"Hello everyone, this is a monastery that has been abandoned for many years. It's said that someone once saw ghosts here. Tonight, I'm going to show you whether ghosts truly exist in this world."
Gradually, no one dared to enter the monastery so easily anymore.
But with the rise of the internet in the 21st century, many found that attracting traffic online could be very lucrative.
So, numerous daring streamers took to the path of live-streaming their ghost-hunting expeditions, exploring haunted places across America.
Haunted houses, haunted chapels, haunted basements - anywhere with a spooky reputation drew the streamers, attracting a significant audience for spiritual explorations.
[User VER12mkj: That monastery, didn't a California streamer recently go ghost-hunting there? I heard he saw a nun's ghost, not sure what happened after that.]
[San Francisco Ironman: I remember that. I think that streamer is in the hospital now, his sister said he has some kind of brain disease, though he's alive, he may never wake up again.]
[Dehors: Is it that spooky? I only clicked in because the streamer looked good.]
[Babale: Is this streamer named Jackson? What a strange name, and she looks like an exorcist?]
...
Amidst the intertwining comments in the live chat, Sosia pushed open the heavy monastery door and walked in with Dahuang.
For Sosia, a former demon hunter, the word fear didn't exist in her world.
Whether because she had already died once, or was carrying a Demon Exorcism Shotgun and a General Enhancing Puppet,
these gave Sosia enough power to protect herself against Evil Spirits.
While others came to the monastery to stream ghost-hunting, she might as well have come for an exorcism.
Click, click, click!
The sound of leather boots echoed crisply in the hall of the monastery; it was already nighttime and deathly silent.
Sosia held her phone's camera, scanning the surroundings to give her live audience an immersive view of the surroundings.
As a 19th-century building, the interior of the monastery was filled with European-style décor, Roman columns, relief sculptures, stained glass windows, vaulted ceilings, a statue of the Virgin Mary...
In the past, the monastery seemed majestic, but at night it now added a sense of eeriness.
Dahuang followed beside Sosia, its eyes curiously observing everything around.
Suddenly, its expression changed and it began barking madly towards the left side, its bark reverberating throughout the hall.
Sosia immediately looked in that direction and saw behind the curtains near the window, stood a little girl in a gray dress with twin braids.
She looked at Sosia calmly, her body half-hidden behind the curtains.
Seeing Sosia notice her, the girl seemed a bit scared, timidly concealing her whole body behind the curtain, leaving only her head exposed.
"A ghost?"
Sosia tilted her head, aiming her phone camera in that direction.
Yet after a few seconds, no comments mentioned the girl in the live chat.
The viewers instead were all discussing why there was a dog's barking.
This indicated that the phone couldn't capture the girl's figure, proving it was undoubtedly a ghost.
Sosia touched the Spirit Communication Necklace around her neck, knowing that it was the necklace from Sun Yan that allowed her to see the girl.
She pulled out the Demon Exorcism Shotgun and walked directly towards the girl in the gray dress.
"What's your name, and what are you doing here?"
Approaching closer, Sosia asked cautiously.
"Don't go further inside, leave now, they are very dangerous," the little girl softly warned Sosia.