It all happened so fast. Even though the two ghosts were incredibly quick to react, they had chased in the wrong direction, convinced that Ming Yue had run into the forest.

But at that moment, Ming Yue was flat on the ground, crawling forward inch by inch.

Her movements were small, so they were unlikely to attract their attention.

But this created another problem: she was moving extremely slowly. Even the viewers in the live stream chat were getting anxious.

[Hurry up! Whatever you do, don’t get caught! Those ghosts are vicious!]

[And the streamer isn’t there! If she gets caught, she’s really done for!]

[Stop rushing her! She’s probably scared out of her mind right now, and she’s the one in danger.]

[If she makes a big move now and gets discovered, the consequences will be even worse.]

The viewers kept posting their opinions in the live stream chat.

But Ming Yue couldn’t worry about any of that. She stayed flat on the ground, furtively crawling forward inch by inch.

She was sweating so profusely that the drops hitting the dirt made audible thuds. Her nerves were completely shot.

Just the day before yesterday, she had been in a huge metropolis, and now she had been reduced to this.

But she didn’t dare let her focus waver for a second, one hand gripping her phone fiercely.

She focused on one thing and one thing only: crawling forward. Thankfully, she had followed Su Nian’s advice and taken a roundabout path.

She was now slowly crawling out of the forest. As she did, she saw more ghosts and monsters heading into it.

They all assumed she had definitely run out, so they had all rushed off in the direction she’d originally come from.

Meanwhile, Ming Yue just kept crawling cautiously along, finally making her way back into the familiar cemetery.

Compared to the forest, which was now teeming with ghosts, she felt a strange sense of security upon returning to the cemetery.

Under the cover of the small burial mounds, she slowly found the opening she had dug out earlier and carefully slipped back inside.

Then she hid under the coffin again. Everything was as it was before, but with one difference: this time, she knew the cemetery was empty.

Su Nian reminded her, "I’ll teach you how to conceal your aura."

Su Nian explained in great detail, teaching the ordinary people in the live stream how to conceal their aura.

Su Nian said to the viewers in the live stream,

"Any viewers who are interested can learn, too. It might not seem useful on the surface, but if you ever need it, this is a technique that could save your life."

The already-curious viewers now grew serious.

Many of them put down their phones with solemn expressions and began to trace the motions along with Su Nian.

She went through it twice in a row. Then, Su Nian used a burning piece of talisman paper as a medium to completely mask Ming Yue’s human aura.

Meanwhile, the two ghosts, who had chased quite a distance, also sensed that something was wrong.

The first to feel it was Mo An. Despite his true age, he wore the shell of a young man.

He looked young, but his mind was calculating and he was utterly ruthless.

On top of that, he and Ming Yue had been together for quite some time.

A thought suddenly struck him.

’Could that damn girl have set me up on purpose? Don’t tell me she didn’t actually run out?’

He had chased this far; with his abilities, he should have found some trace of the damn girl by now. Yet even now, there was nothing.

"Maybe she’s hiding in the forest," the old hag said, looking up at the dense woods. "Could she have climbed a tree to hide?"

"Impossible. She grew up in the city. How would she know how to climb a tree?"

"I’m sure she’s hiding in this forest. We must have missed her. Find her, now!"

Mo An agreed. On second thought, it made sense.

A young woman who’d barely faced any hardship, frail and weak—her only option would be to hide somewhere in this forest.

’I must have been too careless when I first came through and missed her.’

The two ghosts tacitly ignored the cemetery. After all, they were both convinced that a young girl...

...who found herself in a grave would have already been scared out of her wits. Mustering the courage to run out must have used up every last bit of bravery she had.

How could she possibly hide there again?

Her hiding place had to be in this forest.

At this thought, Mo An relaxed a bit. He quickly called for his relatives and friends to join him in the search.

The forest was now teeming with ghostly figures. Any stranger stumbling upon it would be scared half to death.

The woods had become truly eerie, with will-o’-the-wisps drifting everywhere and the faint chatter of monsters carrying on the air, enough to make one’s skin crawl.

Meanwhile, Ming Yue, hiding under the coffin, carefully clutched her phone.

To save power, she had turned off the screen, but she could still hear Su Nian’s voice through her earbuds.

She had practiced the aura-concealing spell Su Nian just taught her twice, and her heart had finally started to settle down a bit.

Although everything was deathly quiet and she was, in fact, in a cemetery, she found she wasn’t as terrified as she had been at the beginning—perhaps because the day’s shock had been too great.