8: Believe it or not, it's up to you

As soon as these words were uttered, the entire live stream fell into a complete silence.

Everyone's hearts were in their throats.

The murderer was not an outsider.

The murderer was the male owner of this villa.

He personally, using evil magic, sacrificed his wife and children!

Han Li, who was sprawled on the ground, felt his brain buzz and then completely shut down.

The version he had heard before was just a common murder case. But now, the nature of this story had completely changed!

Evil magic? Sacrifice?

This was a million times scarier than a haunting!

He regretted it.

He truly regretted it!

Why did he come to this cursed place! Why didn't he believe the Little Daoist Priest!

Calamity of blood!

He had said it clearly! And he had treated him like a swindler!

"I was wrong... I was really wrong..." Han Li muttered to himself, his face drained of color.

After a brief pause, the bullet comments in the live stream began to scroll at an unprecedented, frantic speed.

"Holy crap! Sacrifice! This is even more exciting than a haunted house!"

"Streamer, you're finished, you've broken into someone's altar!"

"I take back what I said about it being a script; if this is a script, I'll eat my phone!"

"Run! What are you still standing there for!"

Just as everyone was shocked by this terrifying truth, and Han Li was scared to the point of his Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering.

Ring ring ring—!

A sharp, piercing phone ringtone suddenly blasted through the dead silent villa hall without warning!

It wasn't the ringtone of a modern mobile phone, but the mechanical and grating sound of an old-fashioned rotary dial phone!

"Ah—!"

Han Li was so startled by the sudden sound that he directly sprang up from the ground, letting out a shrill scream.

In the live stream, tens of thousands of viewers also felt their scalps tingle.

"Where's that phone sound coming from!"

"I'm scared to death! There's still a phone in this house?"

"Don't answer! Absolutely don't answer!"

Just as the live stream was in chaos and Han Li was on the verge of collapse, the netizen with the ID "Jiangcheng Baixiaosheng" sent another bullet comment.

"Calm down, don't panic."

"Think about it, if this thing was really that powerful, would it need to use such a petty trick to scare you? It would have acted directly long ago."

This bullet comment was like a clear spring, instantly extinguishing a part of the panic in Han Li's heart.

That's right!

If that thing really wanted to kill him, it would have come down the stairs just now, why bother with a phone ring to scare people?

He forced himself to calm down, breathing heavily, his mind racing.

Immediately after, he thought of something and fumbled frantically in his chest pocket.

That safety talisman he had folded neatly!

The safety talisman Li Heng gave him!

He quickly pulled out the Talismanic Incantation and clutched it tightly in his palm.

The feel of the Talismanic Incantation gave him a tiny bit of comfort.

"Thank you... Thank you, Brother Baixiaosheng." Han Li said, his voice trembling as he thanked the phone... Meanwhile, in a penthouse apartment in a high-end residential area of Jiangcheng.

A young man wearing gold-rimmed glasses and with a stern expression was frowning at the computer screen in front of him.

On the screen was Han Li's live stream footage.

And on another screen next to him, all the news reports and investigation reports about the haunted villa were densely listed.

This young man was "Jiangcheng Baixiaosheng" from the live stream, Xie Wangsheng.

He looked at the scene photos taken by the police back then, as reported in the news, and the strange and complex Formation pattern drawn in blood at the feet of the male owner's corpse.

"It really is a supernatural event..." Xie Wangsheng murmured to himself.

He had always approached these things with an attitude of research rather than reverence.

But everything happening before his eyes had clearly exceeded the scope of what science could explain.

Han Li's live stream, due to these successive supernatural events and the shocking inside story unearthed by Xie Wangsheng, had completely exploded in popularity.

The number of online viewers soared from tens of thousands to over a hundred thousand, and it was still rapidly increasing.

Various gift effects almost drowned out the entire screen.

"Streamer, hang in there! We're sending rockets to boost your courage!"

"Go for it! If you survive, I'll send you a carnival!"

Looking at the frantically scrolling gifts and rewards on the screen, Han Li, at this moment, could no longer feel any joy.

Money? Popularity?

He wanted nothing now, only to leave this cursed place alive!

At this moment, Xie Wangsheng, who had been silently observing, suddenly noticed a detail.

Ever since Han Li took out that yellow Talismanic Incantation, the subtle signal interference and eerie atmosphere in the live stream seemed to have receded somewhat.

Although it wasn't obvious, he keenly captured this change.

That Talismanic Incantation was useful!

Xie Wangsheng immediately typed a question in the bullet comments: "Streamer, where did you get that Talismanic Incantation in your hand?"

He hadn't watched the live stream from the beginning, so he missed the part where Han Li and Li Heng had their fortunes told at the night market.

When Han Li saw Xie Wangsheng's question, he clutched at it like a drowning man grasping a straw, and quickly recounted everything about meeting Li Heng at the night market.

"It was just a Little Daoist Priest, setting up a fortune-telling stall at the night market, about my age. He said I would have a Calamity of blood tonight, and then he calculated all my family's information, even how many points I scored on my college entrance exam!"

"I lost five thousand yuan to him, and when he left, he drew this Talismanic Incantation for me, saying it was a 'crowdfunding' gift..."

Xie Wangsheng listened to Han Li's narration and nodded thoughtfully.

Able to accurately calculate others' information, predict disasters, and draw truly effective Talismanic Incantations.

That Little Daoist Priest was a true Master.

He quickly connected all the clues, and a bold hypothesis formed in his mind.

"I checked the material, the male owner of this house, in order to Cultivate some evil method, wiped out his entire family."

Xie Wangsheng typed at lightning speed.

"Theoretically, he turned the entire villa into a sacrificial Formation. As long as the core of the Formation on the second floor is destroyed, all the supernatural events should be resolved easily."

As soon as this bullet comment appeared.

Han Li and the hundreds of thousands of viewers in the live stream all gasped.

Go to the second floor?

Go under the beam where someone hanged themselves?

Go destroy that Formation drawn in blood?

"Are you crazy!" Han Li blurted out, "Isn't that going to die!"

"Streamer, don't listen to him! This person wants to harm you!"

"Too crazy! This is absolutely not allowed!"

Xie Wangsheng looked at the screen full of opposition, but calmly continued typing.

"Believe it or not, it's up to you. I've already called the police for you, but whether the police can find this place, and when they can arrive, are all unknowns."

"Moreover, think about it, since that Master drew a Talismanic Incantation and gave it to you, and said this Talismanic Incantation could keep you safe, it means your tribulation tonight is not a death tribulation."

"Since he dared to let you go, it means you have a way to break the situation."

"That method is very likely the Talismanic Incantation in your hand and your own choice."