“Master Qi?”
“Master Qi?!”
Zhao Zhicheng knew that Qi Yan and Cen Baihe were close, otherwise the Cen family would not be so warm and friendly to Qi Yan. Seeing Qi Yan’s pale face, he explained, “Master Qi, don’t worry too much, we have received news that the hijacker has been subdued. One passenger was injured, but the doctors said that it’s not life-threatening.”
“Who was injured?” Qi Yan walked around the house twice, “Is there anyone on the plane who knows how to defuse bombs?”
“It’s not clear yet,” Zhao Zhicheng shook his head. “We are not in charge and this incident has serious consequences, so the news will not be disclosed to the public for the time being.”
Qi Yan was a little confused, he slumped onto the chair, and subconsciously clasped the corner of the table with his right hand, “The man didn’t make any demands before he was caught?”
Zhao Zhicheng shook his head silently.
It would be less scary if he wanted something. Otherwise, it implied that he didn’t plan to live and had nothing to lose.
Qi Yan took a deep breath, “Captain Zhao, may I ask you for a favor?”
Zhao Zhicheng nodded without hesitation, “tell me.”
“Prepare an altar on the top floor. We don’t have much time now, so a table and an incense burner will do.” Qi Yan scratched his hair, “Please.”
“Okay.” Zhao Zhicheng paused for a moment, then turned around and asked his teammates to help prepare the things. They had special permissions, so it was quickly set up according to Qi Yan’s request.
Qi Yan washed his hands and face in a bucket, wiped his hands, and walked to the altar. He didn’t expect that Zhao Zhicheng would prepare more than he asked for. In addition to the incense burner and candles, there were also sacrificial offerings. A yellow tablecloth covered the table.
They were quality materials.
“Master Qi,” Zhao Zhicheng finally asked, “what are you going to do?”
“Ask for blessings,” Qi Yan took out a stack of talisman papers, put a handful of rice into a bowl, turned to Zhao Zhicheng and the others who were there, “in ancient times, emperors and nobles often asked mages to set up altars to ask for blessings from the gods, so that the land and people are protected.”
“But wasn’t it just for comfort…” Before Xiang Qiang could finish the sentence, he saw Qi Yan glanced at him and hurriedly cover his mouth.
“You’re right,” Qi Yan smiled, “it’s just for comfort.”
It’s not that they hadn’t seen other masters set up an altar, but they had never seen such a grand display. After Qi Yan threw the first handful of rice, the wind began to blow. It was just a breeze at first, but as Qi Yan read the scriptures more and more urgently, the wind became stronger and stronger.
Swish.
Pieces of yellow papers flew into the air, circling and dancing in the wind, and they gradually linked, like a flying dragon rolling in the clouds.
“Captain, what is this?” Xiang Qiang held a book in front of his eyes to prevent the sand from blowing into his eyes. He stood beside Zhao Zhicheng, looked at the flying paper dragon in the air, and muttered after a long while, “am I dreaming?”
Zhao Zhicheng ignored him, but just stared at Qi Yan in ecstasy.
“I am pleading to the gods to keep this person safe.” Qi Yan held a piece of red paper in his hand, on which was written Cen Baihe’s name and birth date. He looked at the flying paper dragon, gritted his teeth, and threw the paper in the air.
The red paper floated in the air.
“Please keep this person safe and sound!” Qi Yan bowed deeply, and the red paper shook in the air, but it still flew around like a headless fly.
“I am Qi Yan, the head of the 23rd generation of the Tianyi sect. I sacrifice my blood and spiritual energy to the gods, to keep this person safe and sound!” Qi Yan bit his index finger, flicked his finger in the air. Blood beads with spiritual energy fell on the floating red paper.
Suddenly, an ethereal roar sounded, resembling the roar of a dragon and a phoenix. The yellow dragon hovering in the air bowed his head and swallowed the red paper into his mouth. In an instant, the yellow dragon started burning, and the burned ashes were swept up into the sky, and then disappeared.
The wind suddenly stopped, and all the visions on the roof disappeared without a trace.
Qi Yan clutched his chest. At this moment, his heart was burning like fire, and then it felt like he was entering an ice cave. The two constant alternating pains had made him forget the pain of his bitten index finger.
He still remembered that when he was twelve years old, he found an old book in his master’s room, which described various methods of praying to the gods.
The master said, “although they are cultivators, they are still human beings after all. They shouldn’t ask for too much, the same applies when they ask for blessings from the gods.”
