The personal live broadcast interaction in the seventh episode of "Spiritual Affairs" set a peak record for the number of online users in each contestant's single live broadcast room.
As the number of interactions with each contestant increased, the number of metaphysical events handled in just one morning doubled compared to previous programs, and many dramatic or heartwarming events broke out, greatly increasing the appeal of the program.
In the past, the platform's hot searches were dominated by the top ten entries related to the "Spiritual Matters" program. Today, almost half of the hot searches are filled with various events and contestants. It has truly dominated the list!
The most controversial and most popular entries basically came from Gu Zhisang’s live broadcast room.
Especially the last two events, which aroused heated discussions and debates among netizens.
[It’s the first time I know there are so many things to pay attention to when getting a tattoo! After watching this episode, I couldn’t help but think of a friend who got a random tattoo of a drug addict on his shoulder and thought it was cool, but later on that arm got injured and broken while working! ]
[Oh my god, I'm like a person who likes to enjoy watching melons everywhere. After listening to the bloody family ethics in this live broadcast room, there are still the quarrels in other live broadcast rooms waiting for me to review. There will be something to watch while eating in the next two days!
I am so grateful to the program team for revising this rule, it is really cool. 】
[I hope my mother, who is ‘helpless in the world’, can be healthy. She has suffered so much in her life.]
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2.30pm
A large number of viewers who had paid attention to the official live broadcast room of the "Spiritual Affairs" program in advance received the start reminder at the same time and flocked into it.
The host Liu Da, who had prepared in advance, held the microphone, wearing a decent work suit and smiling:
"Good afternoon, dear audience friends. It's been more than a week since I last saw you all. I miss you so much."
The director team backstage watched the ever-increasing number of people and the large number of updated comments. They were extremely excited at the beginning, but now they are no longer surprised.
Liu: "I won't waste any more time. I know everyone is eager to meet our contestants. Last week, our No. 1 contestant Xun Yiqing unfortunately withdrew from the show. After this live broadcast, one of the remaining five contestants will regrettably leave the show and miss our subsequent shows.
The top four of this season's show will be decided soon!"
After this, the supporters of each contestant began to comment on the corresponding names in the barrage, calling on the contestants they were following to make it to the top four.
What is a little subtle is that, perhaps both passers-by and fans of other contestants have determined that Gu Zhisang will win without a doubt, and because Mulberry Leaf fans have been led astray too many times by the main character, Gu Zhisang's name is the least viewed at the moment.
Liu's voice continued: "Everyone is aware of the new rules of the program team. The seventh episode of "Spiritual Affairs" group competition has officially begun!"
The camera turned and focused on nearly ten cars parked on the side of the road, and the host Liu Cixin also sat in the back of one of the cars.
After the car started, the audience discovered that this episode was actually filmed on the road.
The main camera that can be seen in the live broadcast room is the camera held by Liu who is sitting in the car.
He pointed at the open car window and took a picture of the scenery passing by. He spoke amid the whistling wind:
"Everyone may be a little confused. In fact, our first help-seeking match has already begun. We are now at the foot of Qilin Mountain on the northwest edge of Xia Country. The person seeking help is a young villager from a village called Watuo at the foot of the mountain."
As soon as Liu finished speaking, the camera in the live broadcast room was temporarily cut off by the staff in charge, and a short video introduction prepared in advance was inserted.
The background voice introduces:
"On the 12th of this month, the program crew who were reviewing manuscripts and requesting help received a call for help near the end of the workday. The person seeking help was a villager from the northwestern border of Xia Country, who was only sixteen years old.
This special call attracted the attention and concern of the staff. ”
Then the video screen went black and only a slight crackling sound of electric current could be heard.
This is a recording.
The content of the recording is the message told by the person seeking help during the call.
A slightly immature and nervous teenager's voice, speaking Mandarin with a strong rural accent and a slightly strange tone, asked on the phone:
"Hello, are you from the show crew that can help solve the haunted case?"
