The female ghost Wang Yingxiu in my rental house begged me to help her fulfill a wish.
She and her lover Song Yixuan were brutally separated by her mother. She had a miscarriage at home and died, then turned into the most terrifying postpartum ghost in China.
Although Wang Yingxiu still retained her consciousness, her hatred had accumulated so much that she was on the verge of losing control of her evil thoughts.
She asked me to help her find Song Yixuan, who had been driven away by her mother. She wanted to ask him a question!
Normally, it wasn't difficult to find someone in Beijing. One could even locate the person with just a phone call.
However, Song Yixuan was an exception. He was a celebrity, a "masked man" fully controlled by his agent. Every word and deed of his was managed by the company. As an ordinary person, it was almost impossible for me to find him in daily life, except seeing him in the media.
Fortunately, I knew Wei Yuan. His venture - capital company was interested in investing in the TV series produced by Song Yixuan's company. So, it was a piece of cake for Wei Yuan to meet an 18 - line star.
He helped me arrange a meeting with Song Yixuan at the Hyatt City, a luxurious business district in Beijing.
Song Yixuan would attend an event in the evening. For safety's sake, I arrived at the entrance of Hyatt City long before afternoon.
It was summer now, and the sun was shining brightly in the sky. I squinted at the entrance separated by eight glass curtain walls and couldn't help frowning.
The entrance of this shopping mall was actually located on the ghost - gate line in the southwest. This place would not only attract a large number of people but also, I'm afraid, some spirits.
I wondered what kind of master had designed the feng - shui layout of this shopping mall. He was so greedy that he wanted to use both the yin and yang qi as the fortune for making money.
I didn't want to be involved in the game designed by this person, so I entered the mall through the side entrance. As soon as I stepped into the first - floor lobby, I felt a chilling cold all around. It was like being instantly frozen after being under the scorching sun outside. There was even a layer of moisture on my skin.
The whole layout of the shopping mall was like an oval giant egg. The top of the six - story building was a circular dome. The huge stained - glass windows refracted the sunlight in a strange and wonderful way, projecting it onto the granite floor of the lobby, making people feel dizzy and enchanted.
"..."
"Hey, what's wrong with you? Don't you know how to apologize when you bump into someone?"
"I didn't bump into you at all! I was miles away from you..."
While I was looking up to observe the feng - shui layout of this shopping mall, suddenly there was a noisy sound from above.
I looked in the direction of the sound and saw that at the escalator on the second floor, a young couple holding a baby was arguing with another young couple. It seemed that the girl in the couple accidentally touched the baby's head, which made the two - or three - year - old baby cry loudly.
But the girl thought she was far away from the baby and that the couple was being unreasonable.
The two men and two women were standing beside the downward - moving escalator, arguing fiercely.
I don't know who pushed the mother holding the baby. She almost fell onto the moving escalator belt. This made the young father extremely angry. He reached out and grabbed the collar of the boy in the couple.
"Fighting again!!"
"Oh, why is there always fighting in Hyatt City..."
"Really. Last week, a waiter had a quarrel with a customer and even stabbed the customer with a knife."
"There are so many accidents. It's because there are too many people. Hyatt City is really good at attracting people!"
"I come here every week. Otherwise, I'll feel uncomfortable!"
Listening to the on - lookers gathering around and chatting, although I hadn't explored the whole shopping mall, I roughly understood some of the ways it attracted wealth and fortune.
This was not just a "Five - Ghosts Transporting Wealth" formation.
The front ghost - gate was for customers during the day and for ghosts at night.
The circular dome of the sky was like a huge tomb mound, which could trap the souls that came in. At night, when all the customers and staff left, this place would become a world of ghosts. It was not only the "Five - Ghosts Transporting Wealth" but also that the more ghosts it attracted, the stronger the power of the yin - evil to attract wealth.
However, attracting wealth with yin - evil required blood sacrifice. Coincidentally, the layout of the upper and lower floors was based on the number three, forming a Meishan formation, which infinitely magnified people's various desires. A small quarrel could easily turn into a fight.
Just like the current situation. It could have been solved with an apology, but the two men had already started fighting.
"Stop fighting!"
"Don't fight..."
The two women beside them rushed over to stop the fight. It seemed that the chaos was about to be stopped.
But I was shocked and pushed aside the on - lookers in front of me and ran towards the stairs below. At the same time, the baby in the mother's arms was hit again. This time, the impact was so great that the mother couldn't hold the baby anymore. The little figure slipped out of her arms and fell straight from the second - floor escalator.
The baby seemed to be only two or three years old, only babbling and crying for "grandma". The height from the second floor to the first floor was about seven or eight meters, and the ground was hard gray - white granite. If he fell head - first, his skull would probably be cracked on the spot!
I had already rushed to the bottom of the escalator. I stretched out my hands and caught the little body firmly.
At the same time, a sharp pain shot through my arm. Although the baby was small, the inertia from falling from the upstairs was quite large. I felt that my arm was almost broken, but I didn't dare to let go of the baby I had just caught. I held him tightly in my arms.
"Ah!!"
The mother upstairs let out a scream the moment the baby slipped out of her arms. Her instinct was to jump down from the upstairs to catch her child.
Fortunately, her husband and the girl in the couple were quick - witted and grabbed her arms, pressing her firmly on the escalator.
The frightened husband, while holding his wife down, looked downstairs. I quickly waved at him and shouted, "The baby is okay!"
"Wow!"
After hearing my words, the mother's pale face regained a little color. Then she rushed downstairs regardless and snatched the baby from my arms. Then she collapsed on the ground and burst into tears.
Her husband and the young couple also ran down from the escalator. The husband kept bowing to thank me, while the two young people in the couple were so scared that their faces turned ashen and their whole bodies were shaking like leaves.
"... S - sorry!"
Although neither of them had actually touched the baby, the girl still apologized desperately to the couple. She was really scared. If they had known that a quarrel would lead to such a terrible consequence, they would have apologized and left long ago. How could such a life - threatening incident have happened?
"It's not your fault."
Rubbing my painfully aching arm, I looked up at the escalator entrance on the second floor. Faintly, a black aura was reflected on the handrail glass. In the black aura, there was a small face with blood oozing from all seven orifices, glaring at me fiercely with a pair of blood - red eyes...