Chapter 9

Nine: Peering

After communicating with the leadership of the headquarters for a while, He Jia'an made a decision that Yu Lianyun found surprising yet reassuring.

They were to stay in Litaishi for a period of time, and the organization would subsequently send other personnel to Litaishi to perform examinations on Yu Lianyun.

Regardless of whether that shop Yu Lianyun described as something out of a fantasy actually existed, Yu Lianyun needed to survive now; she was the key to solving the problem of the nameless female corpse.

Of course, judging by how Yu Lianyun had managed to disappear right under the noses of He Jia'an and the other two battle-hardened members of the Xuanmi Group, that Forest Cabin that rented out Abnormal Items was likely real; even if it didn't exist, it certainly proved that a dark cloud no less complex than the nameless female corpse was hanging over Yu Lianyun.

Therefore, the Xuanmi Group had to take the Curse from the videotape that Yu Lianyun spoke of seriously.

Yu Lianyun sat on the bed in her hotel room. Li Yingqi had just come out of the bathroom after a shower. Looking at the heroic, tall beauty with her slightly damp appearance, Yu Lianyun couldn't help but silently praise that she was truly a top-tier beauty who would have been considered a stunner even hundreds of years ago. She said with a slightly apologetic look on her face, "Sorry, I was a bit selfish not to change to a room with two beds and let you share a large bed with me."

Li Yingqi chuckled and said, "It's fine, I don't mind."

As she spoke, Li Yingqi shook her pajamas to let air into the clothes, cooling the water droplets she hadn't wiped off after her shower, which felt exceptionally refreshing. She looked at the full-length mirror in the room's hallway and said while checking herself out, "You should go wash up soon, too; you must be very tired today."

"That's true." Yu Lianyun smiled a bit constrainedly, took her change of clothes from her suitcase, and walked into the bathroom.

After the bathroom door closed, Li Yingqi glanced sideways at the silhouette behind the frosted glass, then looked at her own luggage bag and touched the zipper lightly. She was certain that Yu Lianyun had rummaged through her luggage while she was showering. Although the other party was very careful and cautious, she had actually placed one of her own hairs in the zipper of the bag; as long as the zipper was pulled open, the hair would break into two pieces.

Li Yingqi checked her items and found that nothing was missing.

Regarding this, Li Yingqi felt very strange. What exactly was Yu Lianyun looking for?

Clearly, the other party was the weaker side currently under surveillance and monitoring. This action of hers would obviously easily cause them to discover it and feel resentment, yet she still did it. Therefore, the object she was searching for must be something she was willing to risk everything to find.

Just as Li Yingqi was pondering, the phone she had placed on the table suddenly rang. She picked up the phone, glanced at the caller ID, pursed her lips with a "tsk," and answered the call: "My dear gossip, what is it?"

"You're still asking me what it is? Hurry up and look at the message I sent you, my 'leftover fighter'." A pleasant female voice sounded from the other side, sounding anxious, "You're in trouble! Big trouble!"

Li Yingqi frowned. While shaking her clothes, she temporarily exited the call interface to check her WeChat, which was set to Do Not Disturb.

She saw that the chat contact labeled "My dear gossip" had sent over a dozen greetings. She clicked in, and the content inside made her eyelids twitch.

My dear gossip: Something happened!

My dear gossip: 【Download Link】

My dear gossip: Hurry up and install this live streaming app to take a look! Room number 444445!

My dear gossip: What the hell have you been doing!?

She sent six angry emojis in a row.

My dear gossip: The person on that live stream is you, right! You were secretly filmed, you idiot!

Seeing this message, Li Yingqi's nerves immediately tightened, but as someone in a special profession, she naturally wouldn't panic easily. She tightened her collar, then clicked on the download link to download the live streaming app.

After going through the process of installing and logging in, Li Yingqi entered the main interface. After seeing that the app was covered in countless explicit images and text, her mood sank instantly. She entered the room number and went directly into the room the "gossip" had mentioned. The screen on her phone suddenly shifted, and immediately after, the image presented by the live streaming software made Li Yingqi's heart almost stop.

It turned out that the protagonist in the live stream at this moment was none other than herself, standing by the bed playing with her phone. All those ordinary actions she had performed in her private space had now become lewd talking points for the foul-smelling viewers in the live stream room.

"..."

Facing all kinds of filthy language, no matter how calm Li Yingqi was, she could no longer maintain her inner peace at this moment. A look of indignation appeared on her face. She turned her head, looked at an outlet on the nightstand, clenched her fist, and smashed it directly at it.

Boom!

The wall cracked instantly. Li Yingqi smashed the outlet to pieces with one punch, then reached in with her five fingers, and the shattered outlet was held in her hand. Looking closely, a hidden camera was actually concealed behind that plain-looking outlet.

The live stream screen went black instantly, but the viewers in the room didn't stop talking. Instead, they felt this was a performance, sending out displeasure and ridicule one after another. Their words still showed no respect for the angry Li Yingqi, as if they regarded her as a cheap commodity to be insulted at will.

Although Li Yingqi didn't feel she had grown up in a wealthy family, because her family upbringing was strict and excellent, and she was deeply loved by her family, she had naturally cultivated a very high sense of self-esteem. However, she had never encountered such an insulting situation, and a sense of powerlessness welled up from the bottom of her heart.

At this time, Li Yingqi's WeChat was still ringing non-stop, still from the "gossip." The other party was very anxious and must have been watching the live stream just now. She must have confirmed through the abnormal behavior in the live stream that the beauty being secretly filmed was indeed Li Yingqi herself.

At the same time, hearing the commotion in the room, Yu Lianyun also quickly wrapped herself in a bathrobe and came out. Seeing Li Yingqi with her eyes slightly red, paired with her beautiful and pretty face, Yu Lianyun felt a trace of pity and hurriedly asked, "What's going on?"

She walked forward, preparing to comfort her, but saw the pile of electronic waste shattered in Li Yingqi's hand and caught a glimpse of the outlet that should have been fixed to the wall missing without a trace. She immediately associated this with those bad things, and extreme terror pierced her mind.

"Secretly filmed!? Live streaming!?" Yu Lianyun gritted her teeth, her eyes widened, and her whole body trembled. She immediately thought of many things.

Li Yingqi saw Yu Lianyun in such a state of anger, even more unsettled than herself. She thought that since the other party had stayed in this hotel for more than one night, perhaps much of her privacy had been captured by this hidden camera. She herself was still relatively disciplined; other than being verbally insulted, she hadn't lost much—though that was only relative to Yu Lianyun.

But what Li Yingqi didn't know was that Yu Lianyun was not only angry but also felt deeply afraid and suffocated.

Anger went without saying, but her terror stemmed from the fact that she didn't know how many people the videotape she had watched in the afternoon had been broadcast to, and how many of them had recorded it.

Yu Lianyun's heart went cold; she felt that she might not live to see the sun next week.