157: Chapter 157 This is totally like the opening of a horror movie!

As the connection ended, the system's notification sound rang in Su Yun's mind.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing a special connection and exposing the truth of a cross-species online romance."

"Reward: 50 merit points!"

Although the points weren't many, he had certainly seen enough of a show.

Su Yun was in a great mood; he picked up his teacup and took a sip to moisten his throat.

In the livestream at this moment, the bullet chat was still scrolling frantically, filled with jokes about Er Bing.

[Er Bing: I might not be a human, but you're a real dog.]

[This dog has become a spirit; I suggest sending it to be sliced up for research.]

[To be honest, that 'Wife, I love you' was truly inspired.]

Su Yun looked at the bullet chat and tapped the table with a smile.

"Alright, alright, let's put Er Bing's matter aside for now."

"If you guys like him, you can follow his account in the future."

"Let's get back to business with today's third divination."

"Same old rules, let's get the Lucky Bag going!"

After saying that, Su Yun clicked the Lucky Bag button again.

A red Lucky Bag appeared in the center of the screen with a three-minute countdown.

After that hilarious farce just now, the livestream's popularity hadn't dropped; instead, it had increased.

The number of people online had already surpassed seven million!

This was the level of Su Yun's current influence.

With both hardcore criminal captures and this kind of laugh-out-loud absurdity...

...who would be willing to leave?

The three minutes passed in the blink of an eye.

"Ding!"

With a crisp notification sound, the Lucky Bag winner was drawn.

Su Yun looked at the winner's list.

The winner this time had the ID 'Worker Striving to Make Money'.

Just looking at the name, it seemed like a simple and honest person.

However, Su Yun was in no hurry to jump to conclusions.

After all, in this livestream, someone named 'Happy Family' might be getting cheated on, and someone named 'Unwavering Devotion' might just be a backup option.

The more serious the name, the more outrageous the story might be.

"Congratulations to our friend [Worker Striving to Make Money]."

Su Yun read out the name and then clicked the connection invitation.

"Come, let's connect and see what story this friend has."

...

The atmosphere in the livestream was still immersed in the joy of 'Er Bing the Great Demon King' from earlier.

The bullet chat was full of jokes like 'using a dog head to save one's life' and 'humans aren't as good as dogs.'

Su Yun looked at the pulsating connection request on the screen, a hint of a smile on his lips as he pressed the accept button.

The screen flickered for a moment before stabilizing.

Appearing on camera this time was a young girl who looked to be in her early twenties.

She looked quite delicate, with her hair tied in a simple ponytail and wearing a set of somewhat oversized gray loungewear.

But that wasn't the point.

The point was her environment.

It was an extremely cramped room with white walls on all sides, and only a dim ceiling light overhead.

The weirdest part was that this room had no windows.

It didn't look like a bedroom; it looked more like a storage room, or... a confinement room.

The girl's expression appeared very nervous.

She leaned closer to the phone screen, glancing left and right in terror, then lowered her voice extremely low, as if afraid of disturbing someone.

"Ma... Master, can you hear me?"

The girl's voice was trembling, with a clear sob in it.

The smile on Su Yun's face faded slightly.

He nodded and spoke in a calm tone, "I can hear you. No need to be so quiet. Go ahead, what do you want to have divined?"

The girl did not relax because of Su Yun's comfort.

She remained in that stiff posture, clutching her phone so tightly that her knuckles were white from the effort.

"Master, my name is Chen Xue."

"I want you to help me calculate... is the place I'm living in right now 'unclean'?"

Hearing this, the viewers in the livestream immediately perked up.

They just finished watching a comedy; was a horror movie starting now?

[Looking at this environment, it really does look like a scene from a ghost movie.]

[Sister, where are you? Why aren't there any windows? It looks so oppressive.]

[Could she have been human trafficked? Blink if you've been kidnapped!]

Chen Xue glanced at the bullet chat and quickly shook her head.

"No... I wasn't trafficked. I came here voluntarily."

"This is the nanny's room in a villa."

Speaking to this point, Chen Xue took a deep breath, seemingly to bolster her courage.

"I saw this job on a Local Recruitment Site half a month ago."

