Ouija Ghost

Qin Liu had not expected Liu Haoyu to open the coffin lid so directly, but after seeing that he was unharmed, she still could not resist grumbling.

"You were born with divine strength or something?"

Liu Haoyu ignored Qin Liu and looked toward the coffin behind him.

The ghost child that should have been clinging to him had vanished without a trace.

It had probably already run away.

Compared with Liu Haoyu, the ghost seemed even more afraid of Qin Liu.

"After it."

Liu Haoyu had finally found a clue, so naturally, he could not give up so easily.

So many people had already died in this house. If he did not deal with it quickly, he would be unworthy of his title as an exorcist.

"Hey, hey, hey! Wait for me."

While waiting, Qin Liu had constantly felt as though something was watching her, so she felt uneasy now and immediately followed after him.

The ghostly shadow fled up the stairs, and Liu Haoyu chased after it the entire way.

They soon reached the third floor.

However, after reaching the third floor this time, Liu Haoyu discovered that the floor, which had originally contained only four rooms, now had an extra door.

The door was battered and decrepit, with a faded piece of red paper pasted above it.

No one knew where this suddenly appeared door led.

As Liu Haoyu looked at the dense resentment emanating from behind the door, the alarm in his heart immediately went off.

This resentment... was exactly the same as the resentment in the haunted house.

What was going on?

"Come to think of it, don't you think the atmosphere in this house is strange?"

Qin Liu floated in midair. Since she knew Liu Haoyu could not see her, she crossed her legs with absolutely no regard for decorum.

"It feels exactly like my house."

"That's true..."

Liu Haoyu placed his hand on the door. After hesitating for three seconds, he gently pushed it open a crack and inspected the situation inside.

There was no sign of the black shadow in the empty room.

Yet the candle in Liu Haoyu's hand was still burning.

That meant the black shadow was hiding somewhere inside.

Qin Liu poked her head around and said,

"Could it be hiding somewhere, waiting to catch us off guard and suddenly attack us when we go in..."

Hearing Qin Liu's soft, sweet voice, Liu Haoyu could not resist teasing her.

"How about you go in and scout ahead? I'll offer you two bottles of Sprite and five bags of chips when we get back."

"My life is a little too cheap, isn't it?!"

"I was just joking."

Liu Haoyu certainly had no intention of making Qin Liu scout ahead. He gently pushed open the door and walked into the room.

Qin Liu followed behind him, but the moment they entered, a sharp, terrifying scream rang out from inside. Qin Liu shuddered violently and nearly shrank straight back into the Red Jade.

However, it was only a scream. Nothing frightening suddenly sprang out.

As Qin Liu examined the room, she discovered that the bed was very small, resembling one in a child's bedroom.

Yet for some reason, a book lay on the bedroom floor, with a pen placed on top of it.

Seeing this, Qin Liu seemed to realize something.

Was this not the Ouija Ghost game from certain horror stories?

Liu Haoyu picked up the book from the center of the room. After examining it carefully, he said,

"Summoning the Ouija Ghost? You really are a little master of courting death."

The Ouija Ghost's origin was actually a simplified version of one of the oldest forms of sorcery in China: Fu Ji.

No matter how simplified it was, it was still a ritual for summoning ghosts.

It was obvious that everyone in this house had died at the hands of the Ouija Ghost.

And judging from the questions asked in the book,

it was obvious that Zhu Xingxue's son had been responsible.

The child had desperately wanted to know where his little sister was.

So he had used the Ouija Ghost ritual to find the answer.

But as the saying went, summoning a ghost was easy, while sending it away was difficult.

An amateur might be able to summon a ghost, but that did not mean he could send it away. Thus, this entire family had died at the hands of the Ouija Ghost.

However, according to common sense, a soul-summoning ritual like this was not so easy to complete.

It required a huge amount of resentment. That led back to another question: where had the resentment in this house come from?

Now, Liu Haoyu had his answer.

There was a formation drawn in chicken blood in the center of the room.

Although it was crooked and uneven, it was indeed operating.

After carefully examining it, Liu Haoyu discovered that the formation had summoned the resentment from the haunted house.

But this crooked formation was clearly meant to connect with the earth veins.

Could it be that the earth veins had been contaminated by resentment?

If that was really the case, it was no wonder Jiangliu City had recently seen supernatural incidents occurring so frequently.

Even the driver who had been murdered ten years ago had emerged to cause trouble.

At that thought, Liu Haoyu seemed to understand what the Black Book had meant.

Why had he needed to investigate this case? Because if they did not hurry and find the source of the haunted house's resentment,

the area within a hundred li might truly be doomed.

Liu Haoyu began searching the room.

He soon discovered a pool of blood on the floor.

Judging from its size, it was not difficult to determine that it had probably belonged to the older brother who had summoned the Ouija Ghost.

After asking his question, he had been killed by the Fierce Ghost immediately. After killing him, the Fierce Ghost had murdered Zhu Xingxue and his wife in their sleep.

"Whimper..."

A low sob came from inside the room. It was the little sister's voice.

"Brother... there are bad people outside."

Following the sound, Liu Haoyu came to the wardrobe.

After sensing Liu Haoyu's arrival, the wardrobe fell completely silent.

Perhaps to the two siblings hiding inside, Liu Haoyu—wearing a gas mask and holding a Fire Axe—looked like the real ghost.

"Come out."

At Liu Haoyu's words, the wardrobe trembled.

Then it slowly opened, revealing only two dark, blurry shadows inside.

Along with the timid, trembling voice of a boy.

"Don't... don't kill us."

"Did your sister kill the two university students who died in the coffins downstairs?"

"No... no!" the older brother loudly denied. "My sister never killed anyone! She's good. She's a good person!"

Compared with his sister, who had been dead for who knew how long, the older brother had died only recently. His soul was more intact and retained a certain degree of intelligence, but all that remained was an instinct to protect his sister.

However, because his sister had previously shown murderous intent toward him, Liu Haoyu chose to keep pressing for answers.

"Then who did it?"

"My dad!" the older brother answered without hesitation. "My dad killed those two people, fed them to the Ouija Ghost, and stuffed their bodies into the coffins."

"Oh?"

After hearing what the older brother said, Liu Haoyu looked again at the two siblings' weak strength. After thinking it over, he decided to temporarily believe him.

However, if Zhu Xingxue had been able to kill two university students, that meant he might have already become the ghost servant of the Fierce Ghost.

Liu Haoyu took the hair of the white-clothed Fierce Ghost from his pocket.

The lock of hair trembled excitedly.