9: You bastard, your grandpa is here!

Xie Wangsheng’s words stunned Han Li.

Go to the second floor?

Go under the beam where someone hanged themselves?

What kind of joke is that!

“You’re crazy!”

Han Li blurted out, his voice changing pitch, “Isn’t that just going to our deaths!”

The bullet comments in the Streamer’s live broadcast room completely exploded.

“Streamer, don’t listen to him! This person wants to harm you!”

“Damn it, this ‘Master’ is too ruthless, he’s pushing the Streamer into a fire pit!”

“Too crazy! This is absolutely not allowed!”

Xie Wangsheng looked at the screen full of objections and 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 gave you a safety talisman and said it 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 safety talisman in your hand and your own choice.”

Han Li stared intently at these few lines of text on the screen, his heart pounding.

A way to break the situation?

He lowered his head, looking at the yellow safety talisman in his palm, which was somewhat damp and soft from sweat.

Just rely on this?

Just as he was in a fierce internal struggle, his mind a mess.

Giggle, giggle… A crisp sound of children’s laughter came from the second floor without any warning.

The laughter, in the dead silent villa, seemed incredibly eerie and sinister.

Immediately after, a gentle female voice also echoed faintly.

“Baby, don’t run around… Come back quickly, come to Mommy…”

This sound instantly made the scalps of hundreds of thousands of viewers in the live broadcast room tingle!

“Holy crap! Upstairs! There’s a sound upstairs!”

“It’s the sound of a child and a woman! It’s those who were sacrificed!”

“Streamer, they’re luring you up!”

Han Li’s body trembled like a sieve, his teeth chattering, making a “clack-clack” sound.

He wanted to run, but the door was sealed shut.

He wanted to hide, but where in this villa was safe?

Fear, like a cold hand, clutched his throat, almost suffocating him.

Wait for death?

No!

He didn’t want to die!

He remembered the Little Daoist Priest who looked indifferent in the night market.

He remembered the five thousand yuan he had transferred out.

He remembered the hundreds of thousands of people in his live broadcast room who were watching him!

A surge of courage, coming from who knew where, suddenly rushed to his head.

“Damn it!”

Han Li gritted his teeth and actually climbed up from the ground. With bloodshot eyes, he roared into the phone camera with all his might:

“If I have to go, I’ll go!”

“Today, even if I, Han Li, die here, I will expose the truth of this place!”

“With hundreds of thousands of brothers watching me, even if I fall, this ghostly place will never harm anyone again!”

His words were filled with the tragic grandeur of burning bridges and a reckless determination.

The audience in the live broadcast room was instantly ignited by his Aura.

“Holy crap! Streamer is awesome!”

“It’s lit! This is the fake-busting Streamer I know!”

“Streamer! Go for it! We’re watching you!”

“Send gifts! Boost the Streamer!”

Xie Wangsheng looked at the young man on the screen who seemed to be going to his death heroically, a barely perceptible curve forming at the corner of his mouth.

He adjusted his glasses with satisfaction and typed a line on the keyboard.

“That’s right. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that ghosts fear wicked people. These evil spirits are most afraid of the human heart’s fearless courage. The more you fear them, the stronger they become; if you don’t fear them, they can’t do anything to you.”

When Han Li saw this bullet comment, the fierce determination he had just summoned grew even stronger.

He no longer hesitated, clutching the safety talisman tightly in his hand, and turned to rush fiercely towards the dark stairwell.

“I’m coming!”

As he rushed, he held up his phone, the beam of the flashlight wildly swinging on the stairs.

Xie Wangsheng, based on the footage from his camera and the villa’s architectural blueprints found online, quickly typed out directions.

“Turn left and go upstairs, the second room on the left at the end of the second-floor corridor is the Master bedroom, which is where that man hanged himself! The core of the Formation is there!”

Han Li stepped onto the wooden stairs, his feet making “creak-creak” sounds.

He was surprised to find that ever since he made up his mind to rush up and tightly held the safety talisman, the children’s laughter and the woman’s calls around him had indeed gradually weakened, and finally disappeared completely!

Xie Wangsheng’s prediction was correct!

This safety talisman really worked!

This discovery gave Han Li a bit more courage.

He rushed up to the second floor in a few strides, and with a sweep of his flashlight, he immediately located the door at the end of the corridor.

That’s it!

He was about to rush over in one go.

Creak—

Another door next to him suddenly opened by itself.

A chilling gust of cold wind suddenly poured out of the door, making him stumble.

The bullet comments in the live broadcast room were instantly submerged in fear.

“Ahhh! The door opened!”

“Something came out!”

Xie Wangsheng, at the other end of the screen, calmly adjusted his glasses and muttered to himself.

“They still couldn’t resist, could they?”

Han Li’s heart stopped from the sudden change, and he stiffly turned his head, shining the flashlight beam towards the open door.

Inside the door stood four figures.

A woman in pajamas and three young children.

They were covered in blood, their skin a deathly gray-green, their eye sockets hollow, staring straight at Han Li.

It was the tragic mistress of this villa and her three children.

They took stiff steps, slowly, step by step, walking towards Han Li.

Han Li’s mind instantly went blank, the courage he had just built up crumbling at this moment.

His legs went weak, and he almost collapsed to the ground.

The hundreds of thousands of viewers in the live broadcast room also witnessed this scene that overturned their twenty-plus years of worldview, and the entire bullet comment section fell into an eerie silence.

Just as Han Li was about to be swallowed by fear, Xie Wangsheng’s bullet comment appeared again.

“Calm down! Don’t be afraid! Look at them!”

“They don’t dare to get close to you! They’re afraid of what’s in your hand!”

“If these ghosts wanted to deal with you, they would have done so long ago! They’re only coming out now to scare you away, to prevent you from destroying the Formation!”

Xie Wangsheng’s analysis was like a wake-up call, instantly clearing Han Li’s confused thoughts a bit.

He forced himself to look at the four approaching ghost figures.

Indeed!

Their movements were very slow, and with each step closer, their bodies seemed to tremble slightly, and the hollow expressions on their faces actually showed a struggle and fear.

They didn’t dare to come over!

After being scared for so long, the suppressed anger in his heart completely erupted at this moment.

“Damn it!”

Han Li roared, and instead of retreating, he advanced, directly charging towards the four ghost figures.

“Who are you trying to scare!”

Who knew, when the four ghost figures saw Han Li not backing down but instead rushing towards them, clear panic actually appeared on their faces.

They stopped, and even began to unconsciously retreat.

Seeing this scene, Han Li was overjoyed.

Xie Wangsheng’s prediction was completely correct!

The fear in his heart vanished at this moment.

He abruptly stopped, halting less than three meters from the four ghost figures.

Then, without looking back, he turned and rushed towards the room with the Formation at the end of the corridor.

As he ran, he didn’t forget to explain to the audience in the live broadcast room.

“Buddies, did you see that? It’s not that I’m scared!”

“These mother and children are also pitiful, they are innocent! I don’t need to bother with them!”

“We should go after the real culprit!”

The audience in the live broadcast room was amused by his actions.

“Hahahaha! It’s really you, Streamer! A logical genius!”

“Just say you chickened out, we won’t laugh at you!”

“The fake-busting Streamer, doesn’t even spare ghosts!”

Han Li chuckled, already having rushed to the Master bedroom door.

He took a deep breath, raised his leg, and with all his strength, kicked the door.

Bang!

The door flew open.

Han Li, holding his phone, rushed in like a god of war, roaring loudly at the dark room.

“You dog, your grandpa is here!”