Chapter 96 Wedding and mourning (27)
The official head was in a convoy heading to Jiazifen Village when he received a call from his subordinates.
The subordinate's report was cut off by the official person in charge just as it began.
"Is it about the show?"
The official in charge lowered his head and looked at the split-screen image of Yan Shixun playing on the computer in front of him. He said seriously, "I have seen it. You don't need to report it to me. You should immediately guide online public opinion and don't let the impact of this incident expand. Fortunately, it is already very late and not many people have seen it. Solve it now."
After hanging up the phone, the official person in charge's phone kept beeping with the sound of received messages. The sound kept repeating in the space inside the car, which was annoying.
The first to discover that something was wrong with Yan Shixun's split-screen live broadcast was a team set up by the video platform specifically for this program. They immediately reported the situation to the official staff, and after receiving instructions, they immediately restricted Yan Shixun's split-screen live broadcast from admitting new viewers, and at the same time cancelled functions such as screenshots and recordings to prevent the situation from escalating further.
Immediately afterwards, people on the social media platform also made inquiries to the authorities, and then removed several negative and misleading labels that quickly appeared on the social media platform, such as "Dead body found on the show", "Serial murders", and "Death in the mountains".
Then, the function of posting pictures was temporarily disabled under other tags related to the program team. Tags that quickly rose on the real-time popularity list, such as #燕时洵#, #花丛#, and #农家乐#, were also suppressed.
On the premise of ensuring free speech and preventing the audience from generating more outrageous conspiracy theories due to a blanket ban on discussion, the official social platforms, under the guidance of the official special department's public opinion group, quickly controlled speech on the social platforms.
The audience who had originally rushed to the social platform to enthusiastically discuss and speculate about the split-screen images of An Nanyuan and Yan Shixun soon discovered that they were unable to post pictures.
They also found that, except for Yan Shixun's #oatmeal# tag and several official discussion tags provided by the program team, newcomers could no longer enter other newly appeared tags related to the corpse in Yan Shixun's split screen.
Even though I saw those tags on the real-time popularity list, I couldn't click on them.
As a result, the popularity dropped quickly and fell off the real-time popularity list.
It is obvious that the audience in front of Yan Shixun's split screen are all frightened and screaming "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh", but the video platforms and social platforms are calm, and there is no trend of large-scale discussion or popular topic.
However, because the official public opinion group did not impose a comprehensive ban on all related topics on the Internet, they can still be vaguely mentioned and discussed in various small circles. Therefore, the audience and fans who knew that Yan Shixun had a live broadcast accident with the split screen did not resist too fiercely.
All rapids are hidden beneath the calm water surface. The violently colliding waters slowly become calm and flow longer without the injection of new force.
However, before the audience in front of Yan Shixun's split-screen live broadcast could continue to be scared to death by the live screen, after a flash of red light in front of the camera, they were greeted by a long black screen.
The last scene in many people’s eyes was Yan Shixun’s eyes sharp as he turned around quickly, his body agile and neat as flowing wind and returning snow.
Those beautifully shaped eyes could no longer conceal their sharpness, and they looked backwards with lightning speed, just facing the camera.
Just like a close-up shot in a movie, the sharp eyes that occupy the entire screen seem to penetrate the screen and pierce deep into the audience's soul.
Many people were frightened by this sight and almost screamed.
Then, he realized with his heart pounding, that it was not Yan Shixun who was looking at him.
But looking at something behind the camera.
The audience looked at their faces reflected on the black screen, feeling confused and uneasy.
But what’s strange is that the split-screen live broadcast was not turned off. They were still in the split-screen and could even send comments as usual.
[? ? What's going on? At first I thought that Brother Yan's split screen was forcibly closed by the video platform, but now it seems that it is not the case? Otherwise, how can we continue to post comments. ]
[I don’t know what the video platform is doing. Didn’t it just limit the number of people watching Brother Yan’s split screen? Many people who were scared and left can’t come back. Didn’t you notice that when the camera was pointed at the body under the flowers, the number of real-time viewers next to the split screen dropped rapidly in those few seconds?]
[That shouldn’t be the case. If the video platform officials wanted to ban Yan Ge and the program team’s live broadcast, they would have done it long ago. Why wait until now, and restrict new viewers so tactfully before banning the whole thing? Isn’t that like taking off your pants to fart? It’s a waste of time.]
[Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Did any of you see the last scene before the black screen? Brother Yan suddenly turned around and looked back, which scared me so much that I backed away like crazy while sitting on the bed. My back was against the wall and I didn’t react at all. I was screaming “Ahhhhh” like a fool, and it took me a long time to come back to my senses. Brother Yan’s look was so scary! You said before that Brother Yan was sometimes very scary, and I didn’t believe it when you looked at him and didn’t dare to say a word. Now I believe it. Fuck! I almost thought Brother Yan wanted to kill me! ]
[Brother Yan's emotions are not directed at you. Although we are live, don't forget that Brother Yan can't see us at all. What's more, Brother Yan doesn't even have the habit of reading the comments, and he doesn't interact with us, so Brother Yan must have turned around and looked back because there was something behind him. But to be honest, even if I knew about this, I couldn't help but be afraid. Brother Yan's look was like seeing through my soul, which made my heart chill. I felt that under his look, my whole person was seen through, and none of the little evils and mistakes I had done in the past could be hidden from Brother Yan.]
[You are not the only one! I saw it too! Brother Yan was originally looking for that little brother with a very simple and cute smile, but he didn’t expect that after just a few words, Brother Yan and the little brother suddenly became like this! I was already scared to death by Brother Yan, and then the screen went black, and I was scared to death by my own image on the screen with disheveled hair like a female ghost! Damn it, I will definitely sleep with my hair tied up in the future! Is it so scary when I have loose hair and prickly hair? ? ? ]
[I was also startled by myself... A human face suddenly appeared on the screen, and I thought something was wrong, and my heart almost jumped out of my chest. Then I realized, oh, it was me... People scare people to death, and it's terrible to scare yourself.]
[Can anyone tell me what happened just now! I felt that Brother Yan was originally questioning the young man opposite. From what Brother Yan said, it seemed that the other party had some relationship with the corpse in the flowers, and that the other party seemed to know some information, so Brother Yan came to find him. As a result, while asking questions, Brother Yan suddenly became so scary and aggressive, as if someone attacked him so he fought back twice as hard.]
[I just didn’t see the last part. The screen went black in the blink of an eye, but there were still comments floating on the screen. I thought my home network was not good, so the image could not be refreshed and I could only see the comments. When I saw you all discussing this in the comments, I realized that it was not my problem.]
[I think the previous guess makes sense. Let me make a bold assumption. Could it be that Brother Yan discovered that the young man was the murderer who killed these people, so he went to confront the young man and wanted to persuade him to surrender. As a result, the young man became angry and attacked Brother Yan? After all, only Brother Yan discovered this, and everyone else went back to the room, so Brother Yan didn't have time to tell others. So the young man only needs to kill Brother Yan to silence him, and no one will know what he did.]
[That shouldn’t be the case. This little brother seemed quite cute and interesting before. He couldn’t do such a thing, right? And even if he killed Brother Yan, what would be the point? At that time, Brother Yan’s split-screen live broadcast had hundreds of thousands of people watching it in real time. We were all witnesses to this incident. If we report it to the authorities, won’t they handle it?]
[You can only know a person’s face but not his heart. Would a bad guy write “I am a bad guy” on his face? And we know this is a live broadcast, and the man doesn’t know. In his opinion, it was Brother Yan who went to find him alone. If he wanted to do something, isn’t this the best opportunity?]
[But wanting to kill Brother Yan... this guy is really crazy. I have practiced Sanda for so many years, ordinary people can't get the upper hand in my hands. But I have watched Brother Yan for so long, I dare say that when I face Brother Yan, I have no chance of winning at all, and Brother Yan can even kill me in less than three moves. His moves are too powerful and fierce, and they are not aimed at deterrence or fancy moves. He doesn't have any unnecessary moves, just aiming to kill the opponent as quickly as possible.]
[Although it is said that if this guy really did something, he would not be able to escape punishment, but don't be too optimistic. After all, the gap between practice and theory is too big. You don't know the Xiangnan area, and you don't know what the Yang clan is like there. Although I don't know the situation in Jiazifen Village, I have come into contact with people from the Yang clan when I was doing freight business before. These people are the local bullies, and they have the final say. From top to bottom, everyone is their people. If anyone offends them, the entire clan will be very ruthless to you. It is amazing that you can leave the Xiangnan area with your limbs intact. We who run this route all know a saying, "The wild geese will lose a layer of meat after passing the Yang family." The Yang clan is really not something that ordinary people can afford to offend.]
