QT- I’m Almost Died
Chapter 225. You Reap What You Sow
Mother Wang had thought that as long as she held her daughter tightly, the murderer couldn’t possibly take her away. But as it turned out, she was far too naive. The strangeness of this world was beyond the comprehension of an ordinary person like her, no matter how hard she tried. She could only stare in terror at her empty arms, letting out a pitiful wail.
“My daughter, my Wanwan, she’s gone! Why is she gone! Ahhhhhhh……” Her mind had lost the ability to think, her hands flailing wildly in the air, scratching and clawing, as if trying to pull her daughter back from the void.
Father Wang was stunned. After a long while, he rushed over, pulled back the covers to check, and then crawled on the floor to inspect under the bed. He thought what he had just witnessed was some kind of magic trick or illusion, and that his daughter was actually still there.
Several police officers aimed their guns in all directions, but couldn’t find their target. They knew Wang Wan was still in the room, yet not in this space. It sounded convoluted, but it was the truth. Guns couldn’t intimidate the killer, and naturally, they couldn’t save Wang Wan, she was now left to fate. A deep sense of powerlessness washed over the officers, making their hands tremble as they held their guns.
Meanwhile, Chang Sheng and the other three were also trembling, seized by a common terror. They flung out their talismans, but they only missed, burning in mid-air and having no effect whatsoever. The murderer was human, and their methods were only suitable for dealing with evil ghosts and spirits.
When Wang Wan’s parents saw the talisman reduced to ashes, they immediately remembered the array that had flashed white light earlier. They clung to Chang Sheng’s arm, pleading, “Master, please draw a Bagua Array (Eight Trigrams Formation) to rescue my Wanwan! Hurry!” As bystanders, they only witnessed the four of them working together to rescue their daughter in less than five minutes, completely unaware of the price they had paid. Those who stand on the sidelines never understand the pain they endure.
Chang Sheng looked embarrassed, and Lin Nianci hid behind him, fearing that Wang Wan’s parents would grab her legs and beg her.
Chang Zhen cruelly shattered their hopes, “We exhausted all our strength to save Wang Wan earlier, and now, we can’t even draw a complete formation. I’m sorry, we are powerless to help.”
Wang Wan’s parents didn’t believe them at all, pointing at Lin Nian’en and shouting, “But he just said that if you could save Wanwan once, you could save her twice!”
Lin Nian’en, confronted and questioned, instantly lost all color in his face. He spoke without thinking. As a Taoist cultivator with top-tier strength from the Tianshui Sect, he was accustomed to being high and mighty, and having everything go his way. He always believed there was no problem in the world that he and his sect couldn’t solve, completely unaware that in just a few years since he left the mountain, the capital city had drastically changed. The city was no longer ravaged by ghosts, but by demons transformed from humans.
He thought he could, but that wasn’t the case.
He raised his hand like a surrendering soldier, his voice trembling with guilt, “Aunt, I’m sorry, we really can’t save Wang Wan.”
“How could you not save her? You rescued her so easily before!” Mother Wang grabbed Lin Nian’en by the collar and shook him hysterically, “Draw the formation! Draw it now! Didn’t you just say you could save her?! I don’t care, you have to take responsibility! You must save my Wanwan!”
With no clues or solutions, Mother Wang could only cling to Lin Nian’en’s words and force him to comply. She knew she was making unreasonable demands and engaging in moral blackmail, but so what? These Taoist priests had voluntarily taken on the responsibility, and they should hold up to what they said!
Lin Nian’en explained again and again, “Aunt, it’s not that we don’t want to save her, but that we’re powerless. You only see how high the planes are flying in the sky, but you don’t know how much fuel they consume with each flight. We’ve already exhausted our power after rescuing Wang Wan, and it will take us three to five months to recover! Even if we risk our lives, we can’t open that formation again! Look at my ShiJie, she’s aged ten years in an instant, her hair has turned completely white, and she’s suffered severe internal injuries. We’ve paid a heavy price to save Wang Wan, please be considerate!”
Mother Wang scratched his neck raw with her nails, shrieking, “I don’t give a damn about being considerate! You must rescue my daughter! How do you know you can’t rescue her if you don’t risk your lives? Give it a try!”
Lin Nian’en’s initial guilt gradually transformed into an indescribable rage. His fists clenched and unclenched repeatedly, but he ultimately refrained from striking Mother Wang’s face, passively enduring her tearing and scratching. Lin Nianci tried to intervene, but was forcefully pushed away by Father Wang. The couple seemed to have the Taoist priests completely under their thumb.
Lin Nian’en, whose head felt as if it were about to be shaken right off, could only look tearfully toward his senior brothers. Chang Sheng’s face turned livid with rage, yet he was utterly helpless. Chang Zhen wanted to attack Wang Wan’s parents several times, but remembered the sect rules and held back.
The two groups got into a scuffle, making a mess of the ward. Fortunately, the police arranged a private room for Wang Wan to make it easier to take her statement, otherwise, it would have terrified the other patients in the room.
