[Look at the edge of the camera. Why did Xi Haihong run to find Gu Zhisang? Do they know each other well? Didn’t Xi Haihong’s fans say that she is a child of a certified Taoist family? I feel like she is familiar with Gu Zhisang. What are the two of them talking about? I’m curious.]

[Did she find something? I also want to listen, and speak louder!]

Xi Haihong thought she was approaching Gu Zhisang secretly, but it was captured very clearly by the live broadcast camera.

After she walked over as if nothing had happened, she looked solemn and lowered her voice:

“Well, aren’t you a messenger from the underworld? You should be able to see… these things around you, right? Do you know what is going on?!”

Gu Zhisang knew what she was talking about.

She can indeed see them.

Just on the shoulder of Director Li Chenghe, there was a transparent white shadow, following him step by step.

There was a vague shadow lying on the lens of the cameraman, who was only three meters away.

Looking around, under the faint gray fog, there were several faint, extremely light-colored souls.

Xi Haihong couldn’t believe her eyes.

“Are these, are these all human souls?”

“Where are the Yin Envoy from the underworld? Where is the impermanence from Nan Province? Why do these souls become like this, but no one cares about them?!”

She was slightly agitated and asked several questions in a row, which was enough to prove the shock in her heart.

The soul of a living person after death, unless it has strong resentment and evil thoughts and has formed its strength and obsession, will not resist the consciousness of the world and the laws of the underworld. They will naturally be sensed by the Yin Envoy of the underworld and sent it to the underworld.

Even if there were souls that had escaped from the Yin Envoy, they would have to seek shelter in the Yin, for fear that they would be hurt by the Yang energy or some mysterious masters who could see them.

But at this moment, in this small village, a strange phenomenon occurred, the souls were just floating around!

The most important thing was that these souls were also very strange.

They were all pale white, indicating that they were just ordinary people during their lifetime, not evil ghosts and evil spirits. Logically speaking, they should be reincarnated as usual.

And they were not complete, but fragmented, and very weak.

Let alone hurting people, if Xi Haihong hadn’t had a special physique that could see all the souls, she would have been unable to notice the problem here like other contestants!

Even if they were sent to reincarnation, these remnant souls would either be demented or disabled in the next life.

Xi Haihong looked at the mindless white mist, and a terrible thought came to her heart:

These souls are not naturally formed.

Gu Zhisang’s expression was cold and unwavering:

“This is done by ‘evil’.”

It was the wanton ‘evil’ that led to the existence of these remnant souls, and she discovered it the moment she got out of the car.

Xi Haihong didn’t understand, but just looked at her deeply: “You can see it. What should we do now, just leave it alone?”

But considering that she was a descendant of the Taoist Xi family, there was no need to ask Gu Zhisang’s opinion. She walked a little further took out her mobile phone and dialed her father’s number.

After Xi Kui answered the call, Xi Haihong excitedly described the scene she saw to her father:

“Dad, there is something wrong here!”

Xi Kui was silent for a long time and sighed: “I believe what you say, but the Taoist Branch in Nan Province is managed by the branch of Qianqing Sect, and I have no right to interfere.”

Xi Haihong was silent.

She knew that the three pillars of Taoism were independent of each other and divided the surrounding areas of Xia Country without interfering with each other.

Under normal circumstances, if any metaphysical incident occurs in the area that each family was responsible for, people from other families cannot intervene at will. They must wait for the local Taoist Branch to resolve it, otherwise conflicts will easily arise.

Her voice was a little dry, and she said: “Dad, how many more of them do you think there are in places I can’t see? Did the people from the Taoist Branch of Southern Province not find any clues? Why did headquarters never receive these messages?”

“Are there no problems with the people in these branches? Are we just…going to let it go?”

After a while, Xi Kui’s voice sounded, showing his exhaustion:

“I am the patriarch of the Xi family, and you are the heir. Once the two of us intervene, it will represent the position of the entire Xi family.”

Xi Haihong: “……”

“I see.”

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: “In the whole world, is there no law? This is the southern province of Xia Country, not the Taoist Sect.”

Xi Haihong suddenly raised her head and looked at her, “You mean, notify the Special Spiritual Department?”

The host on the other side smiled and chatted with several children at the entrance of the village. They were very excited to learn that they could be on TV and that many people were watching them.

The chirping noise attracted the attention of the convenience store employees.

Two middle-aged women poked their heads out of the store, and their expressions suddenly became nervous when they saw the show crew:

“What are you brats doing? Who told you to fool around with strangers?”

Several children heard the sound and ran over in a swarm. Only then did everyone realize that they were all the children of convenience store employees, and the three employees here were all women from the village.

They looked at the program crew with scrutiny and suspicion.

At this time, Zheng Xiaona came out from behind and said hello to the familiar village woman: “Sister Li, Sister Zhou.”

The woman surnamed Li was stunned when she saw her, and then looked at the others: “Hey, isn’t this Sister Zheng? You and your husband are here again?! So these people are your friends?”

Two employees who were waiting in the store stuck their heads out to watch. One of the new women who didn’t know who Zheng Xiaona was asked in a low voice:

“Who is this?”

The woman surnamed Zhou lowered her voice: “I told you about a girl from out of town before. When their family came to the village when she was young, her sister was ‘auctioned’, and she has been looking for it for many years. Do you still remember? No, that’s it!”

Being ‘auctioned’ was their local dialect.

Child abduction was also called “auctioned”, and being “auctioned” means being abducted by human traffickers using unfair means.

The woman looked shocked: “Is that her? She looks like she’s still young and hasn’t given up yet. How many years have she been looking for her?”

“It’s because she’s very stubborn. We’ve told her many times that it’s useless, but she refuses to listen…”

While the two women were chatting in a low voice, the woman named Li outside also started chatting with Zheng Xiaona and Host Liu.

When she learned that Host Liu and the people with cameras behind her were here to help her find her relatives, she was stunned for a moment: “…so that’s the case.”

“But Elder Sister, there’s no way you can look for it so blindly. I’ve told you that if your sister was ‘auctioned’ at such a young age, she must have been sold away…”

Before the woman surnamed Li finished speaking, a cold voice sounded from behind the crowd:

“Then I would like to ask Elder Sister, are there many people being trafficked here?”

She looked back and saw a beautiful woman with white skin and bright black eyes.

The next second the woman asked something, and her smile froze.

Gu Zhisang asked: “If there are a lot of people trafficked here, is there any of them been sold to your village?

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