The matter was settled and could not be changed. Lin did not dwell on it for too long. She just couldn't help but curse Zhenzi in her heart every time she spent money. Or when she was in a bad mood, she would take out Zhenzi and let her feel the heat of the flame.
That day, Lin was eating at the amusement park. The owner of the haunted house, Yang Dong, came back from outside and handed Lin a work badge: "I have registered you. With this, you can enter and leave the amusement park freely in the future. I don't need to pick you up."
"Thank you, Brother Dong." Lin Xi thanked him quickly.
"What's there to thank me for? Just come and grab some more vegetables in the future, and you'll be helping me." Lin's vegetable stall was set up at the entrance of the haunted house. With more people coming to grab some vegetables, the haunted house's business naturally improved. The turnover has increased by more than 50% in the past few days. If Lin had not refused, Yang Dong would have wanted to spend money to hire Lin to grab some vegetables here.
"I'll come when I'm free." Lin Xi didn't want to make money, but she didn't want to make things complicated. She was now using Yang Dong's place to gain a foothold, and she was helping him attract traffic in return. Yang Dong got the benefit, so he was naturally very enthusiastic about her. But once she got the money and had a vested interest, Yang Dong would even ask her if she came to the amusement park or not in the future. Lin Xi thought about it and felt that it was too troublesome, so she would be more comfortable here now.
"How's business today?" Yang Dong asked casually.
"It's okay, there are more than ten of them." Lin Nan said.
"If you ask me, your operation is too cheap. Ten yuan a time is too little. And your rule is that you don't charge if it's not bad luck. It's very unreasonable. No matter whether the person who comes to operate has bad luck or not, you have also put in the effort to operate, why don't you charge? I think that as long as someone comes to operate, you should charge. If the operation is bad luck and needs to be solved, you should charge an extra fee. This is reasonable." Yang Dong has been observing Lin Xi for a long time. As a businessman, he really doesn't understand Lin Xi's mentality of charging a fee that is almost like poverty alleviation. He is also afraid that Lin Xi will feel that she is not making money and will not come again in the future, so he can't help but speak up.
"I'll consider it." Lin agreed with a smile on her face, but she was very upset. It's not that I don't want to raise the price, but the money won't go into my pocket, so it's better not to raise the price at all and go with the model of small profits but quick turnover.
"Then you should think about it carefully. Seriously, when you become famous, more people will come here to take advantage of the situation. If you don't set a threshold, you will be very busy and all your work will be in vain." Yang Dong said a few more words and went back to the haunted house to take care of his own business.
Lin thought about it and felt that what Yang Dong said made sense. She had been at the amusement park for the past two days and had clearly felt that there were many more people coming to grab the food than before. In the past, when she sat here for a day, there were only about a hundred people who came to grab the food, and only about twenty or thirty of them were lucky. But today, she grabbed more than a hundred people in the morning alone. She could only take a short break during lunch and dinner.
Before, she occupied the playground by grabbing food, which was just a pastime for her when she had free time to browse her phone. Now, she no longer has the free time to browse her phone.
After opening the system backend and looking at her merit points of 630, Lin Xi suddenly made a decision: she wanted to raise the price.
Lin took out the sign that read "Suspended Hedgehog Sharing" from under the table and hung it up. Then she went into the haunted house to borrow a printer and printed out a new QR code. She then borrowed a board that could stand on the ground, wrote a few lines of words with a highlighter, pasted a QR code on it, and placed it three meters in front of the haunted table.
What Lin wrote on the board was: Before you eat, please donate 5 yuan to the "Red Cross Rural Pension Fund".
That is to say, on top of the original price, an additional entrance fee of 5 yuan was charged. Regardless of whether or not one had any bad luck in the divination, anyone who came to divination had to pay 5 yuan first. And Lin did not put the 5 yuan into her own account and wait for the system to donate it, but took the initiative to choose a charity fund.
Why bother?
Because even if the money could not be deposited into her own account, she could at least decide which account the money would go to. This was Lin Xi's last stubbornness.
Lin knew that once the sign was put up, the number of people occupying the stall would definitely decrease, but she was not in a hurry to earn merit points now. If she was in a hurry to earn merit points in the future, she could just put the sign away, and it wouldn't delay anything at all. This is the advantage of being your own boss.
