In the middle of speaking, something happened abruptly.

Although Gongsun Fengying had mastered martial arts and could fly over water, she hadn't reached the level where she could float on it.

After grabbing one person's shoulder, she saw another person being dragged into the water by something, and the person she was holding suddenly felt like they weighed a hundred pounds more, nearly dragging Gongsun Fengying into the water as well.

Gongsun Fengying didn't dare to hesitate, she stomped forcefully upward, her hand grip intensified, stepped on the head of the person already submerged, and pulled out.

A sharp tearing sound was heard.

Gongsun Fengying didn't have time to look closely, she seized the person and moved directly towards the shore.

Just as she threw the person onto the shore, Gongsun Fengying realized the person had already fainted. Looking down, she noticed one of his legs was missing from the knee down, and the break in the skin didn't look bitten off, but rather torn off.

"Ahhh!"

This time, one of the security guards screamed and fainted on the spot.

Ma Xiaohu felt his legs trembling: "It's, it's that thing, it really is that thing."

Linglong didn't expect things to escalate to this point, she quickly ran forward and checked the person just rescued, finding that apart from being overly frightened, he was also partially suffocating.

Linglong quickly pressed the person's chest to restore blood flow.

While Linglong was administering aid, Ye Guichen arrived.

Rushing to the scene, seeing Linglong was fine, Ye Guichen sighed in relief, but seeing the chaotic scene, frowned and asked Ma Xiaohu: "Captain Ma, what's going on?"

"Mr. Ye, I, I..." Ma Xiaohu, though having seen much in his time, was frightened, tremblingly pointing towards the lake: "Just now, someone was dragged into the water, probably won't make it."

"Dragged into the water?" Ye Guichen was stunned, and quickly went to Linglong's side, glanced at the person lying on the ground, then looked at Gongsun Fengying: "Who is this?"

"I don't know, but they weren't up to any good," Gongsun Fengying said coldly, obviously still somewhat shaken.

Ye Guichen immediately understood: "Weren't there two of them?"

Gongsun Fengying, calmer now, replied: "One was already dragged into the water. If this one wasn't your dear junior sister, I wouldn't have bothered to save him."

Although the whole situation hadn't been fully explained, Ye Guichen could deduce roughly what happened.

Linglong, inherently kind, couldn't stand to see others die. Although she sometimes had a bit of a temper, from the perspective of a benevolent physician, she must have intervened because of an accident.

Looking at the person on the ground, soaked and suffocating, the entire process wasn't difficult to imagine.

"Linglong, are you alright?" Ye Guichen nodded towards Gongsun Fengying and squatted down to ask Linglong.

Linglong continued to rescue the person, seeing him cough up several mouthfuls of water, apart from a weak pulse, he was gradually regaining color, indicating no immediate danger to life, but the leg was likely beyond saving.

"Senior Brother, in the lake, there's something," Linglong lifted her head with difficulty, stammering while looking at Ye Guichen.

Ye Guichen comforted: "It's alright, it's alright, first bandage this person's leg. When he wakes, we can ask who sent him. Also, everyone keep tonight's events to yourselves."

Despite his suspicion about something in the artificial lake, Ye Guichen hadn't paid much attention until tonight. Seeing it with his own eyes, if the threat inside wasn't eliminated, living here wouldn't be safe.

He instructed Ma Xiaohu to carry the unconscious person to the security room, with Gongsun Fengying assisting Linglong in bandaging the person's leg, while he kept Ma Xiaohu aside alone.

"Captain Ma, I know you have your reasons, but today's incident has affected people I care about. If not for my precautions, those two would have died instead, and my junior sister might have been in danger." Ye Guichen looked sternly at Ma Xiaohu: "You didn't tell me during the day, and I don't blame you, you have your reasons. But now the situation has changed. Otherwise, it won't just be about returning the villa, I could ruin the Phoenix Pavilion developers' reputations too. Don't doubt me, I have the power."

Ma Xiaohu swallowed hard, feeling a strange intimidation from Ye Guichen's presence, shakily took out a cigarette from his pocket and placed it in his mouth.

But, even when he took out the lighter, he couldn't get it to light.

Ye Guichen took the lighter from him and lit the cigarette.

Taking a deep drag, Ma Xiaohu felt slightly more composed, looked up at Ye Guichen: "Mr. Ye, I know you're not an ordinary person. Many years ago I served in the army, didn't achieve much, but I pride myself in reading people. From the first glance, I knew you weren't ordinary. But some things are too bizarre, if not seen with one's own eyes, hardly anyone would believe it."

Here, Ma Xiaohu gestured towards the lake: "Mr. Ye, you might not know this, but decades ago, there was a graveyard here. With urban expansion, this area was filled in, and designated for the Phoenix Pavilion project five years ago."

Ye Guichen didn't speak, just listened attentively.

Ma Xiaohu took another drag and continued: "Back then, I was a lowly guard here. One night while I was on shift, the Phoenix Pavilion project aimed to progress quickly, so construction ran day and night. But that night..."

Ma Xiaohu seemed to sink into a memory, his eyes filled with undisguised terror.

Ye Guichen, after listening, frowned deeply.

Could it be that spirits truly exist?

According to Ma Xiaohu, this artificial lake was initially intended to house two villas, but during excavation, a coffin was unearthed.

For many real-estate developers, finding a coffin during construction is no big deal.

Generally, people don't believe in spirits. Either kindly relocate the coffin or greedily extract valuables, discarding the coffin itself.

Around 1 AM, many workers were sleepy. Ma Xiaohu stayed vigilant to prevent theft in the dark.

Strangely, when he returned to the excavated area, the machines had stopped, and more frighteningly, the excavator operator was dead, bleeding from seven orifices in the driver's seat.

Terrified, Ma Xiaohu called his superior, the developer.

Back then, Boss Xie was just a project foreman for Phoenix Pavilion. Upon hearing the news, he rushed over.

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