Chapter 9: Voyeurism
After communicating with the leader of the headquarters organization for a while, He Jia’an made a decision that surprised Yu Lianyun but also put her at ease.
They would stay in Laitai City for a period of time, and the organization would later send other personnel to Laitai City to perform a check-up on Yu Lianyun.
Regardless of whether that shop Yu Lianyun described as utterly fantastical truly existed or not, Yu Lianyun now needed to stay alive; she was an important key to solving the nameless female corpse problem.
Of course, judging from the fact that Yu Lianyun had unknowingly disappeared right in front of the three battle-hardened Mysterious Group members including He Jia’an, that forest cabin selling rental anomalous items very likely truly existed. Even if it didn’t, it could indeed indicate that a dark cloud no simpler than the nameless female corpse was enveloping Yu Lianyun.
Therefore, the curse from the video tape that Yu Lianyun mentioned had to be taken seriously by the Mysterious Group.
Yu Lianyun sat on the bed in the room of the hotel where she was staying. Li Yingqi had just finished showering and come out of the bathroom. Looking at the heroic, tall beauty in front of her with slightly damp hair, Yu Lianyun couldn’t help but secretly praise that the other was truly a top-class beauty even counting back a few hundred years. With a slightly apologetic expression on her face, she said, “Sorry, I was a bit willful and didn’t switch to a room with two beds, so now you have to share a big bed with me.”
Li Yingqi smiled lightly and said, “It’s fine, I don’t mind.”
As she spoke, Li Yingqi shook her pajamas to let air into her clothes, cooling off the water droplets that couldn’t be fully dried after the shower, feeling exceptionally refreshing. She looked at the full-length mirror in the room corridor while saying as she checked herself in the mirror, “You should go wash up quickly too. You must be very tired today.”
“You’re right.” Yu Lianyun smiled somewhat awkwardly, took out her change of clothing from the suitcase, and walked into the bathroom.
After the bathroom door closed, Li Yingqi glanced sideways at the figure behind the frosted glass, then looked at her own luggage bag and gently touched the zipper. She was certain that Yu Lianyun had rummaged through her luggage while she was showering. Although the other had been extremely careful, she had actually clipped one of her own hairs on the bag’s zipper; as soon as the zipper was opened, the hair would break into two pieces.
Li Yingqi checked her items and found that nothing was missing.
Li Yingqi felt extremely puzzled about this. What exactly was Yu Lianyun looking for?
Clearly, the other was now the weaker party under surveillance and monitoring, and this action of hers could easily arouse their discovery and resentment, yet she still did it. That meant the item she was seeking was certainly something she was willing to risk everything to find.
Just as Li Yingqi was pondering this, the mobile phone she had placed on the desk suddenly rang. She picked up the mobile phone, glanced at the caller ID, tsked and curled her lips, then answered the phone call: “My dear gossip, what’s up?”
“You’re asking me what’s up? Hurry and check the message I sent you, my leftover fighter.” An pleasant female voice sounded from the other end, anxious in tone. “You’ve gotten into trouble! Big trouble!”
Li Yingqi frowned tightly, shook her clothes while temporarily exiting the call interface to check the WeChat that had do-not-disturb enabled.
She saw that the chat contact labeled “Dear Gossip” had sent over a dozen greetings. She tapped in and took a look; the content inside made her eyelids twitch.
Dear Gossip: Trouble!
Dear Gossip: 【Download link】
Dear Gossip: Hurry and install this live streaming APP to check it out! Room number 444445!
Dear Gossip: Where the hell did you go!?
Six angry expression packs sent in a row.
Dear Gossip: That’s you in the live stream, right? You’ve been voyeured, idiot!
Seeing this message, Li Yingqi’s nerves immediately tensed up, but as someone in a special profession, she naturally wouldn’t panic easily. She tightened her collar, then clicked on that download link and downloaded the live streaming APP.
After a series of operations to install, log in, and go online, Li Yingqi entered the main interface. Seeing the countless colored pictures and text covered by the APP, her mood sank at once. She entered the room number and directly went into the room “Gossip” had mentioned. The phone screen switched, and the image presented on the live streaming software next made Li Yingqi’s heartbeat nearly stop.
She saw that the protagonist in the live stream image at this moment was none other than herself standing by the bed playing on her phone right now. Those ordinary actions she had done in private space before had now become spicy talking points for the foul-smelling viewers in the live stream room.
“……”
Facing all sorts of foul language, even someone as calm as Li Yingqi could no longer maintain the tranquility in her heart at this moment. Anger appeared on her face as she turned her head to look at a socket on the bedside cabinet, clenching her pink fist and smashing it fiercely.
Boom!
The wall immediately cracked. Li Yingqi punched and exploded the socket, then dug with her five fingers. The socket in five shattered pieces was grasped in her hand. Looking closely, a hidden camera was actually concealed behind that ordinary-looking socket.
The live stream room image went black at once, but the room’s viewers didn’t stop their mouths. Instead, they thought it was a performance and sent out displeasure and teasing one after another. Their words showed no respect for the angry Li Yingqi, treating her as if she were a lowly commodity to insult at will.
Although Li Yingqi knew she hadn’t grown up in one of those wealthy families, due to her family’s strict and excellent traditions and being deeply loved by her family, she naturally had extremely high self-esteem. But facing such an insulting incident, she had never encountered anything like it before, and a sense of powerlessness surged into her heart.
At this time, Li Yingqi’s mobile phone WeChat was still ringing nonstop; it was messages from “Gossip.” The other was very anxious and had definitely been watching the live stream just now, surely determining through the anomalous performance in the live stream image that the voyeured beauty was none other than Li Yingqi herself.
At the same time, hearing the commotion inside the house, Yu Lianyun quickly wrapped herself in a bathrobe and came out. Seeing Li Yingqi with slightly reddened eyes, paired with her beautiful and handsome features, Yu Lianyun felt a trace of pity and hurriedly asked, “What’s going on?”
She walked forward, about to comfort her, but saw the pile of shattered electronic waste in Li Yingqi’s hand and glanced at the socket that should have been fixed on the wall but had disappeared without a trace. She immediately associated it with those bad things, and extreme terror pierced her mind.
“Voyeurism!? Live streaming!?” Yu Lianyun gritted her teeth, eyes widening, body trembling. She instantly thought of many things.
Seeing Yu Lianyun so angry like this, even less composed than herself, Li Yingqi thought that the other had already stayed in this hotel for more than a day. Perhaps much of her privacy had been captured by this hidden camera. She herself had been relatively proper; apart from verbal humiliation, her losses weren’t great—of course, only relative to Yu Lianyun.
But what Li Yingqi didn’t know was that Yu Lianyun wasn’t just angry; she felt deeply afraid and suffocated.
Anger went without saying, but her terror was because she didn’t know how many people the video tape she had watched that afternoon had been broadcast to, and how many of them had made recordings of it.
Yu Lianyun’s heart turned ice-cold, feeling like she wouldn’t see next week’s sun.
Begging for collections, tickets, etc.~~~~