He still remembered his master said this in a sad tone, “now, who can really ask for favors from the gods?”
“Pfft!” Qi Yan spat out a few mouthfuls of blood. He wiped the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, and a smile appeared on his face.
Master, I have done what you couldn’t.
On the plane, everyone was still nervously searching for traces of the bomb, but they found nothing. The hijacker who was tied to the seat watched their expressions change from nervousness to despair, and the smile on his face was getting bigger and bigger, just like a person who had been hungry for a long time and was about to get the long-awaited meal, his face was twisted in excitement.
“You don’t have to fight it anymore. We are so close to the sky now, and we will be able to go to heaven after death, away from the noise and sin of the world. How beautiful is this? It will take at least an hour and a half to land at the airport, you are too late.”
He looked at these angry people proudly, “be angry, cry, and then meet your death.”
“Shut up!” A woman in high heels didn’t want to listen to the nonsense. She raised her leg and kicked his lower abdomen, the man wailed, looked at the woman who kicked him with an expression of pain and excitement, and laughed wildly.
The woman raised her eyebrows, “you lunatic.”
The men on the plane couldn’t help but squeeze their legs together. What surprised them even more was that the man reacted very strongly to the woman’s words, he twisted his neck, stared at her with blood-shot eyes, and gritted his teeth, “you lowly and dirty woman, what right do you have to talk about me? “
There was a deep contempt in his eyes, just like the look a person had when they looked at their slaves. He looked down on men and despised women, and he felt that he was the master of these people.
If everyone hadn’t been in a hurry to find the bomb, this man would have been beaten into a pulp.
“Idiot.” The woman felt that it was pointless to argue with a lunatic. After she gave the man another kick, she turned around to look for the bomb, and didn’t look at him again.
But the man couldn’t stand being called a lunatic. He kept struggling on the chair and even yelled, but no one looked at him. For him, it was more unbearable than others scolding and beating him.
These people should be furious and crying, why would they ignore him?! Why?!
“You really shouldn’t offend women,” the psychologist whispered beside Cen Baihe, “My wife also has such a stubborn character. If I can’t go home this time, I don’t know who else could stand her nagging and saucy character.”
His words sounded like a complaint, but Cen Baihe could hear that he couldn’t leave his wife behind, otherwise he wouldn’t sound so worried.
“We will reach the ground safely,” Cen Baihe said firmly, “for the sake of those who are waiting for us to go back, we have to.” His eyes swept across the cabin, and when his gaze fell on a certain seat, he felt a coldness in his back, and seemed to hear a dragon roar.
Looking back suddenly, he only saw fear in the faces of other people. No one was playing with electronic products, and there was no strange sound.
He strode to the seat, which was still covered in blood, where the man who was shot was sitting. He looked around the seat and found nothing suspicious.
He opened the top shelf, and there was only a laptop case inside, which was what the injured man brought on the plane.
“Fifth Master Cen,” Huang He went to Cen Baihe’s side and saw him looking at a laptop case, “I’ll go get it.”
“Careful. I suspect the bomb is in there.”
Cen Baihe’s voice was soft, but at this moment, everyone on the plane turned their attention to him, and then to the luggage rack. They checked all the corners, even the life jackets and oxygen masks. The only thing they didn’t suspect was what everyone brought with them.
For a while, everyone was nervous.
“Let me do it,” a middle-aged man in a military uniform strode over and said to Cen Baihe and Huang He, “I used to do bomb disposal work, you two should stand farther away.”
Huang He looked at Cen Baihe. Cen Baihe thought for a while, then nodded. Professional problems should be handled by professional people, so as not to hold back everyone. He and Huang He took a few steps back, and Huang He and another bodyguard stepped in front of him.
The middle-aged man carefully took down the case, opened it and found the bomb.
This bomb was small, the size of an adult fist, but it was powerful enough. If it exploded, the walls would crack, and even if they could survive the explosion, it wouldn’t stop the plane from being destroyed in the air.
“It’s a bomb.” The middle-aged man said with sweat on his face, “and it’s an old model. I can’t disassemble it.”
“Then what?” Someone asked.
The middle-aged man shook his head slowly. “There are still 21 minutes before the bomb explodes, and we are above the sea.” Speaking of which, he smiled wryly, “at least when the plane explodes, the wreckage will not hit innocent people.”
There was a dead silence in the cabin.
The middle-aged man pointed to four wires of the same color, “Choose one of the four, we have a 25% chance of surviving, who will make the decision?”
