Chapter 37: Night Raid

  This desolate land has a characteristic: there are many abandoned bricks and tiles, and when we walk on them, if we're not careful, it's easy to slip and fall.

  We were both on high alert, surrounding the intersection in a T-shape. Panzi and I also took out our batons, so no matter where we encountered danger, we could provide assistance in the shortest time possible.

  Bailian Media has no experience in this area and is far behind us.

  We've been wandering around this desolate place for a good while, at least a quarter of an hour. But looking around, I don't think there's anything eerie about it. If ghosts really did appear in broad daylight, wouldn't there be some kind of ominous wind blowing?

  I think Bai Ling is fooling us, he's been studying those heretical things day after day, he must have gone blind.

  Before I could even ask, Bai Ling shouted loudly, "Everyone be careful, there's danger behind us!"

  His roar was too "emotional", I suddenly felt a knot in my heart, and even forgot to look clearly at what was behind, so scared that I hastily bowed my head, turned around and held the whip in front of me.

  I and Pan Zi both made this move, Lu Yu Feng was even more direct, he suddenly turned around, raising his arm with the watch on it.

  But what danger lies behind us? The sun is still shining brightly. I gave a displeased glance at the White Spirit Medium.

  He sat on a pile of broken tiles, panting heavily, with a look of lingering fear.

  I really want to ask him, sitting like this, doesn't your butt hurt? And at this time, I am even more certain that this white kid is deceiving people.

  "Pan Zikou asked bluntly, 'I'm asking you, Master Shen, what did you see?'"

  Bailian didn't care about Panzi's words either. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to us, "This time it was a mistake, nothing happened, everyone is fine."

  We've been disturbed like this, and I don't think we should stay here any longer. I suggest everyone go back.

  Bai Lingmei cooperated very well, when she first stood up and walked back, the two of us followed behind her. I didn't have much to say to Panzi, but Lu Yifeng stared at Bai Lingmei's back, giving her a few cold glances.

  We went back to accompany the old monk, and since we didn't walk so fast, we strolled along. But when we were about to arrive at the temple gate, a figure suddenly darted out from inside the gate.

  I took a closer look and it was that old monk. He had stopped praying too, shouldered his bundle and fled in the opposite direction from us.

  I used the word "escape" because while he was running away, he also turned his head to glance at us, as if trying to avoid us.

  I'm confused, I don't know what he's hiding from us?

  Panzi shouted again, asking the old monk to stop. But this shout had the opposite effect, and the monk ran even faster.

  Lu Yufeng couldn't understand either, but he didn't care about that anymore and told us, "Get him back no matter what!"

  I and Panzi rushed out first, I was very confident in our speed. In the past, there was a mission failure, we were chased by a group of gangsters for two streets, but no one could catch up with our footsteps.

  But I found that we met a master, and the old monk was really fast. His two small legs were tightly entwined, and he didn't give us any chance to catch up with him at all.

  Lu Yufeng was clever and ran to the front of the temple, then got into the car. Although there were only dirt roads in front of him, the sedan could somehow keep up with the big feet.

  Lu Yifeng didn't even have time to scrape the bottom of the pan and almost made the car fly, overtaking Laohe Shang and blocking his way.

  A Feng got off the car and held the old monk in his arms, whispering softly to calm him down.

  The old monk was very excited, almost crazy, he struggled hard, his hands and feet were waving wildly, and even opened his mouth to bite people randomly.

  After I and Panzi rushed over, I heard the old monk shouting a few very strange words.

  He said the Feathered Men had arrived and stared at us asking if we were sent by the Feathered Men.

  I'm not familiar with the term "Yuren" and I don't understand what kind of person it refers to. The first thing that came to mind was the White Haired Ghost, and I thought to myself, could this ghost be a type of Yuren? However, although he can fly, his ugly appearance makes him more like a bird man.

  Panzi tried to comfort the old monk and walked over to gently pat his cheek, saying, "Master, we are our own people, you must trust us!"

  I understand that Panzi just wanted to wake the monk up, but his slapping of the cheeks was a bit too hard and heavy-handed, more like a slap in the face.

  I pulled him tight and meant pay attention to your manners.

