"At nine this morning! There will be..."
Lin Fan tried to describe the specific incident, but his breathing suddenly became erratic. A mysterious force was preventing him from revealing what would happen that day.
System, what's going on?
[Ding! Your cultivation is insufficient. You cannot divulge the heavenly secrets of major events.] [Ding! Congratulations, you have triggered a new mission: help three people defy fate and change their destinies by preventing them from going to Tubaocun Village. Complete the mission to receive one Foundation Establishment Pill.] [Ding! Congratulations, you have triggered a new mission: help the villagers of Tubaocun Village defy fate and change their destinies. Earn one hundred Heavenly Secrets Points for each person you help.]
Three notifications sounded in succession.
Lin Fan froze. He had never received two missions at once before.
But on closer inspection, the two missions were connected.
Both the first mission and the second offered generous rewards.
Saving lives and earning rewards were in no way at odds.
Since he couldn't directly reveal what would happen, he could only indirectly convince the three Uncle Cops that danger would strike Tubaocun Village.
"Master, Tubaocun Village may be tucked away in the mountains with a small population, but we can't make everyone there leave within two hours based on your word alone."
"I believe in your abilities, Master, but this sort of thing simply isn't our call."
The three Uncle Cops were in a difficult position. Mainly, Lin Fan hadn't named a specific incident, so they couldn't very well report it to their superiors.
Just then, Xiao Tuantuan squeezed her way over.
She held up her phone, pointing the camera at Lin Fan.
Over the past two days, she had found the secret to drawing viewers. Whenever she livestreamed Lin Fan, her stream's popularity score reached several million, with over a million actual viewers.
[Boss Xiu: Master Lin is at it again!]
[Ragdoll Cat: Master Lin seemed to mention Tubaocun Village just now. It's on the outskirts of Jiangzhou. You have to cross one mountain after another to get there.]
[Ninety Below Zero: I've never seen Master Lin cough up blood before. Is this a side effect of revealing heavenly secrets?]
[Top Diehard Fan: Something is definitely going to happen to Tubaocun Village. These Uncle Cops are so stupid. Hurry up and tell everyone to evacuate!]
[Jiangzhou Uncle Cop: Something this big isn't ours to decide. I've already reported it to our superiors. Hopefully, we'll get a response.]
Lin Fan frowned. It was seven in the morning, leaving two hours before disaster struck Tubaocun Village.
The people of Tubaocun Village would need at least an hour to evacuate to a safe distance.
After thinking for a moment, Lin Fan approached it from another angle. "In half an hour, torrential rain will fall across Jiangzhou. Tubaocun Village lies on low ground. Do you understand now?"
Torrential rain?
Everyone instinctively looked up at the sky. It was cloudless, without the slightest sign of rain.
"Master Lin, the weather forecast said it wouldn't rain today."
"It hasn't rained in Jiangzhou for a whole month. It's been unbearably hot every day, and it's even forty degrees outside today. Surely it can't rain in this weather."
[Ragdoll Cat: I just checked the forecast. There won't be any rain from today through three days from now.]
[Ultimate Contrarian: Has Master Lin gone crazy? I could believe him when he told people's fortunes, but now he's predicting the weather outright. This is ridiculous.]
[Second-Generation Sea Bass: I don't buy it. How could fortune-telling tell you whether it's going to rain?]
[Jiangzhou Uncle Cop: We heard back from our superiors. They just asked the meteorological bureau to run observations, and there are no signs of rain.]
Even the meteorological bureau had weighed in.
The viewers in the livestream all thought Master Lin might still be groggy after just waking up, causing him to get his prediction wrong.
Chapter 48: Master Lin Gets Angry!
"Why won't any of you believe me?"
Lin Fan felt helpless. Why was the credibility he had built up over the past few days suddenly useless?
"Could that mysterious force from just now have affected them?"
He figured that if even he could be affected, the others surely could too.
"Maybe I'm trying to change too many people's destinies this time, and that's why the forces of heaven and earth have intervened."
Lin Fan sank into thought. Time was running short. If the evacuation hadn't begun by eight, his missions would probably fail.
Whatever he said now, they probably wouldn't believe that torrential rain was coming.
