When Gu Zhisang bluntly said that he couldn't calculate Zheng Xiaoyan's exact location, the thing that "Sangye" fans were most worried about happened.
Many long-time haters and netizens who have already deified Gu Zhisang believe that she has failed this time.
[Is this the strongest Xuanshi? He can't even find a single person. Those brainless fans were bragging about him before, but now they are slapped in the face.]
[The PR company didn't buy the script this time, and they didn't realize that Zheng Xiaona is a national-level athlete and would definitely not cooperate with a certain actress to hype her up.]
[A little disappointed. I feel like Gu Zhisang isn't as amazing as people say he is online…]
But there are more rational passers-by:
[She dominated the audience every time before. You said she was too young to be so powerful and it must be a show.
Now that she has some problems, you guys are mocking her for not being that good. You've really said all the good and bad things about her. 】
[He requires others to specialize in their fields and pass with 60 points, but Sangsang must score 200 points. It's really funny. Watch it or not! ]
[The fact that He Mi Tu gave up his rights in itself means that this matter is difficult. 】
[Some people take it for granted. This incident itself is not a purely metaphysical event. It is normal that the child cannot be found. If fortune-telling can bring back a lost child, then why are there so many parents who are desperately looking for their lost children?]
【……】
Gu Zhisang had no idea that a quarrel had broken out in the live broadcast room because of him.
Even if she knew, she didn't think she was incapable of finding Zheng Xiaoyan who had disappeared more than 20 years ago.
The fundamental reason why we have no idea where to start is the special magnetic field and strange aura of this vast mountain area.
Gu Zhisang wanted to read the fortune, but found that as long as the information about "Zheng Xiaoyan" was touched, the faces of the three people in the Zheng family were covered with a layer of black fog.
She wanted to start the 'Asking the Heaven's Gua', but she found that the power of Heaven's Way and Taoism here disappeared out of thin air and she could not sense it at all.
This is truly a "lawless place".
At a certain moment, the feeling this place gave her was exactly the same as when she was ambushed while trying to overcome a tribulation in her previous life, and when her body was suppressed not long ago.
The invisible force that suppressed and framed her came again.
And it was only directed at her; the other contestants didn't feel anything unusual.
Xun Yiqing and Xi Haihong are both from Taoist sects, but they did not find anything unusual.
The only one who has some feeling is He Mi Tu.
Gu Zhisang didn't know what the connection was between this force and Zheng Xiaoyan's disappearance, but her original curiosity and enthusiasm about the case were aroused to a high degree.
She felt that if she could break through the mystery and find Zheng Xiaoyan, she would be able to find out what the black fog that even the underworld was investigating was.
She remained silent for a moment and stepped back.
The last contestant, Daisy, looked at everyone and lived up the atmosphere with a smile: "Oh my god, it's really stressful to be the closer. Everyone before you is so strong!"
Liu: "Please ask the last contestant to show us your answer board."
Daisy responded and showed the question board, which read:
"Woman: A fencer. Her sister (?) was lost when she was young. She has always blamed herself for this incident.
Lost location: A large stone tablet in front of a village."
Daisy said: "I am good at recalling. The first thing I saw when I met this lady was her wearing sportswear and fencing in the arena. She looked very heroic, so I guessed her profession."
"In addition, there is one picture that is the clearest and is the one she thinks of repeatedly. I feel that it was when this lady was young. I don't know her exact age, but she was probably around ten years old. She was holding hands with a little girl in a gray-blue dress..."
When she said this, Zheng Xiaona knew what she was talking about. She nodded vigorously twice and held her husband's hand tightly.
"Yes, it was Yanyan! She was wearing a blue-gray skirt that day! The master really saw it and wrote it correctly. She is my sister."
Daisy pursed her lips and smiled. "The reason I put a question mark is that I only saw that picture through the flashback, but I'm not sure what her name is or who she is. If she is your sister, I can understand why you are so painful, ma'am."
