Chapter 833: Truly Favored by Heaven
Qi Yingxuan was having a wild time and ended up getting himself into trouble.
On the other side, Xiao Jihui was also extremely busy. The flood in Shuizhen was not under his jurisdiction, but he had to find the mastermind behind the near-ghost town.
I was already incredibly busy, and then suddenly someone handed me a report.
This report concerns the incident in which several wealthy households in this city were struck by lightning after a sudden downpour in a neighboring city.
Although no serious consequences or casualties were caused, after being struck by lightning, a household's power supply system short-circuited, and a fire broke out in broad daylight, which spread extremely quickly.
Fortunately, the people inside the house were still conscious. As soon as they realized something was wrong, they ran out of the house and called for help to put out the fire.
Everyone was safe, but the priceless treasures inside the house were completely destroyed by fire before anyone could arrive to put it out, leaving not even ashes.
The head of the household was so angry that he kept jumping up and down outside the house. If it weren't for the people around him stopping him, he probably would have rushed in and perished along with those treasures.
Another family didn't catch fire, but when the lightning struck, their relatives were having a big feast and family gathering.
When the lightning struck, everyone was affected.
In milder cases, half of the body went numb, and it took a long time to recover. It felt like I had died once.
In more severe cases, several people felt that they had lost sensation in their limbs, and even after they recovered, they were still unable to move, as if they had completely died.
The most serious victim was the old man who was sitting in the main seat at the time. He suffered a stroke and collapsed, unable to speak.
The other companies, while not as severely damaged as these two, have still suffered to varying degrees.
When Xiao Jihui first heard that so many people had been injured at the same time, he thought it was some kind of particularly serious attack.
When they learned that their misfortune was caused by a sudden bolt of lightning, their expressions became very complicated.
Keep in mind that the entire city of A was bathed in sunshine that day, with no wind or rain, yet these families were struck by lightning in broad daylight...
"This... thunder and rain are natural phenomena, what they're doing..."
Xiao Jihui's lips twitched: "They were struck by lightning, what do they want from me? Do you think I can cure their illness or help them piece those things back together bit by bit with ashes?"
The young man in charge of delivering the documents was a bit simple-minded. He chuckled and said, "Deputy Minister, of course they wouldn't ask you for anything or ask you to treat their illness. They want us to send a few people over to take a look."
"What are you looking at?"
The young man touched his nose and laughed even more foolishly: "Let's go see if they've been possessed by an evil spirit."
"Pfft..." Xiao Jihui almost choked. "Bumped...bumped by evil spirits? Being struck by lightning...shouldn't they reflect on what bad things they did that caused their family to be struck by lightning?"
When Xiao Jihui said this, everyone present, including himself, was stunned.
It took a while for everyone to react, and they all looked at the report in Xiao Jihui's hand.
This was quite alarming. Weren't these the same people who had previously righteously demanded that Ye Wanxi and her companion hand over what they had, and who had proposed listing them as major dangerous individuals, restricting their freedom, and placing them under surveillance 24 hours a day?
"So it seems these people really are..." without exception.
Before Xiao Jihui could finish speaking, Qin Hongxu and the others, who had recently overheard Zou Yuanhe's mutterings, all turned to look at him.
Zou Yuanhe subconsciously took a step back, his whole body stiffening as he said, "No, it has nothing to do with me. I just said it casually at the time, I didn't expect... This has nothing to do with me. If I had this ability, would I be here staring at you guys like this?"
Qin Hongxu and the others also felt that Zou Yuanhe's words made sense, but this thunder...
Xiao Jihui was not present that day, but upon seeing this, he asked curiously, "Is this related to Master Zou? What happened? Tell me about it."
Since everyone present was one of their own, Qin Hongxu and the others didn't hide anything and briefly recounted what had happened that day.
After listening, Xiao Jihui stroked his chin thoughtfully: "If what you say is true, Master Zou might actually be right. You must have all heard about the flood in L City a couple of days ago. Many of your disciples and grand-disciples rushed to help, and not long after the events in that town came true, some people reported that they seemed to have received merits bestowed by Heaven."
How could Zou Yuanhe and the others not know? On the day of the incident, their sects' internal groups were in an uproar.
The younger generation who went on this mission all showed off their presence in the group chat, and their smug expressions made the elders want to smother them.
"On the day of the incident, some people reported that there was thunder and lightning on a mountain in a neighboring city, which looked exactly like the large patch of dark clouds and lightning that Miss Ye had attracted after she helped my father predict the natural disaster in Beicheng last time."
Xiao Jihui's words caused an uproar among the crowd.
"You mean, the one undergoing tribulation on the mountain is Miss Ye?"
"Very likely. Although according to the information, Ms. Ye and her companion were filming on set at the time of the incident, but..." But the fact that Ms. Ye and her companion could teleport was not a secret.
If the two of them wanted, they could easily move from the film set to that mountain without anyone noticing.
"Most importantly, according to the investigators, the dark cloud did indeed pass over Ms. Ye's film crew at the time, but it drifted to the neighboring city without stopping and eventually stopped on that mountain."
After Xiao Jihui said this, what else could the crowd not understand?
The one undergoing tribulation on that mountain is definitely Miss Ye, and perhaps Mr. Feng should be added to the list as well.
As for the fact that these people were all struck by lightning less than two hours later, that is also easy to explain.
Master Liaoran put his hands together in prayer and recited a Buddhist verse with admiration: "Amitabha, Benefactor Ye is truly favored by Heaven."
Qin Hongxu laughed as well: "I told you not to mess with her, not to mess with her. How could an ordinary person offend someone with such great merit? But some people just didn't believe it and went to their deaths. Now look what happened, they're reaping what they sowed."
Xiao Jihui also breathed a sigh of relief, secretly glad that his father had not had any wicked thoughts when he learned that Ye Wanxi was different from ordinary people, and had always wanted to befriend her.
Otherwise, these people would probably have already served as a cautionary tale for them.
Having gained a better understanding of the situation, Zou Yuanhe let out a slightly relieved snort and asked in a low voice, "Now that you know the key to this, are you still going to take care of these people, Vice Minister?"
"We definitely need to regulate it. Xiao Zhang, take some people over there and take a look. When you get there, just say whatever you see; there's no need to hide anything."
(End of this chapter)
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