Chapter 111 Jinjiang First Launch

"Here, I'll give it back to you."

Bai Mian reached out and returned the talisman to the system. Suddenly, a golden light flashed, and the talisman paper and the brush in Bai Mian's hand disappeared together. Those ghosts had been synchronously transmitted to the underworld by the system.

Bai Mian rubbed her palms reluctantly. This talisman was very handy and a good thing, but it was a pity that it did not belong to her for the time being. However, it did not matter. As long as she continued to accumulate good karma, this talisman would be in her hands sooner or later.

Bai Mian took a taxi back to Ci Xin Tang. Several people in the restaurant had already eaten lunch and were taking a nap upstairs. Bai Mian followed the smell all the way into the restaurant and saw the meal Gao Jin had left for her on the table. She sat down and took a sip of the soup. The soup was well-cooked, with the sweet winter melon and the salty and fresh dried shrimps. It whetted one's appetite.

The food was still hot, Bai Mian picked up his chopsticks and started eating lunch.

After lunch, several people upstairs woke up. Gao Jin saw that the food he left behind was eaten up, and he immediately felt a sense of accomplishment. Weng Xuhua took out a few slices of tangerine peel from the cupboard and soaked them in water to drink. It was hot now, and tangerine peel could relieve heat and eliminate phlegm, so it was the most suitable drink.

Lame Brother yawned, opened the Flash APP, sat on the chair and started watching short videos.

He scrolled through content one after another in boredom, and suddenly stopped in front of a video. Bai Mian squeezed a glass of fresh orange juice with a few oranges, threw in a few ice cubes, and drank a big gulp happily.

As she was passing by with the cup in her hand, Lame Brother called her: "Hey, come and look at this!"

Bai Mian looked at his phone, which was playing a short video: "Hello everyone, I am Xiaohuo, a marketing account. I wonder if you have seen any missing news in your city recently? Xiaohuo recently discovered that many girls have gone missing in the country, and most of them are between 16 and 20 years old. The most terrifying thing is that these missing girls are from different cities all over the world. Xiaohuo seriously suspects that there is a trafficking gang roaming around. Friends who have girls at home should pay attention!"

Lame Brother said excitedly: "Look, does this method look familiar? I suspect this trafficking gang is the same group of people as the ones who committed crimes in Qingshui Town before! If I can catch them, it will be a great achievement, and there may even be a bonus!"

Bai Mian disagreed: "Don't worry about your bonus for now. Look at the owner of this video. He is a marketing account that talks nonsense all the time. It's not certain whether this story is true or not."

"How do we know if it's true if we don't try?" Lame Brother rubbed his hands together, "If I can catch these people, I'll be famous all over the country!"

Bai Mian shook his head and smiled: "Even if this is true, you can't surround them all by yourself, so you'd better save your energy."

Ever since Little Sister Yang left, Lame Brother became a little impatient. Bai Mian could understand that. Perhaps it was because he was unwilling to accept that Little Sister Yang had found her own life path before him.

"Please help me calculate, help me calculate their location, please!" Lame Brother pestered Bai Mian relentlessly.

Bai Mian smiled bitterly: "You also know that I have to take the pulse to know the ins and outs of things. Now there is no one involved for me to take the pulse here, how can I calculate the position?"

"Without taking his pulse, you can't calculate the prisoner's location..." Lame Brother repeated this sentence, the light in his eyes dimmed, he lowered his head, as if thinking about something.

Bai Mian immediately realized that Cripple Brother was not interested in drinking, so she asked sharply, "Are you worried about something?"

"No, no, no!" Lame Brother waved his hands hastily, "I eat and drink for free every day, and my life is so good, how can I have any worries?"

Bai Mian wanted to ask more questions, but he heard the sound of a door opening behind him. It was afternoon business time. Weng Xuhua opened the door and a large number of passers-by rushed in. One of the girls shouted:

"I am the third Lord, all of you please get out of my way!"