"Because you feel it is your fault that the little girl was lost, and you have been living in self-blame for all these years."
Zheng Xiaona remained silent for a long time, which was considered as her agreement.
The old lady sitting in a wheelchair blinked her cloudy eyes and touched her eldest daughter's hand: "Don't blame you, Xiaona."
"It's our fault that we two old guys didn't take good care of you sisters!" Old Man Zheng said sullenly, "I didn't want to admit it before, and I took my anger out on you. Daddy apologizes to you. In fact, you are never to blame for this matter."
After the explanation, the audience learned that the old couple of the Zheng family had been doing business more than 20 years ago.
At that time, the economy was still in recovery and everything was in ruins. They found that the prices of dried and fresh mushrooms in restaurants and food shops in their hometown were very high. The two had relatives and friends in southern provinces and knew that the prices in the mushroom-producing provinces there were very low.
At that time, there was no express delivery or logistics, and merchants would buy mushrooms from southern provinces and then come here to sell them at high prices;
If there is a way and they are willing to work hard to resell on both sides, the difference in profit can make the Zheng family rich.
Seeing the business opportunity, the Zheng couple started to travel between the two places to deliver goods.
As for their two daughters, they specially hired a fellow villager who also lived in the city and grew up with them to take care of them.
It was like this for the first two or three years. The Zheng couple never went home during the peak season. Their two daughters had to live with others since they were young, and because of their young age, they were prone to friction and often quarreled and fought.
When she was young, Zheng Xiaona didn't like her younger sister.
That year, the Zheng couple were going to the southern province. The two sisters were in sixth grade and first grade respectively. The fellow villager who had been helping them take care of the children was more than eight months pregnant and had to go to the hospital at any time. She had neither the time nor the energy to help the Zheng couple take care of the children.
Seeing that summer is the season for mushrooms to mature, the Zheng couple were reluctant to give up this extremely profitable market, so they decided to take their two children on vacation to South Province to harvest mushrooms.
After arriving at the place, the Zheng couple rented a small hotel in the village.
Because collecting mushrooms requires going up the mountain, the journey is tiring and time is tight, and the couple does not have enough energy to look after the two sisters.
They had heard that there were many human traffickers in Southern Province, so they repeatedly told Zheng Xiaona, who was twelve years old at the time, to look after her younger sister when they were away.
The two sisters were still at the age when they would quarrel over a doll or an episode of TV.
When they went to a nearby village to collect goods, the two girls started arguing over a small matter. Zheng Xiaona was annoyed by her bad-tempered and stubborn sister:
"If you make trouble for me again, I won't hold your hand anymore!"
My younger sister Zheng Xiaoyan pouted: "I don't want you to hold my hand."
I don't know who shook off the hand first, but the two sulking little girls kicked stones behind their parents and didn't want to pay attention to each other.
Ten minutes later, after getting the goods, the Zheng couple stood at the door and said goodbye to the villagers. They saw their eldest daughter squatting on the ground playing with ants, but the youngest daughter had disappeared.
Their expressions changed drastically: "Where's your sister?"
Zheng Xiaona looked around with a confused look on her face, only to find that people were coming and going around her, but her sister had disappeared silently.
After that, the Zheng couple took her to look for her in Nan Province for more than a month, but there was no news of Zheng Xiaoyan at all.
When the owner of the hotel where they were staying heard about this, he expressed sympathy:
"Is your child lost? You definitely can't find him. We often have illegal immigrants here, those foreign kidnappers with dark and yellow skin, who kidnap women and children and sneak them to the other side of the border. There is no way to find such a person. You can't find him even if you try.
Even if she was kidnapped by a local, they would have sold her long ago. Poor little girl, she was so pretty.'
The Zheng couple were despaired when they heard this.
Sometimes when they got angry, they would say things without thinking and take their anger out on their eldest daughter who was only twelve years old at the time, blaming her for not taking good care of her younger sister, which led to her disappearance.