  But Panzi's several "small slaps" were indeed effective, and the monk was awakened, calming down.

  Lu Yifeng comforted Shang a few more sentences before slowly releasing his hands, giving him some freedom.

  I exchanged glances with Ah Feng, wondering what to do next?

  I thought that since the monk's condition was unstable and he wasn't the real culprit, we should take him back to the police station. On one hand, we can interrogate him further; on the other hand, it would be better for his protection.

  Ke Lu Yufeng strangely denied me and took us on the car, driving towards the temple.

  Halfway through, we met a white-robed monk. I was impressed by this guy. When he saw his friend (the monk) going crazy, he didn't even lend a hand, but instead walked over so leisurely and even asked for a ride when he saw us returning.

  I sat on the back seat with Monk Zuo and Panzi on either side of me, while he naturally plopped himself down in the front passenger seat.

  I find Bai Lingmei quite strange, occasionally she would secretly take a glance at Lu Yifeng, without saying anything.

  After we returned to the temple, the old monk sat in a corner with a small rolling pin in his hand as a weapon.

  I think his defensive posture is okay, he's not holding a kitchen knife, otherwise he'd go crazy and fling the knife out, don't accidentally hurt someone.

  The four of us didn't dare get too close to him either, so we just stayed in the corner opposite him. Before we knew it, night had fallen and it was time to eat.

  In our car, apart from dried meat, we also have compressed biscuits and other food, which is also a characteristic of the liner, always preparing food and water.

  There's no place to eat in this village, so we decided to have biscuits for dinner.

  Pan Zi went to bring back the food, I specifically asked the monk if he would eat it, but the monk completely ignored me and continued to sit with his head down.

  We don't care about the monk anymore, let's just eat around him. I found out that Bailin has a special fondness for cookies, and he almost fought with us over them.

  I didn't say much to Lu Yifeng, but Pan Zi looked at Bai Lingmei with an incredible expression and asked, "I'm telling you, bro, this is a cookie, not meat, why are you eating it so happily?"

  The white spirit smiled and didn't answer. And it wasn't over yet, after eating the cookies, he started to have stomach trouble, constantly covering his stomach and running out, rushing to the temple's toilet, gone for half a day.

  It was nine o'clock in the evening and we were all sleepy, so we decided to go to bed.

  There is no bed here, so we spread out the hay and made a simple pallet. Perhaps White Spirit felt that eating our biscuits had given him some energy. He also found more hay to thicken our pallet.

  We two definitely won't stop this good thing. Especially after lying down, I found that there is a thick layer of dry grass underneath, which really feels quite comfortable.

  The two of us slept side by side, while White Spirit Medium slept on the other side. As for that old monk, he sat there and slowly nodded off to sleep.

  In the middle of the night, I was woken up by an itch on the tip of my nose. I was quite puzzled because it's already autumn and mosquitoes are gone, so how did I get bitten?

  As it happened, the flashlight was just above my head, so I stretched out my hand and turned on the flashlight, shining it right at the tip of my nose.

  I saw an ant about the size of a soybean on the tip of my nose, especially at such close range, its little head was moving back and forth, obviously biting me.

  I clenched my fist in anger and killed it, and out of curiosity, I also took a look at the side.

  I was so startled that I sat up with a jerk.

  Panzi and Afeng had a lot of ants crawling on their bodies, especially Afeng's, where some areas were almost completely covered in a dense black swarm.

  I quickly pulled them awake and told them to get up quickly.

  Pan Zi and A Feng originally didn't know why I woke them up. When they saw the situation clearly, we were all excited, standing up and slapping each other.

  But it's no use just slapping like this, some ants even crawled into our clothes.

  I don't know if it's psychological or what, but I feel like my body is extremely itchy, and I can even sense that something is biting me on either my arm or leg.

  A Feng thought of a stupid method and told us, "Quickly, take off your clothes, clean up and then put them back on."

  I and Pan Zi hastily did as we were told, during which time Bai Ling also woke up and sat up looking at us.

  I looked at him with a drowsy look, and I was quite surprised. I thought to myself that we were all sleeping on the same kang, how come he's fine?