After receiving affirmation from the staff, the boy stammered that his hometown needed help.
'Our village... is haunted. I didn't go home last week because my husband wouldn't let me go back. Then my classmates who went back from the same village also encountered ghosts!'
After patiently asking questions, the staff finally pieced together the whole picture of the haunted village as described by the boy.
The boy's village, Watuo, is considered a poor and backward village in Xia State, and most of the residents are local ethnic minorities.
The village has a large population, but because it is too remote, development is uneven, roads and information are not well circulated, and the average wage is very low.
The young and middle-aged people in the village have been migrating out all year round to work in nearby towns, counties and cities.
Women usually stay in the village to take care of children, look after the elderly, dig bamboo shoots and dry mushrooms in the nearby mountains, or raise poultry.
For some of the viewers in the live broadcast room, they could not imagine that in today's society, there are still a large number of people in areas that are not covered by the Internet and cameras and are not filmed, and their lives are so poor and boring.
There is a primary school in Watuo Village, but it is not well run and few students can persevere and succeed in their studies.
The young man who called the "Spiritual Affairs" program team was one of the few children in the village who attended the only high school in the town. His surname was Bai and his name was Shigu.
Since the high school he attended was in the town, which was far from his home village, it took nearly two hours to ride a bike to connect the two places. Therefore, the school allowed accommodation. Students like him who were scattered in various surrounding villages could only go home once every one to two weeks, or even once a month.
Baisgu is the kind of kid who goes back once a week.
A week before he called the program team for help, he was called out by his teacher.
The teacher handed him the phone, and he heard the crying of Aman, his mother, on the other end.
The mother on the other end of the phone said that his father was injured when he went up the mountain. He was alive, but one of his legs was bitten by a wild wolf!
When the man was carried down by his companions, he fainted from the pain!
Bai Shigu was shocked and anxious at the same time. He immediately wanted to ask his teacher for leave to go back and visit his father.
But the mother on the other end of the phone had a very serious tone. She said sternly, with a tearful tone:
'Don't come back! Your father won't die, so don't come back this week. Just stay over at the school. I've already made an agreement with your teacher to let her lend you some money for food. When your family is safe... you can only come back when I call your teacher. Do you hear me? ! '
Baishigu was confused and felt strange at the same time.
It is true that there are wolves in the mountains, but those creatures are all in the deep mountains and will not hang around near the village. His father went up the mountain just to collect things and catch rabbits, so how could he get his leg bitten off by a wolf?
Aman's vague and frightened words also made him feel nervous. He always felt that something had happened at home.
But under Aman's stern admonition, and even the threat of the mother-son relationship, the boy still suppressed his anxiety and uneasiness and did not go home.
There was a boy in the same school who was one grade higher than him and from the same village as him.
In the past weekends, they always rode their bikes back to the village together. Coincidentally, the day after the mother called was Saturday, a holiday, so the boy rode his bike back home.
Baishigu was a little nervous and even talked to the boy, asking him not to go home yet.
As a result, the boy said that his family also called his teacher and told him not to go back this week, saying that it was not safe on the way home.
But the other party didn't take it seriously at all.
How unsafe could a road that you’ve been walking on for two years be?
The boys also made fun of Baishigu, saying that he was timid and only listened to his mother.
Seeing that he couldn't persuade him, Baisigu stopped talking, but he was still worried in his heart, because he knew that if it wasn't really an important matter, A'man wouldn't have broken his father's legs and refused to let him go home.
The next day, Sunday, the boy did not return to school until the evening. The next day was Monday, and Baisigu went to his class to find him and ask him if he knew about his family situation after returning to the village.
As a result, the boy's classmates said that he had not been here all morning, and the teacher came to the class to ask about it in the morning;
This shows that the boy from the same village did not ask for leave from the teacher in advance and disappeared.
That afternoon, Baishigu couldn't help but borrow the teacher's cell phone again and called Aman at home.
