In a technologically advanced society, it is obviously unrealistic to put up signs to tell fortunes. Moreover, the vast majority of people will never get involved in such things. Therefore, it is inappropriate for him to indirectly promote superstitious ideas, which will not benefit the public and may also cause dissatisfaction from relevant departments.
But he might be able to be a public official and use metaphysics to do good in an upright way.
Seeing that the police were having trouble catching up with the criminal, Tao Rui took a slight step, blocked the criminal's way as he ran over, and quickly pinned him to the ground.
The breathless policeman ran over, took the prisoner, and thanked him. He looked at Tao Rui and said, "You're quite skilled. Have you practiced before?"
Tao Rui nodded and looked at the criminal curiously, "Is this a thief?"
"A wanted criminal, whom we just bumped into on the street." The police officer answered simply, nodded at Tao Rui, and took the man away. At the same time, he reported to the station and told his colleagues who came to support him.
Tao Rui watched them walk away, turned around and walked into the coffee shop next door, ordered a latte, quietly watched people coming and going outside the window, and thought about how to complete the task.
The original owner lived to be over ninety years old and had defrauded countless people throughout his life. Compensating everyone one by one was too difficult. However, those who were deceived by the original owner shared a common trait: they believed in spirits and gods, and when faced with problems, they would seek help from the gods and Buddhas.
There was a temple on the outskirts of City A, where these people would inevitably go to worship, ask for fortune sticks, or talismans. He could go to the temple and see if he could find a breakthrough there. Most of the tasks were minor, and the compensation was relatively simple. However, for the more difficult ones, he would single them out and find a solution.
For example, two weeks later, the grandson of the wealthy family in City A, the Ye family, went missing. They called the police but couldn't find him. The original owner, a fortune teller, said the wealthy family's step-wife was unlucky for the grandson, and also said the Ye family had bad feng shui. Ultimately, the rescue was delayed, and the five-year-old child died. The Ye family was in turmoil, and in the end, no one knew who kidnapped the child or if he had simply wandered off on his own, as if he had truly been unlucky.
Another example: a month later, a wealthy businessman from out of town bought a villa that turned out to be haunted. He paid the original owner 200,000 yuan to "cleanse" the house. The owner pretended to do it and assured him that it was fine. It turned out to be a haunted house, plagued by a ghost because her killer was still at large. Ultimately, the businessman and his entire family of four perished.
The original owner was a master at talking nonsense, and such mysterious things could not be verified. Even if they did not work, the original owner could always find other excuses to cover them up afterwards. Therefore, even the richest man in City A did not think of settling accounts with him.
These incidents included kidnapping, murderers at large, tomb robbery, forced ghost marriages, and mountain trafficking. These could all be classified as cases, or unsolved cases. So, he could actually approach these matters as an investigator. The original owner had lived for so long, and he would be doing these things for decades to come.
Fortunately, the original owner only liked to enjoy life and was not lustful. His emotional life was all consensual and he parted ways amicably. He had never cheated on his wife, otherwise this would have been even more troublesome.
After roughly figuring out a route, Tao Rui opened the system mall to take a look.
Plane trader, mind reading, perspective, invisibility, teleportation...
He had a lot of points, but the few nice things he wanted to buy were too expensive to afford. Anyway, this world didn't need cheat codes, so he might as well save up more points. Maybe when he needed to buy something in another world, he'd have enough.
Tao Rui had always been very proactive. Once he'd made his plans, he returned home and entered the space. There was a spiritual spring within the space, and the spiritual energy there was many times richer than outside, greatly aiding his cultivation. In his previous world, he hadn't practiced much, just strengthening his body. He didn't know what he would encounter in this world, so of course he had to practice diligently.
After drawing the Qi into his body, he bought a pile of talisman paper and began drawing talismans. He drew a hundred of each of the dozen or so different types, including talismans for safety, pregnancy, luck, and dispelling evil. He then took the talismans to a famous temple on the outskirts of the city to discuss business.
The monk who received him was named Jingkong. After hearing his purpose, he looked at him with surprise and said helplessly, "Donor, everyone who comes here seeks peace of mind. We draw talismans, consecrate things, and make some other things for everyone, but we don't operate a business and don't accept goods from outside."
