On New Year's Eve, the scorching wind arrived late.
Yan Jue was surprised: "Zhuo Feng, you're here. The fireworks won't be set off until ten o'clock. How long can you stay?"
Zhuo Feng had previously left him a message saying he would try to find time to come. The fact that he hadn't directly agreed meant that Zhuo Feng had been quite busy recently. He had already given up hope, but now he had received a pleasant surprise.
"teacher."
Zhuo Fenglai was in his original form. He flew up to Yan Jue's cheek and nuzzled him with his ear. Then he landed on his shoulder and stroked Ah Qing's head with the tip of his tail. Finally, he wrapped his arms around the innocent-looking Nuoer and said with a gritted smile, "It's no problem to stay all night."
Yan Jue took out a mirror and glanced at the lively scene over his shoulder. He knew without hesitation that Zhuo Feng's presence was largely thanks to Nuoer. Remembering Nuoer's solemn promise, he asked curiously, "Because of Nuoer? Did he threaten you?"
"No, teacher, please don't accuse me!"
Before Zhuo Feng could say anything, Noel hurriedly explained, "I just left him a message saying that if he couldn't come today, I'd cry and hug his tail every time I saw him. It wasn't a threat."
"The teacher said that New Year's Day marks the beginning of a new year in your country. How could Zhuofeng be absent from such an important holiday? Besides, we're all here, and it would be so lonely without him. I'm afraid Zhuofeng will be sad when he hears us talk about it later."
Yan Jue: "...Okay, whatever you say is what it is."
There are many important holidays in their country, and Zhuo Feng will be annoyed in the future.
"Now that we're all here, let's go out and play. It's a lively time now."
There is no holiday on New Year's Day originally, but due to special circumstances this year, in order to give people a place to release their emotions, the country specially granted a day off to the people across the country and organized a national New Year's Day fireworks show to make everyone happy.
Moreover, this is the first year that the world has fully entered a new era. New Year's Day has been given new meaning, and it is reasonable and appropriate to celebrate it in a lively manner.
After hearing this, Zhuo Feng silently covered Noel's entire body with his spiritual energy, and then hid the figures of the three of them to help reduce the teacher's burden.
Yan Jue smiled faintly and touched Zhuo Feng's head. He covered his face with a layer of spiritual energy to blur the perception of outsiders. After making sure he was ready, he went out with the three cubs on his shoulders.
“There are so many people.”
As soon as Ah Qing went out, he was shocked by the scene outside. Although his teacher had taken him to many cities, it was the first time he saw so many people going out together.
Noel and Zhuofeng fell silent as they looked at the nearly packed streets. Knowing that the teacher's country was crowded was one thing, but actually seeing them was another.
Yan Jue remained calm, disappearing onto the wall and stabilizing himself, looking down at the crowd in the distance. This was nothing serious, just a tourist attraction with crowds comparable to those during Golden Week. It was a small event, no need to panic.
"With so many people here, won't something happen?" Zhuo Feng began to worry, and Noel nodded in agreement like a chicken pecking at rice.
"Don't worry, we are well prepared."
Yan Jue glanced at the crowd and pointed at a pretty woman holding a cup of milk tea and a burly man holding marshmallows beside her. They looked like a couple and said, "Look, those two are plainclothes police officers. They are soldiers with enhanced physical fitness, specially assigned by the authorities to maintain the safety of the fireworks viewing area."
“Not only them, but also many people from the metaphysical world are here.”
Zhuo Feng saw it. A serious-looking middle-aged man in Taoist robes was surrounded by a crowd of people, all asking questions. Some people might have thought the middle-aged Taoist was a celebrity and that they had come just for him.
Ah Qing looked at the awkward Taoist priest and thought of Zhang Zizhen, who had compensated him with a piece of imperial green jadeite. He smiled and asked, "Are there any available nationwide?"
Yan Jue nodded: "Of course."
"Then I'm relieved." Noel put away his worried face like a little adult: "With so many people, nothing will happen. But teacher, you have to keep an eye on us. I'm so scared that we'll be captured."
They were invisible, but only vaguely visible to outsiders. The streets were crowded, and he was afraid that if he wasn't careful, someone would wave their hand and he would be squeezed out.
As Nuoer spoke, he grabbed Yan Jue's coat. However, the coat's material was quite stiff, and he couldn't get a good grip no matter how hard he tried. So he could only hug Ah Qing beside him and took a piece of the Scorching Wind's tail and tied it around his waist.
Very good, I feel relieved.
Zhuo Feng glanced speechlessly at Noel's exaggerated movements, but instead of pulling out his tail, he separated another one to encircle Ah Qing as well. By the way, he used his spiritual energy to "fix" the three of them on Yan Jue's body.
Yan Jue smiled secretly: "Noel can rest assured now."
After saying that, he took a step and prepared to jump off the wall. However, he was startled by a scream before his knees even bent. After being supported by Zhuo Feng with his spiritual energy, he stood firm on the wall and frowned as he looked in the direction of the scream.
"Zhuo Feng, help me hide for a moment."
