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 livened 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."
郑晓娜点了点头，说道：“当时是在一个村镇门口，外面确实立着一块石碑，我还记得上面用红色的油漆写了村镇的名字。只不过我后来也去过好多次了，一无所获。”
事情到此便陷入了僵局，没有一位选手能够找到郑晓娜的下落。
不过节目组并没有就此放弃，一行人带着设备，准备前往黛西‘看’到的那个地点——也就是当年郑晓娜失踪的地点。
希望到了事发地，各位选手能够重新感知到一些有用的信息。
节目组有专用的轿车，带上设备载着六名选手和摄像师、主持人，用不算快的速度行驶了十分钟左右，就来到了当年那处地方。
和二十多年前相比，这个村镇上的建筑和道路已经翻修了好几次，看起来颇有城镇化的味道，家家户户都盖起了自建的小楼房，看着生活富足。
由于节目组的车辆有七、八辆，看起来很是显眼，不少蹲在地上玩卡片、小赛车的村民的孩子都抬起头看了过来：
“你们是电视台在拍节目吗？”
“这个摄像机会让我上电视吗？”
顾之桑下了车的时候，视线从面前的几个个头高矮不一的孩子身上掠过，在看到他们脸上蒙着的更深的灰雾时，目光一顿。
看不出来。
这些孩子的脸上什么都没有，没有命格也没有因果，都被遮掩了。
要不是其他选手的表情如常，她真的要怀疑自己是不是落入什么诡邪之地。
当她将目光从这些孩子的面孔上挪动到远处、天际时，上挑的凤眼微微眯起。
在她的眼里，整个南省山脉的上空都是灰蒙蒙一片，和缭绕的云雾融为一体、吞吐吸纳，仿佛有生命；
灰雾没有尽头，一直向着山脉的尽头延伸。
也就是说这一整片地方都是隐藏在天道之下、却超脱了六道束缚。
这么大的手笔，绝不仅仅是针对她一人，是在长年累月中积累起来的。
无论此处发生什么事情，天道法则都发现不了，没有因果惩罚那么‘恶’就无法被抑制，只会没有控制地在这片法外之地不断蔓延。
顾之桑可以肯定，这片山脉的周遭绝对发生过不止一起违法事件。
但因天道崩离而被隐藏，寻常人等根本发现不了。
除非此处的‘恶’已经凝聚到此地之人忍无可忍、无法再忍的地步，才有可能被捅破。
但到那个时候就太晚了。
顾之桑深吸了一口气，空气中流通的气体仿佛都带着淡淡的晦涩。
吸入胸腔之后，像一根根细细的丝线缠绕着她的肺腑，当她试着去动用体内的力量时，能明显察觉到比之前要郁结分毫。
村口的石碑还保留着，用红得亮眼的漆刷着‘小石村’三个大字。
村口无门，像巨兽黑洞洞的口。
她敛去眸中的冷意，跟着选手们往村内走去。
黛西看到石碑之后，就说道：“我在回溯的画面中看到的就是这块石碑。”
郑晓娜点点头说道：“我当时就蹲在街对面，这边原本是居民住宅的，大概十多年前的时候整个村子就翻新了，那一串的老房子全都扒掉了，改成了新的小洋楼。”
她指着的地方已经变成了便利店。
就在这时，大刘发现选手中的奚海红面色震惊，目光死盯着四周，就像是在看空气中的什么东西。
他出声询问道：“奚海红选手，你是看到什么东西了吗？还是有什么发现？”
奚海红看向他，张了张口又闭上了，勉强笑了笑后说：“没什么。”
但她的表情却十分凝重，直播间内的许多观众也发现了。
【奚海红是走无常吧，好像说她能够帮地府勾魂摄魄，我感觉她肯定是看到了什么东西表情好震惊，难道选手们周围有鬼吗？】
【不会是郑晓艳已经死了变成了鬼，飘**在这里吧？！】
【……想啥呢，好几个选手都说她不一定死了，顾之桑不是说了她就在南省。】
【？！！快看镜头边缘，奚海红为啥跑去找顾之桑了？她俩认识吗很熟吗？奚海红的粉丝不是说正主是正儿八经的玄学大世家的子弟么，感觉和顾之桑的关系挺熟悉，俩人凑一起说啥呢，好奇。】
【是不是真的发现什么了？俺也要听大声点说！】
