The matter was settled and could not be changed. Lin Yan did not dwell on it for too long. She just couldn't help but curse Sadako in her heart every time she spent money. Or when she was in a bad mood, she would take Sadako out and let her feel the heat of the flame.
That day, Lin Yan was fortune-telling in the amusement park. The owner of the haunted house, Yang Dong, came back from outside and handed Lin Yan 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 hurriedly thanked him.
"What are you thanking me for? You'll be helping me as long as you come to tell fortunes more often in the future." Lin Xi's fortune-telling stall was set up at the entrance of the haunted house. With more people coming to tell fortunes, the haunted house's business naturally improved. The turnover has increased by more than 50% in the past few days. If Lin Xi had not disagreed, Yang Dong would have wanted to spend money to hire Lin Xi to tell fortunes here.
"I'll come when I'm free." Lin Yan didn't want to make money, but she didn't want to make things complicated. She was now using Yang Dong's place to tell fortunes, and she was helping him attract customers 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 whether she came to the amusement park or how many times she came. Lin Yan thought about it and felt that it was too troublesome, so it would be more comfortable to raise her now.
"How's business today?" Yang Dong asked casually.
"It's okay, there are more than ten of them." Lin Xi said.
"If you ask me, your divination 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. Regardless of whether the person who comes to divination has bad luck or not, you have put in the effort to do the divination, so why don't you charge? I think that as long as someone comes to divination, you should charge money. If you divination about bad luck, you need to solve it, and 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 what Lin Xi's mentality is with this charging model that is almost like poverty alleviation. He was also afraid that Lin Xi would feel that it was not profitable and would not come again in the future, so he couldn't help but speak up.
"I'll consider it." Lin Yan agreed with a smile on her face, but she was very miserable in her heart. It's not that I don't want to raise the price, but even if the price is raised, the money won't go into my pocket. 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 in the future, more people will come here for divination. If you don't set a threshold, you will be very busy and it 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 Yan 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 do divination than before. In the past, she would sit here for a day and only have about a hundred people come to do divination, and only about 20 to 30 of them had bad luck. But today, she had done divination for more than a hundred people in the morning alone. She could only take a short break during lunch and dinner.
Before, she used to tell fortunes in the amusement park. Telling fortunes was just a pastime when she had free time while browsing her phone. Now, she no longer has the free time to browse her phone.
After opening the system backend and looking at her merit value of 630 points, Lin Xi suddenly made a decision: she wanted to raise the price.
Lin Xi took out the sign that read "Suspended Divination" 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 fluorescent pen, and then pasted a QR code on it and placed it three meters in front of the divination table.
What Lin An wrote on the board was: Before fortune-telling, please donate 5 yuan to the "Red Cross Rural Pension Fund".
That is to say, on top of the original price, an additional five yuan entrance fee was charged. Regardless of whether or not the fortune-teller had bad luck, anyone who came to have their fortune told had to pay five yuan first. And Lin Yan did not put the five 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 cannot be deposited into her own account, she can at least decide which account the money goes to. This is Lin Xi's last stubbornness.
Lin Yan knew that once the sign was hung out, the number of people who asked for divination 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 would just put the sign away, which would not delay anything. This was the advantage of being your own boss.
"Hey, that's not right. Didn't they say that it's free if you don't predict bad luck here? Why do they charge five dollars for admission now?"
"Do you still do divination?"
"Forget it. I don't think I have bad luck."
This conversation continued to ring in Lin's ears for an entire afternoon. Lin didn't take it seriously. She ignored anyone who didn't pay and focused on browsing her phone. After a few days, Lin found that although fewer people came to her for divination, 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 not unlucky. Seeing this, she felt more relieved.
With fewer people around, Lin Xi had more free time. Whenever she had time, she would visit the psychic forum and quickly learn about the latest psychic news, such as which subspace had opened, which psychic had advanced, who had come out of the subspace seriously injured, and who had not only escaped unscathed but also brought back treasures.
Lin Yan read these messages with great interest and tirelessly. While quickly mastering the knowledge of the supernatural world, she also learned a lot of new and interesting gossip. Most importantly, the news in the official forum was not filtered.
What does "no filtering" mean? For example, some news cannot be seen on domestic websites. You have to climb over the firewall and use the external network to see it. Now, with the official forum, Lin Xi doesn't have to go through so much trouble. She can see it directly on the forum. In the first few days, Lin Xi 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, causing three casualties and many serious injuries, causing a major social impact, and the police are still investigating the specific cause. However, the same news was directly accompanied by a live video on the internal forum, and the cause and effect were directly written, saying that a certain man was bewitched by a sorcerer, rushed into the kindergarten with a knife, and stabbed and killed 12 people, including 10 children and two teachers.
Such news with discrepancies often appears, and even some news that has not been revealed on Weibo is also on internal forums. It was at that time that Lin Xi realized that not only the supernatural world, but even the ordinary world she knew was not what she thought.
In the afternoon, Lin Xi had just finished a divination and saw that there were not many people there, so she took out her mobile phone to log into the forum. She soon discovered that there was a pinned post in the forum. It had only been published for ten minutes, but there were already tens of thousands of replies.
Lin Yan curiously clicked it 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 one posted by terrorists
Just as Lin Xi was thinking this, she heard the man in the hood speaking in English. Lin Xi's English was not very good, but she could understand the basic conversation.
"This psychic very bravely disrupted 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 the same noble character as him, Blue Flame decided to starve him to death 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 extremely evil supernatural organization that often relied on supernatural powers to carry out terrorist activities around the world.
There was a link below the video, and Lin Yan subconsciously clicked it and found that it was the entrance to the live broadcast, and the protagonist of the live broadcast was the supernatural being tied up in the video. People kept leaving messages in various languages on the live broadcast screen, but the most common language was English. The other party just watched quietly, and his mouth was obviously not sealed, but he didn't say a word.