His cultivation was too weak, and he couldn't last long if he remained invisible and used his spiritual energy to travel at the same time.
Zhuo Feng nodded: "Okay."
Yan Jue walked in the air and arrived at the scene of the accident in just a few seconds. He stood on top of a street lamp, infused his spiritual energy into his eyes and looked towards the roof of the building.
Sitting by the fence on the rooftop of a thirty-story building, a slovenly, seemingly insane man sat. His greasy short hair stuck up wildly, and he wore thin long-sleeved shirt and long pants. He held the guardrail with one hand while his legs dangled over the edge of the roof in a trumpet-like gesture with the other.
Yan Jue looked serious as he looked at the loud speaker in the man's hand, and had a feeling that the man was not friendly.
He retracted his gaze and looked at the plainclothes policemen who were maintaining order and evacuating the crowd in an orderly manner. He then looked at the people from the metaphysical world who had escaped the crowd and rushed over here. He took out his cell phone and called Zhou Taotao.
"Yan Jue? Where are you? Do you know anything about the shopping mall building?"
Zhou Taotao was frantically running around in the Special Management Bureau. They had a good crew, but none could match Yan Jue's ability to fly and dive, and his Scorching Wind card for extended range. Now, hearing someone was about to jump from a building, they could only do what they always did: get close enough to rescue them.
"I'm downstairs. Except for the man on the roof, everyone else here is very nice." Yan Jue was still in the mood to joke: "The person who wanted to jump off the building also brought a large battery-powered loudspeaker amplifier. It seems that he came prepared."
"What do you say now? Do you want me to go up and take him down, or should I listen to what he wants first?" Yan Jue was interrupted by a male voice with an electronic sound before he could finish his words: "It's actually recorded, he started playing it."
The crowd that was in turmoil because someone jumped from a building left in an orderly manner under the command of the police. Occasionally, there were monks and Taoists in obvious attire among the people walking against the flow, and they even had the mood to raise their phones to take a photo.
To be honest, the public already had a very high level of trust in Chinese police, and after seeing the existence of unscientific forces among the police, their trust naturally doubled. They all had confidence that the police could rescue people who jumped from buildings.
Until a shrill sound from a loudspeaker broke the darkness——
"Oh, this man's wife died of cancer. How tragic."
"Don't they have children? If his wife dies and he commits suicide, what will happen to the children?"
"Ah, why blame the country? It would be a miracle if cancer could be completely cured. How can he blame the country when he has no common sense?"
"Could it be that he was too embarrassed to face his family because his medical dispute failed?"
“What the hell??”
"His wife died of cancer, and he blamed the country for not allowing her to practice cultivation techniques, forcing her to rely on cultivation to prolong her life?"
"Ah, cultivation isn't like cabbage. If you want it, just go pick it from the fields..."
"He does have a point. If the country made cultivation techniques freely available to everyone, giving them the opportunity to cultivate, wouldn't that extend lifespans and allow us to survive terminal illnesses?"
"As long as the essence and marrow are cleansed, all terminal illnesses will disappear, right? This is clearly a great merit that will save millions of people, but the government is still hiding it and using some kind of credit exchange..."
In the end, the man didn't dare to say anything more. Facing the eager eyes of the people around him, he covered his face and ran away at the speed of light.
Yan Jue played Zhou Taotao the audio recorded on the man's loudspeaker live. When the loudspeaker began to repeat it for the second time, he put the phone to his ear and sneered, "In the end, it's all because the Chinese government is too conscienceless and unwilling to provide the cultivation method for free."
Why is it free? If there's no threshold, are we just waiting for talented bad guys to start causing trouble and endangering the safety of ordinary people? Or are we trying to set up an organization openly and honestly like in other countries and establish ourselves as the king?
You're dreaming.
Zhou Taotao was no longer panicking: "The nature of this person needs to be determined, and whether there is anyone behind him also needs to be investigated."
If they are simply confused and desperate, then this may be understandable. But if they are fabricating stories and betraying their conscience to cause panic in the country, then they really do not deserve any sympathy.
"Yan Jue, you...wait a minute, it's Director Pan calling. Watch the scene first, I'll call you back later."
Yan Jue held his cell phone in his hand, squatting on the street light. He looked at the man on the rooftop who was playing the background music on loop, then looked down at the officials who had already rushed downstairs and were running into the mall.
The three cubs who witnessed the whole process floated in front of Yan Jue and squatted with him in silence.
Ah Qing rested his hands on his chin, looked at Zhuo Feng and Nuo Er, who were expressionless, and asked in confusion, "Aren't the people who run the teacher's country already very considerate of the people? Why is this man cursing the country in return?"
A question that strikes the soul.
Almost the moment Ah Qing finished speaking, Yan Jue thought of a well-used proverb: "They eat with the bowl in hand and curse when they put it down."
Zhuo Feng continued, "Human ambition is never satisfied. Once they get one thing, they'll want two, forever wondering why they can't get more. They forget whether those things originally belonged to them."
Even Noel explained it in plain language: "People think differently, and people are divided into good and evil. If so many people all had the same ideas, only robots could do it."