[Indeed, I went to the Yang family’s village when I was transferred to another post. I originally wanted to send them livestock in the hope that they would be self-reliant and live a good life. Unexpectedly, they took away our entire truckload of livestock and beat all of us out. Because I was a girl, they scolded me and said I was immoral and shameful. They don’t have any contact with the outside world. They have their own clan’s methods. But wanting them to punish their own family? Difficult.]
[What era is this? How can there be such a place! If you want to make up a lie, you should make it more convincing. Aren’t you just fooling a fool? Do you have any logic? What do the local officials do? Do they just eat and work?]
[Forget about the above. You will understand even if I don’t say it in a few years. The world is not inherently good. It is because there are people who fight against bad guys and fight and resist on our behalf that we can live in the light. However, we don’t need to deny the existence of bad guys because of this. That is no different from denying the people who protect us in the dark.]
[I want to know what happened to Brother Yan! Is his life in danger? Is he injured? Are the video platform officials crazy? Why did they suddenly cut off the live broadcast? How can we know the situation over there after cutting it off? How do you let the official rescue team rescue and locate him?]
[Yes! We need to ask the video platform for an explanation! Why are they covering it up and not letting us watch it? What the hell are they doing?]
[Protest!]
The audience in front of Yan Shixun's split-screen live broadcast gradually reacted to the current situation, and then ran to the customer service of the video platform in indignation, explaining to the customer service their request that Yan Shixun's split-screen live broadcast continue to be broadcast.
Not only were the customer service staff overwhelmed with responding to the sudden influx of messages, but the team members that the video platform had set up specifically for this show were also getting impatient.
As soon as Yan Shixun's split screen went black, the official public opinion team called them and questioned why they suddenly cut off Yan Shixun's live broadcast.
"The official rescue team is already on the way to Jiazifen Village, and our person in charge was also watching Mr. Yan's split-screen live broadcast. Why did the screen suddenly go black? Just now, the person in charge called our team directly to question how we were doing things, and we had no answer at all!"
The official public opinion team leader angrily said, "Who told you to make your own decisions? Didn't you see that the topic about this matter has exploded immediately? Public opinion is not guided in this way. What's the point of just blocking it? The harder you suppress it, the harder it will rebound. Besides, without live broadcast, how can the official rescue team know the situation over there?"
The technical staff of the video platform were already extremely busy. More than a dozen people who were temporarily transferred in rushed over to the computers, rapidly checking what was going on with the black screen.
The member of the special team scratched his head in annoyance and said with a wry smile, "It's really not our problem. We are doing everything according to the plan. From a technical point of view, there is no problem on our platform. The initial judgment is that there should be a problem with the signal on Mr. Yan's side."
"and."
The member of the special team looked at the gesture made by the technician, paused, and then said, "You guys probably didn't pay too much attention to the other screens of the program team. In fact, not only did Mr. Yan's split screen go black in an instant, but the other three screens of the entire program team that were broadcasting live just now also went black at the same time."
The official public opinion group quickly received reports from their subordinates and confirmed the incident.
After confirming that the problem lay with Yan Shixun, the public opinion team immediately decided on a backup plan, asking the video platform and social media platform to immediately issue an announcement stating that the black screen during the live broadcast was not an official act, and to immediately and properly guide public opinion.
The video platform quickly prepared extremely convincing evidence and issued an official announcement.
@Official editor of the video platform: I know you are worried! The editor has been urging the poor bald colleagues to find out the reason! Oh my god, it is such an injustice. In fact, it is not the video platform that banned the live variety show "Heart-beating Around the World for 99 Days", but because the program team lost the signal due to equipment problems. After all, the signal is not good where the program team is now, which is understandable. Please rest assured! Once we contact the program team, we will immediately provide remote assistance to help the program team restore the signal as much as possible and resume the live broadcast!
The official announcement also included a nine-grid picture with the technical parameters of the video platform and some simple science popularization of the live broadcast equipment, explaining under what circumstances signal loss will occur.
After this combination of punches, there are already many viewers who believe it.
Although there are still some people who are skeptical or believe but still strongly demand the resumption of the live broadcast, but overall, the tense atmosphere of public opinion has been relieved, and the vast majority of viewers have resumed rational discussions, revealing their concerns in their words, and urging the official rescue team to go to the scene to see what is going on.
After all, before Yan Shixun's live broadcast signal was cut off, many people guessed the danger Yan Shixun was facing from the brief clips.
Also worried were the official person in charge and Taoist Master Song Yi who was in the same car with him.
Taoist Master Song Yi, who was concentrating on watching the split-screen live broadcast, immediately called his disciple Lu Xingxing who was with the program crew.
