Chapter 73 - 69: Please Accept My Condolences

After listening to Zhou, everyone in the livestream laughed so hard that they were pounding on their desks, tears streaming down their faces.

Finally, someone brave enough spoke what was on everyone’s mind!

"Hahaha, Younger Brother Zhou is definitely a seasoned fan of the master, deeply aware of the master’s power!"

"Damn, you really are quite the little rascal!"

"Whenever our master speaks, it’s either someone’s wearing a green hat, facing death, or getting into legal trouble."

"Look, look, what’s this? This is foresight!"

"Younger Brother, since you’re not doing fortune-telling, why join the fun? Let me, I want to know where my wife is!"

"Old Tie, I did the fortune-telling for you, your wife is lying in someone else’s bed!"

"Zhou seems a bit shy, but he can articulate what’s on all of our minds!"

"Thanks to the past victims... no, the lucky viewers who brought everyone joy!"

Lu Heng was rendered speechless.

Goodness, did he carry such an "evil reputation" on the internet?

"Since Young Friend Zhou doesn’t want a reading, I’ll just pick another winner!"

Lu Heng smiled and was ready to end the link with Zhou.

"Master, wait a minute!"

"Master, I want a reading!"

Seeing this, Zhou hurriedly shouted.

Hearing this, Lu Heng frowned.

Sister, weren’t you refusing a reading?

Why the sudden change of heart?

While he was puzzled, Zhou spoke again, "Master, can you do a reading based on a photo?"

Lu Heng was slightly stunned.

It was the first time he received such a request.

He gently shook his head and said, "Young Friend Zhou, I’m really sorry!"

"With just a photo, I really can’t do a reading."

When Zhou showed disappointment, he added, "My rules for fortune-telling, young friend, you should know them."

"Unless the person is present for the reading, then you must provide the person’s name and date of birth, or some kind of identification..."

"If you have none of these, then forgive my limited skills, I can’t get a result."

On this point, Lu Heng had no solution.

What he called knowing everything was merely relying on the Celestial Destiny System.

To use the system to glimpse someone’s fate, he must lock onto the person seeking the reading.

With just a photo, nothing can be deduced.

After all, with so many similar-looking people, the system couldn’t accurately target.

Zhou’s eyes lit up after hearing this.

He quickly said, "Master, I have an ID number and a name, can you do it?"

Lu Heng nodded lightly, "Yes!"

"With both, a reading is possible."

"Great!"

Having received a positive answer, Zhou leaped three feet high.

"Master, please wait a moment, I’ll go get something..."

With excitement, Zhou’s hands trembled slightly from being overly excited.

He rummaged around, eventually finding a copy of an ID.

"Master, I found a copy of an ID."

"Please help me do a reading for the owner of this ID copy!"

As Zhou spoke, he switched the phone camera and brought the ID copy close so Lu Heng could see the details.

Lu Heng picked up the phone and closely examined the details.

The original owner of the ID copy was "Zhou Xinxi", female, born in 1987.

Zhou explained on the side, "Master, she is my cousin!"

"Around Qingming 2017, my cousin suddenly disappeared."

"We asked her friends, colleagues, classmates, and all said they hadn’t seen her."

"Later, we reported it and reviewed surveillance footage."

"The community’s cameras only caught my cousin coming home, with no footage of her leaving."

"For almost six years now, she seemed to have vanished into thin air, completely disappearing from the world."

"Yet, we never stopped searching for her."

"Master, tonight being fortunate enough to win this reading opportunity, I want to ask for your help in finding my cousin!"

After speaking, Zhou stood up and solemnly bowed to Lu Heng.

"Young Friend Zhou, please wait a moment!"

"I’ll try and see if I can determine an outcome..."

As he spoke, Lu Heng silently called upon the Celestial Destiny System in his mind.

"System, query this person’s past information!"

[System Prompt: Querying past information will cost the host three days of life. Continue?]

"Yes!"

Upon confirmation, everything about Zhou Xinxi’s past flashed before his eyes like a movie.

After watching, Lu Heng frowned.

"Oh no! The master seems to have gone silent again!"

"Based on my observations, when the master doesn’t speak immediately, it means something’s complicated."

"Sister Zhou’s disappearance must have some oddities!"

"Buddy, brace yourself!"

"Could Sister Zhou have been murdered?"

"If murdered, where’s the body?"

"Yeah, killing isn’t hard, hiding the body is!"

"Isn’t it simple? Like last time, someone’s rental had a body hidden in it!"

"Need to call the police?"

"If Sister Zhou was indeed harmed, reporting is a must!"

As comments floated by, Zhou’s heart pounded.

With no trace of his cousin for six years, the family was prepared for her demise.

Yet until the last moment, Zhou refused to believe such an unclear death for his beloved cousin.

"Ahem... Ahem..."

Lu Heng cleared his throat, then solemnly said, "Young Friend Zhou, please accept my condolences!"

"Your cousin had already passed when she disappeared six years ago!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou was stunned.

His eyes quickly turned red.

"No... no way?"

"She’s dead?"

Due to his parents’ busy work schedule, he grew up with his cousin’s family.

One could even say he was raised by Zhou Xinxi.

Hearing the tragic news of her death was hard to accept.

The atmosphere in the livestream fell silent.

"Younger Brother Zhou, the dead can’t be revived, accept our condolences!"

"Stop crying, quickly ask the master how your cousin died!"

"Yes, find out if it was a natural death or murder!"

"Right, don’t let the perpetrator roam free!"

"Surely murder, otherwise how could the body be missing?"