"Ah Qing, aren't there a lot of bad people in your world? They're just like this man."
After being instructed one after another, Ah Qing fell into deep thought.
Yan Jue was very pleased. Thinking deeply is a good thing. It shows that Ah Qing is no longer the carefree, carefree optimist he once was. If he's willing to consider the reasons behind people's behavior, his chances of being deceived will plummet. It seems his stories these days are still quite useful.
The phone rang, and this time it was Pan Wencheng calling.
Yan Jue picked up the phone happily, then hung up with a look of disgust in his eyes.
He held the three cubs in his arms and rubbed them, then placed them on his shoulders. With a look of willingness to die, Yan Jue jumped off the streetlight and sneaked into the cleared building.
After removing the spiritual energy that was blocking his face, Yan Jue took the peach wood sword from the Taoist priest and placed it at his feet. With the help of Zhuo Feng, he wrapped himself and the wooden sword with spiritual energy and flew out of the mall in the blink of an eye.
After reaching mid-air, he asked Zhuo Feng to remove his invisibility and appear in front of everyone openly, well, stepping on the peach wood sword.
"look!"
In the crowd, someone pointed first and exclaimed, then everyone looked up in amazement at the man in a coat and a flying sword speeding through the air. In a few seconds, he flew to the man on the roof, picked him up with one hand, landed him on the ground, and solemnly handed him over to the police waiting downstairs.
Did they even salute each other?
Then he flew away on the flying sword?
Those who were closer could see clearly that the man was the Taoist priest who was at the second level of Qi training in the promotional video and told them to believe in science?
Sure enough, such a powerful person has already been put into the pocket of the country's father.
It was a performance, and the too-easy resolution process surprised the people. They regarded tonight's events as nothing more than a farce. At the same time, the power held by the authorities was revealed, and people were terrified. Tonight's events could be said to have been resolved satisfactorily.
Only the world where Yan Jue was injured was achieved.
"Wow, the teacher is so cool."
"Teacher, can you fly again?"
"teacher……"
Amid the flattery from Ah Qing and Noel, which he didn't really want to hear, Yan Jue stood on the rooftop and answered Zhou Taotao's call with a vicissitudes of life look.
"The man's information has been checked, and it is basically certain that it was done abroad."
Yan Jue was surprised: "So fast?"
"What's the big deal? His fingerprints will show up in the database once compared." Zhou Taotao gritted his teeth. "That guy doesn't have a wife at all. He used to have one, but she divorced him because of his gambling addiction. Now he's just a bachelor with a lot of debt on his shoulders."
"Three days ago, a huge amount of money suddenly appeared in his account, and he went to many luxury stores and spent money on wine and women."
Yan Jue was speechless: "This man is a fool. Others asked him to do bad things and the money was directly transferred into his account. Didn't he suspect that it was wrong?"
This action also indirectly shows that the people behind him don't take him seriously at all, and he is just a discarded bait.
Zhou Taotao scoffed, "Who knows? The person has been arrested. We'll know the details after the trial. As for those people abroad, humph, they can't even have a good New Year themselves, and they won't let us live in peace."
The chaos abroad was unbearable to watch, so naturally, their New Year couldn't be peaceful either. They had been spending it in chaos. With the chaos outside, they were so cheerful, but wouldn't that just arouse jealousy? This test was just a signal; similar situations would only increase in the future.
But this time, they were able to resolve it in time, and they will only be more vigilant in the future. This is a test for China, and they are confident that they can complete the test and scare others off.
"Hang up, you continue playing, I'm going to be busy."
Putting away his phone, Yan Jue took the rare opportunity to log onto the internet and take a look. He was then irritated by the chaotic verbal battles and cult videos of various non-governmental organizations, and quickly left the site.
It’s still better in China.
"Teacher, are the fireworks still being set off?" Zhuo Feng flew to the top of Yan Jue's phone, stood there, and asked with his head raised.
"Set off the fireworks." Yan Jue put away his phone and held Zhuo Feng in his palm. "It's just a small matter. It won't delay the fireworks."
“Teacher, teacher, I want to sit on my hands too!”
"Ah Qing wants one too!"
Yan Jue curled his lips and smiled. All the offensive remarks he had just read and his mood that was ruined by the unexpected incident suddenly disappeared completely when the kids called him "Teacher".
He gathered the three cubs in his hands, looked straight ahead and said with a smile: "Wait, in two minutes, the fireworks will start!"
“Okay!”
Zhuo Feng looked at Noel's childish gesture of raising his hands, smiled slightly, and turned to look forward.
Ah Qing leaned over to the base of Yan Jue's palm, hugged his wrist and shouted happily: "Teacher, I know what I want to do in the future!"
Yan Jue opened his eyes wide and asked expectantly, "What do you want to do?"
Ah Qing said loudly: "I hope that my world will be peaceful!"
Yan Jue: …………
The first thing that came to his mind was not to complain that Ah Qing's wish was too grand, but that Ah Qing's wish coincided with the wish of the protagonist in his dimension.
Is this what they call a bad fate?
【Ah Qing's favorability has reached the maximum value.】
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