Chapter 96 Lotus Pond Ghost Questioning
At 8:10 PM that night.
Liu Haoyu parked his motorcycle by the roadside and hid it.
This was to prevent it from being stolen and to conceal his whereabouts.
After dealing with these miscellaneous matters, Liu Haoyu lit a cigarette.
As a ghost exorcist, he was dedicated to combating fierce ghosts.
Liu Haoyu didn’t even know how many nights he hadn’t slept well.
He basically slept during the day and worked at night.
Because he hadn’t been exposed to much ultraviolet light, his skin was slightly unnaturally pale.
Similarly, due to staying up all night, Liu Haoyu’s mental state was not very good.
Smoking was just to keep him alert.
The man took the rooster tied to the motorcycle and walked towards Longshan Vocational High School.
The rooster was the sacrifice needed for this ghost questioning. Perhaps sensing the aura of death, the rooster struggled vigorously, but was quickly subdued by Liu Haoyu, unable to struggle.
There was no moon that night, and no sound could be heard in the dark Longshan Vocational High School.
During the day, perhaps there was some yang energy here, but once night fell, it was extremely cold and desolate.
Moreover, because Longshan Vocational High School was located in a secluded area, even though it was only 8 PM, no one would be wandering around such a place.
The rooster that had been struggling in Liu Haoyu’s hands immediately became quiet after entering the campus.
It seemed to have even stopped breathing, or as if its throat was being choked, it dared not move.
Even though Liu Haoyu held its wing, it still did not resist.
It just looked at Liu Haoyu with its dark, eerie eyes.
However, Liu Haoyu ignored the rooster’s anomaly and walked towards the lotus pond behind the teaching building.
The closer Liu Haoyu got to the dormitory building that had caught fire, the more silent the rooster in his hand became. It would occasionally tremble as if in a spasm, but quickly calmed down.
When Liu Haoyu reached the edge of the lotus pond, he used the fire axe in his hand to cut the rooster’s neck.
The bright red, viscous chicken blood flowed like water from the wound into the bowl.
But even so, the rooster did not struggle at all. It continued to look at Liu Haoyu with its ink-black eyes.
It was as if a dead person, with their neck severed, was staring at Liu Haoyu.
After all the chicken blood flowed into the bowl, Liu Haoyu placed a talisman in it.
The blood quickly dyed the talisman completely red.
“Lonely spirits and wild ghosts, look over here… lonely spirits and wild ghosts, look over here…”
The flashlight beam converged on the rooster’s corpse and the bowl of bright red chicken blood.
Darkness surrounded them. Under the flashlight’s beam, the bowl of chicken blood seemed like the most delicious meal in the night.
Vibrant and alluring.
There was even a faint voice calling out to Liu Haoyu.
“Drink… drink…”
Of course, Liu Haoyu dared not drink the bright red chicken blood.
After confirming that the rooster was completely dead, Liu Haoyu took out three candles from his pocket.
As soon as he took them out and stuck them in the ground, the three candles ignited themselves without any wind.
This meant…
Something was coming.
The howling night wind suddenly stopped.
In the dark and haunted school, only Liu Haoyu sat alone on the ground.
This time, he hadn’t brought Qin Liu.
In the past, there were others… no, there were ghosts who could chat with him, but now Qin Liu was left inside the haunted house.
This made Liu Haoyu a little uncomfortable.
But there was no other way. He had to do this because Qin Liu’s presence would startle the attracted lonely spirits and ward off the fierce ghosts who had been burned to death.
So, this was a rare solo operation.
In just this short time, the candles in front of Liu Haoyu burned brighter and brighter.
More and more gazes converged on Liu Haoyu. These lonely spirits looked eagerly at the rooster in front of Liu Haoyu.
They were waiting for the signal to eat.
In response, Liu Haoyu pulled out the talisman soaked in blood from the bowl.
The bright red chicken blood dripped onto the ground and quickly disappeared.
As if being licked by something.
“Whoosh… dinner is served, friends.”
As Liu Haoyu finished speaking, the rustling sounds in the darkness resumed.
And this time, they were not just behind Liu Haoyu, but from almost all directions.
They even came from in front of Liu Haoyu.
The man didn’t look up. He knew that looking up would lead to even more terrible consequences.
So, Liu Haoyu’s gaze remained on the rooster and the chicken blood from beginning to end, for fear that looking back would cause all his efforts to go in vain.
After a period of deathly silence, the thing behind Liu Haoyu finally moved.
A pale arm slowly reached out from behind him.
The candlelight was already dim, and because of this, the pale arm appeared extraordinarily terrifying under the candlelight.
Even Liu Haoyu couldn’t help but be startled.
This outstretched hand was placed on the severed chicken head. With a forceful twist, the chicken’s head was taken away by the unknown ghost hand.
However, it wasn’t over yet. After this hand withdrew, a new ghost hand emerged from the darkness.
This hand was dry and withered, like an old man’s hand.
The already dimly flickering candles could not hold on any longer at this moment.
They flickered in the wind for a while before finally extinguishing completely.
The candlelight was already dim, only allowing a clear view of about one meter.
And now, nothing could be seen clearly.
One could only vaguely sense that many things were lurking and watching in the darkness.
“Crunch, crunch…”
Chewing sounds, coming from nowhere, echoed around the lotus pond.
It sounded like the sound of biting the chicken head.
“Crunch, crunch…”
The eerie chewing sounds were enough to make one’s scalp tingle.
Perhaps after the first one ate the sacrifice, the other fierce ghosts watching also couldn’t wait any longer and surged forward.
Under Liu Haoyu’s gaze, pale arms emerged from the darkness one after another, frantically tearing at the rooster’s corpse.