"Hey, that's not right. Didn't they say that it's free to enter here? Why do they charge five dollars for admission now?"
"Then do you still want to take advantage of it?"
"Forget it. I don't think I'm unlucky."
This conversation continued to ring in Lin's ears for the whole afternoon. Lin didn't take it seriously. She ignored all those who didn't pay and focused on browsing her phone. After a few days, Lin found that although fewer people came to her to take advantage of her, the merit points she earned didn't decrease much. It can be seen that most of the people who were blocked by the five yuan were unlucky people. Seeing this, she felt more relieved.
With fewer people around, Lin Xi had more free time. Whenever she had time, she would hang out on the psychic forum to quickly learn about the latest psychic news, such as which sub-space had been opened, which psychic had been promoted, who had come out of the sub-space seriously injured, and who had not only escaped unscathed but also brought back treasures.
Lin Yan read these news with great interest and tirelessly. While quickly mastering the knowledge of the supernatural world, she also learned a lot of new and interesting gossip. The most important thing is that the news in the official forum is not filtered.
What does it mean to be unfiltered? For example, some news cannot be seen on domestic websites and can only be seen by using external networks. Now, with the official forum, Lin Xin does not have to go through such trouble and can directly read it on the forum. In the first few days, Lin Xin was still a little uncomfortable.
For example, a news report on Weibo said that someone in a kindergarten in a certain place stabbed people with a knife, killing three people and seriously injuring many others, causing a major social impact. The specific cause is still under investigation by the police. However, the same news report on the internal forum was directly accompanied by a video of the scene, and the cause and effect were directly written. A certain man was bewitched by a sorcerer, rushed into the kindergarten with a knife, and hacked and killed 12 people, including 10 children and two teachers.
Such news with different beginnings and endings often appeared, and even some news that was not revealed on Weibo appeared in internal forums. It was at that time that Lin Xi realized that not only the supernatural world, but also the ordinary world she knew was not what she thought.
In the afternoon, Lin had just finished occupying a post and saw that there were not many people there, so she took out her mobile phone to log into the forum. Then she quickly discovered that there was a pinned post in the forum. It had only been posted for less than ten minutes, but there were already tens of thousands of replies.
Lin opened it curiously and found it was a video. In the video, a middle-aged man with black hair and black eyes was tied to a wooden chair. Next to him stood a man wearing a hood with only his eyes exposed and a wizard robe. The man was wrapped from head to toe, and the only eye-catching thing was a blue flame badge on his chest.
Why does this scene look so much like something released by terrorists?
Just as Lin was thinking this, she heard the man in the mask speaking in English. Lin's English was not particularly good, but she could understand the basic conversation.
"This superpower very bravely destroyed the ceremony held by our Blue Flame in Country F, and saved more than 30 ordinary citizens of Country F with his own life. In order to praise his noble character and those who have noble character like him, Blue Flame decided to sentence him to starvation and broadcast it live around the world, so that the whole world can witness his death."
Oh my god! They are really terrorists.
Blue Flame, Lin Xi knew this organization. She had seen it in official internal documents. Blue Flame was an extreme evil supernatural organization that often relied on supernatural powers to carry out terrorist activities around the world.
There was a link below the video, Lin Yu clicked it subconsciously and found that it was the entrance to the live broadcast, and the protagonist of the live broadcast was the psychic who was tied up in the video. People kept leaving messages in various languages on the live broadcast screen, but the most were in English. The other party just watched quietly, his mouth was clearly not sealed, but he didn't say a word.
"From this look, he must be Chinese."
"It could also be from Country R or Country H. Asians all look similar."
"Do you think the official organizations of these countries will come forward to rescue us?"
"Isn't Lan Yan's purpose in doing this to lure people to rescue him? If you go there, you'll fall into a trap."
"That's right. The whole process is being broadcast live. It's almost impossible to rescue him secretly. The only way to rescue him is to destroy the entire Blue Flame Base. But by the time you get in, this guy will probably be dead."
"What the hell, isn't it hopeless? Why would we let Lan Yan provoke us like this?"
"This is not the first or second time that Blue Flame has provoked us."
