Chapter 81 Ghost Hand (4000 words)
Facing such a horrifying scene, if it were someone else, they would probably have been scared stiff on the spot.
They would likely have directly fainted without even being able to resist.
This kind of bizarre scene exerts a terrifying mental pressure on people.
Even Liu Haoyu, who had a big heart, felt a chill down his spine, let alone others.
But even so, he clearly understood one thing.
“I can’t afford to provoke this. Goodbye.”
Although Liu Haoyu could handle the scene before him, his chances of winning were definitely not 100%.
Moreover, the level of strangeness here was no weaker than that red door, so…
He had to run!
However, unless it was absolutely necessary, he still couldn’t bring Qin Liu out.
Once they scattered and fled, it would not be so easy for him to catch them.
As Liu Haoyu was pondering how to retreat, the scorched black walls around began to ooze blood.
Immediately after, one corpse after another fell from the ceiling, and the frequency of their descent increased.
If they managed to form a encirclement, even he would have to expend some effort to escape.
So, he had to escape while their numbers were small and the encirclement had not yet formed.
After confirming the threat level in both directions of the corridor, Liu Haoyu chose one direction and fled at his fastest speed.
The advantage of being a sports student was fully displayed here.
The man broke through the monsters that had not yet closed in and ran towards the dark depths at an extremely fast speed.
This was because the direction he chose was not the direction he came from.
This meant that Liu Haoyu could only hope to encounter a window or a balcony.
His backpack contained a climbing rope, which could directly descend from the third floor to the first floor.
Once outside, the open space would be conducive to spreading out the firepower.
If these evil ghosts still wanted to chase him, Liu Haoyu wouldn’t mind letting them taste what firepower coverage was like.
However, all of this was predicated on the condition that this path had a balcony or a window.
But this dormitory building was very old, and if there wasn’t one, Liu Haoyu would choose to face them head-on.
This boys’ dormitory building was not large, and Liu Haoyu ran for a while, but he couldn’t find a suitable place for rope descent along the way.
Although there were windows in the dormitory, those windows were blocked by iron bars. By the time Liu Haoyu removed the bars, it would be too late.
Finally, Liu Haoyu reached the end of the corridor.
He looked at the pitch-black charred wall in front of him and couldn’t help but curse.
“Damn it, this entire dormitory building has only one staircase. No wonder so many people died in the fire back then.”
From what Liu Haoyu saw, it was not difficult for him to imagine how desperate the students on this floor were during the fire.
The aisles were narrow, the personnel were dense, and there was only one staircase.
There wasn’t even a window to descend from.
In such a situation, even if they wanted to jump off the building, they couldn’t. They could only be trapped on this floor and burned to death by the flames.
Judging by the dust on the ground, who knew how much of it was the ashes left by those students after being burned.
But that wasn’t the point now.
Now, before Liu Haoyu was a dead end.
And behind him was a large group of ferocious and terrifying evil spirits.
Their hearts were filled with resentment, and they craved Liu Haoyu’s blood.
Especially since this man had let their prey escape, which made them hate him even more, wishing they could tear Liu Haoyu to pieces.
“Hoo…”
Liu Haoyu took a deep breath. Since he couldn’t escape, he would fight.
It wasn’t like he couldn’t fight them at all.
So he turned around and took out a Zhenlei Talisman from his pocket.
Just as he was about to fight them, Liu Haoyu suddenly felt something grab his hand from behind.
This sudden attack startled Liu Haoyu, and he quickly looked back.
He found that with just a turn of his body, that persistent red door had appeared behind him.
And what grabbed him was a hand extending from the crack of the door!
Before Liu Haoyu could react, the red iron door suddenly opened, and with this ghost hand, it directly pulled him in.
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The next morning at 5 AM.
When the sun was just beginning to brighten, Wang Wenqi, with dark circles under his eyes, walked out of the campus.
Behind him was Xiong Ying, who was equally tired and sleepy.
The special task force members had searched this place all night, but not only were there no people,
they didn’t even see a single hair.
If he hadn’t personally seen the man wearing a gas mask and holding a fire axe with a spotlight, and if Bai Anting, a girl, hadn’t told him herself,
Wang Wenqi would have thought that he had been staying up too late and hallucinating.