But in fact, a twelve-year-old child, no matter how sensible he is, is not an adult, so how can he be so thoughtful?
The impact of this experience is indelible for Zheng Xiaona, and she has been deeply trapped in guilt.
More than 20 years have passed. Her parents are now in their 70s and she is almost 40. The two elderly people have long accepted the fact that their little daughter cannot be found.
It was Zheng Xiaona who was unwilling to accept it.
She still wonders if all this would not have happened if she had not quarreled with her sister and had not let go of her hand.
Tormented by guilt, she would come to Southern Province every year to negotiate with local associations and never gave up looking for her sister's whereabouts.
Just when she felt that there was no hope, clips of the "Spiritual Affairs" program on the Internet - especially the clip where Gu Zhisang made accurate predictions about life - gave her hope again.
But after learning that even metaphysics couldn't support his sister, Zheng Xiaona's family was a little disappointed.
Daisy said, "Just like your parents said, you shouldn't use this as a yoke to torture yourself. You should hate the human traffickers more. They are the ones who have destroyed countless families."
"It's a pity that I can't trace back to the things you haven't experienced. You don't have the girl's hair or personal belongings, so there is no way to find her whereabouts. But I saw the way she got lost at that time."
Zheng Xiaona nodded and said, "It was at the gate of a village. There was indeed a stone tablet outside. I still remember the name of the village was written on it in red paint. But I went there many times later and found nothing."
The situation came to a standstill at this point, and no contestant was able to find Zheng Xiaona's whereabouts.
However, the program crew did not give up. They took their equipment and prepared to go to the place that Daisy "saw" - the place where Zheng Xiaona disappeared that year.
I hope that when you arrive at the scene of the incident, the contestants will be able to perceive some useful information again.
The program crew had a special car, which carried six contestants, cameramen, and hosts, along with their equipment. After driving for about ten minutes at a not-too-fast speed, they arrived at the place where they had been.
Compared with more than 20 years ago, the buildings and roads in this village have been renovated several times, and it looks quite urbanized. Every household has built their own small houses and seems to be living a prosperous life.
Since there were seven or eight vehicles on the show, they looked very conspicuous, and many children from the villagers who were squatting on the ground playing cards and racing cars looked up:
"Are you guys filming a show for a TV station?"
“Will this camera put me on TV?”
When Gu Zhisang got out of the car, his eyes swept across the several children of different heights in front of him. When he saw the deeper gray fog covering their faces, his gaze paused.
I can't tell.
There is nothing on these children's faces, no fate and no cause and effect, everything is covered up.
If the other contestants hadn't looked normal, she would have really wondered if she had fallen into some evil place.
When she moved her gaze from the children's faces to the distance and the sky, her upturned eyes narrowed slightly.
In her eyes, the sky above the entire Southern Province mountain range was gray, blending with the swirling clouds and mist, swallowing and absorbing, as if it had life;
The gray fog had no end, extending all the way to the end of the mountains.
In other words, this entire place is hidden under the Heavenly Dao, but is beyond the constraints of the Six Paths.
Such a large sum of money was definitely not just aimed at her, but was accumulated over many years.
No matter what happens here, the laws of heaven cannot discover it. Without cause and effect punishment, "evil" cannot be suppressed and will only spread uncontrollably in this lawless place.
Gu Zhisang was certain that more than one illegal incident had occurred around this mountain range.
But it is hidden because of the collapse of the way of heaven, and ordinary people cannot find it at all.
Unless the "evil" here has been condensed to the point where the people here can no longer tolerate it, it is possible to expose it.
But by then it will be too late.
Gu Zhisang took a deep breath, and the gas circulating in the air seemed to be slightly obscure.
After being inhaled into her chest cavity, it was like thin silk threads entwined around her lungs. When she tried to use the strength in her body, she could clearly feel that it was more congested than before.
The stone tablet at the entrance of the village is still preserved, with the three big characters "Xiaoshi Village" painted in bright red.
