While the audience were happily chatting in the livestream channel, An Rugu opened her private messages and sent a message to her recent destined person, <Time Is Fleeting>: [The effect of the Tranquility Talisman is only one month. I don’t recommend relying on it to calm your mind. Ultimately, you have to make it through on your own.]

[If a person could always be clear and tranquil, all heaven and earth would belong to them.]

Then she contacted the third destined person, <Mother Wang>.

After a while, the person connected to the livestream. A middle-aged woman in her fifties appeared on the screen. She had a subtle perm and was dressed very neatly. One could often see this kind of woman on the street.

She seemed reluctant to show her face and wore a mask. However, her brow was furrowed, and her expression was anxious, as if she had encountered something unpleasant.

As soon as she entered the livestream channel, she hurriedly said, “Hello, host, you were recommended to me by a mahjong friend. She said you’re very accurate in fortune-telling. Just now, my daughter has been kidnapped. Tell me, what should I do?”

Her tone was flustered, and she was pacing around the room with her cell phone, obviously very anxious.

When the people in the livestream channel heard this, they were shocked.

[Holy crap, kidnapping still exists in a society ruled by law?]

[Even though we can’t see it, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. There’s always darkness hidden beneath the light. It seems this Auntie’s family is rich.]

<Mother Wang> was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. After seeing these comments, she slapped her thigh and said, “My family is just an ordinary family. We don’t have any money. The kidnappers sent me a message asking for 1,000,000 yuan, but I don’t have that much money. I asked my husband, he’s borrowing money from relatives right now.”

Seeing how desperately anxious she was for her daughter, everyone felt as if their hearts were being pulled apart.

[I look at her and it’s like I’m seeing my mom. If I were kidnapped, she’d definitely be this worried. I want to call the police.]

[If you call the police, the kidnappers would definitely kill her daughter. You can’t call the police.]

[I know why the destined person is wearing a mask. The host is so popular now, I think she is afraid that the kidnappers will recognize her.]

Many people gave gifts in the livestream channel: 

[I hope the host can help her find her daughter!]

Even if they didn’t say it, An Rugu would naturally do it.

She lowered her eyes and thought about it; this reminded her of jiangshi Su Zhi’s kidnapping. Although kidnapping was rare, it has not disappeared completely.

Being kidnapped could not be resolved by simply calling the police.

The question was how to rescue the girl from the kidnappers safely?

She thought for a long time but still had no clue, so she looked at <Mother Wang>: “Do you have a photo of your daughter? Send me one so that I can tell her fortune more carefully and accurately.

“Oh, and pay the divination fee, a high-powered gun salute.”

“Okay.”

<Mother Wang> hurriedly sent a photo and paid the divination fee.

The woman in the photo was about twenty-five or twenty-six years old. She was dressed neatly in a suit and had the heroic demeanor of a workplace elite.

An Rugu took a deep breath, calmed herself down, and calculated on her fingers.

After a long time, she suddenly opened her eyes and didn’t know what to say for a moment.

Seeing that she had stopped calculating, <Mother Wang> thought that the result had come out, and she asked many questions in a hurry, and her words were almost incoherent, “Master, is my daughter okay? If we give them the 1,000,000 yuan, will they return my daughter to me? No, they won’t kill her, right?”

An Rugu was about to speak when there was a sudden noise outside the door and a middle-aged man walked in.

The man handed his phone to <Mother Wang>, his face pale and stammering, “The kidnapper called me, and I don’t know what to say. You should talk to him.”

Perhaps because she was a mother, she took a deep breath, grabbed the phone, and put it to her ear. “Is my daughter okay?”

A deep, middle-aged man’s voice came from the other end of the phone, “She’s fine for now, but whether her future is good or not depends on your choice. Are you ready for the 1,000,000 yuan?”

<Mother Wang> looked at her husband, who shook his head with a troubled look on his face, which made her heart skip a beat.

It seemed that the money was not ready.

She was anxious and terrified; she didn’t know how to tell the middle-aged man.

If she told the truth, the other party might kill her daughter. If she lied, they really didn’t have 1,000,000 yuan and couldn’t come up with the money, so her daughter would still be killed.

It was a dead end no matter how you look at it…

Deep despair welled up in her heart. She gritted her teeth, her brain racing, and decided to go all out. “My family really doesn’t have 1,000,000 yuan in savings. I can’t afford that much. Can you make it cheaper?”

The other side paused and said, “… How much cheaper do you want?”

<Mother Wang> blinked, feeling as if she had been pardoned. She keenly noticed the tell-tale signs given by the other party and her heart was filled with joy.

What she heard was… the ransom was negotiable.

After she realized that the other party was not very firm in their demand, her countless experiences of bargaining came to her mind.

She bit her lip and tentatively gave the lowest figure, her voice mournful, “I’m sorry, but I only have 30,000 yuan on hand right now, and my husband has 50,000 yuan. Do you think 80,000 yuan will be enough?”

Her tone was so pitiful that anyone who heard it would think she was telling the truth.

The husband next to him was stunned for a moment and blurted out, “Huh?”

Their family was not rich, but their savings were at least twice as much as she said, and that didn’t include the money he was able to borrow from relatives. What she said was too little.

After hearing him make a noise, <Mother Wang> turned her head and glanced at him, her eyes as sharp as a knife, as if to say, ‘Don’t talk!’

She was testing the kidnapper’s bottom line.

Her husband has been with her for so many years and was very familiar with her eye language. He immediately looked down at his nose and shut up.

I Livestream Divination to the World translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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Chapter 70.2 — Kidnapped
Chapter 70.3 — Kidnapped
Chapter 70.4 — Kidnapped
Chapter 71.1 — Catching Souls
Chapter 71.2 — Catching Souls
Chapter 71.3 — Catching Souls
Chapter 71.4 — Catching Souls
Chapter 71.5 — Catching Souls
Chapter 72.1 — Their Date At The Ferris Wheel