After hanging up, the room fell silent again.
Li Dan looked at Xu Xian-jing's number on his phone screen. She had sent him another message.
"Oppa, we're just going to investigate, and I'll go with you. The government has even hired mediums recently. We can blend in, so there won't be any danger~"
"Mm, I know."
Li Dan lightly tapped the screen with his fingertip, considering that a reply.
He got up, walked to the window, and pushed it open.
The morning breeze drifted in, carrying a slight chill.
Angelique was still sound asleep in the bedroom, her breathing even.
Not wanting to disturb her, Li Dan turned and returned to the sofa, opening the Horror Forum on his phone.
The forum had been updated recently, and now it even had a mobile version, making it more convenient than before.
As soon as he refreshed the page, a pinned post caught his attention. The poster's ID was "Detective."
The profile identified him as a retired police officer from California, United States. The post's title read:
Ghost Mirror of the Midnight Mall.
Li Dan was intrigued and tapped into it to read carefully.
"Everyone has a past. Some pasts are thought-provoking, while others are too painful to look back on."
The post began with that sentence, its words exuding the weariness and weathered sorrow of a middle-aged man.
The poster, Ben Carson, had once been a star officer in the Los Angeles Police Department in his youth. He had solved countless cases and received endless praise.
But fate turned against him during an anti-drug operation five years ago. Overly tense, he mistook a colleague for a drug dealer and shot him dead.
Although the court ruled it involuntary manslaughter and he did not go to prison, his dismissal from the force,