This Damned Thirst for Survival-Chapter 18

Chapter 18

Bai Yefeng is not one of those ordinary people who used to be in the bar. According to Wen Renlian, Bai Yefeng is one of the best among his peers. Can such a person really be possessed and manipulated by Chi You?

On the way back, Jiang Luo kept asking Wen Renlian about Bai Yefeng , “Is this guy good?”

“It’s great,” Wen Renlian said, “even more than the strength, it’s his great people skills.”

Wen Renlian paused, as if afraid of hitting Jiang Luo’s sad spot, “He has a lot of followers, and is seen as a second Chi You.”

Jiang Luo almost couldn’t hold back his laughter, “The second Chi You?”

“Yes,” Zhuo Zhongqiu said, “Bai Yefeng has been imitating Chi You since four or five years ago, and his behaviour and style have become more and more similar to Chi You. When Chi You died, he even came to Chi You’s funeral.”

Jiang Luo was thoughtful, “So.”

Then the reason for Bai Yefeng’s targeting of him can be found.

It’s possible that Bai Yefeng heard the lie he made up from somewhere, and as a follower of Chi You, it’s not impossible that Bai Yefeng targeted him for the fact that “Chi You liked him”.

If this is the case, then Bai Yefeng may not necessarily be Chi You’s puppet.

But as a precaution, Jiang Luo decided to inquire a little more about Bai Yefeng.

When the group returned to the hotel, Mr. Wan took them to a restaurant to have a nice meal as a celebration, patting Jiang Luo on the back all the way through the meal, “Good boy, good boy! Our school is famous now!”

From Sai Liaoer to Jiang Luo, Sai Liaoer and Lu Youyi were embarrassed, “It’s all Jiang Luo’s fault, he was the one who led us through the formation.”

Teacher Wan slapped Jiang Luo’s body twice, “Good, good! Chi You can now die in peace, the prodigal son returns, I’m looking forward to seeing you!”

Jiang Luo said slyly, “…… Teacher, how do you know about Chi You and me.”

The few people watching at the table all lowered their heads.

Jiang Luo silently scanned over their heads, gossip is indeed the worst kept secret, secretly I wonder how many other people know about the ” Chi You like Jiang Luo” thing.

Jiang Luo was so grateful to them that he could not wait to go up to them and hug them and shout “Good people”.

After the celebration, they had five days to rest. But these five days were not really for resting, they had been given a clue to the next level and had an advantage how to keep it, in these five days they had to find out at least the location of the next level and then gather as much information about the location as possible.

The number of schools in the area that were expanded in 2012 is by no means small, especially as the hints don’t specify whether the school is a primary, middle or high school or university, and Jiang Luo thought it was hard to tell if they would find the location of the next level among the many schools, but Wen Renlian and his team were content and, according to them, thankful for the useful clues.

Three days later, they shortlisted the ten schools most likely to be the venue for the competition.

The ten schools were printed out in eight copies, and after Wen Renlian had forced them to read through them for a day, even Lu Youyi, who had the worst memory, could remember some of the information.

Jiang Luo also found out more about Bai Yefeng.

Bai Yefeng was a mediocre student until he started high school, but five years ago, he suddenly rose to the occasion, showing his talent and strength and making Chi You his role model. With his talent and kindness, Bai Yefeng’s reputation grew and his followers were everywhere at Shanhai University.

Jiang Luo also asked for information from people close to Bai Yefeng, and according to them, Bai Yefeng’s personality had not changed, and was exactly the same as before, without any oddities.

Jiang Luo read the message and had to admit that he seemed to have been over-sensitive and over-thinking by Chi You.

If Bai Yefeng is not really Chi You’s puppet, then the only logical explanation is that Bai Yefeng is a man who is gentle on the outside but has a heart smaller than the eye of a needle. As expected of a follower of Chi You, Jiang Luo laughed in his mind, the two were identical.

In the afternoon, after four days of hard work, Jiang Luo called up his companions to go out and have some fun while they still had a day off to relax and unwind after days of stress.

Lu Youyi still remembers what Jiang Luo said, “Let’s go and see the temple, Jiang Luo has been so unlucky these days, with house fires, dislocations and now Spiderman.”

It was not unlucky that Jiang Luo and Qi Ye met the spider man that the tournament authorities had failed to spot during their inspection of Hu Bu village, but it was very unlucky.

Jiang Luo, sleepy-eyed, struggled to pull himself together, ” Yun Nan Temple? Which temple?”

Ge Zhu said, “The Golden Rash Temple.”

Jiang Luo subconsciously looked at Ge Zhu, a former Buddhist son who had turned from Buddhism to Buddhism, and now he was going to a Buddhist monastery, wouldn’t Ge Zhu have mixed feelings?

