldn’t we try to win him over?”
Wang Wenqi’s words made the somewhat impulsive Xiong Ying suddenly enlightened.
“The team leader is wise!”
After that, the square-faced police officer saluted and left the ward.
Wang Wenqi lay back down on the bed, and the nurse re-entered the ward.
“By the way, nurse, who called the 120 for us?”
“I’m sorry, officer, we don’t know. The call to the ambulance was completely garbled, and we couldn’t trace it back.”
Garbled…
Wang Wenqi had received many calls from ghosts, and most of them were like the scrambled calls the nurse mentioned.
In other words, the one who called the ambulance for them… was a ghost.
And the road was sparsely traveled, and the accident happened in the early morning. The ambulance received the call an hour later.
Coupled with this string of garbled numbers, could it be that the red shadow called the ambulance for them?
“No, no, no, how is that possible.”
Wang Wenqi quickly dismissed this possibility. In his impression, fierce ghosts that could harm people rarely maintained their sanity.
Most of them were like they had lost their minds, with no possibility of communication.
So, let alone calling an ambulance for him.
But other than her, was there any other possibility?
Wang Wenqi pondered for a long time. Even after the nurse left the ward, he couldn’t find any other possibility.
“Forget it, let’s put this aside for now.”
Although he was a bit injured, at least he could take a sick leave after a long time, which was quite good.
Just as Wang Wenqi was thinking this, a female police officer with glasses walked in.
She carried a scholarly aura, and with her black-rimmed glasses, she didn’t look like a police officer but more like a bookworm in uniform.
As for her identity, she was the intelligence officer of the Special Task Force, named Xu Wanlin.
“Um, that… team leader, excuse me.”
Xu Wanlin scratched her face a bit embarrassed.
“Team leader, perhaps, maybe, probably… you can’t rest yet.”
At this moment, Wang Wenqi wished he was still in a coma.
This is really… if they don’t recruit more people soon, he’ll really be exhausted to death on duty!
But out of responsibility for his work, he sat up and asked.
“Is there something else?”
Hearing Wang Wenqi’s helpless and melancholic tone, Xu Wanlin said a little awkwardly.
“The police station received a report that yesterday, a supernatural streamer broke into Longshan Vocational High School. Her livestream was still on, but the livestream was completely dark, with nothing visible, and the person still hasn’t been found.”
At this moment, Wang Wenqi was pointing his finger at the streamer’s entire family.
– – –
Time came to the evening of the next day.
The weather was quite nice tonight, with a high moon in the sky and motorcycles speeding on the ground.
Looking at the rapidly receding scenery on both sides, Qin Liu could only ask.
“Driving so fast, is King Yama chasing you from behind?!”
As for Qin Liu at this moment, she wasn’t worried about herself.
Instead, she was worried about Liu Haoyu’s safety.
With such outrageous speed, if something suddenly appeared in front, wouldn’t this guy go to heaven on the spot?
And if something happened to him, she would really have no way to go to Jiangquan City to find her younger sister.
More importantly, given this man’s personality, if he turned into a ghost…
She would probably be forced by him to wear pantyhose.
Just thinking about it was terrifying.
Therefore, all along the way, Qin Liu didn’t dare to be distracted. If something were to happen, she could save him immediately.
Grudges have many functions, and saving someone would definitely be no problem.
However, because the wind noise was too loud, Liu Haoyu didn’t hear Qin Liu’s words.
Fortunately, the journey was smooth and without incident, and they successfully arrived at the school gate of Longshan Vocational High School.
After the car stopped, Qin Liu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Liu Haoyu, seeing this, couldn’t help but complain.
“Why does it feel like you’re more nervous than me when I ride a motorcycle?”
“Nonsense!” Qin Liu immediately retorted. “I just ask, what kind of motorcycle speeds at 120 kilometers per hour!”
“I think there are quite a few, you just don’t see them.”
Liu Haoyu parked the motorcycle in a very hidden location and covered it completely with leaves and dead branches.
After doing all this, Liu Haoyu climbed over the wall and entered the campus.
Because it had been abandoned for many years, Longshan Vocational High School had long lost its former appearance.
The playground was overgrown with weeds, covered with dead branches and fallen leaves everywhere.
Stepping on them, they would occasionally make a crisp “creaking” sound.
The campus was very quiet, with no insect chirps or bird calls… so this crisp sound seemed so abrupt and terrifying in the campus.
