NovelYeni #730 - Taking a Knife from Fire
#730 - Taking a Knife from Fire
“Master, what do you want us to do?” Lu Jing asked.
Zhihai said solemnly, “Tonight’s fire at the Taiping Qian Bureau was no accident. It was deliberately set by someone, and not just anyone, but a group of demons who have been opposing our Sitianjian recently. The reason they set the fire was to get something from the Qian Bureau.”
“What thing?”
On the other side, Lu Jing’s eyes widened, and he said angrily, “What? Such a thing actually happened?!”
His voice was so loud that many passersby were attracted and looked back curiously.
Zhihai was also taken aback, but then he took the initiative to excuse the two, saying, “This… it’s not incomprehensible. After all, they had already encountered two attacks before, and they barely managed to escape, so they must have been frightened.”
“Besides, they are both young. Even that supervisor only recently became a supervisor…”
“This isn’t a matter of age.” Lu Jing shook his head, interrupting Zhihai, “Since one is a member of the Sitianjian, one should prioritize the world and protect the common people, putting personal life and death aside. If everyone only thinks about escaping when encountering danger, then the human world would have been destroyed by strange creatures long ago!”
Lu Jing’s sonorous and forceful words made both Zhihai and Xia Huai look at him with admiration.
Zhihai looked at him with admiration because he was impressed by Lu Jing’s disregard for life and death and his concern for the common people.
The girl didn’t expect someone’s face to be so thick.
However, Lu Jing wasn’t deliberately trying to refresh his bottom line by scolding himself harshly.
He knew very well that Zhihai must have some doubts in his heart when he met them here. After all, they had only disappeared for less than two days, and suddenly two cultivators appeared, a man and a woman, and Zhihai was unfamiliar with both of them. It would be strange if he didn’t have any thoughts.
However, after being slapped in the face by Lu Jing’s righteous and awe-inspiring words, Zhihai’s suspicion was greatly reduced. “May I ask for the names of the two of you…”
“Qi Kui.”
“Xijun.”
Zhihai searched his mind, but he had no impression of these two names, but he still politely said that he had heard of them for a long time. In addition, he saw that Lu Jing was older, and Xia Huai looked very young, as if she was still studying at the academy, so he turned to Lu Jing and said.
“What are you looking for with the Seeker Beetle Armor?”
The Seeker Beetle Armor isn’t a real beetle, but a miniature magic tool created by cultivators.
As the name suggests, it consists of a mother and a child beetle. By injecting secret power into the formation in the mother beetle, the mother beetle can be driven to find the location of the child beetle.
It’s a bit like the electronic tracker of Lu Jing’s previous life.
Lu Jing knew that Zhihai hadn’t completely given up his suspicion of them, but he didn’t change his expression and continued to talk eloquently, “To be honest, Xijun and I came here to investigate a case.”
“A case, related to strange creatures?”
“That’s right.” Lu Jing said, “And that strange creature is in the Taiping Qian Bureau.”
He was taking a bit of a risk with this lie, because if Zhihai had done some investigation in advance, he would know that there were no strange creatures in the Taiping Qian Bureau.
The reason Lu Jing dared to take this gamble was because Zhihai seemed to know everything about their escort of the black blade, including the number of attacks they had suffered on the way, which meant that the other party had probably been following them all along and wasn’t in this county town from the beginning.
And Lu Jing undoubtedly guessed right again. Zhihai’s expression was a bit surprised, but when he saw that Lu Jing said it so firmly, he accepted the other party’s explanation.
He said somewhat apologetically, “Then I’m afraid this time I’ll be disturbing the two of you in handling the case.”
“It’s okay. If what Master said is true, then your matter is more urgent. If that strange creature runs away, we can still find it again, it will just take a little more time.”
Seeing that Lu Jing was so understanding, Zhihai was also quite gratified, so he stopped talking nonsense and went straight to the topic, “The fire set by that group of demons is very powerful. It can’t be extinguished with water, but instead burns more and more vigorously, making it almost impossible to put out.”
“But in this way, it will be difficult for their own people to enter the fire for a while, so that demonic blade should still be in the vault of the Taiping Qian Bureau. We have to get the blade before those guys do.”
“How do we get it?” Xia Huai frowned, “If it were ordinary flames, I could use the Water Control Art to wrap people in water and rush into the fire, or try to draw on the earth’s spring to put out the fire, but now…”
“Now we can only fight fire with fire.” Zhihai said.
“Fight fire with fire?”
“That’s right, I have already set up a Heavenly Fire Formation around the Taiping Qian Bureau. Since we can’t put out the fire for a while, we can only change our approach and use the fire formation to control the fire and create a passage from it.”
Zhihai put his hands together, “The reason I haven’t acted yet is because I’m alone and can’t control the formation while crossing the sea of fire to find that demonic blade.”
“But now with the help of the two of you, my plan can finally be realized.”
After speaking, he looked at Lu Jing and Xia Huai again, his eyes bright.
Good fellow, so the trap was buried here.
Lu Jing finally knew why Zhihai hadn’t suspected his bold words at all. This monk wasn’t stupid at all, he was waiting for Lu Jing to dig a hole for himself.
His previous remarks about caring for the common people and not fearing death had hit Zhihai’s gun. If Lu Jing now refused to do it on the grounds that entering the fire was too dangerous, it would prove that his previous words were all nonsense.
Zhihai would also have reason to question their identities.
Lu Jing looked at Zhihai again, and the latter smiled slightly at him, and recited Amitabha softly.
“A piece of cake.” After a moment, Lu Jing also laughed boldly, “Isn’t it just fetching a blade for the master? I can do it alone.”
“It’s not for me, it’s for the common people,” Zhihai corrected, paused, and then said with concern, “Is Benefactor Qi really okay alone?”