"Looks like he's Chinese, right?"
"It could 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 they go, they will fall into the 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."
"Fuck, isn't that hopeless? Why would we let Lan Yan provoke us like this?"
"This is not the first or second time that Blue Flame has provoked me."
“It’s really hard to bear watching this.”
"In fact, Blue Flame's purpose is not only to provoke, but also to insult."
"Upstairs, what do you mean?"
"If nothing unexpected happens, this guy should have prevented the massacre that happened in M City, Country F last night. He killed a curse master 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, he will use the most cruel method to kill this psychic."
Lin Yan looked at the messages constantly refreshing the screen and was so angry that she almost crushed the phone.
Scum, devil, bastard!
Lin Xi cursed with all the vicious words she could think of in a flash, but it was of no use. Instead, she felt even more upset. She really couldn't bear to see 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 uncovered the man’s identity.
"It's Xu Feihang. He used to be a member of Sichuan Province's Team 1. He's a gold-type B-level supernaturalist. He joined the International Anti-Terrorism Team a year ago. It's said that his sister was killed by a sorcerer from Lan Yan, and he hated Lan Yan the most ever since then."
"What about the local anti-terrorist superpower team in Country F? Didn't they come up with a solution?"
"This is obviously a conspiracy. More people will die if they go."
"You can't just stand there and watch. This is one of our own. If I were in Country F, I would have killed them directly. Those psychics in Country F have no blood at all." A psychic with the ID Iron Hammer left an angry message.
"Tiechimer, send me your ID number and I'll reimburse you for your air ticket." Someone immediately offered to provide financial support.
"Iron Hammer, I'll help you contact the local supernatural organization."
I don't know if this guy really intended to go, or if he was just talking nonsense because no one in the forum knew each other's true identity. Anyway, he didn't show any stage fright.
"I'll buy the ticket myself. The fortune teller downstairs will calculate the address for me. I'll go there right away after he calculates it."
"Just wait for me. I'll go and arrange the ceremony."
The fortune teller said so, but no one knows whether he will really do it. For the big divination, it 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, Prophet Xiao Wen? Prophet Xiao Wen calculated the coordinates?"
"The hammer upstairs, hurry up and buy your tickets."
"Let me check the exact address."
"Country F, north of City M, Edward Farm. I've checked. You can just buy the plane ticket."
"Does anyone know the fortune teller from before? Tell him not to set up the big divination. We don't need him to calculate anymore."
In the hundreds of messages that followed, all of them asked Tiechui to buy a plane ticket. But the comrade Tiechui 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 the 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 Yan exited the forum, opened the six-group chat, and asked in it: [Have you seen the video in the forum? ]
Qingkong: [What?]
Just as Lin Yan was about to answer, she saw that Hai Wang had already posted a screenshot: [Someone from the anti-terrorist superpower team was arrested and publicly executed live on the global broadcast, and 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-level psychic, it would take a minute to get in, but they only need a few seconds to kill.]
Chu: [Maybe there will be a turnaround.]
When Lin Yan saw the word "turnaround", her eyes lit up: [What turnaround?]
Chu: [Xiao Wen divined the address.]
Xiao Wen's message means there is a chance of recovery? The first person Lin Yan thought of was the supernatural being named Tiechui who left a message on the forum saying he wanted to buy a plane ticket to save people.
Could he really save the person
Qingkong: [The prophet never predicts fate casually. He suddenly appeared to predict the future and posted it on the forum in a high-profile manner. He must have sensed 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 curled up on the sofa and watched TV. She also decided with Song Ranran to meet at the home furnishing mall tomorrow. Lin Yan had her own house for a long time, but she had never had the 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 with no expression on his face, 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're discussing rescue methods here? If you really have a way, why don't you 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 subspace gate?"
Space travel?!
Lin Xi blinked, and then blinked again, then she reached out with her left hand and pulled out a wig.
Sadako had gotten used to being threatened by Lin Yan these days. When she saw Lin Yan trying to get her out at home, she took the initiative to say, "Don't do that, Yan-chan. If you burn me, it's like burning seven or eight small targets."
Looking at the enchanting wavy pattern, Lin Xi knew that Sadako was not afraid at all. This female ghost who had been dead for many years was very eager and was sure that she would not be willing to burn her.
"I won't burn you today." Lin Xi said, suppressing her anger.
[Auntie, have you forgiven me? ]
"Let me ask you, you said before that you can go abroad after your upgrade, is that true?"
[certainly!]
"Can we go to Country F?"
[where is that?]
Lin Xi 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 Sadako.
"Here!" Lin Yan pointed at the map.
[I don’t understand this again. ]
Lin Yan twitched her lips: "When you usually climb the TV, how do you determine the direction?"
[I can sense the handsome guy's location.]
Do you only have eyes for 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 thirty 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 of no use.
[I can still tell east, west, south, and north.]
East, south, west, north
Lin Yan's eyes widened little by little, and she asked cautiously: "If I point you in the direction, can you get through?"
[Can.]
When Lin Xi saw Sadako's answer, her adrenaline surged and her breathing became rapid.
Yes, Sadako can pass through it? Is that true
etc…
Lin Yan thought of the message in the comments just now and asked again: "What about the barrier? If there is a protective barrier, can you pass through it?"
[Is there anyone who sets up a barrier on TV? ]
Yeah, who the hell would set up a barrier on TV for no reason
Lin Yan'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 Yan was absolutely sure that it was a TV.
Thinking of a certain possibility, Lin Xi's hands trembled with excitement.
How about... do something
If she can find someone, she will drag him/her into the TV and take him/her away.
If she can’t find it, she will come back by herself.
(End of this chapter)