Chapter Seventeen: Fishing

Liu Haoyu ultimately followed Deng Xiaolin's choice.

After all, as long as it looked good, that was enough.

After picking out the items and paying, when Liu Haoyu walked out of the store, the sun was already close to setting.

To buy all these things and send the motorcycle for repairs, his entire day had been spent in the city.

However, the motorcycle hadn't been repaired yet after being sent to the shop, so Liu Haoyu had to rent one to use.

"Brother Hao, Brother Hao," Deng Xiaolin looked at Liu Haoyu with expectant eyes and asked, "Have you been ghost hunting or anything lately?"

Deng Xiaolin was very interested in ghost hunting and exorcism. She also knew Liu Haoyu's real profession, so she would catch him every few days and bombard him with questions.

However, because of Elder Deng, Liu Haoyu could only tell her stories and talk about it verbally, never actually taking her to a scene.

Not only did Elder Deng not want her to follow, but Liu Haoyu himself also didn't want Deng Xiaolin to come along.

Ghost hunting and exorcism were too dangerous.

Countless people had died at the hands of ghosts, which was why Elder Deng had always advised him not to continue in this line of work.

But if he were to abandon the legacy inherited from his father, Liu Haoyu naturally felt uneasy.

What's more, he had a talent for this profession.

"Brother Hao? Why are you just spacing out?"

Perhaps he was thinking too much and hadn't paid attention to Deng Xiaolin for a while. The bright and beautiful young girl said with a hint of dissatisfaction.

"Isn't it good for me to accompany you?"

"It's not a matter of whether it's good or not," Liu Haoyu said in a threatening tone, "You need to be a little vigilant. Out in the wilderness, a man and a woman alone, if I were to do anything indecent to you, wouldn't you be in danger?"

Facing Liu Haoyu's threat, Deng Xiaolin's small face blushed, and she mumbled.

"If... if you want to, then do it."

"What?"

Because Deng Xiaolin's voice was very soft, Liu Haoyu couldn't hear her. By the time he wanted to ask for clarification, The girl had already quickly walked ahead of Liu Haoyu.

"Nothing! If you don't want to take me, then forget it!"

With that, she quickened her pace and returned to the dormitory in no time.

As soon as she got back to the dorm, Deng Xiaolin threw herself onto the bed, hugged a pillow, and looked quite displeased.

"What's wrong with taking me along..."

Deng Xiaolin's obsession with supernatural events was well-known. Her roommate heard her muttering and said, "Xiaolin, are you looking for ghosts or something again?"

"No..." Deng Xiaolin said with puffed-out cheeks, displeased, "I wanted Brother Hao to show me the world, but he refused."

"What's the big deal?" Deng Xiaolin's roommate's eyes lit up. "We can just go ourselves if he won't."

"But I don't even know where any supernatural events are happening."

"You don't know?"

The roommate looked a bit surprised.

"A few days ago, there was a car accident on the road by the reservoir. The driver kept muttering 'ghost, ghost, ghost.' It was terrifying."

"Oh?" Deng Xiaolin's interest was immediately piqued. Peeking out, she said, "Tell me more!"

Seeing Deng Xiaolin's eyes light up, her roommate began to recount what she had heard, bit by bit.

After a good few minutes of storytelling, Deng Xiaolin could no longer contain her curiosity and said, "Then why don't we go take a look together?"

"Uh..." The roommate's expression turned a little awkward, and she waved her hand. "I don't think I'll go. Besides, that place is quite dangerous. Xiaolin, you should just listen, don't go."

"Of course, I know..."

Deng Xiaolin said that, but her mind had already wandered elsewhere.

On the other side, Liu Haoyu rented a motorcycle and, before the sun had completely set, headed towards the reservoir.

Perhaps because of rumors of hauntings at the reservoir recently, there wasn't a single fisherman there now.

Liu Haoyu wasn't here to fish.

He had to find the bones at the bottom of the water.

Arriving at the water's edge, Liu Haoyu hooked a talisman paper onto his fishing hook and cast it out from a distance.

When the float landed on the water's surface, it didn't remain still but began to drift around.

It was as if it were searching for something underwater.

Finally, when the fishing float stopped moving, Liu Haoyu felt a heavy tug on his hand, as if he had hooked something.

"This should be it."

Liu Haoyu yanked hard, and the moment the line was pulled up, a spherical object was flung to his side.

Upon closer inspection, it was a human head.

Due to prolonged soaking in the water, the head was extremely swollen, and it was covered in bite marks from fish and shrimp, no longer resembling a human face.

Judging from the remaining long hair, this was likely the corpse of the female ghost.

Liu Haoyu put on gloves and squatted down. Before he could examine it closely, he was hit by an unbearable stench.

The eyes of the head were gone, and the two dark sockets seemed to stare at Liu Haoyu.

Perhaps it was river water, or perhaps it was corpse water, constantly flowing from these sockets, like two streams of bloody tears.

As he stared, a distant and terrifying voice echoed in Liu Haoyu's ears.

"Kill them..."

"Kill them..."

The voice seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere, yet it struck directly at his heart. Fortunately, Liu Haoyu had a strong will. He signaled to the Fierce Ghost to be quiet, scooped up a few strands of hair that had fallen into the water, and then said, "Hold on, let me call the police first."

Although there were many supernatural events in the world, when faced with trouble, the police were always the right call.

Moreover, Liu Haoyu had already roughly identified the three suspects in his mind.

Even though he couldn't clearly see the faces of the three people in the warehouse at the time, he had narrowed down the possibilities based on their clothing and height.

After a thorough investigation today, he confirmed that these three were idlers who often fished at the reservoir.

Judging from their photos, the three men had kind faces and looked like simple, honest people.

But who would have thought...

This was why Liu Haoyu couldn't help but lament that human hearts were far more terrifying than ghosts.

Liu Haoyu called the police, and not long after, two police cars with wailing sirens arrived on the road by the reservoir.

Nearly ten police officers approached Liu Haoyu.

And among them was an old acquaintance.

"Hello, Officer Li Rongjun."

"It's you?"

Officer Li Rongjun looked at Liu Haoyu with some surprise and asked.

"What are you doing here so late at night?"

"Fishing," Liu Haoyu pointed to the fishing rod in his hand and said, "What else would I be doing here?"

After hearing Liu Haoyu's words, Li Rongjun was speechless for a moment. He said, "Fishing? Where are the fish..."

Before Li Rongjun could finish, he noticed the human head lying quietly at Liu Haoyu's feet, and he jumped three feet high in shock.

"Good heavens! What did you catch?"