He yawned, then took out his walkie-talkie and asked.
“Feiying Sunying, do you have any clues?”
“Reporting, team leader, no clues found.”
In last night’s division of labor, Wang Wenqi and Xiong Ying went into the teaching building as the vanguard group to search.
As for Feiying Sunying, they stayed put to protect the girl and to support him and Xiong Ying.
Fortunately, this operation was surprisingly calm and safe.
There were no demons or ghosts in the campus, nor any evil spirits. It was very quiet.
But according to Old Deng, there had also been a major supernatural event here, which was why the school had to be sealed off.
But looking at it today, good heavens, who knows where those fierce ghosts had gone.
He didn’t find a single one.
Could it be that they were attracted by the man wearing the gas mask?
That was not impossible.
After the four members of the special task force successfully rendezvoused, Wang Wenqi consciously moved a little further away from Xiong Ying and asked Feiying Sunying.
“How is that girl?”
“She was just a little frightened. Apart from being a bit hungry, there were no other major issues with her body.”
When Bai Anting was first rescued, this supernatural streamer devoured all the spare dried food in the police car.
The scene was comparable to a starving ghost reincarnated.
After eating and drinking her fill, she fell asleep in the police car.
Because she hadn’t slept for a day and a night, it was indeed too tiring for this young girl.
Wang Wenqi opened the back door of the police car, and Bai Anting seemed to sense someone looking at her, so she slowly woke up.
She rubbed her sleepy eyes and asked.
“Are we going back?”
“Yes, you sit in the front passenger seat, and let those three men squeeze into the back.”
“Thank you, police uncle.”
Bai Anting, who was still not fully awake, sat in the front passenger seat.
On the way back, Wang Wenqi asked Bai Anting.
“Miss Bai Anting, do you have any impression of the man wearing the mask?”
Faced with Wang Wenqi’s question, Bai Anting, who was not fully awake yet, said groggily.
“Him… although he was dressed like a murderer, his backpack had a lot of strange talismans… then he treated me like a ghost and chased me into the restroom… then… zzzzzz~”
“Finish your sentence before you sleep!”
After a lot of persuasion and questioning, Wang Wenqi finally understood the situation of that so-called “murderer.”
From Bai Anting’s account, one thing could be known.
Although that person looked fierce, he had indeed led her out of the haunted campus.
And in that environment, he had not harbored any ill will towards her.
Coupled with Bai Anting’s own account, this basically ruled out the possibility of him kidnapping Bai Anting.
In addition, there was another very important piece of information, which was that the murderer’s backpack contained a large number of talismans.
This meant that he was likely a ghost exorcist.
Thinking of this, Wang Wenqi couldn’t help but associate the identity of this masked murderer with Liu Haoyu.
This might indeed be Liu Haoyu’s disguise, but what was he doing in such a place in the middle of the night?
Although according to Old Deng, his strength was very strong, no matter how strong he was, he couldn’t possibly single-handedly deal with such a major supernatural event alone.
If he could really do it, then he would truly be beyond ordinary people.
However, Wang Wenqi still shook his head. He did not believe in this possibility.
Old Deng placed great importance on this person named Liu Haoyu.
Old Deng would certainly not allow Liu Haoyu to come to such an extremely dangerous place.
But if it wasn’t Liu Haoyu, then who could this person be?
Wang Wenqi pondered for a moment, but still could not come up with an answer.
“Perhaps just a passing ghost exorcist who doesn’t know the meaning of death?”
As Wang Wenqi was sighing, he encountered the police team coming to support them.
The two cars stopped, and Wang Wenqi said to the leading police officer.
“Reporting, sir, the missing personnel have been found.”
Outside, Wang Wenqi was just an ordinary police officer. Not to mention ordinary people, even his colleagues in the police station could hardly discover Wang Wenqi’s true identity.
“Officer Wang, thank you for your hard work all night. You can go back and rest now.”
“Yes, sir.”
After that, Wang Wenqi drove away from the scene.
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At the same time, on another road.
“Liu Haoyu? Mr. Liu Haoyu? Little Liu!”
A seemingly familiar call suddenly appeared in Liu Haoyu’s ear.
The voice was initially distant but quickly grew closer until it was as if it was right by his ear.
