After having a vegetarian breakfast in the morning, I basked in the sun. After the masters in the temple completed their morning lessons, I went to draw a fortune stick and asked about my future. The expression of the fortune-teller was somewhat excited, describing the fortunes as flawless, almost as if flowers were falling from the sky, very pleasing to hear. At noon, I had half a bowl of vegetarian noodles, then wandered around this small temple until the sun set in the west...
This was Ning Aoxue’s "hostage" life at Jiming Temple for a day. Although it didn’t sound too difficult, she continuously felt mentally disoriented, like her heart was hanging in midair, with an inexplicable worry lingering over her mind, making her unable to adapt.
It was getting dark, Lin Feng should be arriving soon, however, Ning Aoxue somewhat hoped that Lin Feng would not appear at all...
"Do you know why I arranged for Lin Feng to meet at nightfall?" Suddenly, the Jade Raksha turned her head as the sun gradually sank below the horizon and asked.
"I don’t know..." Ning Aoxue subconsciously glanced at the Jade Raksha, "Why?"
"There are two specific reasons, but they are both for one purpose, which is to kill Lin Feng!" The Jade Raksha quietly stared at Ning Aoxue and said in a low voice, "First, I am skilled in night battles. The night is my domain, so I chose to face him at dusk. Second, I deliberately left him hanging for a day, just to make him, like you, distressed, worried, anxious, guilty, and fearful, consequently downgrading his state... As the old saying in China goes, this is seizing the advantage of time and place and using rest to combat labor!"
Ning Aoxue looked sadly at the Jade Raksha. From her attitude, she could tell that the Jade Raksha was very confident and probably didn’t regard Lin Feng seriously... This time, Lin Feng really might not have a chance.
After thinking for a moment, Ning Aoxue suddenly bit her lower lip slightly and said in a deep voice to the Jade Raksha, "Don’t be too complacent too soon, Lin Feng may not attend the meeting, and even if he does, he won’t come alone. Maybe he will bring many friends to confront you together!"
"Whether Lin Feng will come or not, you should know better than me..." The Jade Raksha looked at Ning Aoxue with a calm expression and said in a deep voice, "Your state today has already explained everything! Furthermore, if it’s really as you said, that Lin Feng breaks his promise and brings many people to confront me, it’s not like I am unprepared. I might as well tell you that on the highest point of this temple’s bell tower, I’ve placed a large dose of ’Thunderball’. You might not know what a ’Thunderball’ is, but you should have heard of a ’dirty bomb’. A Thunderball is a type of dirty bomb! If I detonate it, all the monks in this temple, including you, will become burial accompaniments..."
Ning Aoxue turned pale. She knew what a dirty bomb was: a makeshift explosive device made from some nuclear waste or nuclear material of insufficient purity, designed to use the radioactive materials inside to cause tremendous damage - an inhumane bomb...
The most terrifying aspect of a dirty bomb is that while its direct destructive power is not strong, it can instantly expose everyone within range to a high dose of radiation, causing them to suffer from severe atomic diseases, ultimately leading to a tragic death...
If, as the other party claimed, there is such a high-dose dirty bomb, then no one in this temple can escape!
"You despicable scoundrel! You would use so many innocent lives as hostages!" Ning Aoxue angrily berated the Jade Raksha...
"Despicable? Perhaps..." The Jade Raksha glanced at Ning Aoxue and laughed lightly, "I actually envy you..."
"Envy me, why?" Ning Aoxue looked at the Jade Raksha in surprise.
"I envy your innocence and ignorance. I’m sorry, these words are not derogatory... Or rather, I envy that you have lived a carefree life from childhood without scheming, and without experiencing life and death..." The Jade Raksha paused here, then continued blandly, "Because we live in different environments, we have different values... When you have a chance to live in a world where unless you think of every way to kill everyone who threatens you, you won’t survive, you will understand that the so-called moral standards you revere are nothing but worthless empty words! No one will discuss what’s despicable with a dead person..."
Ning Aoxue was silent; she couldn’t imagine the Jade Raksha’s living environment, but from the other party’s emotionless tone since last night, Ning Aoxue could probably guess that the Jade Raksha’s life might not be so easy...
"If you need help, I can help you..." Ning Aoxue murmured after a while, speaking softly to the Jade Raksha, "I just ask you to give up your original goal..."
"Miss Ning, I don’t want to hurt you. All you need to do is to wait for the outcome in this temple! No matter who survives between Lin Feng and me, you can safely walk out of the temple..." The Jade Raksha spoke to Ning Aoxue in a low voice while gently extending her hand, pointed in the air, and in an instant, hit Ning Aoxue’s acupoint for coma, causing her to fall asleep...
Then, the Jade Raksha helped Ning Aoxue into the guest room behind, gently closed the door, and slowly turned around, looking towards the setting sun. On the uphill path there, a lone figure emerged.
...
Lin Feng visited quite a few places that day, went home to see Jiang Xiuyun, then went to see Wu Mei and Tang Rou, even had lunch with Cao Tiannan and Cao Ying, and finally chatted with Xu Yishan and Xu Jing over afternoon tea. Eventually, he casually hailed a taxi and arrived at the foot of West Mountain.
Then, Lin Feng slowly started climbing the stone path up the mountain step by step. After the path took a turn, he finally saw Jiming Temple atop the mountain and, about two to three hundred meters away, a silhouette cloaked in black behind a section of a white railing.
Although Lin Feng and the Jade Raksha didn’t know each other, at that moment, the two locked onto each other’s figures with great clarity, like two massive magnets, instantly attracting one another.
No words were needed, nor explanations. At the moment their gazes met, Lin Feng and the Jade Raksha were ready for battle.
Lin Feng’s body was still relaxed for now because he was still far away from the other person and contact had not yet begun. If his body was too tense, it would exhaust his energy, so he just concentrated, prepared to strike at any moment.
At the moment when the sun finally dipped below the horizon, the Jade Raksha’s figure floated up, like a weightless leaf, swaying towards where Lin Feng stood.
Under the evening glow, a shadow in the background of the Cang Mountain ancient temple cut across the sky, forming a beautiful yet equally terrifying scene.
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