Jumping Off the Building
[Audience Expectation Value +3]
"They're coming for me?"
Seeing this scene, Lu Xun frowned and immediately looked down at the time on his wristwatch. "It's only been ten minutes... Furthermore, I didn't leave any clues. How did they find their way here?"
"Even in this era, there are some capable people with special abilities."
Chen Ling's voice was very calm. After all, he had just fought against Nie Yu, a top-tier hunter. He didn't feel surprised by this method of locking onto enemies across space.
He looked at the helicopter speeding towards them. The hands under his sleeves slowly clenched into fists, and a glint of cold light flashed across his eyes.
"Shall I deal with them for you?"
"No... that won't do. They have several 'Black Hand' members, and they can probably even use firearms. Meanwhile, Yang Xiao and I don't have much offensive capability yet. If we fight now, our disadvantage is too great."
"Let's avoid the battle for now and leave here first."
Hearing this sentence, Chen Ling's eyebrows slightly raised. "Are you sure?"
"Mhm, if we fight here, it will also affect the civilians below. This is a Commercial Street down here."
"... True." Chen Ling swept a glance at the bustling street below with surging crowds of people. "I can only take one person. You should be able to rely on Galaxy Tide to leave by yourself?"
"I can. Director Chen, let's meet at Huangcheng Temple."
The next moment, three figures ran towards the edge of the rooftop at the same time!
Buzz buzz buzz—
The distant helicopter gradually approached, and a blinding beam of light shot out from it, illuminating the rooftop terrace.
"Director, we've found Dr. Lu!" Inside the cabin, someone pointed at the rooftop and said.
The Director immediately leaned close to the porthole and narrowed his eyes to look at the dim rooftop. He saw three figures sprinting rapidly across it. Even the light from the helicopter could only barely catch their figures.
"What are they trying to do?"
"Jumping off the building!! Director!! They're going to jump off the building!!!"
"What????"
Under the Director's terrified gaze, the pale beam of light swept past the edge of the rooftop. The three figures leaped down from above at the same time!
The howling gale brushed past the ears of the three, blowing up the hems of their clothes. The glass windows of the skyscraper reflected their afterimages like streaks of black lightning, plummeting towards the earth...
Their speed was too fast. Even the light from the helicopter couldn't catch up to their falling figures. They were like Arrows weaving between light and shadow, vibrating as they shot off the bowstring!
And what the Arrows pointed towards was the sea of neon formed by endless neon lights and car taillights!
Yang Xiao could feel the heart within his chest beating madly. An unprecedented sense of weightlessness enveloped his body... He looked to his side somewhat in a panic.
He himself also didn't know why he had to jump off the building... It was just that Chen Ling pulled him and said to jump, so he jumped.
As for whether he could survive after jumping, Yang Xiao really had no confidence right now.
On the contrary, Lu Xun was very calm. Allowing his body to freefall from hundreds of meters high in the sky, he spread his arms open in the air as if flapping wings ready to fly. Countless brilliant stars diffused within his eyes.
"... Receive me."
The murmur sounded.
The next moment, his figure melted in mid-air into the outline of a miniature galaxy. The sky full of starlight seemed to interweave with the universe beyond the sky, disappearing without a trace bit by bit. Ultimately, only a gentle breeze was left, sweeping past the tree shade on both sides of the street.
At the same time, Chen Ling's palm suddenly shot out, grabbing Yang Xiao's arm, and then forcefully stomped on the void!
[Cloud Steps]!
It was as if Chen Ling had stepped on some kind of extremely sturdy step. Borrowing the force, he changed direction in mid-air, bringing Yang Xiao to cut a right angle under the night sky in an instant, and then crashed into the glass curtain wall of the pitch-black building opposite!
Shattered glass sprinkled down like specks of stars. The helicopter roared past the outside of the building, but no matter how the white light searched, not a single human figure could be seen...
"Director, they... they..."
"No need for you to say it, I can see it." The Director's brows furrowed tightly. "The one who turned into stars just now should be Lu Xun... Then who are those other two?"
"It was too dark just now, I didn't see clearly."
"To be able to escape after jumping down from such a high place, they should also be Divine Path Possessors." The Director rubbed his chin with one hand, deep in thought. "To think Lu Xun actually also knows Divine Path Possessors... I just don't know if they are 'Black Hand' or 'White Hand'."
"Director, what do we do next?"
The Director didn't answer. He just calmly took out a Note from his pocket, a hint of disdain flashing across his eyes.
"No need to care about the other two people, Lu Xun is the most important. The grandmaster had already calculated his next transfer location in advance, and our people are already on standby there... This time, he won't be able to run."
The Note was gently opened in the Director's hand, and an address leaped onto the paper:
— Huangcheng Temple.
...
The night gradually grew darker.
The city lights gradually dimmed, and there were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the road. In a corner of the district filled with towering buildings, a temple stood quietly in the darkness.
It was already late into the night. The temple had long stopped opening to the public, and the monks had also gone to sleep early. The entire temple was dead silent.
A streak of brilliant starlight drooped down from the dome of heaven, interweaving into a humanoid figure on the stone brick ground. The faint starlight illuminated a corner of the dim temple. After a brief pause, a man wearing a black shirt slowly walked out from behind the wall.
Lu Xun sighed heavily, exhaustion uncontrollably appearing in his eyes.
Using Galaxy Tide continuously tonight was still too great of a burden for a Second-Tier newcomer like him. His Spiritual Power was already close to being overdrawn.
Fortunately, this time, that group of people shouldn't be able to find their way here so quickly.
The movement ability brought by Galaxy Tide allowed Lu Xun to cross over ten kilometers in an extremely short amount of time. Even Chen Ling had no way to arrive at the same time as him. It should still take a while for him and Yang Xiao to rush over...
Lu Xun didn't disturb anyone, merely walking all alone in the temple.
He passed through the connecting corridors in the dimness, walked past ancient bells for praying, copper censers full of incense ash, and locked Buddhist halls one by one... Lu Xun didn't know where he should go. Perhaps he just wanted to take a walk. The surroundings were so quiet that only the rustling of the wind blowing through the grass and trees remained.
Ultimately, Lu Xun stopped his footsteps in front of a Buddhist hall.
Perhaps due to a monk's negligence, the main doors of this Buddhist hall weren't locked. The solemn main doors were left ajar, and no light transmitted from within.
Lu Xun hesitated for a moment, and still gently pushed open those doors.
A slight creaking sound rang out. The starlight behind him poured onto the ancient floor bricks of the Buddhist hall, as if plating them with a layer of faint silver radiance.
In the darkness, a tall and magnificent Buddha statue slowly appeared before Lu Xun's eyes...
The body of that Buddha statue was too massive, so much so that the starlight could only illuminate half of its body. The torso, including the shoulders and head, was shrouded in shadow, mysterious and solemn.