Bai Mian turned his head and looked towards the voice, only to see a fat girl walking towards him from the crowd. She wanted to sit on the chair in front of the diagnosis table, but her butt was stuck in the chair, so she couldn't sit down, so she had to stand up again awkwardly.

Bai Mian sat behind the diagnosis table and asked softly, "Hello, what do you want to consult?"

The girl said hesitantly, "Well, I'm going to tell you my problem, please don't criticize me. Also, I hope you won't scold me because of my body shape."

After hearing the second half of the girl's words, Bai Mian understood the girl's concerns. After all, this was a live broadcast and she was afraid of being cyberbullied.

Bai Mian picked up the phone, only to see the screen full of insulting words. Everyone was making fun of the girl's figure. Bai Mian simply turned off the barrage function temporarily, and then said solemnly to the camera: "Those who just posted those barrages, please get out of here. I don't need fans like you!"

Seeing Bai Mian handle it this way, the girl finally felt relieved. She sighed and said softly, "Master, my name is Huang Rui, and my problem is a bit embarrassing. It's like this. I met a boyfriend online, and now we have decided to meet in person, but..."

Huang Rui fell silent at this point, and Bai Mian asked caringly, "Are you nervous because of your figure?"

"No," Huang Rui shook her head and said timidly, "I don't dare to meet him because I used a fake photo, but he said that he would break up with me if we don't meet. I don't know what to do. He is my first love and I don't want to lose him..."

Lame brother spit water when he heard it: "Pfft, you are cheating!"

Bai Mian also said seriously: "Your behavior is indeed shameful. Using other people's photos to fall in love online not only deceived the other party in the relationship, but also affected an innocent girl. Fortunately, you also realized your mistake. It may not be too late for you to confess to him now."

Huang Rui seemed to have made up her mind: "Yes, Master, I thought so too, but I was worried that he would be angry after I confessed. After all, I weigh more than 200 pounds, almost 300 pounds, and I showed him the photo of our school beauty, who was thin and beautiful. The gap between us is too big. If he knew, he would definitely block me!"

"I thought about asking the school beauty to meet her in person for me, but I don't know her at all, so I can't open my mouth to ask her. Besides, she already has a boyfriend, so even if I beg her, she won't agree!"

Lame brother tried to hold it in, but he couldn't hold it in any longer and started to complain, "Girl, how could you let yourself get so fat? You look like you're only a teenager, a student, right? You're so young and you're letting your weight go. What if you get high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and high cholesterol in the future?"

After Lame Brother said this, Huang Rui actually started to cry sadly: "Wuwuwu, I don't want to do this either. I'm a senior high school student and I just finished the college entrance examination this year. In fact, I still had a normal body shape when I was a freshman, but later the study pressure was too great, and I suffered from bulimia. I couldn't control my overeating every day. I could eat the food of three people by myself. The whole cafeteria knows me, wuwuwu... I also feel very embarrassed, but I can't quit..."

"I know this is wrong. I should see a psychiatrist, but I am so busy studying that I don't even have time to sleep. How can I have time to see a doctor? I can only wait until after the exam."

"Later, I gradually gained weight to over 200 pounds. Fortunately, I did well in the college entrance examination and was admitted to the university of my choice, so the pressure was not that great anymore."

Lame brother tried to ask: "Don't you have summer vacation now? Can you try to lose weight during the summer vacation?"

Huang Rui cried and shook her head: "No, my biggest wish after the college entrance examination was to have a love affair, but the male classmates around me didn't like me. They often laughed at me, so I gave up looking for a boyfriend in real life and instead placed my hope on the Internet."

"During the summer vacation, I downloaded more than a dozen social apps and chatted with hundreds of people every day. Finally, I picked out a boy who was good in every aspect. He was also a college entrance examination candidate this year. He was tall, had a good figure, was handsome, and had a humorous personality. There was nothing bad about him!"

Lame Brother was very skeptical: "Does this...do people like this exist in the world?"

Huang Rui didn't take Cripple's words seriously and said to herself, "We've been chatting for a month. He and I really get along well. What surprised me most is that he is also from Qingshui Town. We are from the same hometown!"