There is no door at the entrance of the village, like the dark mouth of a giant beast.
She concealed the coldness in her eyes and followed the contestants into the village.
After seeing the stone tablet, Daisy said, "This is the stone tablet I saw in the flashback."
Zheng Xiaona nodded and said, "I was squatting across the street at the time. This was originally a residential area. About ten years ago, the entire village was renovated. All the old houses were demolished and replaced with new small Western-style buildings."
The place she pointed to had been turned into a convenience store.
At this moment, Liu discovered that contestant Xi Haihong looked shocked and stared around as if she was looking at something in the air.
He asked, "Contestant Xi Haihong, did you see anything? Or did you discover anything?"
Xi Haihong looked at him, opened her mouth and closed it again, forced a smile and said, "Nothing."
But her expression was very solemn, and many viewers in the live broadcast room also noticed it.
[Xi Haihong is the ghost, right? It seems that she can help the underworld to capture souls. I feel that she must have seen something and her expression is so shocked. Are there ghosts around the contestants? ]
[Could it be that Zheng Xiaoyan has died and turned into a ghost, floating here?! ]
[…What are you thinking? Several contestants said that she might not be dead. Didn’t Gu Zhisang say that she was in the Southern Province?]
【? ! ! Look at the edge of the camera, why did Xi Haihong go to find Gu Zhisang? Do they know each other? Are they very familiar with each other? Didn’t Xi Haihong’s fans say that the main character is the child of a serious metaphysical family? It seems that she has a familiar relationship with Gu Zhisang. What are the two talking about when they get together? I’m curious. 】
[Did you really find something? I want to hear it too. Speak louder! ]
Xi Haihong thought she was approaching Gu Zhisang secretly, but was captured extremely clearly by the live camera.
She came over as if nothing had happened, her expression solemn and her voice low:
"Um, aren't you the messenger from the underworld? You should be able to see... these things around you, right? Do you know what's going on?!"
Gu Zhisang knew what she was talking about.
I can indeed see it.
Just above director Li Chenghe's shoulder, there was a transparent white shadow floating, following closely behind him.
Just three meters away, in the cameraman's lens, there was a blurry shadow lying.
Looking around, under the light gray mist, there are actually several faint souls with extremely light colors.
Xi Haihong simply couldn't believe her eyes.
"Are these, are these all human souls?"
"Where are the soul-collectors from the underworld? Where are the ghost-walkers from Southern Province? Why have these souls become like this? Is there no one to take care of them?!"
She was a little excited and asked several questions in a row, which were enough to prove her shock.
You must know that the soul of a living person after death, unless it has strong resentment and evil thoughts and forms its own power and obsession, will not resist the world consciousness and the laws of the underworld, and will naturally be sensed by the soul catcher in the underworld and sent to the underworld.
Even if there are souls that escape from the messenger, they will seek shelter in shady places for fear of being hurt by the yang energy or some mysterious masters who can see them.
But at this moment, near a small village, a strange phenomenon of souls floating around appeared!
The most important thing is that these souls are also very strange.
Their entire bodies are pale white, indicating that they were just ordinary people in their previous lives, not evil ghosts or resentful spirits. Logically, they should all be reincarnated as usual.
And they are not complete, but fragmented, have no wholeness at all, and are very weak.
Not to mention hurting people, if Xi Haihong didn't have a special physique that allowed her to see all souls, she would have been unable to detect the problem here just like the other contestants!
Even if they are sent to reincarnate, these residual souls will either become demented or disabled in their next life.
Xi Haihong looked at the mindless white mist and had a terrible thought in her heart:
These souls are not formed naturally.
Gu Zhisang's expression was cold and calm:
"This is evil."
It was the rampant "evil" that caused the existence of these residual souls. She discovered it the moment she got off the car.
Xi Haihong didn't understand, she just looked at her deeply and said, "You can really see it, what should we do now, just leave it alone?"