However, there was only a busy tone on the phone.
Lu Xingxing’s split screen was also not turned on.
After counting on his fingers, Taoist Song Yi's face turned black. "This traitor! We asked him to follow the production team to help Junior Brother Yan prevent accidents from happening to the production team. But he is so good! He actually fell asleep!"
Taoist Master Song Yi looked like he wanted to grab Lu Xingxing and beat him up, but the official person in charge didn't have the energy to comfort Taoist Master Song Yi. He kept looking at the split screen anxiously and contacting various places to resume the live broadcast as soon as possible.
Yes, everything that Yan Shixun just experienced was seen by the official person in charge.
But it was different from the audience who were confused and had no idea what was going on.
Just before the live broadcast signal disappeared, the official person in charge received a message from Yan Shixun.
According to the information provided by Yan Shixun, the six people buried under the flowers were all villagers of Jiazifen Village, and they died between early spring and mid-spring. The murderer was most likely the owner of the farm stay, Yang Yun.
Moreover, in this message, Yan Shixun also mentioned that Yang Yun’s mother died last year, and Yang Yun’s extreme behavior was most likely caused by his mother.
Yan Shixun asked the official person in charge to notify the forensic doctor and the criminal investigation team when they went to Jiazifen Village, and to prepare to take Yang Yun away as a suspect.
At the end, Yan Shixun also mentioned a possibility.
"The initial judgment of the time of death of the bodies hanged on Moon Hill was also about half a year ago. If the time of death is correct, then the six people who died in the farmhouse and the person hanged on Moon Hill should have died at the same time, and the time interval should not be too long."
"Seven people disappeared at the same time. In a village that is so isolated and so familiar with each other, this should be a sensational event. The villagers would have discovered it almost immediately. However, the villagers of Jiazifen Village did not think anything was wrong. From what I saw in the village today, they were not aware of it at all. If something is unusual, please be cautious and ask more Taoist priests at Haiyun Temple."
After reading the message sent by Yan Shixun and some high-definition photos taken at close range that were attached to the message, the official person in charge immediately responded to Yan Shixun solemnly, saying that he would take the matter seriously.
But after sending the message, it always shows as unread.
Dozens of minutes later, the official person in charge looked at the conspicuous "unread" mark on the private account interface and couldn't help feeling a little anxious.
What happened to Mr. Yan? Is Mr. Yan okay?
…
"Bang!"
The next second after Yan Shixun's ears keenly caught the sound, his body, which had already developed a fighting reflex consciousness after so many years with ghosts and humans, automatically and nimbly moved to the side, barely avoiding the sound of wind passing through the air.
Yan Shixun had not yet seen what had caused Yang Tu to be so shocked and frightened, nor did he know in which direction the thing behind him was attacking, but his body had already reacted, and he used his instinctive consciousness to avoid this sudden attack.
He turned around quickly and looked vigilantly in the direction where the sound came from. At the same time, his muscles were tense, ready to fight back at any time.
The black shirt perfectly outlines his beautiful and smooth muscle lines.
A piece of broken bone missed the target and fell to the ground next to Yan Shixun with a crisp sound.
At this moment, Yan Shixun discovered that the person who had just stood behind him and attacked him was actually a pile of white bones without any flesh and blood.
He didn't know when the white bones suddenly stood behind him silently, and were so close to him.
If Yang Tu's abnormal expression had not reminded him, he would probably not have noticed the movement behind him until Bai Gu's attack was about to fall on him.
But this shouldn't have happened.
Not to mention the habit of vigilance he had developed over the years, he had been dealing with talismans and edicts for many years, and had long been imbued with the awe-inspiring aura of talismans and scriptures. Ordinary ghosts and monsters dared not approach him.
In this case, it is worth pondering how the white bones could get so close to him without him noticing.
Yan Shixun narrowed his eyes and looked at the skeleton in front of him with more vigilance.
“Ku, ku…”
The bones opened and closed, with their jaws and teeth bared, as if they wanted to say something to Yan Shixun. But apart from some unintelligible noises, there were only the hollow teeth and bones facing Yan Shixun.
The attack just now missed and was counterattacked by Yan Shixun, so that Bai Gu's entire arm bone was chopped off by Yan Shixun's powerful hand knife, and flew to the side and fell to the ground.
The loss of an arm bone made the skeleton, which already walked crookedly and unsteadily, even more difficult and twisted when moving forward.
