Victory Road is just one of the many routes in this city. Ye Jiu took a bus and bumped along the way to reach this urban village.
It wasn't as dilapidated as Ye Jiu had imagined, but it wasn't much better either. She stood on the street and looked at the buildings. The residential buildings were only six stories high, much shorter than the skyscrapers in the city. The exterior walls were yellowed and cracked, and the rust on the security windows was washed onto the walls by the rain, leaving glaring marks.
The road was wet, and the garbage in the nearby trash can was overflowing, filling the area around it. The smell of decay and spoilage filled the air, almost making Ye Jiu ejaculate.
She followed the map toward the tenement building. The closer she got, the more noise she could hear. After turning the corner, the entrance to the tenement building appeared in front of her.
Also appearing in her line of sight were several people standing in front of the gate. Ye Jiu was momentarily dazed. Wasn't this place supposed to be haunted? Why were there so many people...?
Hearing the commotion, these people turned to look at Ye Jiu. Five pairs of eyes stared straight at her, making her scalp tingle. She tentatively asked, "Hello?"
"Are you also a paranormal streamer?" the long-haired girl standing in the middle asked.
Ye Jiu scratched his face, "Also? You are all?"
“Yes, I was just about to go in when this group of people started arriving one after another.” The long-haired girl tossed her hair and said, “My ID is Ke Baobao, and I’m a streamer on platform D. I often visit some paranormal locations.”
The remaining four were all men. The one standing on the far side spoke first, "My name is Wang You, and their names are Ma Feng and Xu Changfeng. The three of us are all live streamers. We arranged to come with Ke Baobao. As for the other one, he just arrived and doesn't know."
Wang You raised his chin, gesturing for Ye Jiu to look at the man in all black standing on the far right, "We don't know that one."
The man in black pulled up his mask and said coldly, "My name is Song Daocheng, and I'm also... a livestreamer."
Song Daocheng hadn't expected to encounter so many people while scouting the area. Wanting to avoid trouble, he lied. The Special Management Bureau had detected unusual energy reactions inside, but because the reactions were intermittent, they sent him to investigate first.
Urban legends attracted paranormal bloggers to test their courage, and ignorant people gathered here, completely unaware of what they were about to face.
Song Daocheng hesitated several times, wanting to persuade them to go back. But how? Without revealing his identity, anything he said would be inappropriate. He took a deep breath. The reaction wasn't strong, so the mutants probably weren't powerful either. Even if there were mutants, he could handle them alone. He just hoped these people wouldn't be a hindrance.
"My name is Ye Jiu. Although I'm not a news anchor, I'm more like a reporter. I'm here to do some on-site research and write a report."
After Ye Jiu finished speaking, she looked at Song Daocheng, who was wearing a mask in the middle of summer, and asked in confusion, "Hmm... Is a mask a fashion item? You don't want to give it up in this heat?"
"Now that we've exchanged names, shall we go inside?" Ke Baobao suggested.
Ye Jiu inexplicably felt that they had just been players in an infinite flow novel, and the scene resembled players introducing themselves before entering a dungeon. She didn't know why this thought suddenly popped into her head, but she felt uneasy.
She thought she'd take a few photos and leave quickly.
Six people walked through the gate one after another. As they entered, the gate disappeared. Anyone passing by would have noticed that the tenement building that used to be there had vanished!
The moment he entered the room, Song Daocheng felt something was wrong and quickly sent a message to headquarters for help. Fortunately, he was quick enough that when he tried to add a message after sending the first one, he found that his phone had no signal. Song Daocheng's phone supports satellite phones, so this was obviously not a normal signal loss.
The four anchors each had a camera clipped to their chests. Seeing Ye Jiu's curiosity, Ke Baobao took the initiative to tell her, "We're not here to do a live stream today. We're just shooting some footage for our own videos. We tried it before coming in, and the signal here is bad, so it's not suitable for live streaming."
Ye Jiu nodded, then glanced at her phone subconsciously. The large "X" for signal strength in the upper right corner of the lock screen made her pupils shrink, and her unease intensified.
The signal was indeed bad, but she had a feeling that something was amiss. Ye Jiu turned her head to look at the gate she had come from.
The gate still stood there, waiting for someone to pass by, and Ye Jiu felt a little relieved.
She said, "There are no ghosts here! Materialism, materialism! Marx and Engels, please bless me!"
Her hand unconsciously touched the bracelet Xin Mao had given her; the bracelet carried her body heat, giving her a sense of security for no reason.
Standing downstairs in the tenement building, Xu Changfeng spoke for the first time, "Should we split up, with two people going upstairs and two people staying downstairs?" He subconsciously ignored Ye Jiu and Song Daocheng.
Upon hearing this, Ye Jiu glanced at Song Daocheng beside her, realizing she had been forced to team up with him.
Ke Baobao shook her head, "Let's not split up. I felt creeped out as soon as I came in. This is the first time I've ever felt this way in all the time I've been making paranormal videos. It's better if we all work together."
After saying that, she called to Ye Jiu, "Come over here quickly, let's go together."
Ye Jiu first took out her phone and took a few panoramic photos of the tenement building before catching up with them.
Ma Feng explained, "I've checked the records. The room where the dead person was in is 401. Let's start our investigation from 401."
Song Daocheng followed behind them, and the abnormal energy fluctuations of the alien species became more and more intense. It seemed like... they were walking into the lion's den.
Surprisingly, they encountered no obstacles on their way up. Apart from being excessively damp, there was nothing strange about this tenement building.
Ke Baobao's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, unconsciously relaxed. "It seems that I can make mistakes sometimes. There's nothing here, just like the places we went before."
Ma Feng echoed, "What's the big deal? You women are just too timid."
Ma Feng was the strongest-looking one among them. Ye Jiubai didn't even try to fight him. If the location hadn't been inconvenient, she would have given him an over-the-shoulder throw.
As they were talking, Ma Feng pushed open the door to room 401.
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Li Yucheng looked at the analysis report with a headache. "They figured it out as soon as Song Daocheng went in. Why didn't they do it sooner?"
Yu Xin stood next to Li Yucheng, not daring to utter a sound. He carefully observed Li Yucheng's expression, hesitating whether to speak or not.
Li Yucheng noticed that he seemed to want to say something but hesitated, and asked him, "Is there something you want to tell me?"
"...Director, Song Daocheng said...there were five ordinary people who went in with him..." After saying that, Yu Xin immediately closed his eyes and waited to be criticized.
Li Yucheng frowned. "Continue."
"He didn't try to dissuade them before going in, thinking their abilities weren't strong enough to expose him, but he didn't expect..."
Li Yucheng wiped his face, stood up, and said, "Let's go, call Wang Shi and the others, and go provide support right now. Oh, and remember to contact the police over there. What kind of mess is this?"
Li Yucheng walked out of the office and muttered, "I need to find a master to calculate it. This position is most likely incompatible with his birth chart."
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