But thinking that she was a descendant of the Xuanmen Xi family, there was no need to ask Gu Zhisang's opinion. She walked away a little, took out her cell phone, and called her father.
After Xi Kui answered the call, Xi Haihong excitedly described the scene she saw to her father:
"Dad, there is definitely something wrong here!"
Xi Kui was silent for a long time, then sighed and said, "I believe what you said, but the Xuanmen branch in the Southern Province is managed by the branch of the Qianqing Sect. I have no right to interfere."
Xi Haihong was silent.
She knew that the three powers of Xuanmen were in a tripartite relationship and divided up the areas surrounding Xia State without interfering with each other.
Generally speaking, if any metaphysical events occur in the area that each family is responsible for, people from other families cannot intervene at will. They must wait for the local Xuanmen branch to resolve it, otherwise conflicts will easily arise.
Her voice was a little dry, and she said, "Dad, you think I have seen all of this, how much more is there that I can't see? Could it be that the people in the Southern Province Xuanmen branch really didn't notice any clues? Why has the headquarters never received this information?"
"Are there really no problems with the people in these branches? Are we...really not going to do anything?"
After a while, Xi Kui's voice sounded, exhausted:
"I am the patriarch of the Xi family, and you are the heir. If the two of us intervene, we will represent the position of the entire Xi family."
Xi Haihong: …
"I see."
After she hung up the phone, her eyes turned red and she felt weak and uncomfortable in her heart.
At this time, Gu Zhisang suddenly said: "The whole world belongs to the king. This is the Southern Province of Xia Kingdom, not Xuanmen."
Xi Haihong suddenly raised her head and looked at her, "You mean, notify the spirit group?"
The host on the other side started chatting with a few children at the entrance of the village with a smile. The children were very excited to learn that they could be on TV and that many people were watching them.
The noisy chattering attracted the attention of the convenience store employees.
Two middle-aged women poked their heads out of the store, and when they saw the crew, their expressions suddenly became nervous:
"What are you guys doing? Who told you to fool around with strangers?"
When several children heard the sound, they swarmed over. Everyone then realized that they were all children of convenience store employees, and the few three employees here were all women in the village.
They looked at the program crew with scrutiny and suspicion.
At this time, Zheng Xiaona came out from the back and greeted the village women she knew well: "Sister Li, Sister Zhou."
The woman surnamed Li was startled when she saw her, then looked at the others, "Hey, isn't this Miss Zheng? You and your man are here again?! So these people are your friends?"
Two employees in the store leaned out to watch. One of them, a new woman who didn't know who Zheng Xiaona was, asked in a low voice:
"Who is this?"
The woman surnamed Zhou lowered her voice and said, "I told you about a woman from another place before. When she was young, her sister was 'photographed' when her family came to the village. Then they searched for her for many years. Do you remember? Yes, this is it!"
Being 'patted' is the local dialect.
Child trafficking is also known as "trafficking in children". Being "trafficking in children" means being abducted by human traffickers using improper means.
The woman looked shocked. "It's her? She looks quite old but she hasn't given up yet? How many years have you been looking for her?"
"She is very stubborn. We have told her many times that it is useless to look for her, but she just won't listen..."
While the two women were chatting in low voices, the woman named Li outside also started chatting with Zheng Xiaona and Da Liu.
When she learned that Liu and the man with the camera were here to help find relatives, she was stunned for a moment, "...Is that so."
"But big sister, it's not a good idea to look for her without any reason. I told you that your sister was sold far away when she was so young..."
Before the woman surnamed Li finished speaking, a cold voice sounded from behind the crowd:
"Then I want to ask you, big sister, is the disappearance of people serious around here?"
She looked back and saw a beautiful woman with fair skin, black eyes and clear and cool gaze;
The next second, the woman's question made her smile freeze.
Gu Zhisang: "If there are a lot of human trafficking here, are there any people being sold to your village?
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