奚海红自以为偷偷摸摸地在接近顾之桑，但却被直播镜头拍得无比清晰。
她若无其事地走过来后，神情凝重压低了声音：
“那个，你不是地府使者么？应该能看到……周围这些东西吧？你知道这是怎么回事么？！”
顾之桑知道她说的是什么。
自己的确能看到。
就在导演李成河的肩头，飘**着一抹透明的白色影子，亦步亦趋跟在他的身后。
仅仅三米之远的摄像小哥的镜头上，还趴着一个形状模糊的阴影。
放眼望去，在淡淡的雾灰色之下，竟然还有好几抹微弱的、颜色极其浅淡的魂体。
奚海红简直无法相信自己的眼睛。
“这些、这些难道都是人的灵魂吗？”
“地府的勾魂使呢？南省的走无常呢？为什么这些魂魄会变成这个样子，没人来管吗？！”
她情绪略微有些激动，一连问出了多个问句，足以证明她心中的震惊。
要知道活人死后的魂魄，除非有很强的怨念、恶念，形成了自己的力量和执念，否则是不会抵抗世界意识和地府的法则，会自然而然地被阴间的勾魂使感应到，被送去地府。
就算有逃离使者勾魂的魂魄，也都要找向阴之处躲避，生怕自己被阳气、或是一些能看到它们的玄师伤到。
但此时此刻，就在一个小村镇附近，却出现了魂体乱飘的异相！
最关键是这些魂魄也非常奇怪。
它们通体是淡白色，说明生前只是普通人，而不是恶鬼怨灵，按理说都应该照常去投胎。
且它们都不是完整的，而是破碎的、根本没有整体，也非常虚弱。
别说是伤害人了，要不是奚海红体质特殊，可以看尽所有的魂魄，她会和其他选手一样根本发现不了此处的问题！
就算是送它们去转世投胎，这些残魂的来生也是要么痴呆要么残疾。
奚海红看着那些毫无神志的白雾，心底生出一种可怕的念头：
这些灵魂不是自然形成的。
顾之桑表情冷淡，古井无波：
“这就是‘恶’。”
是肆意横生的‘恶’导致了这些残魂的存在，在她下车的那一刻，她就发现了。
奚海红没听懂，只是深深看了她一眼：“你果然能看到，现在怎么办，放着不管吗？”
但想想自己就是玄门奚家后人，也没必要征求顾之桑的意见，她又走远了些掏出手机，拨通了父亲的电话。
另一头的奚魁接听后，奚海红语气激动地给父亲描述了自己看到的场景：
“爹，这里绝对有问题！”
奚魁沉默许久，叹息道：“我相信你说的话，但南省那边的玄门分部是干清门的分支在管理，我无权插手。”
奚海红沉默了。
她是知道玄门三足鼎立、瓜分夏国周边区域互不干扰的事情。
一般情况下各家负责的区域中若是出现了什么玄学事件，其他家的人是不能随意插手的，要等候当地的玄门分部来解决，否则就很容易产生矛盾。
她声音有些干涩，说道：“爹，你觉得我都看到了这些，在我看不到的地方还会有多少？难道南省玄门分部的人真的就一丁点端倪都没发现吗？为什么总部从来没有接收到这些消息？”
“这些分部里的人真的没有问题吗？我们就……真的什么都不做吗？”
半晌之后，奚魁的声音响起，尽显疲惫：
“我是奚家的族长，你是继承人，我们二人一旦插手那代表的就是整个奚家的立场。”
奚海红：……
“我明白了。”
她挂了电话，眼眶就红了，心底一阵阵地无力、难受。
这时顾之桑忽然开口：“普天之下莫非王土，这里是夏国的南省，而不是玄门的。”
奚海红猛然抬起头看向她，“你是说，通知灵组？”
另一边的主持人笑眯眯地和村口的几个小孩子们聊上了，得知自己能够上电视、并且现在就有很多人在看着自己，这群小孩儿都非常兴奋。
叽叽喳喳的闹腾声引起了便利店里的员工的注意。
两个中年妇女从店里探出头来，看到节目组众人之后表情顿时紧张起来：
“你们几个臭小子干嘛呢？谁让你们和陌生人瞎胡闹的？”
几个小孩子听到声音，一窝蜂跑了过去，众人这才知道他们都是便利店员工的孩子，而这里为数不多的三名员工都是村中的妇女。
她们看着节目组的目光带着审视和怀疑。
这时郑晓娜从后面走了出来，和相熟的村妇打了声招呼：“李姐，周姐。”
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?