Jingkong glanced at Tao Rui's talismans and advised, "You are so young, you can make money by doing anything. Don't waste your energy on this."
Tao Rui, now 25, was a child to the 40-year-old Master Jingkong, who couldn't help but offer a lecture. Tao Rui didn't get angry. He took one of the talismans and placed them before Master Jingkong, smiling faintly. "I'm not doing this for money; I'm doing good deeds to accumulate virtue. Although I'm still young, I've been studying with a master for as long as I can remember, and that's been twenty years now."
If the talisman doesn't work, keep it and try it. If it does, I'll come back and discuss it next time. As for not accepting goods from outsiders, I think there's always a way, such as becoming a temple consultant. Don't worry, you set the price, and I'll only charge half of the list price."
Tao Rui left, his gaze met with neither disbelief nor approval, showing no sign of wanting to continue the fight. This surprised Jingkong. He just gave up and left? No one selling something would give up so quickly, right? Perhaps he was a novice, not even leaving a phone number.
Jingkong shook his head, thinking that Tao Rui was a young man who came to City A to seek gold. However, when his eyes fell on the talismans, he still put them away. After checking, he found that there was nothing wrong with them, so he mixed the talismans with the talismans in the temple and sold them to people who came to ask for talismans.
Of course, this is not called "selling", but people ask for it by adding incense money.
In the temple, talismans drawn by the abbot were useless, except for those drawn by others. Jingkong knew this, and since he couldn't draw them himself, he didn't throw away Tao Rui's talismans or pay much attention to them, so he just let them in. So, within two days, Tao Rui's talismans were bought by different people.
Tao Rui was studying criminal psychology and criminal investigation at the time. Besides studying, he was also practicing. Only those who possessed spiritual power could see spiritual energy and yin energy, so of course he had to work hard to improve his strength.
Soon, half a month passed. At this time, a major event happened in City A. All media were reporting that the only grandson of the richest man in City A was missing!
The entire city's police force was searching for clues, and the richest man, Ye Zhendong, had even issued a high reward, ranging from tens of thousands to millions, or even tens of millions, depending on the importance of the clue. However, this led to a large number of people offering clues, and Ye Zhendong hired 50 people to review them, but still could not find any useful clues.
The Ye family was desperate and tried every possible means to find a few experts in metaphysics and asked them to come to their home to check the situation. Tao Rui was one of them.
The Ye family has many police officers and many equipment installed indoors and outdoors to facilitate receiving calls from the kidnappers at any time. However, the kidnappers have not appeared, so they can only try to find clues in the Ye family.
The police were actually very disapproving of the Ye family hiring monks, Taoist priests, and masters, but there was nothing to persuade them at this time. Ye Zhendong was not short of money, so of course he would try every possible means.
Tao Rui arrived first and met with Ye Zhendong. Ye Zhendong probably thought he was too young and didn't have much expectations, so he asked the servants to take him around. Tao Rui really looked around the Ye family carefully, inside and out.
Every time the servant who led him saw him staring at a certain place, he would nervously ask, "Mr. Tao, is there something wrong here?"
Tao Rui always shook his head in response, and then he observed everyone in the villa, Ye Zhendong and his step-wife, his original wife's son and daughter-in-law, his step-wife's son, daughter-in-law, granddaughter, and dozens of servants of the Ye family.
His spiritual power is not high now, so he can't tell anything by just looking at others. The feng shui here is fine, and there are no ghosts. He can't see the problem immediately, but this doesn't prevent him from observing their micro-expressions.
In his previous career in the entertainment industry, he studied micro-expressions and psychology to hone his acting skills. Everyone has motivations and psychological support for everything they do, which naturally leads to subtle changes in expression and different looks.
With such a major incident happening in the Ye family, the servants were all very uneasy and showed some degree of nervousness. However, Tao Rui noticed a servant in the kitchen who never met anyone's eyes. Whether she was working or communicating with others, she cleverly avoided everyone's gaze. This was not normal.
He was seen in this state by many policemen, who were actually a little curious about what he was doing. One young policeman even asked him, "Did you see anything?"