"It's really hard to bear watching this."
"In fact, Blue Flame's purpose is not only to provoke, but also to insult."
"What do you mean, upstairs?"
"If nothing unexpected happens, this guy should have prevented the massacre that happened in M City, Country F last night. He killed a curser and saved more than 30 ordinary people. He can be considered a hero. But if such a hero begs for mercy in a live broadcast in front of the whole world when he is on the verge of death, what will be the result?"
"This is too vicious. Can you please stop the live broadcast?"
"Lan Yan said that if the live broadcast is cut off, this psychic will be tortured to death in the most brutal way possible."
Lin Xi looked at the messages that kept flashing on the screen and was so angry that she almost crushed the phone.
Scum, devil, bastard!
Lin Xi cursed at everyone with all the vicious words she could think of, but it was of no use. Instead, she felt even more upset. She really couldn't stand the numb look in the eyes of the person involved in the live broadcast, so she exited the live broadcast uncomfortably and switched back to the forum.
In the official group, someone has already revealed the man’s identity.
"It's Xu Feihang. He used to be a member of Sichuan Province's Team 1. He is a gold-type B-level supernaturalist. He joined the International Anti-Terrorism Supernatural Team a year ago. It is said that his sister was killed by a sorcerer from Lan Yan. Since then, he has hated Lan Yan the most."
"What about the local anti-terrorist superpower team in Country F? Didn't they come up with a solution?"
"This is obviously a conspiracy. There will be more deaths."
"We can't just sit there and watch. He's one of our own. If I were in Country F, I would have killed him directly. Those psychics in Country F are so heartless." A psychic with the ID Iron Hammer left an angry message.
"Tie Hammer, send me your ID number and I will reimburse you for your flight ticket." Someone immediately offered financial support.
"Iron Hammer, I'll help you contact the local supernatural organization."
"Iron Hammer, if you really go, I will risk staying in the hospital for a year and use the genometry technique to predict the location of the genotypes for you."
I don't know if this guy really intends to go, or is just talking nonsense, relying on the fact that no one in the forum knows each other's true identity. At any rate, he doesn't seem to be stage-frightened.
"I'll buy the ticket myself. The fortune teller downstairs will calculate the address for me and I'll go there right away."
"Just wait for me. I'll go and arrange the ceremony."
The fortune teller said so, but no one knows whether he can really do it. The big fortune telling technique takes half a day just to set up the ceremony.
At this time, a glittering name appeared prominently below this floor. An ID called "Xiao Xiao Luo Ye" suddenly left a message: "237.5E, 36.5N."
"Oh my god, the prophet Xiao Wen? The prophet Xiao Wen calculated the coordinates?"
"The hammer on the upper floor, hurry up and buy a ticket."
"Let me check the exact address."
"Country F, north of City M, Edward Farm. I've checked, just buy the ticket."
"Does anyone know the fortune teller from before? Tell him not to set up the fortune telling technique anymore. We don't need him to do the calculations anymore."
In the hundreds of messages that followed, all of them asked Tiechu to buy a plane ticket. But the comrade Tiechu who said he wanted to buy a plane ticket to go abroad to save people left a message saying "I'm already buying a plane ticket" and never appeared again.
Lin Xi didn’t know whether this person had really bought a plane ticket, but she really hoped that someone could rescue this hero who had killed the sorcerer and saved more than 30 ordinary people.
Lin exited the forum, opened six group chats, and asked: [Have you seen the video in the forum?]
Qingkong: [What?]
Just as Lin Xi was about to answer, Aquaman posted a screenshot: [Someone from the anti-terrorist superpower team was captured and publicly executed live on the Internet. The forum is discussing how to rescue him.]
King of Dirt: [Blue Flame dares to broadcast live, which means they are absolutely confident and difficult to save.]
Qingkong: [I agree. I just thought of hundreds of ways, but none of them can complete the rescue. Even for an S-class psychic, it would take a minute to kill someone, but they only need a few seconds to kill someone.]
Chu: [Maybe there will be a turnaround.]
When Lin Xin saw the word "turnaround", her eyes lit up: [What turnaround?]
Chu: [Xiao Wen gives out the address.]
