Volume 1, Chapter 184: The Occult Club (8)

That day was a day Chen Haoxin would never forget for the rest of his life.

The sunset that day was breathtakingly beautiful. Massive swathes of fiery glowed red like snow, painting half of the sky in brilliant hues.

Chen Haoxin returned holding the trophy from the provincial competition.

He had promised to bring home a first place in the province for his elder sister to see, and he had done it!

Anxious to share this joyful news with his sister, he even accidentally knocked over his father’s favorite set of teaware.

However, when he pushed open his sister’s bedroom door, an eerie silence greeted him.

His sister was sprawled motionless on the floor, without uttering a single sound.

His heart skipped a beat, and he tentatively called out twice, "Sister..."

He could hear how much his voice was trembling at that moment.

Yet, only a vast and suffocating emptiness answered him.

He dialed the emergency services immediately.

With a blank expression, he watched as paramedics in white coats hauled his sister’s body away. He had no idea what was running through his mind; at that moment, his world was unnaturally quiet.

Once he calmed down, he began to realize something was terribly wrong—

Although his sister had a heart condition, her emotional management and medication adherence had been exceptionally good for all these years. Logically speaking, a situation like this should never have happened.

He noticed her smartphone lying discarded on the floor.

He knew the passcode to the phone.

When he saw the filthy, repulsive images displayed on the screen, everything became clear to him.

So when a provocative message popped up on the phone asking, "Are you still coming?", the demon within his heart began to grow bit by bit.

He stiffened his face and curved his lips into a smile, looking just like a satan rising from the dark, "I'm coming! Of course I am! If I don't go, how can I make you receive the punishment you deserve?"

He looked toward Chen Xiaoxue's wardrobe, and a horrifying idea germinated in his mind.

...

"So you killed them all?"

Chen Haoxin did not deny it.

However, there was one thing Qin Yu could not wrap her head around, "What about Liu Yingyong and Guo Pei?"

Chen Haoxin choked up for a second and curled his lips, "I didn't intend to kill them in the first place, but just as I was disposing of the bodies of that scum couple, they walked in."

He had been terrified at the time, so he used his geographical advantage from playing in the science building since childhood, taking advantage of the darkness to murder the two of them.

Qin Yu finally understood the whole story. It turned out that Liu Yingyong and Guo Pei were simply down on their luck.

Looking at the dark purple aura radiating from Chen Haoxin, Qin Yu shook her head, feeling it was a waste.

He was originally the reincarnation of the Wenchang Star carrying his own purple aura, but unfortunately—one wrong step, and every step went wrong!

"Do you have any regrets now?"

At the mention of regret, Chen Haoxin tilted his neck and scoffed coldly, "I only regret not killing that scum couple sooner! If I had, my sister wouldn't have died!"

Qin Yu let out a low sigh, "Even after missing the last chance to see your sister, do you still have no regrets?"

Chen Haoxin, who had remained tough the whole time, felt his eye sockets dampen uncontrollably upon hearing this.

Back then, having committed four murders all at once, he fell gravely ill upon returning home and consequently missed the final chance to see Chen Xiaoxue.

Watching Zhao Kexin, who was sobbing loudly along with them, Qin Yu frowned and said, "Make a call."

"Wow, make what call?"

Zhao Kexin looked utterly bewildered.

Qin Yu rolled her eyes, "Call the police."

The rest of the matter could be left to the police.

Zhao Kexin came to her senses. She picked up her phone, only to put it down again, and looked at Qin Yu pleadingly, "Can we not call the police? Anyway, this happened twenty years ago, and Chen Haoxin did it for his sis... sis... Call! Call! I'm calling right now!"

Qin Yu shot her a sharp look, causing Zhao Kexin to change her tune instantly.

Qin Yu glanced at the scene, waved her hand, and the three ghosts vanished into thin air.

Just as the livestream chat room was buzzing with discussions about where the three ghosts had gone, only Murong leaped around in frustration, "Xiao Yu, can you stop stuffing every piece of trash into my residence!"

Qin Yu raised an eyebrow at him, "What do you mean by your residence? That's public property. Is it yours just because you're allowed to live in it for a few days?"

She had expected Murong to argue back with her for a bit, but who would have thought that this little black ball would spin around, cross his arms over his chest, and rhythmically tap his front foot on the ground.

Qin Yu found this posture somewhat familiar, but for the life of me couldn't place it, until the chat room chimed in...

"Hahaha, my brother Murong is truly a top-tier internet surfer! He even nailed this standard daily-anger pose!"

"Murong: I'm mad! Let Lady Dianqiu guess!"

"Hahaha"

Black lines crossed the top of Qin Yu's head.

This fellow didn't just watch too many soap operas; he spent way too much time on his phone, too!

"Beep, beep."

Just as she stepped out of the school gates, a horn sounded from the distance.

It was Lu Jinyuan's car!

Delighted, Qin Yu trotted over and got into the car.

"What a coincidence, is your gathering over?"

Qin Yu asked with a click as she fastened her seatbelt.

Lu Jinyuan nodded with an expressionless face, smoothly changing the subject, "Was today's matter tricky?"

Qin Yu nodded, then paused as something crossed her mind, "Never mind, just go back and watch the replay of my livestream."

Lu Jinyuan froze for a moment and said nothing more.

Yet Qin Yu could clearly sense that the atmospheric pressure around them had plummeted.

Although Lu Jinyuan possessed a special status and she couldn't quite read his mind, things having reached this point, she could still be certain that he was angry.

"Didn't you say you liked watching my livestreams? How come I didn't give you any spoilers, and yet you're getting mad?"

Qin Yu spoke in a soft voice, but the space inside the car was extremely cramped, and every aggrieved little word fell right into Lu Jinyuan's ears.

Lu Jinyuan's ears grew slightly warm.

He replied in a stiff tone, "I am not mad!"