Chapter 827: A Thunderstrike
Although the incident in Beicheng was later subject to deletion of posts and comments, almost no trace of it remained.
At the time, quite a few people were paying attention to this matter, and even after the comments and posts were deleted, many people still remembered it.
Especially since the matter in Beicheng had just been settled, Ye Wanxi was struck by lightning and had to be hospitalized for several months afterward. Rumors almost circulated that she had died there or been disfigured.
However, after Ye Wanxi was discharged from the hospital, not only did she not have any scars on her face, but she also looked even more beautiful. Only then did everyone stop spreading these rumors.
Behind her back, some people grumbled and wondered if she had undergone plastic surgery during her hospitalization, but there was no evidence, and most of those who said such things later suffered misfortune and dared not discuss the matter casually anymore.
Now that someone has brought up the matter of Beicheng again, many people can't help but have a little doubt in their hearts. Could it be that this matter is really related to Ye Wanxi?
Some haters and rival fans who disliked or were even envious of Ye Wanxi's popularity did not want Ye Wanxi to have any more mysterious good personas. Seeing that the trend was not right, they immediately picked up their keyboards and started to mock and ridicule her.
[What kind of fortune teller is this? He's just a charlatan. The person upstairs is probably a Ye Wanxi fan pretending to be a passerby and trying to create a mystical persona for their idol, right? If you ask me, Ye Wanxi is a jinx; wherever she goes, trouble follows. L City is incredibly unlucky to have encountered such a jinx. They haven't seen a natural disaster like this in decades, and she's only been there a few days before it happened. The locals are truly cursed.]
[Exactly! Does she really think she's a god, some kind of all-knowing omniscient being? If that were true, with so many natural disasters and so many suffering people in the world, why doesn't she predict and save everyone? She just happened to encounter one or two, and she's already eager to use the suffering of people in disaster areas to create a persona for herself. Her face is truly disgusting.]
These people's rebuttals and sarcasm are so funny that it's hard not to laugh, yet quite a few people still echo them.
This is also the main reason why Ye Wanxi insisted on not letting Xiao Baihui disclose his involvement in these matters to the outside world; human nature is often unable to withstand the test.
She saved one group of people today, and tomorrow someone will ask her to save another group of people.
At first, people might be grateful to her, but when her frequent help is taken for granted, a single oversight on her part might be seen as a heinous crime.
Those who suffer will not blame God for the punishment, but will blame her for not extending a helping hand. Those who think they are on the moral high ground will do everything they can to attack her cold-bloodedness and ruthlessness.
They wouldn't care what price they paid to help them, nor would they care that she never owed them anything.
A small favor is appreciated, but a large one breeds resentment. The most terrifying thing is when public opinion is in the hands of those who suffer, because they always see themselves as victims, never considering themselves as perpetrators of others' suffering.
The shift in online public opinion naturally caught the attention of Xiao Jihui, Ye Wanxi's agency, and even Jiang Lin.
Therefore, these accounts were banned and destroyed not long after. Some people were quite angry and went to the platform to complain, but they were directly blacklisted. No matter how hard they tried to register new accounts using other people's identity documents, they were refused.
These troublemakers were forced to shut up, but some people who coveted Ye Wanxi's treasure became even more restless.
Previously, Feng Tianyu led two teams to explore the tomb, and when they came out, they took the purple jade fan that originally belonged to Ye Wanxi, which had already made some people dissatisfied.
This time, Ye Wanxi and her companion went to the water town and took away the little Yingyu and the baby Feifei, making these people even more restless.
Each of them spoke with increasingly strong and righteous indignation, demanding that Xiao Jihui and Ye Wanxi negotiate to have the two strange beasts sent back to the special department for unified management, arguing that such dangerous objects should not be allowed to remain unattended.
Xiao Baihui and his son played coy throughout, neither accepting nor opposing, simply refusing to give a definite answer.
These people are willing to try and break a rock, but they're definitely not going to be the ones to take the lead.
On the contrary, Zou Yuanhe, Qin Hongxu and others were furious when they found out about this. They wished they could take a few talismans and go to the homes of the people who had spoken and stick them on each of them.
"Greedy, stupid, hypocritical, and shameless! To hand them over to them for unified management? Hahaha, do you really think they can control them? I think these people have been living in comfort for too long, and their brains have rusted. They really treat those little guys like pets that they can mold and manipulate at will. If they anger them, they might just swallow them all whole."
Qin Hongxu sneered and said bluntly, "That's probably what they're thinking. Ignorance is bliss. They can only see the benefits and not the dangers. They really deserve to be taught a lesson."
Qin Hongxu spoke lightly, yet it sent a chill down one's spine for no apparent reason.
No wonder these two fellow disciples were so angry. If their old friends and their respective disciples knew about this, they would probably be even angrier.
It should be noted that ever since Ye Wanxi and the special department appeared, the Xuanmen sect has shown signs of a thriving revival.
Not to mention those younger generation members who helped Ye Wanxi run errands, they all received some gifts and tips.
Even if they didn't gain any real benefits from Ye Wanxi, they would still gain a small amount of merit as the people who helped her.
Don't underestimate this small act of merit; having it is equivalent to being registered under the heavens.
For cultivators like them, it's like having a cheat code that's been given by default by the system, making their cultivation twice as effective with half the effort.
This made even seniors like Zou Yuanhe envious. If they didn't have some self-awareness that they were old and frail and couldn't run errands as quickly as the younger generation, they would have loved to take over.
That's why, apart from a few people with unusual thought processes, who in the Xuanmen isn't grateful to Ye Wanxi and the others?
Sitting opposite Zou Yuanhe and his fellow disciples, Master Liaoran, who rarely expressed his opinions, couldn't help but sigh and shake his head, saying, "The matter of the water town has just begun to show some progress, and tens of thousands of people have been fortunate enough to escape danger. Miss Ye and her companion have made great contributions. It is really inappropriate to say such things at this time."
It's not just inappropriate, it's downright disheartening.
Zou Yuanhe snorted coldly: "If you ask me, aren't these people afraid that their own homes will be flooded next time they say such things?"
Qin Hongxu frowned and said in a low voice, "Junior brother, watch your words."
Zou Yuanhe was slightly taken aback and realized that he had misspoke. Such a matter concerning the lives of countless people was indeed not suitable to be spoken casually.
Then he thought of the lightning that struck from the sky after the last incident in Beicheng, and couldn't help but mutter to himself, "Flooding is one thing, but being struck by lightning might be more reliable."
(End of this chapter)
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