Does Xiao Wen's message mean there is a chance of recovery? The first person Lin Yan thought of was the supernatural being named Iron Hammer who left a message on the forum saying he would buy a plane ticket to save people.
Could he really save the person?
Qingkong: [The prophet never predicts fate casually. He suddenly appeared and made predictions in a high-profile manner on the forum. He must have foreseen something. Perhaps there is a turning point.]
King of Dirt: [But the chances of success in saving people in this situation are too small.]
Qingkong: [I am also very curious, please continue to pay attention.]
Because of this incident, Lin Xi's mood became very bad. She finished work early in the evening and went home.
After taking a shower and changing into pajamas, Lin Yan sat on the sofa and watched TV. She also agreed with Song Ranran to meet at the home furnishing mall tomorrow. Lin Yan had her own house for a long time, but she still had no time to buy a bed. Finally, she made an appointment with Song Ranran to go with her tomorrow.
It was a good thing, but Lin Xi couldn't be happy because of what happened in the afternoon. Although she was watching TV, she kept thinking about the live video. Finally, Lin Xi couldn't help it and clicked on the live video to see Xu Feihang's condition.
In the live broadcast, Xu Feihang still had his eyes closed and expressionless, but he looked much more haggard than in the afternoon, and his lips were already chapped due to long-term thirst. In the comments, someone was controlling the comments.
"Everyone, please stop leaving messages. The people from Blue Flame just want to watch us discuss. The more we discuss, the more excited they get."
"We are also discussing rescue methods."
"You are discussing rescue methods here? If you really have a way, you can contact the Anti-Terrorism Team privately?"
"Do you think Lan Yan is stupid? A high-level space-based psychic traveled through time to save people. Tell me, what level of space travel can penetrate the protective barrier without being discovered? A sub-space gate?"
Space travel?!
Lin Xi blinked, and then blinked again, then she reached out with her left hand and took out a wig.
Zhenzi had gotten used to being threatened by Lin Nan these days. When she saw Lin Nan trying to get her out at home, she took the initiative to say, "Don't do that, Nan. If you burn me, it's like burning seven or eight small targets."
Looking at the enchanting waves, Lin Xi knew that Zhenzi was not afraid at all. This female ghost who had been dead for many years was very smart and was sure that she would not be willing to burn her.
"I won't burn you today." Lin Xi said, holding back her anger.
【Auntie, do you forgive me? 】
"Let me ask you, you said before that you can go abroad after the upgrade, is that true?"
【Of course!】
"Can we go to Country F?"
【Where is that? 】
Lin Yan thought about it, opened the world map on her mobile phone, entered the coordinates that Xiao Wen had left on the internal forum, determined the location, and pointed it out to Zhenzi.
"Here!" Lin Nan pointed at the map.
[I don’t understand this again. ]
Lin Yan twitched her lips and asked, "How do you determine the direction when you climb TV sets?"
[I can sense the handsome guy's location.]
Do you only see handsome guys?
Lin Yan was speechless. After thinking for a while, she turned on the live broadcast and asked, "Where is this handsome guy? Can you sense it?"
【What's so handsome about him? 】
He saved more than 30 people, very cool!
Lin Xi was so angry that she wanted to smash her phone. She knew that something that had swallowed so many energy stones and was only upgraded to level three was useless.
[I can still tell east, south, west, and north.]
East, south, west, north?
Lin's eyes widened a little bit, and she asked cautiously: "If I point you in the direction, can you get through?"
【Can.】
When Lin Xi saw Zhenzi's answer, her adrenaline surged and her breathing became rapid.
Yes, Zhenzi can pass through it? Is that true?
etc……
Lin thought of the comment in the previous comment and asked again: "What about the barrier? If there is a protective barrier, can you pass through it?"
[Is there anyone who sets up barriers on TV? ]
Yeah, who the hell has the time to set up a barrier on TV?
Lin's eyes were fixed on the lower right corner of the live broadcast screen, where a TV was hanging on the wall. Although only a corner was exposed, Lin was absolutely sure that it was a TV.
Thinking of a certain possibility, Lin Xi's hands began to tremble with excitement.
How about...do something?
If she can find the person, she will drag him into the TV and take him away.
If she couldn’t find it, she would come back by herself.