Tao Rui didn't speak out his guess casually, only saying: "I'm just trying to understand the situation of the child and the Ye family. It would be best if we could go to the crime scene to take a look. We should be able to get more information there."
"Shouldn't the master know the answer just by calculating? Why is there a crime scene? We don't even know where the crime scene is."
Tao Rui smiled. "To be precise, I'm not a master, but a profiler. So calculating isn't very practical. It's more accurate to speculate based on the circumstances at the scene, the personalities of the people involved, and so on."
"Profiler?" The police and the servants looked at each other in confusion. Tao Rui had already left. He saw Master Jingkong from the temple and went over to say hello.
Jingkong came with the abbot. They were greeting Ye Zhendong. When Tao Rui approached, before he could say anything, Jingkong pulled the abbot aside and said in surprise, "Brother, he is the young donor who wrote the talisman!"
The abbot immediately turned to look at Tao Rui and asked, "Donor, did you draw the talisman you brought into the temple half a month ago?"
Tao Rui looked at their expressions and guessed that they had probably verified the talismans. He nodded and replied, "If possible, I hope to cooperate with your temple. I won't interfere with other matters. I just hope that people who come to the temple to ask for talismans can use the talismans I draw. As for the price, I also hope to keep it low. Those talismans are only for accumulating virtue."
This was still at the Ye family. The abbot didn't ask any more questions, but simply gestured to Jingkong, "Junior brother, exchange contact information with the young donor. We'll go to the temple later to discuss in detail."
"Yes, brother."
Jingkong happily exchanged contact information with Tao Rui, leaving everyone else puzzled. Ye Zhendong asked, "Does the abbot know Mr. Tao?"
The abbot smiled and said, "We can't say we know each other, but we do have a certain connection. Half a month ago, this donor Tao came to the temple with a talisman he had drawn, hoping to cooperate with us. At that time, Master Jingkong declined. Later, by chance, two donors used Donor Tao's talisman and had very good results. We wanted to find Donor Tao, but to no avail. Unexpectedly, we met him here today."
Hearing this, it was clear that Tao Rui had real skills. Ye Zhendong felt a little hope. Seeing that the five invited guests had arrived, he asked them to sit down. Suppressing his anxiety, he asked, "Masters, I'm asking you to help me find my grandson."
Everyone offered some words of comfort, and then some, with compasses, fortune-tellers, and feng shui masters, began to help find the person based on their abilities. But the fact that the original owner, a charlatan, could thrive so successfully showed that there weren't many evil spirits in this world, and similarly, there weren't many skilled masters either.
Even though the temple abbot had already figured out the trick to drawing talismans, he was still at a loss as to what to do with the missing grandson of the Ye family.
The abbot planned to cooperate with Tao Rui and wanted to know more about his strength. Seeing him standing in the room of the Ye family's grandson, deep in thought, he asked, "Master Tao, have you figured out anything?"
Tao Rui's gaze shifted to an unfinished painting on the table. He said, "From this painting, it's clear the artist was very focused and engaged. The flaw in the lower right corner suggests he didn't put down his brush voluntarily. So, why did he leave? Who told him to leave?"
painting?
There were no words on the painting, and it didn't depict anything special. No one had ever examined the painting, and they didn't even realize that there were any clues on it.
The young police officer who had heard Tao Rui say he was a profiler squeezed to the front and asked seriously, "Are you really a profiler? What else did you find out?"
Tao Rui opened the wardrobe. "Everything here is neatly arranged: clothes, books, stationery. The child is quite mysophobic and has obsessive-compulsive disorder."
"That's right! Xiaozhe is like this." Ye Zhendong said affirmatively, staring at Tao Rui, waiting for his follow-up.
Tao Rui walked to the bed, knelt on the ground, pointed to a sock under the bed, and then showed everyone a wrinkle on the bed. "According to the child's personality, he would never allow a sock to be left under the bed, let alone a sock. He also wouldn't allow wrinkles on the bed. So this room can be considered the initial crime scene. The person who took him away is someone who has access to this room, that is, someone in this villa."
Tao Rui looked at Ye Zhendong and said, "Mr. Ye, you should seal off the villa."
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