427: Chapter 427: The Monk May Escape, but the Temple Can’t.
427: Chapter 427: The Monk May Escape, but the Temple Can’t.
The two continued on their way, and when they reached a crossroads ahead, the Dragon Maiden was about to say sothing more when she suddenly noticed hundreds of people standing densely packed under a building on the north side of the road, each one looking up at sothing.
Following the gaze of the onlookers, the Dragon Maiden looked up and saw the faint outline of a person standing on the edge of the rooftop of the ten-plus-story building.
As a Martial Artist, the Dragon Maiden’s vision was much stronger than that of ordinary people.
She looked intently and could make out that the figure was a young woman.
“This is bad, soone is going to jump off the building!”
The Dragon Maiden’s expression changed slightly, and without waiting to speak with Fang Bai, her form blurred as she dashed forward at high speed.
Fang Bai looked up, his brow slightly furrowed, and he too quickened his pace until he arrived at the base of the building, becoming one of the onlookers.
After receiving the ssage that a person was preparing to jump off the building, personnel from the nearby police, fire departnt, hospital, and other relevant units began to arrive at the scene.
So were spreading out air cushions below, others took the elevator to the rooftop, and so were persuading the crowd to stay away from the scene…
When the Dragon Maiden arrived at the base of the building, a police officer stopped her outside the cordon that had been set up.
Only after she showed the credentials she carried with her was she allowed to approach and observe from a closer distance.
Standing at the base of the building, the Dragon Maiden silently calculated the possible location where the person might fall and couldn’t help but worry.
The building was over ten stories tall, and if the person jumped, the force of the fall would be very strong.
Although the Dragon Maiden was powerful, catching the jumper safely was not an easy task.
A single mistake could lead to the death of the person attempting suicide.
So, after a brief mont of contemplation, the Dragon Maiden decided to go up to the rooftop, thinking that with her speed of movent, she might be able to stop the woman before she jumped.
“She jumped!
She jumped!”
Just as this thought crossed the Dragon Maiden’s mind, she heard soone cry out in alarm.
The Dragon Maiden’s heart skipped a beat, and as she looked up, she saw the woman on the rooftop leap outward, turning into a black dot as she plumted down.
If the person fell onto the air cushion on the ground, the situation would be sowhat better, but what made the Dragon Maiden’s heart clench was that, according to her observation, there was at least a ten-ter discrepancy between where the air cushion was placed and where the person was likely to fall.
In other words, it was very possible that the person would fall from the top of the ten-plus-story building straight to the ground.
The speed of the person falling was so fast that there was no ti to move the air cushion.
But if she were allowed to just fall, the result would undoubtedly be imdiate death.
“Never mind, I’ll go for it!”
The Dragon Maiden gritted her teeth, circulated her Cultivation Technique, and drove her True Yuan, preparing to leap up vigorously to try to support the person in mid-air, to take off so of the force of the fall, and then push her onto the air cushion with all her might.
Although this thod would result in unavoidable injuries, there was hope that the injuries could be minimized, maybe even saving her life.
Just as the Dragon Maiden was about to make her move, suddenly a figure, like the Nine Heavens Soaring Dragon, burst from the crowd with a swooshing sound like the roar of a dragon, and caught the falling body of the person in mid-air, about ten ters high.
The impact of the person’s descent was imnse, and amidst the gasps and screams of the crowd below, the figure, along with the jumper, continued to fall, but the speed was noticeably slower.
When they were about five or six ters from the ground, the figure suddenly pushed forward with both arms, and the jumper’s body described an arc through the air, landing on the air cushion ten ters away.
The personnel from the relevant departnts who had been waiting near the air cushion imdiately rushed in, scrambling to rescue the would-be suicide.
Surprisingly, the person had only sustained so minor scrapes and was not seriously injured.
At this mont, few people paid attention to the person who had attempted suicide; instead, most eyes were turned toward the figure who had saved them.
The figure appeared out of nowhere, arriving like an immortal descending from the heavens, using unimaginable abilities to save the suicidal person.
It was an act that greatly astonished everyone, and all wanted to see what this person with extraordinary abilities looked like.
After performing the astonishing feat, the figure did not land on the ground as the crowd had expected.
Instead, while still in the air, he let out a long howl and took steps through the void.
In the blink of an eye, and under the stunned gaze of hundreds of onlookers, he vanished into the vast night.
“Did you see clearly what that was all about?
Who was that person?”
“Too fast, just saw a shadow!”
“Could it be one of those legendary Ancient Martial Artists?”
“Even Ancient Martial Artists aren’t that amazing, right?”
“Ah, I forgot to record it with my phone just now…”
“Hahaha…
I got it on video!”
“Tomorrow’s news is definitely going to make the headlines!”
…
As they watch the figure disappear into the sky, a wave of regretful sighs fills the air.
So people stayed where they were, discussing fervently, while others, not willing to give up, chased in the direction where the figure had disappeared.
“That had to be him who saved the person!
Such superb skills!
Out of the hundreds of Martial Artists in the four squads of ‘Dragon Guard’, only a few could have easily saved the suicidal person like he did, right?”
Dragon Maiden looked left and right, not seeing Fang Bai’s figure.
She glanced in the direction where the figure had disappeared, her eyes shone with a peculiar light, knowing for sure it was Fang Bai who had saved the person and left imdiately afterward, definitely not wanting to reveal his identity.
“Hmph, you can run from the monk, but not from the temple!
Tomorrow, I’ll go to the hospital and pester you.
If I don’t get you to join ‘Dragon Guard’, I won’t give up!” exclaid the Dragon Maiden, clenching her fist with determination in her deanor.
In the ti that followed, Yanjing Hospital’s acupuncture and tuina therapy room had an unusual new presence.
Whenever Fang Bai was at work, she appeared on schedule; when Fang Bai finished work, she left with him; if Fang Bai dropped by another departnt to visit, she kept a close watch; even if Fang Bai went to the restroom, she waited outside…
It could be said that wherever Fang Bai was, her figure was there too.
If it was any other man under the constant watch of such a beautiful and elegant woman, he might have been overjoyed to death, but Fang Bai couldn’t wait to shake off this “clingy gum.”
Soon, the dical staff at Yanjing Hospital began to talk about the matter, uncertain of the relationship between Fang Bai and that woman and daring not to ask him.
If people assud that the woman was Fang Bai’s newfound love, then Fang Bai’s indifferent attitude towards her, not even sparing her a second glance, made no sense.
If that weren’t the case, the woman’s daily surveillance of Fang Bai, with no sign of disgust from him, allowing her to follow him unimpeded, seed equally perplexing.
Su Linglong, who was also interning at the sa hospital, could not be kept in the dark about such a thing.
Curious after hearing about the situation, Su Linglong made a point of visiting Fang Bai’s office one afternoon after work and, as expected, saw a young and beautiful woman sitting on the sofa opposite Fang Bai’s desk, doing nothing but resting her chin on her hands and gazing unwaveringly at Fang Bai.
anwhile, Fang Bai was drinking tea and reading the newspaper, treating the woman as if she didn’t exist at all.
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