When it comes to tantrums, Lin Nian’en was no match for Mother Wang. His face was covered in bloody scratches, stinging painfully. He seemed to have reached his limit, grabbing Mother Wang’s hands and sternly demanding, “Don’t be unreasonable! Did we do something wrong by saving your daughter?”
“It’s your fault for not considering the bigger picture.” Song Rui pushed open the door and entered, speaking calmly.
“Wang Wan is in trouble?” Meng Zhong asked breathlessly as he rushed in.
“Yes, Director Meng, she suddenly disappeared.” Recalling that bizarre scene, several police officers couldn’t help but touch the goosebumps on their arms.
“If you want to save her, teach me the Qiankun Shifting Array.” Fan Jialuo strode into the ward.
The group locked in combat froze. Chang Sheng was the first to react, declaring decisively, “Don’t even think about it!”
Fan Jialuo reached out and probed the empty space above the hospital bed, saying in a deep voice, “She’s here. As long as you teach me the formation, I can release her. Which is more important, a human life or a formation?”
Chang Sheng barely needed to think, “Of course, the formation is more important.”
“Many more people will be killed in the future, dozens or even hundreds of lives. Compared to that formation, which is more important?” Fan Jialuo asked again.
Chang Sheng hesitated for only a second before gritting his teeth and saying, “The formation is important.”
Fan Jialuo’s hand, suspended in mid-air, slowly clenched into a fist. His gentle profile revealed a rare coldness and sharpness due to his overly tense emotions, “So, the first rule of the Tianshui Sect——human life is more important than heaven——has been abolished, is that right?” He turned to look at Chang Sheng and the others, his pupils flashing with an extremely dangerous light.
Suffocated by his piercing gaze, Chang Sheng pressed his pounding heart and gritted his teeth, saying, “It’s precisely because human life is paramount that I won’t entrust it to you. If you go against the natural order, it won’t just be one person dying, but hundreds of thousands, even millions.” Ultimately, they still didn’t trust Fan Jialuo’s character. Human life is important, but the value of human life is directly proportional to its quantity——a fact everyone must acknowledge.
Fan Jialu remained silent for a long time, but Mother Wang could no longer bear it. She grabbed Chang Sheng’s hair and roared hoarsely in his ear, “Isn’t my daughter’s life a life in your eyes? Hand over the formation right now! How can you say that the formation is more important than human life! Are you animals?! What kind of bullshit sect are you Taoists from?!”
Chang Sheng stood still and took the beating without fighting back, thus preventing his junior brothers and junior sister from stepping in to help. He didn’t deserve the beating from Wang Wan’s parents for not saving her.
Lin Nian’en’s worldview was crumbling, and he asked in a trembling voice, “Are you really not going to save her? That’s a human life!”
Chang Zhen silently shook his head, while Lin Nianci’s eyes were red from staying up all night. They knew how powerful that formation was, and naturally they also knew what kind of disaster it would cause if it fell into the hands of someone with ulterior motives.
Fan Jialuo closed his eyes and said, “When you transmit the formation, I will attach a forgetting spell to it. After saving the person, I will naturally forget about it.”
Chang Sheng gritted his teeth and refused, “Who knows if your forgetting spell is real or fake? What if you’re just putting on an act? We’ll become sinners throughout eternity. Don’t waste your breath here, we won’t teach you the formation!”
Having said all that, Fan Jialuo had no choice but to give up. He knew that sects would place a layer of restrictions when passing on their inheritance to disciples to prevent evil people from searching their souls. Even if he devoured all their memories, he wouldn’t get what he wanted.
He shook his head, as if he had something to say, but then shook his head again and remained silent. At this moment, the words “Tianshui Sect,” which always shone with golden light in his mind, and the majestic mountain gate towering above the clouds in his memory, finally lost their sacred aura and became a dilapidated picture.
“No need to wait until later.” Fan Jialuo stared straight at Chang Sheng, then looked around at Chang Zhen, Lin Nian’en, and Lin Nianci, and said in a deep voice, “You all are already sinners throughout eternity.”
Lin Nian’en and Lin Nianci lowered their heads to avoid his gaze, while Chang Sheng and Chang Zhen curled their lip in disdain, scoffing at his words.
“Chang Zhen, call the sect and have them send a few experts to activate the Qiankun Shifting Array! We can save people even without you, Fan Jialuo!” Chang Sheng said proudly.
This is the source of his confidence to repeatedly say that formations are more important than human lives. The rules of the Tianshui Sect have not changed, its members have not fallen into depravity, and they have never treated human life as worthless. He dares to defy the world by saying such things because he has enough strength to turn the tide. Although Taoist sect is currently lacking in talent, it is still easy for them to send a few experts to activate the formation.
Mother Wang, who had been tearing at him with all her might, stopped and revealed an expression of ecstatic joy.
Fan Jialuo’s expression, however, was even more somber. His hand remained suspended in the air, his clenched fist slowly opening as if sensing something, then slowly closing again and retracting. He turned his back, lowered his head, and closed his eyes. Song Rui, who knew him best, also turned his back, looking at the snow-white wall.