For safety, Liu Haoyu held the fire axe hanging from his backpack and, to conceal his identity, put on a gas mask as usual.
Longshan Vocational High School was very large, and Liu Haoyu, walking alone on the playground, appeared very lonely.
The cold night wind occasionally blew, adding to the eerie atmosphere of the campus.
Even Qin Liu couldn’t help but say.
“Is this place really a campus? Why does it feel like I’ve arrived at a mass grave?”
“It is said that Longshan Vocational High School was indeed built on a graveyard.”
“…”
Hearing Liu Haoyu’s words, Qin Liu shivered.
She had heard many such campus rumors, such as what kind of school was behind a cemetery, or that the school was surrounded by graves before, and then was flattened and expanded.
Most of the time, most people would just listen to ghost stories and let it go.
But here it was different, there were real ghosts here!
But fortunately, as long as she was with Liu Haoyu, nothing would happen.
After all, everyone had witnessed this man’s strength.
Being with him meant being invincible!
The playground was very large. Liu Haoyu walked for almost ten minutes before reaching the teaching building, and this was not his destination.
He had to find the student dormitory that caught fire.
“I remember that after passing through this teaching building, you can directly reach that student dormitory.”
Qin Liu’s reminder allowed Liu Haoyu to find his direction again.
So he chose to go directly through this very gloomy and terrifying teaching building.
Before entering, Liu Haoyu took out his mobile phone.
The phone had no signal, and even emergency calls couldn’t be made.
“Confirmed, this place is indeed haunted.”
Putting his phone back in his pocket, Liu Haoyu adjusted his gas mask and walked towards the entrance of the teaching building.
Just as he reached the entrance, he found that the door was not locked, but had been pushed open a crack. The dust on the doorknob had also been pressed into a small handprint. From this print, it could be seen that it was a woman’s handprint.
“Someone has been here recently…”
“Uh, what?” Qin Liu tilted her head in confusion. “Why would anyone come to such a ghost place? Are they that fearless of death?”
“Who knows, let’s hope they didn’t really die.”
Liu Haoyu sidestepped and entered the teaching building through the door crack.
And as he entered, a strange movement came from the depths of the long and dark corridor.
It sounded like fine footsteps of someone walking in the aisle.
Seeing this, Liu Haoyu shone his flashlight into the depths of the corridor.
He saw a thin, twisted figure standing not far away.
It was clearly moving, and there were footsteps, but its body had no undulation, as if it were floating.
This was definitely not human.
Humans couldn’t walk like this.
It wasn’t facing Liu Haoyu, so Liu Haoyu couldn’t see its face clearly.
But from the traces revealed on its body, it was not difficult to judge.
This should be the student who was burned to death by the fire.
While Liu Haoyu was observing, a cold wind blew in the corridor.
It was so cold it gave him goosebumps.
At this moment, the thin ghost figure in front finally turned around.
Liu Haoyu finally got to see its face, which was disfigured by fire, and its lips were completely gone, revealing two rows of yellowish and blackened teeth.
Such a terrifying appearance did not scare Liu Haoyu at all. Instead, he held the axe handle in one hand and the axe head in the other, with a calm expression…
He was even a little excited.
As a ghost exorcist, Liu Haoyu was not afraid of ghosts at all. On the contrary, he was afraid that ghosts would not appear.
Otherwise, he would just wander around the campus, looking for clues like searching for a needle in a haystack.
However, Liu Haoyu was not afraid of ghosts, but when this ghost saw the combination of Liu Haoyu and Qin Liu in front of it, it let out a sharp burst of scream and then fled the place at a speed comparable to Usain Bolt’s sprint.
While running, it also cried out in a hoarse voice.
“Kill ghosts! Kill ghosts!”
This scene left Liu Haoyu dumbfounded.
After the person and the ghost stood still for a moment, Qin Liu finally couldn’t help but complain.
“Your appearance as a murderers even scares ghosts a little.”
“I don’t think it’s my problem.”
Liu Haoyu was also a bit speechless, but even so, he quickly chased after it.
However, ghosts could pass through walls, and coupled with its incredible speed, Liu Haoyu couldn’t catch up at all.
He chased for a full three minutes, but didn’t even see the dust from its exhaust.
And after chasing for three minutes, Liu Haoyu realized that he could no longer accurately determine his location.
He could only vaguely remember that he should still be in the teaching building.
Just as Liu Haoyu was trying to confirm his location, a thumping sound came from above him, on the second-floor corridor.