"This family was looking for a live-in nanny. Requirements: young single female, healthy, no bad habits."

"The work content is simple: cleaning and making three meals a day."

"But the salary... is very high."

Chen Xue swallowed and held up five fingers.

"Fifty thousand for a one-month trial. After becoming permanent, the monthly salary is eighty thousand, plus social security, housing fund, and a year-end bonus."

As soon as these words came out, the livestream—which was still speculating about supernatural events—instantly exploded.

The screen full of question marks almost covered Su Yun's face.

[How much?! Fifty thousand?!]

[Did I hear that right? A nanny with a monthly salary of fifty thousand? Is she going to Dubai to be a nanny?]

[Holy crap! I'm single too, I'm young too, and I can work! Are they still hiring? I'm not picky; forty thousand is fine!]

[Stop undercutting each other upstairs! This price is clearly abnormal! Where does a regular nanny get such a high salary?]

[Exactly, when things are unusual, there must be a catch. Sister, you'd better be careful. Don't get tricked into a pyramid scheme or have your kidneys harvested.]

Su Yun looked at the bullet chat, his brow furrowing slightly.

Hiring a nanny for fifty thousand a month?

This indeed far exceeded the market price.

Unless the nanny had some special skills, or the employer had some special fetishes.

"Chen Xue, don't worry yet."

Su Yun asked, "This salary is indeed outrageously high. Did the employer make any strange requests?"

Chen Xue nodded repeatedly, the fear in her eyes deepening.

"Yes! There are many strange rules!"

She lowered her voice and spoke rapidly, "The landlord is a man in his forties named Dong Yu. He looks quite refined and wears glasses."

"On the first day I arrived, he made three rules with me."

"First, I absolutely cannot go into the basement! He said the basement holds his trade secrets and valuable collections. If I dare to step near it, I'll be fired immediately and have to pay a huge penalty for breach of contract."

"Second, every night after ten o'clock, I must return to my room and lock the door from the inside. No matter what noise I hear outside, I absolutely cannot come out or peek."

"Third, I'm not allowed to ask about his whereabouts, not allowed to bring outsiders back, and not allowed to reveal the specific location of the villa to anyone."

At this point, Chen Xue's body couldn't help but shudder.

"Master, I thought it was strange too."

"But... but he just gave too much."

"My family is in the countryside, and I have a younger brother who needs to go to college. We desperately need money."

"I thought, as long as it's not illegal and he doesn't make me do anything out of line, then following rules is just following rules."

"And for the past half month, Mr. Dong has been quite polite to me. He's usually not at home, so I'm the only one there. Aside from not being able to go out, it's actually quite peaceful."

The mood in the livestream began to shift.

The netizens who were just envious of the high salary now felt a chill down their spines.

[This is totally the start of a horror movie!]

[Can't go to the basement? Stop talking, there's definitely something in the basement!]

[Must lock the door at ten? Who is he guarding against? Himself?]

[Sister, run! You might earn this money, but you won't live to spend it!]

Su Yun didn't speak, only tapping his finger lightly on the tabletop.

"Since everything has been peaceful for the past half month, why did you come to me for a divination today?"

Su Yun asked pointedly, "What happened tonight?"

Hearing this question, Chen Xue's face instantly turned deathly pale.

She moved her phone close to the crack in the door, signaling Su Yun and the viewers to listen.

"This morning, Mr. Dong told me he was going out of town on business for about three days."

"But just now, around ten-thirty..."

"I heard movement downstairs."

Chen Xue's voice was shaking like a leaf.

"First was the sound of a door opening, and then... then it came from the basement."

"Zzz! Zzz! Zzz!"

Chen Xue mimicked the sound with her mouth.

"It sounds like an electric saw cutting wood, or... like a very large meat grinder turning."

"The sound is very loud. Even through the door, I can hear it clearly."

"I wanted to go out and see if a thief had broken in, or if the circuit was broken."

"But I didn't dare."

"I remembered the rule Mr. Dong said: absolutely no leaving the room after ten."

"But Master, he said he was on a business trip! There shouldn't be anyone at home!"

"If it's a thief, why would they go to the basement to saw things?"

"I'm so scared. I keep feeling like that sound isn't the sound of wood being sawed..."