Chapter 22: Always by his side (Part 1)

April 5, 2023Ai Hrist

After the third episode ended, Xiao Zhou, the assistant, bought Gu Zhisang a ticket back to the city in advance, and she received a summons invitation from the Rongcheng Police Station as soon as she got off the plane.

The signature of the text message was from the Lingcheng Branch of Rongcheng.

The system jumped out and asked: “Sangsang, are you going?”

Gu Zhisang put away her phone, “Well, let’s go and have a look.”

Before she left Southern Province, Gu Xuechun vaguely mentioned a few words, saying that the official Special Spiritual Department he belongs to was very interested in her, and it was very likely that he will ask her some questions;

It just so happened that Gu Zhisang herself was somewhat curious about the spiritual organization of this world.

Only then did she know that Taoist Sect and Spiritual Team were two completely different organizations.

The former was a non-governmental organization headed by several major metaphysics families and sects, which have existed for hundreds of thousands of years. Currently, more than 95% of the metaphysics in Xia Country were restricted and managed by metaphysics.

A hundred years ago, after the founding of the New Xia Kingdom, there were a lot of things to be done. At that time, there were often spirits and monsters in the mountains who came out to make trouble. To suppress these evil spirits and stabilize the nation, the connection between the upper echelon of the country and Taoism was very close.

But monks always feel that they were superior to others, they can spy on the secrets of the heavens and connect to the underworld. Relying on the needs of the country, they become more rampant. There have been several cases of mysterious masters violating the law, killing people, and stealing goods, but in the end, they couldn’t catch people and closed them hastily.

Since then, the country has begun to form and cultivate its spiritual organization, which was the latter: Special Spiritual Department.

It was just a pity, the Taoist Sect’s roots were huge, and the aristocratic families know that once the official organization grows, their status will inevitably be weakened, and they have been secretly suppressing the development of the Special Spiritual Department.

Until now, most of the mystical masters recruited in the spiritual group were idlers who have left the Taoist Sect, or some non-metaphysical families with psychic talents, self-taught people, lacking the ability to sit in the command with deep Taoist Sect, who has the strong ability.

This has always been a serious problem for the higher-ups.

In the afternoon

In the innermost corner of the third floor of Rongcheng Police Station, there was a special department.

There was neither a group name nor a room number on the door on the wall, but it was tacit understanding in the hearts of the police officers. It was the rumored department specialized in dealing with supernatural events.

At this time, two young men in plain clothes who looked a little lazy and did not look like serious police officers were sitting at the table playing cards.

The cards in their hands were not poker, each one was painted with strange and twisted oracle bone inscriptions.

“If lose again, I’ll stop playing. The paper lottery is not what I’m good at.” The flat-headed man pushed the cards in his hand forward, and said angrily: “It’s almost three o’clock, do you think that Gu Zhisang will come over? She’s a female star, maybe she won’t even read the messages we sent.”

“Even if she is willing to come over, our department can’t afford it. It is said that celebrities can earn tens of millions a day.” The man with glasses on the opposite side slowly packed up the paper slips.

Suddenly, the middle-aged woman who was sitting at the main desk and working at her desk raised her head: “Shut up, someone is coming.”

The moment she finished speaking, there was a knock on the door from the outside, and a female police officer pushed the door in: “Team Leader Zheng, Miss Gu is here to see you.”

Gu Zhisang’s figure stepped out from behind.

The woman stood up to greet her, and shook hands with her, “Hi, I’m Zheng Ruyu, the head of the Lingcheng Division of Rongcheng. These two are my subordinates. The tall one is Song Chen and the one with glasses is Wang Xiaole.”

The two young men smiled stiffly at her.

After sitting down, Zheng Ruyu said with sharp eyes: “Miss Gu, we invited you here this time because we learned that you are not a registered mystic master of the Taoist Sect. We would like to ask if you are willing to join our spiritual group?”

They have internal support in Taoism, and the news spread that this Gu Zhisang was not a disciple of any Taoist family or sect.

She suddenly found the Emperor’s tomb and contacted the office to take over, which caught the Taoist Sect by surprise, and some of them were outraged and complained.

Now the Taoist Sect also investigating her details.

Coupled with the fact that Gu Xuechun went to contact her personally and told his superiors about the female star’s excellent ventilation skills, the headquarters issued an order to Zheng Ruyu, telling her to contact Gu Zhisang before the Taoist Sect.

It would be best if she could draw people into their group.

Song Chen answered, “Our Spiritual Group is a formal department, with staff and work permits. The basic salary is 20,000 yuan and there is a commission for completing tasks. There is also an increase!”

Zheng Ruyu glanced at him, nodded, and added: “And we also know that Miss Gu is plagued by public opinion and false rumors on the Internet. If you join our team, you will be a public official. If necessary, we will take action to clean up the false statements on the Internet for you.”

These words told Gu Zhisang that there was also a reason why they helped her gain popularity like yesterday when the official blog ended.

Gu Zhisang guessed something before she came, and was not particularly surprised, but she still shook her head and said:

“I’m sorry, I have no intention of joining any organization. Not even the Taoist Sect. I don’t like to be restricted by rules, but I can guarantee that I will not use metaphysics to engage in things that violate secular laws.”

In her previous life, she lived in the mountains for more than a hundred years. She didn’t know how to deal with interpersonal relationships at all, and she couldn’t obey others’ orders and be driven.

Zheng Ruyu didn’t show any change in her facial expression, but pondered for a moment and said:

“I can understand Miss Gu’s thinking, but… if you are alone, you will still be restricted by Taoism.”

Gu Zhisang frowned slightly: “What do you mean?”