Chapter 94 Escape

In the illusion, the man sitting paralyzed on the ground swore, "We've been in this mountain for more than a week, and we've almost dug up all the graves, but we haven't found any jade, not even a piece of scrap iron!"

After he finished cursing, he looked at the endless grass around him and said sadly, "I don't know if I am still in the world. Maybe I have gone to hell..."

"Don't worry, I'm still in the human world. To be more precise, I'm still in Qingming Mountain."

The man remembered what he said about ghosts before, and hope suddenly appeared in his eyes. "Do you know how to get out?"

“Still thinking about it.”

"I'll give you money! As long as you can take me out, I'll give you all my money!"

"I don't want any money."

“…”

The man choked, then thought of the tie clip on his head that was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and murmured, "Yeah, your husband is a big president, how could you be short of money?"

Jiang Wu didn't hear what he said clearly. He looked at the yellow talisman and said casually, "I want your life."

The man's expression changed, but he knew he couldn't beat the young man, so he gritted his teeth and said, "I shot you, but I didn't hurt you. If you insist on retaliating, then the worst that can happen is that both of us will die!"

Jiang Wu was stunned, "I don't plan to retaliate against you."

"So you want to kill me?!"

"Ah, I didn't explain it clearly." Jiang said impatiently, "I meant that I have to use your life to break this illusion."

The man looked suspicious. "...Illusion? What kind of illusion?"

"The cemetery is surrounded by a formation. Once you enter, you will be trapped in an illusion. Everything you see is an illusion."

"Illusion?"

The man felt the soft grass beneath him and could still smell the fresh scent of grass. He didn't believe that what he saw was fake, but he couldn't figure out how he came to another place in an instant.

"Since ancient times, among hundreds of Taoist schools, Taoism has been the best at formations. Such exquisite formations were probably made by them, but I only know a little bit about Taoist formations, so I can only find someone to try it out first."

The tall man understood that the other party wanted to test him, and from the sound of it, if the test was wrong, he would lose his life. He couldn't help but curse, "What's the difference between what you are doing and murder!"

Jiang Wuwei frowned, "Of course there is a difference. I saved you first, and now I am taking your life. It is only natural."

The man was furious, "When did you save me?"

Jiang Wu held up the yellow talisman and asked, "Do you really think this is a lucky charm?"

The man was startled, and suddenly he felt uneasy. "What do you mean?"

Jiang Wu did not explain. He raised his hand and cut the yellow talisman into two halves with his knife, and then immediately threw it into the air. The next second, the yellow talisman burst into a large ball of flame, covering their heads, and even the temperature of the air became a little hotter.

The flame appeared out of nowhere and dissipated a second later because there was nothing to burn. Only a faint smell of burning remained in the air.

The tall man stared at this scene for a long time, unable to come back to his senses. He didn't dare to think that if he was still wearing the talisman, as long as a corner was slightly torn, he would be engulfed by the flames in an instant.

When the fire talisman exploded, Jiang Wu's eyes were always closely focused on everything around him. Suddenly, he found a lake appeared out of thin air in front of him. The water in the lake was clear, but he couldn't see the bottom, which was very strange.

The tall man hadn't yet recovered from the impact of the fire talisman when he was startled by the lake that appeared out of nowhere in front of him. He felt a little dazed and began to wonder if he was dreaming.

"Fire overcomes metal, water overcomes fire..."

Jiang Wu looked at the knife in his hand thoughtfully, then looked at the lake in front of him, and then signaled to the tall man next to him, "Jump down."

The tall man's face changed, he didn't move, but he didn't run away either, because he knew that if he left the young man in front of him, he would never be able to leave here for the rest of his life.

"Is there no other way?"

"Maybe, but I'm in a hurry."

"What time are you in?"

"The man who was with me before is afraid of the dark. I have to go back to find him." Jiang Wu looked at the man calmly, "So you have to jump."

The man felt a chill running down his spine as he looked at those icy amber eyes. He felt more and more that his guess was right. This guy was definitely not an actor!

He tried to persuade her again, but before he could even open his mouth, he was kicked hard into the bottomless lake. The water instantly submerged his mouth and nose, and a feeling of suffocation came over him. When he fell into despair of death, the feeling of suffocation suddenly disappeared and turned into a feeling of weightlessness of falling downwards.

Before he could even scream, he fell heavily to the ground.

"Well--"

The tall man groaned, opened his eyes and saw the familiar dark forest. He was stunned, and just as he was about to get up to see what was going on, the black muzzle of a gun was pressed against his forehead.

He raised his head carefully and met Han Zhong's dark and cold eyes. His heart shuddered and he shouted quickly, "He's not dead! He kicked me into the lake! That was actually the exit!"

Han Zhong had lost his patience after not being able to find Jiang Wu for a long time. After hearing him talk nonsense, he felt even worse. He shouted in a low voice, "Shut up! Where is Jiang Wu?"

The tall guy felt that he had never been so aggrieved in his life. These two gays were like crazy. One of them said that the other was timid and afraid of the dark and needed someone to accompany him, and then kicked himself into the lake. The other one pointed a gun to his head and asked him for people like an old hen protecting her chicks. It was so unlucky that he just got out of the wolf's den and into the tiger's lair.

He shouted angrily, "He'll be down soon!"

Before Han Zhong could figure out what he meant by that, he caught a glimpse of something falling from above his head. He subconsciously reached out his hands to catch it, and the next second Jiang Wu fell into his arms with a dazed look on his face.

Han Zhong looked at the person in his arms in astonishment, and then he was ecstatic the next moment, "Jiang——"

Before he could finish his words, someone put a dagger to his neck. His body froze instantly, and he looked at the person in his arms blankly, "???"

Jiang Wuwo was in his arms, holding a dagger against his neck. He looked up at him and said calmly, "I just entered an illusion. Everything in it is fake. I'm not sure if I have escaped from the illusion, nor am I sure if you are real."

Han's tense muscles relaxed. He lowered his eyes to look at the person in his arms and raised his eyebrows slightly, "So?"

"So you have to find a way to prove that you are really Korean."

“…”

Han Zhong took a deep breath. In the past 28 years, he had suffered a lot, been through a lot, been a proud son of heaven, and also fallen into the abyss. But he never thought that one day he would sneak into the back mountain of a Taoist temple in the middle of the night to steal things. However, because of this innocent-looking boy in front of him, he agreed to it for some unknown reason.

Then he watched the kid disappear out of thin air in front of him. When he was so anxious that he almost asked people to shovel the mountain, this kid fell from the sky. He was not very surprised, after all, it was not the first time. But before he could be happy, the kid put a knife to his neck and asked him to prove that he was himself.

Judging from the situation, if he can't prove himself tonight, he probably won't see the sun tomorrow.

Things like ID cards certainly wouldn't work. Han Zhong was silent for a while, then said, "In fact, our first meeting wasn't at Champs Elysees."

Jiang Wu was startled, "Where is it?"

"Golden Land Hotel."

Han Zhong didn't want to say it for some reason, but that reason didn't matter now, so he said, "The hotel suddenly lost power at that time. I was sitting outside on the balcony, and you suddenly landed on the balcony railing from the sky and asked me where this place was and how far it was from Xiangdu. I answered you, and then you jumped from the sixth floor in front of me."

Jiang Wuyi's eyes widened, "...that person is you?"

Han nodded heavily, "Yeah."

"Then why are you sitting on the balcony?"

“…”

"Um?"

"…The room is too dark. I'm scared."

“…”