After all, the sun was blazing overhead, and there wasn't a cloud in sight.
If there had been clouds, perhaps some people would have believed him.
"It'll only work if I predict something else to strengthen their conviction and make them trust me more."
Lin Fan muttered to himself and swept his gaze across the crowd, repeatedly divining things that would happen to each person over the next half hour.
His face grew steadily paler.
Even though he had reached the first layer of Qi Refining, fortune-telling on such a large scale still placed an enormous strain on him.
Suddenly.
Lin Fan's gaze stopped on a young girl.
Dark clouds also hung over her head, as though misfortune were about to descend.
"Liu Ru, thirteen years old. Are you planning to leave?"
The girl named Liu Ru paused, then nodded. She had come to buy breakfast and, happening to notice the commotion here, had stopped to take a look.
"There will be a traffic accident at the Taihe Street intersection. Just as you step out into the intersection, a red sedan will hit you."
"Not only that, after hitting you, the driver of the red sedan will panic and keep driving forward, crashing into an oncoming bus."
"There will be twenty-four people on the bus: twenty men and four women. Since the red sedan won't be going very fast, the passengers on the bus will suffer only minor injuries. No one will be killed or seriously hurt."
The more Lin Fan said, the paler his face became.
This was taking too much out of him!
[Boss Xiu: Holy shit, Master Lin's description is so detailed. It's like he saw the accident himself!]
[Ragdoll Cat: It seems Master Lin got angry because we didn't believe him.]
[Ninety Below Zero: But now that Master Lin has told her, the girl should be fine, right?]
[Ultimate Contrarian: Haha, I think all the praise has gone to Master Lin's head. If he can divine something in that much detail, then I must be able to fly.]
Although many longtime fans chose to believe him, a large portion of the livestream's audience consisted of new followers drawn in by videos.
These new followers were rather skeptical of Lin Fan's words.
"Little girl, let's not leave. Then the master will have gotten it wrong."
"Master, you've told her everything outright. As long as she doesn't leave, your prediction disproves itself."
"Master Lin, looks like you're going to get it wrong this time."
The people around them all joined in, refusing to let the girl leave.
The girl hesitated. Since everyone was telling her not to leave, she could only stop and stand there, not knowing what to do.
"She will definitely leave," Lin Fan said confidently.
What was meant to happen would still happen.
"Master Lin, aren't you being a little too certain?"
Seeing the chat flooded with inflammatory comments, Xiao Tuantuan came to Lin Fan's side and said softly, "Master, you've already told her something will happen to her. Of course she won't leave."
Lin Fan gave a mysterious smile and calculated on his fingers again, confirming that the girl would leave no matter how the people around her tried to stop her.
Less than five minutes later.
Suddenly, the girl's smartwatch rang, its screen displaying an incoming call from "Mom."
"Hi, Mom! I've bought everything. I'll be right back!"
"You need to leave for work? I'll run back. Wait a little longer, Mom!"
She hung up.
The girl looked anxious. She had specifically come to buy breakfast for her mother. Usually, after finishing breakfast, her mother would have just enough time to catch the bus to work.
If she didn't leave now, her mother might be late.
The girl's thoughts were simple. All she cared about was her mother, making sure she wouldn't be late for work or go hungry.
"Please move! My mom has to go to work. I need to hurry home."
The girl desperately tried to squeeze out, but everyone deliberately stood in her way, unwilling to let her leave.
Before long.
She was on the verge of tears and cried, "Why won't you let me leave? I want to go home!"
Hearing her cry, the people around her instinctively stepped back.
But a handful of spectators who were only too happy to stir up trouble still wanted to stop her from leaving.
"Why are you bullying a little girl?"
The three Uncle Cops stepped forward and reprimanded the onlookers.
Seeing the Uncle Cops arrive, the people blocking the girl moved aside, opening a narrow path.
"Wait a moment."
Just then, Lin Fan stepped forward, took out a Peace Talisman, and placed it in the girl's palm. "No matter what happens, don't let go of this on your way home."
Hearing Lin Fan's gentle voice, the girl gripped the Peace Talisman tightly, then ran desperately toward the end of the street.
Suddenly.
A piercing screech of brakes rang out.
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