Stop pretending, the fake heiress is actually a master of metaphysics.

Gu Yuncheng felt a chill run down his spine.

Because after Shen Nian finished speaking, he actually heard a mournful sob.

He swallowed hard, nervously asking, "Sis, do you think we can still broadcast the rest of the content?"

"Will my account get banned?"

Shen Nian: "...Don't worry, with your phone, you won't be able to capture a ghost."

"Even if we could film it, the people in the live stream wouldn't be able to see it."

Unless you're born with the ability to see ghosts like her.

The viewers in the live stream immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

The crying grew louder and louder.

Gu Yuncheng felt an intense pain in his head, and everything before his eyes appeared as afterimages.

Shen Nian glanced at him and said in a clear voice, "We mean no harm."

"We have been entrusted to lead the souls trapped here away."

As soon as she finished speaking, a crisp "clink" rang out, and a pendant fell to the ground.

That was a keepsake given to her by the fox spirit.

The scene before Gu Yuncheng's eyes cleared up in an instant, and everything returned to normal.

At the same time, a gust of cold wind swept over him, and Gu Yuncheng seemed to see a red figure. He hurriedly walked into the fire escape not far away.

"Walk."

Shen Nian patted Gu Yuncheng on the shoulder.

"What about Meng Ke...?"

Shen Nian scoffed, "Don't worry about him, he's fine."

Meng Ke slipped away on his own.

Perhaps out of fear, or perhaps... he always had ill intentions.

For example... using her life to suppress the evil spirits causing trouble underground.

Shen Nian has a very keen sense of smell; she smelled the anesthetic scent on Meng Ke that she had smelled in the hospital.

But the other party did not expect that Gu Yuncheng would come with her and live stream the whole thing on his phone, so he had no chance to make a move.

If he dares to make a move, he will not only offend the Gu family, a top influencer in Beijing, but his crimes will also be seen by tens of thousands of netizens.

Even if the Meng family has connections in both the legal and illegal worlds, they can't protect him.

Shen Nian led Gu Yuncheng into the pitch-black fire escape.

Gu Yuncheng took out a high-powered lighting tool from his backpack and shone it around.

The staircase, which should have stopped at the third basement level, strangely continued to extend downwards.

Is this the "non-existent" fourth basement level that the customer mentioned?

Wait a minute, is there another level of space below?

[But didn't Young Master Gu just say that this mall only has three underground floors...?]

I got goosebumps. Are they going to go down there?

"Mommy, I'm scared."

[It's the middle of the night, underground, and on the fourth floor. I don't need to tell you how unlucky the number four is...]

Gu Yuncheng said to the camera, "As you all expected... we are now going up the stairs to enter the next level."

"The root of the paranormal events in this shopping mall should lie on this little-known basement level four."

"Let's go down and find out together."

Shen Nian: "...Are you done talking? Hurry up and get down, stop dawdling."

【puff……】

[Young Master Gu: I've been seen through again...]

I don't know why, but every time Master Shen speaks, I feel less afraid.

[This is what security feels like! Master Shen is the most reassuring woman in the world!]

The two walked down the stairs and soon reached flat ground.

The space on the fourth underground floor was not as large as they had imagined.

On the contrary, this space is very small, about five meters wide, seven meters long, and only a little over two meters high.

Even if he and Shen Nian were standing here together, they would feel a bit cramped.

The air was thick with the smell of dust, which was very unpleasant.

Gu Yuncheng frowned and asked, "Where is this place?"

Shen Nian: "What kind of place does this place remind you of?"

Gu Yuncheng frowned.

The commenters had already guessed the answer.

To be honest, the shape of this place...resembles a tomb.

Why is Young Master Gu going back into a tomb after just escaping from one?

That's a really lame joke.

Shen Nian said, "This is a tomb."

It is certainly not as big as her tomb.

"Look at the ground."

The camera pans to the ground.

On the grayish-brown ground, there was an array drawn with cinnabar.

The cinnabar had darkened in color, giving it an eerie and ominous appearance.

"Where's the shovel I told you to bring? Take it out."

She pointed to a spot in the formation: "Dig here."

The shovel broke through the dust easily.

Shen Nian lit a talisman and softly chanted an incantation.

For some reason, Gu Yuncheng could hear a gentle, comforting meaning in the indistinct incantation.

The shovel soon struck something incredibly hard.

He cleared away the dust around him and saw a square block of cement.

The cement block was sealed with yellow runes, which looked equally ominous and eerie.

Shen Nian recited the final incantation, and the cyan light emitted by the talisman even surpassed the beam of a flashlight.

In the bluish light, Gu Yuncheng vaguely saw several pale, young faces.

A wave of sadness and pain suddenly rose in his heart, as if he could see their tragic state before they died.

"Alright, no need to dig anymore."

Shen Nian collected the souls of the fox demon and the other victims, and said calmly, "Call the police."

"Our mission is complete. Now, let the police handle the rest."

She was commissioned by a fox spirit to take her sister's soul away from the building.

As for whether Meng Ke killed the person, and how he killed him, that's something the police need to be responsible for.

After a brief silence, the comments section erupted again:

Murder?!

It appears the body was buried beneath this building.

No wonder there are paranormal events; it turns out there are vengeful spirits...

[How cruel! Was it buried in cement?]

That's terrifying... Call the police!

Was Shen Nian performing a ritual to help those departed souls find peace just now?

I don't know. Right now, I just feel that people are scarier than ghosts. Do you think the murderer might still be watching around the building?

I wonder if that person in the live chat has some kind of magical ability to communicate through words.

When Shen Nian and Gu Yuncheng left the fourth basement level and returned to the third basement level.

A notification suddenly popped up on Gu Yuncheng's phone—

[Live stream has been interrupted.]

At the same time, they also met Meng Ke, who had been missing for a long time.

He looked at the two of them with a half-smile, then glanced at the phone in Gu Yuncheng's hand, and said unhurriedly, "It seems that you two have already discovered the secret of the fourth underground level."

"Don't even think about calling the police; the entire underground area is equipped with signal jammers."

He glanced at Shen Nian and said with a smile, "Miss Shen, I admit you do have some skill."

"It's enough to make the two young masters of the Gu family serve you faithfully."

"But unfortunately, you're all going to die here now. Consider the five million in service fees as your money to save your lives."

Shen Nian's expression remained unchanged as she calmly asked, "Did you kill all those people?"

Meng Ke tilted his head: "Are you trying to trick me into telling me something?"

However, the next moment, he uncontrollably blurted out, "Of course, I killed him."

"But I don't think it's entirely my fault."

"They were too fragile; they died so easily."

"Did you know that when you strangle those women, they make a whimpering sound like kittens, and the bones in their necks make a 'crack' sound? It's the most beautiful sound in the world..."

"Miss Shen, I hope that even when your bones break, it will sound this beautiful."