“… Wo Ri!?”
Liu Haoyu suddenly sat up from the ground, then put his hands in his pockets, vigilantly looking around.
The last sliver of darkness of dawn was now illuminated by the headlights of a police car.
Liu Haoyu sat blankly on the sidewalk by the roadside, a little confused.
The headlights of the police car made it difficult for him to open his eyes, but Liu Haoyu still saw clearly who was calling his name.
“Officer Li Rongjun?”
At this moment, he was still a bit bewildered.
Didn’t he get pulled into the red door?
Then what was Officer Li Rongjun in front of him?
Could it be that he was still inside the red iron door?
Seeing that Liu Haoyu had finally woken up and could speak, Li Rongjun breathed a sigh of relief.
“Little Liu, why are you sleeping in a place like this?”
Liu Haoyu hadn’t sorted out the situation yet. His head was still a bit foggy, but he had roughly figured something out.
“I’m quite curious, Officer Li Rongjun, why are you in a place like this? Did another murder happen?”
Hearing Liu Haoyu’s question, Li Rongjun was a little speechless.
“A streamer who was bored to death came to Longshan Vocational High School to explore in the middle of the night and went missing. She’s just been found now. Don’t these people really not fear death? What if they encountered ghosts in that place at night?”
As a result, we searched all night for a while, but just now we received the news that a colleague had found the person… On second thought, why are you lying in a place like this in the middle of the night? Sleeping?”
In this regard, Liu Haoyu also explained somewhat awkwardly.
“I got tired of fishing, so I found a relatively flat place to sleep.”
Hearing Liu Haoyu’s words, Li Rongjun rolled his eyes and said somewhat speechlessly.
“Do you think we righteous people’s police will believe your nonsense? There are no fishing spots around here, are there? Or… were you kicked out of your house by your wife and had nowhere to sleep?”
“I don’t have a wife. Thank you.”
Speaking of his wife, Liu Haoyu’s aching head couldn’t help but recall something.
After he was pulled into the red door, he saw a very large coffin.
There was no name written on the coffin, so he didn’t know whose coffin it was.
Even if Liu Haoyu wanted to open it, he couldn’t.
After entering the red door, his control over his body was basically completely stripped away.
He could only see things, but his body couldn’t move at all.
And he was gradually sinking into the endless darkness, as if falling into water.
That icy feeling surged from all directions, engulfing him completely.
No matter how much Liu Haoyu struggled, it was useless. He could only let his body be gradually devoured by the darkness.
And at the very end of his consciousness, in a world full of darkness, a lantern lit up.
At the same time, a slender and jade-like small hand grabbed him.
The memory only went this far. As for what happened next, Liu Haoyu really couldn’t remember anything.
“No wife?” Li Rongjun said with a smile, “You’re so handsome and suave, how could you not find a wife? And don’t change the subject. What are you doing in a place like this in the middle of the night?”
“It was Officer Li who changed the subject first…” Liu Haoyu’s mind raced as he organized a story.
“I’ve been troubled by love these past few days, so I wanted to relax by fishing in the wild at night. However, because I hid my motorcycle too well, I couldn’t find it no matter how hard I looked.
As you know, there are no cars passing by here, so I could only search everywhere. As I searched, I got lost, and finally, I was so tired that I found a flat place to lie down.”
Li Rongjun looked at Liu Haoyu’s somewhat disheveled appearance, then analyzed his words, seemingly trying to find loopholes in them.
But in the end, he didn’t delve deeper into the matter. Instead, he sighed and pulled Liu Haoyu to his feet.
“Alright, alright, if that’s what you say, then I can only believe it.”
“Thank you for your understanding, Officer Li Rongjun.”
Seeing that he had gotten away with it, Liu Haoyu dared not show too much emotion on his face.
“Jiangliu City has been unstable recently. Don’t go around alone in the middle of the night in the future. It’s very dangerous. Do you need me to give you a ride back?”
“No, no,” Liu Haoyu repeatedly shook his head and said, “It’s almost dawn now, and I’ll see if I can find my motorcycle. That thing cost me thousands of dollars.”
“Okay, be careful. I’ll go and meet up with my teammates. See you around.”
With that, the police car left. Liu Haoyu was the only one left on the road.