Meng Zhong was wondering why they were facing the wall when suddenly a shower of blood rained down from above the patient bed, followed by large chunks of severed limbs. A human head rolled off the bed and landed at Chang Sheng’s feet, face up, revealing Wang Wan’s still terrified face. She was dead! The body had been neatly cut into dozens of squares, the cut surfaces extremely smooth, as if it had been placed on a machine tool and thoroughly processed.
The murderer killed her by shattering the space, he never intended for her to live even a day longer. Chang Sheng’s so-called confidence, strength, and escape route never existed in the first place.
Everyone froze, their gazes fixed on the blood-soaked, mangled hospital bed. No, it was no longer just a bed, it was a true reflection of hell! Their hearts trembled, their pupils throbbed with pain, yet they couldn’t tear their eyes away.
Only Fan Jialuo and Song Rui, with their backs to the hospital bed and facing the wall, avoided this extremely shocking scene.
As the nauseating stench of blood filled the ward, Fan Jialuo finally broke the deathly silence. His voice was icy, each word piercing the heart, “I’ve said it before, you all are already sinners throughout eternity.”
Chang Sheng stood frozen in place, his bloodshot eyes bulging as if they were about to fall out of their sockets. He had never imagined that Wang Wan would die so quickly and so tragically! He had thought that this time, like last time, he would have three days to save her, he thought he was in control, so he was fearless, he thought that one phone call would solve everything……
He had too many “assumptions” and “certainties,” but he never expected that in the blink of an eye, these self-righteous ideas would be washed away by the surging blood!
A sticky yet icy sensation rose from the soles of Chang Sheng’s feet, seeping into his bones and slowly penetrating his marrow. He shuddered violently, then felt an inexplicably chilling energy brewing in his dantian. His slowly recovering cultivation was blocked by this energy, completely stagnating.
The karmic retribution for his misdeeds has finally reached him, he was now tainted with sin…..
Fan Jialuo had never deceived them from beginning to end, they had indeed let the murderer escape, and just now, their resolute refusal to provide assistance had directly cost another life. The disciples of Tianshui Temple were required to dedicate themselves to saving all living beings for generations——didn’t that rule now sound like a joke?
Chang Sheng’s legs buckled and he knelt down. Chang Zhen, Lin Nianci, and Lin Nian’en also sensed the stagnation or even regression in their cultivation, and their expressions turned bewildered.
Wang Wan’s father was paralyzed with fear, while Wang Wan’s mother, after only a moment of dizziness, began to scream and wail at the top of her lungs. She lunged at Chang Sheng, tearing at him and calling him a beast. Then she went to punch and beat the police, roaring, “How can you police be so useless? You can’t even save one person! We pay so much tax every year to support you, and this is the kind of useless bunch we raise? You have to pay for my daughter! You must save her life!”
How can the dead be brought back to life? Isn’t that just nonsense?
Meng Zhong supported Mother Wang, a helpless expression on his face.
Song Rui turned around, staring calmly at Wang Wan’s corpse, and said coldly, “Stop shouting. You all bear an inescapable responsibility for Wang Wan’s death. Do you know what a sense of the big picture is? A sense of the big picture means that each of us holds a plank and we fill in a suspension bridge made of steel cables in our respective order. When each person crawls down to place a plank, their back will be trampled by the person behind them. Pain is inevitable, but as long as we endure this pain and fill in every plank, everyone can cross this chasm.”
Song Rui stared straight at Mother Wang, “You couldn’t bear the pain of being trampled, so you pulled away the planks from your hands, creating a hole in this bridge. Then everyone who walks behind you, including yourselves, will fall into an abyss.”
“Do you know that when you were so eager to rescue Wang Wan, we were just one step away from catching the murderer? If you had waited ten more minutes, Wang Wan would still be alive and well.” Song Rui shook his head and sighed, “Just ten minutes more and everyone’s lives could have been saved. So wake up, stop shirking responsibility. It wasn’t anyone else who killed Wang Wan, it was your selfishness.”
He opened the door and said coldly, “Let’s go. There’s nothing more we can do here.”
Fan Jialuo nodded and left the blood-soaked room, looking exhausted.
Meng Zhong released Mother Wang, who immediately collapsed into a pool of blood, weeping bitterly and filled with remorse.
Zhuang Zhen ordered his men to guard the door, preventing anyone from approaching. Then he took out his phone to notify Forensic doctor Zhou, to come and perform an autopsy. Before he could finish speaking, Xiao Li’s voice came again, shouting anxiously, “Captain, something terrible has happened! So many people have disappeared! In the elevator, on the street, in broad daylight, so many people have disappeared, just like Wang Wan and the others, vanishing without a trace. My initial estimate is at least thirty or forty people! Ma You has really gone mad this time, he hasn’t even tried to cover it up. Our police station’s phones are practically ringing off the hook with calls from citizens!”
Because Zhuang Zhen had the phone on speakerphone, everyone in the ward naturally heard what he said, and their expressions all changed.
Chang Sheng, who had barely managed to stand up while leaning against the wall, instantly collapsed to his knees again. Chang Zhen, Lin Nianci, and Lin Nian’en were even more terrified, their minds blank and drenched in cold sweat. At that moment, the words of Fan Jialuo echoed in their minds simultaneously——No need to wait for later, you all are already sinners throughout eternity.
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