One was to ask about his father's leg injury, and the other was to ask why the boy never came back after returning to the village.
A'man on the other end of the phone paused for a long time before saying in a hoarse voice:
'Guzi, Aman tells you the truth, our village has been in unrest recently, and it seems like something is bothering us.
Your father and your second uncle went up the mountain to hunt rabbits, and out of nowhere a wild wolf with red eyes pounced on them and attacked them, as if it had lost its mind...'
'Besides your father having his leg bitten by a wolf, strange things also happened to other families in the village. Some people wanted to leave the village to seek refuge, but... anyway, they didn't leave. That's why I didn't dare to let you come back!
I'm afraid that if you come back and encounter something bad, your father and I will die!'
Baishigu was shocked when he heard this and his first reaction was that Aman was joking with him.
Although there were some legends about mandrills and wild men in the village, they had never seen them.
Something suddenly occurred to him, and he asked hurriedly:
"What about the Zhuangzi brother?"
Zhuangzi Ge is the boy from the same village who is one year older than him and goes home on Saturday night instead of returning to school.
A'man on the other end of the phone heard his question and was silent for a while before slowly speaking with a trembling voice:
"Zhuangzi's mother also called his teacher and told him not to come back! But he refused to listen and came back secretly without telling his family..."
When he heard this, Bai Shigu had a vague feeling of foreboding.
Sure enough, he heard Aman continue:
'On Saturday night, Zhuangzi's mother was panicking. She said she dreamed of Zhuangzi at the entrance of the village covered in blood. She woke up in the middle of the night, crying and howling, saying that something must have happened to her child. Then the whole family groped in the dark with lights on to look for him outside the village.'
'In the end, he was found not far from where the plaintiff's wife dreamed! I heard that the child was lying face down on the ground, with the car leaning beside him, covered in blood... There was a big hole in his stomach, and his internal organs were eaten out by someone unknown!'
He A'man said in a crying voice that when A'man, the brother of the plaintiff, saw the miserable state of his child for the first time, he was so grief-stricken and angry that he fainted on the spot.
The next day, which was yesterday, Sunday, the whole family was crying and making a fuss, saying that the village was haunted by ghosts and wolves.
Now that the children are gone, the family naturally has no time to think about asking for leave from school.
No one knows what happened to Zhuangzi on his way home that evening.
But what is certain is that he must have suffered inhuman torture.
Hearing this, Baishigu couldn't help but imagine those scenes in his mind and became really scared.
A'man kept telling him not to go back to the village, but how could he feel at ease with his parents who were still in the village?
In the following week, he often borrowed his class teacher's phone to contact his family, and gradually learned more about the strange things happening in the village, which made him very anxious.
His head teacher was a young female college student who had just graduated two years ago. She came from another province to teach in their town school. She was usually very enthusiastic and knew more and had more channels than these mountain kids.
During those days, Baishigu always went to borrow her cell phone to make calls in the office.
After listening to some of the information, the head teacher came to know that something strange was happening in Watuo Village.
It was also she who gave Bai Shigu a suggestion, saying that there is a very popular metaphysical variety show on the Internet, in which the contestants all help those who have encountered evil spirits or ghosts to see what is going on and catch ghosts for free.
Why not let the adults in their village contact the program team?
After listening to the program, Baishigu borrowed the phone of his class teacher and watched the program "Spiritual Matters". He was very excited and called Aman at home to tell him about it.
But the middle-aged woman, who had never left the village, had never been to school and hardly ever used the Internet, simply didn't believe that there would be any kind-hearted people from other provinces who would travel all the way to this remote place to help them solve the incident.
She just told Baishigu not to worry about it and just focus on studying in school.
Finally, Bai Shigu, who was really worried, got the contact information of the staff from the official website of the program team with the help of his class teacher, and plucked up the courage to call the "Spiritual Affairs" program team for help.
He hopes that the program team can help their village and solve those strange events.
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