Urban Most Awesome Dad

Chapter 219: The ruthless one speaks less_1

“Haha, Xiao Li, you truly are a hot-blooded youth, unlike us old bones who are too scared to step on stage.”

“Get up there and touch it with your own hands, puncture the lie of the ghosts and gods, let everyone see what true science really is.”

“Bro Li, I support you, you’re the coolest! Your stance on stage is so manly!”

The crowd, seeing Li Yixuan take the stage, instantly started jeering and egging him on, reveling in the excitement without concern for consequences.

Li Yixuan was indeed a bold man, walking up to Elder Wang, he smiled faintly and said, “Elder Wang, although you are a famous collector in Zhonghai, what you’ve said is a bit too fantastical, so it’s not too much for me to come and try it out myself, right?”

“Haha, of course not, if you didn’t come, others might not believe it. Feel free to touch it, but I must remind you, after you touch it, no matter what strange scenes you encounter, you must keep shouting in your mind, ‘This is an illusion, this is an illusion,’ understand?” Elder Wang smiled and advised earnestly.

“Haha, got it!” Li Yixuan nodded in agreement, but in his heart, he didn’t take Elder Wang’s words seriously at all.

He was a leader in Zhonghai City’s technology industry, and also a young power in the emerging industries of Zhonghai City. It was only through daring and perseverance that he managed to squeeze into this auction attended by many wealthy families and leading enterprises. Whether to showcase himself or to uphold his belief in science, he felt he should really touch this jade token, to probe the truth of it.

“Elder Wang, then I’m going to touch it!” Li Yixuan approached the Jade Token, slowly reaching out his hand.

“Please, President Li! Remember what I’ve told you!” Elder Wang reminded again.

“Haha!” Li Yixuan laughed it off, thinking to himself, that nonsense you made up to fool people, I, Li Yixuan, don’t believe a word of it.

With a careless smile still on his lips, Li Yixuan’s fingertips gently touched the surface of the Jade Token.

At first touch, Li Yixuan felt nothing, but then his mind suddenly sank, and his eyes closed tight, he could no longer even hear the sounds around him.

The people below the stage also noticed something unusual about Li Yixuan.

Within three seconds, they saw Li Yixuan, who had been all smiles just moments before, suddenly turn ashen, his legs trembling faintly.

“Ahhh, don’t come over here! Get off me! Dammit, help!”

At that moment, Li Yixuan suddenly let out a cry with a voice exhausted by screaming.

It was as if there was something on his back, frantically scratching with the only hand he had left, as though there was something extremely terrifying on his back.

“Ahhh! Get off, get off!” Li Yixuan flailed his arms, wildly flicking at the air behind his back.

The audience below drew in a sharp breath, the contrast in Li Yixuan before and after was too stark. He had appeared fearless just moments ago, but as soon as he touched the Jade Token, he instantly transformed into the protagonist of a horror film, screaming desperately, his voice filled with endless terror.

Could it be that the jade charm was truly an evil object? Was there really an Evil Spirit causing trouble?

The crowd below watched Li Yixuan’s performance, their minds filling with incessant guesses.

“Alright, that’s enough! You should have had your fill of the experience by now!” Seeing Li Yixuan now scared pale, constantly shouting in chaos on the stage, Wang Fangtong gently picked up a Jade Ruler, lightly tapping it on the wrist that Li Yixuan was touching the Jade Token with.

Upon this tap, Li Yixuan’s hand immediately fell away from the Jade Token, and he sat down on the ground with a thud, his hands continually scratching at his back as he shouted non-stop, “Get off, get off me, don’t be on my body!”

It took a good five or six seconds before Li Yixuan, sitting on the ground, came to his senses that he was still in the hall, facing the curious crowd, and Elder Wang’s figure was nearby, smiling at him.

“Elder Wang! There’s a ghost… there really is a ghost… Just now, a child suddenly climbed on my back, and no matter how hard I shook, I couldn’t get rid of it. It kept laughing next to my ear, ah, it was so damn terrifying, I don’t dare stay here anymore! Later, you must find someone to escort me back, dammit, this world can’t be explained by science after all!” Li Yixuan said to Wang Fangtong, still trembling.

“Young man, I had warned you earlier to keep reciting in your heart that it’s all an illusion — did you forget?” Wang Fangtong asked him softly.

“The moment I touched it, I forgot everything, then that child came out, I was too scared to think, I was straight peeing my pants!” Li Yixuan said, still not over the shock.

“Well, it’s okay now, you go down first, then have the staff find a psychologist for some psychological counseling so you don’t end up with a trauma,” Elder Wang waved at Li Yixuan.

This time Li Yixuan was noticeably more obedient, nodded his head and walked down dejectedly, creating a stark contrast to his bullish and hasty manner when he had first come up.

Then, Elder Wang glanced around at the people in the audience and asked in a deep voice, “Now, does anyone still doubt the authenticity of this Jade Token?”

People looked at each other; after witnessing the scene of Li Yixuan nearly wetting himself from fear, who would dare to doubt? Yet some were still not convinced.

“Isn’t this Li Yixuan just collaborating with you to perform a magical trick?” A middle-aged man in the audience, a bit disgruntled, asked.

He had previously worked at a TV station and was very familiar with a magician’s tricks. Although everyone else was intimidated by Li Yixuan’s demeanor, in his eyes, the fear Li Yixuan displayed was patently overdone—as they say in the business, his acting was a bit too forced.

Therefore, he harbored deep doubts about the Jade Token on stage.

“My friend, since you have doubts and suspect that the gentleman before was a plant, then you are welcome to come up and try it for yourself!” Elder Wang was quite generous, not at all angry about his questioning.

“Ha ha, let’s give it a try!” This middle-aged man was a skeptic, with his preconceived notions, he always felt that everything was a setup by the auction’s “production team.” As someone in the television industry, he was determined to use his professional spirit to break this charade.

In front of him, writing a script was like playing the fool before Guan Yu.

After all, I’m a director who has written countless scripts; your arrangements are far too uncreative.

The director then stepped onto the stage, a man of few words, reaching out to touch it right away.

Then, within the hall, a piercing scream echoed to the rafters.

“Ah! There’s a ghost!”