Chapter 158 You Must Believe in Science

"Wishes +1."

Lu Xian thought to himself.

After completing the third wish, he returned to the mountain.

Meanwhile, public opinion at the foot of the mountain continued to ferment, with many people even spreading the word online.

News media were also reporting on the matter, but they soon received a notice from above and issued 'rumor-refuting' announcements.

At the same time.

Rumors about the Temple caretaker on the mountain were also circulating in the village, sounding increasingly miraculous.

The stories became more and more bizarre as they were passed along.

In Lu Xian's livestream room, bullet comments poured in:

[Brother Lu is awesome!]

[Good heavens, Streamer, how did you do that?]

[Holy crap, I almost peed myself just now, I'm not joking!]

[That was so creepy, dying such a miserable death and then suddenly coming out to scare people...]

[Open the packages! Open the packages!]

[...]

Lu Xian had also returned to the mountain.

He had been wondering earlier—if that female ghost sought revenge, where did that guy go who deliberately tried to divert the trouble by summoning her? Would he die at the foot of the mountain?

It turned out he really did.

And he died quite miserably.

"Alright, alright, I'll go back and open the packages in a bit."

Time really flies; he had forgotten to open today's packages again.

Lu Xian returned to the Temple and saw seven or eight people who had rushed inside, looking panicked.

They seemed to be villagers from the village below, along with a female Streamer.

They were startled when they first saw Lu Xian, but after seeing that the newcomer wasn't that corpse, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

Then they scrambled to ask:

"Young man, what happened to that ghost at the foot of the mountain?"

"Young Temple Caretaker, did the police officers shoot that ghost?"

Lu Xian had no choice but to explain, "That corpse just now was experiencing a 'Lucid Interval Before Death.' After telling its 'grievances' to the police officers, its soul returned to the Yellow Springs."

Lucid interval?

Grievances?

Returned to the Yellow Springs?

Why did these words sound like he was just fooling them?

"In other words, that corpse didn't turn into a zombie to harm people?"

The female Streamer was holding her phone and livestreaming; she had also just started her broadcast.

She was a small-time Streamer, usually only having dozens of people in her livestream room.

After what happened just now, the platform had banned her livestream room for fifteen minutes, but the big data algorithm had pushed her to thousands of people.

So now that she had just started broadcasting, people were flooding in continuously, and the number of viewers reached over 3,000.

The bullet comments in the livestream room were all asking whether the corpse coming back to life was real or fake.

"How could there be zombies? You must believe in science."

Lu Xian smiled.

Everyone was stunned.

You're a Temple caretaker, you make a living off a Temple, and you're telling us to believe in science?

No matter how they heard it, those words felt awkward.

"If you don't believe me, why don't you go down the mountain to take a look, or have your friends and relatives down there check out the scene for you?" Lu Xian said with a half-smile.

Everyone shook their heads; just thinking about the terrifying images from before gave them goosebumps.

"The magnetic field here is still safer, with the divine statue's protection~" An older woman put her hands together, bowed to the deity, and muttered prayers.

Some people also started using their phones to call friends at the foot of the mountain to ask about the situation.

But the responses they got were all along the lines of, "I'm not clear, I don't know, are you freaking asking me to go to my death?"

For a moment, the people inside the Temple didn't know what to do.

Just as Lu Xian was about to leave, one of the villagers suddenly called out to him:

"By the way, Mister Temple Caretaker."

"I heard you cured Xiao Fu's cancer. Is that true or fake?"

Hearing this.

The people who were unaware of the situation all looked at him with shocked expressions.

Cancer?

Cured?

These two terms seemed like they would never go together.

'Could this guy be a shill?' The passersby who didn't know the truth remained skeptical.

The viewers in the female Streamer's livestream room also sent bullet comments saying:

"Is this a scripted act?"

"A 'miracle doctor' promoting products?"

Lu Xian responded to this with a mysterious smile:

"You can just go ask him yourselves."

Suddenly, one villager's expression shifted, seemingly remembering the words he had heard at the foot of the mountain earlier.

Someone had been questioning and mocking this Temple caretaker, saying, "If he's so capable, can he solve this case?"

After that, the terrifying incident of the corpse coming back to life seemed to have happened.

Could it be...

The more he thought about it, the more terrifying it became.

The villager's gaze toward Lu Lin instantly became filled with fear and dread, and he suddenly said:

"I... I'll burn some incense."

The villager stuck the lit incense into the burner, then fumbled in his pockets and stuffed all the change he had into the Merit Box.

The others couldn't help but look at the man's sudden strange behavior with odd expressions.

However, catching the scent of the burning incense, everyone's anxious hearts seemed to calm down slightly.

"I'll burn some incense too, to ask for the deity's protection, for great luck and prosperity, for the help of benefactors, to avoid petty people, and for peace and safety..."

In an instant.

The several people in the Temple also picked up incense from beside the altar, lit three sticks each, bowed, and prayed for safety.

Those who had cash on them also followed suit and donated money into the Merit Box.

"Handsome guy, do you support donating money by scanning a code?"

There were also people who didn't carry cash when going out, such as the female Streamer; seeing everyone else donating, she felt a bit uneasy for a moment.

"Not for the time being."

Lu Xian smiled; he could actually have her scan his phone to pay, but he felt there was no need for that.

The group chatted in the Temple for a while, and soon news reached the mountain.

Someone said:

"I got the latest news. They say many police cars have arrived, and they're demanding that anyone who filmed videos must delete them and not spread them..."

Then someone else looked at their phone and said:

"I also received news. I heard that after the corpse revealed the cause of death, it stopped moving. It's being sent for an autopsy now. It seems it's being escorted by special forces..."

"My signal is so bad."

Soon, the villagers in the Temple discovered that their phone signals had all dropped to empty bars at the same time.

"No signal."

The female Streamer looked at the sudden loss of signal, her expression dazed.

The internet had actually been cut off.

Seeing this in Lu Xian's livestream room, viewers commented:

[Standard procedure.]

[I get it, they just won't let you spread it out.]

[But they seem to have handled it a bit late...]

[Interesting, interesting.]

"What do we do now?"

For a moment, someone tried to make a call, only to find it couldn't go through, leaving them stunned.

"Just stay in the Temple, what else can we do?"

Half an hour later.

Lu Xian, who had returned to the small house next to the Temple, suddenly heard a commotion outside.

Lu Xian walked out to take a look, and as a result, he saw...