"He once mentioned that he wanted to exchange photos with me, but I really didn't dare to send my own photos, so I just used photos of school beauties to deal with him. Now it's terrible. He wants to meet me. Once we meet, everything will be over. Master, what should I do!"

Bai Mian frowned: "You mean, you only talked for a month and you decided to meet him? Don't you think this is too hasty?"

Lame brother also said: "Yes, girl, you are really carefree. What if you meet a bad person?"

Huang Rui insisted on her own opinion: "We have talked a lot, I know him well enough, I believe in his character, forget it, you don't understand, this is a matter between the two of us, I was in high school for three years, all my roommates in the dormitory had a relationship, only I didn't, they all laughed at me and said no one wanted me, I was unwilling to accept it, now I finally have a chance to get out of being single, I don't want to mess it up, master, can you help me?"

Bai Mian asked back: "How can I help you?"

Huang Rui hesitated for a moment, and finally said her real purpose: "I want... you to help me change my appearance."

"Um?"

Bai Mian and Que Ge became alert at the same time.

Huang Rui explained, "I've watched your previous live broadcast. When you helped Miss Yang get out of her marriage, you changed her and her brother's appearance. I don't know how you did it, but I believe you have the ability! If there's a first time, there's a second time. Can you cast a spell again and turn me into a school beauty?"

"Puff!" Lame brother sprayed water again, "Girl, you are too greedy, you want a painless plastic surgery?"

Bai Mian shook his head and rejected her. Although he did know the art of illusion, he said that spells should not be abused, otherwise it would cause chaos.

Seeing that Bai Mian refused, Huang Rui hugged her arms and begged, "Please, Master, I really want to fall in love! Just turn me into a school beauty. It doesn't take too long, even just an hour, no, half an hour will do! Just make my dream come true! I'm still a student, I only have 3,000 yuan on me, I can give it all to you!"

Bai Mian still shook his head. Huang Rui threatened him, "Okay, if you don't agree, I'll go out and jump into the river right now! When things get out of hand, I'll see how you end up! I've already thought of the headlines for tomorrow morning's news - Internet celebrity's cold attitude caused his fans to commit suicide by jumping into the river!"

Lame Brother got angry and pointed at her and said, "Hey, you! Thanks to the God of Wealth for protecting you just now, now you are risking your life to take her away? You are a complete rogue!"

Huang Rui smiled disdainfully and said, "As long as we can have a romantic relationship, what does it matter if I become a scoundrel? It's so easy for you to use your magic power, just move your fingers, why don't you help me?"

Bai Mian looked at Huang Rui, thinking of a countermeasure in his heart. Lame Brother whispered to him, "Don't worry about her. Just let her be. I guess she is just talking. She will stop making trouble when she has made enough noise."

"no."

Bai Mian immediately rejected this proposal. She could see that Huang Rui had an extreme personality and might really do something like jumping into the river.

"How about this, don't be impulsive," Bai Mian proposed a compromise, "I can't help you change your appearance, but I can take your pulse, and taking your pulse can tell you about your past and future. Don't you want to give it a try?"

"I..." Huang Rui was moved by what he said, "Then I'll take your pulse first, but I'm not that easy to get rid of. After taking my pulse, you still have to help me change my appearance!"

Bai Mian didn't respond, but simply pulled her hand over and placed two fingers on her pulse.

After finishing, Bai Mian's face became heavy, Huang Rui asked in a low voice: "How is it?"

Bai Mian said slowly: "The result is very bad. After you meet him offline, you will..."

"Being blocked? Being scolded?" Huang Rui said fiercely.

Bai Mian shook his head, and Huang Rui said, "He won't beat me, will he?"

Bai Mian said word by word: "You—will be eaten."

Everyone around gasped, only Huang Rui said stupidly: "Eat it? Does it mean what they say on the Internet? I don't think so. I'm not that open-minded. How could I go to a hotel with him as soon as I met him..."

Bai Mian knocked on the table and said seriously:

"Don't be obsessed with it, listen to me - I mean eating it in the physical sense."