Chapter 1386: Strange Discovery
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Feng Yuanlin and the others immediately stopped when they heard Shuyan’s words. Ruan Shenglin, Yang Kun and Xu Tong now followed Master Chi’s lead. They thought that something had happened, and their faces changed. They hurriedly stopped and asked nervously, “Master Chi, what’s wrong? Did something else happen?”
“Did you hear anything?” Chi Shuyan narrowed her eyes and asked.
Chi Shuyan saw Brother Feng shake his head first. Not long after, the others followed suit, looking lost.
Chi Shuyan didn’t say anything. Her gaze swept over the group, and her face changed drastically when she suddenly realized that there was black cadaveric qi on Ruan Shenglin.
She thought of something and suddenly had Ruan Shenglin turn around.
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Ruan Shenglin naturally listened obediently to what Master Chi said, even if he didn’t know what her motive was. When all was said and done, Master Chi wouldn’t do him any harm.
When Ruan Shenglin turned around, the others followed Master Chi’s gaze and looked at his back. They didn’t see anything, and were at even more of a loss. Feng Yuanlin keenly sensed the change in Shuyan’s expression and asked, “Shuyan, what’s wrong?”
Yang Kun’s imagination ran wild. Was it that they couldn’t see what was on Film Emperor Ruan’s back? Thinking this, Yang Kun was so scared that he immediately jumped away from Shenglin. It wasn’t that he wasn’t loyal enough, but he was now afraid of this ‘thing.’ His face was pale as he waited for Master Chi’s reply.
Chi Shuyan didn’t say anything immediately. She looked at Ruan Shenglin’s back, and sure enough, she saw a Buddha with a strange smile stuck to him. It was just that this Buddha was very ugly. It looked cracked all over, as if it had been glued back together. The seams were uneven, making the already ugly thing even uglier.
Her face darkened abruptly. She didn’t expect this thing to haunt someone so closely. Thinking of the drawings she had seen at the temple and the tragic death of the Xu son, it was difficult for her expression to remain light.
Although she had already confirmed the consequences of inviting in the True Buddha Lord, some of her guesses still needed to be verified. She stared hard at the Buddha stuck to Ruan Shenglin’s back, but didn’t immediately alert the enemy. Instead, she shook her head at Brother Feng and said, “It’s fine!” She then said to Ruan Shenglin, “Come, let’s go pick up the pieces of the Buddha statue which you received just now.”
Ruan Shenglin, Yang Kun, and Xu Tong didn’t think much of it. They really thought that things would be fine since Master Chi had said so. However, when they heard the latter half of Master Chi’s words, they were stunned and thought that they had misheard.
Ruan Shenglin came back to his senses first and said without hesitation, “Okay, I’ll go with Master Chi!”
In any case, Master Chi was always right.
Yang Kun and Xu Tong also reacted in the same way and were persuaded. They even offered to go with them, but Chi Shuyan and Ruan Shenglin refused.
When Chi Shuyan and Ruan Shenglin went in, Wu Haoming and Xiao Shan couldn’t help but whisper in Director Feng’s ear, “Director Feng, Sister-in-law’s face just now didn’t seem fine no matter how you look at it. Could it be that Ruan Shenglin ran into bad luck again? Was that an excuse?”
The two could only whisper, not daring to let Yang Kun and Xu Tong hear them. Feng Yuanlin knew Shuyan well enough to know that although she had said earlier that things were fine, her face had been very unsightly and even a little grim. His face darkened at the thought of Shuyan telling Ruan Shenglin to pick up the pieces of the Buddha statue.
As for accepting the Buddha statue, Film Emperor Ruan had helped him out tonight.
Feng Yuanlin didn’t say a word, but he firmly remembered this favor in his heart and wondered when he could repay it.
Ruan Shenglin followed Master Chi into the living room of the village chief’s blue brick house. He was initially thinking that since he didn’t have a bag, he could use this outer s.h.i.+rt to collect all the fragments.
After taking off his s.h.i.+rt, he went inside and was about to pick up the pieces, when he saw that the Buddha statue was sitting properly on the floor, the shattered pieces put back together unevenly, as if with glue.
Ruan Shenglin relaxed as he thought that taking the statue back now wouldn’t be as troublesome, when he suddenly thought of something. His face stiffened and he looked at Chi Shuyan as if he had seen a ghost. His voice trembled as he said, “Master… Master Chi, the Buddha statue… the Buddha statue… It…”
Ruan Shenglin was too terrified. His throat felt like it was blocked by something, and he couldn’t utter a word after that. They had only been gone for a few minutes, so who had helped glue this Buddha statue back together? Who could be so fast?
Moreover, there was no one here at all. Who on earth had helped stick it back together?
Thinking this, Ruan Shenglin’s vision turned black and he almost fainted from fright. Fortunately, Chi Shuyan was quick to support him. Her eyes swept coldly over the Buddha statue on the floor and she said, “It’s not a big deal. Take it with us!”
Ruan Shenglin didn’t know if it was because of the sense of security which Master Chi gave him or her words, but the fear in his heart faded a little. At the same time, he was very glad that his wife and Brother Kun hadn’t come with him. Otherwise, they would have been scared to death like him. The two of them were even more timid than he was – it would be strange if they weren’t scared to death!
It was too scary!
“Are you done? Let’s go!” Seeing that Ruan Shenglin was really terrified, Chi Shuyan helped him pick up the Buddha statue and handed it to him. Ruan Shenglin’s face was pale as he hurriedly put the Buddha statue into this s.h.i.+rt and tied his s.h.i.+rt up before they left.
Chi Shuyan saw that although Ruan Shenglin’s face was pale, his condition was still alright, so she stopped worrying. She was about to step out the door, when her eyes were suddenly drawn to the old calendar in the living room, which happened to show the date: 29 June.
For some reason, Chi Shuyan suddenly thought of the nine drawings she had seen at the temple. The last one had been marked with 30 June. Her attention had been on the content of the nine drawings, and not on the date. She had just thought that the date was a casual record of when the artist had drawn the pictures.
Now that she saw the date and thought of the content of the ninth painting, however, a huge sense of crisis, uneasiness, and inexplicable fear surged up in her heart. These strong emotions came too quickly, and her right eyelid kept twitching. She stared fixedly at the date and didn’t look away. She suppressed her emotions and asked Ruan Shenglin calmly, “What day is it today?”