Chapter 104: Strange things in the village (Part 1)

The personal live interaction in the seventh episode of “Spiritual Affairs” set a record for the number of online users in each contestant’s single live broadcast room.

Due to the increase in the number of interactions for each contestant, the number of metaphysical events handled in just one morning doubled compared to previous programs, and many bloody or heartwarming events broke out, greatly increasing the show’s highlights.

The platform’s hot searches have been dominated by the first dozen or so entries related to the “Spiritual Affairs” program, and now almost half of the hot searches were all about various events and contestants, truly dominating the list!

The most controversial and most popular entries were leaked from Gu Zhisang’s live broadcast room.

Especially the last two events, which have caused netizens to compete for heated discussions and debates.

[This is the first time I know that there are so many things to pay attention to when it comes to tattoos! After watching this episode, I can’t help but think of a friend who just randomly tattooed a poisonous insect on his shoulder and said it was cool, but later when he was working, his arm was injured and fractured!]

[Oh my god, I am a person who likes to enjoy watching melons everywhere. After listening to the bloody family ethics in this live broadcast room, there are also live broadcast rooms’ quarrels waiting for me to review. There will be something to watch for dinner in the next two days! Thank you so much for the program team’s revision of this rule. It’s cool.]

[I hope that Shijianwu‘s mother can be healthy. She has suffered too much in this life.]

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2.30 pm

Many viewers who paid attention to the official live broadcast room of the “Spiritual Affairs” program in advance received the start reminder at the same time and rushed into it.

Host Liu, who was prepared in advance, held the microphone, wearing a decent work suit and smiling:

“Good afternoon, dear audience friends, I haven’t seen you for more than a week. I miss you so much.”

The director team backstage looked at the rising number of people and the large number of comments. They have gone from being excited at the beginning to being accustomed to it now.

Host Liu: “I won’t say much nonsense. I know everyone is eager to meet our contestants. Last week, our No. 1 contestant Xun Yiqing left the stage regretfully. After this live broadcast, one of the remaining five contestants will leave again and miss our subsequent program competition.”

“The top four of this season’s program will be produced soon!”

After this, the supporters of each contestant began to brush the corresponding names in the barrage, calling on the contestants they followed to squeeze into the top four.

What was slightly subtle was that perhaps both passers-by and fans of other contestants had determined that Gu Zhisang would win without suspense. Mulberry Leaf and other fans themselves have been led too many times by the main character, so Gu Zhisang’s name was the least brushed at this moment.

Host Liu’s voice continued: “Everyone is clear about the new rules of the program team. The seventh “Spiritual Affairs” collective competition officially begins!”

The camera turned and aimed at nearly ten cars parked on the side of the road, and Host Liu also sat in the back of one of the cars.

After the car started, the audience discovered that this episode was filmed on the road.

The main camera in the live broadcast room was the camera held by Host Liu who was sitting in the car.

He aimed at the open car window to shoot the scenery outside the window and said in the whistling wind:

“Everyone may be a little confused. Our first help-seeker has already begun. We are now at the foot of Qilin Mountain on the northwest edge of Xia Country. The help-seeker this time is a young villager from a village called Watuo at the foot of the mountain.”

As soon as Host Liu finished speaking, the camera in the live broadcast room was temporarily cut off by the staff in charge of the scene, and a short video introduction prepared in advance was inserted.

The background voice introduced:

“On the 12th of this month, the staff of the program team who were reviewing the manuscripts and the delivery of help-seeking information received a call for help when they were about to get off work. The help-seeker was a villager from the northwest border of Xia Country, who was only sixteen years old.”

“This special call attracted the attention and concern of the staff.”

Then the video screen went black, and only a sound with a slight electric current sound could be heard.

This was a recording.

The recording was the news told by the person who asked for help.

A slightly immature and nervous teenager asked in a slightly strange Mandarin with a strong rural accent:

‘Hello, are you the program team that can help solve the haunted things?’

After getting the affirmation of the staff, the teenager stammered that his hometown needed help.

‘Our village… is haunted. I didn’t go home last week. My mother didn’t let me go back. Then my classmates who went back from the same village also encountered ghosts!’

After asking patiently, the staff finally pieced together the whole picture of the haunted village in the mouth of the teenager.

The boy’s village, Watuo, was also poor and backward in Xiaguo. Most of the residents in the village are local ethnic minorities.

The village has a large population, but because it was too remote, the development was uneven, and the road information was not circulated, the per capita salary was very low.

The young and middle-aged people in the village have been living all year round and working in nearby towns, counties, and cities.

Women usually stay in the village to take care of children, take care of the elderly, dig bamboo shoots and dry mushrooms in the nearby mountains, or raise poultry.

For some viewers in the live broadcast room, they can’t imagine that in today’s society, there were still many people in areas that were not paid attention by the Internet and cameras, and were not filmed. Their lives were so poor and boring.

There was also a primary school in Watuo Village, but it was not well run, and few students in it were patient enough to study;

The young man who called the “Spiritual Affairs” program team was one of the few children in the village who had studied in the only high school in the town. His surname was Bai and his name was Shigu.

Because the high school he attends is in the town, far away from his home village, it takes nearly two hours to ride a bicycle to connect the two places, so the school allows accommodation. Students like him who were distributed in various villages around go home every one to two weeks, or even once a month.

Bai Shigu was the kind of child who goes back once a week.

He was called out by the teacher in the class a week before, he called the program team for help.

When the teacher handed him the phone, he heard the howling of his mother.

His mother said on the other end of the phone that his father was injured when he went up the mountain. He was still alive, but one of his legs was bitten by a wild wolf!

When he was carried down by his companions, he fainted from the pain!

Bai Shigu was shocked and anxious and immediately wanted to ask the teacher for leave to go back to visit his father.

But his mother on the other end of the phone was very serious.


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