Its skeleton was twisted to an angle that a normal living person could not possibly reach, and its upper body bones and pelvis were twisted nearly 180 degrees, and it staggered slowly towards Yan Shixun. It was completely different from the sensitivity that had alerted Yan Shixun when it appeared silently behind him just now.
The skeleton raised its only remaining arm and slowly stretched it towards Yan Shixun, as if asking for something. But the finger bone had been sharpened to be as sharp as a bone knife, and it could be seen that if it was really scratched by the finger bone, it would leave a bloody wound.
“Ah…ah…”
The skeleton walked towards Yan Shixun in a crooked manner, and the distance between them was getting closer and closer.
Yang Tu, who had been facing the skeleton head-on, was so frightened that his face turned pale. He stared at the skeleton blankly, his whole body shaking, and his bone joints were squeezed together, making a "crackling" sound of friction.
"Yang Tu?" Yan Shixun noticed something was wrong with Yang Tu, who he had protected behind him, so he turned his head slightly and asked quickly, "Are you okay?"
"etc."
Yan Shixun suddenly realized something and his expression became serious: "Your reaction... have you seen this thing before? Do you know what it will do?"
Otherwise, Yang Tu shouldn't be so scared.
Although most people's first reaction when seeing a skeleton is fear and running away, Yang Tu is different.
Yang Tu's second uncle Yang Han was an eyewitness to the tragedy of breakfast shop owner Yang Guang and his wife Yang Hua's family. As Yang Tu had a good relationship with Yang Han and was valued by the village party secretary, he had heard a lot about the events of that year from them.
Although Yan Shixun has not yet found out what happened to Yang Duo after Yang Hua fled the village, besides being buried alive under the ancestral hall.
However, judging from the fact that Yang Hua was possessed by Yang Duo and there was a soul-calming well in the backyard of the village party secretary's house, Yang Duo hated both Yang Hua and the village party secretary's family. She must have scared the village party secretary's family several times, forcing them to hire a master to dig a soul-calming well.
In this context, Yang Tu must have seen inhuman beings attacking and disrupting the lives of normal people more than once.
Logically speaking, Yang Tu should be more accustomed to it.
Instead of being like now, being frightened to the point of almost fainting.
Unless Yang Tu had seen the consequences of the appearance of this kind of skeleton and knew that it could bring life-threatening dangers.
“I, I…”
Yang Tu's teeth were chattering and he could hardly utter a complete sentence. He could only keep shaking his head and stepping back subconsciously, as if he wanted to deny what was happening before his eyes.
The soles of his shoes rubbed against the stone slabs, making a rough noise.
"Yes...Yang Duo is back."
Yang Tu looked at the skeleton with his eyes wide open, almost fainting with fear: "She is coming, she is coming to take our lives, she wants to take revenge on us!"
"Brother Yan, it wants our lives!!"
Yang Tu let out a heart-wrenching scream, and his instinct for survival drove him to turn around and run to the side, as if he wanted to keep as much distance as possible from the skeleton.
"Wait! Yang Tu, stop!"
Yan Shixun immediately shouted loudly, trying to stop Yang Tu.
But it was too late.
Originally, because Yang Tu was blocked by Yan Shixun behind him, the skeleton did not notice Yang Tu's existence.
But when Yang Tu started running, the skeleton's black eye sockets, where the eyeballs were missing, immediately captured Yang Tu's figure, and its skull slowly moved as he ran.
Yang Tu couldn't control his fear and kept turning his head to look at the pale skeleton, muttering things like "it has nothing to do with him".
But the skeleton's arm, which was originally pointing at Yan Shixun, turned and pointed at Yang Tu.
It opened its jaws and let out a long, shrill, terrifying cry.
The sound was so loud that even Yan Shixun frowned and felt uncomfortable.
——It was a sound full of death, the sound of death calling to each other.
Like the wind blowing through the weeds on the grave, footsteps passing through the center of the cemetery, and the wails and curses of the dead as the living press their weight over the bones buried deep under the soil.
Before Yan Shixun could react to what the skeleton's intention was, he suddenly heard countless rustling sounds coming from outside the farm house's wall.
It sounded like the crackling of a wooden stick falling on a stone road, or like the pale bones of a skeleton hitting a wall.
The next second, Yan Shixun's eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of abrupt and lifeless white.
A broken skull poked out from behind the wall, and looked silently at Yang Tu and Yan Shixun with its empty black eye sockets.
Then, one, two...
The wall was covered with bones.
And the eye sockets that looked over silently.
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