893 A Million Times for You 255 (1/2)

Jin Qingyan kissed her forehead and said, ”I'll let you punish me however way you'd like if that's the case.”

Grinning from ear to ear, she said, ”Hurry and prepare some clothes. We'll set off once the news article is published.”

He headed to the dressing room.

An Xiaoning began scrolling through the news online.

Less than twenty minutes later, she saw a news article about her, as promised by Tuoba Gucheng. He was rather efficient, after all.

The article was titled ”Tuoba Gucheng verifies personally that An Xiaoning is a genuine fortune-teller.”

The gist of the content was a clarification about An Xiaoning being a natural-born psychic who could communicate with spirits, and it also said that it was her paranormal abilities that helped the police crack several major cases and mysteries. It was also stated that the target of the ban was swindlers who were out to cheat money in the name of fortune-telling and that it had nothing to do with her at all. An Xiaoning was even acclaimed to be the most capable female fortune-teller in S Nation who also happened to be of a young age.

Many citizens changed their opinions toward her after the article was released.

How could it be false if even the nation's leader admitted to it himself?

An Xiaoning did not wish to make any further comments about those netizens who were sitting on the fence.

Tuoba Gucheng was the one who had driven her into a corner. At the same time, he was also the one who praised her above and beyond.

An Xiaoning and Jin Qingyan were stuck in heavy traffic due to the heavy storm in A City.

After parking their car in the carpark of the airport and paying the parking and maintenance fees, the pair boarded the plane to L City.

However, the flight was delayed for an hour due to the heavy rain.

An Xiaoning began sleeping the moment they boarded the plane, all the way until they touched down in L City two hours later.

During this time, the airport was overcrowded.

Needless to say, it must be the same for the rest of the car rental centers, subway stations, and railway stations in the city.

A somber mood filled the air in the city, and every single one of the citizens had a grave and melancholic expression on their faces.

An Xiaoning and Jin Qingyan hailed a taxi to the disaster relief command center after exiting the airport.

After chatting with the taxi driver while on their way to their destination, An Xiaoning learned that the adverse effects of the natural disaster this time were tremendous and severe. It was the first major earthquake that struck the nation in four decades.

An Xiaoning only witnessed and felt the relentlessness of natural disasters herself when she arrived at the site.

Various homes were destroyed, and numerous lives were lost.

Soldiers who were involved in relief efforts were giving everything they had to rescue the victims.

An Xiaoning saw with her very own eyes that there was not a single intact building in sight; debris from the collapsed buildings and houses were all over the place. There was nothing except the makeshift tents that had just been put up.

Despair, hopelessness, grief, agony, and resentment toward Heaven were written all over the faces of the victims.

They entered the command center. Upon the sight of An Xiaoning, Chief of Staff Lin greeted politely, ”You're here?” He made sure not to show his innermost emotions to the woman who used to be his goddaughter.

”Yes. How are the relief efforts going?”

”They're still in the midst of carrying out rescue and mitigation efforts. We're not carrying high hopes, but we won't just give up, nevertheless.”

”Why weren't the reverends able to perform the ritual?”

Chief of Staff Lin answered, ”The reverends said that there are too many wandering spirits here who have died a wrongful death. They said that the spirits hindered them from performing the ritual.”

An Xiaoning looked up and said, ”What's the purpose of keeping them around if they can't provide help whenever necessary? Just what do they even do? Is it true that the reapers were seen, or are those just false rumors?”

”It's real. The children witnessed them with their own eyes.”

An Xiaoning said coldly, ”Got it. I reckon the reverends must have been lying. Since there were reapers around, there wouldn't be too many vengeful souls to stop the rituals from proceeding. Do they really think the reapers are that incompetent? If there were not that many spirits to obstruct them, why were the reverends incapable of performing the ritual? Please relay my words to His Majesty.”