But at a glance, he saw Ge Zhu, dressed in a Taoist robe, enthusiastically discussing with Kuang Zheng about the temple’s fasting rice, “I heard that the rice they steam is very fragrant, I’ve been to Jinhua Temple before, let me tell you, don’t trust the fortune tellers inside the temple, the sellers cut in half, ask you for ten pieces actually three pieces will be the top of the sky ……”

Jiang Luo : “……”

He withdrew his eyes expressionlessly and turned his head to Ye Xun, ” Xiao Fen lends me a hug.”

Ye Xun handed him the rabbit doll and Jiang Luo rubbed the rabbit’s ears twice, “You couldn’t bring any special tools on the first level, so you had to leave Xiao Fen at the hotel, so you should be able to bring it on the second level, right?”

Ye Xun nodded, “You can bring it.”

Jiang Luo smiled grimly as he thought of his book bag of charms, “That would be great.”

The temple is built on a mountain and is huge in size, sitting on a high mountain and a huge lake. The temple is built with white walls and golden tiles, somewhat like the Potala Palace in Tibet. ①

They rode the temple’s sightseeing bus all the way to the bottom of the Golden Raspberry Temple. The central staircase is 200 storeys high, and if they tried to climb up in one go, they would probably encounter some altitude sickness, so the group climbed and stopped, laughing and joking, and arrived in front of the temple.

Zhuo Zhongqiu knew the monk at the temple well and she and Ge Zhu went to greet him. Jiang Luo and the others casually strolled around the temple, and Lu Youyi dragged Jiang Luo to donate a lot of incense money, saying, “If your heart is not sincere, money will come, so pay your respects.”

Jiang Luo used to not believe in this, but having crossed over, and into this world of spirits and gods, he has at least some respect for these gods and Buddhas.

He followed his companions and knelt on the worship mat, bending in a standard way to worship the Buddha, thinking to himself, I don’t ask for much, just that Chi You die.

They spent two hours on the mountain, descended to find a Tibetan tour operator for dinner and were soon back at the hotel.

Later in the evening, Jiang Luo was taking a bath when there was a knock on the door and after a while, Lu Youyi ran to the bathroom door and said, “Jiang Luo, someone is here to see you.”

“Who?”

“Someone from the Feng family,” Lu Youyi said in a lowered voice, “said that Mr. Feng wants to see you.”

Mr Feng is, of course, Feng Li.

Jiang Luo wiped his face and opened his eyes for a moment to think, “Did he say what he wanted to see me about?”

Lu Youyi said, “Nothing, just that Mr. Feng wants to see you.”

Jiang Luo touched the yin-yang ring on his right hand, why did Feng Li want to see him?

He shouldn’t have been anything special this first race, other than getting first place.

Jiang Luo thought for a moment and said, “Tell him to go back first, say sorry for me, and tell him that I am not at liberty to see Mr Feng now.”

Lu Youyi left in response.

Feng Li is the main character in “The Evil Dead” and Jiang Luo will not underestimate him as the man who can be paired with Chi You.

Feng Li is very strong, and Jiang Luo cannot stand by and watch him and Chi You join forces to make Chi You even stronger. But Jiang Luo doesn’t want to meet Feng Li until he knows his temperament.

More importantly, Jiang Luo was tired from his day out, he was capricious and wanted to go to bed after his shower rather than deal with the mess.

The Feng disciple who was rejected by Lu Youyi made his way to the fifth floor and knocked on Feng Li’s door, and a calm voice came from inside: “Enter.”

Feng Li didn’t look back at him, but said indifferently as if he had eyes in the back of his head, “Didn’t find anyone?”

The Feng family disciple said, with restraint, “Sir, Jiang Luo says he is not at liberty to come and see you now.”

Feng Li’s deacon’s finger paused and he looked sideways at his disciple.

His eyes were light in colour, as if earthly smoke and fire never crossed his eyes, but the oppressive feeling they gave was as thick as substance, and the disciple shivered as Feng Li slowly put down his chess pieces and muttered to himself, “Inconvenient?”

Zhuo Zhengyu laughed out loud, ” Feng Li, you are too old-fashioned. Young people nowadays don’t wait for you to call them all day long, they’re too busy to have fun! If you want to see someone, why don’t you tell them in advance?”

“Never mind,” Feng Li said without a ripple in his voice as he looked back at the board, “if it’s inconvenient, it’s inconvenient, so I won’t see you.”

Zhuo Zhengyu, seeing that he was going to lose the game, took the opportunity to cheat and threw the pieces away, setting up a map of where the next game would be played, “Let’s get down to business then, we haven’t decided which area we’re going to put the students in yet.”

Feng Li looked at the map, searched through the list of students on the side, pulled out a slip of paper and placed it in the most treacherous part of the map.

Zhuo Zhengyu looked in and saw the word ” Jiang Luo” written right on the note.

He took a look at Feng Li and thought to himself, “You are so vindictive, putting people’s children in the most dangerous places just because they refuse to come and see you.

But the more dangerous the place, the greater the reward. Zhuo Zhengyu thought about it and put his daughter’s name on the list.