Outside the main hall.
Guan Zai frowned tightly, looking at Zuo Qing in confusion. "A life exchange? What life exchange?"
Zuo Qing opened his mouth, about to explain, when a brilliant Buddha's Light instantly enveloped the entire mountaintop. All three of them involuntarily shut their eyes.
After the Buddha's Light appeared, Zuo Qing keenly sensed an aura within the temple behind him rapidly fading away...
He turned around and stared blankly at the tightly shut doors of the main hall, like a man who had lost his soul.
"Ye Fan..." he murmured.
Abstinence Hall.
Deep within the Psychiatric Hospital.
"Little Fishy, did you eat today?"
"Little Grass, why are you sleeping again?"
"Little Stone! Why aren't you answering my question?"
A man in blue-and-white striped patient clothes, with a bird's nest of hair, squatted at the entrance to the Abstinence Hall. He stared intently at several pebbles by his feet, muttering to himself.
Suddenly, he froze.
He turned to look at the distant sky and slowly rose to his feet. Beneath his disheveled hair, unprecedented clarity appeared in those murky eyes...
He placed one hand over his chest and spoke with a sense of loss:
"Why... does my heart hurt?"
A transport plane roared across the sky.
"Captain, we're almost at Huaihai City. Time to jump!" Kong Shang, draped in a golden cape, shook Xia Simeng in the seat beside him. She was strapped in and sleeping like a dead pig, and helplessness filled his eyes.
"Tsk, she sleeps way too soundly..." one of the team members said with a bitter smile.
"Isn't the captain always like this? Once she falls asleep, unless someone puts a knife to her throat, how could she wake up that easily?"
"Where's the knife? Bring one over. Let's try it."
"Fine, let's