Chapter 97 Fear Beyond Death
As if to tear the rooster to pieces, more and more pale hands reached out from the darkness.
These pale hands almost covered the entire roster, and with the layers overlapping, Liu Haoyu couldn’t even count how many hands there were.
But without a doubt, each hand tore off some flesh and blood from the rooster.
In the end, the roster in front of Liu Haoyu was reduced to a pool of water stains, with hardly any feathers left.
In the darkness, more strange biting and chewing sounds arose.
Amidst these rising and falling sounds, Liu Haoyu always felt like he was on a feast table, with all the diners surrounding him.
It was as if he was also a dish on the table.
And it was precisely these hair-raising sounds that made the quiet lotus pond lively.
The candles that should have been extinguished reignited at this moment.
However, the candles melted quickly, shortening at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The bowl of chicken blood in front of Liu Haoyu also began to evaporate, constantly bubbling with eerie bubbles.
The chewing sounds, bubbling sounds, and the rustling eerie sounds around them continued to oppress Liu Haoyu’s nerves.
And it made the man’s body increasingly stiff.
Asking ghosts was a dangerous thing, but Liu Haoyu had no way back.
He could only do this, and taking a gamble gave him a chance to live on, while staying in the haunted house and waiting for death was not a temporary solution.
The moment the chicken blood in the bowl evaporated, the creepy chewing sounds around them instantly disappeared.
For a moment, the entire lotus pond fell back into an eerie silence.
Liu Haoyu stared at the stained bowl, and then the bowl that had once held chicken blood suddenly cracked in half.
The broken ceramic bowl was like an open bloody mouth, as if it wanted to devour Liu Haoyu’s soul.
Even stranger, those rustling sounds began again.
A withered hand, a hand in a police uniform, a woman’s hand, appeared before him through the broken bowl.
The owners of these three hands were Old Wang, Li Rongjun, and Li Suqin, who were pulled in by the red gate.
They wanted to catch him!
Liu Haoyu’s head buzzed, and then he dared not neglect. As if controlled by instinct, he quickly stood up and retreated.
At the critical moment, he dodged the pincer attack of these three hands and was not pulled into the broken bowl.
“Damn it…”
Liu Haoyu looked at the messy ground and said through gritted teeth.
“This red gate is really haunting!”
Liu Haoyu’s previous ghost-questioning had not only attracted lonely ghosts but also the red gate.
It was probably hiding somewhere now, ready to ambush Liu Haoyu at any time.
The surrounding lonely ghosts did not leave in a hurry after enjoying this feast. They did not retain much reason and could generally only act on instinct.
After hearing Liu Haoyu’s answer, these lonely ghosts thought for a while with their remaining brains, and then said something in a babbling manner.
After listening to the narration of these lonely ghosts, Liu Haoyu’s gaze fell again on the burning teaching building not far away.
These lonely ghosts described the fire in that building very fragmented.
But because they were only remnant souls, the stories they told were very vague.
So he had to go into the boys’ dormitory again to investigate.
This time, Liu Haoyu was very cautious when entering the dormitory.
Because he knew that it was the territory of fierce ghosts, and fighting inside would be very disadvantageous to Liu Haoyu.
After Liu Haoyu entered, the lonely ghosts added some more information.
Although it was still very vague, the general meaning was that they had not seen anything unusual in the dormitory these past two days.
Liu Haoyu frowned after hearing this.
He figured that the fierce ghosts inside must have gone somewhere by now.
While walking towards the dormitory, Liu Haoyu took out the black book and wrote on it.
“Did the red gate come just now?”
“Your feeling is correct, so I advise you, if you don’t want to die, turn around and go home now.”
The black book’s words made Liu Haoyu face a dilemma, but soon, he shook his head and said.
“Death is nothing to be afraid of.”
As a ghost exorcist, Liu Haoyu knew very well that only by facing fear could one overcome fear.
Therefore, even though he knew that the red gate was nearby, he still did not choose to return, but continued to investigate.
The young man walked into the dormitory building without fear.
However, it was clear that the ghost-questioning was not in vain. The lonely ghosts wandering nearby were quite aware of what had happened here.
According to the previous inquiry, it was known that the fire accident in this dormitory building was closely related to the lantern held by Qin Liu.
Going up to the third floor along the stairs, it was still pitch black, with a charred stench everywhere.
Even after so much time, because of the lack of ventilation, these smells still lingered on this floor.
Fortunately, this time there were no creepy dreadful fierce ghosts, and the entire dormitory building looked normal.
Even his mobile phone had a signal.
In this situation, the probability of being haunted was not high, but there was a possibility of encountering the damn red gate.
Walking cautiously, Liu Haoyu also kept a vigilant eye on every door, fearing that in a blink of an eye, it would appear before him.
After walking a distance, Liu Haoyu heard the sounds of boys playing and fighting.
It was like the noise made by students returning to their dormitories after evening study.
But looking in the direction of the sound, Liu Haoyu saw nothing unusual.
The corridor here was still quiet, as if the fierce ghosts he had seen before were just an illusion.
Even so, Liu Haoyu still took out a candle from his backpack and held it in his hand.
The candle was not lit, which meant that there were no dirty things around.
Could it be just an illusion?
Soon, the sounds of playing and fighting disappeared, and only the snoring sounds, both near and far, remained in Liu Haoyu’s ears.
Liu Haoyu walked silently down the dim corridor, just like a high school teacher checking dormitories in a vocational school.
Just then, a sound of rapid running came from behind him.
Liu Haoyu looked back and saw the phantom of a monster with a green face and fangs, running towards him in a flurry.
In its hand was a very familiar lantern, but its ferocious and terrifying face was filled with fear and dread.
In this hurried run, looking back every three steps, it was as if something terrifying was chasing it.
Liu Haoyu watched the other party vigilantly, but it seemed to be just a phantom body, and it passed directly through Liu Haoyu’s body and ran towards the depths of the corridor.
To escape the unknown terrifying thing behind it, this ghost messenger with a green face and fangs even threw the lantern it was holding.
After the lantern shattered, raging flames instantly ignited the entire corridor.
Liu Haoyu was clearly in the raging fire, but these flames could not harm him at all.
It seemed that everything happening before his eyes was a reflection of the past.
But even after throwing this lantern, this ghost messenger quickly hit the wall. Although it was a ghost messenger, it was now as helpless as a scared person.
It couldn’t even pass through walls, so it could only lean against the wall, shrinking its body tightly. Its gaze was fixed behind Liu Haoyu.
In its rapidly contracting pupils, there was a fear beyond death.
